Driving method of driving a liquid crystal display element.

摘要

A driving method of a matrix type liquid crystal display element comprising at least J x L number (J and L are respectively integers of 2 or more) of row electrodes and a plural number of column electrodes wherein, the J x L number of row electrodes are divided into a J number of row electrode subgroups each comprising an L number of row electrodes so that the subgroups are selected as each batch to be driven; when voltages are applied to the row electrodes, either a voltage level of +Vr or -Vr (where Vr > 0) is applied at a selection time, when a voltage at a non-selection time is 0 (zero); voltages applied to the column electrodes are selected from an (L + 1) number of voltage levels of V0, V1, ..., VL (where V0 < V1 < ... < VL); and when a two-valued information of the j-th line electrode subgroup (j is an integer of any of 1 through J) in a specified column in the plural column electrodes is expressed by a column vector Dj having an L number of elements (where the elements of the vector Dj comprise 1 indicating ON and 0 indicating OFF), the following conditions are satisfied: (1) the j-th row electrode subgroup is selected by applying sequentially voltages so that the elements of a selection voltage vector which constitute a selection voltage matrix, as defined in the following items (a) and (b), correspond to voltages applied to the row electrodes constituting the j-th row electrode subgroups: (a) a matrix A=[ alpha 1, alpha 2, ... alpha q, ..., alpha k] (where alpha q is a column vector having an L number of elements) comprising L rows and K columns, which has an element of +Vr or -Vr and in which the product of a matrix and a transposed matrix of the same assumes a scalar multiple of the unit matrix is selected (where K is an integer having a relation of L = K and p is a natural number), and (b) as the selection voltage, matrix comprising selection voltage vectors which include at least each one of alpha 1, alpha 2, ..., alpha k, - alpha 1, - alpha 2, ..., - alpha k and are arranged in a matrix are selected, and, (2) when the j-th row electrode subgroup is selected under the above-condition (1), the voltage applied to the column electrodes to indicate a display information by means of the vector Dj are determined as in the following items (a) and (b): (a) a vector beta is formed by the selection voltages applied to the j-th row electrode subgroup where +Vr represents 1 and -Vr represents 0, and (b) a voltage Vi (i is an integer of any of 0 through L) given by the sum of exclusive OR of the elements corresponding to the vectors beta and Dj is applied to the column electrodes.