Device, system and method for color display
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Abstract
A color Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device for displaying a color image using at least four different primary colors, the device including an array of Liquid Crystal (LC) elements, driving circuitry adapted to receive an input corresponding to the color image and to selectively activate the LC elements of the LC array to produce an attenuation pattern corresponding to a gray-level representation of the color image, and an array of color sub-pixel filter elements juxtaposed and in registry with the array of LC elements such that each color sub-pixel filter element is in registry with one of the LC elements, wherein the array of color sub-pixel filter elements comprises at least four types of color sub-pixel filter elements, which transmit light of the at least four primary colors, respectively.
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113 Claims
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- 83. A color display device for displaying an image, comprising an array of rectangular color sub-pixel elements including sub-pixel elements of n different colors, wherein n is greater than three, and wherein no combination of exactly one of each of n different colored sub-pixel elements forms a square.
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92. A method of displaying a color image on a color display, said color display comprising an array of color sub-pixel elements including sub-pixel elements of each of n different colors, wherein n is greater than three, wherein no combination of exactly one of each of n different colored sub-pixel elements forms a square, wherein said sub-pixel elements are arranged in pixels, each pixel including at least n different colored sub-pixel elements, and each pixel having an aspect ratio of approximately 1:
- 1, the method comprising;
receiving an input representing three-component color image data including a plurality of three-component pixels and having a first resolution;
scaling said three-component color image data to produce scaled three-component color image data having a second resolution different from said first resolution;
converting said scaled three-component color image data into corresponding n-color pixel data representing said color image; and
generating a n-color input signal corresponding to said n-color pixel data. - View Dependent Claims (93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102)
- 1, the method comprising;
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103. A system for displaying a color image, comprising:
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a color display device comprising an array of color sub-pixel elements including sub-pixel elements of each of n different colors, wherein n is greater than three, wherein no combination of exactly one of each of n different colored sub-pixel elements forms a square, wherein said sub-pixel elements are arranged in pixels, each pixel including at least n different colored sub-pixel elements, and each pixel having an aspect ratio of approximately 1;
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a scaling unit able to receive an input representing three-component color image data including a plurality of three-component pixels and having a first resolution and to scale said three-component color image data to produce scaled three-component color image data having a second resolution different from said first resolution; and
a converter able to convert said scaled three-component color image data into corresponding n-color pixel data representing said color image and to generate an n-color input signal corresponding to said n-color pixel data. - View Dependent Claims (104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113)
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