A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal panel comprised of a
liquid crystal material disposed between segment and common electrodes
defining pixels arranged in a matrix. A driver integrated circuit
generates driving segment signals and driving common signals to drive
preselected ones of the segment and common electrodes, respectively, to
display an image on the liquid crystal panel. The driver integrated
circuit also generates a segment signal waveform and a common signal
waveform to drive one of the segment electrodes and one of the common
electrodes, respectively, each placed in a normally ON state and not
corresponding to the preselected ones of the segment and common
electrodes, respectively, so that a frame is displayed at a portion of
the liquid crystal panel not corresponding to the pixels.