IP Library Granted Patent US 8,633,951
Granted Patent B2
US 8,633,951 · App. 13/684,676 · Granted Jan 21, 2014

Display system

Inventors: Yoshiki Kurokawa (Tokyo, JP); Yasuyuki Kudo (Tokyo, JP); Hiroyuki Nitta (Fujisawa, JP); Kazuki Homma (Kodaira, JP); Junya Takeda (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,633,951
App. No.
13/684,676
Granted
Jan 21, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display drive circuit of the invention has: an initial-color-gamut-apex-coordinate-storing unit capable of storing initial color gamut apex coordinates; a user-target-color-gamut-apex-coordinate-storing unit capable of storing user target color gamut apex coordinates; a saturation-expansion-coefficient-deciding unit for deciding expansion coefficients of saturation data based on the initial and user target color gamut apex coordinates; and an expansion unit for expanding saturations of display data based on the saturation expansion coefficients. The expansion coefficients of saturation data are decided based on the initial and user target color gamut apex coordinates, and saturations of display data are expanded according to the expansion coefficients. Thus, the degree of expanding the saturations can be controlled for each color gamut or each of R, G and B color properties of an LC display panel.

Claims (31)

1. A display drive circuit capable of driving a display panel according to display data entered thereinto, comprising:

a first storing unit which is capable of storing initial color gamut apex coordinates;

a second storing unit which is capable of storing user target color gamut apex coordinates;

a deciding unit which is for deciding expansion coefficients of saturation data based on the initial and the user target color gamut apex coordinates; and

an expansion unit which is for expanding saturations of the display data based on the saturation expansion coefficients.

2. The display drive circuit according to claim 1 ,

wherein the deciding unit computes the expansion coefficients based on an area ratio between a color gamut calculated from the initial color gamut apex coordinates and a color gamut calculated from the user target color gamut apex coordinates.

3. The display drive circuit according to claim 1 ,

wherein the deciding unit finds a square root of an area ratio between a color gamut calculated from the initial color gamut apex coordinates and a color gamut calculated from the user target color gamut apex coordinates thereby to compute the expansion coefficients.

4. The display drive circuit according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an interface which enables information setting on the first storing unit and the second storing unit from an outside of the display drive circuit.

5. A display drive circuit capable of driving a display panel according to display data entered thereinto, comprising:

a first storing unit which is capable of storing initial color gamut apex coordinates;

a second storing unit which is capable of storing user target color gamut apex coordinates;

a deciding unit which is for deciding saturation expansion coefficients of R, G and B based on the initial and user target color gamut apex coordinates;

an interpolating unit which is for performing interpolating calculation of the saturation expansion coefficients of R, G and B; and

an expansion unit which is for expanding saturations of the display data based on the saturation expansion coefficients subjected to interpolation by the interpolating unit.

6. The display drive circuit according to claim 5 ,

wherein the deciding unit finds distance values of the initial and user target color gamut apex coordinates of R, G and B from a white-color coordinate thereby to determine a ratio of the distance values of the initial and user target color gamut apex coordinates for each of R, G and B, and calculates a saturation expansion coefficient of each of R, G and B from the ratios.

7. The display drive circuit according to claim 6 ,

wherein the interpolating unit performs linear interpolation on the R, G and B saturation expansion coefficients based on hue data.

8. The display drive circuit according to claim 5 , further comprising:

an interface which enables information setting on the first storing unit and the second storing unit from an outside of the display drive circuit.

9. A display drive circuit capable of driving a display panel according to display data entered thereinto, comprising:

a first storing unit which is capable of storing saturation expansion coefficients of R, G and B;

an interpolating unit which is for performing interpolating calculation of the saturation expansion coefficients of R, G and B; and

an expansion unit which is for expanding saturations of the display data based on the saturation expansion coefficients subjected to interpolation by the interpolating unit.

10. The display drive circuit according to claim 9 ,

wherein the interpolating unit performs linear interpolation on the R, G and B saturation expansion coefficients based on hue data.

11. The display drive circuit according to claim 9 , further comprising:

an interface which enables information setting on the first storing unit from an outside of the display drive circuit.

Assignments (6)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 20, 2024
From: SYNAPTICS JAPAN GK
To: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 067793/0211 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Sep 27, 2017
From: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
To: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Reel/Frame 044037/0896 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 8, 2016
From: SYNAPTICS DISPLAY DEVICES GK
To: SYNAPTICS JAPAN GK
Reel/Frame 039711/0862 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 29, 2015
From: RENESAS SP DRIVERS INC.
To: SYNAPTICS DISPLAY DEVICES KK
Reel/Frame 035796/0947 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 29, 2015
From: SYNAPTICS DISPLAY DEVICES KK
To: SYNAPTICS DISPLAY DEVICES GK
Reel/Frame 035797/0036 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 19, 2014
From: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
To: RENESAS SP DRIVERS INC.
Reel/Frame 033778/0137 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-249427 · Sep 29, 2008 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 13423315 · Mar 19, 2012
Continuation 12468345 · May 19, 2009
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