Patent ID: 8115709

Claim:
An electro-wetting display device, comprising: an upper substrate; a lower substrate opposite to the upper substrate; a plurality of side walls interposed between the upper and lower substrates and cooperating with the upper and lower substrates to form a plurality of pixel units; a first polar liquid disposed in the pixel units; a second, colored, non-polar liquid disposed in the pixel units, and the second liquid being immiscible with the first liquid; a plurality of parallel and spaced apart scanning lines, for providing scanning signals to the pixel units; a plurality of parallel and spaced apart data lines that are perpendicular to the scanning lines; a plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs), each TFT disposed at an intersection of a corresponding one of the scanning lines and a corresponding one of the data lines, and each TFT coupled to a corresponding scanning line; and a plurality of pixel electrodes, each pixel electrode corresponding to a corresponding pixel unit; wherein each pixel unit corresponds to at least a part of a corresponding previous scanning line, a corresponding current TFT and a corresponding current pixel electrode, the previous scanning line in a current pixel unit couples to a previous TFT not in the current pixel unit, and the current pixel electrode in the current pixel unit is coupled to the current TFT in the current pixel unit.