Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic display spatiotemporal dithering systems and methods
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Application No.: US15918886Application Date: 2018-03-12
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Publication No.: US10593252B1Publication Date: 2020-03-17
- Inventor: Mahesh B. Chappalli
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Fletcher Yoder, P.C.
- Main IPC: G09G3/20
- IPC: G09G3/20 ; H04N9/64 ; H04N5/213

Abstract:
An electronic device may include an electronic display to display an image, based in part on display image data that indicates target luminance of the image using a first bit-depth, and a display pipeline. The display pipeline may include dither processing circuitry to determine a pixel cluster of multiple pixel groups of input image data that indicates target luminance using a second bit-depth greater than the first bit-depth. The dither processing circuitry may also determine a phase combination which associates a different dither phase to each of the pixel groups. The dither processing circuitry may also determine and apply a dither pattern and a dither phase to each pixel group to generate dithered image data corresponding with the display image data with the first bit-depth. The dither pattern may be based in part on the least significant bits of input image data of the pixel groups.
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