Abstract: A method is provided for driving an active matrix display device comprising a matrix of pixels configured to display an n-bit image data in an image frame by dividing the image frame for each pixel into n subframes; defining the n-bit image data to have n1 number of greater significant bits and n2 number of lesser significant bits, where n1+n2=n; and selecting the rows of pixels non-sequentially in the subframes corresponding to the n2 number of lesser significant bits such that there is no more than one row of pixel being selected in each subframe. The provided method can utilize the scan sequence in a more flexible way to make better use of the available scan time such that a higher display resolution or dynamic range can be achieved without increasing the scanning frequency.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display (LCD), a liquid crystal (LC) panel has a display area of arbitrary shape. A light-emitting area of a backlight panel is partitioned into zones for providing local dimming to the LC panel. The LC panel is partitioned into display regions. An apparatus for controlling the LC panel and the backlight panel has zone registers each recording a proportion of area of a zone covered by a corresponding display region. The apparatus computes a dimming factor for the zone according to its recorded proportion and pixel data of a portion of image located on the zone, allowing local dimming to be provided without requiring boundary information of the display area. A two-phase arrangement is used to calculate the dimming factor, achieving local dimming to save power in backlight generation while reducing a potential loss of image brightness in high-brightness part of the image portion.