Patent ID: 9417479
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G02F,G09G

Claim Text:
1. A method of facilitating the display of an image, comprising: in a display system comprising a display panel having sub-pixels and a backlight having individually addressable colored light emitters configured to provide light to the sub-pixels of the display panel, receiving image data corresponding to an image for display upon the display panel, the sub-pixels each having a color to be displayed; from the image data, determining sub-pixel color values corresponding to color values transmitted by respective ones of the sub-pixels for display of the image; from the image data, determining backlight values corresponding to brightnesses of ones of the colored light emitters for display of the image; determining a portion of the sub-pixel color values and a portion of the backlight values that collectively correspond to a saturated or near-saturated yellow color proximate to a white color in the displayed image; in response to the determining, adjusting the backlight values by increasing an amount of yellow light to be emitted by emitters of the backlight; and in response to the determining, adjusting the color values by decreasing an amount of yellow light to be transmitted by the sub-pixels of the display panel.