Patent ID: 8610699

Claim:
A display device comprising: a display element; and a drive circuit which drives the display element, the drive circuit including a decoder circuit which outputs voltages based on digital data, and the decoder circuit including three predecoder circuits, a selection circuit section into which voltages output from the three predecoder circuits are input, and which selects two voltages of the three voltages, and an intermediate voltage output circuit which, having input thereinto the two voltages selected by the selection circuit section, outputs a voltage which is the average of the two voltages, wherein each of the predecoder circuits includes a matrix type decoder circuit including one transistor switch in each candidate signal line selected by a decoding, and a tournament type decoder circuit in which the number of candidate signal lines selected by the decoding decreases, each time passing through the transistor switch which carries out a decoding of each bit, wherein at least a first one of the predecoder circuits includes a matrix type decoder circuit which comprises pairs of candidate signal lines each formed by two candidate signal lines connected to each other to receive the same input voltage by each of the two candidate signal lines comprising a pair, and wherein at least a second one of the predecoder circuits includes a matrix type decoder circuit which has only a plurality of individual candidate signal lines which each receive a different input voltage, and wherein at least a third one of the predecoder circuits includes a matrix type decoder circuit which has a smaller number of selection signals than either the first or second ones of the predecoder circuits.