Patent ID: 8633886

Claim:
A display device, comprising: a display area populated by a tessellating repetition of a predefined subpixel repeating group, the subpixel repeating group having an even number of columns, and an even number of rows with each row having four or more colored subpixels, a first of the rows not being the same in layout of colors as a second of the rows, wherein the subpixels of each row are respectively designated as odd-numbered subpixels and even-numbered subpixels alternately arranged in a row direction, wherein each row of a respective repeating group contains a number of distinct colors, where that number of distinct colors is less than that of said even number of columns, and wherein each subpixel is able to be driven by either a positive polarity or a negative polarity drive signal so as to produce corresponding light of a respective color; and a data driver system configured to provide a plurality of data signals for the subpixels of one composite row formed by successive concatenation of first rows of plural subpixel repeating groups, one after the other in the row direction, the data driver system providing the data signals on a first set of successive data lines arranged to alternatingly provide positive and negative polarity data signals one after the other in the row direction starting with a positive polarity one of the data signals; wherein the data driver system has a second set of successive data lines arranged to also alternatingly provide positive and negative polarity data signals one after the other in the row direction but starting with a negative polarity one of the data signals; wherein the data driver system concatenates the first and second sets of data lines such that a last subpixel of the first row of one subpixel repeating group forming the composite row and a first subpixel of the first row of the next adjacent subpixel repeating group in the row direction have a same polarity.