摘要 |
This invention relates to an apparatus and method for driving a lamp of a liquid crystal display device that applies a scanning backlight driving to an external electrode fluorescent lamp. A lamp driving apparatus of a liquid crystal display device, including: a plurality of lamps irradiating light to a liquid crystal display panel and including external electrodes; a common electrode connected to the external electrodes that supply a tube current to the lamps; auxiliary electrodes that are movable; and an auxiliary electrode driving part sequentially connecting the auxiliary electrodes with and disconnecting the auxiliary electrode from the external electrodes in accordance with a scan direction of data to be displayed on the liquid crystal display panel.
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