Patent ID: 6950088

Claim:
The method of driving single-panel, scrolling, color liquid crystal displays comprising an array of pixels arranged in a plurality of rows, wherein stripes of a plurality of different colors are consecutively scrolled in a predetermined direction across the surface of said panel with the trailing and leading edges of successive stripes in spaced relation to provide an optical scan, the leading edge of each of said stripes being preceded by an electrical addressing scan representing an addressing of discrete locations on said panel with the data for the following one of said colors, said method comprising: a) providing electrical signals commensurate with a continuous indication of the location on said panel of the leading and trailing edges of each of said stripes which are present on said panel; and b) generating said electrical addressing scan at a time preceding by a predetermined interval said leading edge of said following color stripe, said predetermined interval being sufficient to allow full switching time of the individual pixels of said display from one color value to another.