Color display apparatus having pixel pattern including repeating units

• US 8,400,480 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2007
• Issued: 03/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Yun Tae, Kim, Chang Yeong, Park, Du-Sik, Lee, Seung Sin, Choe, Wonhee, Lee, Joo Hyung, Park, Jong Woung
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chanh
• Assistant Examiner(s): Karimi, Pegeman
• Application Number:
  US11/923,971
• Publication Number:
  US 20080252558A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,972 Days
• Field of Search: 345/55, 345/694, 345 87- 88, 345/695, 345/690, 349/108
• US Class Current: 345/694
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0452 Details of colour pixel setup, e.g. pixel composed of a red, a blue and two green components
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2003 Display of colours specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a color display apparatus which has a pixel pattern including a plurality of repeating units of a pixel array, wherein each of the plurality of repeating units of the pixel array is composed of at least five sub-pixels while including at least one sub-pixel from a first to fourth sub-pixel, respectively, the first sub-pixel representing a red color (R), the second sub-pixel representing a green color (G), the third sub-pixel representing a blue color (B), and the fourth sub-pixel representing a mixed color of at least two colors from among the R, G, and B, and each of the plurality of repeating units of the pixel array corresponds to at least two image pixels.

Claims

1. A color display apparatus comprising:

a pixel pattern including a plurality of repeating units of a pixel array,

wherein each of the plurality of repeating units of the pixel array corresponds to I image pixels and is comprised of I*N+(I/2) physical sub-pixels, where I is an even natural number of image pixels greater than or equal to 2 and N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, while including at least one physical sub-pixel from a first sub-pixel type to a fourth sub-pixel type, respectively, the first sub-pixel type representing a red color “

R”

, the second sub-pixel type representing a green color “

G”

, the third sub-pixel type representing a blue color “

B”

, and the fourth sub-pixel type representing a mixed color comprised of at least two colors including a white color “

W” and

at least one other color from among the R, G, and B,

each of the plurality of repeating units of the pixel array corresponds to I image pixels, and

each image pixel corresponds to only N+½

physical sub-pixels.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the fourth sub-pixel type represents only a white color “

W”

.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein an occupancy ratio of the fourth sub-pixel type to the total physical sub-pixels is ≦

20%.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein I is equal to 2 and N is equal to 2.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each number of physical sub-pixels of at least any two sub-pixel types from the first to fourth sub-pixel type included in the repeating unit of the pixel array is mutually different.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein physical sub-pixels included in the repeating unit of a pixel array are arranged in a row.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein physical sub-pixels included in the repeating unit of the pixel array are arranged in two rows.

8. The apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the repeating unit of the pixel array includes at least two physical sub-pixels from the first to third sub-pixel types, respectively,

wherein physical sub-pixels representing an identical color are arranged to be mutually adjacent.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the repeating unit of the pixel array includes at least two physical sub-pixels from the first to third sub-pixel types, respectively, and the physical sub-pixels representing an identical color are prevented from being arranged to be mutually adjacent.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the repeating unit of the pixel array includes two physical sub-pixels of the fourth sub-pixel type, and the two physical sub-pixels of the fourth sub-pixel type are arranged to be mutually adjacent.

11. A color display apparatus comprising

a pixel pattern including a plurality of repeating units of a pixel array,

wherein each of the plurality of repeating units of the pixel array corresponds to four image pixels and is comprised of a total number of ten physical sub-pixels while including at least one physical sub-pixel from a first sub-pixel type to a fourth sub-pixel type, respectively, the first sub-pixel type representing a red color “

R”

, the second sub-pixel type representing a green color “

G”

, the third sub-pixel type representing a blue color “

B”

, and the fourth sub-pixel type representing a mixed color comprised of at least two colors including a white color “

W” and

at least one other color from among the R, G, and B,

each of the plurality of repeating units of the pixel array corresponds to four image pixels, and

each image pixel corresponds to only 2½

physical sub-pixels.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the repeating unit of the pixel array includes the first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixel types, respectively, to have a ratio of the number of the first to fourth sub-pixel types of 3:

3;

2;

2.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the repeating unit of the pixel array includes the first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixel types, respectively, to have a ratio of the number of the first to fourth sub-pixel types of 2:

4;

2;

2.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the repeating unit of the pixel array includes the first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixel types, respectively, to have a ratio of the number of the first to fourth sub-pixel types of 3:

3;

3;

1.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the repeating unit of the pixel array includes the first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixel types, respectively, to have a ratio of the number of the first to fourth sub-pixel types of 3:

4;

2;

1.

16. A color display apparatus comprising:

a pixel pattern including a plurality of repeating units of a pixel array,

wherein each of the plurality of repeating units of the pixel array corresponds to two image pixels and is comprised of a total number of five physical sub-pixels while including at least one physical sub-pixel from a first sub-pixel type to a fourth sub-pixel type, respectively, the first sub-pixel type representing a red color “

R”

, the second sub-pixel type representing a green color “

G”

, the third sub-pixel type representing a blue color “

B”

, and the fourth sub-pixel type representing a mixed color comprised of at least two colors including a white color “

W” and

at least one other color from among the R, G, and B,

each of the plurality of repeating units of the pixel array corresponds to two image pixels, and

each image pixel corresponds to only 2½

physical sub-pixels.