Patent ID: 7557791

Claim:
A driving circuit for an electro-optical device which drives an electro-optical device having a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanning lines extending so as to cross each other and a plurality of pixel units connected to the scanning lines and the data lines to form a display surface, the driving circuit for an electro-optical device comprising: a memory into/from which image signals are written/read, the image signals being for performing gray scale display in the plurality of pixel units; a scanning line driving unit that selects the scanning lines and supplies scanning signals to the selected scanning lines; a data line driving unit that selects the data lines and supplies the image signals read out from the memory to the selected data lines; a control unit that controls and operation of a least one of the scanning line driving unit and the data line driving unit, such that at least one of a selection sequence of the plurality of scanning lines and a selection sequence of the plurality of data lines is reversed at a predetermined cycle, and that controls writing and reading of the image signals in the memory, such that the image signals written into the memory are read out in a state in which an arrangement sequence of the image signals is reversed at the predetermined cycle, wherein the scanning line driving unit and the data line driving unit supply the image signals corresponding to one screen to the respective pixel units in each unit period, which is obtained by dividing a one-screen display period, and drives the respective pixel units multiple times in the one-screen display period, and wherein the memory has at least two frame memories, the same image signals corresponding to one screen are written into the two frame memories, and the two frame memories are controlled by the control unit, such that one of the frame memories functions as a forward memory from which the image signals are read out in a state in which the arrangement sequence of the image signals is in a forward direction, and the other frame memory functions as a backward memory from which the image signals are read in a state in which the arrangement sequence of the image signals is in a backward direction.