Image construction based video display system
First Claim
1. A video system comprised of:
- a video display having an array of M×
N coarse pixels in which each coarse pixel is comprised of a set of primary color light sources for color operation, or a white light source for gray-scale operation, wherein the intensity of each light source is controllable;
a spatial light modulator aligned with the array of M×
N coarse pixels to generate spatial masking patterns for blocking or passing light, the spatial masking patterns having a resolution finer than the coarse pixel sizes by a factor of p;
an image processor coupled to receive video image information to be displayed, the image processor being configured so that, for each video image, the following is carried out;
generating, for each coarse pixel and for each color to be displayed, a sequence of Walsh orthogonal function image components (Dcuv), each Walsh orthogonal function only having a value of −
1 or +1, each image component being determined from the video image information (fc(x,y)) and a corresponding masking pattern of the sequence of masking patterns corresponding to the Walsh orthogonal function image components (Dcuv), where u and v are indices for the basis functions and x and y are the coordinates of the video image pixels,for any image components other than Dc00 that are negative, using the absolute value of the image component and using the inverse of the corresponding masking pattern;
correcting the Dc00 image component by subtracting one half the summation of Dcuv over all Dcuv,controlling the spatial light modulator to generate a sequence of spatial masking patterns for each coarse pixel,and providing driving information for the light source or light sources for each color to be displayed in each of the M×
N coarse pixels corresponding to the sequence of image components (Dcuv) for the respective color, so that the light source or light sources is/are driven with the light strength proportional to an image component (Dcuv)while the corresponding masking pattern is illuminated;
whereby the video system can display video images at a resolution up to p times finer than the M×
N coarse pixels.
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Abstract
A video display system based on constructing images through displaying orthogonal basis function components of the image is disclosed. The system is comprised of two display components aligned and driven concurrently. The first display component is a coarse pixel array. The second display component is a spatial light modulator whose geometric details are finer than the first pixel array. The overall system reconstructs the intended video to be displayed at the finer geometric details of the second display component at a minimal image quality loss through the use of time-domain display of orthogonal image basis function components. The resultant system has a considerably reduced interconnection complexity and number of active circuit elements, and also requires a considerably smaller video data rate if a lossy image reconstruction scheme is used. An embodiment with a LED based display and an LCD based spatial light modulator utilizing the concepts, and methods to drive the displays are described herein.
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28 Claims
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1. A video system comprised of:
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a video display having an array of M×
N coarse pixels in which each coarse pixel is comprised of a set of primary color light sources for color operation, or a white light source for gray-scale operation, wherein the intensity of each light source is controllable;a spatial light modulator aligned with the array of M×
N coarse pixels to generate spatial masking patterns for blocking or passing light, the spatial masking patterns having a resolution finer than the coarse pixel sizes by a factor of p;an image processor coupled to receive video image information to be displayed, the image processor being configured so that, for each video image, the following is carried out; generating, for each coarse pixel and for each color to be displayed, a sequence of Walsh orthogonal function image components (Dcuv), each Walsh orthogonal function only having a value of −
1 or +1, each image component being determined from the video image information (fc(x,y)) and a corresponding masking pattern of the sequence of masking patterns corresponding to the Walsh orthogonal function image components (Dcuv), where u and v are indices for the basis functions and x and y are the coordinates of the video image pixels,for any image components other than Dc00 that are negative, using the absolute value of the image component and using the inverse of the corresponding masking pattern; correcting the Dc00 image component by subtracting one half the summation of Dcuv over all Dcuv, controlling the spatial light modulator to generate a sequence of spatial masking patterns for each coarse pixel, and providing driving information for the light source or light sources for each color to be displayed in each of the M×
N coarse pixels corresponding to the sequence of image components (Dcuv) for the respective color, so that the light source or light sources is/are driven with the light strength proportional to an image component (Dcuv)while the corresponding masking pattern is illuminated;whereby the video system can display video images at a resolution up to p times finer than the M×
N coarse pixels. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of displaying a video image, the video image being a frame of a video or a still image, the method comprising:
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providing a video display having an array of M×
N coarse pixels in which each coarse pixel is comprised of a set of primary color light sources for color operation, or a white light source for gray-scale operation;providing a spatial light modulator aligned with the array of M×
N coarse pixels to generate spatial masking patterns for blocking or passing light of the light sources, the spatial masking patterns having a resolution finer than the coarse pixel sizes by a factor of p;generating, for each coarse pixel and for each color to be displayed, a sequence of Walsh function orthogonal image components (Dcuv) where u and v are indices for the basis function, each Walsh orthogonal function only having a value of −
1 or +1, each image component being determined from the video image information (fc(x,y)) and a corresponding masking pattern of the sequence of masking patterns corresponding to the Walsh orthogonal function image components (Dcuv), where u and v are indices for the basis functions and x and y are the coordinates of the video image pixels;for any image components other than Dc00that are negative, using the absolute value of the image component and using the inverse of the corresponding masking pattern; correcting for each color to be displayed, the Dc00 image component by subtracting one half the summation of all Dcuv for the respective color, controlling the spatial light modulator to generate a sequence of spatial masking patterns for each coarse pixel, and providing driving information for the light source or light sources for each color to be displayed in each of the M×
N coarse pixels corresponding to the sequence of image components (Dcuv) for the respective color, so that the light source or light sources is/are driven with the light strength proportional to an image component (Dcuv)while the corresponding masking pattern is illuminated;whereby the video image is displayed at a resolution up to p times finer than the M×
N coarse pixels. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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