Patent ID: 7372445

Claim:
A driving device for driving a display device provided with a display screen, having a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of data signal lines crossing each other, in which an image display data signal is outputted to a pixel provided at each of crossings through each of the data signal lines in synchronism with a scanning signal outputted from each of the scanning signal lines, said driving device comprising: a data signal line driving circuit including a shift register which has (i) multiple stages of flip-flops each of which operates in synchronism with a source clock signal and (ii) a level shifter for boosting the source clock signal whose amplitude is smaller than a driving voltage of each of the flip-flops so as to apply the driving voltage to the flip-flop, said data signal line driving circuit causing a sampling circuit to sample the image display data signal based on an output from the shift register so as to output the image display data signal to the data signal line; mode switching means for switching a full-screen display mode in which a whole of the display screen performs display and a partial-screen display mode in which only a part of the display screen performs time-sharing display from each other; constant voltage data writing signal generation means for generating a constant voltage data writing signal made of a constant voltage; and constant voltage data selection means for causing a nondisplay portion, except for that part of the display screen which performs the time-sharing display in the partial-screen display mode, to directly sample the constant voltage data writing signal from the constant voltage data writing signal generation means so as to output the constant voltage data writing signal to the data signal line.