Patent ID: 8736588

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device, comprising: a first area including a first gate line group formed of “a” gate lines arranged along a first row line to an a-th row line in an active area, and a first dummy gate line group formed of “b” dummy gate lines arranged outside the active area; a second area including a second gate line group formed of “c” gate lines arranged along an (a+1)th row line to an (a+c)th row line in the active area, and a second dummy gate line group formed of “d” dummy gate lines arranged outside the active area opposing the first dummy gate line group so as to interpose the active area therebetween; and a driving circuit for sequentially selecting the gate lines from the a-th row line of the first gate line group to the dummy gate line of the first dummy gate line group one by one in the first area, and for sequentially selecting the gate lines from the (a+1)th row line of the second gate line group to the dummy gate line of the second dummy gate line group one by one in the second area; wherein an image signal and a non-image signal are written within one-frame period in the first and second areas.