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High dynamic range displays using filterless LCD(s) for increasing contrast and resolution

  • US 9,864,243 B2
  • Filed: 05/14/2010
  • Issued: 01/09/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A display comprising,a backlight, an image-generating panel, a contrast-improving panel, and a polarizer positioned between the image generating panel and the contrast improving panel, wherein the polarizer is operative as both an analyzing polarizer for the contrast-improving panel and an orientation polarizing layer for the image-generating panel and further wherein the image-generating panel comprises a color LCD panel that receives light from the backlight and transmits light to the contrast-improving panel that comprises a monochrome LCD panel wherein the resolution of the contrast-improving panel is greater than a resolution of the image-generating panel;

  • a mid-stream diffuser positioned between the contrast-improving panel and the image generating panel and having a diffusion resolution greater than the image-generating panel; and

    a controller comprising an image-generating panel energization module and a contrast-improving panel energization module, the controller connected to energize both the image-generating panel and the contrast-improving panel with control data produced by the corresponding energization module,wherein energization of the contrast-improving panel comprising;

    extracting luminance values from an input image data received by the controller to produce a first intermediate data;

    intentionally blurring the image apart from the point spread function of the backlight;

    subpixel interpolating the first intermediate data to handle the difference between the resolution of the contrast-improvement panel and the image-generating panel to produce a second intermediate data; and

    filtering the second intermediate data to produce a smoothed energizing data for the contrast-improving panel, the smoothed energizing data improving viewing angle performance and maintaining high frequency detail in the input image data;

    wherein further energization of the image-generating panel is based in part on feedback from the contrast-improving panel energization module to the image-generation panel energization module.

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