Patent ID: 7307611

Claim:
A driving method for LCD panels having multiple data lines connected to multiple data line drivers and multiple gate lines connected to at least first and second gate line drivers for displaying a digitized image comprising a plurality of pixels with each pixel being positioned in an overlapping area between a data line and a gate line, said driving method comprising the steps of: producing a normal image by sequentially scanning downward from a starting line to an ending line of a single frame cyclically using said first gate line driver to drive said multiple gate lines; and producing a dimmed image by sequentially scanning downward from a specific line of said single frame to said ending line and then sequentially scanning from said starting line to said ending line cyclically by using said second gate line driver to drive said multiple gate lines, said specific line being positioned at a predetermined number of lines below said starting line; wherein said normal image and said dimmed image are produced simultaneously frame after frame, and each pixel in said dimmed image has a pixel value equal to 1/N of the pixel value of a corresponding pixel in said normal image before said dimmed image is produced, and N is a positive number.