Spliced Display Screens: Gray-Scale Compensation for Thermal Variation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The spliced display screens, particularly mini LED displays, suffer from temperature-related issues due to inefficient heat dissipation, leading to reduced luminous efficiency and visual afterimages, and existing gray scale compensation algorithms lack universality across different spliced display screens with varying resolutions and peak brightness.

Innovation Solution

A method for spliced display screens that involves sampling frame image data, performing gray scale compensation using a pre-generated compensation table with temperature adjustment parameters specific to each screen, and applying convolution kernels to account for thermal diffusion, ensuring consistent compensation across diverse display configurations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a conventional gray scale compensation algorithm is used, then compensation can be achieved for a single spliced display screen, but the algorithm lacks universality and cannot be applied to different display screens with varying resolutions and peak brightness

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuniversality of gray scale compensation algorithmVSAvoidcomplexity of adapting algorithm to different screens
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms the compensation algorithm into a universal form by changing parameters dynamically. Instead of hardcoding screen-specific values, the system uses adjustable parameters including a temperature adjustment parameter that varies with the spliced display screen, and a gray scale compensation coefficient that is determined based on region characteristics. This allows the same algorithm to adapt to different resolutions and peak brightness levels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The algorithm becomes dynamic by determining the gray scale compensation coefficient based on the specific characteristics of each display region rather than using fixed values. The system calculates this coefficient dynamically during operation, allowing the compensation to automatically adapt to the actual display conditions of each region without requiring manual reconfiguration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Duration of action of moving object

If mini LED display operates for a long time, then continuous display is achieved, but heat accumulation causes temperature increase and reduced luminous efficiency

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontinuous operation timeVSAvoidscreen temperature
Core Design Contradiction:
Duration of action of moving objectVSTemperature

Solution Approach 1:

The patent converts the harmful thermal diffusion effect into a beneficial compensation mechanism. Instead of trying to eliminate heat accumulation, the system measures the temperature-induced gray scale changes and uses this information to dynamically adjust the display output. The thermal diffusion between adjacent regions is accounted for by calculating compensation coefficients that compensate for the temperature variations, transforming the heat problem into a controllable parameter.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

3Device complexity

If gray scale compensation is performed without considering thermal diffusion, then processing is simplified, but temperature differences between regions cause visual afterimages

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomplexity of compensation processingVSAvoiddisplay quality consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the display screen into multiple regions and calculates a separate gray scale compensation coefficient for each region. This segmentation allows the system to account for local temperature variations and thermal diffusion effects specific to each region, rather than applying a uniform compensation approach. By processing regions independently with their own compensation coefficients, the system maintains manageable complexity while achieving high display quality consistency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12424140B2Spliced display screen, and display method, parameter determination method and control system for the same
Publication Date: 2025.09.23 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

A spliced display screen, and a display method, a parameter determination method and a control system for a spliced display screen are provided. The spliced display screen includes display panels spliced together. The method includes: determining initial gray scale compensation data according to first gray scale data of a pixel in current frame image data and a gray scale compensation data table, the gray scale compensation data table includes a temperature adjustment parameter configured for the spliced display screen, which varies with the spliced display screen; determining a gray scale compensation coefficient of each display region of at least one display panel; determining target gray scale compensation data according to the gray scale compensation coefficient and the initial gray scale compensation data; and performing a gray scale compensation on the current frame image data according to the target gray scale compensation data to obtain compensated frame image data.