Patent ID: 7042423

Claim:
A driving apparatus for a display panel which applies a driving pulse based on a picture signal on each column electrode of the display panel having a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes perpendicularly crossing said row electrodes so as to form cells with a capacitive load in each crossing portion of the electrodes, the apparatus comprising: a cell data generator which generates cell data having a series of bits indicating a light emitting state or a non-light emitting state of each cell on each column electrode of the display panel based on said picture signal; a pulse generator which generates a power pulse having a pulse width corresponding to one bit of said cell data; and a pulse supplier provided on each column electrode which supplies said power pulse as said driving pulse to a cell of a column electrode when a corresponding bit in the cell data for the column electrode indicates a light emitting logic level; wherein said pulse generator includes a determining unit which determines a magnitude of power during a writing period of said cell data and an adjusting unit which varies a rising period and a falling period of said power pulse depending on a result provided by said determining unit; wherein said pulse generator comprises a plurality of resonance circuits which vary the rising period and the falling period of said power pulse using at least one of said plurality of resonance circuits; wherein said plurality of resonance circuits has a common output terminal so as to vary the rising period and the falling period of said power pulse by varying operation timings of the plurality of resonance circuits in relation to each other depending on the result provided by said determining unit; wherein each of said plurality of resonance circuits comprises: a capacitor connecting to a ground potential at its one end; a discharge route having a first switching element and a first inductance device connected in series between the other end of said capacitor and said output terminal so as to discharges an electrical potential developed at said capacitor; and a charge route having a second switching element and a second inductance device connected in series between the other end of said capacitor and said output terminal so as to charge an electrical potential to said capacitor; and wherein said pulse generator includes a third switching element to apply a specified maximum potential to said output terminal.