Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device that includes a normally-black liquid crystal panel whose transmittance takes a minimum value when no voltage is applied and a cold cathode fluorescent lamp used as a light source of a backlight of the liquid crystal panel, the liquid crystal display device including a light irradiator configured to carry out light irradiation of the cold cathode fluorescent lamp in a period from device activation to first lighting of the cold cathode fluorescent lamp.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with shorter response time and simpler configuration is provided. The liquid crystal display device including: a plurality of pixels each including a liquid crystal element; and a driving section performing an image display driving by applying a driving voltage based on a video signal to the liquid crystal element in each of the pixels. The driving section performs an overdrive processing on the video signal of current frame to generate an overdriven video signal based on a current frame image and an immediately preceding frame image of the input images based on the video signals, and based on immediately-preceding-state information which is additional information briefly representing a immediately preceding state of the liquid crystal element of the pixel.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device that includes a normally-black liquid crystal panel whose transmittance takes a minimum value when no voltage is applied and a cold cathode fluorescent lamp used as a light source of a backlight of the liquid crystal panel, the liquid crystal display device including a light irradiator configured to carry out light irradiation of the cold cathode fluorescent lamp in a period from device activation to first lighting of the cold cathode fluorescent lamp.

Abstract: A display apparatus in which switch elements and pixels are placed at intersections between multiple gate lines and multiple data lines on a display panel that displays video and which displays video by controlling the lighting of the pixels by turning on/off the switch elements based on the voltages applied to the gate lines and the data lines is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a gate on voltage generating section that generates multiple VGG voltages (that is, gate on power supply voltages) for controlling the switch elements and controls the gradients at least at the trailing edges of the VGG voltages; gate drivers that generate control signals that control the lighting of the pixels by turning on/off the switch elements based on the VGG voltages and supply the control signals to the gate lines; and wires that supply the VGG voltages separately to one or multiple sets of the gate drivers.