Patent ID: 8330700

Claim:
An active matrix display device, comprising: a display panel, which includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a plurality of pixels, wherein one signal line is provided for every two pixels arranged along a scanning line direction of the active matrix display, and two pixels which are adjacent to each other along the scanning line direction across one of the signal lines share the signal line and are respectively connected through switching elements to two of the scanning lines that are arranged to extend along the scanning line direction and to be adjacent to each other across the pixel; a signal line driving circuit which outputs signals, based on information to be displayed, to the plurality of signal lines; a scanning line driving circuit which selects the plurality of scanning lines; and a control unit which controls an operation of the scanning line driving circuit; wherein the scanning line driving circuit is configured to handle the two scanning lines that are adjacent to each other across the pixel as a scanning line group, to divide the plurality of scanning lines into a plurality of adjacent scanning line groups, and to select the plurality of scanning lines in first and second consecutive predetermined periods such that (i) the scanning line groups are selected in a same order in the first predetermined period and the second predetermined period, and (ii) within each of the scanning line groups, a selection order of the scanning lines in the second predetermined period is opposite to a selection order of the scanning lines in the first predetermined period.