Multi primary color display device

• US 8,451,302 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2008
• Issued: 05/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2007
• 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: Yoshida, Yuichi, Tomizawa, Kazunari, Miyazaki, Akiko
• Primary Examiner(s): SHENG, TOM V
• Application Number:
  US12/524,439
• Publication Number:
  US 20090322662A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,954 Days
• Field of Search: 345/87, 345/88, 345/204, 345/690, 345/694, 345/696
• US Class Current: 345/694
• 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 2320/0666 for control of colour parameters, e.g. colour temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0457 Improvement of perceived resolution by subpixel rendering
• 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

Abstract

A multi-primary-color display device includes a number of pixels, each of which includes a first subset including red, green and cyan subpixels and a second subset including blue and yellow subpixels. In each pixel, the subpixels included in the first subset are arranged in series in one direction, while the subpixels included in the second subset are arranged in series in the same direction as the subpixels of the first subset.

Claims

1. A multi-primary-color display device comprising:

a plurality of pixels each including a first subset including red, green and cyan subpixels and a second subset including yellow and blue subpixels;

wherein

in each of said plurality of pixels, the subpixels included in the first subset are arranged in series in one direction, and the subpixels included in the second subset are arranged in series in the same direction as the subpixels of the first subset; and

supposing achromatic colors to be represented by the first and second subsets are called a first achromatic color and a second achromatic color, respectively, a ratio of a difference in luminance between the first and second achromatic colors to a sum of maximum luminances of the first and second achromatic colors is equal to or smaller than about 15% and a difference u′

v′

in chromaticity between the first and second achromatic colors is equal to or smaller than about 0.100.

2. The multi-primary-color display device of claim 1, wherein in each of said plurality of pixels, the subpixels of first and second subsets are arranged in line.

3. The multi-primary-color display device of claim 1, wherein in the first subset, the green subpixel is located between the red and cyan subpixels.

4. The multi-primary-color display device of claim 1, wherein the subpixels of the first and second subsets are arranged in line in an order of the red, green, cyan, yellow and blue subpixels.

5. The multi-primary-color display device of claim 1, wherein the second subset further includes another red subpixel that is different from the red subpixel of the first subset.

6. The multi-primary-color display device of claim 5, wherein in each of said pixels, each of the subpixels included in the first subset is arranged adjacent to its associated one of the subpixels included in the second subset.

7. The multi-primary-color display device of claim 5, wherein the another red subpixel of the second subset is adjacent to the red subpixel of the first subset.

8. The multi-primary-color display device of claim 5, wherein in each of said pixels, the subpixels included in the first subset are arranged in the order of the red, green and cyan subpixels, and the subpixels included in the second subset are arranged in the order of the another red, yellow and blue subpixels.

9. The multi-primary-color display device of claim 1, wherein the subpixels of at least one of the first and second subsets have luminances determined based on a value of a video signal representing the colors of two pixels.

10. The multi-primary-color display device of claim 1, comprising:

a multi-primary-color display panel including the pixels; and

a multi-primary-color converter arranged to convert values of a video signal representing luminances of red, green and blue into values representing the luminances of the primary colors of the subpixels included in the first and second subsets.

11. A multi-primary-color display device comprising:

a plurality of pixels each including a first subset including red, green and cyan subpixels and a second subset including yellow and blue subpixels;

wherein

in each of said plurality of pixels, the subpixels included in the first subset are arranged in series in one direction, and the subpixels included in the second subset are arranged in series in the same direction as the subpixels of the first subset; and

the subpixels of the respective pixels are arranged in a matrix, and supposing an achromatic color to be represented by not only one of the first and second subsets but also subpixels that are adjacent to the one subset is called a first achromatic color and an achromatic color to be represented by the other subset is called a second achromatic color, a ratio of a difference in luminance between the first and second achromatic colors to a sum of the maximum luminances of the first and second achromatic colors is equal to or smaller than about 15% and a difference u′

v′

in chromaticity between the first and second achromatic colors is equal to or smaller than about 0.100.

12. A multi-primary-color display device comprising:

a plurality of pixels each including a first subset including red, green and cyan subpixels and a second subset including yellow and blue subpixels;

wherein

in each of said plurality of pixels, the subpixels included in the first subset are arranged in series in one direction, and the subpixels included in the second subset are arranged in series in the same direction as the subpixels of the first subset; and

the subpixels of the respective pixels are arranged in a matrix, and supposing an achromatic color to be represented by not only one of the first and second subsets but also subpixels that are adjacent to the one subset is called a first achromatic color and an achromatic color to be represented by not only the other subset but also subpixels that are adjacent to the other subset is called a second achromatic color, a ratio of a difference in luminance between the first and second achromatic colors to a sum of the maximum luminances of the first and second achromatic colors is equal to or smaller than about 15% and a difference u′

v′

in chromaticity between the first and second achromatic colors is equal to or smaller than about 0.100.

13. A multi-primary-color display device comprising:

a plurality of pixels each including a first subset including red, green and cyan subpixels and a second subset including yellow and blue subpixels;

wherein

in each of said plurality of pixels, the subpixels included in the first subset are arranged in series in one direction, and the subpixels included in the second subset are arranged in series in the same direction as the subpixels of the first subset; and

when one of the pixels represents an achromatic color, an upper limit of luminance of at least one of the subpixels included in the first and second subsets is defined to be lower than a luminance of each of the at least one of the subpixels corresponding to a highest grayscale.