Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a charge sharing function is suitable for reducing the power consumption below a predetermined limit. In the liquid crystal display device, a pair of pixels adjacent along the data line is charged with pixel data voltages of polarity opposite to that of another pair of pixels adjacent to the pair of the pixels. A charge sharing unit selectively allows the data lines to share charges at intervals between periods in which the pixel data voltages are supplied to the pair of the pixels adjacent along the data line.

Abstract: A driving apparatus for a display wherein an m-bit data driver integrated circuit is used to drive n-bit data. The apparatus includes a timing controller arranged to supply n-bit data, and a plurality of m-bit data integrated circuits having a predetermined value for two least significant bits, wherein the m-bit data driver integrated circuits output the n-bit data from the timing controller as video signals having 2n gray levels.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate; a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines defining a plurality of pixel regions; a switching device; a pixel electrode and a common electrode; a number N of data Tape Carrier Packages (TCPs) applying image information to the data lines and the M number of gate TCPs; a first contact hole formed at an outer edge of the image display part; a first common voltage supply line electrically connected to the common electrode through the first contact hole at a predetermined, e.g., right, end portion; a second contact hole formed at an outer lower end portion of the image display part and electrically connecting the first common voltage supply line and the common electrode; and a color filter. A method of making the display panel is also disclosed.