Single Pixel Monochromatic Display Module for Eye Fatigue Reduction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Color displays using primary colors (Red, Green, Blue) cause eye and brain fatigue due to forced blurring, leading to potential long-term harm, especially in children, and result in unclear images with visible primary colors.

Innovation Solution

A single pixel monochromatic display module comprising multiple color light sources, a light convergent plate, a light refractive plate with curved surfaces, a color mixing screen, and a light blocking wall, which converges and refracts light beams to produce a single monochromatic color, reducing environmental light influence and enhancing contrast.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If color displays use primary colors (Red, Green, Blue) to simulate actual colors, then color variety is improved, but eye and brain fatigue increases due to forced blurring treatment

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor varietyVSAvoideye and brain fatigue
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and eliminates the harmful blurring treatment from the color display system. Instead of forcing the brain to blur primary colors to perceive actual colors, the invention directly displays actual colors through a single pixel monochromatic display, removing the source of eye and brain fatigue while preserving color variety

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a color conversion layer as an intermediary between the primary color light sources and the viewer's eyes. This layer converts the primary colors into actual colors, allowing the display to show true colors without requiring the brain to perform blurring treatment, thus eliminating fatigue while maintaining color variety

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If color displays use primary color dots, then color simulation is improved, but image clarity deteriorates making images unclear and causing dizziness

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor simulationVSAvoidimage clarity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent removes the primary color dot structure from the display system and replaces it with a single pixel monochromatic display structure. This extraction eliminates the visibility of separate primary color dots, resulting in clear images without dizziness while maintaining the ability to simulate various colors through monochromatic wavelengths

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the fundamental parameter of color representation from composite primary colors to single-wavelength monochromatic colors. By displaying actual colors directly through their corresponding monochromatic wavelengths rather than combining primary colors, the system achieves both accurate color simulation and clear, non-dizzy images

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Area of stationary object

If large color displays are used, then viewing area is improved, but primary colors remain clearly visible causing dizziness even at distance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveviewing areaVSAvoiddizziness and visible primary colors
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the color display into multiple single pixel monochromatic display units arranged in an array. Each unit displays a specific monochromatic color, and when viewed together, they form a complete color image. This segmentation allows large viewing areas while ensuring that individual pixels display true monochromatic colors rather than visible primary color dots, eliminating dizziness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses an array of single pixel monochromatic display units that copy the structure of natural color perception. Each unit corresponds to a specific color wavelength, creating a large-scale display that maintains the clarity and accuracy of monochromatic color representation across the entire viewing area without causing dizziness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The solution provides a clear, fatigue-free image by eliminating the visibility of primary colors, resulting in improved dark-light contrast and reduced eye strain, while maintaining image clarity even at larger scales.

Implementation Method 1

each of the concave lenses gathers a bundle of diffused light beams generated by a respective color light source so that the bundle of diffused light beams generated by the respective color light source are gathered and projected to a light refractive color convergent plate

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight convergence: Lens

Implementation Method 2

each refraction curved surface refracts a respective bundle of diffused light beams converged by the light convergent plate to another side (a light casting surface) of the light refractive color convergent plate; different bundles of diffused light beams converged by the light convergent plate and then refracted by different refraction curved surfaces in the single pixel monochromatic display and signal-receivable module are however refracted to the same locations at the light casting surface

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight refraction: Refraction

Implementation Method 3

the color mixing screen is a screen that projects the light beams of different colors generated by different color light sources as a monochromatic color

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectColor mixing:

Data Source

PatentUS9310051B2Single pixel monochromatic display and signal-receivable module, and a device containing the module
Publication Date: 2016.04.12 WONG YUEN CHIU
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AI summary

A single pixel monochromatic display and signal-receivable module, and a device containing the module; the module is mainly a combination of a set of lenses and a color mixing screen; light beams projected from color light sources are converged through a light convergent plate, and then refracted through the light refractive color convergent plate which has refraction curved surfaces to same locations on a color mixing screen on which a single color is formed and a single pixel is thereby constituted; even subject to enlargement, there are no more tri-colors in a single pixel but only one single color in a single pixel; the module can also be used to emit or receive invisible electromagnetic waves, or can receive electromagnetic wave signals of another wave length during display.