Patent ID: 7889168

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising a plurality of display devices; a plurality of scan interconnections and a plurality of modulation interconnections, which configures a matrix interconnection for driving the plurality of display devices; a scanning circuit for applying a scanning signal to the scan interconnections, wherein the scanning circuit is one which applies the scanning signals to a group of scan interconnections selected from the plurality of scan interconnections in one select period, and which applies the scanning signals, in a subsequent select period, to another group of scanning interconnections which were shifted with one scan interconnection portion from the group of scanning interconnections to which the scanning signals were applied in a previous select period, the output from the scanning circuit has a portion in which signal level is controlled to a non-selection electric potential level between said scanning signals which are applied repeatedly to said scanning interconnection, and a modulation circuit for applying a modulation signal to the modulation interconnections so that a pulse width of the modulation signal is accommodated in one selected period according to luminance data, and the initiation of the modulation signal is delayed from commencement of the selected period for the portion in which the scanning interconnection is on the non-selection electric potential level.