Luminance weighted discrete level display
First Claim
1. A method for determining a number of drive lines allocated to each primary color of a discrete level color display, the display having a plurality of pixels, each formed from a plurality of independently illuminable areas, and each of which is assigned to a red (R), green (G) or blue (B) primary color component, said method comprising at least the step of allocating the drive lines to the primary color components such that, for each pixel a number of discrete intensity levels for the G component exceeds a number of discrete intensity levels for the R component, and the number of discrete intensity levels for the R component exceeds a number of discrete intensity levels for the B component.
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Abstract
The construction of display devices often involves the replication of a single pixel design a large number of times. Full color display devices are often constructed on the principle of utilising multiple primary colors in order to form a final destination color. Previously, the degree of complexity of the pixel arrangement devoted to each primary color was substantially the same. The present invention discloses devoting a variable degree of complexity to each primary color in a pixel layout depending on the perceptual response of the human eye to the particular primary color. For example, there is disclosed a pixel arrangement having red, green and blue primary colors wherein substantial complexity is devoted to the green primary color with a lesser complexity devoted to the blue primary color.
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15 Claims
- 1. A method for determining a number of drive lines allocated to each primary color of a discrete level color display, the display having a plurality of pixels, each formed from a plurality of independently illuminable areas, and each of which is assigned to a red (R), green (G) or blue (B) primary color component, said method comprising at least the step of allocating the drive lines to the primary color components such that, for each pixel a number of discrete intensity levels for the G component exceeds a number of discrete intensity levels for the R component, and the number of discrete intensity levels for the R component exceeds a number of discrete intensity levels for the B component.
- 2. A color display apparatus having a first plurality of independently illuminable areas connected to a second plurality of data drive lines, each of said illuminable areas being assigned to a red (R), green (G) or blue (B) primary color component, wherein, for each pixel, said data drive lines are allocated to said primary color components such that a number of discrete intensity levels for the G component of the color display apparatus exceeds a number of discrete intensity levels for the R component, and the number of discrete intensity levels for the R component exceeds a number of discrete intensity levels for the B component.
- 5. A method for determining a number of drive lines allocated to each primary color of a discrete level color display, the display having a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a plurality of independently illuminable areas, each area being assigned to one of a plurality of primary color components selected from among red (R), green (G) and blue (B), each of the primary color components having a corresponding average human eye response function, said method comprising, for each of the pixels, at least the step of allocating the drive lines to the primary colors substantially in a logarithmic manner related to the corresponding average human eye response functions.
- 11. A color display apparatus having a first plurality of independently illuminable areas connected to a second plurality of data drive lines, each of the independently illuminable areas being assigned to a red (R), green (G) or blue (B) primary color component, wherein each of said primary color components has a corresponding average human eye response function, and said data drive lines are allocated to said primary color components substantially in a logarithmic manner related to the corresponding average human eye response function.
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14. A method for determining the number of drive lines allocated to each primary color of a discrete level color display, the display having a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a plurality of independently illuminable areas, each area being assigned to one of a plurality of primary color components included in the group of red, green and blue, said method comprising at least the step of allocating the drive lines to the primary color components in a ratio such that a condition of the illuminable areas to one color component is different from that of the illuminable areas to the other color component, wherein each primary color component has a corresponding average human eye response function, and said allocating step further comprises allocating the drive lines to the primary colors in a ratio substantially in accordance with a logarithmic ratio of the corresponding average human eye response functions, wherein the primary color components are red, green and blue and the number of red drive lines is two, the number of green drive lines is three and the number of blue drive lines is one.
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