OLED Gray-Level Compensation Using Dynamic Luminance Offsets

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing gray-level compensation methods for OLED displays have poor flexibility and can lead to over-compensation of low gray-level pixels and reduction of gray-scale levels for high gray-level pixels, impacting image uniformity and detail.

Innovation Solution

A gray-level compensation method that determines an actual luminance offset based on the initial gray-level value, using interpolation coefficients that vary with gray-level thresholds to adjust the applied voltage, ensuring accurate gray-level compensation without over-compensation or reduction in gray-scale levels.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If a fixed luminance offset is used for gray-level compensation, then the compensation process is simple, but low gray-level pixels are over-compensated and high gray-level pixels lose gray-scale levels

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompensation process simplicityVSAvoidgray-level compensation accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the gray-level range into multiple segments (first gray-level range and second gray-level range) with different thresholds. Each segment uses a different interpolation coefficient (first interpolation coefficient for low gray-levels, second interpolation coefficient for high gray-levels), preventing over-compensation in low segments and gray-scale loss in high segments while maintaining compensation simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent makes the luminance offset dynamic by using interpolation coefficients that vary with the initial gray-level value. Instead of a fixed offset, the system dynamically adjusts the offset based on the pixel's gray-level position within different ranges, allowing precise compensation for each gray-level while keeping the overall process simple through automated classification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Manufacturing precision

If different luminance offsets are used for different gray-level values, then gray-level compensation accuracy is improved, but the complexity of determining appropriate offsets increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegray-level compensation accuracyVSAvoidoffset determination complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the parameter of luminance offset based on the initial gray-level value. By establishing a correspondence between gray-level values and luminance offsets (through interpolation coefficients that vary with gray-level thresholds), the system achieves accurate compensation for each gray-level while managing complexity through systematic parameter variation rather than arbitrary adjustments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies different interpolation coefficients to different gray-level ranges, giving each region its own optimized compensation characteristics. Low gray-level pixels use one coefficient to prevent over-compensation, while high gray-level pixels use another to preserve gray-scale levels, achieving locally optimized compensation without requiring complex global optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11217146B2Gray-level compensation method and apparatus, display device and computer storage medium
Publication Date: 2022.01.04 ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS
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AI summary

A gray-level compensation method and apparatus, a display device and a computer storage medium are provided, which belong to the field of display technology. The method includes: acquiring an initial gray-level value of a target pixel; determining an actual luminance offset of the target pixel based on the initial gray-level value, where different initial gray-level values within a specified threshold range correspond to different actual luminance offsets; and performing a gray-level compensation on the target pixel based on the actual luminance offset. The actual luminance offset is determined based on the initial gray-level value of the target pixel, and since the different initial gray-level values within the specified threshold range correspond to the different actual luminance offsets, flexibility of gray-level compensation performed on the pixel is improved.