Adaptive Pixel Unit Shape Optimization for Display Clarity

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Current display devices face challenges in achieving improved image quality without increasing resolution, particularly in effectively rendering images that require specific shapes and orientations of pixel units, such as horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines.

Innovation Solution

A display device with a driving method that analyzes image data to determine the shapes of pixel units, including sub-pixels emitting different colors, and generates display data to optimize the arrangement and shape of these units based on the image content, allowing for improved recognition image quality without increasing resolution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the resolution of the display device is increased to improve image quality, then the image clarity is improved, but the device complexity and manufacturing cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage qualityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The pixel array is divided into multiple pixel units, each comprising multiple sub-pixels of different colors (red, green, blue). This segmentation allows the display to render images with improved clarity by strategically activating specific sub-pixels within each pixel unit, rather than increasing the overall resolution of the entire display.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different pixel units are configured with different combinations of sub-pixels based on the local image content requirements. The driving unit analyzes the image data and determines the optimal shape and sub-pixel activation for each pixel unit, allowing local optimization of image quality without uniformly increasing the complexity of the entire display device.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If the resolution is increased to reduce color mixture, then the image clarity is improved, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage clarityVSAvoidmanufacturing precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

Each pixel unit is segmented into multiple sub-pixels with distinct color functions. By controlling which sub-pixels are activated in each pixel unit, the system reduces color mixture effects without requiring tighter physical spacing or higher manufacturing precision across the entire display.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The configuration of active sub-pixels in each pixel unit is dynamically adjusted based on the image content being displayed. The driving unit analyzes image data and determines the optimal sub-pixel activation pattern for each pixel unit, allowing the display to adaptively reduce color mixture for different image scenarios without fixed high-precision structural constraints.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Measurement precision

If different shapes of pixel units are used to optimize image rendering, then the image quality is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage qualityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The shape and configuration of pixel units are dynamically determined based on image content analysis. The driving unit receives image data, analyzes it to identify lines and curves, and then determines the optimal pixel unit shape (e.g., horizontal, vertical, diagonal orientations) for rendering each region, allowing adaptive optimization without fixed complex structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The same physical pixel array structure serves multiple functions by dynamically reconfiguring which sub-pixels are activated and how pixel units are grouped. This universal approach allows the display to render different image features (lines, curves, text) effectively without requiring physically different pixel structures for each case.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12142182B2Display device and driving method of display device
Publication Date: 2024.11.12 SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD
  • US12142182B2 patent drawing
  • US12142182B2 patent drawing
  • US12142182B2 patent drawing

AI summary

A display device, includes: a display panel; and a driving unit configured to receive image data, analyze the image data, and determine shapes of a plurality of pixel units making up the image, wherein the plurality of pixel units include a first pixel unit including a plurality of first sub-pixels or a second pixel unit including a plurality of second sub-pixels and having a shape different from a shape of the first pixel unit, and wherein the first sub-pixels and the second sub-pixels include a 1-1st color sub-pixel configured to emit a first color, a 1-2nd color sub-pixel configured to emit the first color, a second color sub-pixel configured to emit a second color, the second color being different from the first color, and a third color sub-pixel configured to emit a third color, the third color being different from the first color and the second color.