Patent ID: 8264478

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a display panel including a pixel group having a plurality of sub-pixels; a gate driver structured to output a pulse-shaped gate signal that activates the sub-pixels of the pixel group for a duration of the pulse-shaped gate signal, the activation causing the respective sub-pixels to respond to respective data levels applied to the respective sub-pixels; a data driver structured to output a time varying data signal having a plurality of data levels; a shared data line which is electrically connected to the data driver to thereby receive the plurality of data levels of the time varying data signal; a plurality of subsidiary data lines; a demultiplexer including a plurality of switches each of which has a first end portion electrically connected to the the shared data line and a second end portion electrically connected to a corresponding one of the subsidiary data lines, wherein the subsidiary data lines respectively couple to respective ones of the plurality of sub-pixels so that respective data signal levels on the shared data line can be transferred sequentially and respectively from the shared data line to respective ones of the subsidiary data lines when respective ones of the demultiplexer switches are turned on for respective charge transfer periods; and a controller structured and operatively coupled to the plurality of demultiplexer switches for controlling the plurality of demultiplexer switches, the controller being configured to turn on the demultiplexer switch connected to the sub-pixel that receives the last of the sequentially transferred data signal levels for a charge transfer period that is longer than a sum of the other charge transfer periods allotted to the other demultiplexer switches of the plurality of demultiplexer switches, wherein the controller is coupled to the gate driver and the controller is configured to control the gate driver and to thereby cause the pulse-shaped gate signal to begin activating the sub-pixels of the pixel group during the last and longest charge transfer time.