IP Library Granted Patent US 7,187,349
Granted Patent B2
US 7,187,349 · App. 10/471,688 · Granted Mar 6, 2007

Method of displaying video images on a plasma display panel and corresponding plasma display panel

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Patent No.
US 7,187,349
App. No.
10/471,688
Granted
Mar 6, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of displaying video images on a plasma display panel. The invention is applicable in plasma display panels. According to the invention, in order to achieve contouring movement compensation, the subscans are divided into two symmetrical groups of subscans. Moreover, the movement of the video image to be displayed with respect to the preceding video image is estimated so as to generate a movement vector for each pixel of the video image. Finally, for each pixel of the video image, the subscans of the second group are displaced by an amount proportional to the estimated movement vector.

Claims (6)

1. Method of displaying video images on a display panel comprising a plurality of elementary cells, each video image being coded according to a plurality of subscans during which each elementary cell is either on or off, each subscan having a weight proportional to the duration of its illumination period, wherein, for each video image, the following steps are carried out:

the said plurality of subscans is divided into two consecutive groups of subscans, the two groups having the same number of subscans of corresponding weight, the temporal distribution of which is symmetrical;

the movement of the said video image to be displayed with respect to the preceding video image is estimated so as to generate a movement vector for each pixel of the video image; and

for each pixel of the video image, the subscans of the second group are displaced by an amount approximately equal to one half of the estimated movement vector.

2. Method according to claim 1 , wherein the subscans of the first group are arranged in inceasing order of their weights and the subscans of the second group are arranged in decreasing order of their weights.

3. Plasma display panel, wherein it includes a device implementing the display method according to claim 1 .

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CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE RECEIVING PARTY NAME FROM INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS TO INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS. PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 47332 FRAME: 511. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Feb 28, 2024
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 4, 2007
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 12, 2003
From: DOYEN, DIDIER; HOELZEMANN, HERBET; KERVEC, JONATHAN
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