Display Apparatus Capacitive Coupling for Resolution Mismatch

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Solution Overview

Problem

Display apparatuses face challenges in properly displaying images with mismatched resolutions, requiring data conversion that increases power consumption and necessitates dedicated circuits for HDR processing, while also aiming to enhance image quality, reduce power consumption, and enable upconversion and superimposition of images without data conversion.

Innovation Solution

A display apparatus comprising a light-emitting element, transistors, capacitors, and specific wiring configurations that allow for capacitive coupling of image data, enabling proper display without data conversion, HDR processing, and upconversion operations, while reducing power consumption through efficient data handling and luminance enhancement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If data conversion is performed to match display resolution with image data resolution, then proper display is achieved, but power consumption increases and dedicated circuits are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay accuracyVSAvoidpower consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the data conversion function from dedicated hardware circuits and relocates it to be performed by the host device's processor. This eliminates the need for separate conversion circuits in the display apparatus, reducing power consumption while maintaining display accuracy through software-based resolution matching.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Reliability

If dedicated circuits are added for HDR processing and data conversion, then image quality is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage qualityVSAvoidcircuit complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent makes the host device's processor universal by enabling it to perform multiple functions including image processing, HDR processing, and data conversion. This eliminates the need for dedicated circuits in the display apparatus, reducing device complexity while maintaining image quality through software-based processing.

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

3Reliability

If resolution upconversion is performed, then proper display on high-resolution screens is achieved, but additional processing circuits are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay compatibilityVSAvoidprocessing circuitry
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the resolution upconversion function from the display apparatus hardware and relocates it to the host device's processor. The display apparatus receives already-upconverted image data, eliminating the need for additional processing circuits while ensuring display compatibility through software-based resolution adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS12089459B2Display apparatus and electronic device
Publication Date: 2024.09.10 SEMICON ENERGY LAB CO LTD
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AI summary

A display apparatus with low power consumption and high image quality is provided. The display apparatus includes a light-emitting element, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. Preferably, one electrode of the light-emitting element is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the first transistor; the one electrode of the light-emitting element is electrically connected to one electrode of the first capacitor; a gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the second transistor; the gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to one electrode of the second capacitor; the other electrode of the second capacitor is electrically connected to the other electrode of the first capacitor; and the other electrode of the second capacitor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the third transistor.