Display Panel Sub-Pixel Distribution Method

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional high-resolution display methods suffer from poor display effects and high calculation complexity due to uneven distribution of sub-pixels and complex calculation processes, leading to issues like jagged lines and grid spots.

Innovation Solution

A display method utilizing a display panel with sequentially arranged first, second, and third color sub-pixels, where the distribution ratios of these sub-pixels are calculated to determine display components, allowing for improved resolution and simplified calculations by treating sub-pixels as common units and redistributing color components based on median ratios.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the number of sub-pixels of some colors is halved to achieve Pentile mode, then the visual resolution is improved, but the sub-pixels are unevenly distributed causing jagged lines and grid spots

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual resolutionVSAvoiddisplay quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The display panel is divided into multiple repeat units, each containing three sub-pixels of different colors arranged sequentially. This segmentation allows for a systematic organization of sub-pixels that maintains even distribution while achieving higher visual resolution through the repeat unit structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a new organizational dimension by arranging sub-pixels in sequential rows within repeat units rather than traditional grid patterns. This dimensional reorganization allows for even distribution of sub-pixels across the display while maintaining high resolution, eliminating the jagged lines and grid spots caused by conventional Pentile mode.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Measurement precision

If the layer and partition calculation mode is adopted to achieve high resolution, then the visual effect is improved, but the calculation amount becomes large

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveresolutionVSAvoidcalculation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and eliminates the complex layer and partition calculation mode from the display processing. By using a simplified repeat unit structure with sequential sub-pixel arrangement, the invention removes the need for complicated calculation processes while maintaining high resolution and good display effects.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses a simplified repeat unit structure that can be directly copied and applied across the entire display panel without requiring complex real-time calculations. This repeating pattern of three sub-pixels in sequence provides a straightforward framework for display processing that reduces computational complexity while achieving high resolution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Measurement precision

If sub-pixel sizes are decreased to improve resolution, then the display resolution increases, but the process limits prevent unlimited size reduction

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveresolutionVSAvoidprocess feasibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple sub-pixels into repeat units that share common structures and processing frameworks. By organizing sub-pixels into groups of three in sequential arrangement within repeat units, the invention achieves high resolution without requiring each individual sub-pixel to be extremely small, thus remaining within manufacturing process capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS9483971B2Display method of display panel
Publication Date: 2016.11.01 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention provides a display method of a display panel. The display panel in the present invention includes a plurality of repeat units each comprising a first, a second and a third color sub-pixels sequentially arranged in a row. The display method includes steps: determining a first, a second and a third color components of each repeat unit; obtaining a first and a second distribution ratios of one repeat unit respectively according to each ratio of the first color component to the second color component and of the second color component to the third color component in their respective common units; and determining respective display components of the first to the third color sub-pixels of the one repeat unit according to a total value of the first to the third color components of the one repeat unit as well as the first and the second distribution ratios.