Bright edge display for seamless tileable display panels

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10310314-B2
Application number	US-201514826743-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 14, 2015
Priority date	Aug 14, 2015
Publication date	Jun 4, 2019
Grant date	Jun 4, 2019

Abstract

A display panel includes an array of display pixels to output an image. The array of display pixels includes a central pixel region and a perimeter pixel region. The central pixel region includes central pixel units each having three different colored sub-pixels. The different colored sub-pixels of the central pixel units are organized according to a central layout pattern that repeats across the central pixel region. The perimeter pixel region is disposed along a perimeter of the central pixel region and includes perimeter pixel units that increase a brightness of the image along edges of the central pixel region to mask gaps around the array of display pixels when tiling the array of display pixels with other arrays of display pixels.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display panel, comprising:
an array of display pixels to output an image, the array of display pixels including:
a central pixel region including central pixel units each having three different colored sub-pixels, wherein the different colored sub-pixels of the central pixel units are organized according to a central layout pattern that repeats across the central pixel region; and
a perimeter pixel region disposed along a perimeter of the central pixel region, the perimeter pixel region including perimeter pixel units that increase a brightness of the image along edges of the central pixel region to mask gaps around the array of display pixels when tiling the array of display pixels with other arrays of display pixels, wherein the perimeter pixel units include different combinations of white and colored sub-pixels within the perimeter pixel region, the perimeter pixel units including first perimeter pixel units each having two white sub-pixels and one colored sub-pixel and second perimeter pixel units each having one white sub-pixel and two colored sub-pixels, wherein the first perimeter pixel units are peripheral to the second perimeter pixel units, and the two white sub-pixels of a given one of the first perimeter pixel units are separated from the one white sub-pixel of a given one of the second perimeter pixel units by the two colored sub-pixels of the given one of the second perimeter pixel units and the one colored sub-pixel of the given one of the first perimeter pixel units.

2. The display panel of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the perimeter pixel units include the white sub-pixels.

3. The display panel of claim 2 , wherein at least a portion of the perimeter pixel units include the colored sub-pixels.

4. The display panel of claim 3 , wherein a portion of the perimeter pixel units are white pixel units that only include reduced size white sub-pixels that are smaller than the colored sub-pixels.

5. The display panel of claim 4 , wherein the perimeter pixel region includes two adjacent sub-pixel columns of the white sub-pixels disposed along left and right perimeter regions and includes a row of the white sub-pixels disposed along top and bottom perimeter regions.

6. The display panel of claim 1 , wherein the central pixel units of the central pixel region generate the image having an N×M pixel resolution and wherein the perimeter pixel units are extra pixel units outside the N×M pixel resolution.

7. The display panel of claim 6 , further comprising:
a screen layer upon which the image is projected from the array of display pixels;
an illumination layer to illuminate the array of display pixels, wherein the array of display pixels is disposed between the illumination layer and the screen layer; and
a Fresnel lens disposed between the screen layer and the array of display pixels,
wherein the perimeter pixel units provide extra light to a perimeter boundary of the Fresnel lens to compensate light truncation of the central pixel units caused by the perimeter boundary of the Fresnel lens.

8. The display panel of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the perimeter pixel units are rotated 90 degrees relative to the central pixel units.

9. The display panel of claim 1 , further comprising:
a display layer including a plurality of arrays of display pixels, wherein an inter-array separation pitch between adjacent arrays of the plurality of arrays of display pixels is greater than an inter-pixel pitch between adjacent central pixel units;
a screen layer upon which the image is projected from the plurality of arrays of display pixels; and
an illumination layer to illuminate a backside of the display layer.

10. The display panel of claim 9 , wherein the perimeter pixel units of the plurality of arrays of display pixels have layout patterns that vary based upon locations of each of the plurality of arrays of display pixels within the display layer.

11. The display panel of claim 1 , wherein the different combinations of the white sub-pixels and the colored sub-pixels within the perimeter pixel units vary based upon location within the perimeter pixel region.

12. The display panel of claim 1 , wherein the central pixel units and the perimeter pixel units all include three sub-pixels each.

13. A tileable display panel, comprising:
an illumination layer;
a screen layer; and
a display layer disposed between the illumination layer and the screen layer to be illuminated from behind by the illumination layer and to project an image onto the screen layer, the display layer including a plurality of display pixel arrays, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of display pixel arrays each includes:
a central pixel region including central pixel units each having three different colored sub-pixels, wherein the different colored sub-pixels of the central pixel units are organized according to a central layout pattern that repeats across the central pixel region; and
a perimeter pixel region disposed along a perimeter of the central pixel region, the perimeter pixel region including perimeter pixel units that increase a brightness of the image along edges of the central pixel region to mask inter-panel gaps when tiling the tileable display panel with other tileable display panels, wherein the perimeter pixel units include different combinations of white and colored sub-pixels within the perimeter pixel region, the perimeter pixel units including first perimeter pixel units each having two white sub-pixels and one colored sub-pixel, second perimeter pixel units each having one white sub-pixel and two colored sub-pixels, and third perimeter pixel units each having three white sub-pixels, wherein the third perimeter pixel units are organized into rows, and the white sub-pixels of each of the first and second perimeter pixel units are organized into columns of white sub-pixels.

14. The tileable display panel of claim 13 , wherein at least a first portion of the perimeter pixel units include the white sub-pixels.

15. The tileable display panel of claim 14 , wherein at least a second portion of the perimeter pixel units include two or more of the colored sub-pixels.

16. The tileable display panel of claim 15 , wherein a third portion of the perimeter pixel units are white pixel units that only include reduced size white sub-pixels that are smaller than the colored sub-pixels.

17. The tileable display panel of claim 16 , wherein the perimeter pixel region includes two adjacent sub-pixel columns of the white sub-pixels disposed along left and right perimeter regions and includes a row of the white sub-pixels disposed along top and bottom perimeter regions.

18. The tileable display panel of claim 13 , wherein the central pixel units of the central pixel region generate the image having an N×M pixel resolution and wherein the perimeter pixel units are extra pixel units outside the N×M pixel resolution.

19. The tileable display panel of claim 18 , further comprising:
a Fresnel lens disposed between the screen layer and the plurality of display pixel arrays,
wherein the perimeter pixel units provide extra light to a perimeter boundary of the Fresnel lens to compensate for light truncation of the central pixel units caused by the perimeter boundary of the Fresnel lens.

20. The tileable display panel of claim 13 , wherein at least a portion of the perimeter pixel units are rotated 90 degrees relative to the central pixel units.

21. The tileable display panel of claim 13 , whe

Assignees

• X Dev Llc

Inventors

• Watson Philip E
• Fu Pey Lung
• Chen Hung-Yu
• Vieri Carlin
• Norton Adam E
• Kazmierski Andrei S
• Bierhuizen Serge J A
• Loomis Nicholas C
• Bastani Behnam
• Lee Yachi

Classifications

• G02F2001/133388

  Physics · mapped topic

• G02F1/13336 Primary

  Combining plural substrates to produce large-area displays, e.g. tiled displays · CPC title

• G02F1/133526

  Lenses, e.g. microlenses or Fresnel lenses · CPC title

• G02F1/133602

  Direct backlight · CPC title

• G02F1/134309

  characterised by their geometrical arrangement · CPC title