A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a shift register unit that sequentially takes in a video signal including s-bit width for the number of columns of a plurality of pixels, a 1-line latch unit that concurrently outputs a plurality of the video signals taken by the shift register unit, comparator units that convert the plurality of video signals output from the 1-line latch unit into a plurality of analog voltages, respectively, and an analog switch unit that switches whether or not the plurality of analog voltages are supplied to the plurality of data lines, respectively.

A display device that achieves both high detection sensitivity of the touch sensor unit and smooth input on the touch sensor unit is provided. A method for driving a display device includes a first period and a second period. The display device includes pixels, a gate driver, and a touch sensor unit. The touch sensor unit detects a touch in the first period and stops detecting a touch in the second period. The gate driver supplies signals to some of the pixels and does not supply signals to the other pixels in the second period.

A display driver includes a still image detector configured to receive a compressed image bitstream at an input frame frequency from a host processor, and to detect a still image by comparing the compressed image bitstream of a current frame and the compressed image bitstream of a previous frame, a driving frequency changer configured to output the compressed image bitstream at a first output frame frequency equal to the input frame frequency when the still image is not detected, and to output the compressed image bitstream at a second output frame frequency lower than the input frame frequency when the still image is detected, and a decoder configured to generate original image data at the first output frame frequency and the second output frame frequency.

An image display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a light modulator that performs light modulation on the basis of data of a bit plane for each grayscale bit; and a transfer controller that divides the data of the bit plane into data of a plurality of groups and transfers the data of the respective groups to the light modulator at shifted transfer timings, the shifted transfer timings being sequentially shifted only by a predetermined shift amount corresponding to a subframe period of a least significant grayscale bit multiplied by a predetermined integral.

A display device that achieves both high detection sensitivity of the touch sensor unit and smooth input on the touch sensor unit is provided. A method for driving a display device includes a first period and a second period. The display device includes pixels, a gate driver, and a touch sensor unit. The touch sensor unit detects a touch in the first period and stops detecting a touch in the second period. The gate driver supplies signals to some of the pixels and does not supply signals to the other pixels in the second period.

A drive gradation table is configured as follows. The number of subframes turned to a drive state is increased each time drive gradations are increased. When all of the subframes are divided into a plurality of subframe groups including a plurality of continuous subframes, as gradations are increased, subframes turned to the drive state are increased in order from the latest subframe group to the earliest subframe group among the plurality of subframe groups. In each of the subframe groups, the subframes turned to the drive state are increased in order from the earlier subframe to the later subframe.

A drive gradation table is configured as follows. The number of subframes turned to a drive state is increased each time drive gradations are increased. When all of the subframes are divided into a plurality of subframe groups including a plurality of continuous subframes, as gradations are increased, subframes turned to the drive state are increased in order from the latest subframe group to the earliest subframe group among the plurality of subframe groups. In each of the subframe groups, the subframes turned to the drive state are increased in order from the earlier subframe to the later subframe.

A display device, including: a light source, used for emitting light source light; a control unit, used for controlling a drive current for the light source, the modulation period of each frame of image to be displayed comprising at least one pulse modulation period, and within the pulse modulation period, the drive current for the light source being an overshoot current so that the average luminous brightness of the light source in the modulation period reaches preset brightness; and a light modulation unit, used for modulating the light source light according to image data of the image to be displayed and the luminous brightness of the light source to obtain a modulated image.

A method for controlling a digital display device and a digital display system implementing the method are provided in which a required luminance level for a pixel is controlled according to a store provided for each pixel, the contents of which indicate the number of discrete display update periods during an image refresh period for the pixel for which the pixel is to be illuminated to achieve the required luminance level, the content being read at each update period and the content determining whether the pixel is to be illuminated for that update period, the content being updated at each update period for which the pixel is illuminated to indicate that the number of update cycles for which the pixel is to be illuminated is thereby reduced by one and wherein the content of the store may be updated at any update cycle in response to changes in required pixel luminance level indicated by received image data.

A display apparatus includes a display panel including pixels arranged along a plurality of horizontal lines; a data driving portion converting image data of the pixels into data voltages; a frame memory receiving and storing the image data of a refresh frame; and a data processing portion receiving and image quality-processing the image data stored in the frame memory in a unit of one horizontal line, and transmitting the image quality-processed image data to the data driving portion and the frame memory; wherein the frame memory updates and stores the image quality-processed horizontal line image data into a corresponding horizontal line therein, and wherein image data of a n.sup.th refresh frame updated in the frame memory are transmitted to the data driving portion in a unit of one horizontal line when an image of a n+1.sup.th refresh frame is identical to an image of the n.sup.th refresh frame.