Patent ID: 6239783
Filing Date: 2001-05-29
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
In a computer system including a processing unit and a display device for displaying an image, the display device having a plurality of pixel sub-components each of which has one of three different colors, a method for improving resolution of the displayed image comprising the steps for:mapping samples of information representing an image to individual pixel sub-components as opposed to mapping the samples to an entire pixel, each of the pixel sub-components having mapped thereto a spatially different set of one or more of the samples, and wherein at least one of the pixel sub-components has a set of two or more of the samples mapped thereto so as to result in a different number of samples being mapped to some pixel sub-components as opposed to others;generating a separate luminous intensity value for each pixel sub-component as opposed to each full pixel, the separate luminous intensity value for each sub-component being based on the different set of one or more samples mapped thereto; anddisplaying the image on the display device by applying the separate luminous intensity values to each sub-component rather than to entire pixels, resulting in each of the pixel sub-components, rather than entire pixels, representing the displayed image.