Abstract: A voltage with a predetermined pattern is applied to liquid crystals to drive the liquid crystals during a unit drive period of the liquid crystals and an application pattern according to the gradation data is set taking into account a value obtained by integrating the amount of transmitted light of liquid crystals at various points in time when each application pattern is applied to the liquid crystals. This allows a fine gradation display even if the liquid crystals are driven by only ON/OFF of a maximum rated voltage. As a result, it is possible to drive the liquid crystals at high speed and produce a multi-gradation display.

Abstract: In order to drive a liquid crystal at a speed equivalent to or higher than CRT displays, in a liquid crystal display device made of a liquid crystal and two electrodes sandwiching the liquid crystal to display images by applying a voltage based on gradation data between the two electrodes, a predetermined voltage independent from the gradation data is applied across the two electrodes for a predetermined length of time in predetermined intervals.