Patent · US Expired

Drive for a display device

US6069610A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 14, 1995
Grant dateMay 30, 2000
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Expiry dateNov 14, 2015

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09G3/2803
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In an error diffusion processing unit to get a false half tone diffusing in the surroundings the luminance error between the original picture element signal quantizedly input and the preceding data, one dot of said signal is converted into plural picture elements. The respective picture elements (pixels) thus converted are compared with the prior data to detect the luminance error, which will then be weighted by multiplying it with certain coefficient to give, for instance, the reproduced error in one line past, that in one dot past and further the reproduced error a in one-line and one-dot past, which will respectively be added to the original pixels. Producing a false tone by error variance in unit of pixel enables to display the half tone without expanding the half tone display area beyond required dot number.

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