A digital liquid crystal display (LCD) driving circuit is provided for
driving an LCD to display video images. The LCD driving circuit comprises
a digital gamma-correction and inversion circuit for performing a digital
gamma-correction process on the digitized video signal and then
performing a polarity inversion process on selected lines of the video
signal. The digital gamma-correction and inversion circuit is coupled
directly to a display memory unit so as to fetch the digitized video
signal directly from the display memory unit. A digital-to-analog
conversion means is coupled to the digital gamma-correction and inversion
circuit for converting the digital output of the digital gamma-correction
and inversion circuit into analog form. Further, the LCD driving circuit
comprises an LCD timing control circuit, which is coupled to receive a
plurality of video control signals associated with the digitized video
signal, for converting the video control signals into a LCD timing
control signal to control the LCD to display the video signal. Still
further, the LCD driving circuit comprises a PWM and shutdown circuit for
supplying power to the LCD and shutting down the LCD when the LCD has
been idle for a preset period. Most of the constituent circuit components
of the LCD driving circuit can be implemented in a single LSI integrated
circuit. The LCD driving circuit is therefore compact in size, low in
manufacturing cost, and low in power consumption.