Patent ID: 7474305

Claim:
A data transfer method in which scanning lines in a row direction and signal lines in a column direction are formed in a matrix pattern, and a data signal which corresponds to a position on the matrix is applied within one horizontal period to a signal line which corresponds to this position, the signal lines being divided into a plurality of blocks and being sequentially conducted for each line per block so as to transfer the data signal between a matrix section and a data transfer section, wherein: when input data of one block, equivalent of n signal lines, which are continuously inputted in a time sequential manner are sampled in n sampling sections and respectively stored as n sampling data, and are outputted to their corresponding signal lines, and when the n sampling sections are divided into groups, and when one of the blocks in which order of sampling the input data with respect to a single scanning line is second or after is BL 2 , and when a group having a sampling section to which first sampling data Db 1 of the block BL 2 is inputted is GRa, said method comprises the step of creating a blank sampling section for storing the sampling data Db 1 in the group GRa, after the group GRa stores sampling data of a block in which a sampling time is earlier than the block BL 2 with respect to the single scanning line, and before, at the latest, the sampling data Db 1 is inputted.