Display Panel Luminance and Color Pixel Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current display panels struggle to simultaneously achieve high luminance and high color-saturation images while maintaining high resolution, especially in structures like RGBW and WRGB subpixel arrangements, which often compromise on sharpness and contrast due to limitations in subpixel rendering and color gamut.

Innovation Solution

A display panel comprising luminance pixels and color pixels, where luminance pixels output higher luminance and color pixels output higher color purity, with a controller that separates and adjusts input image data to optimize luminance and color gamut, and arranges pixels in a checkerboard pattern to enhance image display, particularly in areas with varying color saturation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If RGBW subpixel structure is used to increase luminance, then luminance is improved, but color saturation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveluminanceVSAvoidcolor saturation
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The display panel is divided into two distinct pixel types: luminance pixels (including WRGB subpixels) dedicated to high luminance output, and color pixels (including RGB subpixels) dedicated to high color saturation output. This segmentation allows each pixel type to optimize its specific function without compromising the other, resolving the contradiction between luminance and color saturation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different regions of the display panel have different functional qualities: luminance pixels are optimized for brightness with white subpixels added, while color pixels are optimized for color purity with standard RGB subpixels. This local differentiation of quality allows simultaneous achievement of high luminance in appropriate areas and high color saturation in other areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If subpixel rendering is applied to improve resolution, then resolution is improved, but sharpness and contrast deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveresolutionVSAvoidsharpness
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display panel is segmented into luminance pixels and color pixels arranged in a checkerboard pattern, providing sufficient pixel density to achieve high resolution without requiring aggressive subpixel rendering techniques that would compromise sharpness and contrast.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Reliability

If color pixels are used to improve color saturation, then color purity is improved, but luminance output deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor purityVSAvoidluminance
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The display panel is divided into two distinct pixel types: luminance pixels (including WRGB subpixels) dedicated to high luminance output, and color pixels (including RGB subpixels) dedicated to high color saturation output. This segmentation allows each pixel type to optimize its specific function without compromising the other, resolving the contradiction between luminance and color saturation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11468865B2Display panel for displaying high-luminance and high-color saturation image, and image display apparatus including the same
Publication Date: 2022.10.11 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

Disclosed is an image display apparatus including a display panel having a plurality of pixels, and a controller configured to control the display panel, wherein the plurality of pixels includes luminance pixels including subpixels of multiple colors and color pixels including subpixels of multiple colors, and wherein the luminance pixels output light with luminance higher than luminance of the color pixels and the color pixels output light with color purity higher than color purity of the luminance pixels. Accordingly, a high luminance and high color-saturation image may be displayed with the image display apparatus including the luminance pixels and the color pixels.