Abstract: A method is provided for driving a liquid crystal display panel in which each pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a specific direction, the method including feeding drive voltages to sub-pixels within the liquid crystal display panel by using operational amplifiers. The polarities of the drive voltages fed to each of the sub-pixels are inverted between two adjacent frame periods. The offset polarities of the operational amplifiers are inverted for every a predetermined number of successive sub-pixels. The number of the sub-pixels within each pixel is coprime to the predetermined number of successive sub-pixels.

Abstract: A driving method for a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel for displaying a frame having a first field and a second field on the LCD panel is provided. The driving method includes transmitting horizontal scan lines of the frame to the LCD panel using a line pair method and displaying the frame on the LCD panel using a column inversion method. Therefore, the driving method of the present invention can increase the resolution of the displayed frame without the need to provide additional memories or deploying complex algorithms.

Abstract: A method for driving an LCD and its driving circuits are provided which are capable of being constructed at low costs, of reducing a flicker that occurs when a monochromatic color is displayed or an arbitrary image is displayed and of simultaneously making an adjustment for minimizing a line flicker and flicker occurring on an entire screen and of being applied to application areas in which a display is made more high-definition and a screen is made larger. The LCD is driven in a manner that a polarity of a data signal is reversed for every two scanning electrodes and for every signal electrode and the data signal having the reversed polarity is sequentially fed to each of signal electrodes.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: groups of gate lines transmitting a gate-on voltage; data lines alternately transmitting normal data voltages and an impulsive data voltage; pixels arranged in a matrix and including switching elements that are connected to the gate lines and the data lines and turn on in response to the gate-on voltage to transmit the data voltages; gate driving circuits connected to respective groups of gate lines and sequentially applying the gate-on voltage to the gate lines; a data driver applying the data voltages to the data lines; a duty ratio selector outputting a duty ratio selection signal informing a selected duty ratio; and a signal controller controlling the gate driver and the data driver based on the duty ratio selection signal, wherein the signal controller determines a time for the application of the impulsive data voltage based on the duty ratio selection signal.

Abstract: A big screen display suitable for moving image displaying that has an excellent viewing angle property, an excellent reliability and a productivity, and a quick speed of response, and has a bright and excellent contrast is realized at low cost. Vertically aligned mode liquid crystal display comprises a scan wiring, a video signal wiring, a pixel electrode, an alignment directional control electrode, and a thin film transistor element formed in a position where a scan wiring and a video signal wiring intersect with each other, and a common electrode formed in opposing substrate side. An electric field distribution formed with three electrodes comprising an alignment directional control electrode, and a pixel electrode, and a common electrode formed in an countering substrate side may control motion directions of vertically aligned anisotropic liquid crystal molecules having a negative dielectric constant.

Abstract: An active matrix type liquid crystal display device driving method for switching a partial display mode and a normal display mode. The respective data lines of the partial display area are scanned in a certain period defined as a frame period, “k” pieces (symbol “k” is integer larger than, or equal to 1) of the partial display areas are present within 1 screen, a common electrode potential is varied 2k times within 1 frame period; a common electrode potential in a partially scanning period for scanning the partial display area is made as a constant potential against a reference of a driving circuit for driving the data lines; and within at least two continued frames, a common electrode potential of a blank period other than the partially scanning period is made as a constant potential which is different from the constant potential in the partially scanning period.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device has a pixel electrode connected to a scanning line and a data line through a TFT, and an opposing electrode opposed to the pixel electrode with a liquid crystal sandwiched therebetween. An almost constant common potential LCcom is applied to the opposing electrode. When this common potential LCcom is adjusted, first, the common potential LCcom is adjusted to a potential Vcom?, which minimizes the variation amount of light emitted from the liquid crystal device in the course of displaying a specific image, and, second, the common potential LCcom is set to a potential V0, which is higher than the potential Vcom?. Thus, it is possible to select, in an easy procedure, a common potential which can suppress a flicker while reducing a direct current component applied to the electro-optical material.

Abstract: An alternating unipolar carrier waveform is used to drive a pi-cell modulator. The pi-cell is driven by the carrier, but the carrier never changes polarity within the time period that the cell is energized. However, each time the cell is energized, i.e., once per field, the polarity alternates. Further, a burst of pulses each separated by a short rest period is used on initial application of power to more quickly drive the pi-cell to its activated state.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display including: a first common electrode line and a second common electrode line located near an edge of a panel and at least partly surrounding a plurality of pixels on the panel; a first common line positioned at an ith horizontal row of the pixels and coupled to the first common electrode line; and a second common line positioned at an i+1th horizontal row of the pixels and coupled to the second common electrode line; wherein each of the pixels includes a common electrode coupled to the first common line or the second common line.

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: One embodiment of the invention includes an liquid crystal display (LCD) with multiple polarity signal lines that control output buffer blocks so that at least one voltage polarity of a signal transmitted via a data line controlled by a first output buffer block inverts non-simultaneously with at least one voltage polarity of a signal transmitted via a data line controlled by a second output buffer block.

Abstract: An array substrate (10) is provided with a pixel electrode (3) disposed in a region defined by two adjacent gate wirings (1) and two adjacent source wirings (2), a switching element (5) for switching a voltage applied to the pixel electrode (3) from the source wiring (2) based on a signal voltage supplied from the gate wiring (1), a common wiring (8) arranged between the two adjacent gate wirings (1) and a common electrode (4) being electrically connected to the common wiring (8) and generating an electric field between the pixel electrode (3) whereto a voltage is applied, wherein the pixel electrode (1) comprises a first pixel electrode (1a) and a second pixel electrode (2a), and the opposing electrode (2) comprises a first opposing electrode (1b) and a second opposing electrode (2b), wherein a first region generates an electric field between the first pixel electrode (1a) and the first opposing electrode (2a) whose light transmittance is lower than that of the first pixel electrode (1a) and a second region

Abstract: A voltage corresponding to a black display is applied in a part of one frame period. When a black signal insertion period is changed, the black signal insertion period after the change is controlled so that (i) a time from a position at which a signal voltage of a first or second storage capacitor line rises to a position at which a first black insertion pulse rises in the black signal insertion period before the change becomes equal to (ii) a time from a position at which a signal voltage of the first or second storage capacitor line rises to a position at which a first black insertion pulse rises in the black signal insertion period after the change.

Abstract: A method for driving an active matrix liquid crystal display device of the invention is provided to drive a common voltage applied on a common electrode facing a pixel electrode by inversion for displaying a part of the display area, wherein the common voltage is controlled by synchronizing the polarity inversion timing of the common electrode with the scan timing of the pixel electrode in an initial position of the displayed area.

Abstract: A method of coupling a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device by providing a source device having a transmitter unit coupled thereto, providing sink device having a receiver unit coupled thereto, receiving a source data stream in accordance with a native stream rate by the transmitter unit, coupling the transmitter unit and the receiver unit by way of a linking unit, forming a multimedia data packet stream formed of a number of multimedia data packets and generating a transport schedule for transferring the multimedia data packet stream in accordance with a link rate between the transmitter unit and the receiver unit wherein the multimedia data.

Abstract: A display device has display elements provided inside of pixels formed in vicinity of signal lines and scanning lines aligned in matrix form, a plurality of image capture circuits, each capturing image at a certain range of a subject, and being provided one for every multiple pixels, a scanning line drive circuit which drives the scanning lines, a signal line drive circuit which drives the signal lines, a pixel voltage supply control circuit which controls whether or not to supply a pixel voltage to the corresponding signal line, and a pre-charge voltage supply control circuit which controls whether or not to supply a pre-charge voltage capable of changing voltage level for each signal line to the corresponding signal line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel having liquid crystal cells arranged at crossings of gate lines and data lines and include thin film transistors that are alternately connected to adjacent data lines every ‘i’ number of horizontal lines (i is a positive number); a gate driver for driving the gate lines; and a data driver for driving the data lines; a multiplexor array for determining an output channel of an inputted pixel data and for adding one blank data in response to the control signals having their polarity inverted every ‘i’ number of horizontal lines, and a digital-analog converter array for converting the pixel data and the blank data to a pixel signal and a blank signal having their polarities inverted according to the data lines and frames.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus drives an active-matrix liquid crystal panel by the use of the line reversal driving method. To do so, a common driver AC-drives one of a pair of electrode in each of all the pixels of the liquid crystal panel. An adding circuit obtains the sum of a plurality of gradation components for deciding the gradations of the pixels in one of the columns in the liquid crystal panel at intervals of the predetermined horizontal period. A voltage setting portion in a source driver corrects a reference voltage difference ?Vref on the basis of the sum at intervals of the horizontal period, divides the corrected reference voltage difference ?Vrefa, decides a plurality of gradation voltages, and selects voltages to be applied to a plurality of data lines in the liquid crystal panel from among the gradation voltages based on the plurality of gradation components. The selected plurality of voltages are applied to the plurality of data lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has odd- and even-numbered rows of pixels sequentially and repeatedly arranged on a substrate in the horizontal direction, alternate rows being shifted horizontally, first and second groups of data lines for dividing the odd and even-numbered rows of pixels, respectively, into first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels and partitioning the even and odd-numbered rows of pixels, respectively. First and second groups of data lines are alternately arranged on the substrate in the vertical direction, for supplying data signals to the first and second sub-pixels, respectively, through switching devices disposed in each sub-pixel. Gate lines arranged on the first substrate in every two row of pixels in the horizontal direction, for supplying pulse-type scan signals to row units of the first sub-pixels and the second sub-pixels, and common voltage lines are arranged between the gate lines.

Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display (300) includes a liquid crystal panel (301) receiving reference voltages; and a polarity resetting circuit (354) receiving display signals from external circuit and resetting the received display signals to attain resetted display signals, which makes the voltage difference between the resetted display signals and the previous frame display signals smaller than that between the corresponding received display signals and the previous frame display signals.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines crossing the plurality of data lines, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells defined as a first and second liquid crystal cell groups, a data driving circuit to supply a data voltage to the data lines in response to a polarity control signal, a gate driving circuit to supply a scanning pulse that swings between a gate high voltage and a gate low voltage to the gate lines, a first logic circuit to generate the polarity control signal differently for each frame period to maintain a polarity of the data voltage charged in the first liquid crystal cell group, and to invert one time a polarity of the data voltage charged in the second liquid crystal cell group for two frame periods, and a second logic circuit to control the gate driving circuit to decrease the gate high voltage of the scanning pulse to a modulated voltage between the gate high voltage and the gate low voltage for a prede

Abstract: A power control method for polarity inversion in an LCD panel comprises the step of providing a storage capacitor on a circuit board. Thereafter, the storage capacitor is charged to a first middle voltage. Next, the voltage of the VCOM channel is pulled up by a common output amplifier, only from the first middle voltage to a first upper voltage during a positive polarity period. Also, the voltage of the VCOM channel is pulled down by the common output amplifier, only from the first middle voltage to a first lower voltage during a negative polarity period.

Abstract: A ferroelectric liquid crystal display and method of driving the same according to an impulse-type method improves a voltage holding ratio. The ferroelectric liquid crystal display and method of driving the same applies a scan pulse at least twice to each gate line of a liquid crystal display panel injected with ferroelectric liquid crystal material during one frame period of the liquid crystal display panel. Data voltages are applied to data lines of liquid crystal display panel in synchrony with the scan pulse.

Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a data circuit, a memory, and a timing controller. The timing controller includes: a data analysis circuit configured for analyzing video signals stored in the memory and generating a corresponding control signal; and a polarity generating circuit configured for receiving the control signal and outputting a selected one of a first polarity control signal and a second polarity control signal to the data circuit according to the control signal. A related method for driving the liquid crystal display is also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lamp frequency control system for a display and method for controlling the lamp frequency. The lamp frequency control system comprises a driving control device and a lamp frequency control device. The driving control device has a driving mode selector for selecting a driving mode from at least two driving modes. According to the selected driving mode, the driving mode selector outputs at least one corresponding frequency control signal. According to the corresponding frequency control signal, the lamp frequency control device obtains at least one corresponding lamp frequency. According to the various driving mode, the lamp frequency control system of the invention obtains the corresponding lamp frequency. That is, the lamp frequency can be adjusted to match the driving mode. Therefore, the lamp frequency can be adjusted at a frequency section without the water flow interference. The lamp frequency control system of the invention can resolve the water flow interference.

Abstract: The specification and drawings describe and show embodiments of the present invention in the form of a liquid crystal display with a 2-port data polarity inverter. More specifically, the liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal polarity inversion driver determining whether a polarity of a liquid crystal is inverted and inverting the polarity of the liquid crystal in accordance with the determined result, a first data polarity inversion driver determining whether a first data transition is occurred in first data inverting the polarity of the first data in accordance with the determined result, and a second data polarity inversion driver determining whether a second data transition is occurred and inverting the polarity of the second data in accordance with the determined result.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) controller includes a plurality of segment/key source control circuits connected with an LCD panel and a key matrix through a plurality of segment/key source terminals, to periodically output a signal for one frame which contains a display output period and a key source output period. The plurality of segment/key source control circuits output to the plurality of segment/key source terminals during the display output period, segment signals having display drive voltages indicating a maximum value, a minimum value, and intermediate values between the maximum value and the minimum value.

Abstract: This invention relates to driving a liquid crystal display with a polarity inversion. The liquid crystal display panel (98) comprises a matrix of pixels (52, 62, 72), which is driven with a sequence of image frames. The method comprises driving the pixels during a first frame (n?1) with a first polarity pattern; driving the pixels with exception of a first set of pixels (54, 66, 74) during a second frame (n) with an inverted polarity pattern; and driving the first set of pixels (54, 66, 74) with the inverted polarity pattern during a third frame (n+1).

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device in which each one pixel has two switching elements and two pixel electrodes, a heat value of a drive circuit can be suppressed to a low level thus preventing the deterioration of image quality.

Abstract: A liquid crystal driver is provided, in which a frame rate of an input image signal is multiplied by 2N (N is an integer of one or more); each frame is divided into N positive field(s) and N negative field(s) respectively; the image signal is supplied to a liquid crystal panel with a positive polarity in a positive field; and the image signal is supplied to the liquid crystal panel with a negative polarity in a negative field. The liquid crystal driver includes a corrected image signal generator configured to generate a corrected image signal having the same amount of correction added to the positive field and negative field. The corrected image signal is supplied to the liquid crystal panel with the positive polarity in the positive field and the corrected image signal is supplied to the liquid crystal panel with the negative polarity in the negative field.

Abstract: A TFT panel includes (i) a plurality of signal electrodes, (ii) a plurality of scanning electrodes which cross the plurality of signal electrodes, (iii) an active element provided in a vicinity of each intersection at which one of the plurality of signal electrodes and one of the plurality of scanning electrodes cross and connected to the one of the plurality of signal electrodes and the one of the plurality of scanning electrodes, (iv) a pixel electrode driven by the active element, and (v) a counter electrode to which an AC signal is applied, and which faces the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A method for driving an LCD panel for displaying image data includes generating a random code sequence including a plurality of random codes with values equal to a first value or a second value, generating a plurality of driving voltages corresponding to a plurality of pixels in the LCD panel according to the image data, adjusting polarities of the plurality of driving voltages according to the random code sequence, and driving the plurality of pixels with the plurality of driving voltages after polarity adjustment.

Abstract: A signal converting section increases a transfer rate of an input image signal to be supplied to a liquid crystal panel and, at the same time, also inserts a non-image signal for applying a predetermined voltage to liquid-crystal cells in a space of the input image signal and supplies it as a picture-element signal to a source driver. To each picture cell, an input image signal and a non-image signal are sequentially written with positive or negative polarity. For all picture elements, after the input image signal is written, the non-image signal equal in polarity to the input image signal is always written. Furthermore, after the non-image signal is written, an image signal opposite in polarity to the non-image signal is always written. Thus, when an image is displayed on the liquid crystal panel in OCB mode, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of back transition and carry out image display evenly.

Abstract: A method for detecting whether or not a display mode has to be switched and for detecting a frame of a liquid crystal display panel. The frame has M vertical blocks each including K display lines each having N horizontal blocks each being composed of multiple display units. First, a horizontal block flag value of each horizontal block is obtained according to energy levels of all of the display units of the horizontal block. Then, a display line flag value of each display line is obtained according to horizontal block flag values of all of the horizontal blocks of the display line. Next, M vertical block flag values are obtained according to the display line flag values of all of the display lines in each vertical block. Then, it is determined whether or not the display mode has to be switched according to the M vertical block flag values.

Abstract: A LCD includes a first data line, a second data line and a third data line arranged sequentially, a first scan line, a second scan line and a third scan line arranged sequentially, and a pixel array. The pixel array includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel and a fourth pixel. The first pixel has a first transistor coupled to the first data line and the second scan line. The second pixel has a second transistor coupled to the second data line and the first scan line. The third pixel has a third transistor coupled to the second data line and the second scan line. The fourth pixel has a fourth transistor coupled to the third data line and the third scan line.

Abstract: A problem, which one of the inventions included in the present application solves, is to provide a semiconductor device that can simultaneously test a plurality of output pins by less channels of a semiconductor test equipment in number than the integrated output pins of the semiconductor device. Representative one of the inventions has such a configuration that an LCD driver, which is the semiconductor device having a function of driving a gate line of a liquid crystal display panel, comprises: an exclusive-OR circuit for inverting polarities of positive and negative voltages for driving the gate line; a tri-state type inverter circuit capable of changing and controlling, to a high-impedance state, an output circuit for driving the gate line; and at least one of test control terminals TEST for controlling the exclusive-OR circuit and the tri-state type inverter circuit.

Abstract: To provide an electro-optic apparatus, a driving method for the same, and an electronic appliance that can reduce power consumption, a liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, pixel electrodes disposed at each intersection of the scan lines and the data lines, and counter electrodes disposed facing the pixel electrodes, with the counter electrodes being set at a predetermined potential. A memory circuit stores logic corresponding to a tone of a data signal supplied from a data line to the pixel electrode in accordance with logic of a polarity signal. A power supply selecting circuit switches the power supply supplied to the memory circuit based on switches in the logic of the polarity signal. The read circuit switches a read of logic stored in the storage circuit based on switches in the logic of the polarity signal and supplies the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A method for driving an IPS mode LCD device prevents leakage current by swing of a common voltage. The IPS mode LCD device includes multiple gate and data lines crossing each other to define a plurality of pixel regions, multiple thin film transistors (TFT) alternately positioned at lower and upper side pixel regions adjacent to the corresponding gate line, and multiple common lines in a zigzag type along the thin film transistors in the pixel regions. A common voltage is applied so that a first common voltage or a second common voltage is inversely applied to even numbered common lines or odd numbered common lines in one vertical period to be synchronized with a scanning signal supplied to the first gate line, and a gate Low voltage applied to each gate line is lower than a pixel voltage on transition of the common voltage from “High” to “Low”.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device has a display mode in which an image is displayed and a non-display mode in which no image is displayed. A scanning line driving device selects a plurality of scanning lines in a predetermined order every unit period. A data line driving device supplies pixel circuits corresponding to a selected one of the scanning lines through the data lines with writing voltages. The data line driving device, in the non-display mode, supplies each data line with the predetermined voltage, as the writing voltage, of which polarity is inverted in a period of integral multiple of the unit period using the reference electric potential as a reference. The scanning line driving device, in the non-display mode, selects each of the scanning lines in a unit period that is longer than the unit period of the display mode.

Abstract: An image display according to the present invention includes a driving device which performs pulse width modulation drive, restrains power consumption, and produces a good multi-tone display. The image display makes the difference between the scan line voltage and the signal line voltage equal in positive polarity writing and negative polarity writing by which pixels are AC driven, so as to make the on-resistances of transistors equal. This allows a maximum pulse width, the size of switching elements, etc. to be determined first so that they match positive polarity writing in which the resistances value of the switching elements rise. No high frequency clock is required to produce subtle differences of charge ratio in negative polarity writing in which the resistances of the switching elements fall. Power consumption which depends on the clock frequency drops too.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first pixel connected to first and second gate lines, a first positive data line and a first negative data line, and which is supplied with a positive data voltage from the first positive data line when enabled by a first gate-on voltage from the first gate line, and is supplied with a negative data voltage from the first negative data line when enabled by a second gate-on voltage from the second gate line; and a second pixel connected to the first and second gate lines, a second positive data line and a second negative data line, and which is supplied with a negative data voltage from the second negative data line when enabled by the first gate-on voltage and is supplied with a positive data voltage from the second positive data line when enabled by the second gate-on voltage.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes an LCD panel, a frequency multiplier to multiply a frame frequency to generate a multiplied frame frequency that includes an odd frame and an even frame, a data converter to modulate N-bit input data supplied in accordance with the odd and even frames from the frequency multiplier into (N?1)-bit data, and a data driver to apply the (N?1) bit data from the data converter to the LCD panel.

Abstract: A driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display that reduces a residual direct current component from flowing in a liquid crystal is disclosed. In the apparatus, a liquid crystal display panel has liquid crystal cells at crossing of gate lines and data lines. An image signal processor separates a television image signal from a complex image signal and converts a polarity of the television image signal in response to a polarity inversion signal. A timing controller generates the gate control signal for time-dividing the plurality of gate lines to sequentially drive them during one horizontal period and driving the gate lines during one horizontal period and then applying it to the gate driver, and that generates the polarity inversion signal inverted for each one horizontal period and then applying it to the image signal processor.

Abstract: A display apparatus is constituted by a display device including a plurality of pixels and control means for effecting a plurality of displaying operations at each pixel. Each of the displaying operation includes at least a first operation for displaying a first image at a first luminance and a second operation for displaying a second image substantially identical to the first image at a second luminance, said first and second luminances being non-zero and different from each other. One of the first and second luminances may preferably be smaller than ? of the other luminance.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of gate lines having odd-numbered gate lines and even-numbered gate lines, a plurality of source lines, a first gate driver which drives the odd-numbered gate lines, a second gate driver which drives the even-numbered gate lines and a driving controller which outputs an overdriven image signal in at least one driving period of a plurality of driving periods and outputs a normal image signal in remaining driving periods of the plurality of driving periods. The overdriven image signal is obtained by adding an overdrive voltage to the normal image signal, and the overdrive voltage is set according to a level of the normal image signal.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is capable of minimizing power consumption and providing an excellent image quality by having a varying array wire structure of the liquid crystal display so that the liquid crystal display can employ a low driving voltage and obtain advantages of a dot inversion drive system. Also, a driving method thereof is disclosed.

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 display unit in which pixels are arranged in a matrix state and a drive circuit selecting respective pixels in the display unit by each row and giving additional potential to pixel electrodes of the pixels by using coupling, in which the drive circuit has a function of allowing the reverse polarity of potential added to pixel electrodes to be a potential which can add suitable voltage to additional potential lines in a frame before adding the additional potential.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a plurality of pixel row groups, each pixel row group including at least one pixel row that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and including switching elements; a plurality of gate lines connected to the switching elements and transmitting a gate-on voltage for turning on the switching elements; and a plurality of data lines connected to the switching elements and transmitting data voltages, wherein the switching elements in adjacent pixel row groups are connected to the data lines at opposite sides.

Abstract: The present invention provides an array of pixels, each pixel comprising: a pixel element, a pixel refresh circuit, a first memory element and a first switch element. Each pixel element comprises a first pixel electrode for individual control of the pixel element and a second pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode linking substantially all pixel elements in the array and being connected to a common counter-electrode. The first and second pixel electrode form a first capacitor. The pixel element has a threshold voltage and a modulation voltage. The pixel refresh circuit is intended for transferring electric charge related to a pixel data value from a data input of the pixel to the first pixel electrode via a charge transfer path. The first memory element is coupled to the pixel data input for storing electric charge related to the pixel data value.