IP Library Granted Patent US 8,026,936
Granted Patent B2
US 8,026,936 · App. 11/697,098 · Granted Sep 27, 2011

Method for displaying images and display apparatus using the same

Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
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Patent No.
US 8,026,936
App. No.
11/697,098
Granted
Sep 27, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for displaying images in a display apparatus is provided herein. In the display apparatus, an image is displayed during each frame period of a plurality of contiguous frames. At first, original images are received, and each of the received original images is composed of M number of contiguous image rows. A predetermined amount of frame periods are grouped as a frame group. During each frame period, one of M number of image rows is selected as an initial image row. From the initial image row, N number of image rows are selected from the M number of image rows according to an image row selection rule to constitute an image for displaying. In each frame group, at least two different initial parameters are used within two frame periods in order to output different images.

Claims (37)

1. An image display method suitable for use in a display apparatus having a plurality of contiguous frame periods, and the display apparatus displaying an output image during each frame period, the image display method comprising:

receiving an original image, wherein the original image comprises M number of contiguous image rows;

grouping a predetermined number of the frame periods into a frame group;

during each of the frame periods, selecting one of the M number of image rows as an initial image row, wherein in each of the frame groups at least two frame periods have a different initial parameter to correspond to different image contents, and the different initial parameter initializes the initial image row selected in the at least two frame periods as different rows of the original image; and

during each of the frame periods, starting from the initial image row, selecting N number of image rows from the M number image rows according to an image selecting rule to form the output image, wherein each of the N number of image rows and each of the M number of image rows have a same number of image columns, and each pixel of the selected M number image rows is selected,

wherein the image row selecting rule comprises a row selecting parameter, and the procedures of selecting the N number of image rows from the M number of image rows comprises:

performing complex number adding calculation starting from the initial row using the row selecting parameter.

2. The image display method according to claim 1 , wherein in the step of selecting the N number of image rows from the M number of image rows, when N<M, then a portion of the M number of image rows is ignored according to the image row selecting rule.

3. The image display method according to claim 1 , wherein in the step of selecting the N number of image rows from the M number of image rows, when N>M, then a portion of the M number of image rows is repeatedly selected according to the image row selecting rule.

4. The image display method according to claim 1 , wherein the procedures of selecting the N number of image rows from the M number of image rows comprises:

when any one of the results from the adding calculation falls between the two contiguous image rows of the original image, with the rounding rule, the previous one or the latter one of the two contiguous image rows is selected as the image row of the output image.

5. The image display method according to claim 1 , wherein the procedures of selecting the N number of image rows from the M number of image rows comprises:

when any one of the results from the adding calculation falls between the two contiguous image rows of the original image, the previous one of the two contiguous image rows is selected as the image row of the output image.

6. An image display method, suitable for use in a display apparatus comprising a display panel having a plurality of contiguous frame periods, and displaying an output image during each frame period, wherein the image display method comprising:

receiving an original image, wherein the original image comprising M number of contiguous image rows;

determining the display panel being in the 2q th or the (2q+1) th frame period, wherein q is larger than or equal to 0;

when the display panel being in the 2q th frame period, adding a first initial parameter, selecting N number of image rows from the M number of image rows according to an image row selecting rule to form the output image, wherein the first initial parameter initializes an initial image row selected in the 2q th frame period as one of the M number of contiguous image rows of the original image; and

when the display panel being in the (2q+1) th frame period, adding a second initial parameter, selecting N number of image rows from the M number of image rows according to the image row selecting rule to form the output image, wherein the second initial parameter initializes the initial image row selected in the (2q+1) th frame period as another one of the M number of contiguous image rows of the original image, wherein the first initial parameter is different from the second initial parameter, each of the N number of image rows and each of the M number of image rows have a same number of image columns, and each pixel of the selected M number image rows is selected,

wherein the image row selecting rule comprises a row selecting parameter, and the procedure of selecting the N number of image rows from the M number of image rows comprises:

performing complex number adding calculation starting from an initial row using the row selecting parameter.

7. The image display method according to claim 6 , wherein in the step of selecting the N number of image rows from the M number of image rows, when N<M, then a portion of the M number of image rows is ignored according to the image row selecting rule.

8. The image display method according to claim 6 , wherein in the step of selecting the N number of image rows from the M number of image rows, when N>M, then a portion of the M number of image rows is repeatedly selected according to the image row selecting rule.

9. The image display method according to claim 6 , wherein the procedure of selecting the N number of image rows from the M number of image rows comprises:

when any one of the results from the adding calculation falls between the two contiguous image rows of the original image, with the rounding rule, the previous one or the latter one of the two contiguous image rows is selected as the image row of the output image.

10. The image display method according to claim 6 , wherein the procedure of selecting the N number of image rows from the M number of image rows comprises:

when any one of the results from the adding calculation falls between the two contiguous image rows of the original image, the previous one of the two contiguous image rows is selected as the image row of the output image.

11. A display apparatus, comprising:

a receiving device, receiving an original image, wherein the original image comprises M number of contiguous image rows;

a display panel, having a plurality of contiguous frame periods, and the display panel displaying an output image during each of the frame periods according to the original image; and

a processing device, coupled to the receiving device to group a predetermined number of the frame periods into a frame group, and in each of the frame periods, selecting one of the M number of image rows as an initial image row, and starting from the initial image row, selecting N number of image rows from the M number of image rows according to an image selecting rule to form the output image;

wherein in each of the frame group, at least two frame periods have a different initial parameter to correspond to different image contents, and the different initial parameter initializes the initial image row selected in the at least two frame periods as different rows of the original image;

wherein each of the N number of image rows and each of the M number of image rows have a same number of image columns, and each pixel of the selected M number image rows is selected; and

wherein in the image row selecting rule comprises a row selecting parameter, and starting from the initial row the processing device uses the row selecting parameter to perform complex number adding calculation.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein when N<M, then a portion of the M number of image rows is ignored by the processing device according to the image row selecting rule.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein when N>M, then a portion of the M number of image rows is repeatedly selected by the processing device according to the image row selecting rule.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein when any one of the results from the adding calculation falls between the two contiguous image rows of the original image, with the rounding rule, the processing device selects the previous one or the latter one of the two contiguous image rows as the image row of the output image.

15. The image display apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein when any one of the results from the adding calculation falls between the two contiguous image rows of the original image, the processing device selects the previous one of the two contiguous image rows as the image row of the output image.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 5, 2007
From: TING, HOU-CHUN
To: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
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Priority Claims (1)
TW 96103502 A · Jan 31, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
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