Abstract: A liquid crystal display device employing a dot inversion drive method includes a pixel array, a data driver circuit, a short circuit, and a scanning circuit. The short circuit is disposed for respective outputs of the data driver circuit, and includes a switching element for connecting each of the outputs to a precharge voltage different from an output voltage. The short circuit includes the switching element disposed in one of a first switching group and a second switching group; the switching element of one of the first switching group and the second switching group is connected to respective pairs of pixel column units including an odd-numbered pixel column and an even-numbered pixel column which are adjacent to each other; and the pairs of pixel column units which are adjacent to each other are each connected to the switching element disposed in respective switching groups different from each other.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to reduce the size of a decoder circuit of a display device. A decoder circuit which outputs voltages corresponding to 8-bit digital values includes a predecoder section, which includes an A decoder, B decoder, and C decoder, each of which is configured of a matrix type decoder circuit which carries out a three bits' worth of decoding, and a tournament type decoder circuit which carries out a three bits' worth of decoding, a selection circuit which, having input thereinto three voltages output respectively from the A decoder, B decoder, and C decoder, and applied to three output signal lines, selects two voltages of the three input voltages using a bit with one of the digital values and applies them to two output signal lines, and an intermediate voltage output circuit which, having input thereinto the two voltages selected by the selection circuit, outputs a voltage which is the average of the two voltages.

Abstract: A circuit that obtains a more accurate, output voltage from a plurality of input voltages is provided. A two-input single-output circuit includes a current source transistor allowing a predetermined current to flow, a cascode transistor section including two MOS transistors that are cascode-connected to the drain side of the current source transistor and have the same characteristics, a differential pair section having a first differential pair formed of a first input-side transistor and a first output-side transistor whose source lines are shared and a second differential pair formed of a second input-side transistor and a second output-side transistor whose source lines are shared, and a current mirror circuit section. Drain lines of the transistors of the cascade transistor section are respectively connected to the source lines of the first and second differential pairs.

Abstract: To provide a display device including a switching regulator type power generating circuit which realizes an increase in display quality by an output voltage being more stable, and by suppressing a flickering of a screen. A display device includes a switching regulator type direct current power generating circuit, wherein a period for which a switching element is turned on is determined in such a way as to increase or decrease by a given width when a code of an output voltage with respect to a setting voltage is constant, and the period is determined in such a way as to increase or decrease differently from the given width when the code changes.

Abstract: A display device which transmits display data to drive circuits which drive a display panel using low voltage differential signals have input circuits which are hardly influenced by noise. To transmit the low voltage differential signals under the same condition, low voltage differential signal lines are formed in a zigzag pattern so as to make the lengths of the lines equal. To reduce the influence generated by the overlapping of the zigzagged low voltage differential signal lines and the drive circuits, level shift circuits are provided to the input circuits so as to make the input signals assume a stable operation level.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a printed circuit board connected to the display panel, and a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit mounted on the display panel or the printed circuit board, in which each of the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit includes a gray scale voltage generating circuit generating a gray scale voltage to be applied to a first electrode of the pixel based on a gray scale reference voltage and a reference gray scale voltage circuit generating the gray scale reference voltage, and each of the gray scale voltage generating circuit of the first drive circuit and the gray scale voltage generating circuit of the second drive circuit generates the gray scale voltage based on the gray scale reference voltage generated in the reference gray scale voltage circuit of the first drive circuit.

Abstract: It is possible to realize a driver circuit which exhibits low power consumption and high image quality in a liquid crystal display device used in miniaturized portable equipment. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a liquid crystal display element and a liquid crystal driver circuit, the liquid crystal driver circuit is mounted on one side of a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal driver circuit can output counter electrode voltages of two systems and hence, the liquid crystal driver circuit can select a first mode in which the first counter voltage and the second counter voltage have the opposite polarities from each other and a second mode in which the first counter voltage and the second counter voltage have the same polarity. Due to such constitution, while driving the liquid crystal display device in the first mode, the second mode is selected depending on a video signal thus realizing power saving.

Abstract: A display device which transmits display data to drive circuits which drive a display panel using low voltage differential signals have input circuits which are hardly influenced by noise. To transmit the low voltage differential signals under the same condition, low voltage differential signal lines are formed in a zigzag pattern so as to make the lengths of the lines equal. To reduce the influence generated by the overlapping of the zigzagged low voltage differential signal lines and the drive circuits, level shift circuits are provided to the input circuits so as to make the input signals assume a stable operation level.