IP Library Granted Patent US 11,398,180
Granted Patent B2
US 11,398,180 · App. 15/313,544 · Granted Jul 26, 2022

Display control system and display device

Inventors: Yi Li (Shenzhen, CN); Zeqin Wang (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
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Patent No.
US 11,398,180
App. No.
15/313,544
Granted
Jul 26, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display control system and a display device. The display control system ( 1 ) comprises a control unit for controlling a light source ( 2 ) to be in a bright field and a dark field alternately in the same frame of data, and controlling the status switching of a light valve of a spatial light modulator ( 3 ) to be within the time of the dark field of the light source. The display device comprises the display control system ( 1 ). The control unit controls the bright field and the dark field of the light source, so that the light valve of the spatial light modulator ( 3 ) has a relatively long switching time, thereby increasing the switching speed of the light valve, reducing the difficulty for manufacturing the spatial light modulator ( 3 ), and improving the accuracy for the spatial light modulator ( 3 ) to modulate the light source.

Claims (32)

1. A display control system comprising:

a control unit for controlling a light source to be in a bright field during a plurality of bright field time intervals and a dark field during a plurality of dark field time intervals alternately within a same frame of data, wherein any two neighboring bright field time intervals are separated by only one dark field time interval and no other time intervals, the plurality of bright field time intervals and the plurality of dark field time intervals collectively constituting an entire duration of the frame of data, and controlling a switching of states of a light valve of a spatial light modulator to be within one or more of the plurality of dark field time intervals when the light source is in the dark field,

wherein the control unit controls a same primary color light source so that durations of its bright field time intervals are a geometric series within each frame of data.

2. The display control system of claim 1 , wherein time durations of the plurality of dark field time intervals are of equal lengths.

3. The display control system of claim 1 , wherein the control unit controls the light valve of the spatial light modulator to switch states or stay in a state during each of the plurality of dark field time intervals.

4. A display device comprising:

the display control system of claim 1 ;

at least one light source;

at least one spatial light modulator, for receiving and processing image data, and for receiving and modulating light generated by the light source, wherein the spatial light modulator includes multiple light valves.

5. The display device of claim 4 , wherein the light source is one that can be modulated.

6. The display device of claim 5 ,

wherein the light source includes a solid state light emitting element and a color wheel;

wherein the solid state light emitting element emits an excitation light; and

wherein the color wheel includes a substrate carrying a wavelength conversion material, wherein the substrate moves along a predetermined path, and wherein the excitation light sequentially illuminates different locations of the wavelength conversion material.

7. The display device of claim 6 , wherein the solid state light emitting element includes one of LD (laser diode) or LED (light emitting diode), or a combination thereof.

8. The display device of claim 5 ,

wherein the light source includes at least three solid state light emitting elements; and

wherein the least three solid state light emitting elements emit any one of red, green and blue color lights.

9. The display device of claim 8 , wherein the solid state light emitting element includes one of LD (laser diode) or LED (light emitting diode), or a combination thereof.

10. The display device of claim 5 ,

wherein the light source includes a color wheel and at least two solid state light emitting elements;

wherein one of the solid state light emitting elements emits an excitation light, and wherein the color wheel is located on a light path of the excitation light for receiving the excitation light to generate a converted light; and

wherein light generated by the one of the solid state light emitting elements is modulated by the spatial light modulator.

11. The display device of claim 10 , wherein the solid state light emitting element includes one of LD (laser diode) or LED (light emitting diode), or a combination thereof.

12. The display device of claim 5 ,

wherein the at least one spatial light modulator is one spatial light modulator, and

wherein the display control system controls the light source to generate three color lights including red, green and blue lights, and controls the spatial light modulator to sequentially modulate the three color lights including the red, green and blue lights.

13. The display device of claim 5 ,

wherein the at least one spatial light modulator are three spatial light modulators;

wherein the display control system controls the light source to generate broad spectrum lights or primary color lights, wherein the primary color lights, or primary color lights generated from the broad spectrum lights by light division and combination, are respectively inputted to the three spatial light modulators; and

wherein the spatial light modulators modulate the received primary color lights based on grayscale values of the respective primary colors in each frame of data.

14. The display control system of claim 1 , wherein the geometric series formed by all of the bright field time intervals within each frame of data is an increasing or decreasing geometric series.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 18, 2017
From: APPOTRONICS CHINA CORPORATION
To: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
Reel/Frame 043898/0022 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 22, 2016
From: LI, YI; WANG, ZEQIN
To: APPOTRONICS CHINA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 040406/0545 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201410240355.8 · May 30, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
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