Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon Information Systems Research Australia Pty. Ltd.

Canon Inc.

William Clark Naylor, Jr

Kia Silverbrook

Mark Pulver

David R Brown

Natalie L Kershaw

Michael Webb

Rodney James Whitby

Method of producing a dither matrix by dividing an array into a

A color display system that is capable of taking input intended to be displayed on a full color display (e.g. VDU) having a high refresh rate and displaying the image on a display having a much reduced number of displayable colors and a lower refresh rate. 24-bit RGB data is input and converted into bi-level RGBW data and halftoned in a render unit for storage before display. Motion detection is used to ensure that only those pixels that have change in value are updated on the display.

Color display system

The design of a single pixel in a discrete level display is replicated a large number of times, often over a million times. The design of the pixel arrangement has substantial consequences in the quality of any image reproduced utilizing the pixel arrangement. In reducing unwanted artifacts, many factors must be considered. The present invention discloses a superior form of pixel arrangement for a discrete level display having optically balanced properties in addition to an intermingling of illumination areas at higher intensities and an irregular format of illumination.

Intermingling subpixels in discrete level displays

A method of displaying color images, intended to be displayed on a first color display device, on a second color display device having a color gamut (2) different from a color gamut (1) of the first color display device. The method includes a first step of determining a plurality of input extrema color values (RGB), within the color gamut (1) of the first color display device and at the extrema of the gamut of the first color display. Next, the method determines a plurality of output extrema color values (R'G'B') corresponding to the input extrema color values (RGB), within the color gamut (2) of the second color display and at the extrema of the gamut (2) of the second color display. Then, the method determines a mapping for substantially all the values within the color gamut (1) of the first color display to substantially all the values within the gamut (2) of the second color display, the mapping substantially preserving the relative value of differences between color values relative to the extent of the gamut (1) of the first color space and differences between corresponding color values in the gamut (2) of the second color space relative to the extent of the gamut (2) of the second color space.

Color conversion method

An apparatus and method for suppressing noise and an input image having a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels in the plurality of pixels having a range of possible values between at least two extremities. A first group of pixels is determined, each pixel of the first group having a value that is less than a predetermined amount from the value of at least one of the extremities. The values of pixels adjacent to each pixel in the first group are examined to determine if the adjacent pixels are also members of the first group and, when a predetermined number of the pixels adjacent to a pixel in the first group are also members of the first group, reassigning the pixel value of that pixel in the first group and each of its adjacent pixels to have the value of at least one of the extremities.

Noise quenching method and apparatus for a colour display system

A pixel display includes a pixel pattern containing multiple pixels each of which having multiple primary color sub-regions of illumination. These sub-regions are arranged such that they extend in a first direction substantially from one side of the pixel to the other, and in a second direction, substantially normal to the first direction, they have only a limited extent in the pixel. These sub-regions include a multiple number of illumination areas and are arranged such that the center of illumination is substantially stable with respect to movement in the first direction and is substantially constrained to movement in the second direction.

Display pixel balancing for a multi color discrete level display

A method of creating a three dimensional halftone dither matrix, in which the matrix is divided into a predetermined number of levels with each level comprising a two dimensional matrix of activation indicators having positional values including x and y positional components. The method includes the steps of firstly creating a series of three dimensional curves, from a two dimensional array of dither values, the two dimensional array being of the same dimensions as the two dimensional matrix and including level value entries, each of the level value entries having a corresponding three dimensional curve, the three dimensional curve starting at a starting level corresponding to the dither matrix value and at a position corresponding to the x and y positional components of the level value entry, the three dimensional curve terminating at the highest level of the three dimensional halftone dither matrix and taking one x and y positional value on each level between the starting level and the highest level. Secondly, the method forms an objective function having at least two components, a first component being a measure of the evenness of the distribution of the positional values of the curves for a particular level, and the second component being a measure of the deviation of the curve from a straight vertical line. Thirdly, the method optimizes the objective function so that the positional values at any of the levels of the series of curves have a high degree of evenness of distribution and the curves have a low degree of deviation from a straight vertical line. Lastly, the method forms the three dimensional halftone dither matrix wherein the activation indicators are active in positions corresponding to the paths of each of the curves.

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William Clark Naylor, Jr