Granted Patent B2

US 11,631,358 · App. 17/965,410 · Granted Apr 18, 2023

Inventors: Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz (Somis, CA); Corey P. Carbonara (Waco, TX); Michael F. Korpi (Hewitt, TX); James M. DeFilippis (Pacific Palisades, CA); Gary B. Mandle (Los Altos, CA)

Assignee: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY

G09G3/2003G02B5/201G02F1/133514G09G3/3413G09G5/02G09G2300/0452G09G2320/0242G09G2340/06

Abstract

Claims (59)

1. A system for displaying image data, comprising:

at least one graphics processing unit (GPU);

a display engine;

at least one display controller; and

a plurality of display devices;

wherein the image data includes a set of primary color signals, wherein the set of primary color signals corresponds to a set of values in an International Commission on Illumination (CIE) Yxy color space, wherein the set of values in the CIE Yxy color space includes a luminance (Y) and two colorimetric coordinates (x and y);

wherein the at least one GPU is operable to render the image data for display on the plurality of display devices, thereby creating rendered image data;

wherein the rendered image data is transmitted to the display engine;

wherein the rendered image data is transmitted to the at least one display controller;

wherein the transmitted rendered data includes processed Yxy data, wherein the processed Yxy data includes a first channel related to the luminance (Y), a second channel related to a first colorimetric coordinate (x) of the two colorimetric coordinates (x and y), and a third channel related to a second colorimetric coordinate (y) of the two colorimetric coordinates (x and y);

wherein the at least one display controller is operable to scale the rendered image data for display on the plurality of display devices, thereby creating image display data;

wherein the at least one display controller is operable to transmit the image display data to each of the plurality of display devices; and

wherein the plurality of display devices is operable to display the image display data.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one GPU includes a render engine, at least one render pipeline, a programmable pixel shader, a programmable vector shader, a vector array processor, a curvature engine, and/or a memory cache.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the display engine includes a raster scaler, at least one video display controller, a color channel-to-XYZ converter, a linear converter, a scaler, a limiter, an XYZ-to-Yxy converter, a sampling selector, a video bus, a look-up table (LUT), at least one output formatter, and/or at least one encoder.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one GPU and the display engine are included on a video card.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one GPU is a plurality of GPUs, and wherein the plurality of GPUs is operable to render the image data in parallel.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the image display data includes a mapping of the rendered image data to the plurality of display devices.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the image display data includes a cropping of the rendered image data.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the image display data includes timing data.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the image display data includes a location of each of the plurality of display devices.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of display devices is operable to display at least 80% of a total area covered between about 400 nanometers and about 700 nanometers in the CIE Yxy color space.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the image data corresponds to an image, and wherein the image includes colors outside of an International Telecommunication Union Recommendation (ITU-R) BT.2020 color gamut.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of display devices is operable to transmit the image display data.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of display devices includes at least one display screen, and wherein the at least one display screen includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen, a light-emitting diode (LED) display screen, a quantum dot (QD) display screen, and/or a projector screen.

14. A system for displaying image data, comprising:

at least one graphics processing unit (GPU);

a display engine;

at least one display controller; and

a plurality of display devices;

wherein the image data includes a set of primary color signals, wherein the set of primary color signals corresponds to a set of values in an International Commission on Illumination (CIE) Yxy color space, wherein the set of values in the CIE Yxy color space includes a luminance (Y) and two colorimetric coordinates (x and y);

wherein the at least one GPU is operable to render the image data for display on the plurality of display devices, thereby creating rendered image data;

wherein the rendered image data is transmitted to the display engine;

wherein the rendered image data is transmitted to the at least one display controller;

wherein the transmitted rendered data includes processed Yxy data, wherein the processed Yxy data includes a first channel related to the luminance (Y), a second channel related to a first colorimetric coordinate (x) of the two colorimetric coordinates (x and y), and a third channel related to a second colorimetric coordinate (y) of the two colorimetric coordinates (x and y);

wherein the at least one display controller is operable to scale the rendered image data for display on the plurality of display devices, thereby creating image display data;

wherein the at least one display controller is operable to transmit an image display signal to each of the plurality of display devices;

wherein the image display signal includes a portion of the image display data; and

wherein the plurality of display devices is operable to display the image display data.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the portion of the image display data included in the image display signal is based on a location of each of the plurality of display devices.

16. The system of claim 14 , wherein the image display signal includes a cropping of the rendered image data.

17. The system of claim 14 , wherein the image display signal includes timing data.

18. The system of claim 14 , wherein the image display signal includes a calibration signal.

19. A system for displaying image data, comprising:

at least one graphics processing unit (GPU);

a display engine;

at least one display controller; and

a plurality of display devices;

wherein the image data includes a set of primary color signals, wherein the set of primary color signals corresponds to a set of values in an International Commission on Illumination (CIE) Yxy color space, wherein the set of values in the CIE Yxy color space includes a luminance (Y) and two colorimetric coordinates (x and y);

wherein the at least one GPU is operable to render the image data for display on the plurality of display devices, thereby creating rendered image data;

wherein the rendered image data is transmitted to the display engine;

wherein the rendered image data is transmitted to the at least one display controller;

wherein the transmitted rendered data includes processed Yxy data, wherein the processed Yxy data includes a first channel related to the luminance (Y), a second channel related to a first colorimetric coordinate (x) of the two colorimetric coordinates (x and y), and a third channel related to a second colorimetric coordinate (y) of the two colorimetric coordinates (x and y);

wherein the at least one display controller is operable to scale the rendered image data for display on the plurality of display devices, thereby creating image display data;

wherein the at least one display controller is operable to transmit an image display signal to each of the plurality of display devices;

wherein the image display signal includes a portion of the image display data;

wherein the plurality of display devices is operable to display the image display data; and

wherein the image display data includes a plurality of images.

20. The system of claim 19 , wherein the plurality of display devices includes at least one moving stage and wherein the at least one moving stage is operable to change a visibility of at least one display element in the plurality of display devices.

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