To elaborate on operating the pixel array 69 with memory-in-pixel to display images, an example of a display system 52A implementing memory-in-pixel having a timing controller 54 linked through communicative link 68 to a row driver 60 and/or a column driver 62, is shown in FIG. 6. The display system 52A includes a pixel array 69 of L rows by M columns with one or more pixels 70 each having sub-pixels 72 corresponding to color channels of the electronic display 18, for example, a red sub-pixel 72R, a green sub-pixel 72G, and a blue sub-pixel 72B, where each of the sub-pixels 72 includes a memory 78 to store up to N bits and a driver (DRV) 80 to operate the sub-pixel 72 to emit light, is shown in FIG. 6. It should be appreciated that the depicted display system 52A is merely intended to be illustrative and not limiting. For example, in some embodiments, the pixel array 69 may include sub-pixels 72 to emit various amounts of cyan, yellow, and magenta light corresponding to cyan-yellow-magenta color channels instead of, or in addition to, the red-green-blue color channels.