Appeal No. 2006-1726
Application No. 09/725,849
Invention
Appellants’ invention relates generally to a method, and an
apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display (figure 9), which
includes a liquid crystal display panel (22) having liquid
crystal pixel cells being driven by thin film transistors. The
liquid crystal pixel cells are arranged in a matrix type at each
intersection of a plurality of gate lines (GL1…GLm) originating
from a gate driver (26) and a plurality of data lines (DL1…DLm)
originating from a data driver (24). The gate driver (26) issues
gate pulses via the gate lines to drive the thin film
transistors, which in turn, drive the liquid crystal pixel cells
in accordance with the signal provided in the data lines. During
the beginning of a frame, the gate driver (26) issues a gate
pulse via the gate lines to charge the liquid crystal pixels in
accordance with a “pixel on” signal issued by the data driver
(24) via the data lines. During the ending of the frame, the
gate driver (26) issues another gate pulse via the gate lines to
discharge the liquid crystal pixel cells in accordance with a
“pixel off” signal issued by data driver (24) via the data lines.
See Appellants’ specification, page 8, line 24-page 9, line 7.
See also page 7, line 28- page 8, line 7.
Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is
reproduced as follows:
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