Patent ID: 7499013

Claim:
A drive method for driving at least a plurality of scan lines of a display panel by using a plurality of scan drive cells, the display panel including the scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels, the drive method comprising: storing scan line addresses corresponding to a scan order in a scan order storage circuit of an address generation circuit; comparing an address exclusively assigned to each of the plurality of scan drive cells with one of the scan line addresses output from the address generation circuit, and outputting a comparison result to each of the plurality of scan drive cells; driving each of the plurality of scan lines by corresponding one of the plurality of scan drive cells; comparing each of the scan line addresses supplied from the address generation circuit with the address exclusively assigned to one of the plurality of scan drive cells by one of a plurality of coincidence detection circuits; ON-driving each of the plurality of scan drive cells by one of the plurality of coincidence detection circuits in a period in which an active signal is input to an output-fix-input of each of the plurality of coincidence detection circuits, each of the plurality of scan drive cells being connected with one of the plurality of coincidence detection circuits; and OFF-driving each of the plurality of scan drive cells by one of the plurality of coincidence detection circuits in a period in which a non-active signal is input to an output-enable-input of each of the plurality of coincidence detection circuits.