Color Tracking Modifying Module for Display Panels

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional color tracking methods fail to accurately normalize display effects across different display panels due to inconsistencies in measured display components, leading to offsets between target and actual grayscale color temperatures.

Innovation Solution

The method modifies measured display values by calculating and applying monochromatic modification values based on differences between grayscale and monochromatic components, ensuring that the sum of modified monochromatic components matches the grayscale blending component, thereby adjusting display settings for accurate color tracking.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional color tracking methods are used to measure display components, then color tracking can be performed, but measurement precision deteriorates due to inconsistencies between grayscale and monochromatic components

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor tracking accuracyVSAvoidconsistency of display components
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-calculating modification values for monochromatic display components based on the difference between grayscale and monochromatic measurements. These modification values are stored and applied before final color tracking calculations, ensuring that the monochromatic components are adjusted to match the grayscale reference standard, thereby resolving the inconsistency issue before it affects measurement precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameters of monochromatic display components by applying calculated modification values to adjust their luminance, red, green, and blue components. This parameter adjustment ensures that the monochromatic components align with the grayscale components, resolving the reliability issue while maintaining measurement precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Manufacturing precision

If display settings are adjusted based on unmodified measured values, then color tracking process is simple, but manufacturing precision deteriorates due to offset between target and actual grayscale color temperatures

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegrayscale color temperature accuracyVSAvoidcolor tracking process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-calculating and storing modification values for monochromatic display components before the actual color tracking process. This preliminary preparation eliminates the need for complex real-time calculations during color tracking, thereby improving manufacturing precision without significantly increasing device complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces modification values as an intermediary element between the raw measured display components and the final color tracking settings. These modification values serve as a bridge that corrects the inconsistency between grayscale and monochromatic components, improving color temperature accuracy while keeping the overall process manageable

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If monochromatic display components are used directly without modification, then ease of operation is maintained, but measurement precision deteriorates due to light leakage and panel characteristics

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay component consistencyVSAvoidsimplicity of color tracking
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies self-service by enabling the color tracking system to automatically calculate and apply modification values to correct inconsistencies in monochromatic display components. The system self-corrects for light leakage and panel characteristics without requiring manual intervention, thereby improving measurement precision while maintaining ease of operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent automatically changes the parameters of monochromatic display components by applying modification values that compensate for light leakage and panel characteristics. This automatic parameter adjustment improves display component consistency without adding operational complexity, as the process is handled by the system itself

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS8665288B2Color tracking method for panel and associated modifying module
Publication Date: 2014.03.04 MEDIATEK INC
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AI summary

A color tracking method for a panel and an associated modifying module are provided. A set of measured display values are obtained according to a measurement of the panel by a color meter and the measured display values are modified. Display settings of the panel are then calculated according to the modified display values.