1. An electrical lead comprising:
a cylindrical lead body including an outer surface, a proximal end, a distal end, and a central longitudinal axis; and
at least one row of directional electrodes disposed along the longitudinal axis of the lead body:
wherein at least one of the directional electrodes comprises (1) a raised section that has an outer surface and an inner surface and (2) a recessed section that is integral with and extends from the raised section and has an inner surface, such that a profile of the directional electrode is stepped, the recessed section anchoring the respective directional electrode to the cylindrical body, wherein the raised section and the recessed section are formed of a same material and the inner surfaces of the raised section and recessed section combine to form a non-stepped inner surface of the directional electrode having a uniform radial distance from the central longitudinal axis of the lead body.
2. The electrical lead of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the directional electrodes comprises anchoring holes extending from an outer surface of the directional electrode that faces away from the central longitudinal axis to the inner surface of the directional electrode that faces towards the central longitudinal axis, with an anchoring material extending through the anchoring holes.
3. The electrical lead of claim 2, wherein the anchoring holes are at least partially formed through the recessed section.
4. The electrical lead of claim 1, wherein the at least one row of directional electrodes comprises two rows of directional electrodes.
5. The electrical lead of claim 4, wherein each of the two rows of directional electrodes comprises three directional electrodes.
6. The electrical lead of claim 1, further comprising at least one unitary electrode, wherein each unitary electrode is disposed circumferentially around the longitudinal axis of the lead body.
7. The electrical lead of claim 1, wherein the at least one row of directional electrodes comprises
a first one row of directional electrodes disposed along the longitudinal axis of the lead body, the first row comprising at least two directional electrodes disposed on the outer surface of the cylindrical lead body, and
a second row of directional electrodes disposed along the longitudinal axis of the lead body, the second row comprising at least two directional electrodes disposed on the outer surface of the cylindrical lead body.
8. The electrical lead of claim 7, wherein the at least one row of directional electrodes further comprises a third row of directional electrodes disposed along the longitudinal axis of the lead body, the third row comprising at least two directional electrodes disposed on the outer surface of the cylindrical lead body.
9. The electrical lead of claim 1, wherein the raised section has four sides and the recessed section is disposed around at least two sides of the raised section, wherein along the at least two sides of the raised section, the raised section and the recessed section have the stepped profile.
10. The electrical lead of claim 9, wherein the recessed section is formed around at least three sides of the raised section.
11. The electrical lead of claim 10, wherein the recessed section is formed around the four sides of the raised section.
12. The electrical lead of claim 1, wherein the recessed section is covered by an insulating material.
13. An electrical lead comprising:
a cylindrical lead body including an outer surface, a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis; and
at least one row of directional electrodes disposed along the longitudinal axis of the lead body:
wherein at least one of the directional electrodes includes (a) a raised section, (b) a recessed section that is integral with and extends from the raised section such that a profile of the directional electrode is stepped, wherein the recessed section anchors the respective directional electrode to the cylindrical body, and (c) anchoring holes formed at least partly within the recessed section, wherein the raised section and the recessed section are both electrically conductive.
14. The electrical lead of claim 13, wherein insulating material covers the recessed section and extends into and through the anchoring holes.
15. The electrical lead of claim 13, further comprising at least one unitary electrode, wherein each unitary electrode is disposed circumferentially around the longitudinal axis of the lead body.
16. The electrical lead of claim 13, wherein the raised section has four sides and the recessed section is disposed around at least two sides of the raised section, wherein along the at least two sides of the raised section, the raised section and the recessed section have the stepped profile.
17. The electrical lead of claim 16, wherein the anchoring holes are distributed along each of the at least two sides of the raised section.
18. The electrical lead of claim 13, wherein the at least one row of directional electrodes comprises two rows of directional electrodes.
19. The electrical lead of claim 18, wherein each of the two rows of directional electrodes comprises three directional electrodes.
20. The electrical lead of claim 13, wherein each of the directional electrodes comprises the raised section, the recessed section, and the anchoring holes.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of displaying information on a display having an array of interferometric modulators, comprising:
receiving video data at a device having an interlaced mode of displaying data and a non-interlaced mode of displaying data;
identifying a portion of the video data as interlaced data; and
displaying the interlaced data on a display of the device, the display comprising an array of interferometric modulators.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
partitioning the array of interferometric modulators into two or more regions; and
displaying non-interlaced video data in the two or more regions of the display.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving video data comprises receiving video data at the device over a communications network.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving video data comprises receiving video data from an application running on the device.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying at the device a portion of the video data as interlaced data comprises using information received over the communications network.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the interlaced data comprises:
displaying a first subset of rows of a video frame of interlaced data during a first time period; and
displaying a second subset of rows of the video frame during a second time period while continuing to display the first subset of rows.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the interlaced data comprises displaying a first half of a frame of interlaced data on the array during a first display refresh and displaying a second half of the frame of interlaced data on the array during a second display refresh.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein displaying the second half of the frame of interlaced data during a refresh cycle comprises continuing to display the first half of the frame of interlaced data on the array during the second display refresh.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the array comprises pixels, and displaying the interlaced data on an array of interferometric modulators comprises updating only the pixels that have changed from a frame of previously displayed video data.
10. The method of claim 2, wherein the array of interferometric modulators is partitioned into at least two regions, and the update rate of the two regions is different.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein an update rate of the interlaced data is dynamically determined using the content of the interlaced data.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein an update rate of the interlaced data is determined using a user input value.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein an update rate of the interlaced data is determined using a frame skip count.
14. A system for displaying information on a display having an array of interferometric modulators, the system comprising:
means for receiving video data at a device having an interlaced mode of displaying data and a non-interlaced mode of displaying data;
means for identifying at least a portion of the video data as interlaced data; and
means for displaying the interlaced data on a display of the device having an array of interferometric modulators.
15. The system of claim 14, additionally comprising:
means for defining a region of the interferometric modulators; and
means for displaying the interlaced data in the defined region.
16. The system of claim 14, wherein the means for displaying the interlaced data comprises:
means for displaying a subset of rows of a video frame in the interlaced data; and
means for subsequently displaying the non-displayed subset of rows of a video frame in the interlaced data.
17. A system of displaying interlace data on an array of interferometric modulators, comprising:
a server configured to provide video data, wherein at least a portion of the video data is in an interlaced format; and
a client device comprising an array of interferometric modulators, the client configured to receive the video data from said server, to identify the portion of the video data in an interlaced format, and to render the video data that is in an interlace format on the array of interferometric modulators in an interlaced format.
18. The system of claim 17, wherein the client device is further configured to display the interlaced portion of the received video data on a first region of the array, and to display non-interlaced video data on a second region of the array.
19. An electronic device, comprising:
an array of interferometric modulators; and
an array driver for the array of interferometric modulators, the array driver configured to receive video data which includes data in an interlaced format, to identify a portion of the video data that is in interlaced format, and to render the identified video data in an interlaced format on the array of interferometric modulators.
20. The device of claim 19, wherein the array driver is further configured to display the received video data on a first region of the array, and wherein the array driver is further configured to display the non-interlaced video data on a second region of the array.
21. The device of claim 19, wherein the array driver selectively skips selected frames based upon a frame skip count.
22. An electronic device, comprising:
an array of interferometric modulators; and
an array driver for the array of interferometric modulators, the array driver configured to display, depending on a selected mode, interlaced and non-interlaced video data.
23. The device of claim 22, wherein the array driver displays the video data in a selected region of the display, and wherein the array driver displays non-interlaced video data in a non-selected region of the display.
24. The device of claim 22, wherein the array driver selectively skips selected frames based upon a frame skip count.
25. A method of displaying information on a display having an array of interferometric modulators, comprising:
determining at a server the characteristics of the display of a client device;
selecting one or more display modes for the display of the client device based on the characteristics of the display;
receiving video data at the client device over a communications network; and
displaying the video data on the display using one or more of the selected display modes.
26. The method of claim 25, wherein a selected display mode is rip and hold.
27. The method of claim 25, wherein a selected display mode is frame skip count.
28. The method of claim 25, wherein a selected display mode updates changes to the video data displayed on the array on an area-by-area basis
29. The method of claim 25, wherein a selected display mode updates the video data displayed on the array on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
30. The method of claim 25, further comprising partitioning the display into two or more regions and updating each region at its own update rate.
31. The method of claim 25, wherein a selected display mode displays the video data in an interlaced format.
32. A method of displaying information on a display having an array of interferometric modulators, comprising:
receiving video data at a device having an interlaced mode of displaying data and a non-interlaced mode of displaying data;
identifying a portion of the video data as interlaced data and a portion of the video data as non-interlaced data; and
displaying the interlaced data on a first portion of a display of the device and displaying the non-interlaced data on a second portion of the display.