Patent ID: 7679613

Claim:
A method of displaying an image with a display device, comprising: receiving image data for the image and buffering the image data to create a frame of the image; defining a first sub-frame and at least a second sub-frame for the frame of the image, image data of the second sub-frame being offset from image data of the first sub-frame by an offset distance; and displaying the first sub-frame with a first plurality of pixels of the display device and displaying the second sub-frame with a second plurality of pixels of the display device offset from the first plurality of pixels by the offset distance, wherein at least one of the pixels of the display device is identified as a defective pixel, and wherein displaying the first sub-frame and displaying the second sub-frame includes displaying a pixel of the first sub-frame and a pixel of the second sub-frame with the defective pixel and diffusing an affect of the defective pixel over at least a portion of the image.