Patent ID: 7471278

Claim:
A display driver which drives at least a plurality of scan lines of a display panel which has a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixels in addition to the scan lines, the display driver comprising: a plurality of scan drive cells; a plurality of scan order registers; and a plurality of coincidence detection circuits, each of the plurality of scan order registers being connected to one of the plurality of coincidence detection circuits, each of the plurality of scan order registers storing a scan order address which is used to show a scan order, each of the plurality of coincidence detection circuits being connected to one of the plurality of scan drive cells, each of the plurality of coincidence detection circuits outputting to one of the plurality of scan drive cells a result of comparison between the scan order address stored in the one of the plurality of scan order registers and a scan line address designated by a scan control signal, and each of the plurality of scan drive cells driving one of the plurality of scan lines.