Patent ID: 8274460

Claim:
A liquid crystal display apparatus comprising: a liquid crystal panel assembly including: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, the plurality of pixels including a first group of pixels and a second group of pixels; a plurality of gate lines having a first group of gate lines and a second group of gate lines that are connected with the first group of pixels and the second group of pixels, respectively; and a plurality of data lines connected with the first group of pixels and the second group of pixels; a signal controller that receives input image signals and generates image data; a data driver that receives the image data and provides data voltages corresponding to the image data to the plurality of data lines; and a gate driving unit including a first gate driver that provides first gate-on signals to the first group of gate lines and a second gate driver that provides second gate-on signals to the second group of gate lines, wherein the signal controller generates a first group of control signals being applied to the first gate driver, and a second group of control signals being applied to the second gate driver, the first group of control signals are each overlapped with corresponding one of the second group of control signals for a predetermined time interval, and wherein the first and second groups of control signals each includes a vertical synchronization start signal and at least one clock.