WO1997044776A2 - Display device - Google Patents
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- G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
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- G09G5/00—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
- G09G5/36—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of a graphic pattern, e.g. using an all-points-addressable [APA] memory
- G09G5/39—Control of the bit-mapped memory
- G09G5/395—Arrangements specially adapted for transferring the contents of the bit-mapped memory to the screen
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- G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
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- G09G5/00—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
- G09G5/02—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the way in which colour is displayed
- G09G5/06—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the way in which colour is displayed using colour palettes, e.g. look-up tables
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- the invention relates to a display device, including
- expansion unit for expanding the image information item into a first and a second pixel drive item, which expansion unit has a general range of pixel drive values available from which it takes the first pixel drive item dependent on the image information item and a dependent range of pixel drive values available from which it takes the second pixel drive item dependent on the image information item, the dependent range being dependent on an actual pixel drive value of the first pixel drive item,
- a device of this kind is known from an article by P. Chesnais and W. Plesniak: "Color coding stereo pairs for non-interlaced display", published in 1988, pp. 114 to 118 of the proceedings of the SPIE volume 901 "Image Processing, Analysis, Measurement, and Quality" (G.W Hughes, P.E. Mantey, B.E. Rogowitz, editors).
- the device described in the cited publication generates a stereo pair, that is to say a first image for viewing by the right eye and a second image for viewing by the left eye.
- the display panel produces the light alternately for the right eye and the left eye.
- An image information item represents a light intensity for both eyes and serves as an index in a table of color pairs.
- a first component of the indexed color pair serves as the first pixel drive item for use in the image for the right eye and, the second component of this color pair serves as the second pixel drive item for use in the image for the left eye.
- the image information item is converted into the first pixel drive item.
- the content of the look-up table is replaced in the blanking interval between successive images.
- the image information item is converted into the second pixel drive item by means of the look-up table.
- the look-up table thus serves for converting the image information item alternately into the first and the second pixel drive item for the image for the right eye and the left eye, respectively.
- the information content of the image information item is less than the sum of the individual information content of the first and the second pixel drive item. 2
- the display device is characterized in that the display panel produces the first and the second pixel reproduction on a first and a second pixel which are direct neighbours.
- the correlation between the values of pixel drive items for neighbouring pixels is thus utilized.
- the amount of information required to control neighbouring pixels with minimum artefacts is less than the sum of the individual amounts of information required for individual driving of the pixels. Thus, on average less information is required per pixel.
- An embodiment of the display device is arranged to display successively a first and a second raster of image lines in a spatially interlaced fashion, the first and the second pixel being associated with the first and the second raster, respectively.
- the expansion unit in an embodiment of the display device includes look-up means for deriving a look-up signal from the image information item in conformity with a programmable relation, and also includes programming means for reprogramming the programmable relation between the display of the first and the second raster, the expansion unit forming the first and the second pixel drive item from the look-up signal in the same way, except for the reprogramming, before and after the reprogramming, respectively.
- the ample period of time elapsing between the generation of the first and the second pixel drive item is thus used to reprogram the look-up means. Thanks to the reprogramming, no additional hardware facilities are required for generating the two pixel drive items.
- the dependent range in an embodiment of the display device according to the invention is limited essentially to interpolated values, each interpolated between a respective pixel drive value from the general range and the concrete pixel drive value.
- the value of a part of the pixel drive items is obtained by interpolation between the values of neighbouring pixel drive items. This is the case, for example when an image is displayed on an image display panel suitable for a resolution higher than that specified for the image.
- Interpolation in the display device according to the invention corresponds to averaging. Therefore, in such an embodiment of the display device according to the invention each interpolated value corresponds to a mean value of the respective pixel drive value from the general range and the concrete pixel drive value.
- the invention is used preferably for pixel drive values controlling different color tones.
- Fig. 1 shows a display device
- Fig. 2 shows a number of pixels in an image
- Fig. 3 shows a number of combinations of pixel drive values.
- Fig. 1 shows a display device.
- the device includes a cascade connection of a clock generator 10, an image memory 12, a look-up memory 14, a display panel drive unit 18, and a display panel 19.
- the clock generator 10 is also coupled to a control unit 16 which controls the look-up memory 14 and the display screen drive unit 18.
- the display device displays an image on the display panel 19 which is, for example a CRT monitor.
- the content of the image is represented by image information items, for example 8-bit words, which are stored in the image memory 12.
- image memory 12 Under the control of a clock signal from the clock generator 10, the image memory 12 reads the image information items from different locations for successive supply to the look ⁇ up memory 14.
- the look-up memory 14 contains a number of pixel drive items which are, for example 3 x 8-bit RGB words (8 bits Red, 8 bits Green, 8 bits Blue). Each image information item serves as an index in the look-up memory 14 and selects a pixel drive item stored in the look-up memory 14.
- the look-up memory 14 applies the selected pixel drive item to the display panel drive unit 18 which drives the display panel 19 in conformity with the relevant pixel drive item.
- the display panel 19 displays an image containing pixels, for example 256 x 256 pixels.
- the control unit 16 determines the pixel of the display panel 19 in which the pixel drive item is reproduced and controls the display panel 19 accordingly.
- Fig. 2 shows an image 20 with a number of pixels 22, 24, 25, arranged on image lines 28a-d.
- two neighbouring pixels for example a first pixel 22 and a second pixel 24, are derived from the same image information item.
- the information content of the image information item is then less than the sum of the individual information contents of the two pixel drive items.
- M can have different values and if the first and the second pixel drive item per se can in principle have M j and M 2 values, the product of M j and M 2 is larger than M (M 1 ,M 2 > M).
- Fig. 3 shows a number of combinations of pixel drive values V, , V 2 which can be assumed by the first and the second drive item, respectively (the coordinate axes for V, and V 2 are shown exclusively for the purpose of illustration; they do not correspond to the zero value).
- the value of the pixel drive item for a pixel 24 on an odd line 28b is dependent on the value Vi of the pixel control item for the pixel 22 in the same position on the adjoining even line 28a.
- Fig. 3 shows the combinations of V j , V 2 values which can thus occur.
- the pixel drive items for the pixels 22, 25 on the even lines 28a, 28b originate from a general range 30.
- the range 32, 34 of pixel drive values V 2 that can be assumed by a pixel drive item for a pixel 24 on the odd line 28b is dependent on the concrete value V j of the pixel drive item for the neighbouring pixel 22 on the neighbouring even line 28a.
- Encoding of the first and second pixel drive items individually would require 5 bits ( 2 log 4 + 2 log 7).
- Fig. 3 illustrates this principle for grey values, it can be used equally well for pixel drive items for color values.
- M 2 M ⁇ (M ⁇ + l)/2 mean values are possible in principle. If a concrete color value of the drive item in a neighbouring pixel is known, only a dependent range of M, color values then remains.
- the values of the first and the second pixel drive item are coded together in an image information item. This image information item is translated twice by means of the look-up memory 14. The amount of storage space required in the image memory 12 is thus reduced.
- An image information item is stored, for example for each pair of pixels 22, 24 on two neighbouring lines 28a, 28b. This image information item is always read twice: once for translation into the first pixel drive item for the pixel 22 on the even line 28a and once for translation into the second pixel drive item for the pixel 24 on the odd line 28b.
- the image information item contains, for example a combination of a code for the value of the pixel 22 on the even line 28a and a code for the value of the pixel 25 on the subsequent even line. For example, such a combination can be stored as an image information item in a location of the image memory 12 for each pixel of each even line.
- the translation utilizes two look-up tables, one for the translation of the image information item into the first pixel drive item and one for the translation of the image information item into the second pixel drive item.
- the look-up tables in the look-up memory 14 can be reloaded, for example intermediately.
- the control unit 16 always loads, for example after completion of a line, the appropriate table into the look-up memory in order to translate the image information items into pixel drive items for the relevant line.
- the two tables can be simultaneously stored in the look-up memory.
- the control unit 16 then generates a selection signal which determines which table is to be used for the translation.
- look-up memory 14 use can also be made of a logic array which provides the same input/output relation as the look-up memory when loaded with the appropriate tables.
- the display device can be advantageously used notably if the raster of the even lines 28a, 28c and the raster of the odd lines 28b, 28d are successively displayed (so first 28a, 28c etc. and subsequently 28b, 28d etc. , or vice versa). This kind of display may give rise to so-called line flicker if the image intensity of the pixels 24 on the odd lines 28b, 28d is not equal to the mean value of the adjoining pixels 22, 25 on the even lines 28a, 28c.
- the value of the pixel drive item for the pixel 24 on the odd line 28b is made equal to a mean value of the values of the pixel drive items for the neighbouring pixels 22, 25 on the neighbouring even lines 28a, 28c. This is realized as described above.
- the appropriate table can then be loaded into the look-up memory 14 each time after completion of the translation of a raster of image lines. The frequency at which new tables are loaded into the look-up memory, therefore, is much lower than the pixel frequency.
- the mean values used are compensated for gamma correction: the content of the look-up table is chosen so that the generated image intensity of the pixel 24 on the odd line 28b equals the mean image intensity of the neighbouring pixels 22, 25. Line flicker can thus be prevented, for example upon display of teletext characters for which only a limited general range of colors is used.
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