A method and system for calibrating brightness variation in a display involve measuring brightness levels of light emitters in the display. The light emitters are divided into different groups based on the measured brightness levels. Each group is assigned a sub-frame duration. Groups with higher brightness are assigned shorter sub-frame durations than groups with lower brightness. Calibration information is stored for driving the light emitters such that during a frame period of the display, the light emitters are activated for durations corresponding to the sub-frame duration of their corresponding group.

A display device that achieves both high detection sensitivity of the touch sensor unit and smooth input on the touch sensor unit is provided. A method for driving a display device includes a first period and a second period. The display device includes pixels, a gate driver, and a touch sensor unit. The touch sensor unit detects a touch in the first period and stops detecting a touch in the second period. The gate driver supplies signals to some of the pixels and does not supply signals to the other pixels in the second period.

One embodiment provides a driver controller for a light modulation device. The driver controller includes a look-up table (LUT) to store a plurality of binary sequences, each binary sequence corresponding to a target phase response of a pixel of a liquid crystal structure of the light modulation device; wherein at least one binary sequence includes at least one pattern of binary values from among a plurality of patterns of binary values, the patterns of binary values comprising: a first set of patterns, each pattern of the first set of patterns generated as: for n=N1 . . . 1, n leading 0s plus a trailing 1; where n is an index ranging from 1 to N, and N represents a number of target phase responses; and a second set of patterns, each pattern of the second set of patterns generated as: for n=1 to N2, generate pattern {01x}, where x=n number of trailing 1 s. The driver controller also includes pixel electrode control circuitry to receive data having N target phase responses for at least one pixel and to determine a binary sequence of the LUT that matches a target phase response of the data; the pixel electrode control circuitry also to cause a first voltage level, corresponding to a first binary value of a binary sequence, to be applied to an electrode of the pixel, and to cause a second voltage level, corresponding to a second binary value of a binary sequence, to be applied to the electrode of the pixel.

A method and system for calibrating brightness variation in a display involve measuring brightness levels of light emitters in the display. The light emitters are divided into different groups based on the measured brightness levels. Each group is assigned a sub-frame duration. Groups with higher brightness are assigned shorter sub-frame durations than groups with lower brightness. Calibration information is stored for driving the light emitters such that during a frame period of the display, the light emitters are activated for durations corresponding to the sub-frame duration of their corresponding group.

Setting of an order of sub-frame periods is simplified. A display element array section includes a plurality of arranged display elements in which a gray-scale display is performed in accordance with display data in each frame period that is a display period of one screen. A display control section divides the frame period into a plurality of sub-frame periods and divides the plurality of display elements into a plurality of groups to perform control of a display in each of the plurality of sub-frame periods in each of the plurality of groups. A display data supply section supplies the display data in each of the sub-frame periods to the display element array section by shifting a predetermined delay time in each of the groups and supplies the display data in each of the sub-frame periods to the display element array section on the basis of an order of the sub-frame periods in accordance with the number of the divided groups and the predetermined delay time.

A method for controlling a digital display device of a head or helmet-mounted display system and a head or helmet-mounted digital display system implementing the method are provided with the aim of controlling the display device in such a way as to reduce the effect of dynamic false contouring on the quality of a displayed image. According to the method, received image data defining brightness levels according to a scheme of light pulse modulation based upon binary-weighted pulse durations are converted into a data defining a sequence of pulses of binary and non-binary weighted duration in which the highest value weighting represents a pulse of a duration less than half the total duration of illumination required during an image refresh period to achieve a pixel at the highest brightness level. In a further embodiment, the weighting of highest value represents a pulse of duration less than one quarter of the duration required for highest pixel brightness.

A display apparatus includes a plurality of light modulation elements configured to modulate light from a light source for each color, and a driver configured to drive the plurality of light modulation elements using drive signals in accordance with a digital drive method. The driver makes different from one another start timings of the drive signals corresponding to one frame period for the plurality of light modulation elements.

The invention provides a digital driving method for OLED display device, by using a 3T1C pixel driving circuit comprising a first TFT, a second TFT, a third TFT, a capacitor, and an OLED to drive each sub-pixel, and by dividing a frame of OLED display device into a plurality of unequal-length sub-frames and equal-length sub-frames, and by changing the time gap between the first TFT charging and the third TFT discharging to control the illuminating time of each equal-length sub-frame. By combining the unequal-length and equal-length sub-frames, compared to the unequal-length sub-frame driving only in prior arts, the method can effectively reduce required hardware specification, improve luminance of OLED display device, and ensure the display quality of the OLED display device.

The liquid crystal drive apparatus controls application of a first or second voltage to each pixel of a liquid crystal element in respective sub-frame periods in one frame period to cause that pixel to form a tone. The sub-frame period where the first voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an ON period, the sub-frame period where the second voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an OFF period. The sub-frame period corresponding to the ON and OFF periods respectively for first and second pixels of two mutually adjacent pixels is referred to as an ON/OFF adjacent period. The apparatus provides, when causing the first and second pixels to form tones adjacent to each other, a plurality of the ON/OFF adjacent periods each being 1.0 ms or less separately from each other in the one frame period.

The liquid crystal drive apparatus controls application of a first or second voltage to each pixel of a liquid crystal element in respective multiple sub-frame periods included in one frame period to cause that pixel to form a tone. The sub-frame period where the first voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an ON period, and the sub-frame period where the second voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an OFF period. The apparatus provide, when causing the pixel to form the tone using the ON period, multiple ON period sets separately from each other in the one frame period. Each ON period set includes one or more ON periods. The apparatus sets a temporal interval between temporal centers of the respective ON period sets to 60% or less of the one frame period or to 5.0 ms or less.