Patent 7783945 was granted and assigned to AU Optronics on August, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A display apparatus comprises a pixel array, a front-end circuit, a test circuit, and an enable circuit. The test circuit tests the pixel array. The enable circuit determines whether to enable the test circuit in response to a predetermined voltage. After the pixel array is tested, the predetermined voltage is provided by the front-end circuit to disable the test circuit.