Abstract: A driving apparatus and a method for a liquid crystal display wherein a picture can be inspected by a specific image signal when an image signal is not applied is provided. In the driving apparatus, an image signal processor extracts a complex synchronizing signal and a first image signal from a complex image signal input from an external source. An image signal generator generates a second image signal. An input signal detector counts the pulses in the complex synchronizing signal to generate a selection signal. An image signal selector selectively outputs any one of the first image signal from the image signal processor and the second image signal from the image signal generator in response to the selection signal. A data driver applies an output image signal selected and output by the image signal selector to the liquid crystal display panel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for controlling a liquid crystal display. The device comprises a luminance weighting value processor, an overdrive value generator, and an outputting unit. The luminance weighting value processor generates a weighting value according to a luminance value of a current pixel of a current frame of a video signal and a luminance value of a previous pixel of a previous frame of the video signal. The overdrive value generator generates an overdrive value according to a current pixel value of the current pixel and a previous pixel value of the previous pixel. The outputting unit generates an output pixel value according to the weighting value, the overdrive value and the current pixel value. Using the device and the method for driving a liquid crystal display according to the present invention, noise due to overdrive process can be reduced.

Abstract: A scan-line driving device for a LCD apparatus is provided. The scan-line driving device comprises a PWM signal generating circuit, two impedances with different resistance values, a capacitor and two scan drivers. The PWM signal generating circuit outputs a PWM signal with two potentials and a predetermined duty cycle. A terminal of the capacitor is electrically coupled to a ground potential, and the other terminal of the capacitor receives the PWM signal. Each of the scan drivers comprises a core circuit and a transistor. A source/drain terminal of each transistor is electrically coupled to a PWM signal input terminal of a corresponding core circuit and the other terminal of the capacitor, the other source/drain terminal of each transistor is electrically coupled to the ground potential through a corresponding one of the impedances, and the gate terminal of each transistor receives a turn-on control signal.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of driving a 3D LCD. The 3D LCD includes N data lines and 2M scan lines. The driving method includes that scanning two adjacent scan lines of 2M scan lines once a time in order in a first scanning period while outputting data correspondent to a first frame to the N data lines, and turning even number of the 2M scanning lines on in order in a second scanning period while outputting data of a second frame to the N data lines, wherein the first frame is for user's one eye, and the second frame is for user's the other eye.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention disclose a LCD device and a method for repairing the same. The LCD device of the embodiment of the invention comprises a panel on which a plurality of data lines are disposed, the LCD device has at least one broken data line, one end of the broken data line is connected to a pre-charge circuit which causes output signals of the broken data line to have a pre-charge voltage waveform, the other end of the broken data line is connected to the pre-charge circuit via a long lead wire.

Abstract: To provide a hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and a driving method thereof. The length of a period for displaying a blanking image in one frame period is controlled in accordance with a control parameter showing the degree of motion blur, and the level of a signal supplied to a display element is changed in accordance with the length of the period for displaying the blanking image. Accordingly, the hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and the driving method thereof can be provided.

Abstract: An emission control driver including a plurality of stages, each including a first unit adapted to generate a first output signal at a first node thereof based on an input signal, a clock signal, a inverted input signal, first and second power source voltages, a second unit adapted to output an emission control signal based on the first output signal and the input signal, a third unit adapted to transmit the first or second power source to the first unit based on the emission control signal, a inverted clock signal and an inverted emission control signal when a first path between the first power source and the first node and a second path between the second power source and the first node are blocked by the clock signal, and a fourth unit adapted to output a inverted emission control signal based on the emission control signal and the first output signal.

Abstract: A display control device includes an image data generating section and a control section. The image data generating section is configured to perform generation processing for generating image data in a predetermined processing sequence for each of a plurality of predetermined data units of the image data. The control section is configured to control a display unit to execute display processing based on the image data in the processing sequence for each of the predetermined data units. The control section is configured to control the display unit so that the longer a first time relating to the generation processing for one of the predetermined data units of the image data is, the longer a second time until the display processing starts for the one of the predetermined data units of the image data is.

Abstract: A gate driver of on embodiment of the present invention includes: a scan signal output circuit for performing alternately scanning whereby either odd-numbered scan signal lines or even-numbered scan signal lines are sequentially driven and scanning whereby the remaining scan signal lines are sequentially driven; a rise counter circuit for sensing the rise count for a clock signal in a HIGH level period of an externally supplied start signal; a scan sequence setup circuit for setting up a scan sequence to be followed by the scan signal output circuit according to the rise count; and a start signal generating circuit for generating a start signal to be supplied to a next scan signal line driver circuit. Hence, the resultant scan signal line driver circuit and method of driving a display device is capable of producing high quality images at low cost while restricting power consumption and heat generation by a data signal line driver circuit.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which includes a plurality of pixels in a matrix form, an image signal comparator which compares image signals corresponding to at least two successive frames and increases a count value if a proportion of the image signals that are the same as each other exceeds a preset critical value, and a panel driver which drives the display panel to display a non-image signal on at least a part of the display panel during at least one frame if the count value reaches a preset instruction value.

Abstract: The invention relates to a display device and to a method of controlling a display device. A display device with a plurality of pixels arranged in rows n and columns m is presented so as to render possible an energy saving through charge sharing in the display device, in particular an active matrix display, in which the pixels can be activated via control lines (6), and with a row driver circuit (4) for driving the n rows with a row voltage (Vrow), wherein the rows of the display device can be consecutively selected from 1 to n, and with a column driver circuit (3) for driving the m columns with a column voltage (Vcol) corresponding to the picture data of the pixels (8) of the selected line to be displayed, and wherein it is provided for a transition from a selected row n to another row n+1 that the row voltage (Vrow) is connected to an intermediate voltage level (VZ), and the row n+1 is first connected to the intermediate voltage level (VZ) and subsequently is charged up to the required row voltage (Vrow).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of at least one embodiment of the present invention includes a TN-mode liquid crystal display panel which is constituted by pixels of three colors (red, green, and blue) and a color filter. A thickness of a liquid crystal layer (cell thickness) is determined on a basis of a retardation value of green light or red light, which has a larger wavelength than blue having shortest wavelength among the three colors. A display data switching circuit carries out gradation conversion of shifting input gradation values to lower gradation values with respect to image data supplied to pixels of blue. Thus, grayscale inversion is prevented. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention produces an effect of improving transmittance of pixels of colors having wavelengths other than the wavelength of blue.

Abstract: An exemplary image displaying method for a display device includes steps of: providing display data to pixels of the display device for displaying images; taking a special amount of frame of images as an image group, making polarities of a same pixel being of adjacent two frame of images in the image group and using a same polarity inversion in the adjacent two frame of images be different from each other, and making polarities of a same pixel being of the last frame of image in a former one of adjacent two image groups and of the first frame of image in a latter one of the adjacent two image groups and using the same polarity inversion in the last and first frame of images be the same with each other.

Abstract: In a pixel driving device that drives a plurality of pixels, each pixel includes a light emitting element and a pixel driving circuit comprising a driving device having one end of a current path connected to one end of the light emitting element and having another end of the current path to which a power-source voltage is applied. Provided in a controller is a correction-data obtaining function circuit which obtains a first characteristic parameter relating to a threshold voltage of the driving device of each pixel based on a voltage value of each data line after a first detection voltage is applied to each data line connected to each pixel, and a current is caused to flow through the current path of the driving device through the each data line with a voltage of another end of the light emitting element being set to be a first setting voltage.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a comparator for comparing a pixel signal obtained by a pixel section and a reference signal the value of which varies in a stepwise manner, an analog-digital converter for outputting, as a digital value, the amount of time when the pixel signal and the reference signal change levels by the comparator; a reset signal generator for generating a reset signal that triggers a reset operation to be input to the comparator in order to adjust the reference in the analog-digital converter, and a waveform processor provided between the reset signal generator and the comparator for increasing the degree of dullness of a waveform of the reset signal.

Abstract: There is provided a method for operating an electrophoretic display apparatus including a first substrate; a second substrate; an electrophoretic device being held between the first substrate and the second substrate and containing electrophoretic particles; a first electrode formed on a surface of the first substrate, the surface facing the electrophoretic device; an insulation layer formed between the first electrode and the electrophoretic device; and a second electrode formed on a surface of the second substrate, the surface facing the electrophoretic device.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel, a drive circuit, and a power circuit. The drive circuit includes a gate driver, a timing control circuit, and a wave signal generation circuit. The timing control circuit sends a timing control signal to the gate driver and the wave signal generation circuit. The wave signal generation circuit generates a control signal according to the timing control signal, and generates a wave signal according to the control signal. The gate driver generates scan signals according to the timing control signal and the wave signal. Before the voltage of the scan signal changes from a maximum voltage to a minimum voltage, the voltage of the scan signal decreases to an invariable middle voltage that is between the minimum voltage and the maximum voltage during a fall time of the scan signal.

Abstract: A display device includes a gate driving part, a data driving part, a display panel and a kickback voltage compensating part. The gate driving part outputs a gate signal, and the data driving part outputs a data signal. The display panel displays an image in response to the gate signal and the data signal. A pixel voltage of the display panel is reduced by a kickback voltage varied based on a gray scale and induced when the gate signal falls. The kickback voltage compensating part compensates an image control signal externally provided to the kickback voltage compensating part for the kickback voltage to output a data control signal to the data driving part.

Abstract: An active matrix electroluminescent display device has an array of current—driven electroluminescent display elements (20), for example comprising organic electroluminescent material, whose operations are each controlled by an associated switching means (10) to which a drive signal for determining a desired light output is supplied in a respective address period and which is arranged to drive the display element according to the drive signal following the address period. Each switching means comprises a current mirror circuit (24, 25, 30, 32) which samples and stores the drive signal with one transistor (24) of the circuit controlling the drive current through the display element (20) and having its gate connected to a storage capacitance (30) on which a voltage determined by the drive signal is stored. Through the use of current mirror circuits improved uniformity of light outputs from the display elements in the array is obtained.

Abstract: A voltage adjustment circuit for adjusting a voltage to be supplied to scanning lines of a display device includes a slope adjustment circuit configured to adjust a slope of a decrease in the voltage based on data that is externally input, and a clamp voltage adjustment circuit configured to adjust a voltage value at which the voltage is clamped based on the data.

Abstract: An LCD device includes a display unit including pixels having a multi-pixel structure; first and second driving units that drive scanning and signal lines, respectively; an image acquisition unit, and a control unit. Each of the pixels includes first and second pixels, and first and second pixels of pixels are connected to two corresponding signal lines in a checkerboard manner. The first driving unit is controlled to repeatedly scan a first sub-frame of odd lines and a second sub-frame of even lines, and the second driving unit is controlled in such a manner that the polarity of the first pixel of a pixel differs from that of the second pixel of the pixel, the polarities of the adjacent first pixels differ from each other and those of the adjacent second pixels differ from each other, and a polarity signal is inverted when switching is performed between first and second sub-frames.

Abstract: A signal driving circuit of a liquid crystal display device includes a column driver for converting video data input into analog signals and applying said analog signals to pixels of a liquid crystal panel, a gamma voltage circuit for applying a plurality of signal voltages to the column driver and an external voltage supplying unit for generating and adjusting signal voltages and a common voltage applied to the gamma voltage circuit and the common electrode, respectively.

Abstract: A method for driving a liquid crystal display device provides sufficient charge time for a pixel unit by adjusting a main-charge time and a precharge time of the pixel unit according to the polarities of data driving signals applied during a main-charge period and a precharge period. Meanwhile, the method controls a write period during which a data driving signal is written into a pixel unit, so that each pixel unit can be equally charged.

Abstract: An auxiliary capacitor line driving circuit (5), provided in a surrounding region located around a display region (R1) in a liquid crystal display panel, generates auxiliary capacitor driving signals, and includes: first and second voltage trunk lines (VCS1, VCS2) which carry two different voltages, respectively; at least one control signal line (VCTRL1, VCTRL2) carrying one control signal; and a plurality of TFTs (T1, T2, T3, T4) each alternately supplying, to the respective auxiliary capacitor lines (CSn, CSn+1, and the like) in a given cycle, the two different voltages supplied to the auxiliary capacitor line driving circuit (5). Therefore, a liquid crystal display device employing multi-picture element drive method can be provided as a liquid crystal display device that achieves narrowing of a picture frame region as a non-display region and an external circuit board.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixel units, a scanning driver configured to provide scanning signals to scan the pixel units, a data driver configured to provide data voltage signals to the pixel electrode of the pixel units; and a common voltage driver configured to provide a common voltage signal to the common electrodes of the pixel units. Each pixel unit includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode, and the pixel units cooperatively display picture frame by frame. A dummy cycle period is defined between two sequent normal frame periods. The common voltage signal is an alternating current voltage signal in each normal frame period, and a polarity of the common voltage signal is fixed in the dummy cycle. A method for driving a liquid crystal display is also provided.

Abstract: A device includes: first and second substrates; an electrophoretic element between the substrates and including a dispersion medium containing electrophoretic particles; pixel electrodes on the first substrate; a common electrode opposite the pixel electrodes on the second substrate; a unit supplying an image signal having a first or second potential<the first potential to the pixel electrodes according to image data; and another unit supplying a common potential to the common electrode. The image signal is supplied in predetermined frame periods in an image signal supply period according to image data associated with the same frame image as the image data. The common potential is switched into a third potential?the first potential and>the second potential and a fourth potential<the third potential and?the second potential, and the switched potentials are supplied to the common electrode in the frame periods.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device that uses a liquid crystal material having spontaneous polarization and is actively driven by a TFT, a voltage corresponding to image data is applied twice by driving the TFT of each pixel electrode on a line by line basis of a liquid crystal panel, during writing in one frame. During erasure in one frame, voltage application to liquid crystal by batch selection of all the pixel electrodes is performed three times. With this three times of voltage application, it is possible to achieve a black display state in each pixel and make the stored charge amount at the liquid crystal in each pixel substantially zero.

Abstract: A method for driving a display panel, the display panel including a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including a cholesteric liquid crystal capacitor, includes; applying a common voltage to the display panel, displaying a video on the display panel by applying a data voltage to at least one of the plurality of pixels, the data voltage having a phase which is one of inverted to and substantially the same as a phase of the common voltage with respect to a reference voltage.

Abstract: A display device includes a pixel array and a drive unit that drives the pixel array. The pixel array includes first and second scanning lines in rows, signal lines in columns, a matrix of pixels arranged at respective intersections of the scanning lines and the signal lines, power supply lines that supply power to each of the pixels, and ground lines. The drive unit includes a first scanner that sequentially supplies first control signals to the corresponding first scanning lines to perform line-sequential scanning on the pixels on a row-by-row basis, a second scanner that sequentially supplies second control signals to the corresponding second scanning lines in synchronization with the line-sequential scanning, and a signal selector that supplies video signals to the signal lines in synchronization with the line-sequential scanning. Each pixel includes a light-emitting element, a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, a switching transistor, and a pixel capacitor.

Abstract: A circuit generates a reference voltage in inverse proportion to the variation in temperature to control the gate-on voltage for a gate line of a liquid crystal display so that the liquid crystal display may display an image without distortion.

Abstract: A driving circuit of an electrooptic device comprises: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; first and second capacitor lines; a common electrode; pixels, the pixels each including: a pixel switching element; a pixel capacitor; and a storage capacitor; a scanning-line driving circuit; and a capacitor-line driving circuit that shifts the voltage of a first (or second) capacitor line corresponding one scanning line to a predetermined voltage when said one scanning line is selected, and when a scanning line apart from said one scanning line by predetermined number of lines is selected, changes the predetermined voltage by a predetermined value or holds the predetermined voltage; and when said one scanning line is selected; and a data-line driving circuit.

Abstract: A gate modulation circuit is provided. A comparator compares a triangular wave voltage of a capacitor with a second reference voltage. If the triangular wave voltage of the capacitor exceeds the second reference voltage, a conduction path is turned off. A comparator controls desired discharge to a capacitor through a discharge resistor. Based on the discharge, power voltage (high level power voltage of the scanning driver) provided to the scanning driver is modulated, and outputted from the gate modulation circuit to the scanning driver as high level power voltage of the scanning driver.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes an LCD panel, a scan driver, a timing controller and a data driver. The LCD panel includes first and second pixel rows. The timing controller determines a correction voltage index according to an absolute difference between an average of original pixel voltages corresponding to original pixel data of all pixels of the first pixel row, and an average of original pixel voltages corresponding to original pixel data of all pixels of the second pixel row, determines a correction voltage according to the correction voltage index, determines an adjusted pixel voltage in a target pixel according to an original pixel voltage of the target pixel in the second pixel row and the correction voltage, and outputs adjusted pixel data corresponding to the adjusted pixel voltage. The data driver outputs the adjusted pixel voltage to the target pixel according to the adjusted pixel data.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display having common voltage compensation mechanism includes a liquid-crystal capacitor common electrode for receiving a liquid-crystal capacitor common voltage, a storage capacitor common electrode for receiving a storage capacitor common voltage, a common voltage generator for providing the liquid-crystal capacitor common voltage according to a preliminary common voltage, a common voltage compensation circuit electrically connected to the liquid-crystal capacitor common electrode and the storage capacitor common electrode, and a timing controller electrically connected to the common voltage compensation circuit. The common voltage compensation circuit is utilized for generating the storage capacitor common voltage through performing a ripple inverting operation according to the liquid-crystal capacitor common voltage, the preliminary common voltage and a compensation control signal.

Abstract: A method of operating an electro-optic display apparatus, wherein the display apparatus includes a display device having image regions and a display driving system having a data input for selecting image regions. The data input is connected to the input of a distributor for providing signals for driving the image regions. Each image region has an active display state in which the image region is driven with an active voltage signal. The active voltage signal includes a first signal level which sets an image region to the active display state and a second signal level different from said first signal level and which is applied for a shorter duration than said first signal level.

Abstract: A timing controller includes a control unit, an error signal generating unit, and an operation detecting unit. The control unit transfers a plurality of input data and outputs a plurality of completion signals according to transfer states of the respective data. The error signal generating unit generates a plurality of error signals with different waveforms, and the operation detecting unit selectively outputs one of the plurality of error signals in response to the plurality of completion signals.

Abstract: A gate pulse modulating circuit includes a timing controller capable of generating an output enable signal and a plurality of timing control signals; a high gate voltage generating unit, electrically connected to the timing controller for receiving the timing control signals, capable of generating a high gate voltage with a waveform including a plurality of cutting edges in response to the timing control signals; a low gate voltage generating unit capable of generating a low gate voltage; and a gate driver, electrically connected to the timing controller for receiving the output enable signal and the high gate voltage generating unit for receiving the high gate voltage and the low gate voltage generating unit for receiving the low gate voltage, capable of generating a plurality of gate pulses in response to a plurality of enable periods of the output enable signal; wherein a waveform of the gate pulses includes a plurality of cutting edges.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a gate driver which sequentially outputs a gate signal at a high state in response to a gate control signal and a data driver which converts image data into a data signal in response to a data control signal. The display apparatus further includes a display panel which includes a plurality of gate lines which sequentially receive the gate signal, a plurality of data lines which receive the data signal and a plurality of pixels connected to the gate and data lines and which receive the data signal in response to the gate signal to display an image. The polarity of the data signal is inverted after the gate signal transitions to a low state.

Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a first electrode comprising first electrode extensions formed on the first substrate, a second electrode comprising second electrode extensions formed on the first substrate and arranged alternately with the first electrode extensions, a second substrate facing the first substrate, liquid crystal molecules interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein electrode gaps formed between the first electrode extensions and the second electrode extensions comprise first electrode gaps and second electrode gaps, and the first electrode gaps are different from the second electrode gaps, and wherein the liquid crystal molecules are aligned vertically to the first and the second substrate, when the electric field is not formed between the first and the second substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of preventing a type of screen burn-in phenomenon caused by fluctuations in DC component of a liquid crystal drive voltage, which occurs when the refresh rate is switched. A control device can perform quadruple speed drive and double speed drive of a liquid crystal panel in an inversion drive method. A common electrode is supplied with a common voltage set in advance based on a midpoint potential in inversion drive of voltages set for a pixel electrode in the quadruple speed drive. In both of the quadruple speed drive and the double speed drive switched from the quadruple speed drive, a width of a scanning pulse (Pk) of a gate voltage (VGk) is set to a width of 1H in the quadruple speed drive.

Abstract: A display system includes a display device, a driving circuit, a flexible printed circuit (FPC), a charge pump circuit and a control circuit. The driving circuit is disposed on the display device, and utilized for driving the display device. The FPC is externally coupled to the display device. The charge pump circuit is disposed on the FPC, and utilized for generating at least an output voltage to the driving circuit. The control circuit is disposed on the display device and coupled to the driving circuit, and utilized for generating a control signal to control the charge pump circuit. The charge pump circuit has a control pin coupled to the control circuit for receiving the control signal generated from the control circuit.

Abstract: A method of driving a liquid crystal display device, which includes first and second substrates, gate lines on the first substrate, data lines crossing the gate lines to define pixel regions, a thin film transistor connected to each gate line and each data line, a common line between adjacent gate lines, a pixel electrode in each pixel region and overlapping the common line, and a common electrode on the second substrate, includes steps of sequentially applying scanning signals to the gate lines, applying data signals to the data lines to supply the pixel electrode with pixel voltage, applying a common voltage to the common electrode, and applying a storage capacitor voltage to the common line, wherein the pixel voltage and the storage capacitor voltage are alternating current (AC) voltages having positive and negative polarities alternately with respect to the common voltage.

Abstract: The present invention directs to a method for automatically compensating a common electrode voltage, comprising: calculating an average shift amount of a common electrode voltage according to gray scale data in a line on a displayed image, processing the average shift amount of the common electrode voltage to be a digital signal then converting it into an analog signal then into an average shift amount voltage waveform, and superposing it with a common electrode voltage waveform to form a new output signal waveform for driving the common electrode; the present invention also directs to a device for automatically compensating a common electrode voltage, comprising a data input module, a looking up module, a data operation module, a data encoding and converting module, a waveform generator and an operational amplification module.

Abstract: A display panel includes a gate line circuit. The gate line circuit includes a gate driver, a control circuit and a gate line. The gate driver generates a first driving signal with alternate high and low levels. The first driving signal has a first rising edge and a first falling edge. The control circuit receives the first driving signal and generates a second driving signal. The second driving signal has a second rising edge and a second falling edge. The second rising edge and the second falling edge are respectively smoother than the first rising edge and the first falling edge. The control circuit includes at least one capacitor. The capacitor is charged in a first direction in response to the first rising edge of the first driving signal. The capacitor is charged in a second direction in response to the first falling edge of the first driving signal.

Abstract: One of the objects is to improve display quality by reduction in malfunctions of a circuit. In a driver circuit formed using a plurality of pulse output circuits having first to third transistors and first to fourth signal lines, a first clock signal is supplied to the first signal line; a preceding stage signal is supplied to the second signal line; a second clock signal is supplied to the third signal line; an output signal is output from the fourth signal line. Duty ratios of the first clock signal and the second clock signal are different from each other. A period during which the second clock signal is changed from an L-level signal to an H-level signal after the first clock signal is changed from an H-level signal to an L-level signal is longer than a period during which the preceding stage signal is changed from an L-level signal to an H-level signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a gate driver circuit and application of the same in a liquid crystal display (LCD) for improving the display performance thereof. The gate driver circuit includes at least one PMOS transistor and two NMOS transistors configured to modify a falling edge of a corresponding scanning signal according to a linear function that defines a waveform shape for the scanning signal.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention can provide an image display device, including a liquid crystal panel used to display an image, a light source, a light transmission unit that can make a light from the light source pass through pixels only for a predetermined length of time within a frame cycle of the image, a drive signal-generating unit that can generate a drive signal to periodically vibrate a transmissivity of each pixel of the liquid crystal panel, and a phase control unit that can control in phase the drive signal based on tone data carried by an image signal.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixels connected to gate lines and data lines crossing the gate lines, a data driver which drives the data lines, a gate driver which drives the gate lines, a timing controller which controls the data driver and the gate driver in response to an image signal and a control signal and outputs a first kickback signal and a second kickback signal, and a voltage generator which outputs a first gate-on voltage and a second gate-on voltage in response to the first and second kickback signals to drive the gate lines. The gate driver drives a first group of gate lines in response to the first gate-on voltage and drives a second group of the gate lines in response to the second gate-on voltage.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes; a data driver integrated in one chip and which outputs data signals; a gate driver which sequentially outputs gate signals, a display panel which includes; a plurality of data lines which receive the data signals, a plurality of gate lines which receive the gate signals, and a plurality of pixels connected to a corresponding gate line and a corresponding data line, a voltage generator which generates a common voltage and a storage voltage and provides them to the display panel, and a voltage compensator which receives the storage voltage fedback from the display panel and generates a compensation signal, wherein the display panel further includes a feedback line which provides the voltage compensator with the storage voltage, and wherein the feedback line is electrically connected to the voltage compensator through the data driver.

Abstract: A circuit with a large load driving capability, which is structured by single polarity TFTs, is provided. With a capacitor (154) formed between a gate electrode and an output electrode of a TFT (152), the electric potential of the gate electrode of the TFT (152) is increased by a boot strap and normal output with respect to an input signal is obtained without amplitude attenuation of an output signal due to the TFT threshold value. In addition, a capacitor (155) formed between a gate electrode and an output electrode of a TFT (153) compensates for increasing the electric potential of the gate electrode of the TFT (152), and a larger load driving capability is obtained.