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Liquid crystal display apparatus and drive method thereof

CA 2443671 A1 · Owner: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. · Inventors: Kobayashi, Takahiro; Ohta, Yoshihito; Arimoto, Katsuyuki

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A frequency converting block (101) provided to a liquid crystal display inserts a non-image signal simultaneously written in the pixels along L gate lines of a liquid crystal panel between the image signals constituting the input video signal at a rate of one line for the image signal of L lines (L is an integer of 2 or more) so as to generate an output video signal and adjusts the number of horizontal scanning periods contained in the vertical blanking period of the output video signal so that the number of horizontal scanning periods constituting one frame period may be (L+1)×(2N+1) (N is an integer). When reverse transition prevention drive is carried out by using a liquid …

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FiledOctober 17, 2002
GrantedNo grant recorded
Term endedOctober 17, 2022
Patent numberCA 2443671 A1
Classification (IPC)G09G3/36 +2 more

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