Head drum assembly for magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus

• US 20060022924A1
• Filed: 06/03/2005
• Published: 02/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Jun-young, Baik, Chung-hum, Kim, Bong-joo, Seo, Jae-kab, Kim, Myoung-joon, Cho, Young-ho
• Application Number:
  US11/143,592
• Publication Number:
  US 20060022924A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/89
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/53 Disposition or mounting of heads on rotating support

Abstract

An apparatus and method for compensating a gray-scale CCT in an LCD are provided. In the apparatus, a camera captures an external image, a memory stores the captured image and other image data, and a video processor compensates the correlated color temperature (CCT) of the image received from the camera and the image data read from the memory according to a gray-scale CCT compensation control signal, and outputs a compensated RGB signal. A display receives the compensated RGB signal and displays the image on the LCD according to the RGB colors. A controller controls the video processor by the gray-scale CCT compensation control signal for the image data received from the camera and the memory.

Claims

1. An apparatus for compensating a gray-scale correlated color temperature (CCT) in a liquid crystal display (CLD), comprising:

a camera for capturing an external image;

a memory for storing the captured image and other image data;

a video processor for compensating the CCT of the image received from the camera and the image data read from the memory according to a gray-scale CCT compensation control signal, and outputting a compensated red, green and blue (RGB) signal;

a display for receiving the compensated RGB signal and displaying the image data on the LCD according to the RGB colors; and

a controller for controlling the video processor by the gray-scale CCT compensation control signal for the image data received from the camera and the memory.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the video processor comprises:

a video CODEC for encoding an image to be displayed on the LCD and outputting a luminance signal Y and color difference signals Cr and Cb corresponding to the encoded image;

a color space converter for converting the luminance signal Y and the color difference signals Cr and Cb to an RGB signal having a predetermined number of bits;

a first video signal adjuster for deleting a predetermined number of bits starting with the least significant bit (LSB) from the RGB signal and outputting a primarily bit number-adjusted RGB signal; and

a CCT compensator for increasing an R signal value of the primarily bit number-adjusted RGB signal and decreasing a B signal value of the primarily bit number-adjusted RGB signal with respect to a G signal value of the primarily bit number-adjusted RGB signal.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the CCT compensator comprises:

a second video signal adjuster for adding a predetermined number of bits before the LSB of the primarily bit number-adjusted RGB signal and outputting a secondarily bit number-adjusted RGB signal; and

a look-up table (LUT) for compensating the secondarily bit number-adjusted RGB signal so that the gray-scale luminance of the secondarily bit number-adjusted RGB signal is maintained and the CCT and gray-scale chromaticity coordinates of the secondarily bit number-adjusted RGB signal are kept in a predetermined range.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the second video signal adjuster adjusts the number of bits in the RGB signal from 5 bits for the R signal, 6 bits for the G signal, and 5 bits for the B signal to 6 bits for the R signal, 6 bits for the G signal, and 6 bits for the B signal.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the second video signal adjuster adds 1 bit to the LSB of each of the 5-bit R signal and the 5-bit B signal in the RGB signal.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the LUT has a pre-stored list of compensated RGB values mapped to outputs of the second video signal adjuster.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein each of the R, G and B signals of a compensated RGB value has 6 bits.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the compensated RGB values in the LUT are set to a target gray-scale CCT range between 6000 and 8000K.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the video processor compensates the RGB signal for a target gray-scale CCT between 6000 and 8000K.

10. A method of compensating a gray-scale correlated color temperature (CCT) in a liquid crystal display (LCD), comprising:

converting a luminance signal Y and color difference signals Cr and Cb corresponding to an image to be displayed on the LCD to an RGB signal and adjusting the number of bits of the RGB signal to a predetermined bit number;

compensating the adjusted RGB signal by increasing an R signal value of the adjusted RGB signal and decreasing a B signal value of the adjusted RGB signal with respect to a G signal value of the adjusted RGB signal; and

displaying the image on the LCD according to the compensated RGB value.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the RGB compensating step comprises:

compensating the RGB signal to maintain a gray-scale luminance value set before the compensation, and the CCT and gray-scale chromaticity coordinates are maintained in a predetermined range.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the RGB signal adjusting step comprises:

deleting 3 bits starting with the LSB from each of an 8-bit R signal and an 8-bit B signal and 2 bits starting with the LSB from an 8-bit G signal in an RGB signal; and

adding 1 bit to the LSB of each of the 5-bit R signal and the 5-bit B signal in the RGB signal.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the RGB compensating step comprises:

reading the compensated RGB value mapped to the adjusted RGB signal from a look-up table (LUT).

14. The method of claim 13, wherein each of the R, G and B signals of the compensated RGB value has 6 bits.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the RGB compensating step comprises:

compensating the RGB signal for a target gray-scale CCT range between 6000 and 8000K.