Display system and driving method
AssigneeHimax Technologies Limited
InventorChih-Feng Lin
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Abstract
A display system that includes a display panel and a display device is provided. The display panel has display pixels each of the display pixels including two sub display pixels. The driving device includes a mode detection unit, a 1-D sub-pixel rendering unit and a 2-D sub-pixel rendering unit. The mode detection unit determines whether a predetermined condition of the first frame is met. The 1-D sub-pixel rendering unit generates first display pixel values when the predetermined condition is not met. The 2-D sub-pixel rendering unit generates second display pixel values when the predetermined condition is met. Either the first display pixel values or the second display pixel values are generated to be outputted to the display panel and are displayed by the display pixels.
Claims16
A display system comprising:
- a display panel having a plurality of display pixels arranged in display rows and display columns, each of the display pixels comprising two sub display pixels arranged along a row direction such that any consecutive three of the sub display pixels in either the row direction and a column direction display a combination of a first color, a second color and a third color;
- a driving device comprising:
- a mode detection circuit configured to receive a first image frame from a video source and to determine whether a predetermined condition of the first image frame is met;
- a one dimensional (1-D) sub-pixel rendering circuit configured to receive a second image frame having a plurality of data pixels arranged in data rows and data columns from the video source and to generate a plurality groups of first display pixel values each generated for one target data pixel based on the data pixels neighboring the target data pixel within a same one of the data rows when the predetermined condition is not met;
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- a two dimensional (2-D) sub-pixel rendering circuit configured to receive the second image frame from the video source and to generate a plurality groups of second display pixel values each generated for one target data pixel based on surrounding data pixels in the neighboring data rows and the neighboring data columns when the predetermined condition is met;
- wherein either the groups of the first display pixel values or the groups of the second display pixel values are generated to be outputted to the display panel and are displayed by the display pixels.
A driving method used in a display system comprising:
- providing a display panel having a plurality of display pixels arranged in display rows and display columns, each of the display pixels comprising two sub display pixels arranged along a row direction such that any consecutive three of the sub display pixels in either the row direction and a column direction display a combination of a first color, a second color and a third color;
- receiving a first image frame from a video source and determining whether a predetermined condition of the first image frame is met;
- receiving a second image frame having a plurality of data pixels arranged in data rows and data columns from the video source by a one dimensional sub-pixel rendering circuit to generate a plurality groups of first display pixel values each generated for one target data pixel based on the data pixels neighboring the target data pixel within a same one of the data rows when the predetermined condition is not met;
- receiving the second image frame from the video source by a two dimensional sub-pixel rendering circuit to generate a plurality groups of second display pixel values each generated for one target data pixel based on surrounding data pixels in the neighboring data rows and the neighboring data columns when the predetermined condition is met;
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- generating and outputting either the groups of the first display pixel values or the groups of the second display pixel values to be displayed by the display pixels of the display panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.