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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2011
Kota Muto, Suwa, JP;
Masato Nishizawa, Shiojiri, JP;
Kota Muto, Suwa, JP;
Masato Nishizawa, Shiojiri, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
An electro-optical device includes a display unit that includes a plurality of arranged pixels and a control unit that drives the display unit. When a part or the entirety of the display unit is displayed in a single gradation, the control unit performs a first elimination operation of selectively driving a first pixel group including the pixels displayed in gradations other than a first gradation to change the pixels included in the first pixel group to the first gradation, and a second elimination operation of selectively driving a second pixel group including the pixels positioned on the outline of an area formed of the first pixel group and the plurality of pixels provided adjacent to the area formed of the first pixel group and surrounding the area to change the pixels included in the second pixel group to the first gradation.