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US20080298721A1
US20080298721A1 US12/128,383 US12838308A US2008298721A1 US 20080298721 A1 US20080298721 A1 US 20080298721A1 US 12838308 A US12838308 A US 12838308A US 2008298721 A1 US2008298721 A1 US 2008298721A1
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  • the invention relates to display technology, particularly to a apparatus and a method thereof.
  • a digital display device such as: liquid crystal display (LCD), plasma display panel (PDP), has gradually become the mainstream product in the market. And, in general, each of the panel has a native physical resolution. Furthermore, the resolution of an image signal outputted by a general video signal source, such as personal computer (PC), digital video disc/disk player (DVD Player), and so forth, may not be exactly equal to the native resolution of the panel. In other words, if a receiving circuit is applied in a LCD panel having 1280 ⁇ 1024 resolution, then the receiving circuit has to perform scaling up operation on the 640 ⁇ 480, 800 ⁇ 600, or 1024 ⁇ 768 image signal to match the native resolution of the panel of the digital display device.
  • PC personal computer
  • DVD Player digital video disc/disk player
  • an object of the invention is to provide an apparatus and a method thereof.
  • the detector and the method thereof can automatically detect the resolution of an input image and can adjust, such as scaling up or scaling down, the resolution of the input image when the resolution of the input image is not match to the native resolution of the panel so that the adjusted input image resolution is match to the native resolution of the flat panel display device. Then, correctly displaying the image on the display device can be achieved.
  • the apparatus comprises a front-end circuit, a back-end circuit and a determining unit.
  • the front-end circuit is used for fetching an image signal according to a determined mode to generate a fetched image signal, and for adjusting the determined mode according to a control signal.
  • the back-end circuit coupled to the front-end circuit, is used for processing the fetched image signal according to the determined mode, and for generating an indication signal when the back-end Circuit Occurs all abnormal status.
  • the determining unit coupled to the front-end circuit and the back-end circuit, is used for generating the control signal according to the indication signal indicating the determined mode needs to adjust.
  • One embodiment of the invention provides a method for detection mode for a display device.
  • the method comprises the following steps:
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram illustrating the apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 2A shows a schematic diagram illustrating the relevant image attribute parameters of the frame of a digital image data
  • FIG. 2B shows a schematic diagram illustrating the frame of an analog image data
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic diagram illustrating the vertical synchronization signal and the outputting synchronization signal according to one embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 4 shows a flow chart illustrating the method according to one embodiment of the invention.
  • the image signals outputted from various video signal sources are generated according to a specific specification and each image according to a specific specification has a specific resolution. And in order to facilitate the receiving circuit of the display device to be able to detect the resolution of the image signal when inputting the image signal, it is necessary to perform mode detection on the image signal.
  • the format of the image signal further comprises other control signals besides the image data.
  • a general video or image signal further comprises data, horizontal synchronization signal (HS), vertical synchronization signal (VS), data enable signal (DEN), and so forth. Therefore, when performing the mode detection according to one embodiment of the invention, a measuring method can be used to obtain the relevant parameters of the image signal and thus which supporting mode (what kind of resolution) that the input image signal belongs to can be known or determined. And, the measuring method can measure the frequency, the period, the bandwidth, or the polarity of the synchronization signal HS or VS; or the total clock (CK) counts used by the overall synchronization signal.
  • CK total clock
  • the embodiments of the invention is based on the flat panel display device, but with minor modifications, the technology of the invention is also applicable to various other display devices, such as curved surface display device, various possible forms of digital or analog display devices to be developed in future, or can even be applied in the display devices with variable physical resolution that may be developed in the future, without deviating from what is claimed for the invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows an apparatus 10 for mode detection for a display device and an interfacing circuit (IFC) that is coupled to the display device according to one embodiment of the invention.
  • the apparatus 10 may be applicable to a display device.
  • the apparatus 10 is for detecting the resolution of an image signal (IS) outputted from the video signal source.
  • the image signal (IS) can be a digital signal or an analog signal.
  • the image signal (IS) comprises a horizontal synchronization signal (HS), a vertical synchronization signal (VS), a clock signal (CK), a data enable signal (DEN), and image data (DA).
  • the image signal (IS) includes a horizontal synchronization signal (HS), a vertical synchronization signal (VS), a clock signal (CK), and image data (DA).
  • the apparatus 10 includes a front-end circuit 11 , a back-end circuit 12 , and a determining unit 13 .
  • the front-end circuit 11 fetches the image signal (IS) according to a determined mode to generate a fetched image signal (IS′), and adjusts the determined mode according to a control signal DT. Further, the front-end circuit 11 measures the image signal (IS) to produce at least one parameter (IF), and selects one of a plurality of modes as the determined mode according to the at least one parameter (IF). Furthermore, the front-end circuit 11 can also reselect the proper mode or adjusts the vertical resolution or the horizontal resolution of the current mode according to the control signal (DT).
  • the front-end circuit 11 comprises a measuring unit 111 , a mode detecting unit 112 , and a data fetching unit 113 .
  • the measuring unit 111 measures the horizontal synchronization signal (HS) or the vertical synchronization signal (VS), or the (HS) and the (VS) at the same time, to acquire the at least one parameter (IF).
  • the at least one parameter (IF) may comprise a start point of an active area of the image signal (IS), at least one of period of the synchronization signal, polarity of the synchronization signal, a frame width (Htotal) of the image signal, a frame height (Vtotal) of the image signal, or at least one of frequency, period, bandwidth, polarity, frame width, and a frame height, provided by the horizontal synchronization signal (HS) or the vertical synchronization signal (VS), or both of the (HS) and the (VS).
  • the mode detecting unit 112 selecting one of the plurality of the modes according to the at least one parameter (IF) generated by the measuring unit 111 to generate the determined mode. Thereafter, the mode detecting unit 112 generates a corresponding virtual (output) horizontal synchronization signal (HSi) and a corresponding virtual (output) vertical synchronization signal (VSi) according to the determined mode. Then, the data fetching unit 113 fetches the image signal (IS) according to the virtual (output) horizontal synchronization signal (HSi) and the virtual (output) vertical synchronization signal (VSi) to generate the fetched image signal (IS′).
  • the back-end circuit 12 coupled to the front-end circuit 11 , processes the fetched image signal (IS′) generated from the data fetching unit 113 according to the determined mode, sets the fetched image signal (IS′) to be properly scaled according to the current determined mode, and outputs a scaled and fetched image signal (IS′′) to the flat panel display device via the interface circuit (IFC).
  • the back-end circuit 12 generates an indication signal (FB), when the back-end circuit 12 occurs an abnormal status.
  • the back-end circuit 12 includes a buffer 121 and a scalar 122 .
  • the buffer 121 may be a line buffer.
  • the buffer 121 may be another current-existed or future-developed buffer.
  • the buffer 121 temporarily stores the fetched image signal (IS′), which usually is the pixel data for performing scaling process, and the above-mentioned abnormal status comprises an underflow or overflow state of the buffer 121 .
  • the scalar 122 is for scaling the fetched image signal (IS′) according to the scaling factor.
  • the scaling factor is the ratio of the resolution determined in the determined mode to the native resolution of the panel of the display device.
  • the determining unit 13 coupled to the front-end circuit and the back-end circuit, receives the indication signal (FB), and generates the control signal (DT) to the front-end circuit 11 according to the indication signal (FB) indicating the determined mode needs to adjust (such as the result of determining if the scaled and fetched image signal (IS′′) can be correctly displayed) to maintain the current mode or to select another suitable mode.
  • the control signal (DT) is inputted to the mode detecting unit 112 for assigning one of the pre-determined modes as the current mode or for changing the setting of the vertical resolution of the current mode.
  • the native resolution of a panel is 1280 ⁇ 1024.
  • the mode supported by the front-end circuit 11 comprises a first mode (640 ⁇ 480), a second mode (800 ⁇ 600), a third mode (1024 ⁇ 768), a fourth mode (1280 ⁇ 1024), a fifth mode (1280 ⁇ 768), and a sixth mode (1366 ⁇ 768).
  • the above-mentioned modes are commonly used modes, but the invention is not limited to the above-mentioned modes.
  • the modes having other resolution levels can all be utilized in other embodiments.
  • FIG. 2A shows the image attribute parameters relevant to a frame of a digital image data of the image signal (IS).
  • the frame comprises an active area (A) and a blank (or inactive) area (B).
  • the parameters relevant to a frame comprise a frame width (Htotal), a frame height (Vtotal), a horizontal start point (Hstart) of the active area, a vertical start point (Vstart) of the active area, an active area width (Hwidth), and an active area height (Vhight).
  • the horizontal synchronization signal (HS) comprises a front porch (FP), a horizontal data enabling area (H DEN ), and a back porch (BP).
  • the video signal source outputs the image signal (IS) to the apparatus 10 .
  • the measuring unit 111 of the apparatus 10 receives and measures the image signal (IS).
  • the measuring unit 111 measures the horizontal synchronization signal (HS) or the vertical synchronization signal (VS) of the image signal (IS) to derive the at least one parameter (IF) (pixel values, frequency, period, bandwidth, or polarity, etc.).
  • the measuring circuit 111 compares the parameter (IF) with a pre-determined value in a look-up-table (not shown in the figure) to derive a comparison result.
  • the measuring unit 11 may compare pixel values of the image signal (IS) with a predetermined value to determine a comparison result which is a start point of an active area of the image signal (IS). After that, according to the comparison result, the mode detecting unit 112 determines if the build-in modes can support the image signal (IS). For examples, the mode detecting unit 112 determines the image signal (IS) belongs to the second mode (800 ⁇ 600). Thus, the 800 ⁇ 600 resolution is utilized as the current determined mode. Therefore, according to the pre-determined horizontal and vertical resolution (800,600), the mode detecting unit 112 generates the corresponding virtual (output) horizontal and vertical synchronization signals (HSi, VSi). The data fetching unit 113 then receives the image signal (IS) according to HSi and VSi to generate the fetched image signal (IS′).
  • the pre-determined horizontal and vertical resolution 800,600
  • the mode detecting unit 112 generates the corresponding virtual (output) horizontal and vertical synchronization signals (HSi, VSi).
  • the measuring unit 111 may measure at least one of period of the horizontal synchronization signal (HS) of the image signal (IS) only and determine the possible resolution of the image signal (IS) according to the period data of the horizontal synchronization signal (HS).
  • HS horizontal synchronization signal
  • the determined resolution of the image signal (IS) can be more accurate.
  • the measuring unit 111 may be implemented by a counter. The counter counts the interval between two horizontal synchronization signal (HS) pulses according to a clock (such as: a free-running clock, a pixel clock of the image signal (IS), or any clock selected from the internal clocks).
  • the apparatus 10 has already detected the mode of the image signal (IS) according to the descriptions up to now.
  • the front-end circuit 11 in order to receive the image signal (IS) more accurately to have the display device display the image more precisely, can perform the measurement and processing of the start point of the active area of the frame of the image signal (IS), that is, the horizontal start point (Hstart) and the vertical start point (Vstart).
  • the measuring un it 111 determines a horizontal start point (Hstart) and/or a vertical start point (Vstart) of the active area of the frame of the image signal (IS) according to the data enable signal (H DEN ), so that the data fetching unit 113 may fetch the image signal (IS) according to the start point (Hstart and Vstart).
  • the measuring unit 111 compares each pixel values of the image signal (IS) with a pre-determined value to determine a start point of an active area of the image signal, that is, a horizontal start point (Hstart) and a vertical start point (Vstart), and supplies to the data fetching unit 113 for fetching the image signal (IS).
  • a start point of an active area of the image signal that is, a horizontal start point (Hstart) and a vertical start point (Vstart
  • the comparison between the pixel and the pre-determined value can be determined by utilizing the pixel brightness value. It is assumed that the pixel brightness in the active area A is larger than the pre-determined value 16 and the pixel brightness in the blank area B is less than the pre-determined value 16.
  • the measuring unit 111 scans each pixel of the frame of the image signal (IS), one by one from left to right and from top to down, and compares the brightness value of each pixel with the pre-determined value 16. Then, the position of the first pixel, having a brightness value larger than 16 and being closest to the top of the frame while scanning, is the vertical start point (Vstart) of the active area. The position of the first pixel, having a brightness value larger than 16 and being closest to the left of the frame while scanning, is the horizontal start point (Hstart) of the active area.
  • Vstart vertical start point
  • Hstart horizontal start point
  • the start point of the active area (A) of the frame can be found by such a method.
  • the buffer 121 receives and temporarily stores the fetched image signal (IS′). Since the native resolution of the panel is 1280 ⁇ 1024, the scalar 122 sets the fetched image signal (IS′) according to the second mode (800 ⁇ 600) correspondingly by scaling up the fetched image signal (IS′) properly to match the 1280 ⁇ 1024 resolution of the panel, and outputs the scaled and fetched image signal (IS′′) to the panel via the interface circuit (IFC) for displaying the image.
  • the scalar 122 sets the fetched image signal (IS′) according to the second mode (800 ⁇ 600) correspondingly by scaling up the fetched image signal (IS′) properly to match the 1280 ⁇ 1024 resolution of the panel, and outputs the scaled and fetched image signal (IS′′) to the panel via the interface circuit (IFC) for displaying the image.
  • the back-end circuit 12 will detect that the active area (A′) of the determined 800 ⁇ 600 resolution surpasses the next vertical synchronization signal (VS) during the processing process, as shown in FIG. 3 .
  • the data fetching unit 113 will stop fetching data when detecting the pulse of the next vertical synchronization signal (VS). Thereby, the buffer 121 does not contain sufficient image data and underflow phenomenon (A) will happen.
  • Such an erroneous displaying phenomenon is an underflow phenomenon that happens when the determined vertical resolution is larger than the actual vertical resolution of the image signal.
  • the back-end circuit 12 generates the indication signal (FB) to the determining unit 13 according to the above-mentioned underflow status. Then, the determining unit 13 generates a control signal (DT) to the measuring unit 111 according to the data provided in indication signal (FB) to have the mode detecting unit 112 adjust the current determined mode to the first mode (640 ⁇ 480) so that the data fetching unit 113 can correctly fetch the image signal (IS).
  • a control signal DT
  • an approximate mode can be selected or the vertical resolution of the mode is modified directly for usage.
  • the incorrect modes can be excluded directly and the closer second mode (800 ⁇ 600) is searched directly so that the processing can be speeded up. If the underflow phenomenon still happens under the second mode (800 ⁇ 600), then it is learned that the 800 ⁇ 600 resolution is still incorrect and the next mode will be searched (that is, the first mode (640 ⁇ 480)) until the correct resolution is found.
  • the measuring unit 111 can be utilized to directly measure the clock (CK) Count required by the data enable area of the horizontal synchronization signal (HS). If the clock count is 1280, the 1280 ⁇ 768 mode is selected and vice versa.
  • FIG. 4 shows the flow chart of a method for detection mode for a display according to one embodiment of the invention.
  • the method applicable to a display device, comprises the following steps:
  • Step S 402 start;
  • Step S 404 receiving an image signal comprising an input horizontal synchronization signal and an input vertical synchronization signal;
  • Step S 406 selecting one of a plurality of predetermined modes according to the at least one parameter to generate a selected (determined) mode, where the pre-determined modes may be predetermined or provided by a look-up-table or a hardware circuit or software according to the related information of the image signal;
  • Step S 408 processing the image signal according to the selected mode.
  • Step S 410 generating a control signal to adjust the selected mode when the step of processing occurs an abnormal state, wherein the abnormal state may comprise an overflow or underflow phenomenon.
  • the image signal may further comprise a data enable signal and the method may further comprise the step of determining a horizontal start point (H-start) and a vertical start point (V-start) of the active area of a frame of the image data according to the data enable signal, wherein the at least one parameter comprises the horizontal start point (H-start) and the vertical start point (V-start).
  • the method may further comprise the step of determining a horizontal start point (H-start) and a vertical start point (V-start) of the active area of a frame of the image data.
  • the Step S 408 may comprise the steps of temporarily storing image data of the image signal, and scaling the image data to generate a scaled image data according to the selected mode.
  • the method may further comprise a step of fetching the image signal according to the determined mode to produce a fetched image signal to be processed by the step 408 .
  • the method may further comprise a step of generating an indication signal according to a state of the step of processing by the step 408 .
  • the step S 406 further comprises the step of measuring the image signal to produce at least one parameter; comparing the at least one parameter with a predetermined value; and selecting one of the plurality of the modes according to the comparison result.
  • the mode detector and the method thereof according to the invention are able to detect the resolution of the image signal automatically when inputting the image signal. Furthermore, because the embodiments of the invention use the back-end circuit to process feedback control, the apparatus and the method thereof can correctly determine the mode of the image signal (IS) without referencing the related information of the image signal (IS).

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