Display device

• US 9,177,512 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2011
• Issued: 11/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• 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, Kohzoh, Tomizawa, Kazunari, Mori, Tomohiko, Yoshida, Yuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Van
• Application Number:
  US13/578,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20120313981A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,729 Days
• Field of Search: 345/690
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 2340/06 Colour space transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2003 Display of colours specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607
• 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

Abstract

A display device (100) according to the present invention includes a pixel defined by a plurality of sub pixels. The plurality of sub pixels are a red sub pixel (R) to display red, a green sub pixel (G) to display green, a blue sub pixel (B) to display blue, and a yellow sub pixel (Ye) to display yellow. When an input signal corresponding to green of the sRGB color space is externally input, the display device (100) according to the present invention provides display by use of the green sub pixel (G) and also the yellow sub pixel (Ye). According to the present invention, a multiple primary color display device which suppresses decline of the display quality when an input signal corresponding to green of the sRGB color space is externally input is provided.

Claims

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

the plurality of sub pixels are a red sub pixel to display red, a green sub pixel to display green, a blue sub pixel to display blue, and a yellow sub pixel to display yellow; and

when an input signal corresponding to green of an sRGB color space is externally input from outside the display device, an image is provided on the display device by the green sub pixel and the yellow sub pixel;

wherein

an increase in ratios of gray scale levels of the green sub pixel and the yellow sub pixel with respect to an increase of the gray scale level of the input signal is different between a first range of the gray scale level of the input signal from a minimum level to a prescribed intermediate level and a second range of the gray scale level of the input signal from the prescribed intermediate level to a maximum level.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein when the gray scale level of the input signal is the prescribed intermediate level, the gray scale level of the green sub pixel is the maximum level, and the increase ratio of the green sub pixel in the second range is zero.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein in the first range, hue, chroma and lightness of green corresponding to the input signal substantially match the hue, chroma and lightness of a color displayed by the pixel.

4. The display device of claim 3, wherein in the second range, the lightness of the green corresponding to the input signal substantially matches the lightness of the color displayed by the pixel.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein in the second range, the hue of the green corresponding to the input signal substantially matches the hue of the color displayed by the pixel.

6. The display device of claim 3, wherein when the input signal is input, in the second range, display is provided by use of the green sub pixel, the yellow sub pixel and the blue sub pixel.

7. The display device of claim 3, wherein when the input signal is input, in the second range, the blue sub pixel is not used for display.

8. The display device of claim 3, wherein in the second range, the lightness of the color displayed by the pixel is lower than the lightness of the green corresponding to the input signal.

9. The display device of claim 8, wherein in the second range, the hue of the green corresponding to the input signal substantially matches the hue of the color displayed by the pixel.

10. The display device of claim 3, wherein in the second range, the hue, chroma and lightness of the color displayed by the pixel are constant.

11. The display device of claim 3, wherein in the second range, the increase ratio of the yellow sub pixel is zero.

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

20. The display device of claim 1, wherein when the gray scale level of the input signal is a maximum level, chromaticities x and y and a Y value in an XYZ colorimetric system of a 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.

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

the plurality of sub pixels are a red sub pixel to display red, a green sub pixel to display green, a blue sub pixel to display blue, and a yellow sub pixel to display yellow; and

when an input signal corresponding to green of an sRGB color space is externally input from outside the display device, an image is provided on the display by the green sub pixel in a first range of a gray scale level of the input signal from a minimum level to a prescribed intermediate level, and the image is provided on the display by the green sub pixel and the yellow sub pixel in a second range of the gray scale level of the input signal from the prescribed intermediate level to a maximum level.

14. The display device of claim 13, wherein an increase ratio of the gray scale level of the green sub pixel with respect to an increase of the gray scale level of the input signal is different between in the first range and in the second range.

15. The display device of claim 14, wherein when the gray scale level of the input signal is the prescribed intermediate level, the gray scale level of the green sub pixel is the maximum level, and the increase ratio of the green sub pixel in the second range is zero.

16. The display device of claim 13, wherein the prescribed intermediate level is a gray scale level at which, when a Y value of white displayed by the pixel in an XYZ colorimetric system is 1, the Y value of green corresponding to the input signal is 0.3 or greater.

17. The display device of claim 13, wherein when the prescribed intermediate level is a first intermediate level, an increase ratio of the gray scale level of the green sub pixel with respect to an increase of the gray scale level of the input signal is different between in a third range of the gray scale level of the input signal from the minimum level to a second intermediate level which is higher than the first intermediate level and in a fourth range of the gray scale level of the input signal from the second intermediate level to the maximum level.

18. The display device of claim 17, wherein when the gray scale level of the input signal is the second intermediate level, the gray scale level of the green sub pixel is the maximum level, and the increase ratio of the green sub pixel in the fourth range is zero.

19. The display device of claim 17, wherein the first intermediate level is a gray scale level at which, when a Y value of white displayed by the pixel in an XYZ colorimetric system is 1, the Y value of the green corresponding to the input signal is 0.3 or greater.