Patent ID: 8558852

Claim:
A source driver that drives a plurality of source lines of an electro-optical device, the source driver comprising: a grayscale voltage generation circuit that outputs grayscale voltages; a DAC that selects a grayscale voltage corresponding to grayscale data among the grayscale voltages generated by the grayscale voltage generation circuit; and a source line driver circuit that drives a source line among the plurality of source lines based on the grayscale voltage from the DAC, the source line driver circuit including: a flip-around sample/hold circuit that receives a first grayscale voltage and a second grayscale voltage output by the DAC as inputs and outputs an output grayscale voltage, the flip-around sample/hold circuit outputting a voltage between the first grayscale voltage and the second grayscale voltage, when the output grayscale voltage is closer to a highest-potential voltage output to the source line than a lowest-potential voltage output to the source line, the DAC outputting the first grayscale voltage and the second grayscale voltage in a descending order of potential; and when the output grayscale voltage is closer to the lowest-potential voltage than the highest-potential voltage, the DAC outputting the first grayscale voltage and the second grayscale voltage in an ascending order of potential.