Patent ID: 8531370

Claim:
A method for operating a liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprising: during a first time period, applying first data from a data line to a first capacitor included in a pixel and applying additional data from the data line to an additional first capacitor included in an additional pixel; during a second time period, which follows the first time period, simultaneously applying the first data to a liquid crystal (LC) capacitor included in the pixel and the additional data to an additional LC capacitor included in the additional pixel; during a third time period, applying a first reset voltage to the LC capacitor to reset preexisting data stored in the LC capacitor; and during a fourth time period, applying a second reset voltage to the additional LC capacitor to reset additional preexisting data stored in the additional LC capacitor; wherein the second time period is a data blanking period, and the third time period and the fourth time period are non-overlapping with each other, the voltage polarity of the first reset voltage is opposite to the voltage polarity of the second reset voltage, and the first reset voltage is applied to one of odd numbered rows or even numbered rows and the second reset voltage is applied to the other of odd numbered rows or even numbered rows in a frame.