Patent ID: 8203548

Claim:
A driving circuit for outputting, from output terminals, gradation potentials corresponding to display data, the driving circuit comprising: a gradation setting circuit which is configured to set, on the basis of a reference potential, a plurality of respectively different gradation potentials at a plurality of nodes; a plurality of amplifiers provided at the plurality of nodes, respectively; potential selecting circuits provided respectively in correspondence with the output terminals, wherein each potential selection circuit is configured to select, during a data writing period and from among the plurality of gradation potentials, a target gradation potential corresponding to the display data, and to output the target gradation potential from a respective amplifier to the output terminal; and a control circuit configured to, (a) during a first time period of the data writing period, short-circuit a first node set to the target gradation potential and a second node adjacent to the first node, and to connect in parallel a second line between the second node and the output terminal to a first line between the first node and the output terminal, and, (b) during a second time period which follows the first time period, to cancel the short circuit between the first node and the second node and the parallel connection of the second line to the first line.