Display device

• US 8,436,875 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2009
• Issued: 05/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ueki, Shun, Nakamura, Kozo, Mori, Tomohiko, Tomizawa, Kazunari, Yoshida, Yuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tzeng, Fred
• Application Number:
  US13/128,884
• Publication Number:
  US 20110216109A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,279 Days
• Field of Search: 345/690, 349/106
• US Class Current: 345/690
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133514 Colour filters
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/52 RGB geometrical arrangements
• 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 2320/0242 Compensation of deficiencies in the appearance of colours
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/06 Colour space transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3607 for displaying colours or for displaying grey scales with a specific pixel layout, e.g. using sub-pixels display of colours in flat matrix panels other than liquid crystal displays G09G3/2003; grey scales specific for television H04N3/127
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/06 using colour palettes, e.g. look-up tables
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/64 Circuits for processing colour signals H04N9/77 takes precedence; camera processing pipelines for processing colour signals H04N23/84

Abstract

A multiple primary color display device which suppresses the reduction in the display quality when an input signal corresponding to green in an sRGB color space is input from outside is provided. A display device according to the present invention has a pixel defined by a plurality of sub pixels. The plurality of sub pixels include at least a red sub pixel for displaying red, a green sub pixel for displaying green, a blue sub pixel for displaying blue, and a yellow sub pixel for displaying yellow. When an input signal corresponding to green in the sRGB color space is input from outside, the display device according to the present invention provides display using the yellow sub pixel in addition to the green sub pixel.

Claims

1. A display device comprising a pixel defined by a plurality of sub pixels, wherein:

the plurality of sub pixels include at least a red sub pixel for displaying red, a green sub pixel for displaying green, a blue sub pixel for displaying blue, and a yellow sub pixel for displaying yellow; and

when an input signal corresponding to green in an sRGB color space is input from outside, display is provided using the yellow sub pixel in addition to the green sub pixel.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein:

the plurality of sub pixels further include a cyan sub pixel for displaying cyan; and

when the input signal is input, display is provided using the cyan sub pixel in addition to the green sub pixel and the yellow sub pixel.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein increasing ratios of gradation levels of the green sub pixel, the yellow sub pixel and the cyan sub pixel with respect to an increase of a gradation level of the input signal are different between a first range of gradation level of the input signal, which is from a minimum level to a prescribed intermediate level, and a second range of gradation level of the input signal, which is from the prescribed intermediate level to a maximum level.

4. The display device of claim 3, wherein when the gradation level of the input signal is the prescribed intermediate level, the gradation level of the green sub pixel is the maximum level, and the increasing ratio of the green sub pixel in the second range is zero.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein in the first range, hue, chroma and lightness of green corresponding to the input signal substantially match hue, chroma and lightness of a color displayed by the pixel.

6. The display device of claim 5, wherein in the second range, the lightness of green corresponding to the input signal substantially matches the lightness of the color displayed by the pixel.

7. The display device of claim 6, wherein in the second range, the hue of green corresponding to the input signal substantially matches the hue of the color displayed by the pixel.

8. The display device of claim 5, wherein when the input signal is input, in the second range, display is provided using the blue sub pixel in addition to the green sub pixel, the yellow sub pixel, and the cyan sub pixel.

9. The display device of claim 5, wherein when the input signal is input, in the second range, the blue sub pixel is not used for display.

10. The display device of claim 5, wherein in the second range, the lightness of the color displayed by the pixel is lower than the lightness of green corresponding to the input signal.

11. The display device of claim 10, wherein in the second range, the hue of green corresponding to the input signal substantially matches the hue of the color displayed by the pixel.

12. The display device of claim 5, wherein in the second range, the hue, chroma and lightness of the color displayed by the pixel are constant.

13. The display device of claim 5, wherein the increasing ratios of the yellow sub pixel and the cyan sub pixel in the second range are zero.

14. The display device of claim 3, wherein the prescribed intermediate level is a gradation level at which a Y value of green corresponding to the input signal is 0.3 or greater where the Y value in an XYZ colorimetric system of white displayed by the pixel is 1.

15. The display device of claim 2, wherein:

increasing ratios of gradation levels of the yellow sub pixel and the cyan sub pixel with respect to an increase of a gradation level of the input signal are different between a first range of gradation level of the input signal, which is from a minimum level to a first intermediate level, and a second range of gradation level of the input signal, which is from the first intermediate level to a maximum level; and

an increasing ratio of a gradation level of the green sub pixel with respect to the increase of the gradation level of the input signal is different between a third range of gradation level of the input signal, which is from the minimum level to a second intermediate level higher than the first intermediate level, and a fourth range of gradation level of the input signal, which is from the second intermediate level to the maximum level.

16. The display device of claim 15, wherein when the gradation level of the input signal is the second intermediate level, the gradation level of the green sub pixel is the maximum level, and the increasing ratio of the green sub pixel in the fourth range is zero.

17. The display device of claim 16, wherein in the first range, hue, chroma and lightness of green corresponding to the input signal substantially match hue, chroma and lightness of a color displayed by the pixel.

18. The display device of claim 17, wherein in the second range, the hue of green corresponding to the input signal substantially matches the hue of the color displayed by the pixel.

19. The display device of claim 15, wherein the first intermediate level is a gradation level at which a Y value of green corresponding to the input signal is 0.3 or greater where the Y value in an XYZ colorimetric system of white displayed by the pixel is 1.

20. The display device of claim 1, wherein when a gradation level of the input signal is a maximum level, chromaticity values x and y and a Y value in an XYZ colorimetric system of the color displayed by the pixel fulfill the relationships of 0.25≦

x≦

0.35, 0.45≦

y≦

0.70, and 0.3≦

Y≦

0.8, where the Y value when the pixel displays white is 1.

21. A display device comprising a pixel defined by a plurality of sub pixels, wherein:

the plurality of sub pixels include at least a red sub pixel for displaying red, a green sub pixel for displaying green, a blue sub pixel for displaying blue, and a yellow sub pixel for displaying yellow; and

when an input signal corresponding to green in an sRGB color space is input from outside, display is provided using only the green sub pixel in a first range of gradation level of the input signal, which is from a minimum level to a prescribed intermediate level, and display is provided using the yellow sub pixel in addition to the green sub pixel in a second range of gradation level of the input signal, which is

from the prescribed intermediate level to a maximum level.

22. The display device of claim 21, wherein an increasing ratio of a gradation level of the green sub pixel with respect to an increase of the gradation level of the input signal is different between the first range and the second range.

23. The display device of claim 22, wherein when the gradation level of the input signal is the prescribed intermediate level, the gradation level of the green sub pixel is the maximum level, and the increasing ratio of the green sub pixel in the second range is zero.

24. The display device of claim 21, wherein:

the plurality of sub pixels further include a cyan sub pixel for displaying cyan; and

in the second range, display is provided using the cyan sub pixel in addition to the green sub pixel and the yellow sub pixel.