Patent ID: 8564522

Claim:
A display comprising: a thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display panel including an array of pixels; at least one column driver including a data receiver and configured to drive columns of the array of pixels; and a timing controller including a data transmitter and configured to transmit pixel data to the data receiver of the at least one column driver via the data transmitter, wherein the timing controller is further configured to determine an amount of redundancy in the pixel data, to compare the determined amount of data redundancy to a threshold, to encode the pixel data using variable-length coding (VLC) when the determined amount of data redundancy is above the threshold such that the encoded pixel data is smaller in size, to transmit the encoded pixel data from the data transmitter to the data receiver of the at least one column driver, and to selectively deactivate the data transmitter following transmission of the encoded pixel data; and wherein the at least one column driver is configured to selectively deactivate the data receiver following receipt of the encoded pixel data.