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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1999
Yoshihiro Ushigusa, Tsurugashima, JP;
Yoshiyuki Okuda, Tsurugashima, JP;
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for driving a display apparatus with capacitive light-emitting devices, which enables to suppress consumption power. The method includes the steps of; (1) selecting non-connection keeping drive lines among all of the drive lines which are not connected to the drive source in a previous scan period and a present scan period, in the reset period, connecting all of the scan lines to the same reset potential and connecting the selected non-connection keeping drive lines to the ground potential while connecting the other drive lines to the reset potential, or (2) selecting unconnected drive lines among all of the drive lines which are not connected to the drive source in a present scan period, in the reset period, connecting all of the scan lines to the same reset potential and connecting the selected unconnected drive lines to the ground potential while connecting the other drive lines to the reset potential.