Method and apparatus for driving an electronic display and a system comprising an electronic display

A device for driving a bistable display, the device comprising:

• a processor for receiving an input signal indicative for a desired luminance of a pixel of the bistable display;
• a controlling circuit for determining a sequence of voltage levels to achieve a transition from a present luminance to the desired luminance;
• and
• a voltage generator for generating the sequence of voltage levels, a portion of the sequence of voltage levels being selected from a plurality of mutually different sequence portions, to achieve different luminance transitions, and at least a first and a second of the plurality of mutually different sequence portions having a same set of voltage levels, having the voltage levels from that set occurring the same number of times in the first and the second sequence portion and having said voltage levels from that set arranged in a different order in the first and the second sequence portion;
• wherein the sequence comprises a reset subsequence and a set subsequence, the set subsequence following the reset subsequence, the reset subsequence has the effect that the at least one pixel is reset to a reset state having a reset luminance, and the set subsequence causes a state transition of said pixel from the reset state to a state having the desired luminance;
• wherein the set subsequence comprises a first, preparatory portion that results in a transition of the reset state having the reset luminance to a preparatory intermediary value and a second, final portion following the first, preparatory portion that results in a transition of the luminance from said preparatory intermediary value to said desired value;
• and
• wherein the preparatory set subsequence portion is the portion of the sequence that is selected from the plurality of mutually different sequence portions, to achieve mutually different luminance transitions.