Method of driving active matrix displays

A method applied on an active matrix display, the active matrix display including a matrix of pixel elements wherein a pixel element includes at least one switching transistor, at least one nonlinear element, and at least one capacitive element, the method comprising:

• creating multiple enabled pixel elements positioned in a plurality of rows from non-enabled pixel elements, wherein the creating comprises driving a semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor in an enabled pixel element into a conducting state, wherein an enabled pixel element maintains a semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor in the enabled pixel element at a conducting state, wherein a non-enabled pixel element maintains a semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor in the non-enabled pixel element at a non-conducting state;
• selecting a plurality of pixel elements from the multiple enabled pixel elements in the plurality of rows to create a plurality of selected pixel elements while keeping remaining pixel elements of the multiple enabled pixel elements as non-selected pixel elements and keeping pixel elements other than the multiple enabled pixel elements as non-enabled pixel elements, wherein the selecting comprises driving the at least one nonlinear element in a selected pixel element into a conducting state while maintaining a semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor in the selected pixel element at a conducting state, and wherein a non-selected pixel element maintains the at least one nonlinear element there of at a non-conducting state;
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• charging the at least one capacitive element in a selected pixel element.

A method of driving a column of pixel elements in an active matrix display, the active matrix display including a matrix of pixel elements wherein a pixel element includes at least one switching transistor, at least one nonlinear element, and at least one capacitive element, the method comprising:

• creating multiple enabled pixel elements from non-enabled pixel elements in the column of pixel elements, wherein the creating comprises driving a semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor in an enabled pixel element into a conducting state, wherein an enabled pixel element maintains a semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor in the enabled pixel element at a conducting state, and wherein a non-enabled pixel element maintains a semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor in the non-enabled pixel element at a non-conducting state;
• selecting a pixel element from the multiple enabled pixel elements as a selected pixel element while keeping remaining multiple enabled pixel elements in the column of pixel elements as non-selected pixel elements and keeping other pixel elements in the column of pixel elements different from the multiple enabled pixel elements as non-enabled pixel elements, wherein the selecting comprises driving the at least one nonlinear element in the selected pixel element into a conducting state while maintaining a semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor in the selected pixel element at a conducting state, and wherein a non-selected pixel element maintains the at least one nonlinear element thereof at a non-conducting state;
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• charging the at least one capacitive element in the selected pixel element.

A method of driving a pixel element in an active matrix display, the active matrix display including a matrix of pixel elements wherein a pixel element includes at least one switching transistor having a semiconductor channel, at least one nonlinear element, and at least one capacitive element, the method comprising:

• driving the semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor into a conducting state from a non-conducting state, and maintaining the semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor at the conducting state during a first time period;
• driving the at least one nonlinear element into a conducting state from a non-conducting state, and maintaining the at least one nonlinear element at the conducting state during a second time period that is within the first time period;
• charging the at least one capacitive element through the semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor and through the at least one nonlinear element while the semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor maintains at the conducting state and the at least one nonlinear element maintains at the conducting state;
• driving the at least one nonlinear element into the non-conducting state from the conducting state, and maintaining the at least one nonlinear element at the non-conducting state during a third time period that is after the second time period;
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• driving the semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor into the non-conducting state from the conducting state, and maintaining the semiconductor channel of the at least one switching transistor at the non-conducting state during a fourth time period that is after the first time period, wherein the fourth time period is at least two times as long as the first time period.