Patent ID: 7764281

Claim:
An addressing mechanism, comprising: a first set of parallel co-planar conductive control lines, wherein each conductive control line of said first set of conductive control lines has an adjustable in-line impedance configured to exhibit either a low in-line impedance state or a high in-line impedance state; a second set of parallel co-planar conductive control lines, wherein said second set of conductive control lines are spaced apart in relation to said first set of conductive control lines, wherein a plane of said second set of conductive control lines is parallel to a plane of said first set of conductive control lines, wherein conductive control lines of said second set of conductive control lines cross over the conductive control lines of said first set of conductive control lines thereby forming a plurality of crossover points in an inactivated state, each of the plurality of crossover points constituting a threshold device; a first select mechanism configured to selectively adjust the in-line impedance of a selected control line of said first set of conductive control lines from the high in-line impedance to the low in-line impedance state for a duration of a time cycle, whereas the in-line impedance of the remaining non-selected conductive control lines of said first set of conductive control lines have the high in-line impedance state; and a second select mechanism configured to encode activation data and selectively apply a high or low drive voltage to each conductive control line of said second set of conductive control lines, wherein the second select mechanism is configured to apply said drive voltages simultaneously, in parallel and in synchronization with the first select mechanism, such that: at the non-selected conductive control lines of said first set, the high impedance state curtails rapid charge accumulation and the threshold devices at the crossover points do not traverse an activation threshold; and at the selected conductive control line of said first set, the conjunction of the high drive voltage and the low in-line impedance of the selected conductive control line of said first set causes the threshold device to charge to a value above the activation threshold, thereby turning the threshold device associated with that crossover point into an activated threshold device.