Patent ID: 7876341

Claim:
A display device comprising: a display panel substantially comprising a plurality of subpixel repeating groups; each said subpixel repeating group comprising subpixels of a first primary color, a second primary color, a third primary color and a fourth color arranged in first and second rows; an input image data unit configured to receive input image data; and a subpixel rendering unit configured to subpixel render said input image data for rendering on said display panel; said subpixel rendering unit performing area resampling of said input image data to produce luminance values for each of the subpixels of the display panel; and wherein said subpixel repeating group comprises, in order, a first column stripe of said first primary color subpixels, a second column stripe of said second primary color subpixels, a third column having a first alternating pattern of said third primary color subpixels and said fourth color subpixels, a fourth column that is substantially the same as the first column stripe, a fifth column that is substantially the same as the second column stripe, and a sixth column having a second alternating pattern of said third primary color subpixels and said fourth color subpixels.