Patent ID: 8803858

Claim:
A display device, comprising: a plurality of drive electrodes extending, in a first direction, with a length larger than that of an effective display region, and arranged side-by-side in a second direction with an inter-electrode slit in between, each of the drive electrodes being supplied with a drive signal; a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix in the first and second directions to face the drive electrodes, each of the pixel electrodes being supplied with an image signal; a gate driver allowing pixel electrodes in a pixel line in the first direction to be supplied with a scan signal; and a drive electrode driver allowing the drive electrodes to be supplied with the drive signal, wherein, the inter-electrode slit extends to pass over a center region of each of the pixel electrodes, each of the drive electrodes has a width in the second direction corresponding to a size in the second direction of two or more pixel electrodes, and has one or more inner-electrode slits extending in the first direction at least within the effective display region, each of the inner-electrode slit and the inter-electrode slit extends to pass over center regions of the pixel electrodes that belong to the pixel line in the first direction, when the scan signal from the gate driver is to be applied to a first pixel line located in a region corresponding to the inter-electrode slit, the drive electrode driver applies the drive signal to both of a couple of drive electrodes that are adjacent to each other with the inter-electrode slit in between, and when the scan signal is to be applied to a second pixel line located in a region other than a region corresponding to the inter-electrode slit, the drive electrode driver applies the drive signal to a single drive electrode corresponding to the second pixel line.