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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
May. 13, 1996
Hiroshi Murakami, Kawasaki, JP;
Koji Yoshioka, Kawasaki, JP;
Keizo Morita, Kawasaki, JP;
Masafumi Itokazu, Kawasaki, JP;
Ken-ichi Nakabayashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Akira Yamamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Munehiro Haraguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An active-matrix LCD causes no cross-talk even if the capacitance between a given cell and adjacent data lines is large. The LCD has a liquid crystal panel which has data lines arranged in parallel with one another, scan lines arranged orthogonally to the data lines, and liquid crystal cells arranged at the intersections of the data and scan lines, respectively. Each of the cells has a cell electrode and a switching device that is arranged between and connected to the cell electrode and a corresponding one of the data lines. The conduction of the switching device is controlled in response to a scan pulse applied to a corresponding one of the scan lines. The LCD also has a data driver for applying data signals to the data lines, respectively, so that the data signals are written to corresponding ones of the cells, and a scan driver for applying the scan pulse sequentially to the scan lines. The data driver applies positive and negative signals that are opposite to each other with respect to a reference level, to each of the data lines within the period of the scan pulse, to zero an effective voltage applied to each data line. As a result, a voltage sustained by any cell to which data has been written is not affected by voltages successively applied to a data line to which the cell is connected and a data line to which the cell is capacitively connected.