There are provided methods and apparatus for driving an electro-optic display. In an electronic color display including an active matrix of pixels and an electro-optic medium, the method comprises receiving an input image, processing the input image to create color separation cumulate, and using a threshold array to process the color separation cumulate to generate output colors for the electronic color display. In many instances the color gamut of the input image and the color gamut of the electronic color display are different.

A control method of an e-ink screen. The e-ink screen includes a plurality of pixels, at least one pixel includes first color charged particles and second color charged particles, and the first color charged particles and the second color charged particles are same in electrical property. The control method of the e-ink screen includes: inputting a first color driving signal to pixels expected to display a first color in the e-ink screen. The first color driving signal includes a plurality of sub-signals corresponding to a plurality of driving stages. The plurality of sub-signals include a first color imaging sub-signal and a particle separation sub-signal. The particle separation sub-signal is configured to drive the first color charged particles and the second color charged particles in the at least one pixel to move, and to separate the first color charged particles from the second color charged particles.

Systems and methods for preserving a pulse width modulation (PWM) resolution while increasing the frequency of a pulse width modulation (PWM) clock are provided. An electronic display backlight system may include a backlight element and backlight dimming circuitry. The backlight element may be driven according to a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal over a PWM clock cycle equal to a multiple M of a baseline PWM clock frequency associated with a baseline PWM resolution. The backlight dimming circuitry may receive a brightness code of the baseline PWM resolution and generate the PWM signal at least in part by dividing the brightness code by M.

The present invention provides a motion content based dynamic frame rate conversion method for displaying a video by a display device, comprising: detecting motion content of the video and generating a control signal for controlling a display color depth based on the motion detection result. The video is displayed with a lower color depth at a higher frame rate than a standard configuration of the display device if the motion detection result indicates that the video contains appreciable amount of motion content; and the video is displayed with a higher color depth at a lower frame rate than the standard configuration of the display device if the motion detection result indicates that the video is relatively static. The present invention can facilitate the display device to dynamically convert its display output formats according to motion content of the video to further optimize the display quality.

The present disclosure provides a touch display driving module, a touch display driving method, and a display device. The touch display driving module includes a touch detection chip and a time sequence touch control chip. The time sequence touch control chip is configured to perform data calculation in accordance with a touch data signal to generate touch point coordinate information, generate touch point image information in accordance with the touch point coordinate information, and display the touch point image on a display screen in accordance with the touch point image information. The touch point coordinate information is information carrying coordinates of a touch point, the touch point image is an image showing that the touch point is touched, and the touch point image information is display information corresponding to the touch point image.

A system for rendering color images on an electro-optic display when the electro-optic display has a color gamut with a limited palette of primary colors, and/or the gamut is poorly structured (i.e., not a spheroid or obloid). The system uses an iterative process to identify the best color for a given pixel from a palette that is modified to diffuse the color error over the entire electro-optic display. The system additionally accounts for variations in color that are caused by cross-talk between nearby pixels.

A method of adjusting brightness of a display device is provided. The method includes steps of: generating a synchronization signal having a plurality of periods each of which is a frame time; determining bit values of dithering data according to target brightness data; and determining how many pulse waves in the pulse wave width modulation signal need to be modulated within the frame time according to the bit values of the dithering data, and accordingly modulating widths of the pulse waves of the pulse wave width modulation signal.

This disclosure relates to techniques for a driving apparatus including a reordering circuit and a source driving circuit. The reordering circuit can be configured to reorder a plurality of sub-pixel data of an input data string to generate a reordered data string so as to reduce a color switching number associated with a target data line. The source driving circuit can be coupled to the reordering circuit to receive the reordered data string. The source driving circuit can be configured to drive the target data line of a display panel according to the reordered data string.

A display device includes a display panel including a pixel, a driving controller that receives an image signal and outputs an image data signal in which the image signal is compensated, and a data driving circuit that provides the pixel with a data signal corresponding to the image data signal. The driving controller includes a memory, a hysteresis calculator that calculates a current hysteresis state value of a current frame based on the image signal and a previous hysteresis state value of a previous frame, which is stored in the memory, and stores the current hysteresis state value in the memory, and a compensator that calculates a compensation value based on the image signal and the previous hysteresis state value stored in the memory and compensates for the image signal depending on the compensation value to output the image data signal.

In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for image format conversion using luminance-adaptive dithering. For instance, in one example, a method includes acquiring an image in a first format, wherein the first format is associated with a first electro-optical transfer function, identifying a second format to which to convert the image, wherein the second format is associated with a second electro-optical transfer function, and applying dithering to the image in the second format, based on an evaluation of a luminance-dependent metric against a predefined threshold, wherein the luminance-dependent metric is computed from at least one of the first electro-optical transfer function and the second electro-optical transfer function.