Image processing method and display device using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016180808-A1
Application number	US-201514710217-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 12, 2015
Priority date	Dec 18, 2014
Publication date	Jun 23, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided is an image processing method of processing first red, green, and blue (RGB) data with a display device including a pixel configured with red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels and providing the processed data. The method includes receiving the first RGB data, rendering the first RGB data to generate second RGB data and white (W) data, converting the first RGB data into hue, saturation, and value (HSV) data, obtaining RGB compensation data by using the HSV data on the basis of a lookup table, compensating for the second RGB data by using the RGB compensation data, and outputting the compensated second RGB data and the W data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An image processing method of processing first red, green, and blue (RGB) data with a display device including a pixel including red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels and providing the processed data, the method comprising:
receiving the first RGB data; generating second RGB data and white (W) data by rendering the first RGB data; converting the first RGB data into hue, saturation, and value (HSV) data; obtaining RGB compensation data by using the HSV data on the basis of a lookup table; compensating for the second RGB data by using the RGB compensation data; and outputting the compensated second RGB data and the W data.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining whether the hue and saturation data of the HSV data are respectively included in first and second ranges.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the obtaining of the RGB compensation data is executed when the hue and saturation data of the HSV data respectively satisfy the first and second ranges.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the first range is about 28°≦H≦about 32° where H is a value obtained by converting the hue data into an angle.

5 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the second range is about 0≦S≦255 where S is a value obtained by converting the saturation data into an 8-bit value.

6 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the lookup table stores first and second intermediate values corresponding to each of a plurality of levels of the value data of the HSV data for each color.

7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the obtaining of the RGB compensation data comprises:
obtaining the first and second intermediate data corresponding to the value data for each color from the lookup table; and calculating the RGB compensation data for each color using the first and second intermediate data obtained for each color.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the RGB compensation data for each color is calculated by the following Equation (1),
Δ= M 1× S/St+M 2×( S −- S )/ St   Equation (1)
where Δ denotes the RGB compensation data for each color, M 1 denotes the first intermediate data, M 2 denotes the second intermediate data, S denotes the saturation data of the HSV data, and St denotes a maximum value among saturation data included in the second range.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the compensating for the second RGB data comprises applying the second RGB data with the RGB compensation data.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the second RGB data is compensated according to the following Equation (2),
RoGoBo=RiGiBi+ΔRΔGΔB   Equation (2)
where RoGoBo denotes the compensated second RGB data, RiGiBi denotes the second RGB data, and ΔRΔGΔB denotes the RGB compensation data.

11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the rendering of the first RGB data and the converting of the first RGB data into the HSV data are executed simultaneously.

12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the compensated second RGB data and the W data respectively correspond to the red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels.

13 . An image processing apparatus for processing first red, green, and blue (RGB) data with a display device comprising a pixel including red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels and providing the processed data, the apparatus comprising:
a rendering unit configured to render the first RGB data to generate second RGB data and white W data; an RGB-HSV converting unit configured to convert the first RGB data into hue, saturation, and value (HSV) data; a calculating unit configured to obtain RGB compensation data by using the HSV data on the basis of a lookup table; and a color compensating unit configured to compensate for the second RGB data by using the RGB compensation data and to output the compensated RGB data and the W data.

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ahn Kuk-Hwan
• Kim Yu-Kwan
• Lee Ik Soo

Classifications

• H04N9/67

  for matrixing (camera processing pipelines for matrixing of colour signals H04N23/85) · CPC title

• G09G2340/06

  Colour space transformation · CPC title

• G09G3/2003

  Display of colours (specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607) · CPC title

• G09G5/06 Primary

  using colour palettes, e.g. look-up tables · CPC title

• H04N9/64 Primary

  Circuits for processing colour signals (H04N9/77 takes precedence; camera processing pipelines for processing colour signals H04N23/84) · CPC title