One embodiment of the present invention is to prevent deterioration of
display quality from occurring in a display device provided with an
active matrix substrate even when a larger size or a higher resolution is
employed and a drive frequency is increased. In an active matrix
substrate of a liquid crystal display device, a discharge control signal
line is disposed so as to be arranged along each gate line and discharge
TFTs are provided for each source line in numbers equal to the number of
the gate lines. The gate terminal, source terminal, and drain terminal of
the discharge TFT are connected to the discharge control signal line, the
storage capacitance line, and its adjacent source line, respectively.
Each storage capacitance line is provided with the common potential Vcom.
Each discharge control signal line is provided with a signal which turns
on the discharge TFT for a predetermined period of every one horizontal
period.