WO2000021070A1 - Mappage d'echantillons de donnees d'image avec des sous-composants de pixels sur un dispositif d'affichage a lignes - Google Patents

Mappage d'echantillons de donnees d'image avec des sous-composants de pixels sur un dispositif d'affichage a lignes Download PDF

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WO2000021070A1
WO2000021070A1 PCT/US1999/023552 US9923552W WO0021070A1 WO 2000021070 A1 WO2000021070 A1 WO 2000021070A1 US 9923552 W US9923552 W US 9923552W WO 0021070 A1 WO0021070 A1 WO 0021070A1
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Michael Duggan
Leroy B. Keely, Jr.
Gregory C. Hitchcock
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  • the present invention relates to methods and apparatus for displaying images, and more particularly, to display methods and apparatus which display an image by representing different portions of the image on each of multiple pixel sub- components, rather than on entire pixels.
  • Color display devices have become the principal display devices of choice for most computer users.
  • the display of color on a monitor is normally achieved by operating the display device to emit light, e.g., a combination of red, green, and blue light, which results in one or more colors being perceived by the human eye.
  • CTR cathode ray tube
  • the different colors of light are generated via the use of phosphor coatings which may be applied as dots in a sequence on the screen of the CRT.
  • a different phosphor coating is normally used to generate each of the three colors, red, green, and blue resulting in repeating sequences of phosphor dots which, when excited by a beam of electrons will generate the colors red, green and blue.
  • pixel is commonly used to refer to one spot in, e.g., a rectangular grid of thousands of such spots.
  • the spots are individually used by a computer to form an image on the display device.
  • the smallest possible pixel size will depend on the focus, alignment and bandwidth of the electron guns used to excite the phosphors.
  • the intensity of the light emitted corresponding to the additive primary colors, red, green and blue, can be varied to get the appearance of almost any desired color pixel. Adding no color, i.e., emitting no light, produces a black pixel. Adding 100 percent of all three colors results in white.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a known portable computer 100, which comprises a housing 101, a disk drive 105, keyboard 104 and a flat panel display 102.
  • Portable personal computers 100 tend to use liquid crystal displays (LCD) or other flat panel display devices 102, as opposed to CRT displays. This is because flat panel displays tend to be small and light weight as compared to CRT displays. In addition, flat panel displays tend to consume less power than comparably sized CRT displays making them better suited for battery powered applications than CRT displays. As the quality of flat panel color displays continues to increase and their cost decreases, flat panel displays are beginning to replace CRT displays in desktop applications. Accordingly, flat panel displays, and LCDs in particular, are becoming ever more common.
  • LCD liquid crystal displays
  • Color LCD displays are exemplary of display devices which utilize multiple distinctly addressable elements, referred to herein as pixel sub-elements or pixel subcomponents, to represent each pixel of an image being displayed.
  • each pixel on a color LCD display is represented by a single pixel element which usually comprises three non-square elements, i.e., red, green and blue (RGB) pixel subcomponents.
  • RGB red, green and blue
  • LCD displays of the known type comprise a series of RGB pixel sub- components which are commonly arranged to form stripes along the display. The RGB stripes normally run the entire length of the display in one direction. The resulting RGB stripes are sometimes referred to as "RGB striping".
  • RGB striping Common LCD monitors used for computer applications, which are wider than they are tall, tend to have RGB stripes running in the vertical direction.
  • FIG. 2A illustrates a known LCD screen 200 comprising a plurality of rows (R1-R12) and columns (Cl-C 16) which may be used as the display 102. Each row/column intersection forms a square which represents one pixel element.
  • Figure 2B illustrates the upper left hand portion of the known display 200 in greater detail. Note in Fig. 2B how each pixel element, e.g., the (Rl, C4) pixel element, comprises three distinct sub-element or sub-components, a red sub-component 206, a green sub-component 207 and a blue sub-component 208.
  • each pixel element e.g., the (Rl, C4) pixel element
  • Each known pixel subcomponent 206, 207, 208 is 1/3 or approximately 1/3 the width of a pixel while being equal, or approximately equal, in height to the height of a pixel. Thus, when combined, the three 1/3 width pixel sub-components 206, 207, 208 form a single pixel element.
  • RGB pixel subcomponents 206, 207, 208 form what appear to be vertical color stripes down the display 200. Accordingly, the arrangement of 1/3 width color sub-components 206, 207, 208, in the known manner illustrated in Figs. 2A and 2B, is sometimes called "vertical striping".
  • common column x row ratios include, e.g., 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768.
  • known display devices normally involve the display being arranged in landscape fashion, i.e., with the monitor being wider than it is high as illustrated in Fig. 2A, and with stripes running in the vertical direction.
  • LCDs are manufactured with pixel sub-components arranged in several additional patterns including, e.g., zig-zags and a delta pattern common in camcorder view finders. While features of the present invention can be used with such pixel sub- component arrangements, since the RGB striping configuration is more common, the exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be explained in the context of using RGB striped displays.
  • each set of pixel sub-components for a pixel element is treated as a single pixel unit. Accordingly, in known systems luminous intensity values for all the pixel sub-components of a pixel element are generated from the same portion of an image. Consider for example, the image represented by the grid 220 illustrated in Fig. 2C. In Fig.
  • each square represents an area of an image which is to be represented by a single pixel element, e.g., a red, green and blue pixel sub-component of the corresponding square of the grid 230.
  • a shaded circle is used to represent a single image sample from which luminous intensity values are generated.
  • a single sample 222 of the image 220 is used in known systems to generate the luminous intensity values for each of the red, green, and blue pixel subcomponents 232, 233, 234.
  • the RGB pixel sub-components are generally used as a group to generate a single colored pixel corresponding to a single sample of the image to be represented.
  • each pixel sub-component group effectively adds together to create the effect of a single color whose hue, saturation, and intensity depend on the value of each of the three pixel sub-components.
  • each pixel subcomponent has a potential intensity of between 0 and 255. If all three pixel subcomponents are given 255 intensity, the eye perceives the pixel as being white. However, if all three pixel sub-components are given a value turning off each of the three pixel sub-components, the eye perceives a black pixel.
  • an image to be represented was a red cube with green and blue components equal to zero.
  • the apparent position of the cube on the display will be shifted 1/3 of a pixel to the left of its actual position.
  • a blue cube would appear to be displaced 1/3 of a pixel to the right.
  • known imaging techniques used with LCD screens can result in undesirable image displacement errors.
  • Text characters represent one type of image which is particularly difficult to accurately display given typical flat panel display resolutions of 72 or 96 dots (pixels) per inch (dpi). Such display resolutions are far lower than the 600 dpi supported by most printers and the even higher resolutions found in most commercially printed text such as books and magazines.
  • the relatively coarse size of standard pixels tends to create aliasing effects which give displayed type characters jagged edges.
  • the coarse size of pixels tends to result in the squaring off of serifs, the short lines or ornaments at the ends, e.g., bottom, of strokes which form a typeface character. This makes it difficult to accurately display many highly readable or ornamental typefaces which tend to use serifs extensively.
  • stem weights can only be increased a pixel at a time. Thus, stem weights leap from one to two pixels wide.
  • the present invention is directed to methods and apparatus for displaying an image by representing different portions of the image on each of multiple pixel subcomponents, rather than on entire pixels.
  • the inventors of the present application recognize the well-known principle that human eyes are much more sensitive to edges of luminance, where light intensity changes, than to edges of chrominance, where color intensity changes. This is why it is very difficult to read red text on a green background, for example. They also recognize the well-known principle that the eye is not equally sensitive to the colors of red, green and blue. In fact, of 100 percent luminous intensity in a fully white pixel the red pixel sub-component contributes approximately 30% to the overall perceived luminance, green 60% and blue 10%.
  • Various features of the present invention are directed to utilizing the individual pixel sub-components of a display as independent luminous intensity sources thereby increasing the effective resolution of a display by as much as a factor of 3 in the dimension perpendicular to the direction of the RGB striping. This allows for a significant improvement in visible resolution.
  • the present invention can provide significant improvements in the quality of images, compared to known rendering techniques, even when taking into consideration the negative impact the techniques of the present invention may have on color quality.
  • known monitors tend to use vertical striping. Because character stems occur in the vertical direction the ability to accurately control the thickness of vertical lines when rendering horizontally flowing text tends to be more important than the ability to control the thickness of horizontal lines.
  • RGB striping resulting in improved resolution in the vertical direction as compared to conventional image rendering techniques.
  • the present invention is directed to new and improved text, graphics and image rendering techniques which facilitate pixel sub-component use in accordance with the present invention.
  • the display of images, including text involves steps that include scan conversion.
  • Scan conversion is the process by which geometric representations of images are converted into bitmaps.
  • Scan conversion operations of the present invention involve mapping different portions of an image into different pixel sub- components. This differs significantly from known scan conversion techniques where the same portion of an image is used to determine the luminous intensity values to be used with each of the three pixel sub-components which represent a pixel.
  • the scan conversion operations of the invention can be used with other operations, including image scaling, hinting, and color processing operations, that take into consideration pixel sub-component boundaries within an image and the separately controllable nature of pixel sub-components of flat panel display devices.
  • Figure 1 is a diagram of a known portable computer.
  • Figure 2A illustrates a known LCD screen.
  • Figure 2B illustrates a portion of the known screen illustrated in Fig. 2A in greater detail than the Fig. 2A illustration.
  • Figure 2C illustrates an image sampling operation performed in known systems.
  • Figure 3 illustrates known steps involved in preparing and storing character information for use in the subsequent generation and display of text.
  • Figure 4 illustrates an electronic book with flat panel displays arranged in a portrait arrangement in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a computer system implemented in accordance with the present invention.
  • Figure 6 illustrates image sampling performed in accordance with one exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 7A illustrates a color flat panel display screen implemented in accordance with the present invention.
  • Figure 7B illustrates a portion of the display screen of Fig. 7A.
  • Figure 7C illustrates a display screen implemented in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 8 illustrates various elements, e.g., routines, included in the memory of the computer system of Fig. 5, used for rendering text images on the computer system's display.
  • Figure 9 illustrates a method of rendering text for display in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figures 10A and 10B illustrate scaling operations performed in accordance with various exemplary embodiments of the present invention.
  • Figures 11A and 11B illustrate hinting operations performed in accordance with various exemplary embodiments of the present invention.
  • Figures 12A and 12B illustrate scan conversion operations performed in accordance with various exemplary embodiments of the present invention.
  • Figure 13 illustrates the scan conversion process applied to the first column of image data illustrated in Fig. 12A in greater detail.
  • Figure 14 illustrates a weighted scan conversion operation performed in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 15 illustrates a high resolution representation of a character to be displayed on a field of pixels.
  • Figures 16 illustrates how the character of Fig. 15 would be illustrated using known techniques.
  • Figures 17-20 illustrate different ways of illustrating the character shown in Fig. 15 in accordance with various text rendering techniques of the present invention.
  • the present invention is directed to methods and apparatus for displaying images, e.g., text and/or graphics, on display devices by representing different portions of the image on each of multiple pixel sub-components, rather than on entire pixels.
  • Various methods of the present invention are directed to using each pixel sub- component as a separate independent luminous intensity source as opposed to treating the set of RGB pixel sub-components which comprise a pixel as a single luminous intensity unit. This allows for a display device with RGB horizontal or vertical striping to be treated as having an effective resolution in the dimension perpendicular to the direction of the striping that is up to 3 times greater than in the dimension of the striping.
  • Various apparatus of the present invention are directed to display devices and control apparatus which take advantage of the ability to individually control pixel sub-components.
  • FIG. 5 and the following discussion provide a brief, general description of an exemplary apparatus in which at least some aspects of the present invention may be implemented.
  • Various methods of the present invention will be described in the general context of computer-executable instructions, e.g., program modules, being executed by a computer device such as a personal computer.
  • Other aspects of the invention will be described in terms of physical hardware such as, e.g., display device components and display screens.
  • Program modules may include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform a task(s) or implement particular abstract data types.
  • Program modules may be practiced with other configurations, including hand-held devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based or programmable consumer electronics, network computers, minicomputers, set top boxes, mainframe computers, displays used in, e.g., automotive, aeronautical, industrial applications, and the like.
  • At least some aspects of the present invention may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices linked through a communications network.
  • program modules may be located in local and/or remote memory storage devices.
  • an exemplary apparatus 500 for implementing at least some aspects of the present invention includes a general purpose computing device.
  • the personal computer 520 may include a processing unit 521, a system memory 522, and a system bus 523 that couples various system components including the system memory to the processing unit 521.
  • the system bus 523 may be any of several types of bus structures including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, and a local bus using any of a variety of bus architectures.
  • the system memory may include read only memory (ROM) 524 and/or random access memory (RAM) 525.
  • ROM read only memory
  • RAM random access memory
  • a basic input/output system 526 (BIOS), including basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within the personal computer 520, such as during start-up, may be stored in ROM 524.
  • the personal computer 520 may also include a hard disk drive 527 for reading from and writing to a hard disk, (not shown), a magnetic disk drive 528 for reading from or writing to a (e.g., removable) magnetic disk 529, and an optical disk drive 530 for reading from or writing to a removable (magneto) optical disk 531 such as a compact disk or other (magneto) optical media.
  • the hard disk drive 527, magnetic disk drive 528, and (magneto) optical disk drive 530 may be coupled with the system bus 523 by a hard disk drive interface 532, a magnetic disk drive interface 533, and a (magneto) optical drive interface 534, respectively.
  • the drives and their associated storage media provide nonvolatile storage of machine readable instructions, data structures, program modules and other data for the personal computer 520.
  • exemplary environment described herein employs a hard disk, a removable magnetic disk 529 and a removable optical disk 531, those skilled in the art will appreciate that other types of storage media, such as magnetic cassettes, flash memory cards, digital video disks, Bernoulli cartridges, random access memories (RAMs), read only memories (ROM), and the like, may be used instead of, or in addition to, the storage devices introduced above.
  • a number of program modules may be stored on the hard disk 523, magnetic disk 529, (magneto) optical disk 531, ROM 524 or RAM 525, such as an operating system 535, one or more application programs 536, other program modules 537, and/or program data 538 for example.
  • a user may enter commands and information into the personal computer 520 through input devices, such as a keyboard 540 and pointing device 542 for example.
  • Other input devices such as a microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, or the like may also be included.
  • These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 521 through a serial port interface 546 coupled to the system bus.
  • input devices may be connected by other interfaces, such as a parallel port, a game port or a universal serial bus (USB).
  • a monitor 547 or other type of display device may also be connected to the system bus 523 via an interface, such as a video adapter 548 for example.
  • the personal computer 520 may include other peripheral output devices (not shown), such as speakers and printers for example.
  • the personal computer 520 may operate in a networked environment which defines logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as a remote computer 549.
  • the remote computer 549 may be another personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and may include many or all of the elements described above relative to the personal computer 520.
  • the logical connections depicted in Fig. 5 include a local area network (LAN) 551 and a wide area network (WAN) 552, an intranet and the Internet.
  • LAN local area network
  • WAN wide area network
  • the personal computer 520 When used in a LAN, the personal computer 520 may be connected to the LAN 551 through a network interface adapter (or "NIC") 553.
  • NIC network interface adapter
  • the personal computer 520 When used in a WAN, such as the Internet, the personal computer 520 may include a modem 554 or other means for establishing communications over the wide area network 552.
  • the modem 554, which may be internal or external, may be connected to the system bus 523 via the serial port interface 546.
  • at least some of the program modules depicted relative to the personal computer 520 may be stored in the remote memory storage device.
  • the network connections shown are exemplary and other means of establishing a communications link between the computers may be used.
  • Fig. 7A illustrates a display device 600 implemented in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the display device 600 is suitable for use in, e.g., portable computers or other systems where flat panel displays are desired.
  • the display device 600 may be implemented as an LCD display.
  • the display and control logic of the known computer 100 are replaced by the display device 600 and display control logic, e.g., routines, of the present invention to provide a portable computer with horizontal RGB striping and pixel sub-components which are used to represent different portions of an image.
  • the display device 600 includes 16 columns of pixel elements C1-C16 and 12 rows of pixel elements R1-R12 for a display having 16x12 pixels.
  • the display 600 is arranged to be wider than it is tall as is the case with most computer monitors. While the display 600 is limited to 16x12 pixels for purposes of illustration in the patent, it is to be understood that monitors of the type illustrated in Fig. 7A can have any number of vertical and horizontal pixel elements allowing for displays having, e.g., 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 ratios of horizontal to vertical pixel elements as well as ratios resulting in square displays.
  • Each pixel element of the display 600 includes 3 sub-components, a red pixel sub-component 602, a green pixel sub-component 604, and a blue pixel subcomponent 606.
  • each pixel sub-component 602, 604, 606 has a height that is equal to, or approximately equal to, 1/3 the height of a pixel and a width equal to, or approximately equal to, the width of the pixel.
  • the RGB pixel sub-components are arranged to form horizontal stripes. This is in contrast to the vertical striping arrangement used in the previously discussed monitor 200.
  • the monitor 600 may be used, e.g., in particular graphics applications where, because of the application, it is desirable to have a greater vertical, as opposed to horizontal resolution.
  • Figure 7B illustrates the upper left hand portion of the display 600 in greater detail. In Fig. 7B, the horizontal RGB striping pattern is clearly visible with the letters R, G and B being used to indicated correspondingly colored pixel subcomponents.
  • FIG. 7C illustrates another display device 700 implemented in accordance with the present invention.
  • Fig. 7C illustrates the use of vertical RGB striping in a display device, e.g., an LCD display, having more vertical pixel elements than horizontal pixel elements. While a 12x16 display is illustrated, it is to be understood that the display 700 may be implemented with any number of columns/rows of pixels, including column row ratios which result in square displays.
  • the display device 700 is well suited where a portrait type display of horizontally flowing text is desired.
  • each pixel element is comprised of 3 sub-pixel components, i.e., an R, G, and B pixel subcomponent.
  • While the display 7A may be desirable for certain graphics applications, the accurate representation of character stems, the relatively long thin vertical portions of characters, is far more important than the representation of serifs in generating high quality characters.
  • Vertical striping has the distinct advantage, when used according to the present invention, of allowing for stems which can be adjusted in width 1/3 of a pixel at a time.
  • using a display device such as the device 200 or 700 with a vertical striping arrangement in conjunction with the display methods of the present invention can provide higher quality text than the known horizontal striping arrangement which limits stem width adjustments to one-pixel increments.
  • Another advantage of vertical striping is that it allows for adjustments in character spacing in increments of less than a pixel size in width, e.g., 1/3 of a pixel size increments.
  • Character spacing is a text characteristic which is important to legibility.
  • using vertical striping can produce improved text spacing as well as finer stem weights.
  • Figure 8 illustrates various elements, e.g., routines, included in the memory of the computer system of Fig. 5, used to render text images on the computer system's display in accordance with the present invention.
  • the application routine 536 which may be, e.g., a word processor application, includes a text output sub-component 801.
  • the text output subcomponent 801 is responsible for outputting text information, as represented by arrow 813, to the operating system 535 for rendering on the display device 547.
  • the text information includes, e.g., information identifying the characters to be rendered, the font to be used during rendering, and the point size at which the characters are to be rendered.
  • the operating system 535 includes various components responsible for controlling the display of text on the display device 547. These components include display information 815, a display adapter 814, and a graphics display interface 802.
  • the display information 815 includes, e.g., information on scaling to be applied during rendering and/or foreground/background color information.
  • the display adapter receives bitmap images from the graphics display interface 802 and generates video signals which are supplied to video adapter 548 for optical presentation by the display 547.
  • the arrow 816 represents passing of the bitmap images from the graphics display interface 802 to the display adapter 814.
  • the graphics display interface 802 includes routines for processing graphics as well as text.
  • Element 804 is a type rasterizer used to process text.
  • the type rasterizer is responsible for processing the text information obtained from the application 536 and generating a bitmap representation therefrom.
  • the type rasterizer 804 includes character data 806 and rendering and rasterization routines 807.
  • the character data 806 may include, e.g., vector graphics, lines, points and curves, which provide a high resolution digital representation of one or more sets of characters.
  • the rendering and rasterization routines 807 include a scan conversion subroutine 812 and can also include a scaling sub-routine 808, a hinting sub-routine 810, and a color compensation subroutine 813.
  • routines and sub-routines of the present invention differ from known routines in that they take into consideration, utilize, or treat a screen's RGB pixel sub-components as separate luminous intensity entities which can be used to represent different portions of an image to be rendered.
  • Scan conversion involves the conversion of the scaled geometry representing a character into a bitmap image.
  • Conventional scan conversion operations treat pixels as individual units into which a corresponding portion of the scaled image can be mapped. Accordingly, in the case of conventional scan conversion operations, the same portion of an image is used to determine the luminous intensity values to be used with each of the RGB pixel sub-components of a pixel element into which a portion of the scaled image is mapped.
  • Fig. 2C is exemplary of a known scan conversion process which involves sampling an image to be represented as a bitmap and generating luminous intensity values from the sampled values.
  • the RGB pixel sub-components of a pixel are treated as independent luminous intensity elements. Accordingly, each pixel sub-component is treated as a separate luminous intensity component into which a separate portion of the scaled image can be mapped.
  • the present invention allows different portions of a scaled image to be mapped into different pixel subcomponents providing for a higher degree of resolution than is possible with the known scan conversion techniques. That is, in various embodiments, different portions of the scaled image are used to independently determine the luminous intensity values to be used with each pixel sub-component.
  • Fig. 6 illustrates an exemplary scan conversion implemented in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • spatially displaced separate image samples 622, 623, 624 of the image represented by the grid 620 are used to generate the red, green and blue intensity values associated with corresponding portions 632, 633, 634 of the bitmap image 630 being generated.
  • Sampling the image data and mapping separate image samples 622, 623 and 624 to the red, green, and blue pixel sub-components associated with portions 632, 633, and 634 as shown in Fig. 6 represent examples of acts that correspond to the step of mapping samples to individual pixel sub-components.
  • image samples for red and blue are spatially displaced -1/3 and +1/3 of a pixel width in distance from the green sample, respectively.
  • white is used to indicate pixel subcomponents which are "turned on” in the bitmap image generated by the scan conversion operation. Pixel sub-components which are not white are "turned off'.
  • black text "on” implies that the intensity value associated with the pixel sub-component is controlled so that the pixel sub-component does not output light. Assuming a white background pixel, sub-components which are not "on” would be assigned intensity values which would cause them to output their full light output.
  • "on" during scaling is to determine if the center of the scaled image segment, represented by a portion of the scaling grid, being mapped into the pixel sub- component is within the scaled representation of the image to be displayed. For example, in Fig. 12A, when the center of grid segment 1202 was inside the image 1004 (shown in Fig. HA), the pixel sub-component Cl, R5 would be turned on. Another technique is to determine if 50% or more of the scaled image segment being mapped into the pixel sub-component is occupied by the image to be displayed. If it is, then the pixel sub-component is turned "on".
  • FIG. 12A illustrates a scan conversion operation performed on a scaled hinted image 1014 for display on a display device with horizontal striping. Examples of the scaling and hinting operations that can result in image 1014 are described in greater detail below in reference to Figs. 10A and 11 A. To briefly summarize these exemplary scaling and hinting operations, however, Figure 10A illustrates a scaling operation performed on a high resolution representation of the letter i 1002 in anticipation of the display of the letter on a monitor with horizontal striping such as the one illustrated in Fig. 7A. Note that in this example scaling in the horizontal (X) direction is applied at a rate of xl while scaling in the vertical (Y) direction is applied at a rate of x3. This results in a scaled character 1004 that is 3 times taller but just as wide as the original character 1002. Scaling by other amounts is possible.
  • Hinting when used with the scan conversion operations of the invention, can involve the alignment of a scaled character, e.g., the character 1004 of Fig. 11A within a grid 1102 that is used as part of the subsequent scan conversion operation. It can also involve the distorting of image outlines so that the image better conforms to the shape of the grid.
  • the grid can be determined as a function of the physical size of a display device's pixel elements.
  • the hinting operation of Fig. 11A results in the hinted image 1014.
  • bitmap image 1204. Note how each pixel sub-component of bitmap image columns C1-C4 is determined from a different segment of the corresponding columns of the scaled hinted image 1014. Note also how the bitmap image 1204 comprises a 2/3 pixel height base aligned along a green/blue pixel boundary and a dot that is 2/3 of a pixel in height. Known text imaging techniques would have resulted in a less accurate image having a base a full pixel high and a dot which was a full pixel in size.
  • Fig. 12B illustrates a scan conversion operation performed on the hinted image 1018 for display on a display device with vertical striping. Examples of the scaling and hinting operations that can result in image 1018 are described below in reference to Figs. 10B and 11B. To briefly summarize these exemplary scaling and hinting operations, however, Figure 10B illustrates a scaling operation performed on a high resolution representation of the letter i 1002 in anticipation of the display of the letter on a monitor with vertical striping such as the one illustrated in Figs. 2A and 7C. Note that in this example scaling in the horizontal (X) direction is applied at a rate of x3 while scaling in the vertical (Y) direction is applied at a rate of xl .
  • Figure 11B illustrates a hinting operation that results in the alignment of scaled character 1008 within grid 1104 that is used as part of the subsequent scan conversion operation. It can also involve the distorting of image outlines so that the image better conforms to the shape of the grid.
  • the hinting operation of Fig. 1 IB results in the hinted image 1018.
  • the scan conversion operation of Fig. 12B results in the bitmap image 1203.
  • bitmap image 1203 comprises a 2/3 pixel width stem with a left edge aligned along a red/green pixel boundary. Notice also that a dot that is 2/3 of a pixel in width is used.
  • Known text imaging techniques would have resulted in a less accurate image having a stem a full pixel wide and dot a full pixel in size.
  • Figure 13 illustrates the scan conversion processes performed to the first column of the image 1014, shown in Fig. 12 A, in greater detail.
  • one segment of the image 1014 is used to control the luminous intensity value associated with each pixel sub-component. This results in each pixel sub-component being controlled by the same size portion of the image 1014.
  • Weighting may be applied during the scan conversion operation. When weighting is applied, different size regions of the scaled image may be used to determine whether a particular pixel sub-component should be turned on or off or to a value in between (as in the case of gray scaling). As discussed above, the human eye perceives light intensity from different color light sources at different rates.
  • Green contributes approximately 60%, red approximately 30% and blue approximately 10% to the perceived luminance of a white pixel which results from having the red, green and blue pixel sub-components set to their maximum luminous intensity output.
  • weighting is used during scan conversion so that 60% of the scaled image area that is mapped into a pixel is used to determine the luminous intensity of the green pixel sub-component, a separate 30% of the scaled image area that is mapped into the same pixel is used to determine the luminous intensity of the red pixel sub-component, and a separate 10% of the scaled image area that is mapped into the same pixel is used to determine the luminous intensity of the blue pixel sub-component.
  • the image is scaled in the direction perpendicular to the striping at a rate which is ten times the rate of scaling in the direction of the striping. This is done to facilitate a weighted scan conversion operation.
  • the scaled image is then processed during scan conversion using a weighted scan conversion operation, e.g., of the type described above.
  • Figure 10A depicts an image 1002 that has been scaled by a factor of three in the vertical direction and a factor of one in the horizontal direction.
  • Fig. 14 illustrates performing a weighted scan conversion operation on the first column 1400 of a scaled hinted version of the image 1002 which has been scaled by a factor of 10 in the vertical direction and a factor of one in the horizontal direction.
  • the portion of the hinted image which corresponds to a single pixel comprises 10 segments.
  • the first set of three segments of each pixel area of the scaled image are used to determine the luminous intensity value of a red pixel sub-component corresponding to a pixel in the bitmap image 1402.
  • the next set of six segments of each pixel area of the scaled image 1400 are used to determine the luminous intensity value of a green pixel subcomponent corresponding to the same pixel in the bitmap image 1402. This leaves the last segment of each pixel area of the scaled image 1400 for use in determining the luminous intensity value of the blue pixel sub-component. As illustrated in Fig. 14, this process results in the blue pixel sub-component of column 1, row 4 and the red pixel sub-component of column 1, row 5 of the bitmap image 1402 being turned “on” with the remaining pixel sub-components of column 1 being turned “off”.
  • the scan conversion operation involves independently mapping portions of the scaled hinted image into corresponding pixel sub-components to form a bitmap image.
  • the intensity value assigned to a pixel sub-component is determined as a function of the portion of the scaled image area being mapped into the pixel subcomponent that is occupied by the scaled image to be displayed.
  • a pixel sub-component can be assigned an intensity value between 0 and 255, 0 being effectively off and 255 being full intensity
  • a scaled image segment grid segment
  • a pixel sub-component being assigned an intensity value of 127 as a result of mapping the scaled image segment into a corresponding pixel subcomponent.
  • the neighboring pixel sub- component of the same pixel would then have its intensity value independently determined as a function of another portion, e.g., segment, of the scaled image.
  • the scan conversion operations of the invention can be used with the rendering and rasterization routines 807 of Figure 9 to render text for display in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • the routines 807 begin in step 902 wherein the routines are executed, e.g., under control of the operating system 535, in response to the receipt of text information from the application 536.
  • input is received by text rendering and rasterization routines 807.
  • the input includes text, font, and point size information 905 obtained from the application 536.
  • the input includes scaling information and/or foreground/background color information and pixel size information 815 obtained, e.g., from monitor settings stored in memory by the operating system.
  • the input also includes the data 806 which includes a high resolution representation, e.g., in the form of lines, points and/or curves, of the text characters to be displayed.
  • step 910 the scaling subroutine 808 may be used to perform a scaling operation.
  • Non-square scaling can be performed as a function of the direction and/or number of pixel subcomponents included in each pixel element.
  • the high resolution character data 806 e.g., the line and point representation of characters to be displayed as specified by the received text and font information, is scaled in the direction perpendicular to the striping at a greater rate than in the direction of the striping. This allows for subsequent image processing operations to take advantage of the higher degree of resolution that can be achieved by using individual pixel sub-components as independent luminous intensity sources in accordance with the present invention.
  • step 912 in which hinting of the scaled image may be performed, e.g., by executing the hinting subroutine 810.
  • the term grid-fitting is sometimes used to describe the hinting process.
  • Hinting involves the alignment of a scaled character, e.g., the character 1004, 1008 within a grid 1102, 1104 that is used as part of a subsequent scan conversion operation. It also involves the distorting of image outlines so that the image better conforms to the shape of the grid.
  • the grid is determined as a function of the physical size of a display device's pixel elements. Details of exemplary hinting operations that can be used with the scan conversion operations of the invention are disclosed in U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 09/168,012 at, for example, Figures 11A, 11B, and the accompanying text.
  • step 914 a scan conversion operation, such as those disclosed herein, is performed in accordance with the present invention, e.g., by executing the scan conversion sub-routine 812.
  • the processed bitmap 918 is output to the display adapter 814 and operation of the routines 807 is halted pending the receipt of additional data/images to be processed.
  • Figure 15 illustrates a high resolution representation of character n to be rendered superimposed on a grid representing an array of 12x12 pixels with horizontal striping.
  • Figure 16 illustrates how the character n illustrated in Fig. 15 would be rendered using conventional display techniques and full size pixel elements each including three pixel sub-components. Note how the full pixel size limitation results in relatively abrupt transitions in shape at the ridge of the letter resulting in aliasing and a relatively flat top portion.
  • Figure 17 illustrates how rendering of the letter n can be improved in accordance with the present invention by using a 2/3 pixel height base.
  • the base is formed using 2 pixel sub-components as opposed to all three pixel sub-components in row 10, col. 1-4 and 8-10.
  • Figure 18 illustrates how the ridge of the letter n can be reduced in thickness from one pixel in thickness to a 2/3 pixel thickness in accordance with the present invention.
  • Figure 19 illustrates how the base of the letter n can be reduced, in accordance with the present invention, to a minimal thickness of 1/3 that of a pixel. It also illustrates how portions of the ridge of the letter n can reduced to a thickness of 1/3 that of a pixel.
  • Figure 20 illustrates how the letter n can be illustrated, in accordance with the present invention, with a base and ridge having a thickness of 1/3 that of a pixel.
  • Fig. 4 depicts a computerized electronic book device 400.
  • the electronic book 400 comprises first and second display screens 402, 404 for displaying odd and even pages of a book, respectively.
  • a display device of the type illustrated in Fig. 7C, for example, may be used as the displays 402, 404 of the electronic book 400 of Fig. 4.
  • the electronic book 400 further comprises an input device, e.g., keypad or keyboard 408 and a data storage device, e.g., CD disk drive 407.
  • a hinge 406 is provided so that the electronic book 400 can be folded protecting the displays 402, 404 when not in use.
  • An internal battery may be used to power the electronic book 400.
  • other portable computer embodiments of the present invention may be powered by batteries.

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L'invention concerne des procédés et un appareil permettant d'échantillonner des données d'image (620) et de mapper les échantillons (622, 623, 624) avec des sous-composants de pixels (632, 633, 634) formant un élément de pixel d'un afficheur LCD, de manière que chaque sous-composant de pixel (632, 633, 634) comprenne une partie différente de l'image (620) mappée à cet effet. Les procédés employés peuvent faire intervenir des afficheurs LCD classiques couleur dont les pixels comportent trois sous-éléments ou des sous-composants non superposés de pixels rectangulaires rouges, verts et bleus. On peut disposer les sous-composants de pixels (632, 633, 634) sur le dispositif d'affichage afin d'obtenir des lignes horizontales ou verticales de chaque couleur. On utilise chaque sous-composant de pixel RVB réglable de façon indépendante pour augmenter efficacement la résolution d'un écran dans la dimension perpendiculaire à celle des lignes de l'écran. Un procédé de conversion à balayage mappe les échantillons (622, 623, 624) des données d'image (620) avec chaque sous-composant de pixel correspondant à une partie différente de l'image. Au lieu de générer les valeurs de couleur du pixel entier sur la base d'un seul échantillon ou de la même partie de l'image, on génère les valeurs de couleur de façon indépendante pour chacun des sous-composants de pixel rouges, verts et bleus en fonction des différentes parties de l'image (620).
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