This non-provisional application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a) on patent No(s). 111114068 filed in Republic of China (ROC) on April 13th, 2022, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
The present disclosure relates to a technical field of image displaying, and particularly relates to a color adjustment device of a display panel.
Recently, technology rapidly develops, electronic products also continue to be renewed and requirement of a display correspondingly increases. Hence, demand of image quality also increases. For the present, the light adjustment method of the light sources of the display mostly utilizes current signals to adjust light. However, when the luminance of the display is low, the light sources are likely to generate color variation, and there is a difference between an actual color and the color displayed by the display causing the image quality to lower.
According to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a color adjustment device applied to a display panel includes a first controller and a second controller. The first controller is configured to control light emission of the display panel. The second controller is electrically connected to the first controller, and is configured to receive an input image, and determine whether a blue component proportion of the input image is greater than a preset proportion and whether luminance of the display panel is lower than a luminance threshold value, wherein at least one pulse signal is transmitted from the second controller to the first controller through a first signal line when the blue component proportion is greater than the preset proportion and the luminance of the display panel is lower than the luminance threshold value.
According to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a display includes a color adjustment device and a display panel, wherein the color adjustment device is connected to the display panel, and includes a first controller and a second controller. The first controller is configured to control light emission of the display panel. The second controller is electrically connected to the first controller, and is configured to receive an input image, and determine whether a blue component proportion of the input image is greater than a preset proportion and whether luminance of the display panel is lower than a luminance threshold value, wherein at least one pulse signal is transmitted from the second controller to the first controller through a first signal line when the blue component proportion is greater than the preset proportion and the luminance of the display panel is lower than the luminance threshold value.
According to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a color adjustment method applied to a display panel and performed by a color adjustment device comprising: determining whether a blue component proportion of an input image is greater than a preset proportion; determining whether luminance of the display panel is lower than a luminance threshold value; and controlling the display panel by at least one pulse signal according to the input image when the blue component proportion of the input image is greater than the preset proportion and the luminance of the display panel is lower than the luminance threshold.
In the following detailed description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the disclosed embodiments. It will be apparent, however, that one or more embodiments may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are schematically shown to simplify the drawings.
It is to be understood that although the terms “first”, “second” and so on may be used herein to describe various elements, components, regions and/or parts, these elements, components, regions and/or parts should not be limited by these terms. These terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one element, component, region and/or part from another element, component, region and/or part.
In addition to, the terms “comprise” and/or “include” are referred to the existence of features, regions, structures, steps, operation and/or components, but are not to exclude the existence or adding of one or more of other features, regions, structures, steps, operation, components and/or combination thereof.
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Specifically, when the second controller 12 determines that the blue component proportion of the input image is greater than the preset proportion and the luminance of the display panel 2 is lower than the luminance threshold value, the second controller utilizes the at least one pulse signal to control the display panel 2. Furthermore, when the second controller 12 determines that the blue component proportion of the input image is not greater than the preset proportion or the luminance of the display panel 2 is not lower than the luminance threshold value, the second controller 12 utilizes the at least one direct current signal to control the display panel 2.
In the present embodiment, the second controller 12 may be electrically connected to the first controller 11 by a first signal line 13 and a second signal line 14. The second controller 12 may generate an indication signal which indicates a control mode of the first controller 11 and may be configured to control the first controller 11 to control a signal controlling the display panel 2 to emit light (referred to as emission control signal herein) according to a determination result of whether the blue component proportion of the input image is greater than the preset proportion and whether the luminance of the display panel 2 is lower than the luminance threshold value. The second controller 12 may transmit the emission control signal to the first controller 11 by the first signal line 13 and may transmit the indication signal to the first controller 11 by the second signal line 14, wherein the emission control signal is the pulse signal or the direct current signal and the control mode is a direct current control mode or a pulse width modulation (PWM) mode. That is, the indication signal may indicate the direct current control mode or the PWM mode. More specifically, at least one pulse signal may be transmitted from the second controller 12 to the first controller 11 through a first signal line 13 when the blue component proportion is greater than the preset proportion and the luminance of the display panel is lower than the luminance threshold value; at least one direct signal may be transmitted from the second controller to the first controller 11 through the first signal line 13 when the blue component proportion of the input image is not greater than the preset proportion or the luminance of the display panel is not lower than the luminance threshold value. The first controller 11 may output the emission control signal to the display panel 2 by the control mode corresponding to the indication signal according to the content of the indication signal. When the indication signal indicates the direct current control mode, the first controller 11 may control the display panel 2 by the direct current signal. When the indication signal indicates the PWM mode, the first controller 11 may control the display panel 2 by the pulse signal.
Specifically, the first controller 11 may be a backlight control integrated circuit or other types of integrated circuits controlling light emission elements which may receive two types of input control signals, and the first controller 11 may switch the form of the control signal outputted to the display panel 2 according to the indication signal from the second controller 12. Said two types of input control signals are the direct current signal and the pulse signal respectively corresponding to the direct current control mode and the PWM mode. The second controller 12 may be a scaler, a microcontroller or the other controllers having the ability of image processing.
In the present embodiment, the first controller 11 may control the light emission elements of the display panel 2. For example, the first controller 11 controls the light emission elements of the display panel 2 by electrical connection to the driving circuit of the backlight module of the display panel 2. The input image may include pixels respectively corresponding to the light emission elements. Specifically, the pixels have addresses respectively and the addresses correspond to light emission elements of the display panel 2. Each of the pixels has an address, and each of the addresses correspond to a light emission element of the display panel 2. Specially, a relationship between the aforementioned pixels, the aforementioned addresses and the aforementioned light emission elements may be one on one. The second controller 12 may generate control signals corresponding to the pixels respectively according to the input image. When the second controller 12 transmits the indication signal which indicates the first controller 11 to switch to the PWM mode by the second signal line 14, the first controller 11 switches to control the display panel 2 by the PWM method, the second controller 12 transmits pulse signals to the first controller 11 by the first signal line 13 and the first controller 11 controls the display panel 2 by pulse signals. The pulse signals may be transmitted from the second controller 12 to the first controller 11 according to the addresses and to the corresponding light emission elements respectively. When the second controller transmits the indication signal which indicates the first controller 11 to switch to the direct current mode by the second signal line 14, the first controller 11 switches to control the display panel 2 by the direct current method, the second controller 12 transmits direct current signals to the first controller 11 by the first signal line 13 and the first controller 11 controls the display panel 2 by direct current signals.
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In the present embodiment, the color adjustment device 1′ may perform zone control on the display panel 2. For example, the input image includes a blue pixel and a non-blue pixel, wherein the non-blue pixel is a red pixel or a green pixel for example. If the light emission element 21a corresponds to the blue pixel of the input image and the light emission element 21b corresponds to the non-blue pixel of the input image, the second controller 12 may control the first controller 11a to transmit the pulse signal to the light emission element 21a for the blue pixel and may control the first controller 11b to transmit the direct current signal to the light emission element 21b for the non-blue pixel when determining that the blue component proportion of the input image is greater than the preset proportion and the luminance of the display panel 2 is lower than the luminance threshold value.
It should be noted that, the number of each of the first controllers and the light emission elements may be more than two, the second controller 12 may control a part of the first controllers to transmit pulse signals to the light emission elements corresponding to the blue pixels and may control the other part of the first controllers to transmit direct current signals to the light emission elements corresponding to the non-blue pixels. Hence, said first controllers 11a and 11b are exemplarily demonstrated and are not used to limit the present disclosure.
In addition, the color adjustment device 1′ may control the display panel 2 by the direct current control or the PWM control of for the entire area. That is, when determining that the blue component proportion of the input image is greater than the preset proportion and the luminance of the display panel 2 is lower than the luminance threshold value, the color adjustment device 1′ utilizes the pulse signals to control all of the light emission elements by all of the first controllers, and when determining that the blue component proportion of the input image is not greater than the preset proportion or the luminance of the display panel 2 is not lower than the luminance threshold value, the color adjustment device 1′ utilizes the direct current signals to control all of the light emission elements by all of the first controllers.
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Step S11: receiving the input image. Specifically, the second controller 12 prestores the input image or receives the input image inputted from an external device (e.g. USB, a hard disk or a cloud server).
Step S12: determining whether the blue component proportion of the input image is greater than the preset proportion. Specifically, the second controller 12 may distinguish the blue pixel and the non-blue pixel, calculate an occupied proportion of the blue pixel in the input image as the blue component proportion, and determine whether the blue component proportion of the input image is greater than the preset proportion. If the blue component proportion of the input image is greater than the preset proportion, then step S13 is performed; If the blue component proportion of the input image is not greater than the preset proportion, the second controller 12 transmits the indication signal which indicates the first controller 11 to switch to the direct current mode to the first controller 11 by the second signal line 14, and then step S15 is performed. In one embodied aspect, the second controller 12 may determine whether the input image is an entirely blue image and this embodied aspect may be regarded as setting the preset proportion as 100%. In another embodied aspect, the second controller 12 may determine whether a proportion of the blue pixel included in the input image is greater than a proportion of the non-blue pixel included in the input image, and this embodied aspect may be regarded as setting the preset proportion as one-third. In yet another embodied aspect, the second controller 12 may determine whether the input image has a pixel of which the luminance value is greater than a specific threshold value (e.g. 250nit) and determine that the blue component proportion of the input image is greater than the preset proportion when there is a pixel with the luminance value greater than the specific threshold value. This embodied aspect may be regarded as setting the preset proportion as 0%. The aforementioned embodied aspects are merely demonstrated for example and the preset proportion may be also adjusted according to the actual requirement.
Step S13: determining whether the luminance of the display panel is lower than the luminance threshold value. Specifically, the second controller 12 obtains the luminance of the display panel 2 and compares the luminance of the display panel 2 with the luminance threshold value.
In one embodied aspect, the second controller 12 is connected to a light sensor in the display panel 2, the light sensor senses the luminance of the display panel 2 and the second controller 12 further obtains the luminance of the display panel 2. In another embodied aspect, the second controller 12 is configured to calculate the luminance according to a current control signal used by the first controller 11 for controlling the light emission of the display panel 2; specifically, the second controller 12 controls first controller 11 to generate and transmit the current control signal to the display panel 2 such that the display panel 2 emits light, and the second controller 12 compares the voltage value of the current control signal with a voltage value corresponding to maximum luminance to calculate the luminance of the display panel 2, wherein the maximum luminance is the luminance that the display panel 2 can emit according to a upper limit current. In yet another embodied aspect, the second controller 12 stores a history control signal previously used for controlling the first controller 11 and calculates the luminance according to the history control signal; specifically, the second controller 12 may store the emission control signal as the history control signal at the time when the second controller 12 previously controlled the first controller 11 to control the display panel 2 to display another input image, and compare the voltage value of the history control signal with the voltage value corresponding to the maximum luminance to calculate the luminance of the display panel 2, wherein the maximum luminance is the luminance that the display panel 2 can emit according to the upper limit current.
The second controller 12 determines whether the luminance of the display panel 2 is lower than the luminance threshold value after obtaining the luminance of the display panel 2. When the luminance of the display panel 2 is lower than the luminance threshold value, the second controller 12 determines that the luminance of the display panel 2 is low luminance and transmits the indication signal which indicates the first controller 11 to switch to the PWM mode to the first controller 11 by the second signal line 14, and then step S14 is performed; when the luminance of the display panel 2 is not lower than the luminance threshold value, the second controller 12 determines that the luminance of the display panel 2 is high luminance and transmits the indication signal which indicates the first controller 11 to switch to the direct current control mode to the first controller 11 by the second signal line 14, and then step S15 is performed. For example, the luminance threshold value may be 120 nits, and the luminance threshold value may also be other values according to the actual display situation of the display panel 2, but the range of the luminance threshold value is not limited thereto and the aforementioned luminance threshold value is just an example.
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Step S14: controlling the display panel 2 by at least one pulse signal according to the input image. Specifically, the second controller 12 controls the first controller 11 to control the display panel 2 by at least one pulse signal according to the input image.
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Step S15: controlling the display panel 2 by at least one direct current signal according to the input image. Specifically, the second controller 12 transmits the indication signal to the first controller11, and the first controller 11 switches to output the direct current signal according to the indication signal transmitted by the second controller 12, wherein the content of the indication signal is to switch to the direct current mode. The second controller 12 generates and transmits the direct current signals to the first controller 11 according to the content and the address of each pixel, the first controller 11 transmits the direct current signals to the display panel 2 and the light emission elements of the display panel 2 emit light according to direct current signals.
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Step S141: obtaining a first address of the blue pixel and a second address of the non-blue pixel. Specifically, the input image comprises a blue pixel with a first address and a non-blue pixel with a second address, and the second controller 12 obtains the first address according to the location of the blue pixel in the input image and obtains the second address according to the location of the non-blue pixel in the input image.
Step S142: generating and transmitting the at least one pulse signal to one of the aforementioned first controllers according to the first address. The at least one pulse signal is transmitted from the second controller 12 to the first controller 11a according to the first address. Specifically, the second controller 12 transmits the indication signal to the first controller 11a, the first controller11a switches to output the pulse signal according to the indication signal of which the content is to switch to the PWM mode, the second controller 12 obtains the pulse signal value corresponding to the blue pixel according to the corresponding relationship between the luminance of the blue pixel and the direct current value and the pulse signal value as well as the corresponding relationship between the maximum luminance and the direct current value and the pulse signal value, and generates a first number indicating the first address and generates the pulse signal with the first number. And then, the second controller 12 adjusts the width of the pulse signal according to the proportion of the luminance and the maximum luminance of the display panel 2 and further determines the duty cycle of the pulse signal. The second controller 12 transmits the pulse signal to the first controller 11a, the first controller 11a transmits the pulse signal to the driving circuit 22 of the display panel 2, and the driving circuit 22 of the display panel 2 controls the light emission element 21a to emit light according to the pulse signal.
Step S143: generating and transmitting the direct current signal to another one of the aforementioned first controllers according to the second address. The direct current signal is transmitted from the second controller 12 to the first controller 11b according to the second address. Specifically, the second controller 12 transmits the indication signal to the first controller1 1b, the first controller1 1b switches to output the direct current signal according to the indication signal of which the content is to switch to the direct current control mode, the second controller 12 obtains the direct current signal value corresponding to the non-blue pixel according to the corresponding relationship between the luminance of the non-blue pixel and the direct current value and the pulse signal value as well as the corresponding relationship between the maximum luminance and the direct current value and the pulse signal value, and generates a second number indicating a second address and generates the direct current signal with the second number. And then, the second controller 12 transmits the direct current signal to the first controller 11b, the first controller 11b transmits the direct current signal to the driving circuit 22 of the display panel 2, and the driving circuit 22 of the display panel 2 controls the light emission element 21b to emit light according to the direct current signal.
The aforementioned description is for the control of two light emission elements which are one blue pixel and one non-blue pixel. The emission control of the other blue pixels and non-blue pixels in the input image are the same as the aforementioned description and would not be repeated herein.
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In addition, the measured color space MCS 1 after the color adjustment method of one or more embodiments of the present disclosure is utilized is converted into light-chroma-hue (LCH) color space and is inputted to delta E formula (such as CIE94 or CIEDE 2000 color variation formula), and the delta E corresponding to the measured color space MCS1 is smaller than 2. The measured color space MCS2 after the color adjustment method of one or more embodiments of the present disclosure is utilized is converted into light-chroma-hue (LCH) color space and is inputted to delta E formula (such as CIE94 or CIEDE 2000 color variation formula), and the delta E corresponding to the measured color space MCS2 is smaller than 2
In view of the above description, the color adjustment device, the display and the color adjustment method disclosed by the present disclosure may adjust image display of the display panel by the pulse signal when the blue component proportion is greater than the preset proportion and the luminance of the display panel is lower than the luminance threshold value, which may improve color precision and further lower the color variation.
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111114068 | Apr 2022 | TW | national |