EP1391867A1 - Ecran à plasma (PDP) - réduction du bruit de superposition pour affichage d'un signal avec un nombre réduit de niveau de gris - Google Patents

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EP1391867A1
EP1391867A1 EP03292006A EP03292006A EP1391867A1 EP 1391867 A1 EP1391867 A1 EP 1391867A1 EP 03292006 A EP03292006 A EP 03292006A EP 03292006 A EP03292006 A EP 03292006A EP 1391867 A1 EP1391867 A1 EP 1391867A1
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  • the present invention relates to a device and method for processing video picture data for display on a display device having a plurality of luminous elements corresponding to pixels of a video picture, wherein the brightness of each pixel is controlled by sub-field code words corresponding to a number of impulses for switching on and off the luminous elements, by dithering said video picture data and sub-field coding the dithered video picture data for displaying.
  • the Plasma technology makes it possible to achieve flat color panel of large size (out of the CRT limitations) and with very limited depth without any viewing angle constraints.
  • a lot of work has been made to improve its picture quality. Consequently, a new technology like the Plasma one has to provide a picture quality as good or even better than standard TV technology.
  • at least 8-bit video data is needed. In fact, more than 8 bits should be preferably be used to have a correct rendition of the low video levels because of the gammatization process that aims at reproducing the non-linear CRT behavior on a linear panel like plasma.
  • a Plasma Display Panel utilizes a matrix array of discharge cells that could only be “ON” or “OFF”. Also unlike a CRT or LCD in which gray levels are expressed by analog control of the light emission, a PDP controls the gray level by modulating the number of small light pulses per frame. This time-modulation will be integrated by the observer's eye over a period corresponding to the eye time response.
  • Dithering per se is a well-known technique used to reduce the effects of quantisation noise due to a reduced number of displayed resolution bits. With dithering, some artificial levels are added inbetween the existing video levels corresponding to the reduced number of displayed resolution bits. This improves the gray scale portrayal, but on the other hand adds high frequency, low amplitude dithering noise which is perceptible to the human viewer only at a small viewing distance.
  • the plasma cell has only two different states: a plasma cell can only be ON or OFF.
  • video levels are rendered by using a temporal modulation.
  • the most efficient addressing scheme should be to address N times if the number of video levels to be created is equal to N.
  • the first one is to use a minimum of 8 SF (in case of an 8-bit video level representation) and the combination of these 8 SF is able to generate the 256 levels.
  • Such a mode is illustrated in Fig. 1.
  • Each sub-field is divided into three parts: an addressing part, a sustain part and an erase part.
  • the addressing period is used to address line per line the plasma cells by applying a writing voltage to those cells that shall be activated for light generation and is typical for PDPs.
  • the sustain period is used as a period for lighting of written plasma cells by applying sustain pulses with a typical sustain voltage to all cells.
  • the erase period is used for erasing the cell charges, thereby neutralizing the cells.
  • Fig. 2 presents the standard method used to generate all 256 video levels based on the 8 bit code from Fig. 1.
  • the eye of the observer will integrate, over the duration of the image period, the various combinations of luminous emissions and by this recreate the various shades in the gray levels.
  • the integration axis will be perpendicular to the panel in the time direction. The observer will integrate information coming from the same pixel and will not detect any disturbances.
  • a spatio-temporal uncorrelation of the 16 available basic levels is used.
  • This example based on 16 sub-fields will be used in the following in order to simplify the exposition.
  • Fig. 5 presents the case of a transition 127/128 rendered via this mode in case of movement. It shows that moving transitions between similar levels are no more a source of false contouring but lead to smooth transitions.
  • Fig. 4 illustrates the incremental addressing mode without addressing period. A global addressing operation is performed at the beginning of a frame period, called global priming. This is followed by a selective erase operation in which the charge of only those cells is quenched that shall not produce light. All the other cells remain charged for the following sustain period. The selective erase operation is part of each sub-field. At the end of the frame period a global erase operation neutralizes all cells.
  • Fig. 6 illustrates a possibility to implement the incremental coding scheme with 4 bit dithering.
  • a further important aspect is the implementation of a gamma correction.
  • the CRT displays do not have a linear response to the beam intensity but rather a quadratic response. For that reason, the pictures sent to the display are pre-corrected in the studio or mostly already in the video camera itself so that the picture seen by the human eye respects the filmed picture.
  • Fig. 7 illustrates this principle.
  • the pre-correction made at the source level will degrade the observed picture which becomes unnatural as illustrated on Fig. 8.
  • an artificial gamma operation made in a specific video-processing unit of the plasma display device will invert the pre-correction made at the source level. Normally the gamma correction is made in the plasma display unit directly before the encoding to sub-field level. This gamma operation leads to a destruction of low video levels if the output video data is limited to 8 bit resolution as illustrated on Fig. 9.
  • Fig. 10 represents this encoding method. It shows that an optimized computation of the weights for an incremental code enables to take into account the gamma progression without the implementation of a specific gamma operation at video level. Obviously, in the present example, only the use of 4-bit dithering enables the generation of the 256 different perceived video levels.
  • each of the 16 sub-fields will be used to render a group of 16 video levels.
  • Fig. 11 illustrates this principle. It represents how the various video levels will be rendered in the example of an incremental code. All levels between 0 and 15 will be rendered while applying a dithering based on the sub-field SF 0 (0) and SF 1 (2). All the levels between 224 and 240 will be rendered while applying a dithering based on the sub-field
  • Half of the pixels in a homogenous block will not be activated for light generation and half will be activated for light generation only with sub-field SF 1 having the weight "2". From frame to frame the dithering pattern is toggled as shown in Fig. 12.
  • Fig. 12 represents a possible dithering used to render the video level 12 taking into account the gamma of 1.82 used to compute the weights.
  • Fig. 12 and Fig. 13 have shown that the same kind of dithering (4-bit) has been used both for the low-level and the high level video range.
  • Each of the 16 possible video levels are equally distributed among the 256 video levels and the same kind of dithering is applied in-between to render the other levels.
  • this does not fit with the human perception of luminance. Indeed the eye is much more sensitive to noise in the low level than in the luminous areas.
  • this object is solved by a method for processing video picture data for display on a display device having a plurality of luminous elements corresponding to pixels of a video picture, wherein the brightness of each pixel is controlled by sub-field code words corresponding to a number of impulses for switching on and off the luminous elements, by dithering said video picture data and sub-field coding said dithered video picture data for displaying, as well as transforming said video picture data according to a retinal function before dithering.
  • a Device for processing video picture data for display on a display device having a plurality of luminous elements corresponding to pixels of a video picture comprising brightness controlling means with which the brightness of each pixel is controlled by at least one sub-field code word with which the luminous element/s are activated or inactivated for light output in small pulses corresponding to sub-fields in a video frame, including dithering means for dithering said video picture data and sub-field coding means for sub-field coding said dithered video picture data for displaying, characterized by transforming means for transforming said video picture data according to a retinal function before dithering.
  • the advantage of the present invention is the reduction of the dithering visibility by a change of the sub-field organization together with a transformation of the video input values through an appropriate transformation curve based on the human visual system luminance sensitivity (Weber-Fechner law).
  • the analysis of the retina shows one of the fundamental functions of the visual system cells: the notion of receptor fields. These represent small retina areas related to a neuron and determining its response to luminous stimuli. Such receptor fields can be divided into regions enabling the excitation or inhibition of the neuron and often called “ON" and "OFF” regions. Fig. 14 illustrates such a receptor field. These receptor fields transmit to the brain, not the absolute luminance value located at each photo-receiver, but the relative value measured between two adjacent points on the retina. This means that the eye is not sensitive to the absolute luminance but only to the local contrasts. This phenomenon is illustrated in Fig. 15: in the middle of each area, the gray disk has the same level, but human eyes perceive it differently.
  • the inventive concept described in this document will take care of the human luminance sensitivity.
  • the goal of the invention will be to apply less dithering to the low-levels while using more dithering for the high levels.
  • this is done without using various dithering schemes by using a model of the human eye combined with an adaptation of the sub-field weighting.
  • the first stage defined in the inventive concept is based on a filtering of the input picture based on the human visual sensitivity function.
  • a function will be used derived from those described above. Obviously, there are many other HVS functions existing and the invention shall not be limited to this particular function.
  • the used transformation function presented in Fig. 16 can be applied via a LUT (Look-Up Table) or directly via a function in the plasma specific IC.
  • the LUT is the simplest way and requires limited resources in an IC.
  • the next stage of the concept is the adapted modification of the picture coding with the sub-fields. Obviously, a complex transformation of the input picture corresponding to a retinal behavior has been applied and now, the inverse transformation should be applied in the sub-field weighting to present the correct picture to the eye (not twice the same retinal behavior).
  • this inverse transformation should be computed.
  • Defining the retinal transformation as the inverse transformation is As already said any other function f ( x ) and f -1 ( y ) could be used as long as it represents the retinal function and the inverse of the retinal function from the human eye.
  • the inverse retinal function will be used.
  • V n representing the progression of the weights
  • n the various steps of this progression (constant)
  • 255 representing the maximum luminance
  • 16 the number of levels rendered with the dithering (4-bit)
  • ⁇ the gamma of 1.82.
  • the new weights include not only the gamma function but also the inverse of retinal function, which has been applied to the input video values.
  • the new sub-field progression is shown on Fig. 17.
  • a HVS function is first applied to the input video level before the implementation of the dithering.
  • the dithering is performed on the HVS adapted input picture.
  • the inverse HVS function has been implemented integrated in the sub-field weighting to provide a correct picture to the eye including the required gamma function. Nevertheless, since the dithering function has been implemented between the HVS function and its inverse function, the dithering level will follow the HVS behavior as desired. Therefore, the dithering noise will have the same amplitude on the eye for all rendered levels and that makes it less disturbing.
  • Fig. 19 depicts the result of the implementation of the HVS concept.
  • the low video levels an expansion has been made ahead of the dithering step.
  • the low video levels are distributed over an enlarged video level range. This has the effect of a reduction of the dithering level.
  • a compression has been made ahead of the dithering step.
  • the high video levels are concentrated in a reduced video level range. In that case the dithering level has been increased.
  • Fig. 20 shows the difference between the prior art and the new HVS concept in the rendition of low video levels.
  • the values in brackets represent the value to be displayed after gammatization.
  • more sub-fields are available for low-level reproduction and therefore the dithering is less visible.
  • the level 4 (0.5 after gammatization) is rendered with combination of 1 and 0 in case of HVS implementation. In that case, the dithering pattern is less visible than in the prior art solution with a combination of 0 and 2!
  • Fig. 21 now shows the difference between the prior art and the new HVS concept in rendition of high video levels.
  • the level 216 (187.5 after gammatization) is rendered with combination of 175 and 200 in case of prior art solution while a combination of 165 and 206 is used in HVS concept. Nevertheless, since the eye is less sensitive to high level differences, the picture is not really degraded in the high level range.
  • the HVS concept therefore makes a compromise between more sub-fields for low-levels and less sub-fields for high levels in order to globally reduce the dithering visibility.
  • Fig. 22 describes a possible circuit implementation of the current invention.
  • RGB input pictures are forwarded to the degamma function block 10: this can be realized with a look-up table (LUT) or by software with a mathematical function.
  • the outputs of this block are forwarded to the HVS filtering block 11 that implements the retinal behavior via a complex mathematical formula or simply with a LUT.
  • This function can be activated or deactivated by a HVS control signal generated by the Plasma Control block 16. Then the dithering will be added in dithering block 12 and this can be configured via the DITH signal from the Plasma Control Block 16.
  • the same block will configure the sub-field encoding block 13 to take into account or not the HVS inverse weighting.
  • the sub-field code words are read out of the sub-field encoding block 13 and all the code words for one line are collected in order to create a single very long code word which can be used for the line-wise PDP addressing. This is carried out in the serial to parallel conversion unit 14.
  • the plasma control block 16 generates all scan and sustain pulses for PDP control. It receives horizontal and vertical synchronising signals for reference timing.
  • the inventive method described in this document will enable a reduction of the dithering visibility by a common change of the sub-field organization together with a modification of the video through an appropriate transformation curve based on the human visual system luminance sensitivity (Weber-Fechner law).
  • dithering was made pixel-based.
  • a colour PDP for each pixel three plasma cells RGB are existing.
  • the invention is not restricted to pixel-based dithering.
  • Cell-based dithering as explained in WO-A-01/71702 can also be used in connection with the present invention.
  • the invention can be used in particular in PDPs.
  • Plasma displays are currently used in consumer electronics, e.g. for TV sets, and also as a monitor for computers.
  • use of the invention is also appropriate for matrix displays where the light emission is also controlled with small pulse in sub-fields, i.e. where the PWM principle is used for controlling light emission.
  • the PWM principle is used for controlling light emission.
  • DMDs digital micro mirror devices

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