WO1998053442A1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zur kontrasteinstellung bei unterrahmengesteuerten bildanzeigen - Google Patents
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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- H04N3/00—Scanning details of television systems; Combination thereof with generation of supply voltages
- H04N3/10—Scanning details of television systems; Combination thereof with generation of supply voltages by means not exclusively optical-mechanical
- H04N3/12—Scanning details of television systems; Combination thereof with generation of supply voltages by means not exclusively optical-mechanical by switched stationary formation of lamps, photocells or light relays
- H04N3/125—Scanning details of television systems; Combination thereof with generation of supply voltages by means not exclusively optical-mechanical by switched stationary formation of lamps, photocells or light relays using gas discharges, e.g. plasma
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- G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
- G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
- G09G3/00—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes
- G09G3/20—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
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- G09G3/2018—Display of intermediate tones by time modulation using two or more time intervals
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- G09G2320/00—Control of display operating conditions
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- G09G2320/066—Adjustment of display parameters for control of contrast
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- G09G3/00—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes
- G09G3/20—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
- G09G3/22—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters using controlled light sources
- G09G3/28—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters using controlled light sources using luminous gas-discharge panels, e.g. plasma panels
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- the invention relates to a method and a device for adjusting the contrast in pulse-width-controlled image displays
- an image is divided into several part-time intervals, during which a predetermined number of voltage pulses for display control is generated depending on the desired brightness value.
- the inertia of the human eye then no longer appears as individual image changes, but a gray value arises, which differs from that
- the number of voltage pulses generated depends on the number of voltage pulses that can be generated in the part-time intervals, then many gray levels can be displayed with just a few part-time intervals.
- a 5 binary weighting (1, 2,4,8) two levels of gray levels can be displayed exponentially with the number of part-time intervals
- the number of part-time intervals is limited due to technological constraints.
- the electrical architecture of such a display device generally looks such that an analog input signal is converted into a digital signal by means of a converter, and then voltage pulses are generated or not generated by an assignment in the individual part-time intervals.
- this assignment is such that the longest field is assigned to the digitally highest weighted bit, the second longest to the second highest weighted, etc.
- a television receiver has a contrast setting option as standard. If, for example, the contrast is reduced by a factor of two, the input variable for the above-mentioned A / D converter is also reduced by a factor of two and only half of the originally available gray levels can be displayed.
- An image display in the form of a plasma display is known from the magazine Funkschau, 1996, number 19, pages 38-41.
- phosphor is used as the illuminant, which is excited to glow by a gas discharge, that is to say plasma.
- Plasma is created by adding energy to gas.
- the plasma displays take advantage of the fact that plasma emits high-frequency light in the ultraviolet range, which in turn makes special phosphor glow.
- a separate cell is required for each color, which can be separately energized.
- the cells are filled with noble gas, a mixture of neon, xenon and helium. This mixture can be switched back and forth between the gaseous and plasma state without any problems and without changes.
- the level of the voltage per pixel which otherwise defines the brightness, must be converted into a time value, ie into a pulse width controlled signal. If this voltage is only briefly present, the phosphor lights up weakly, the maximum possible brightness is achieved with the maximum duration of the current surge.
- a plasma display is known from the magazine Radio lavishen Elektronik RFE, volume 2, 1997, pages 18-20, which consists of two glass plates with electrodes arranged in a matrix, between which there is a noble gas mixture. If the voltage at a crossing point exceeds it
- the electrodes have a certain value, the ignition voltage, the gas is ionized there and - put simply - the so-called plasma is created.
- This plasma emits UV light, which in turn stimulates phosphors that emit red, green and blue.
- Each crossing point of the electrodes corresponds to one pixel.
- the pixels are separated from one another by approximately 100 ⁇ m high barriers. These barriers are also the spacers for the two glass plates. All electrodes are connected to control ICs via foil contacts, which are located on a circuit board on the back of the plasma display.
- a pixel can only be in a glowing or dark state. Pulse width modulation is therefore used to generate the required intermediate or gray levels.
- the duration in which the pixel is in the luminous state is the measure of the brightness perceived by the eye. Due to the matrix structure of the screen, the pixels cannot be switched on and off individually at any time, but only line by line. Therefore, a special procedure, the so-called "subfield addressing", was developed.
- Each part-time interval is divided into two phases.
- the first addressing phase the pixels with the electrodes perpendicular to each other are first placed in a defined starting situation A short addressing pulse is applied and, depending on whether the ignition voltage is exceeded or not, the pixel is placed in a biased or neutral state. This state is stored in the pixel in the form of a small surface charge, which is attached to a surface above the electrodes Insulation layer stops So all lines of the display are addressed one after the other.
- the duration of this phase is calculated from the duration of the addressing pulse and the number of lines and is in the millisecond range.
- the lighting phase follows.A parallel voltage is applied to all pixels at the same time via the Y electrodes pulsed this
- sustain voltage implicit or sustain voltage voltage pulses are also referred to as sustain voltage implicit or sustain voltage.
- the value of this voltage is so high that all previously biased pixels are illuminated, while all neutral pixels remain dark.
- the polarity of the sustain voltage is inverted, which explains itself also the name "AC-Plasma"
- the duration of the lighting phase depends on the number of sustainer impulses, which results from the weighting of the partial image, and can be a few microseconds to milliseconds. Afterwards all pixels are reset to the neutral state with a Loschimpuls , and the next subfield can join
- the pulse width controlled signal is often provided in the form of a number of voltage pulses depending on the desired duration of the current surge. Due to the matrix structure of the screen, the pixels cannot be switched on and off individually at any time, but only line by line at predetermined part-time intervals, as already mentioned above There is preferably a line-jump-free reproduction, a time interval of, for example, 20 msec being available for a full image
- the object of the invention is to show a way in which a change in contrast can take place in pulse-width-controlled image displays without a noticeable reduction in the number of gray levels
- This object is achieved by a method having the features specified in claim 1 or a device having the features specified in claim 4.
- Image change frequencies 50Hz or 60Hz
- These means for adapting the number of pulses, which are present anyway, can advantageously be used for adjusting the contrast
- Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a device for explaining a known
- FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a device for explaining the method according to the invention for adjusting contrast in pulse-width-controlled image displays
- FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a second exemplary embodiment of the invention and 4 shows a block diagram of a third exemplary embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a device for explaining a known method for contrast adjustment in pulse-width-controlled image displays.
- An analog image signal is fed to the input terminal 1 of the device shown.
- This is fed to a contrast control circuit 2 having a variable resistance network 2b
- the output signal of the contrast control circuit 2 is converted into a digital signal in an analog-digital converter 3. From this digital signal, a number of voltage pulses which are dependent on the digital signal value are generated in a circuit 4 and are used as control signals for a plasma display at an output connection 5 Will be provided
- each full image which has a duration of 20 ms, for example.
- the display is actuated with voltage pulses in one or more of these eight part-time intervals.
- the sluggishness of the human eye appears then no longer the individual partial images, but a gray value arises, which depends on in which of the part-time intervals voltage pulses are generated and in which not. If the number of voltage pulses is binary-weighted, 2 8 gray levels can be displayed if eight part-time intervals are present
- the number of voltage pulses in the first partial time interval is for example 10, the number of voltage pulses in the second partial time interval 20, the number of voltage pulses in the third partial time interval 40, etc.
- FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a device for explaining the method according to the invention for adjusting the contrast in pulse-width-controlled displays, in which there is no such reduction in the representable gray levels.
- An analog image signal is fed to the input terminal 1 of the device shown. This is converted into a digital signal in an analog-digital converter 3. From this digital signal a number of digital voltage pulses dependent on the digital signal value is generated in a circuit 4.
- Eight part-time intervals are available in each frame that has a duration of 20 ms to generate these voltage pulses.
- the number of voltage pulses that can be generated in each of these part-time intervals is, like in the known display control, binary-weighted, so that a total of 2 8 gray levels can also be represented here.
- the brightness value shown depends on in which of the part-time intervals voltage pulses are generated and in which not. If, for example, voltage pulses are generated in all part-time intervals, the respectively addressed pixel is displayed in the greatest possible brightness.
- Contrast is now set in that in response to actuation of the contrast setting element 7 by means of the
- Contrast control circuit 6 which is a microcomputer, the number of voltage pulses that can be generated in each partial time interval is changed. For example, in a first contrast reduction stage, the voltage pulses that can be generated in the first partial time interval are reduced from 10 to 9, the voltage pulses that can be generated in the second partial time interval from 20 to 18, the voltage pulses that can be generated in the third partial time interval from 40 to 36, etc.
- the voltage pulses that can be generated in the first part-time interval are reduced to 8, the voltage pulses that can be generated in the second part-time interval to 16, the voltage pulses that can be generated in the third part-time interval to 32, etc.
- the entire working range of the analog-digital converter 3 is fully utilized despite the contrast reduction being carried out and there is no reduction in the number of gray levels that can be represented.
- the control signal which according to the invention has a changed number of voltage pulses in the part-time intervals, is made available at the output connection 5 of the device shown in FIG.
- FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a second exemplary embodiment for the invention.
- contrast adjustment elements 2a and 7 are provided.
- the contrast adjustment element 7 is used to roughly adjust the contrast, in which - as has already been described above in connection with FIG. 2 - the contrast control circuit 6 connected to the contrast adjustment element 7 changes the number of voltage pulses that can be generated in each partial time interval.
- the contrast adjustment element 2a is used to fine-tune the contrast, to which - as has already been described above in connection with FIG. 1 - an analog contrast adjustment is carried out using a resistance element 2b.
- the contrast setting range for the analog contrast setting is reduced in comparison to the analog contrast setting described in FIG. 1.
- FIG. 4 shows a block diagram of a third exemplary embodiment for the invention.
- this embodiment there is also a rough adjustment and a fine adjustment of the contrast.
- the only contrast adjustment element 7 is one
- Control signal generating circuit 9 connected, which provides at its outputs control signals S1 and S2 for an arithmetic unit 8 and a contrast control circuit 6.
- the fine adjustment of the contrast is carried out by means of the arithmetic unit 8 and the rough adjustment of the contrast is carried out by means of the contrast control circuit 6.
- the control signal generation circuit 9 evaluates the duration of the actuation of the contrast adjustment element 7 and / or its angular adjustment and generates the control signals S1 and S2 mentioned for the arithmetic unit 8 and the contrast control circuit 6 in order to effect the desired change in contrast.
- a control signal S1 is supplied to the arithmetic unit 8 for a minimal change in contrast, while no change in contrast is carried out in the contrast control circuit 6.
- the contrast control circuit 6 operates as described above in connection with FIG. 2.
- the arithmetic unit 8 is arranged between the analog-digital converter 3 and the circuit 4 for generating a number of voltage pulses which is dependent on the digital signal value.
- the arithmetic unit 8 is supplied with digital signals from the output of the analog-digital converter 3, which are, for example, in a hexadecimal value range from 00 to FF. If no fine contrast adjustment is to be made by means of the arithmetic unit 8, then the arithmetic unit provides at its output the digital signals supplied to it with an unchanged range of values. On the other hand, an actuation of the
- Contrast adjustment element 7 that a fine contrast adjustment is necessary, then the arithmetic unit 8 provides digital signals with a changed value range at its output.
- the invention has been described above with the aid of a DC plasma display, in which a control by means of digital signals in particular Voltage pulses occur.
- the invention can of course be used both for DC and for AC plasma displays, in which an alternating current can be used.
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