Active matrix display and method for driving the same

A method for driving an active matrix display, configured to update pixel voltages of a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode of the active matrix display, the method comprising:

• during a first scan period, maintaining a first scan line and a second scan line of the active matrix display at a high voltage level so that the first pixel electrode is electrically connected to a data line of the active matrix display and the second pixel electrode is electrically connected to the first pixel electrode;
• during a second scan period, maintaining the first scan line at a high voltage level and the second scan line at a low voltage level so that the first pixel electrode is electrically connected to the data line and the second pixel electrode is electrically disconnected from the first pixel electrode;
• and
• controlling the data voltages on the data line to drive the first pixel electrode using a data voltage having a first polarity and drive the second pixel electrode using a data voltage having a second polarity that is different from the first polarity.

An active matrix display, comprising:

• a first pixel electrode disposed on a first row and a first column;
• a second pixel electrode disposed on a second row and the first column;
• a third pixel electrode disposed on the second row and a second column;
• a fourth pixel electrode disposed on a third row and the second column;
• a first data line to drive the first and second pixel electrodes;
• a second data line to drive the third and fourth electrodes;
• a first scan line for controlling an electrical connection between the first pixel electrode and the first data line and an electrical connection between the third pixel electrode and the fourth pixel electrode;
• a second scan line for controlling an electrical connection between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode;
• and
• a third scan line for controlling an electrical connection between the fourth pixel electrode and the second data line.

An active matrix display, comprising:

• a first data line;
• a second data line;
• a third data line, the second data line being disposed between the first and third data lines, and there are no other data lines between the first and third data lines;
• a first pixel electrode;
• a second pixel electrode, the first and second pixel electrodes being disposed between the first and second data lines;
• a third pixel electrode;
• a fourth pixel electrode, the third and fourth pixel electrodes being disposed between the first and second data lines, the second and third pixel electrodes being adjacent to the second data line and disposed at different sides of the second data line, and the first, second, third, and fourth pixel electrodes all being on a same row;
• scan lines;
• and
• driving circuitry to control the first data line, the second data line, the third data line, and the scan lines to drive the first and fourth pixel electrode using a data voltage having a first polarity and drive the second and third pixel electrodes using a data voltage having a second polarity that is different from the first polarity.

An active matrix display, comprising:

• an array of pixel electrodes;
• data lines, in which each data line drives pixel electrodes in at least two columns;
• and
• control circuitry to control the data lines to drive the pixel electrodes, in which adjacent data lines provide data voltages having different polarities, and
• for a given row of pixel electrodes, two pixel electrodes adjacent to a first data line has data voltages of a first polarity, two pixel electrodes adjacent to a second data line adjacent to the first data line has data voltages of a second polarity that is different from the first polarity.