Lg Display Co., Ltd.

Seung Kuk An

Hong Sung Song

Jin Cheol Hong

Sin Ho Kang

A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a driving method thereof for improving a working efficiency of the LCD and reducing manufacturing costs. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having liquid crystal cells at crossings of data lines and gate lines, data integrated circuit supplying pixel data via a plurality of data output channels, a gate integrated circuit driving the gate lines, a channel selector for selecting the plurality of data output channels of the data integrated circuits in accordance with a number of the data lines wherein only the selected data output channels contain the pixel data, and a timing controller for controlling the data integrated circuit and the gate integrated circuit.

Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same

A liquid crystal display device for improving working efficiency and reducing manufacturing cost. In the device, a data integrated circuit has a data output group for supplying pixel data to data lines and a dummy data output channel group which is not supplied with pixel data. A channel selector selects an output channel of the data output channel group. A tape carrier package is mounted with the data integrated circuit and has a data output pad group connected to the data output channel group and a dummy output pad group. The pixel data is applied, via the data output channels selected by the channel selector, to the data lines.

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Kumi-si, South Korea

Seung Kuk An