Patent ID: 8040315

Claim:
A drive device for driving a display panel, said drive device including a scanning line drive circuit for driving said display panel in a direction of an array of scanning drive lines, said scanning line drive circuit comprising: a shift register having a plurality of delay circuits connected in cascade for delaying input data and sequentially shifting the input data in response to a positive-going edge of a first clock signal; a plurality of operational circuits connected respectively to outputs of said plurality of delay circuits for operating the outputs of said plurality of delay circuits with the first clock signal; a plurality of level shifters connected respectively to operational outputs of said plurality of operational circuits for shifting a voltage level of the respective operational outputs to output respective shifted levels; and a generator circuit for generating the first clock signal and a second clock signal in accordance with a third clock signal, said shift register being operative in response to the first and second clock signals to shift the input data, wherein said delay circuit holds the input data in response to the first clock signal, and outputs the input data in response to the second clock signal.