Patent ID: 8885000

Claim:
A method of driving a display panel having a display area including a first display area and a second display area, the first display area including a middle portion of the display panel, the second display area including an outer portion of the display panel around the first display area, the method comprising: supplying image data to each of the first display area and the second display area to display an image therein; and performing a first correction to correct only the image data for the second display area while said supplying the image data is being performed; wherein the first correction includes correcting the image data for the second display area based on first correction data determined for each of reference gradation levels, the gradation levels being selected from displayable gradation levels; and wherein if a uncorrected brightness value of the image data in the first display area and a uncorrected brightness value of the image data in the second display area are consecutively present at a boundary between the first display area and the second display area, the first correction data is determined such that the uncorrected brightness value of the image data in the first display area and a corrected brightness value of the image data in the second display area are consecutively present, the corrected brightness value being defined by correcting the uncorrected brightness value in the second display area based on the first correction data.