Patent ID: 7280090

Claim:
A method for mitigating defects caused by inoperative pixels in a liquid crystal micro-display built on a silicon integrated circuit substrate, the substrate having an integral complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) control chip containing CMOS drive circuitry, the drive circuitry comprising a plurality of pixel drive circuits, each pixel drive circuit electrically connected to a corresponding pixel, the method comprising: identifying a defective pixel drive circuit electrically connected to an inoperative pixel; disconnecting the electrical connection between the defective pixel drive circuit and the inoperative pixel; and electrically connecting the inoperative pixel to a working pixel drive circuit coupled to a nearby pixel such that the defective pixel drive circuit is bypassed and the inoperative pixel is driven from the working pixel drive circuit of the nearby pixel, the nearby pixel comprising one of an adjacent pixel or a non-adjacent pixel.