Himax Technologies, Inc.

Himax Media Solutions, Inc.

Tung-Ying Wu

Tsai-Hsing Chen

Cheng-Che Tsai

Ming-Hung Weng

Yi-Hsiu Lin

Chiu-Yu Chen

Chao-Chen Huang

Chun-Te Ho

The display driving device includes a processing module and a dithering module. The processing module is coupled to the dithering module. The processing module is configured to analyze reference image data to record a first dithering map, and compare the first dithering map with a second dithering map of the dithering module. When the processing module determines that the first dithering map and the second dithering map have same carry points at same pixel positions, the processing module is further configured to calibrate the second dithering map to generate a calibrated second dithering map.

Display driving device configured to compare a first dithering map with a second dithering map, and display driving method

An optical distortion correction system includes a correction device that generates correction values according to data from a lens; a weighting device that generates weights for corresponding data according to the correction values; a jag detector that detects a jag in an outline according to the data; a filter that provides a spatial filter when a jag is detected; and a smoothing device that smooths the data by the weights and the spatial filter, thereby resulting in smoothed data.

Optical distortion correction system and method

A compensating circuit and a compensating method for a pixel data of a display device are provided. The compensating circuit includes a color calculator, a gain value generator and a calculating circuit. The color calculator generates a color value according to a color of the pixel data. The gain value generator generates a first gain value according to the color value and a duty cycle of an emission driving signal, and generates a second gain value according to the duty cycle and a gray value of the pixel data. The calculating circuit calculates a compensated pixel data according to the pixel data, the first gain value and the second gain value.

Compensating circuit and compensating method for pixel data of display device

A luminance control circuit and a luminance control method are provided. The luminance control circuit includes a first converter, average pixel level (APL) calculator, a luminance adjusting circuit and a second converter. The first converter converts a gray level result of an image data into at least one luminance. The APL calculator generates an APL value according to the at least one luminance. The luminance adjusting circuit generates at least one adjusting value according to the APL value and adjust the at least one luminance to be at least one adjusted luminance using the least one adjusting value. The second converter converts the at least one adjusted luminance into an adjusted gray level result of the image data. The adjusted gray level result is negative correlated with the APL value.

Luminance control circuit and luminance control method

The disclosure provides a compensating circuit for overdriving a data signal of display device. The compensating circuit includes a memory circuit, an offsetting circuit and an overdriving value generator. The memory circuit stores a first offset gray value of a first frame period. The offsetting circuit receives the first offset gray value, a duty value of an emission driving signal and a current gray value of the data signal. The offsetting circuit generates a second offset gray value of a second frame period according to the duty value, the current gray value and the first offset gray value, and stores the second offset gray value into the memory circuit. The overdriving value generator generates an overdriving value for overdriving the data signal to generate a compensated data signal according to the second offset gray value and the current gray value.

Compensating circuit for overdriving data signal of display device

A timing controller for controlling a plurality of driving circuits of a light-emitting diode (LED) display device is provided. The timing controller comprises: a voltage level conversion circuit and a setting circuit. The voltage level conversion circuit is configured to determine a plurality of voltage level settings with respect to a plurality of image regions of an input image. The setting circuit is configured to respectively set the plurality of driving circuits of the LED display device according to the plurality of voltage level settings, wherein the third circuitry is configured to set each of the plurality of driving circuits to utilize a drive voltage at a specific level that is indicated by a corresponding one of the voltage level settings, to respectively drive LED units of the LED display device.

Method of controlling driving circuit of led display device and related timing controller and led display device thereof

A digital low color shift (DLCS) edge smoothing method, for a display panel having a plurality of pixels, includes determining an edge gain of a first pixel of the plurality of pixels of the display panel; and smoothing the edge of the first pixel and the other neighbor pixels of the plurality of pixels of the display panel according to a spatial filter.

Digital low color shift edge smoothing method and related device

The display device that includes a backlight module and a control circuit is introduced. The control circuit divides an input image to a plurality of blocks, calculates a backlight parameter of each of the blocks, calculates a first duty cycle shift and a second duty cycle shift according to a plurality of duty cycles in the backlight parameter, calculates a first weight value and a second weight value according to a maximum duty cycle, a minimum duty cycle, and a duty cycle mean, and calculates a peaking duty cycle the first duty cycle shift, the second duty cycle shift, the first weight value and the second weight value. The control circuit is further configured to generate an output backlight parameter according to the peaking duty cycle, wherein the corresponding lighting unit of the backlight module is driven according to the output backlight parameter.

Display device with backlight and method thereof

An overdrive system includes a compressor that compresses an input signal to result in a compressed signal; a weighting device that generates a weighted sum of a current compressed signal and a current input signal, thereby resulting in a weighted current signal; and an overdriver that performs an overdrive operation according to a previous compressed signal and the weighted current signal.

Liquid-crystal display and an overdrive system thereof

A device for driving a backlight assembly of a display device includes: a block division unit for dividing the input image into plural blocks and a duty cycle determination unit. The duty cycle determination unit is used for: generating a histogram of gray levels of pixels of each block; obtaining a high gray level and a median gray level of each block according to the histogram; obtaining a high gray quantity based on the high gray level and a median gray quantity of the median gray level of each block according to the histogram; obtaining a weight value of each block according to the high gray level, the high gray quantity, the median gray quantity, and a lookup table; and calculating a duty cycle of a driving signal of each block according to the weight value, the high gray level, and the median gray level.

Method for driving display device

The invention provides a driving circuit of a display panel and an operation method thereof. The driving circuit includes a calculation circuit and an edge processing circuit. The calculation circuit converts original image frame data into first image frame data for driving a first pixel array layer and second image frame data for driving a second pixel array layer. The edge processing circuit converts the second image frame data into third image frame data. The edge processing circuit performs an edge detection on a current pixel in the second image frame data to determine whether the current pixel belongs to an image edge. The edge processing circuit determines whether to adjust a gray level of an adjacent pixel in the second image frame data as the gray level of the adjacent pixel in the third image frame data according to a result of the edge detection.

Driving circuit of display panel and operation method thereof

A polarity compensation device and a polarity compensation method are provided. The polarity compensation device includes a variance calculation circuit and a compensation calculation circuit. The variance calculation circuit calculates a difference value between current sub-pixel data and previous sub-pixel data in the same frame period, wherein the current sub-pixel data and the previous sub-pixel data belong to the same data line of a display panel. The compensation calculation circuit converts the difference value into a function value. The compensation calculation circuit decides to increase or decrease the current sub-pixel data by the function value according to a polarity corresponding to the same frame period, so as to generate compensated sub-pixel data.

Polarity compensation device and method

A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array. A method of driving the liquid crystal display includes determining a frame rate weight according to a current frame rate of a plurality of image frames, performing linear prediction according to the current frame rate to generate an initial overdrive value of a sub-pixel, selecting an error correction value according to a previous gray level of the sub-pixel, generating an overdrive weight according to the previous gray level and a current gray level of the sub-pixel, generating an overdrive offset according to a product of the error correction value, the frame rate weight and the overdrive weight, combining the initial overdrive value and the overdrive offset to generate a corrected overdrive value, and driving the sub-pixel according to the corrected overdrive value.

Method of driving liquid crystal display and display device utilizing same

A method for performing dynamic peak brightness control in a display module and an associated timing controller are provided. The method includes: calculating a maximum value and a minimum value of a previous image to determine a contrast ratio (CR) of the previous image; calculating a maximum level quantity (MLQ) of the previous image, wherein the MLQ represents a number of pixels corresponding to the maximum value; performing pixel data mapping on original pixel data of a current image according to a first gain corresponding to the MLQ, to generate intermediate pixel data of the current image; and performing selective pixel data adjustment on the intermediate pixel data according to a second gain corresponding to the CR and the MLQ, to generate updated pixel data of the current image, for being displayed on a display panel of the display module, wherein the updated pixel data replaces the original pixel data.

Method for performing dynamic peak brightness control in display module, and associated timing controller

A timing controller includes an image compensator for generating compensated image data. The image compensator is configured to: divide an input image into plural image blocks; select plural pixels located at one column of the image block as plural target pixels; generate an average representative gray level of the image block according to a histogram of gray levels of the image block; input the average representative gray level into a first lookup table to obtain a first gain; input a vertical pixel position of the target pixel and the average representative gray level into a second lookup table to obtain a second gain; obtain the compensated gray level by multiplying the gray level, the first gain, and the second gain of the target pixel; and replace the gray levels with the compensated gray levels to acquire the compensated image data.

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Tainan, Taiwan

Tung-Ying Wu