Patent ID: 6897835

Claim:
A method for displaying a color image by reproducing a pixel color of an input image using three types of cells having different light colors, that method comprising the steps of: using a display device including a display screen having parallel cell columns, cells of each cell column having the same light color, a light color of a cell column being different from that of the neighboring cell column, a cell position in the column direction of a cell column being shifted from that of the neighboring cell column among a set of cell columns each having the same light color; and lighting two neighboring cells in at least one cell column out of a set of cell columns each having the same light color when displaying a display line perpendicular to the column direction, wherein, in a display line, one of: a cell neighboring an original cell in a vertical direction is lighted for compensation in an upward adjacent or subjacent cell according to a predetermined scheme; when the original cell is an upper shift cell, neighboring lower shift cells are lighted for compensation and when the original cell is a lower shift cell, neighboring upper shift cells are lighted for compensation; and when the original cell is an upper shift cell, a neighboring lower shift cell is lighted for compensation and when the original cell is a lower shift cell, a neighboring upper shift cell is lighted for compensation.