Gamma Correction for Non-Uniform Display Subareas

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current gamma correction methods are inadequate for display panels with non-uniform pixel density, as they cannot accurately adjust the display brightness of subareas with different resolutions, leading to poor image quality and visibility issues.

Innovation Solution

A gamma correction method that separately adjusts the display brightness of each subarea with different resolutions by using a reference brightness to determine correction parameters, allowing for improved granularity and accuracy in gamma correction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If uniform gamma correction is applied to the entire display panel, then the correction process is simple, but it cannot accurately correct subareas with different resolutions leading to poor image quality

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegamma correction process simplicityVSAvoiddisplay brightness correction accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display panel is divided into multiple subareas with different resolutions (first subarea with first resolution, second subarea with second resolution). Each subarea is independently corrected using its own correction parameters, allowing accurate brightness adjustment for each resolution level while maintaining a systematic correction process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different correction parameters are applied to different subareas based on their specific resolution characteristics. The first subarea receives correction parameters optimized for its resolution, while the second subarea receives different correction parameters suited to its resolution, ensuring locally optimal image quality for each region.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Manufacturing precision

If separate gamma correction is performed for each subarea with different resolutions, then image quality is improved, but the correction process becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay brightness correction accuracyVSAvoidgamma correction process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The gamma correction apparatus is designed to handle multiple subareas with different resolutions using a unified correction framework. The same apparatus can process the first subarea with first resolution and the second subarea with second resolution, applying different correction parameters through a single integrated system, thereby reducing overall complexity.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system adjusts correction parameters dynamically based on the resolution of each subarea. By changing the correction parameters according to the specific resolution requirements of each subarea, the system achieves accurate correction without requiring fundamentally different correction mechanisms for each subarea.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If the display panel has non-uniform pixel density with different resolution subareas, then display flexibility is improved, but uniform gamma correction methods fail to ensure ideal display brightness

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay panel resolution flexibilityVSAvoiddisplay brightness consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The display panel is segmented into distinct subareas (first subarea, second subarea) with different resolutions and pixel densities. This segmentation allows each subarea to be independently characterized and corrected, ensuring that the varying pixel densities are properly compensated to achieve consistent display brightness across the entire panel.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Each subarea receives localized correction parameters tailored to its specific pixel density and resolution characteristics. This local quality approach ensures that the first subarea and second subarea, despite their different resolutions, both achieve ideal display brightness through region-specific optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11217141B2Gamma correction method and apparatus, display apparatus, computer storage medium
Publication Date: 2022.01.04 CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The disclosure relates to a gamma correction method. The gamma correction method may include controlling a display panel to perform image display, the display panel comprising a plurality of display subareas and at least two of the plurality of display subareas having different resolutions; obtaining display brightness of the plurality of display subareas performing image display; and performing gamma correction on the display panel based on the display brightness of the plurality of display subareas respectively to obtain a correction parameter of each of the plurality of display subareas. An image displayed by the display panel may have an image resolution that is greater than a resolution of at least one of the plurality of display subareas.