Sequential color display system with spoke synchronous frame rate conversion
First Claim
1. A display system, comprising:
- a spatial light modulator;
a light source providing light;
a color wheel rotating at a wheel rate and coloring said light, said colored light illuminating said spatial light modulator;
a logic circuit having an input receiving frames of data at a frame rate and communicating said data to said spatial light modulator; and
a control circuit detecting said frame rate, responsive to a vertical sync rate corresponding to said frame rate, and providing a wheel motor sync output at a rate as a function of said vertical sync rate of said frames of data, said sync output rate being unequal to said vertical sync rate when said vertical sync rate deviates from a predetermined rate, said wheel rate being a function of said sync output, and adjusting said color wheel rate so that said wheel rate compared to said frame rate is a ratio of integers, said integer ratio being other than one-to-one.
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Abstract
A sequential color display system (10) suited to receive data (20) at different rates without discarding or filtering video data. The mismatch of bandwidths between the input source video data and the output sequential color display is accommodated by retaining a modified synchronous operation. A color wheel (50) having a plurality of segments is utilized whereby the input frame rate in reference to the color wheel rate is always a ratio of integers. Using a digital micromirror device (44) spatial light modulator, no mixing of frame-to-frame bit planes is required during a colored segment. In the preferred embodiment, the ratio of integers is 7-to-6 for a 50 hertz input, such as a PAL system, or a 5-to-6 ratio for a 72 hertz input. The color wheel is maintained at about a 60 hertz rate.
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14 Claims
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1. A display system, comprising:
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a spatial light modulator; a light source providing light; a color wheel rotating at a wheel rate and coloring said light, said colored light illuminating said spatial light modulator; a logic circuit having an input receiving frames of data at a frame rate and communicating said data to said spatial light modulator; and a control circuit detecting said frame rate, responsive to a vertical sync rate corresponding to said frame rate, and providing a wheel motor sync output at a rate as a function of said vertical sync rate of said frames of data, said sync output rate being unequal to said vertical sync rate when said vertical sync rate deviates from a predetermined rate, said wheel rate being a function of said sync output, and adjusting said color wheel rate so that said wheel rate compared to said frame rate is a ratio of integers, said integer ratio being other than one-to-one. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. The method of operating a sequential display system, comprising:
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a) utilizing a color wheel having a plurality of colored segments to color source light illuminating a spatial light modulator, said color wheel rotating at a wheel rate; b) modulating said colored light with said spatial light modulator according to frames of data received at a frame rate; and c) controlling said wheel rate by responding to a vertical sync rate corresponding to said frame rate, and providing a wheel motor sync output at a rate as a function of said vertical sync rate of said frames of data, said sync output rate being unequal to said vertical sync rate when said vertical sync rate deviates from a predetermined rate, said wheel rate being a function of said sync output, and adjusting said color wheel rate so that said wheel rate compared to said frame rate is a ratio of integers, wherein said ratio of integers is other than one-to-one. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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