Patent ID: 8405581

Claim:
A method of driving an electroluminescent display to display an image, the method comprising: inputting image data for said image; determining, using said image data, a first set of image subframe data for a first plurality of image subframes each representing a common spatial portion of said image, wherein said first plurality of image subframes are determined to, when successively displayed, combine to approximate said common spatial portion of said image; driving said display using said first set of image subframe data; determining, using said image data, a second set of image subframe data for a second plurality of image subframes each representing said common spatial portion of said image, wherein said second plurality of image subframes are determined to, when successively displayed, combine to approximate said common spatial portion of said image; and driving said display using said second set of image subframe data; wherein said image data defines a target image matrix, and wherein each of said determining of said first set of image subframe data and said determining of said second set of image subframe data comprises factorising said target matrix into first and second factor matrices defining data for respective first and second axes of said display, each of the first set of image subframe data and said second set of image subframe data defining data for a plurality of said subframes, said target matrix substantially a product of at least said first and second factor matrices, wherein, for each of said determining of said first set of image subframe data and said determining of said second set of image subframe data, the determining the set of image subframe data comprises iteratively determining the first and second factor matrices of the image subframe data on the basis of initial value data of said first and second factor matrices, said iterative determining such that an error between the target matrix and a result of combining of the subframes defined by the determined first and second factor matrices of the iterations converges towards zero as successive said iterations are performed; and wherein said initial value data is different for said determining of said first and second sets of subframe data.