Method and device for correcting the rotation of a video display

• US 7,369,144 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2003
• Issued: 05/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA (STMicroelectronics NV)
• Original Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA (STMicroelectronics NV)
• Inventors: Marchand, Benoît, D'Halluin, Benoît
• Primary Examiner(s): DHARIA, PRABODH M
• Application Number:
  US10/409,530
• Publication Number:
  US 20030189639A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,855 Days
• Field of Search: 345/7, 345/506, 345/202, 345/501, 345/502, 345/512, 345507-509, 345/32, 345/13, 345/84, 345/418, 345/421, 343/5, 340/705, 340/703, 315/371, 348/203, 348/139, 348/45, 348/180, 348/745, 348/442, 359/630, 382/284, 358/67, 358/488, 367/69
• US Class Current: 345/692
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 1/04 Deflection circuits ; Constructional details not otherwise provided for electron-optical arrangements H01J29/46, H01J37/04, H01J37/302
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 1/16 the pattern of rectangular co-ordinates extending over the whole area of the screen, i.e. television type raster
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/02 Improving the quality of display appearance
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 3/22 Circuits for controlling dimensions, shape or centering of picture on screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2628 Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation

Abstract

A method for displaying a video image on a display screen by a scanning of the display screen along lines inclined by a first angle with respect to a reference direction by at least one electron beam modulated by a modulation signal. The method includes the steps of storing at least partly the successive initial digital video data associated with the image to be displayed in a memory; transmitting new successive digital video data corresponding to the image which would be displayed based on the stored initial digital video data for a scanning of the display screen along lines inclined with respect to the reference direction by a second angle opposite to the first angle; and providing the modulation signal based on the new transmitted successive digital video data.

Claims

1. A method for correcting the rotation of a video image display on a display screen by a scanning of the display screen according to lines inclined by a first angle with respect to a reference direction, the screen being scanned by at least one electron beam modulated by a modulation signal provided by a modulation system based on successive digital video data, comprising the steps of:

(a) storing successive initial digital video data associated with the image to be displayed; and

(b) transmitting to the modulation system new successive digital video data determined based on the successive initial digital video data, corresponding to the image which would be displayed from the initial digital video data for a scanning of the display screen according to lines inclined with respect to the reference direction by a second angle opposite to the first angle, wherein step (b) comprises the steps of;

(c) determining each of the new digital video data based on initial digital video data associated with distinct scanned lines of the screen; and

(d) successively transmitting to the modulation system, for each scanned line of the screen, the new digital video data associated with the scanning of a line of the display screen at the end of a dwell after the beginning of the line scanning, wherein at step (d), the dwell is a function of the scanned line and of the second angle.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c) comprises repeating of the steps of:

extracting, from among the successive initial digital video data, first and second groups of successive initial digital video data comprising a determined number of successive initial digital video data and located at the same position in the sequence of successive initial digital video data associated with two successive scanned lines of the screen; and

determining the determined number of new digital video data, each of the new digital video data corresponding to the weighting of one of the initial digital video data of the first group and of one of the initial digital video data of the second group.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the number of successive initial digital video data of each group of successive initial digital video data is a function of the second angle.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the digital video data corresponds to an intensity of a color component of a pixel to be displayed on the display screen.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the method corrects the rotation of the video image caused by a defect in manufacturing the device and/or by a magnetic field present during use of the device.

6. A device for displaying a video image on a display screen by a scanning of the display screen along lines inclined by a first angle with respect to a reference direction, the screen being scanned by at least one electron beam modulated by a modulation signal provided by a modulation system based on successive digital video data, comprising:

means for storing successive initial digital video data;

means for providing the modulation system with new successive digital video data determined based on the successive initial digital video data, corresponding to the image which would be displayed based on the initial digital video data for a scanning of the display screen along lines inclined with respect to the reference direction by a second angle opposite to the first angle, wherein the means for providing;

determines each of the new digital video data based on initial digital video data associated with distinct scanned lines of the screen; and

successively transmits to the modulation system, for each scanned line of the screen, the new digital video data associated with the scanning of a line of the display screen at the end of a dwell after the beginning of the line scanning, wherein the dwell is a function of the scanned line and of the second angle.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the means for providing the new successive digital video data comprises:

means for calculating the new digital video data based on initial digital video data stored in the storage means and associated with distinct scanned lines of the screen; and

means for successively providing the modulation system, for each scanned line of the screen, with the new digital video data associated with the scanning of a line of the display screen upon completion of a dwell after the beginning of the line scanning.

8. The device of claim 6, further comprising means for setting the second angle.

9. The device of claim 6, wherein the device corrects a rotation of a video image on a display screen.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the rotation is caused by a deflection of an electron beam that creates the video image on the display screen.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the device corrects a rotation of the video image caused by a defect in manufacturing the device and/or by a magnetic field present during use of the device.