Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080252581 | Liquid Crystal Display Backplane Layouts and Addressing for Non-Standard Subpixel Arrangements - Liquid crystal display backplane layouts and addressing for non-standard subpixel arrangements are disclosed. A liquid crystal display comprises a panel and a plurality of transistors. The panel substantially comprises a subpixel repeating group having an even number of subpixels in a first direction. Each thin film transistor connects one subpixel to a row and a column line at an intersection in one of a group of quadrants. The group comprises a first quadrant, a second quadrant, a third quadrant and a fourth quadrant, wherein the thin film transistors are formed in a backplane structure adjacent to intersections of the row and column lines. The thin film transistors are also substantially formed in more than one quadrant in the backplane structure. | 10-16-2008 |
20090046108 | CONVERSION OF A SUB-PIXEL FORMAT DATA TO ANOTHER SUB-PIXEL DATA FORMAT - A method of determining implied sample areas for each data point of each color in a source pixel data specified in a first sub-pixel format is used for sub-pixel rendering an image on a display specified in a second sub-pixel format. Each of the first and second sub-pixel formats comprises a plurality of colored sub-pixels. The method comprises determining a geometric center of each colored sub-pixel of the first format to define a sampling point; and defining each implied sample area by forming lines that are substantially equidistant between the sampling point of one colored sub-pixel and the sampling point of another neighboring same color colored sub-pixel. A similar technique may be used for determining resample areas for computing color values for rendering an image specified in a first sub-pixel format on a display substantially comprising a plurality of colored sub-pixels arranged in a second sub-pixel format. | 02-19-2009 |
20090058873 | Multiprimary Color Subpixel Rendering With Metameric Filtering - Systems and methods of rendering image data to multiprimary displays that adjust image data across metamers are herein disclosed. The metamer filtering may be based upon input image content and may optimize subpixel values to improve image rendering accuracy or perception. The optimizations may be made according to many possible desired effects. One embodiment comprises a display system comprising: a display, said display comprising at least a first set of subpixels and a second set of subpixels further comprising at least one metamer; an input image data unit; a spatial frequency detection unit, said spatial frequency detection unit extracting a spatial frequency characteristic from said input image data; and an adjustment unit, said adjustment unit adjusting image data of said first set and said second set of subpixels according to said spatial frequency characteristic. | 03-05-2009 |
20090092325 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE HANDLING OF OUT-OF-GAMUT COLOR CONVERSIONS - Displays systems and methods for selectively reducing or compressing image data values within an image are recited. Display systems transform input image data from one input gamut hull or space to another target gamut hull or space that is substantially defined by different subpixel repeating groups comprising the display. Display systems described herein comprise a selective compression unit, said unit surveying said input image data to produce intermediate image data based upon a segmentation of the input image according to a parameter. Suitable parameters for segmenting the image include one or more of the following: spatial segments, chromatic segments or temporal segments. A selective compression amount may be determined so as to substantially maintain local contrast of the image data within a given segment. | 04-09-2009 |
20090102855 | SUBPIXEL RENDERING FILTERS FOR HIGH BRIGHTNESS SUBPIXEL LAYOUTS - A display system comprises a display panel substantially comprising a subpixel repeating group tiled across the panel in a regular pattern. The subpixel repeating group comprises at least one white subpixel and a plurality of colored subpixels. The display system further comprises input circuitry configured to receive input image data indicating an image for rendering on the display panel, and subpixel rendering circuitry configured to compute an output luminance value for each subpixel of said display panel. The subpixel rendering circuitry multiplies data values of a spatial portion of the input image data by at least one image filter kernel which comprises a matrix of coefficients arranged such that each coefficient represents a fractional part of one of said data values of said spatial portion of said input image data. The subpixel rendering circuitry is further configured to sharpen the output luminance values using a luminance signal. | 04-23-2009 |
20090174638 | High Dynamic Contrast Display System Having Multiple Segmented Backlight - In one embodiment, a display system includes a subpixelated display panel and a backlight array of individually controllable multi-color light emitters. When the display panel comprises a multi-primary subpixel arrangement having a white (clear) subpixel, the backlight control techniques allows the white subpixel to function as a saturated primary display color. In another embodiment, the display system may calculate a set of virtual primaries for a given image and process the image using a novel field sequential control employing the virtual primaries. In another embodiment, a display system comprises a segmented backlight comprising: a plurality of N+M light guides, said light guides forming a N×M intersections; a plurality of N+M individually addressable light emitter units, each of said N+M light emitter unit being associated with and optically connected to one of said N+M light guide respectively. | 07-09-2009 |
20090273614 | GAMUT MAPPING AND SUBPIXEL RENDERING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In a first embodiment, a display system comprises a display panel with 4 or more colored subpixels. The display system receives input image data specified in a first color space and outputs image data specified in a second color space. The display system further comprises a gamut mapping module for mapping the input image data specified in the first color space to image data specified in the second color space. The gamut mapping module clamps out-of-gamut colors using at least a first clamping system and a second clamping system. The first and second clamping systems yield first and second clamped values. A weighting module produces a resulting clamped value from the first and second clamped values. A final output image value is derived from the resulting clamped value. Other embodiments of the display system include pre-reduction modules and adjustable GMA modules. | 11-05-2009 |
20090278867 | MULTIPRIMARY COLOR DISPLAY WITH DYNAMIC GAMUT MAPPING - The embodiments disclosed herein comprise a plurality of modules and means to provide effect dynamic gamut mapping and backlight control. In one embodiment, a display system comprises: a transmissive display, said display comprising a plurality of colored subpixels wherein one such colored subpixel is substantially wide spectrum bandpass; a transmissive display controller, said display controller providing signals to said transmissive display to set the amount of transmissivity of each said colored subpixel; a backlight, said backlight providing illumination to said transmissive display; a backlight controller, said controller providing signals to said backlight to modulate the amount of illumination provided by said backlight to said transmissive display; peak surveying module for surveying image data and extracting the image gamut hull for providing intermediate backlight data signals to said backlight controller to match said image gamut hull; and a means for normalizing display image data signals according to said intermediate backlight data signals and providing said normalized image data as intermediate display data. | 11-12-2009 |
20090284457 | HISTOGRAM-BASED DYNAMIC BACKLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Displays systems and methods for adjusting backlight illumination are disclosed wherein backlight illumination may be set low enough according to an error threshold amount in order to reduce backlight power consumption while maintaining a level of image quality. In one embodiment, image data is evaluated within a given frame and partitioned into histogram bins depending on the amount of backlight illumination requested or required by the image data. The histogram is traversed to provide an accumulative error measure. The error measure is compared against the error threshold and, if exceeded, the final backlight illumination may be set as a function of various illumination levels considered and possibly the first and a second threshold. | 11-19-2009 |
20090284546 | INPUT GAMMA DITHERING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Displays systems and methods for dithering input image data to reduce quantization errors in a display system are disclosed. One embodiment comprises inputting input image data to be rendered by said display system; applying a gamma table to said input image data to create a first intermediate image data; applying a dithering pattern, said dithering pattern comprising a checkerboard pattern, said checkerboard pattern depending upon the subpixel layout of the display. In other embodiments, the display system comprises a separate gamma table for each input color channel and applies these separate gamma table to perform white point adjustments for said display system. | 11-19-2009 |
20100045695 | SUBPIXEL RENDERING AREA RESAMPLE FUNCTIONS FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - Input image data indicating an image is rendered to a display panel in a display device or system that is substantially configured with a three primary color or multi-primary color subpixel repeating group using a subpixel rendering operation based on area resampling techniques. Examples of expanded area resample functions have properties that maintain color balance in the output image and, in some embodiments, are evaluated using an increased number of input image sample points farther away in distance from the subpixel being reconstructed than in prior disclosed techniques. One embodiment of an expanded area resample function is a cosine function for which is provided an example of an approximate numerical evaluation method. The functions and their evaluation techniques may also be utilized in constructing novel sharpening filters, including a Difference-of-Cosine filter. | 02-25-2010 |
20100118045 | SUBPIXEL LAYOUTS AND SUBPIXEL RENDERING METHODS FOR DIRECTIONAL DISPLAYS AND SYSTEMS - Display devices and systems are configured with display panels substantially comprising one of several embodiments of three primary color or multi-primary color subpixel repeating groups that are particularly suitable for directional display devices which produce at least two images simultaneously, such as autostereoscopic three-dimensional display devices or multi-view devices. Input image data indicating an image is rendered to a device configured with one of the illustrated subpixel repeating groups using a subpixel rendering operation. | 05-13-2010 |
20110043533 | SUPBIXEL RENDERING SUITABLE FOR UPDATING AN IMAGE WITH A NEW PORTION - In an image update, a display apparatus receives only a new portion ( | 02-24-2011 |
20110043552 | SUBPIXEL RENDERING WITH COLOR COORDINATES' WEIGHTS DEPENDING ON TESTS PERFORMED ON PIXELS - If a pixel ( | 02-24-2011 |
20110043553 | GAMUT MAPPING WHICH TAKES INTO ACCOUNT PIXELS IN ADJACENT AREAS OF A DISPLAY UNIT - A gamut mapping operation ( | 02-24-2011 |
20110141132 | GAMUT MAPPING AND SUBPIXEL RENDERING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In a first embodiment, a display system comprises a display panel with 4 or more colored subpixels. The display system receives input image data specified in a first color space and outputs image data specified in a second color space. The display system further comprises a gamut mapping module for mapping the input image data specified in the first color space to image data specified in the second color space. The gamut mapping module clamps out-of-gamut colors using at least a first clamping system and a second clamping system. The first and second clamping systems yield first and second clamped values. A weighting module produces a resulting clamped value from the first and second clamped values. A final output image value is derived from the resulting clamped value. Other embodiments of the display system include pre-reduction modules and adjustable GMA modules. | 06-16-2011 |
20110148910 | COLOR CORRECTION TO COMPENSATE FOR DISPLAYS' LUMINANCE AND CHROMINANCE TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS - Displays are provided with circuitry performing color correction to compensate for the displays' luminance and chrominance transfer characteristics. Some techniques are suitable for RGBW displays and for subpixel-rendered displays. Some displays include an external light source (e.g. a backlight unit in LCDs), and the color correction is coordinated with dynamic control of the light source. | 06-23-2011 |
20110149166 | COLOR CORRECTION TO COMPENSATE FOR DISPLAYS' LUMINANCE AND CHROMINANCE TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS - Displays are provided with circuitry performing color correction to compensate for the displays' luminance and chrominance transfer characteristics. Some techniques are suitable for RGBW displays and for subpixel-rendered displays. Some displays include an external light source (e.g. a backlight unit in LCDs), and the color correction is coordinated with dynamic control of the light source. | 06-23-2011 |
20120026216 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SUB-PIXEL RENDERING WITH ADAPTIVE FILTERING - Processing data for a display including pixels, each pixel having color sub-pixels, comprises receiving pixel data. Once the pixel data is received, processing data for a display includes converting the pixel data to sub-pixel rendered data, the conversion generating the sub-pixel rendered data for a sub-pixel arrangement including alternating red and green sub-pixels on at least one of a horizontal and vertical axis. Next processing data for a display includes correcting the sub-pixel rendered data if a condition exists and outputting the sub-pixel rendered data. | 02-02-2012 |
20120091912 | BACKLIGHT HAVING BLUE LIGHT EMITTING DIODES AND METHOD OF DRIVING SAME - An LED backlight array in which every LED, regardless of whether it is a red, green, cyan, or blue LED, contains a blue emitter. As each LED contains the same type of emitter, the backlight can be driven by a single blue driver circuit, rather than separate red, green, cyan, and blue drivers. That is, the present disclosure removes the need for red, cyan, and green driver circuits, allowing for simpler and cheaper backlights. Additionally, even though the LED backlight can contain LEDs of different colors, each has a blue emitter, and thus possesses similar aging characteristics. | 04-19-2012 |
20120182306 | GAMUT MAPPING AND SUBPIXEL RENDERING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In a first embodiment, a display system comprises a display panel with 4 or more colored subpixels. The display system receives input image data specified in a first color space and outputs image data specified in a second color space. The display system further comprises a gamut mapping module for mapping the input image data specified in the first color space to image data specified in the second color space. The gamut mapping module clamps out-of-gamut colors using at least a first clamping system and a second clamping system. The first and second clamping systems yield first and second clamped values. A weighting module produces a resulting clamped value from the first and second clamped values. A final output image value is derived from the resulting clamped value. Other embodiments of the display system include pre-reduction modules and adjustable GMA modules. | 07-19-2012 |
20120212792 | ELECTRO-WETTING COLOR DISPLAY - A display panel that includes a first electro-wetting member having a first colored liquid of a first color and a second electro-wetting member having a second colored liquid of a second color is presented. The second electro-wetting member is disposed on the first electro-wetting member such that the first colored liquid overlaps the second colored liquid. The shapes of the liquid of the first color and the liquid of the second color are independently controllable. A method of manufacturing such display panel is also presented. | 08-23-2012 |
20120287141 | PIECEWISE NON-CAUSAL COMPRESSION AND SUBSEQUENT DECOMPRESSION OF QUANTIZED DATA FOR PROCESSING OF DECOMPRESSED DATA IN HIGHER PRECISION PROCESSING SPACE - Nonlinear compression of high precision image data (e.g., 12-bits per subpixel) conventionally calls for a large sized lookup table (LUT). A smaller sized and tunable circuit that performs compression with piecewise linear compressing segments is disclosed. The piecewise linear data compressing process is organized so that lumping together of plural ‘used’ high precision value points into one corresponding low precision data value point is avoided or at least minimized. In one embodiment, the compressed data is image defining data being processed for display on a nonconventional display screen where the piecewise linearly compressed data can be stored adjacent to other image data in a frame buffer where a composite image is assembled. | 11-15-2012 |
20120287143 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVELY REDUCING COLOR VALUES - A method of displaying an image that includes, in a display having a pixel comprising red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels, receiving data for an image, the image data comprising a first red value corresponding to a brightness of the red sub-pixel, a first green value corresponding to a brightness of the green sub-pixel, a first blue value corresponding to a brightness of the blue sub-pixel, and a first white value corresponding to a brightness of the white sub-pixel. A maximum value is determined from among the first red value, the first green value, and the first blue value, and brightnesses are set corresponding to the values other than the maximum value at quantities generally inversely proportional to the maximum value. | 11-15-2012 |
20120287146 | METHOD FOR SELECTING BACKLIGHT COLOR VALUES - A method of facilitating the display of an image. The method includes, in a display system comprising a display panel having pixels and a backlight having individually addressable colored light emitters configured to provide light to the pixels of the display panel, receiving image data corresponding to an image for display upon the display panel, the pixels each having a color to be displayed, so as to collectively display the image. The method also includes, for each pixel, evaluating whether the corresponding color to be displayed is out-of-gamut to the each pixel, so as to form a set of out-of-gamut pixels. A set of virtual primaries is determined so as to define intensities of light emitted by the colored light emitters of the backlight during display of the image, the virtual primaries determined according to the colors of the set of out-of-gamut pixels. | 11-15-2012 |
20120287147 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLENDING DISPLAY MODES - A method of blending image data that includes displaying a first portion of an image from a first set of pixels according to a first mode in which color values of sub-pixels of the first set of the pixels are determined according to time-averaged colors of the corresponding backlight emitters. The method also includes displaying a second portion of the image from a second set of the pixels according to a second mode in which color values of sub-pixels of a second set of the pixels are determined independently for each of the colors of the corresponding backlight emitters. At an interface between the first portion and the second portion, the first portion and the second portion are generally linearly blended so as to form a blended portion of the image, and the blended portion is displayed. | 11-15-2012 |
20120287148 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED SUBPIXEL RENDERING - A display system with a subpixel renderer configured to subpixel render input image data having a first set of primary colors, the subpixel rendering performed according to an area resample filter, a color sharpening filter, and a metamer sharpening filter, so as to generate subpixel rendered output image data having a second set of primary colors. | 11-15-2012 |
20120327144 | GAMUT MAPPING AND SUBPIXEL RENDERING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In a first embodiment, a display system comprises a display panel with 4 or more colored subpixels. The display system receives input image data specified in a first color space and outputs image data specified in a second color space. The display system further comprises a gamut mapping module for mapping the input image data specified in the first color space to image data specified in the second color space. The gamut mapping module clamps out-of-gamut colors using at least a first clamping system and a second clamping system. The first and second clamping systems yield first and second clamped values. A weighting module produces a resulting clamped value from the first and second clamped values. A final output image value is derived from the resulting clamped value. Other embodiments of the display system include pre-reduction modules and adjustable GMA modules. | 12-27-2012 |
20130215360 | METHOD FOR REDUCING SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST ERROR - Facilitating the display of an image in a display system comprising a display panel having sub-pixels, and a backlight having individually addressable colored light emitters configured to provide light to the sub-pixels. From received image data, sub-pixel color values corresponding to color values transmitted by respective ones of the sub-pixels for display of the image are determined. From the image data, backlight values corresponding to brightnesses of ones of the colored light emitters for display of the image are determined, as are a portion of the sub-pixel color values and a portion of the backlight values that collectively correspond to a saturated or near-saturated yellow color in the displayed image. The backlight values are adjusted by increasing an amount of yellow light to be emitted by emitters of the backlight, and the color values are adjusted by decreasing an amount of yellow light to be transmitted by the sub-pixels. | 08-22-2013 |
20130321476 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA - A module processes image data to provide gray level signals to be used for displaying an image. The module may include a scale value control member for determining a first scale value. The module may further include a brightness control member for determining a controlled brightness value using a requested brightness value, a brightness control parameter, and a baseline brightness value. The module may further include a modification member for determining a modified scale value using the first scale value and the controlled brightness value. The module may further include a scaler for generating the gray level signals using the image data and at least one of the modified scale value and a damped scale value, the damped scale value being determined using the modified scale value. The module may further include hardware circuitry for implementing at least one of the aforementioned components. | 12-05-2013 |
20140016301 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACHIEVING UNIFORM HIGH LOCALITY LIGHT - A method and apparatus for effectively controlling light propagation are presented. The apparatus includes a muntin having reflective walls arranged to form a plurality of openings, and a cavity sheet disposed on the muntin. The muntin is configured to assemble with an array of light sources. The cavity sheet has a plurality of pinholes and is configured to assemble with the muntin such that the reflective walls align with areas between the pinholes. The light sources, the muntin, and the cavity sheet form light mixing cavities and light sources within each light mixing cavities may be individually controlled. The light mixing cavities allow generation of localized and uniform light. | 01-16-2014 |
20140035971 | Methods and Systems for Sub-Pixel Rendering with Adaptive Filtering - Processing data for a display including pixels, each pixel having color sub-pixels, comprises receiving pixel data. Once the pixel data is received, processing data for a display includes converting the pixel data to sub-pixel rendered data, the conversion generating the sub-pixel rendered data for a sub-pixel arrangement including alternating red and green sub-pixels on at least one of a horizontal and vertical axis. Next processing data for a display includes correcting the sub-pixel rendered data if a condition exists and outputting the sub-pixel rendered data. | 02-06-2014 |
20140132711 | 3D DISPLAY - A method for displaying images in three dimensions is provided in which input image data which includes left eye image data and right eye image data offset to provide stereopsis is used to calculate a common image and a left and right residual image. The common image includes information that is common to both the right eye image and the left eye image. The left and right residual images include information from, respectively, the left eye image and the right eye image that creates depth perception. The common, left residual and right residual images are displayed in a sequence. | 05-15-2014 |
20140218388 | PRE-SUBPIXEL RENDERED IMAGE PROCESSING IN DISPLAY SYSTEMS - Display systems and image processing methods process pre-subpixel rendered images embedded in input color image data. The display systems include a pre-subpixel rendered (P-SPR) image detector that detects locations of a marking code that marks the portion of the input data that has been pre-subpixel rendered and which is ready for direct display. Several display system embodiments comprise first and second image data paths; the input data that requires sub-pixel rendering proceeds along the first path while the P-SPR image data proceeds along the second path. Another display system embodiment processes the combined input and P-SPR data along a single data path. Techniques for marking and detecting P-SPR image data using two distinct marking codes are presented in the context of the sub-pixel layout of the display. Techniques for using P-SPR data to display high-quality graphical symbols (e.g., font glyphs) are suitable for small, low-cost devices. | 08-07-2014 |