Color display system with improved apparent resolution

1. A full-color display system having improved apparent resolution comprising:

a) a display formed from a two-dimensional array of three-or-more colors of light-emitting elements, the light-emitting elements arranged in a repeating pattern to form a number of full-color groups of light-emitting elements, each full-color group of light-emitting elements comprising more than one luma-chroma sub-group of light-emitting element; and

b) a processor for receiving a full color input image signal that specifies full color image values at each of a two-dimensional number of sampled addressable spatial locations within an image to be displayed, for providing a full color image signal with different image signal values corresponding to the spatial location of each luma-chroma sub-group, for computing a control signal representing the relative values, or difference between values, for the image signal values corresponding to each luma-chroma sub-group and at least one of each luma-chroma sub-group's neighbors, and for rendering a signal for driving each light-emitting element within each luma-chroma sub-group of light-emitting elements as a function of the full color image signal values corresponding to each luma-chroma sub-group and the control signal, such that the display has a peak white luminance and each luma-chroma sub-group comprises at least one distinct high-luminance light-emitting element having a peak output luminance value that is 40 percent or greater of the peak white luminance of the display device.

2. The full-color display system according to claim 1 , wherein the control signal is formed by computing a luminance value for values of the image signal corresponding to each luma-chroma sub-group and computing the relative values, or the difference between values, for the luminance value corresponding to each luma-chroma sub-group and the luminance value corresponding to at least one of its neighboring luma-chroma sub-groups.

3. The full-color display system according to claim 1 , wherein the control signal is formed by computing a color value for values of the image signal corresponding to each luma-chroma sub-group; computing the relative value, or the difference between values, for the color value corresponding to each luma-chroma sub-group and the color value corresponding at least one of its neighboring luma-chroma sub-groups.

4. The full-color display system according to claim 1 , wherein use of the full color image signal with image signal values corresponding to the spatial location of each luma-chroma sub-group to drive the available light-emitting elements within each corresponding luma-chroma sub-group will result in a chrominance or luminance error, and wherein the control signal is applied to determine one or more neighboring luma-chroma sub-groups to be employed when compensating the chrominance or luminance error, and the proportion of the chrominance or luminance error that is to be compensated by each neighboring luma-chroma sub-groups.

5. The full-color display system of claim 1 , wherein the processor further computes one-or-more chrominance signals corresponding to each of the addressable spatial locations within the input image signal, and spatially filters at least one of the chrominance signals to produce a lower resolution chrominance signal.

6. The full-color display system of claim 1 , wherein each full-color group of light-emitting elements comprises at least two green light-emitting elements for each red or blue light-emitting element.

7. The full-color display system of claim 1 , wherein each full-color group of light-emitting elements comprises four-or-more colors of light-emitting elements.

8. The full-color display system of claim 7 , wherein colors represented within the input image signal may be formed from multiple triad combinations of the four-or-more colors of light-emitting elements, and the processor performs a calculation to transform the full color image input signal to a four-or-more color signal for driving the full-color two-dimensional groups of light-emitting elements.

9. The full color display system of claim 8 , wherein the calculation for transforming the full color image input signal to a four-or-more color signal for driving is performed separately for each luma-chroma sub-group of light-emitting elements.

10. The full color display system of claim 8 , wherein the calculation for transforming the full color image input signal to a four-or-more color signal for driving is performed once for each full color group of light-emitting elements.

11. The full-color display system of claim 8 wherein the processor employs one or more triad mixing ratio values that are determined as a function of the control signal in the calculation for transforming the full color image input signal to a four-or-more color signal.

12. The full-color display system of claim 7 , wherein the four-or-more colors of light-emitting elements comprise a red, a green, a blue, and at least one additional light-emitting element.

13. The display system according to claim 12 , wherein the at least one additional color light-emitting element, comprises a white, yellow, green, or cyan light-emitting element.

14. The display system according to claim 7 , wherein the light-emitting elements include equal numbers of white, red, green, and blue light-emitting elements and the light-emitting elements are formed in two-by-two arrays having diagonally opposed green and white light-emitting elements.

15. The display system according to claim 7 , wherein each full-color group of light-emitting elements is formed from a pair of luma-chroma sub-groups, and wherein the relative positions of the luma-chroma sub-groups are exchanged in neighboring full-color groups in one dimension.

16. The display system according to claim 7 , wherein the light-emitting elements include equal numbers of white, red, green, and blue light-emitting elements and the light-emitting elements are formed in stripes of common colored light-emitting elements, and wherein the stripes of green light-emitting elements are separated from the stripes of white light-emitting elements by stripes of red or blue light-emitting elements.

17. The display system according to claim 1 , wherein each luma-chroma sub-group is substantially square.

18. A method for rendering a high-resolution full color input image signal to a three-or-more color signal for driving a display to improve the apparent resolution of a display formed from a two-dimensional array of three-or-more colors of light-emitting elements, the light-emitting elements arranged in a repeating pattern to form a number of full-color groups of light-emitting elements, each full-color group of light-emitting elements comprising more than one luma-chroma sub-group of light-emitting elements, the method comprising:

a) receiving a full color input image signal that specifies full color image values at each of a two-dimensional number of sampled addressable spatial locations within an image to be displayed, and providing a full color image signal with image signal values corresponding to the spatial location of each luma-chroma sub-group;

b) computing a control signal representing the relative values, or difference between values, for the image signal values corresponding to each luma-chroma sub-group and at least one of each luma-chroma sub-group's neighbors; and

c) rendering a signal for driving each light-emitting element within each luma-chroma sub-group of light-emitting elements as a function of the full color image signal values corresponding to each luma-chroma sub-group and the control signal such that the display has a peak white luminance and each luma-chroma sub-group comprises at least one distinct high-luminance light-emitting element having a peak output luminance value that is 40 percent or greater of the peak white luminance of the display device.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein each full-color group of light-emitting elements comprises four-or-more colors of light-emitting elements and colors represented within the input image signal may be formed from multiple triad combinations of the four-or-more colors of light-emitting elements, and further comprising performing a calculation employing one or more triad mixing ratio values that are determined as a function of the control signal to transform the full color image input signal to a four-or-more color signal for driving the full-color two-dimensional groups of light-emitting elements.

20. A full-color display system having improved apparent resolution comprising:

a) wherein the display is an emissive display , formed from a two-dimensional array of four-or-more colors of light-emitting elements, the light-emitting elements arranged in a repeating pattern to form a number of full-color groups of light-emitting elements, each full-color group of light-emitting elements comprising more than one luma-chroma sub-group of light-emitting elements, the four-or-more colors of light-emitting elements comprise a red, a green, a blue, and at least one additional light-emitting element that has a higher luminance efficiency than the red, green, and blue light-emitting elements, wherein the emissive display has a peak white luminance and each luma-chroma sub-group comprises at least one distinct high-luminance light-emitting element having a peak output luminance value that is 40 percent or greater of the peak white luminance of the emissive display and each full-color group of light-emitting elements; and

b) a processor for receiving a full color input image signal that specifies full color image values at each of a two-dimensional number of sampled addressable spatial locations within an image to be displayed, for providing a full color image signal with image signal values corresponding to the spatial location of each luma-chroma sub-group, for computing a control signal representing the relative values, or difference between values, for the image signal values corresponding to each luma-chroma sub-group and at least one of each luma-chroma sub-group's neighbors, and for rendering a signal for driving each light-emitting element within each luma-chroma sub-group of light-emitting elements as a function of the values for the image signal corresponding to each luma-chroma sub-group and the control signal, wherein colors represented within the input image signal are formed from multiple triad combinations of the four-or-more colors of light-emitting elements and the processor determines the triad mixing ratio values for triads employing the additional light emitting element relative to a triad employing the red, green and blue light emitting elements as a function of the control signal, such that when the control signal does not indicate the presence of a strong edge within the image specified by full color image values at the two-dimensional number of sampled addressable spatial locations corresponding to the spatial location for a luma-chroma sub-group and one or more neighboring luma-chroma sub-groups, the triad mixing ratio values are determined to allow the additional light-emitting element to produce more luminance than the green light emitting element.