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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:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sunao Eto, Tenri, JP;
Hisao Okada, Ikoma-gun, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/36 ;
Abstract
According to the present invention, a method for driving a display device, including a display panel having a plurality of pixels and a plurality of data lines connected to the respective pixels, is provided. The method includes the steps of: sampling data in a first horizontal interval; storing the data sampled in the first horizontal interval; updating output data based on the stored data in the middle of sampling next data in a second horizontal interval next to the first horizontal interval; and outputting a voltage corresponding to the output data to a corresponding one of the data lines.