Patent ID: 8244925

Claim:
A liquid crystal display (LCD) comprising: a circuit board; a first connector disposed on the circuit board and configured to receive an externally provided video signal; a second connector disposed on the circuit board and configured to receive an externally provided, one or more Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) signals; a reprogrammble memory disposed on the circuit board and coupled to the second connector to receive a first of the EDID signals and to be programmed thereby when the reprogrammble memory is placed into a write-enabled mode by a supplied write-enabling signal; a timing controller disposed on the circuit board and configured to receive the video signal from the first connector, the timing controller being configured to generate video data voltages based on the stored programming data conveyed by the first of the EDID signals; a liquid crystal panel, operatively coupled to the circuit board and configured to respond to the generated video data voltages so as to thereby display a corresponding video image; and wherein the second connector has a plurality of terminals including a first terminal to which the source voltage is applied to and a second an input terminal to which the write protection signal memory is applied and a pullup resistor is interposed between the first and second terminals.