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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 1995
Filed:
May. 15, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hidefumi Yamaguchi, Fujisawa, JP;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345 58 ; 345 96 ;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display, in which flicker and cross talk are removed for arbitrary display patterns. The liquid crystal display has a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix at the intersections of the scan and the data lines. The polarity of data signals outputted to the data lines is inverted for each occurrence of a pixel to be placed into a predetermined state. The predetermined state may be a dark state or a bright state of a binary display, or one of several levels of a display having more than two gray scale levels.