Drive circuit of liquid crystal display, having clip circuit before polarity inversion circuit

Abstract

A drive circuit of an LCD is disclosed, by which no image signal having a voltage level over the dynamic range of the video amplifier, and thus erroneous operation of the video amplifier is prevented, thereby supplying normal image signals to the LCD. The drive circuit comprises a clip circuit for clipping the amplitude range of the voltage of a picture signal input from an input terminal; a polarity inversion circuit for receiving the picture signal whose amplitude range was clipped by the clip circuit, and for converting the picture signal so that an inverted signal and a non-inverted signal are alternately assigned to each dot; and a video amplifier for amplifying the voltage level of the converted picture signal by a predetermined amplification degree.

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