METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-COLOR SEQUENTIAL LCD PANEL
First Claim
1. A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprising:
- a controller operably connected to driving circuitry for a plurality of liquid crystal (LC) cells and further operably connected to an illumination control system for an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged behind said LC array and in alignment therewith, said array comprising at least three different LED colors, said controller to;
receive input image data, and based thereon to produce a plurality of color display frames, each said color display frame comprising color selection data for each of a plurality of display colors and color transmittance data corresponding to each said display color,sequentially send the color transmittance data for said color display frames to said driving circuitry for controlling transmittance of said LC cells, andsequentially send in synchronization with said color transmittance data said color selection data for said color display frames to said illumination control system for selectively activating said array of LEDs,wherein for at least three of the display colors, the respective color selection data represents selective illumination of LEDs of a single color, and for at least one of the display colors, said color selection data represents selective illumination of LEDs of a plurality of colors, thereby sequentially producing color display frames representing more display colors than the number of LED colors.
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Abstract
A sequential color LCD device for displaying a color image using at least four different primary colors, with back illumination system comprising of at least three color LEDs. The device is capable of activating at least two color LEDs simultaneously, thus obtaining additional display colors. A method is disclosed for displaying more than three colors using an LCD device having three color LEDs, in which the LED back illumination system sequentially illuminates the LC array with only a first single LED color, a simultaneous operation of first and second LED colors, and then only the second LED color. The device may drive the LC cells from a first color data value directly to a subsequent color data value directly, without driving the LC cell to zero transmittance prior to loading of the subsequent color data value. The device may correct for color phase shift and for the dependency of apparent color intensity.
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14 Claims
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1. A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprising:
a controller operably connected to driving circuitry for a plurality of liquid crystal (LC) cells and further operably connected to an illumination control system for an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged behind said LC array and in alignment therewith, said array comprising at least three different LED colors, said controller to; receive input image data, and based thereon to produce a plurality of color display frames, each said color display frame comprising color selection data for each of a plurality of display colors and color transmittance data corresponding to each said display color, sequentially send the color transmittance data for said color display frames to said driving circuitry for controlling transmittance of said LC cells, and sequentially send in synchronization with said color transmittance data said color selection data for said color display frames to said illumination control system for selectively activating said array of LEDs, wherein for at least three of the display colors, the respective color selection data represents selective illumination of LEDs of a single color, and for at least one of the display colors, said color selection data represents selective illumination of LEDs of a plurality of colors, thereby sequentially producing color display frames representing more display colors than the number of LED colors. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for controlling a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device, the method comprising:
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receiving input image data; based on said input image data, producing a plurality of color display frames, each said color display frame comprising color selection data for each of a plurality of display colors and color transmittance data corresponding to each said display color; sequentially driving an array of LC cells based on color transmittance data, said sequence corresponding to said plurality of display colors; sequentially activating in synchronization with said driving of the array of LC cells said array of LEDs, wherein for at least three of the display colors, the respective color selection data represents selective illumination of LEDs of a single color, and for at least one of the display colors, said color selection data represents selective illumination of LEDs of a plurality of colors, thereby sequentially producing color display frames representing more display colors than the number of LED colors. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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