Patent ID: 7728802

Claim:
A method of driving a plurality of three-color pixel elements disposed one adjacent to the next in rows and populating a screen in a display, the method comprising: providing each of the three-color pixel elements as comprising a blue emitter disposed within and at a center of a hypothetical, pixel-area defining square, where the center of the square is disposed at an origin of an X, Y coordinate system having a first, a second, a third, and a fourth quadrant organized in said order around the origin and where the pixel-area defining, hypothetical square is hypothetically subdivided symmetrically to also have corresponding first through fourth quadrants of the square, wherein said blue emitter is square-shaped, having four sides and having its respective four corners lying on one or the other of the X and Y axes of said coordinate system, where the pixel-area defining, hypothetical square further encloses a pair of respective first and second red emitters spaced apart from said blue emitter and symmetrically disposed about said blue emitter so as to be respectively disposed in said second and said fourth quadrants of the hypothetical square, wherein said red emitters occupy respective portions of said second and said fourth quadrants of the hypothetical square not occupied by said blue emitter, wherein said red emitters are generally square-shaped but have truncated inwardly-facing corners forming edges parallel to the sides of said blue emitter, and where the pixel-area defining, hypothetical square further encloses a pair of respective first and second green emitters spaced apart from said blue emitter so as to be respectively and symmetrically disposed about said blue emitter in said first and said third quadrants of the hypothetical square, wherein said green emitters occupy respective portions of said first and said third quadrants of the hypothetical square not occupied by said blue emitter, wherein said green emitters are generally square-shaped but have truncated inwardly-facing corners forming edges parallel to said sides of said blue emitter; and selectively applying luminance-defining drive signals and row select drive signals to said blue emitter, said red emitters, and said green emitters of the plural three-color pixel elements, wherein during said a in of the luminance-defining and row select drive signals, said blue emitter of a first of said three-color pixel elements in a first of the rows receives its respective luminance-defining drive signal from a first data line, and the same first data line is coupled to apply a respective other luminance-defining drive signal to another blue emitter of the same first row at a different time.