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The present invention relates to backlit displays and, more particularly, to a backlit display with improved performance characteristics.
The local transmittance of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel or a liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) display can be varied to modulate the intensity of light passing from a backlit source through an area of the panel to produce a pixel that can be displayed at a variable intensity. Whether light from the source passes through the panel to a viewer or is blocked is determined by the orientations of molecules of liquid crystals in a light valve.
Since liquid crystals do not emit light, a visible display requires an external light source. Small and inexpensive LCD panels often rely on light that is reflected back toward the viewer after passing through the panel. Since the panel is not completely transparent, a substantial part of the light is absorbed during its transit of the panel and images displayed on this type of panel may be difficult to see except under the best lighting conditions. On the other hand, LCD panels used for computer displays and video screens are typically backlit with fluorescent tubes or arrays of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that are built into the sides or back of the panel. To provide a display with a more uniform light level, light from these points or line sources is typically dispersed in a diffuser panel before impinging on the light valve that controls transmission to a viewer.
The transmittance of the light valve is controlled by a layer of liquid crystals interposed between a pair of polarizers. Light from the source impinging on the first polarizer comprises electromagnetic waves vibrating in a plurality of planes. Only that portion of the light vibrating in the plane of the optical axis of a polarizer can pass through the polarizer. In an LCD, the optical axes of the first and second polarizers are arranged at an angle so that light passing through the first polarizer would normally be blocked from passing through the second polarizer in the series. However, a layer of the physical orientation of the molecules of liquid crystal can be controlled and the plane of vibration of light transiting the columns of molecules spanning the layer can be rotated to either align or not align with the optical axes of the polarizers. It is to be understood that normally white may likewise be used.
The surfaces of the first and second polarizers forming the walls of the cell gap are grooved so that the molecules of liquid crystal immediately adjacent to the cell gap walls will align with the grooves and, thereby, be aligned with the optical axis of the respective polarizer. Molecular forces cause adjacent liquid crystal molecules to attempt to align with their neighbors with the result that the orientation of the molecules in the column spanning the cell gap twist over the length of the column. Likewise, the plane of vibration of light transiting the column of molecules will be Atwisted@ from the optical axis of the first polarizer to that of the second polarizer. With the liquid crystals in this orientation, light from the source can pass through the series polarizers of the translucent panel assembly to produce a lighted area of the display surface when viewed from the front of the panel. It is to be understood that the grooves may be omitted in some configurations.
To darken a pixel and create an image, a voltage, typically controlled by a thin-film transistor, is applied to an electrode in an array of electrodes deposited on one wall of the cell gap. The liquid crystal molecules adjacent to the electrode are attracted by the field created by the voltage and rotate to align with the field. As the molecules of liquid crystal are rotated by the electric field, the column of crystals is “untwisted,” and the optical axes of the crystals adjacent the cell wall are rotated out of alignment with the optical axis of the corresponding polarizer progressively reducing the local transmittance of the light valve and the intensity of the corresponding display pixel. Color LCD displays are created by varying the intensity of transmitted light for each of a plurality of primary color elements (typically, red, green, and blue) that make up a display pixel.
LCDs can produce bright, high resolution, color images and are thinner, lighter, and draw less power than cathode ray tubes (CRTs). As a result, LCD usage is pervasive for the displays of portable computers, digital clocks and watches, appliances, audio and video equipment, and other electronic devices. On the other hand, the use of LCDs in certain “high end markets,” such as video and graphic arts, is frustrated, in part, by the limited performance of the display.
What is desired, therefore, is a liquid crystal display having reduced blur.
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Light radiating from the light sources 30 of the backlight 22 comprises electromagnetic waves vibrating in random planes. Only those light waves vibrating in the plane of a polarizer=s optical axis can pass through the polarizer. The light valve 26 includes a first polarizer 32 and a second polarizer 34 having optical axes arrayed at an angle so that normally light cannot pass through the series of polarizers. Images are displayable with an LCD because local regions of a liquid crystal layer 36 interposed between the first 32 and second 34 polarizer can be electrically controlled to alter the alignment of the plane of vibration of light relative of the optical axis of a polarizer and, thereby, modulate the transmittance of local regions of the panel corresponding to individual pixels 36 in an array of display pixels.
The layer of liquid crystal molecules 36 occupies a cell gap having walls formed by surfaces of the first 32 and second 34 polarizers. The walls of the cell gap are rubbed to create microscopic grooves aligned with the optical axis of the corresponding polarizer. The grooves cause the layer of liquid crystal molecules adjacent to the walls of the cell gap to align with the optical axis of the associated polarizer. As a result of molecular forces, each successive molecule in the column of molecules spanning the cell gap will attempt to align with its neighbors. The result is a layer of liquid crystals comprising innumerable twisted columns of liquid crystal molecules that bridge the cell gap. As light 40 originating at a light source element 42 and passing through the first polarizer 32 passes through each translucent molecule of a column of liquid crystals, its plane of vibration is Atwisted@ so that when the light reaches the far side of the cell gap its plane of vibration will be aligned with the optical axis of the second polarizer 34. The light 44 vibrating in the plane of the optical axis of the second polarizer 34 can pass through the second polarizer to produce a lighted pixel 28 at the front surface of the display 28.
To darken the pixel 28, a voltage is applied to a spatially corresponding electrode of a rectangular array of transparent electrodes deposited on a wall of the cell gap. The resulting electric field causes molecules of the liquid crystal adjacent to the electrode to rotate toward alignment with the field. The effect is to Auntwist@ the column of molecules so that the plane of vibration of the light is progressively rotated away from the optical axis of the polarizer as the field strength increases and the local transmittance of the light valve 26 is reduced. As the transmittance of the light valve 26 is reduced, the pixel 28 progressively darkens until the maximum extinction of light 40 from the light source 42 is obtained. Color LCD displays are created by varying the intensity of transmitted light for each of a plurality of primary color elements (typically, red, green, and blue) elements making up a display pixel. Other arrangements of structures may likewise be used.
The LCD uses transistors as a select switch for each pixel, and adopts a display method (hereinafter, called as a “hold-type display”), in which a displayed image is held for a frame period. In contrast, a CRT (hereinafter, called as an “impulse-type display”) includes selected pixel that is darkened immediately after the selection of the pixel. The darkened pixel is displayed between each frame of a motion image that is rewritten in 60 Hz in case of the impulse-type display like the CRT. That is, the black of the darkened pixel is displayed excluding a period when the image is displayed, and one frame of the motion image is presented respectively to the viewer as an independent image. Therefore, the image is observed as a clear motion image in the impulse-type display. Thus, the LCD is fundamentally different from CRT in time axis hold characteristic in an image display. Therefore, when the motion image is displayed on a LCD, image deterioration such as blurring the image is caused. The principal cause of this blurring effect arises from a viewer that follows the moving object of the motion image (when the eyeball movement of the viewer is a following motion), even if the image is rewritten, for example, at 60 Hz discrete steps. The eyeball has a characteristic to attempt to smoothly follow the moving object even though it is discretely presented in a “hold type” manner.
In the hold-type display, the displayed image of one frame of the motion image is held for one frame period, and is presented to the viewer during the corresponding period as a still image. Therefore, even though the eyeball of the viewer smoothly follows the moving object, the displayed image stands still for one frame period. Therefore, the shifted image is presented according to the speed of the moving object on the retina of the viewer. Accordingly, the image will appear blurred to the viewer due to integration by the eye. In addition, since the change between the images presented on the retina of the viewer increases with greater speed, such images become even more blurred.
In the backlit display 20, the backlight 22 comprises an array of locally controllable light sources 30. The individual light sources 30 of the backlight may be light-emitting diodes (LEDs), an arrangement of phosphors and lensets, or other suitable light-emitting devices. In addition, the backlight may include a set of independently controllable light sources, such as one or more cold cathode ray tubes. The light-emitting diodes may be ‘white’ and/or separate colored light emitting diodes. The individual light sources 30 of the backlight array 22 are independently controllable to output light at a luminance level independent of the luminance level of light output by the other light sources so that a light source can be modulated in response to any suitable signal. Similarly, a film or material may be overlaid on the backlight to achieve the spatial and/or temporal light modulation. Referring to
The use of the overdrive circuit 104 tends to reduce the motion blur, but the image blur effects of eye tracking the motion while the image is held stationary during the frame time still causes a relative motion on the retina which is perceived as motion blur. One technique to reduce the perceived motion blur is to reduce the time that an image frame is displayed.
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A typical implementation structure of the conventional overdrive (OD) technology is shown in
In a LCD panel, the current display value dn is preferably not only determined by the current driving value zn, but also by the previous display value dn-1. Mathematically,
dn=fd(zn,dn-1) (1)
To make the display value dn reach the target value xn, overdriving value zn should be derived from Equation (1) by making dn to be target value xn. The overdriving value zn is determined in this example by two variables: the previous display value dn-1 and the current driving values xn, which can be expressed by the following function mathematically:
zn=fz(xn,dn-1) (2)
Equation (2) shows that two types of variables: target values and display values, are used to derive current driving values. In many implementations, however, display values are not directly available. Instead, the described one-frame-buffer non-recursive overdrive structure assumes that every time the overdrive can drive the display value dn to the target value xn. Therefore, Equation (2) can readily be simplified as
zn=fz(xn,xn-1) (3)
In Equation (3), only one type of variable: target values, is needed to derive current driving values, and this valuable is directly available without any calculation. As a result, Equation (3) is easier than Equation (2) to implement.
While black point insertion tends to reduce motion blur, it also tends to introduce flickering as an artifact. While the flickering artifact may be reduced by increasing the refresh rate, this is problematic for television based content (e.g., frame or field based content). For television based content, increasing the refresh rate may require motion compensated frame rate conversion which is computationally expensive and prone to additional artifacts.
After intensive study of the human perception of motion blur and flickering, it was determined that the flickering for a black data insertion technique tends to be more visible in a bright, low spatial frequency, non-motion area. In addition, the motion blur for a black data insertion technique tends to be primarily visible in a high spatial frequency, motion area. Based on these characterizations of the human visual system, a processing technique for the video should a motion adaptive technique to reduce motion blur without substantially increasing the flickering. Each frame in a video sequence is divided into multiple regions, and motion detection is performed for each corresponding region in the successive frames (or fields). Each region is classified as either a motion region or a non-motion region. The black data insertion is applied to the motion regions to reduce the motion blur, while black data insertion is not applied to the non-motion regions to reduce flickering. In addition, temporal transition frames may be used to smooth out intensity fluctuations between the black data insertions and the non-black data insertions.
A look up table 770 is used to determine the field driving values (see
The respective look up tables are applied to the first field 780 and to the second field 790. The output of the first field 780 and second field 790 are provided to an overdrive 800. Any suitable overdrive technique may be used, as desired. The overdrive 800 includes a look up table 810 and 820 for respective first field 780 and second field 790. The output of the look up table 810 for the first field 780 is based upon the output of the previous field from buffer 2830 (second field of the previous frame). The output of the look up table 820 for the second field 790 is based upon the output of the previous field from buffer 1840 (first field of the same frame). The state of the previous frame for the first field 780 (input from buffer 2830) is determined based upon a model of the liquid crystal display 850, the second field 790 of the previous frame, and the output of the look up table 820. The state of the previous frame for the second field 790 (input from buffer 1840) is determined based upon a model of the liquid crystal display 860, the first field 780 of the previous field, and the output of the look up table 810. Accordingly, the previous field may be used in the overdrive scheme.
A similar technique may likewise be applied for the overdrive system based upon the spatial frequency of regions of the image, such as low and high spatial frequencies. In addition, a similar technique may be applied for the overdrive system based upon the brightness of regions of the image, such as low brightness and high brightness. These likewise may be applied in combination or based upon one another (e.g., spatial, brightness, and/or motion). The adaptive technique may be accommodated by applying the spatial modifications to the LCD layer of the display. Also, the transition frames may be accommodated by applying the spatial modifications to the backlight, such as a LED array. Moreover, the technique may be accommodated by a combination of the LCD layer and the backlight layer.
Liquid crystal displays have limited dynamic range due the extinction ratio of polarizers and imperfection of the liquid crystal material. In order to display high dynamic images, a low resolution light emitting diode (LED) backlight system may be used to modulate the light that feeds into the liquid crystal material. By the combination of LED and LCD, a very high dynamic range display can be achieved. For cost reasons, the LED typically has lower spatial resolution than the LCD. Due to the lower resolution LED, the high dynamic range display based on this technology can not display a high dynamic pattern of high spatial resolution. But it can display both very bright image (>2000 cd/m2) and very dark image (<0.5 cd/m2) simultaneously. The inability to display high dynamic range of high spatial resolution is not a serious issue since the human eye has limited dynamic range in a local area, and with visual masking, the human eye can hardly perceive the limited dynamic range of high spatial frequency content.
The desirable backlight image may be predicted by convolving an up-sampled LED image with the point spread function of LED. The LCD image is derived by dividing the original HDR image with predicted backlight image to obtain the simulated backlight. Since the final displayed image is the product of LED backlight image and the LCD transmittance, this approach reproduces the original HDR image. Unfortunately, the resulting displayed images using this technique tends to have limited bright specular highlights that are limited in spatial extent. Accordingly, many HDR images contains specular highlight that are extremely bright, but very small in spatial extent, which may not be adequately represented on the display.
It was determined that the low pass filtering process smears this specular highlight causing the corresponding LED to have a lower value. Traditionally it would have been thought that any of the spatial details lost in the low pass filtering process could be recovered in the division operation. Although any spatial details lost in the filtering step can be theoretically recovered in the LCD image via the division operation, it turns out that the LCD can not recover the bright specular highlight due to its limited range (its transmittance can not exceed 1). Thus specular highlights are lost in the final display image although the HDR is capable of displaying that bright highlight.
It was also determined that the low pass filtering works well for regions of the image that are not at the extremes of brightness and darkness. Accordingly, another criteria may be used to account for those regions where the low pass filtering is not exceptionally effective. In addition to using the low pass filtered image to derive the LED image, the system may also use the maximum image (or some value associated with regions where a significant value exists) which is the local maximum in the HDR image divided by the max transmittance of LCD. The final LED image is selected to be the larger of the low pass filtered image and the maximum image.
In addition, it was determined that the broad spread in the LED point spread function (PSF), results in decreasing the potential contrast ratio of the image and also fails to minimize the power consumption of the display. In order to improve the contrast ratio an iterative approach may be used to derive the LED driving value to achieve a higher contrast in the backlight image. The resulting higher contrast backlight image combining with the high resolution LCD image can produce much higher dynamic image to be displayed and also reduce the power consumption of the LED backlight.
Upon yet further investigation, moving images tend to flicker more than expected, i.e. the fluctuation of display output. After consideration of a particular configuration of the display, namely a LCD combined with LED array, it was determined that the temporal response of the LCD layer is different than the LED array in a manner that may result in flickering. In general, the LED has a much faster temporal response than the LCD layer. In addition, these errors resulting in flickering may be due to inaccuracies in the point spread function approximation, which may vary from display to display, and from led to led. In addition, the course nature of the LED array tends to result in course selection of the LED values, generally being on or off. To decrease the flickering on the display a temporal low-pass filter may be used and a finner control over the values selected for proximate LEDs. In addition, gamma correction may be used to account for the quantization error that is inherent to LED driving circuit.
bl(x,y)=LED(i,j)*psf(x,y) (4)
where LED(i,j) is the LED output level of each LED, and psf(x,y) is the point spread function of the diffusion layer. * denotes convolution operation. The backlight image is further modulated by the LCD.
The displayed image is the product of LED backlight and transmittance of LCD: TLCD(x,y).
img(x,y)=bl(x,y)TLCD(x,y)=(led(i,j)*psf(x,y))TLCD(x,y) (5)
By combining the LED and LCD, the dynamic range of display is the product of the dynamic range of LED and LCD. For simplicity, the notation may use normalized LCD and LED output limited to between 0 and 1.
The HDR image is low pass filtered 906 by the point spread function of the diffusion screen (or other function) and sub-sampled 908 (down sample) to an intermediate resolution (M1×N1). One example of an intermediate resolution is twice the LED resolution (2M×2N). The extra resolution of the sub-sampled image is used to reduce flickering that would occur as a result of moving objects over a series of frames of a video. The additional data points in the LED matrix permit a smoothing of the transition of the LED values when movement occurs in the image of a video. This facilitates one LED to gradually decrease in value as an adjacent LED gradually increases in value, which reduces the resulting flickering of the image that would result if the changes were more abrupt.
The same HDR image 900 is again low-pass filtered 910 by a small filter kernel, such as 5×5 to simulate the anticipated size of the specular pattern. The low-pass filtered image 910 is divided into M1×N1 blocks, each block corresponding to the intermediate resolution with some overlap between each block, i.e., the block size is (1+k)*(m/M×n/N), where k is the overlapping factor. For each block, the block maximum (or other suitable value) is used to form a LEDmax image (M×N) 912. k=0.25 is used is preferably used. It is to be understood that any suitable technique may be used to define the maximum for each pixel location based upon the pixel location, region, and/or neighboring regions.
From these two LED images, the larger of 2*LED1p and LEDmax, i.e. LED1=min(max(LED1p*2,LEDmax),1) is selected 914. This larger value helps account for the fact that the low pass filtering tends to decrease the dynamic range that would otherwise have been rendered on the display. The min operation is used to constrain the LED value from 0 to 1. In addition, taking into account the local maximum assists to preserve the specular highlight. Also in the non specular highlight area; the system may set the LED 1 to less than twice of the LED1p to ensure operation toward the maximum LCD operating range. An increase in the LCD operating range results in a decrease in the needed backlight light, and thus a reduces the power requirements. This technique can better accommodate areas with both high dynamic range and high spatial frequency.
The LED1 is of size M1×N1 and range from 0 to 1. Since the PSF of diffusion screen is typically larger than the LED spacing to provide a more uniform backlight image, there is tends to be considerable crosstalk between the LED elements that are located close together.
Because of the PSF of diffusion screen, any LED has contribution from its entire neighboring LEDs. Although Equation 5 can be used to calculate the backlight if given a LED driving signal, deriving LED driving signal to achieve a target backlight image is an inverse problem. This problem results in an ill posed de-convolution problem. Traditionally, a convolution kernel used to derive the LED driving signal as shown in Equation 6. The crosstalk correction kernel coefficients (c1 and c2) are negative to compensate for the crosstalk from neighboring LEDs.
The crosstalk correction matrix does reduce the crosstalk effect from its immediate neighbors, but the resulting backlight image is still inaccurate with a low contrast. Another problem is that it produces many out of range driving values that have to be truncated which can result in more errors.
Since the LCD output can not be more than 1, the led driving value is derived so that backlight is larger than target luminance, i.e.
led(i,j):{led(i,j)*psf(x,y)≧I(x,y)} (7)
The syntax uses “:” to denote the constraint to achieve the desired LED values of the function in the curly bracket. Because of the limited contrast ratio (CR) due to leakage, LCD(x,y) generally can no longer reach 0. The solution is that when target value is smaller than LCD leakage, the led value is reduced to reproduce the dark luminance.
led(i,j):{led(i,j){circle around (x)}psf(x,y)<I(x,y)·CR} (8)
Another feature is power saving so that the total LED output should be minimized or otherwise reduced.
Flickering is due, at least in part, to the non-stationary response of the LED which combines with the mismatch between the LCD and LED. The mismatch can be either spatially or temporally. Flickering can be reduced by decreasing the total led output fluctuation as a point object move through the LED grid.
where x0 and y0 is the distance from the center of the LED. The flickering can be further reduced by temporal IIR filtering. Combining Equation 7 to 10, yields equation 11 below.
where LED is the driving values in a vector format. MN is the total number of LEDs which is equal to M*N. The backlight is the matrix multiplication of LED vector with the crosstalk matrix of size MN×MN2, where MN2>=MN. The crosstalk matrix psfi,j is the crosstalk coefficients from the ith LED to the jth backlight position, which can be derived from the measured PSF function.
The technique to derive the LED image 918 starts with initial guess of βPg; and then derives each successive LED driving value based on the formula fk+1=fk+βP(g−Hfk), where H is the crosstalk matrix as shown in equation 12. g is the target LED in vector format and P is a masking matrix of size MN by MN2 with 1 at LED locations and 0 at other locations. Since the LED driving value is limited to between 0 and 1, it is truncated to between 0 and 1. The newly derived LED value is compared to the previous one to calculate the change rate. If the change rate is greater than a threshold, the process is repeated until the change rate is less than the threshold or exceeding the maximum iteration.
Since the LED output is non-linear with respect to the driving value and it driving value is integer, inverse gamma correction and quantization are performed to determine the LED driving value.
The next step is to predict the backlight image 922 from the LED. The LED image 902 is gamma corrected 924, up-sampled to the LCD resolution (m×n) 926, and convolved with the PSF of the diffusion screen 928.
The LCD transmittance 930 may be given by:
TLCD(x,y)=img(x,y)/bl(x,y)
Again, inverse gamma correction is performed as in
To reduce the flickering effect, a temporal low pass filter 918 is used to smooth sudden temporal fluctuations.
where kup is chosen to be higher than kdown to satisfy Equation 7. Typically kup=0.5, and kdown=0.25. Thus, the LED backlight is constrained over multiple frames to change from one value to another in one or more increments. For example, the backlight may change from 0 to 200, and thus be 0 in a first frame, 100 in the second frame, and 200 in the third frame. The LED is preferably permitted to go up at a faster rate than it is permitted to go down.
All the references cited herein are incorporated by reference.
The terms and expressions which have been employed in the foregoing specification are used therein as terms of description and not of limitation, and there is no intention, in the use of such terms and expressions, of excluding equivalents of the features shown and described or portions thereof, it being recognized that the scope of the invention is defined and limited only by the claims which follow.
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