Display driver circuits are described for driving organic light-emitting
diode displays, particularly passive matrix displays, with greater
efficiency. Display driver circuitry includes a frame memory interface
for reading data from a frame memory for presentation on a passive matrix
OLED display. A blank line identifier identifies one or more
substantially blank rows of pixels defined by the data in the frame
memory and the control circuitry skips past these rows when the passive
matrix display is addressed. When blank lines are skipped the apparent
brightness of the remaining lines increases and thus preferably the
control circuitry includes a power-controller for reducing a power supply
to the display in proportion to the number of skipped lines. The
disclosed circuitry is particularly suited to a display driver providing
a controlled current drive.