Patent ID: 8279210

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: a display unit comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in pixel areas to display images; a source driver to supply data voltages to the data lines, the data voltage corresponding to image data; and a gate driver to sequentially supply gate signals to the gate lines, wherein the gate signals are maintained at a level of a gate on voltage such that the data voltages of the data lines are supplied to corresponding pixels during a scan period, and alternately have a first voltage level and a second voltage level during a non-scan period, and wherein the gate driver receives a first gate off waveform, a second gate off waveform, and a third gate off waveform, in which the first gate off waveform is maintained at the first voltage level, and the second gate off waveform and the third gate off waveform alternate between the first voltage level and the second voltage level, the phase of the second gate off waveform and the phase of the third gate off waveform are reverse to each other.