Patent ID: 7006082

Claim:
A display apparatus for displaying display data, comprising: a display panel, including a plurality of pixels which are arranged in a matrix; a data driver to apply a gray scale voltage in accordance with said display data to said display panel; a scan driver for in turn selecting lines of said pixels to be applied with said gray scale voltage; and a register setting a non-overlap period during one horizontal period; wherein said scan driver selects a line of said pixels to be applied with said gray scale voltage, once per frame period and once per a horizontal period, for a shorter time than the one horizontal period, and next, selects another line of said pixels to be applied said gray scale voltage, once per said frame period and once per a following horizontal period, for a shorter period than the following horizontal period, wherein said non-overlap period is an interval present between an end of selecting said line of the pixels to be applied with the gray scale voltage and a start of selecting the another line of said pixels to be applied with said gray scale voltage, and wherein said non-overlap period is variable in accordance with a setting to said register.