Dither Or Halftone Patents (Class 345/596)
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Patent number: 12211884Abstract: A micro-LED display device mainly has a plurality of pixel areas arranged in matrix and a driving circuit. Each pixel area has a plurality of sub-pixel areas arranged adjacent to each other. In a first driving mode, the driving circuit enables the rows of pixel areas in sequence. When one of rows of pixel areas is enabled, the driving circuit controls one sub-pixel area of each pixel area on the enabled row of pixel areas to display an image color. In a second driving mode, the rows of pixel areas are also enabled in sequence. When one of rows of pixel area is enabled, the driving circuit drives all sub-pixel areas of each pixel area on the enabled row of pixel area to synchronously display the same image color. Therefore, a high-brightness requirement is met, and the overall power consumption is not increased.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: PLAYNITRIDE DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yun-Li Li, Kuan-Yung Liao
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Patent number: 12126816Abstract: Techniques to provide compression and/or decompression. A method includes obtaining a first set of control points specifying a first set of compression ratios corresponding to respective first regions of a compression domain, and minimum and maximum uncompressed values within the compression domain. The method can further include scaling the first set of control points based on the minimum and maximum uncompressed values to obtain a scaled set of control points, wherein a first scaled control point is located at the minimum uncompressed value, and a last scaled control point is located at the maximum uncompressed value. The method can further include adjusting at least one scaled control point such that a first slope does not exceed 1. The method can further include compressing or decompressing between the compression domain and a range of compressed values, wherein a respective compression ratio corresponds to a respective slope of the set of slopes.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: BAE Systems Imaging Solutions Inc.Inventors: Chien-Horn Lu, Mark Hess, William G. Tian, Angel Lopez, Edmond Tam
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Patent number: 12040157Abstract: In a writing process in a charged-particle multi-beam apparatus, a desired pattern is written onto a target wherein said desired pattern is provided as input pattern data (INPDAT) in a vector format and processed through a pattern data processing flow. A data preprocessing system receives the input pattern data (INPDAT) and preprocesses the input pattern data independently of the writing process, preferably in advance to it, using writing parameter data provided to the data preprocessing system, and writes the intermediate pattern data (IMDAT) thus obtained to a data storage. When a writing process is carried out using the apparatus, its writing control system reads the intermediate pattern data from the data storage, converts them into pattern streaming data (SBUF), and streams the pattern streaming data to the apparatus for writing the pattern to the target.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: IMS Nanofabrication GmbHInventors: Elmar Platzgummer, Christoph Spengler, Michael Haberler
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Patent number: 12026861Abstract: Methods and systems include determining an upper boundary of brightness values of high-dynamic range image content. Using the determined upper boundary, end points of bins of histogram values are determined. Using the determined end points of the bins of histogram values, luma values are allocated to the bins. The high-dynamic range image content is processed based at least in part on the allocations to the bins. Image data including the processed high-dynamic range image content is displayed via an electronic display.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mahesh B. Chappalli, Alexey Kornienko
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Patent number: 12014528Abstract: An optical device includes an optical sensor, one or more diffusive optical elements disposed on a surface of a display screen and configured to diffuse and to distribute a first portion of light associated with a subject across an array of sensor elements of the optical sensor, and one or more processors. The display screen includes one or more transmissive components that allow the first portion of light to pass through the display screen via the surface of the display screen, and one or more blocking components that prevent a second portion of light associated with the subject from passing through the display screen. The one or more processors are configured to obtain, from the optical sensor, sensor data associated with the first portion of light, process the sensor data to determine an image of the subject, and perform one or more actions based on the image of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: VIAVI Solutions Inc.Inventor: William D. Houck
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Patent number: 11915391Abstract: Examples described herein include a graphics processing apparatus that includes a memory device and a display engine coupled to the memory device. The display engine is configured to apply dither on a region of an image and modify a first pixel of an image stored in the memory based on pseudo-random noise to reduce color banding impressions. In some examples, the pseudo-random noise is based on one or more of: local brightness estimation and one or more prior noise levels. In some examples, the display engine is to determine the local brightness estimation based on an average brightness of a pixel region surrounding the first pixel and the first pixel. In some examples, the display engine is configured to bound the pseudo-random noise based on a noise applied to a pixel in a same position as that of the first pixel in a prior frame within a same scene.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Susanta Bhattacharjee, Perazhi Sameer Kalathil, Kishore Nedunuri, Darshan N
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Patent number: 11790831Abstract: Active control of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and LED packages within LED displays is disclosed. LED packages are disclosed that include a plurality of LED chips that form at least one LED pixel for an LED display or an LED panel. Each LED package may include an active electrical element that is configured to receive a control signal and actively maintain an operating state, such as brightness or grey level while other LED packages are being addressed. Active electrical elements are disclosed that are configured to provide both forward and reverse bias states to LEDs to detect adverse operating conditions including reverse leakage and deviations to forward voltage levels. LED packages are also disclosed that may self-configure based on the manner in which various input or output lines are connected.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: CreeLED, Inc.Inventor: Christopher P. Hussell
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Patent number: 11694601Abstract: Active control of LEDs, LED packages, and related LED displays by way of pulse wide modulation (PWM) is disclosed. Effective PWM frequencies for LEDs are increased by segmenting duty cycles in which LEDs are electrically activated within individual PWM periods. Segmented duty cycles may be provided by transforming or re-ordering a sequence in which control signals are provided to LEDs. As such, LEDs may be electrically activated and deactivated multiple times within each PWM period. Active electrical elements that are incorporated into one or more LED packages of an LED display may be capable of segmenting the duty cycle within each LED package. Active electrical elements may also be capable of receiving reset signals from a data stream to either initiate a reset action or pass the reset signals along to other active electrical elements of a display.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: CreeLED, Inc.Inventor: Christopher P. Hussell
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Patent number: 11671596Abstract: Methods and device for encoding/decoding data representative of depth of a 3D scene. The depth data are quantized in a range of quantized depth values larger than a range of encoding values allowed by a determined encoding bit depth. For blocks of pixels comprising the depth data, a first set of candidate quantization parameters is determined. A second set of quantization parameters is determined as a subset of the union of the first sets. The second set comprising candidate quantization parameters common to a plurality of blocks. One or more quantization parameters of the second set being associated with each block of pixels of the picture. The second set of quantization parameters is encoded, and the quantized depth values are encoded according to the quantization parameters.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Julien Fleureau, Renaud Dore, Franck Thudor, Thierry Tapie
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Patent number: 11386532Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may receive a video including a sequence of frames. The computing system may access a three-dimensional mask that specifies pixel-sampling locations, the three-dimensional mask having a first dimension and a second dimension corresponding to a spatial domain and a third dimension corresponding to a temporal domain. Blue noise property may be present in the pixel-sampling locations that are associated with each of a plurality of two-dimensional spatial slices of the three-dimensional mask in the spatial domain and the pixel-sampling locations that are associated with each of a plurality of one-dimensional temporal slices of the three-dimensional mask in the temporal domain. The computing system may generate a sample of the video by sampling the sequence of frames using the three-dimensional mask.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.Inventors: Todd Goodall, Anton S Kaplanyan, Anjul Patney, Jamorn Sriwasansak, Thomas Sebastian Leimkuhler
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Patent number: 11263956Abstract: An LED display system has and LED display panel coupled to a driver circuitry. The driver circuitry includes a scrambled PWM generator, a register, and a memory. The scrambled PWM generator receives an image data from an external source and, after certain compensations, is sent to a scramble PWM generator to be distributed according to a new set of rules that involves a compensation image data K. Image data K can be an empirical value or obtained according a formula using coefficients p and q, which can be obtained by calibration.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SCT LTD.Inventors: Eric Li, Yi Zhang, Shang-Kuan Tang, Shean-Yih Chiou
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Patent number: 11244591Abstract: A gamma correction method applied to a display screen to be debugged includes: for a color of the display screen to be debugged, arranging a plurality of reference points, arranging at least one transition point between two adjacent reference points, and obtaining a brightness adjustment curve representing a corresponding relationship between a brightness adjustment value and a gamma band according to the plurality of reference points and the at least one transition point. Each gamma band represents a set of register values corresponding to gray scales of the color at the brightness adjustment value corresponding to the gamma band.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yong Yu, Chang Zhang, Renjie Ding, Chuanyan Lan
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Patent number: 11217173Abstract: A display system includes a host device, a display controller, and a display panel. The display panel includes a pixel array including a plurality of subpixels each including a light-emitting display element and a reflective display element. The host device sends image data DT0 to the display controller. The display controller has the following functions: color classification of the image data DT0; generation of attribute data based on the classification result; generation of image data DT1 from the image data DT0; generation of two kinds of image data DT2_e and DT2_r through image processing of the image data DT1 in accordance with the attribute data; generation of image data DT3_e from the image data DT2_e; and generation of image data DT3_r from the image data DT2_r. The image data DT3_e is displayed by the light-emitting display element, and the image data DT3_r is displayed by the reflective display element.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Inventor: Yuki Okamoto
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Patent number: 11188779Abstract: Processing a dithered image comprising a grid of pixels including defining an array of pixels corresponding to a sub-region of the image; performing edge detection along the rows and the columns of the array; counting the number of edges detected along the rows of the array to determine the number of horizontal edges in the array; counting the number of edges detected along the columns of the array to determine the number of vertical edges in the array; identifying whether the sub-region is dithered based on the number of horizontal and vertical edges in the array; and selectively processing the corresponding sub-region of the image based on whether or not the sub-region is identified to be dithered. The identification step may also be based on the lengths of segments of similar pixels in the lines of the array.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: I.R.I.S.Inventors: Brecht Milis, Michel Dauw, Frédéric Collet
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Patent number: 11138428Abstract: According to the invention, an image sensor is disclosed. The image sensor may include a plurality of pixels. Each pixel of a first portion of the plurality of pixels may include a near-infrared filter configured to block red, green, and blue light; and pass near-infrared light. Each pixel of a second portion of the plurality of pixels may be configured to receive at least one of red, green, or blue light; and receive near-infrared light.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Tobii ABInventors: Mårten Skogö, Peter Blixt, Henrik Jönsson
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Patent number: 11094289Abstract: An adjustment is performed on input gradation values, and 1st-stage gradation values are obtained. When a color expressed by a set of the input gradation values is a single color of any one of R, G, and B, the 1st-stage gradation value is set to 0. Further, correction is performed for R, G, and B according to one-dimensional lookup tables, respectively, and correction is performed for W according to one-dimensional lookup tables. Further, a contribution amount of the gradation values obtained through correction of the former and the gradation values obtained through correction of the latter to output gradation values is changed according to a color expressed by a set of the 1st-stage gradation values.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shogo Tanaka, Kazuhiro Ishiguchi
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Patent number: 11079597Abstract: A graphics processing system for a head mounted display (or other non-standard projection display) comprises a low latency distortion unit which is separate from a graphics processing unit in the graphics processing system. The low latency distortion unit receives pixel data generated by the graphics processing system using a standard projection and performs a mapping operation to introduce distortion which is dependent upon the optical properties of the optical arrangement within the head mounted display. The distorted pixel data which is generated by the low latency distortion unit is then output to the display in the head mounted display.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Imagination Technologies LimitedInventor: Simon Fenney
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Patent number: 10984506Abstract: An image anti-aliasing method comprises following steps: receiving an aliasing image; wherein the aliasing image includes a plurality of source pixels; generating a plurality of hash values corresponding to the plurality of source pixels respectively; and performing a filtering processing or a filter generating procedure on the aliasing image according to the plurality of hash values. Each of the plurality of hash values is generated by the following steps: selecting one source pixel from the aliasing image and selecting a window containing the selected source pixel; determining an aliasing strength according to the grayscale values of all the source pixels of a row and a column at which the selected source pixel is located in the window; and determining a hash value of the selected source pixel according to the aliasing strength.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: GLENFLY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Feifei Yang, Weiman Kong
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Patent number: 10957016Abstract: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method practicable with the apparatus for extracting coordinates of brightness maxima from image data. The apparatus and method are particularly suitable for processing image data of a super-resolution localization microscope.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: SURFACE CONCEPT GmbHInventors: Dmitry Valdaitsev, Andreas Oelsner
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Patent number: 10748477Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a compensation method of a display device and the display device having a compensation value storage unit, and more particularly, to a method of performing the compensation by changing a compensation density for pixels included in the display device, and the display device having a storage unit for storing a compensation value for performing the method. According to the present disclosure, the compensation method is provided that includes dividing a display panel into a foveated area and a non-foveated area; performing high-density compensation for a plurality of pixels in the foveated area; and performing low-density compensation for a plurality of pixels in the non-foveated area.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dongwon Park, HeeJung Hong, JoonHee Lee, Seungjin Yoo, YongChul Kwon
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Patent number: 10679329Abstract: A signal processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires input data and detection target data, a noise strength setting unit that sets a noise strength K used to a predetermined stochastic resonance processing and a stochastic resonance processing unit that performs the predetermined stochastic resonance processing and outputs processed data. The predetermined stochastic resonance processing is a processing based on a formula in which processed data J(x) is represented by I(x), the noise strength K and the threshold value T and the processed data J(x) corresponds to a result in a case where M is infinite in the following formula, J ? ( x ) = 1 M ? ? m = 1 M ? j ? ( x , m ) . The noise strength setting unit sets the noise strength based on a function of a correlation coefficient between the result of the predetermined stochastic resonance processing and the detection target data and the noise strength K.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Wakako Tanaka, Shinjiro Hori, Tetsuya Suwa, Tomokazu Ishikawa
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Patent number: 10574858Abstract: Threshold values in a dither matrix are arranged such that, in a case when screen processing is executed on a multi-tone image that has a first density, halftone dots are formed at a first screen angle, and, in a case when screen processing is executed on a multi-tone image that has a density being higher than a second density that is higher than the first density, halftone dots are formed at a second screen angle that is different from the first screen angle.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Taiki Tezuka
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Patent number: 10515453Abstract: An image processing apparatus counts at least one of the number of pixels having an identical color to a target pixel, the number of pixels having a similar color to the target pixel, and the number of pixels having a different color from the target pixel in a target window, and determines an attribute of the target pixel based on a result of the counting.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hitoshi Kakuta
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Patent number: 10475402Abstract: A liquid crystal driving apparatus includes a driver configured to form a gradation in the pixel based on each gradation value in the plurality of sub-frame image data by sequentially controlling an application of a first voltage and an application of a second voltage lower than the first voltage for the plurality of pixels in each of a plurality of sub-field periods contained in one frame period. Where an input gradation value is defined as the gradation value of the input frame image data, the image data generator generates a first sub-frame image data having a first gradation value higher than the input gradation value and a second sub-frame image data having a second gradation value lower than the input gradation value as at least the plurality of sub-frame image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ikunari Nakahara
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Patent number: 10432891Abstract: A display system for a vehicle includes a head-up display unit operable to display at a display area information that is viewable by a driver of the equipped vehicle when the driver is normally operating the equipped vehicle. When not displaying images at the display area but when the head-up display unit projects some light, there is a postcard effect at the display area. The head-up display unit includes a display screen and a compensation film that attenuates light passing through the display screen to reduce the postcard effect at the display area of the equipped vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Horst H. Rumpf, Brian D. Brasier
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Patent number: 10403192Abstract: Devices and methods for error diffusion and spatiotemporal dithering are provided. By way of example, a method of operating a display includes receiving a pixel input, a set of pixel coordinates, and a current frame number. A kernel and a particular kernel bit of the kernel is selected from a set of kernels, based upon the pixel input, the pixel coordinates, the frame number, or any combination thereof. A dithered output is determined based at least in part upon the kernel bit. When the display is in a diamond pixel configuration, the dithered output is applied in accordance with a diamond pattern formed by red, blue, or red and blue pixel channels.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marc Albrecht, Mahesh B. Chappalli, Christopher P. Tann, Jim C. Chou, Guy Cote
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Patent number: 10377624Abstract: Among other things, one or more systems and/or techniques for labeling a refill contain and/or for enabling operation of the refill container by a dispensing system based upon one or more indicia of the label satisfying a dispensing key are provided. In an example, a label may be applied to a refill container. The label may comprise a first region having a first indicia that may correspond to a shape, color, and/or texture (e.g., a yellow star indicia). A dispensing system may enable operation of the refill container (e.g., installation and/or dispensing of material from the refill container) based upon the first indicia satisfying a dispensing key (e.g., a yellow key component and/or a star shape component). Otherwise, the dispensing system does not enable operation of the refill container (e.g., the refill container is not genuine or is not an appropriate refill container type).Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: GOJO Industries, Inc.Inventors: Jackson William Wegelin, Chip W. Curtis
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Patent number: 10368044Abstract: Systems and methods of rendering DCI-compliant image data on Enhanced Dynamic Range (EDR) display systems are disclosed. One embodiment of an EDR projector system comprises a first modulator and a second modulator. One method for rendering DCI-compliant image data on an EDR projector system comprises: receiving input image data, said image data comprising a plurality of image formats; determining whether the input image data comprises DCI image data; if the input image data comprises DCI image data, then performing dynamic range (DR) processing on the DCI image data; and rendering the dynamic range processed DCI image data on the EDR projector system. One DR processing method is to set the first modulator to a desired luminance level—e.g., fully ON or a ratio of DCI max luminance to the EDR max luminance. In addition, a desired minimum level of luminance may be set for the EDR projector.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2014Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Martin J. Richards, Douglas J. Gorny
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Patent number: 10360843Abstract: Disclosed is an OLED PWM pixel driving method. The method comprises: slicing a frame of image into a plurality of subfields different in weight, and splitting a subfield having a higher weight thereamong into secondary subfields in a predetermined splitting ratio; and rearranging the split secondary subfields from the subfield having a higher weight and non-split subfields according to an input image and the predetermined splitting ratio in order to eliminate an image display error.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventor: Mingfeng Chen
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Patent number: 10341622Abstract: Smaller halftone tiles are implemented on a first modulator of a dual modulation projection system. This techniques uses multiple halftones per frame in the pre-modulator synchronized with a modified bit sequence in the primary modulator to effectively increase the number of levels provided by a given tile size in the halftone modulator. It addresses the issue of reduced contrast ratio at low light levels for small tile sizes and allows the use of smaller PSFs which reduce halo artifacts in the projected image and may be utilized in 3D projecting and viewing.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Martin J. Richards, Jerome Shields
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Patent number: 10319279Abstract: This application relates to performing certain dithering processes to eliminate display artifacts such as flicker, which can be caused by charge accumulation at the display. The dither process can be performed by a display controller that uses a group lookup method for identifying groups of dithering patterns that can be combined to expand a number of color values available to the display. The dither process can also be performed as a temporal process that incorporates groups of dithering patterns into frames and shifts a spatial arrangement of the groups of dithering patterns over a sequence of frames. Additionally, the dither process can incorporate counters that count the number of times a particular spatial arrangement of dithering patterns has been used in a sequence of frames in order that each spatial arrangement of dithering patterns will share an average count with other spatial arrangements over a sequence of frames.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chaohao Wang, Paolo Sacchetto, Sheng Zhang, Yang Li, Myung-Je Cho, Marc Albrecht
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Patent number: 10283041Abstract: A display apparatus time-divisionally expresses gradation values allocated to the sub-frames so that the gradation value of the single frame is expressed by a total of the gradation values of the sub-frames. Each of the plurality of sub-frames includes a plurality of weighted elements with different gradation values to express the gradation values by powers of two. A lighting controller performs control such that the weighted elements in at least one of the plurality of sub-frames in one frame are aligned in an order different from an order of the weighted elements in at least one of the plurality of sub-frames in another frame and, of the plurality of weighted elements in at least one of the plurality of sub-frames in the single frame, the weighted element at the end of the timeline turns OFF a corresponding one of the light emitting elements.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventor: Makoto Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10269276Abstract: Provided are a timing controller and a display device including the same. The timing controller in one embodiment includes a bit selecting unit, an error calculating unit, and a dithering unit. The bit selecting unit is configured to fix an m bit data value of n+m bit input image data for a plurality of subpixels as a fixed data value, where n and m are integers. The error calculating unit is configured to calculate an error between the fixed data value fixed by the bit selecting unit and the m bit data value of the input image data before fixed by the bit selecting unit. The dithering unit is configured to generate n bit output image data dithered to correct the error.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: KyungJoon Kwon, SeongGyun Kim, Cheon Heo, ByeongHyeon Na
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Patent number: 10257477Abstract: Smaller halftone tiles are implemented on a first modulator of a dual modulation projection system. This techniques uses multiple halftones per frame in the pre-modulator synchronized with a modified bit sequence in the primary modulator to effectively increase the number of levels provided by a given tile size in the halftone modulator. It addresses the issue of reduced contrast ratio at low light levels for small tile sizes and allows the use of smaller PSFs which reduce halo artifacts in the projected image and may be utilized in 3D projecting and viewing.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Martin J. Richards, Jerome Shields
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Patent number: 10127869Abstract: A timing controller for a display apparatus includes a polarity comparison part and a compensation part. The polarity comparison part compares a first polarity of a first data voltage with a second polarity of a second data voltage, the first data voltage corresponding to a first pixel in a first frame and generated based on a first gamma voltage, the second data voltage corresponding to the first pixel in a second frame and generated based on a second gamma voltage. The compensation part compensates the second data voltage based on a first look-up table, if the first polarity is the same as the second polarity, and compensates the second data voltage based on a second look-up table, if the first polarity is different from the second polarity.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong-Hwa Shin, Jung-Won Kim, Gi-Geun Kim, Jae-Sung Bae, Nam-Gon Choi, Bong-Gyun Kang
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Touch screen display device and driving method for correcting touch position based on image shifting
Patent number: 10088953Abstract: A touch screen display device includes: an image corrector configured to generate second image data based on first image data and to generate a second lookup table based on a positional relationship between a first pixel driven corresponding to predetermined data in the first image data and a second pixel driven corresponding to the predetermined data in the second image data; a data driver configured to generate a data signal based on the second image data; a display panel comprising pixels configured to emit light with a brightness corresponding to the data signal; and a processor configured to correct a second touch position on the second pixel to a first touch position on the first pixel based on the second lookup table.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Jin Woo Noh, Jun Gyu Lee -
Patent number: 10089951Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a first pixel, and a panel driver to generate a first data voltage based on a first or second gamma, to output the first data voltage to the first pixel, to generate a second data voltage based on a third or fourth gamma, and to output the second data voltage to the first pixel, wherein the first and second gammas are based on a first reference gamma, and the third and fourth gammas are based on a second reference gamma different from the first reference gamma, wherein a luminance of an image based on the first or second gammas is higher than a luminance of an image based on the first reference gamma, and wherein a data voltage based on the first gamma has a positive polarity, and a data voltage based on the second gamma has a negative polarity.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyang-A Park, Cheol-Woo Park, Seung-Hwan Park
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Patent number: 9870732Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus includes a first data line, a comparator, and a data generator. The first data line is connected to a first pixel. The comparator compares first image data of input image data to at least one of a first critical grayscale value or a second critical grayscale value, where the first image data corresponds to the first pixel. The data generator determines the first critical grayscale value or the second critical grayscale value as first corrected image data when the first image data is equal to or greater than the first critical grayscale value but lower than the second critical grayscale value.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seungho Park, Baekwoon Lee
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Patent number: 9841877Abstract: Various embodiments provide a method for determining color information for an image. For example, a color descriptor for an image can be determined and compared against color descriptors stored for each of a number of sample images, which each represent a color in a color space. Upon comparison, matching scores can be generated for a color match between the image and each respective sample image. In this example, the number of sample images with a matching score above a threshold value can be summed and the image can be assigned to a color associated with a highest frequency of the number of sample images. Accordingly, the assigned color of the image can then be used in a “query by color” search or a browse-by-color capability.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: A9.com, Inc.Inventors: Himanshu Arora, Arnab Sanat Kumar Dhua
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Patent number: 9760994Abstract: The capture and alignment of multiple 3D scenes is disclosed. Three dimensional capture device data from different locations is received thereby allowing for different perspectives of 3D scenes. An algorithm uses the data to determine potential alignments between different 3D scenes via coordinate transformations. Potential alignments are evaluated for quality and subsequently aligned subject to the existence of sufficiently high relative or absolute quality. A global alignment of all or most of the input 3D scenes into a single coordinate frame may be achieved. The presentation of areas around a particular hole or holes takes place thereby allowing the user to capture the requisite 3D scene containing areas within the hole or holes as well as part of the surrounding area using, for example, the 3D capture device. The new 3D captured scene is aligned with existing 3D scenes and/or 3D composite scenes.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Matterport, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Bell, David Gausebeck
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Patent number: 9743055Abstract: For an example method of reducing diffraction artifacts in a displayed image from a digital image projection system, a digital controller is coupled to a spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator includes a two dimensional array of pixels. The method includes receiving signals containing pixel image data and processing the pixel image data to determine a desired gray scale for a pixel. The desired gray scale is compared to achievable gray scales of the digital image projection system. An upper bounding achievable gray scale is determined, and a lower bounding achievable gray scale is determined. Also, a dithering percentage for the desired gray scale is determined. The method chooses one of the upper bounding achievable gray scale and the lower bounding achievable gray scale. Also, a modified lower bounding gray scale is chosen to reduce the dithering percentage.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventor: Jeffrey Matthew Kempf
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Patent number: 9732926Abstract: An illumination system includes: a light irradiation unit that projects light toward a predetermined illumination area; an image acquisition unit that acquires an image of the illumination area; an object detecting unit that detects a shading object based on image information of the illumination area, acquired by the image acquisition unit; an information generating unit that generates the control information for setting each of the plurality of reflecting mirrors to an on state or an off state such that a plurality of irradiation patterns are alternately irradiated, each of the plurality of irradiation patterns having different arrangement of the dark pixels and the light pixels from each other; and an irradiation control unit that controls the light irradiation unit based on the generated control information.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeyoshi Hiratsuka, Toshihiko Tsukada, Shin-ichi Kojima, Nobuyuki Shiraki, Keiichi Shimaoka, Kazuya Asaoka, Sho Masuda
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Patent number: 9710476Abstract: In an example of an embodiment of the invention, a repeating pattern is identified within stored data comprising a plurality of data files, each data file comprising at least a header section and a data section stored in an unknown format. At least one occurrence of the repeating pattern is identified as a header section of a respective data file, and a data section of the respective data file is identified based, at least in part, on a location of the at least one occurrence of the repeating pattern. The identified data section of the respective data file is backed up. Systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: FalconStor, Inc.Inventor: Wai Lam
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Patent number: 9628782Abstract: A method of operating an autostereoscopic display, the autostereoscopic display device comprising a switchable aperture array and a screen, the method comprising: displaying a portion of an image on the screen for a first period of time; and using the switchable aperture array to restrict to a second period of time the time for which a portion of the image is wholly or partly visible; wherein the second period of time is less than the first period of time in order to increase the bandwidth of the autostereoscopic display.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: SETRED ASInventors: Christian Moller, Doug Patterson, Thomas Ericson
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Patent number: 9620064Abstract: A method and system are provided for compensating for brightness changes in a display having an array of display pixels. The method includes storing a plurality of look-up tables, where each table has a plurality of brightness signals that provide compensation for a brightness change when the refresh rate is changed during a panel self-refresh. The method also includes using display control circuitry to determine the refresh rate associated with an input signal and to determine a compensation based on the refresh rate. The display control circuitry may, for example, use non-linear interpolation to generate a look-up table for the refresh rate. The display control circuitry may adjust the input signal based on the look-up table to produce an output signal that compensates for a brightness change at the refresh rate. The output signal may be transmitted to the array of display pixels.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marc Albrecht, Christopher Philip Alan Tann, Nicholas G. Roland, Sandro H. Pintz, Taesung Kim
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Patent number: 9489602Abstract: An image forming apparatus, method, and system are disclosed. The apparatus includes first and second image forming sections; a selector that selects one of a first halftone screen for a first printing mode in which the first image forming section forms a first image on the print medium, and a second halftone screen for a second printing mode in which the first image forming section forms the first image on the print medium and the second image forming section forms a second image on the first image so that the first image and the second image are printed one over the other. The first and second halftone screens include respective first and second numbers of raster lines per unit, the first halftone screen and the second halftone screen being different in the number of raster lines; a controller; and a discharging section.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: OKI DATA CORPORATIONInventor: Yasushi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9453766Abstract: A management system includes labels disposed on a management target at respective positions different from each other each of the labels including display parts, the display parts changing respective colors depending on different levels of temperature or humidity, the display parts changing coloring positions depending on the level; an image obtaining unit outputting image data indicating an image of the labels captured by the imaging device; an image processing part performing first or second image processing, the first image processing transforming the image data so that a difference in a number of pixels corresponding to each of the labels among the labels in image data after the transformation is less than that before the transformation, the second image processing recognizing an image of the display parts; and a level detector detecting the level of temperature or humidity based on brightness information of pixels corresponding to the display parts.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kazushi Uno, Fumio Takei, Takeo Kasajima, Hiroyuki Fukuda, Takahiro Arioka
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Patent number: 9330613Abstract: Uniformize afterimages caused by black insertion to each image when two types of images are alternately displayed. There are provided a left and right image alternate output unit, a mask pattern storage unit, a mask pattern selection counter, and a mask synthesizing unit. The left and right image alternate output unit alternately outputs two types of video frames. The mask pattern storage unit stores m mask patterns, wherein basic regions are defined in a pixel region of a liquid crystal panel, the pixel region has m pixels arrayed in a matrix, m is an even number equal to or greater than 4, the in mask patterns have different arrangements of mask pixels in the basic region, and the number of the mask pixels is an even number smaller than m and equal to or greater than 2.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2011Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: EIZO CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Ito
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Patent number: 9239697Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for a display multiplier. First image data is received for a first display device and second image data is received for a second display device, where the second display device has fewer scan lines than the first display device. A scan line of the second image data is duplicated and a display multiplier output stream is generated that includes a first scan line of the first image data, the scan line of the second image data, a second scan line of the first image data, and the duplicated scan line of the second image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Jacques Francois Mahe, Daniel Stewart Perrin, Raghvendra Purushottam Kamathankar
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Patent number: 9189987Abstract: A carry table generating method is provided for generating N dither carry tables, so as to dither N pixel blocks, wherein a size of the pixel block is N×N, and N is an integer greater than 1. The carry table generating method comprises the following steps: reading a plurality of basic tables from a memory, wherein the base tables are corresponding to a plurality of basic blocks, the number of the basic blocks is smaller than N, and the size of the basic blocks is smaller than the size of the pixel blocks; expanding the size of the basic tables by a first conversion procedure, and expanding the number of the basic blocks by a second conversion procedure; and generating the dither carry tables by using the expanded basic blocks.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventor: Chi-Cheng Chiang