Abstract: A cathode ray tube (CRT) device is disclosed that increases image resolution. The CRT device includes a plurality of electron guns to produce a plurality of electron beams. A plurality of separate phosphor dots corresponding to separate colors are produced when impacted by the electron beams. The CRT device also includes steering electronics to guide the electron beams to the plurality of separate phosphor dots that form part of separate and shifted color planes.

Abstract: An image capture device is disclosed. The image capture device comprises a first sensor to detect at least a first color plane of an image, and a second sensor to detect at least a second color plane of the image, wherein the first color plane is offset from the second color plane in forming a captured image.

Abstract: Various imaging processing techniques are disclosed for displaying a pre-subpixel rendered image. The pre-subpixel rendered image can be transmitted directly to a display capable of displaying a subpixel rendered image. The pre-subpixel rendered image can also be stored for later transmission for output to the display. Additionally, the pre-subpixel rendered image can be embedded in an image data stream and later extracted and displayed. Furthermore, various techniques have been disclosed to embed and extract the pre-subpixel rendered image.

Abstract: Novel three-color and four-color subpixel arrangements and architectures for display and the like are herein disclosed. Novel techniques for subpixel rendering on the above subpixel arrangements are also herein disclosed.

Abstract: An array comprising a plurality of three-color pixel elements is disclosed. The three-color pixel element has square design disposed at the origin of an X, Y coordinate system. Disposed at the center of the square is a blue emitter. Red emitters are disposed in the second and fourth quadrants not occupied by the blue emitter and green emitters are disposed in the first and third quadrants not occupied by the blue emitter. The blue emitter is square shaped, having corners aligned at the X and Y axes of the coordinate system, and the opposing pairs of red and green emitters are generally square shaped, having truncated inwardly-facing corners forming edges parallel to the sides of the blue emitter. The plurality of three-color pixel elements may be arranged in rows and columns to form a display. Each emitter has a transistor.

Abstract: Various embodiments of a sub-pixel octal grouping are disclosed. The octal grouping may comprise three-color sub-pixels with one colored sub-pixel comprising twice the number of positions within the octal sub-pixel grouping as the other two colored sub-pixels. Various embodiments for performing sub-pixel rendering on the sub-pixel groupings are disclosed.

Abstract: Various embodiments of three-color sub-pixel arrangements and architectures for display and the like are herein disclosed.

Abstract: Thus, methods and systems for sub-pixel rendering with gamma adjustment are disclosed. The gamma adjustment allows the luminance for the sub-pixel arrangement to match the non-linear gamma response of the human eye's luminance channel, while the chrominance can match the linear response of the human eye's chrominance channels. The gamma correction allows the algorithms to operate independently of the actual gamma of a display device. The sub-pixel rendering techniques disclosed with gamma adjustment can be optimized for a display device gamma to improve response time, dot inversion balance, and contrast because gamma correction and compensation of the sub-pixel rendering algorithm provides the desired gamma through sub-pixel rendering. These techniques can adhere to any specified gamma transfer curve.

Abstract: A color display having horizontal sub-pizel arrangements and layouts is disclosed. The display can include a plurality of a sub-pixel group. The sub-pixel group can have a plurality of sub-pixels wherein each sub-pixel has a height along a vertical axis and a width along a horizontal axis. The width of each sub-pixel is greater in length than its height in the sub-pixel group. The display also includes a column driver coupled to each sub-pixel in a column and a row driver coupled to each sub-pixel in a row of the sub-pixel group. Each sub-pixel in the sub-pixel group is coupled to the row driver along the width of the sub-pixel.

Abstract: Processing data for a display including pixels, each pixel having color sub-pixels, comprises receiving pixel data. Once the pixel data is received, processing data for a display includes converting the pixel data to sub-pixel rendered data, the conversion generating the sub-pixel rendered data for a sub-pixel arrangement including alternating red and green sub-pixels on at least one of a horizontal and vertical axis. Next processing data for a display includes correcting the sub-pixel rendered data if a condition exists and outputting the sub-pixel rendered data.

Abstract: A method of converting a source pixel data of a first format for a display of a second format having a plurality of three-color pixel elements is disclosed. The method comprises determining implied sample areas for each data point of each color in the source pixel data of the first format. The resample areas for each emitter of each color in the display is also determined. A set of fractions for each resample area is formed. The denominators are a function of the resample area and the numerators are the function of an area of each of the implied sample areas that at least partially overlaps the resample areas. The data values for each implied sample area is multiplied by its respective fraction and all products are added together to obtain luminance values for each resample area.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system comprising a processor, an image storage and a display, said display capable of displaying an image, and said image being renderable in a plurality of rotation degrees upon said display upon a command is described. A method of rotating an image, said image further comprising at least one member of a group, said group comprising text and images capable of being sub-pixel rendered, comprises the steps: sub-pixel rendering said at least one member of a group with the inversion of a given rotation command; upon receipt of said rotation command, rotating said image.

Abstract: An array and row and column line architecture for a display is disclosed. The array consists of a plurality of row and column positions and a plurality of three-color pixel elements. A three-color pixel element can comprise a blue emitter, a pair of red emitters, and a pair of green emitters. Several designs for the three-color pixel element are contemplated. The drive matrix consists of a plurality of row and column drivers to drive the individual emitters. The row drivers drive the red, green and blue emitters in each row. The red and green emitters in each column are driven by a single column driver. However, a single column driver can drive two column lines of blue emitters, a first column line and a second column line of the next nearest neighboring three-color pixel element. Methods of driving a three-color pixel element are also disclosed.