A display panel includes an array substrate, a plurality of cascading GOA units, a plurality of DEMUX switching units, and a DEMUX control signal generating circuit. One DEMUX switching unit includes a scanning signal input port, at least two control signal input ports, and at least two scanning signal output ports. One GOA unit is connected to the scanning signal input port, the DEMUX control signal generating circuit is connected to the at least two control signal input ports, and the scanning signal output ports are connected to corresponding gate lines.

A method includes rendering, by at least one processor, a first sub-frame of an image, where the first sub-frame includes a first subset of pixels of the image. The method includes displaying the first sub-frame on a display. The method also includes rendering, by the at least one processor, a second sub-frame of the image, where the second sub-frame includes a second subset of pixels of the image, and where the second sub-frame is shifted a half-pixel diagonally from the first sub-frame. The method also includes displaying the second sub-frame on the display after displaying the first sub-frame, where the display is optically shifted a half-pixel diagonally to display the second sub-frame.

A display device includes a display panel and an image processor. The display panel includes pixels, each pixel among the pixels including sub-pixels. The image processor is configured to process image data for image display via the display panel. An arrangement of sub-pixels of a pixel in an odd-numbered pixel column of the display panel is different from an arrangement of sub-pixels of a pixel in an even-numbered pixel column of the display panel. The image processor includes an edge determiner and a sub-pixel renderer. The edge determiner is configured to determine an edge from the image data. The sub-pixel renderer is configured to perform sub-pixel rendering on pixel data about sub-pixels configured to display a same color in adjacent pixels in the odd-numbered pixel column or the even-numbered pixel column located at the edge.

A system and method for rendering subpixels comprising performing an eight-color halftoning process on the second image data to generate third image data which describe a grayscale value of each of an R subpixel, a G subpixel and a B subpixel of each pixel with one bit, generating the third image data by performing a dithering process on the second image data using a dither value selected from elements of the dither table, when the third image data associated with a pixel of interest of the display panel is generated, and driving the display panel in response to the third image data.

A display apparatus includes a display panel and a display driver. The display panel has a first pixel structure. The display driver is configured to receive input image data including first data, and generate a driving signal for driving the display panel based on conversion data. The display driver includes a converter configured to convert the first data into the conversion data. The conversion data include conversion data in N rows and M columns. Each of (2K−1)-th column conversion data include first color conversion data representing a first color and second color conversion data representing a second color. Each of 2K-th column conversion data include third color conversion data representing a third color and fourth color conversion data representing the second color. N, M and K are positive integers.

A display panel, a method of driving a display panel, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixel units arranged in an array, a plurality of compensation driving circuits and a plurality of light emitting control lines; sub-pixel units in each row are divided into a plurality of compensation light emitting groups, the plurality of compensation light emitting groups include a plurality of first compensation light emitting groups, the first compensation light emitting groups each include N sub-pixel units that are adjacent, and light emitting circuits of the N sub-pixel units that are adjacent are connected to one same compensation driving circuit; the light emitting circuits of the N sub-pixel units that are adjacent of each of the first compensation light emitting groups are respectively connected to N light emitting control lines that are different.

Disclosed is an image display apparatus including a display panel having a plurality of pixels, and a controller configured to control the display panel, wherein the plurality of pixels includes luminance pixels including subpixels of multiple colors and color pixels including subpixels of multiple colors, and wherein the luminance pixels output light with luminance higher than luminance of the color pixels and the color pixels output light with color purity higher than color purity of the luminance pixels. Accordingly, a high luminance and high color-saturation image may be displayed with the image display apparatus including the luminance pixels and the color pixels.

There are provided methods for driving an electro-optic display having a plurality of display pixels, a such method includes receiving an image, converting the image into a YCbCr image; and processing the YCbCr image to generate a luma image. The method further includes calculating variations in a local area for the YCbCr image to obtain a variation map, and calculating an effect ratio map using the calculated variation.

Systems and methods for improving perceived image quality of an electronic display, which includes a display region with a rounded border and a display pixel at a pixel position adjacent the rounded border. A display pipeline communicatively coupled to the electronic display receives first image data that indicates target luminance at the pixel position in a rectangular image frame; determines a gain value associated with the pixel position from a gain map, in which the gain value is inversely proportional to distance between the display pixel and the rounded border; determines second image data that indicates target luminance of the display pixel by processing the first image data based at least in part on the gain value; and outputs the second image data to the electronic display to facilitate displaying a non-rectangular portion of the image frame on the display region.

A color Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device for displaying a color image using at least four different primary colors, the device including an array of Liquid Crystal (LC) elements, driving circuitry adapted to receive an input corresponding to the color image and to selectively activate the LC elements of the LC array to produce an attenuation pattern corresponding to a gray-level representation of the color image, and an array of color sub-pixel filter elements juxtaposed and in registry with the array of LC elements such that each color sub-pixel filter element is in registry with one of the LC elements, wherein the array of color sub-pixel filter elements comprises at least four types of color sub-pixel filter elements, which transmit light of the at least four primary colors, respectively.