The conventional liquid crystal display (LCD) is configured into separate regions with each region containing a number of individually activated segments that can display various alpha-numeric characters. One region may conventionally have 7 segments configured in a figure eight pattern. Different combinations of the segments may be used to display a desired number, for example all 7 segments may be used to display an 8. To activate a segment of a conventional LCD panel, two control lines (a common line and a segment line) may be powered to select the desired segment. The control lines of an LCD may be configured into a matrix with the common lines crossing the segment lines—no common lines cross common lines and no segment lines cross segment lines in this control matrix. Thus, for an LCD display with 32 segments, there could be four common lines and 8 segment lines. By powering the correct combination of segment and common lines, a LCD panel may display desired information. To control a larger number of segments additional control lines and additional drivers may be required. However, the current push is for LCD panels with more segments being driven from fewer inputs.