Patent ID: 7405719

Claim:
In a digital display device connected by way of a communication link to a video source, a packet based method of driving selected pixel elements by way of a number of data latches consistent with a native horizontal line resolution of the display included in a column driver, comprising: (a) providing an input video stream in the form of a number of video data packets from the video source directly to the column driver at a link rate over the communication link; (b) populating each of the number of data latches with appropriate video data based upon video data packets within a line period τ, wherein since the data latches are directly connected to each other in a point to point daisy chain configuration any requirement for a pixel clock at the display is eliminated and wherein the digital display does not include a timing controller and wherein the digital display device does not apply any timing adjustment to the input video stream; (c) driving selected pixel elements based upon the video data; and (d) repeating (a)-(c) for all frame lines in a video frame.