Patent Publication Number: US-10777153-B1

Title: Method for calculating pixel voltage for liquid crystal on silicon display device

Description:
BACKGROUND 
     Field of Invention 
     The present invention relates to a method for calculating a pixel voltage of a liquid crystal on silicon display device. 
     Description of Related Art 
     Nowadays, various kinds of projective display devices, such as liquid crystal display (LCD) display devices, digital light processing (DLP) display devices and liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) display devices, are commercially available. Among these display devices, the LCD display devices operate in a transmissive way, while the DLP display devices and the LCOS display devices operate in a reflective way. LCD display devices are the oldest and the most popular, and have advantages such as high color accuracy and low manufacture cost. However, LCD display devices have disadvantages of dead pixels and screen door effect, which degrades display performance. DLP display devices have advantages such as high contrast ratio and immune to color decay. However, DLP display devices are relatively expensive. LCOS display devices involves techniques of the typical LCD panel and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes. LCOS display devices can achieve high resolution, high color saturation and accuracy and can be manufactured by semiconductor processes. With such advantages, LCOS display devices are applied in electronic devices such as micro-projectors, monitors or head mounted displays. However, sub-pixels in the LCOS display device are close to each other, and thus a fringing field effect may be generated. It is an issue to those skilled in the art about hot to address the fringing field effect. 
     SUMMARY 
     Embodiments of the invention provide a liquid crystal on silicon display device including a silicon substrate, a color filter layer, and a computation circuit. Multiple sub-pixels are formed on the silicon substrate, and each of the sub-pixels includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The color filter layer is disposed above the silicon substrate and includes multiple color filter units. Each of the color filter units corresponds one of the sub-pixels and is formed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode of the corresponding sub-pixel. The computation circuit obtains multiple grey levels of a pixel, and transforms the grey levels into multiple color values. The grey levels respectively correspond to multiple first sub-pixels of the sub-pixels, and the first sub-pixels constitute the pixel. For each of the first sub-pixels, the computation circuit obtains at least one parameter of a reflectance fitting function according to the color values, performs a gamma correction according to the corresponding grey level to obtain a reflectance, and calculates a pixel voltage according to the at least one parameter and the reflectance. The pixel voltage is applied to the pixel electrode of the corresponding first sub-pixel. 
     In some embodiments, the grey levels include a red value, a green value, and a blue value. The first sub-pixels include a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, and a blue sub-pixel. The color values are in a CIE-1931 color space. 
     In some embodiments, the reflectance fitting function is written as the following equation (1). 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
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     c denotes the green sub-pixel, the red sub-pixel, and the blue sub-pixel. Refl c  denotes the reflectance of the corresponding first sub-pixel. v c  denotes the pixel voltage of the corresponding first sub-pixel. A1 and A2 are constants, and the at least one parameter includes v 0,c  and dv c . 
     In some embodiments, the gamma correction is written as the following equation (2). 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
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     γ denotes a real number. grey c  denotes the corresponding grey level. C MAX  denotes a maximum grey level. 
     In some embodiments, the computation circuit inputs the color values into multiple lookup tables to obtain the parameters v 0,c  and dv c , and calculates the pixel voltage v c  according to the following equation (3). 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
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     In some embodiments, the reflectance fitting function is written as the following equation (4).
 
Refl c   =f (   p   c   , v   c )  (4)
 
       p c    denotes the at least one parameter with respect to the corresponding grey level. 
     In some embodiments, the gamma correction is written as an equation (5). 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
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     In some embodiments, the computation circuit inputs the color values into at least one lookup table to obtain the at least one parameter  p , and calculates the pixel voltage v c  according to the following equation (6) where f −1 ( ) is an inverse function of the reflectance fitting function.
 
 v   c   =f   −1 (   p   c   ,Refl c )  (6)
 
     From another aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a method for calculating a pixel voltage for a liquid crystal on silicon display device. The liquid crystal on silicon display device includes a silicon substrate and a color filter layer. Multiple sub-pixels are formed on the silicon substrate, and each of the sub-pixels includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The color filter layer includes multiple color filter units, and each of the color filter units corresponds to one of the sub-pixels and is formed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode of the corresponding sub-pixel. The method includes: obtaining multiple grey levels of a pixel, and transforming the grey levels into multiple color values, in which the grey levels respectively corresponds to multiple first sub-pixels of the sub-pixel, and the first sub-pixels constitute the pixel; for each of the first sub-pixels, obtaining at least one parameter of a reflectance fitting function according to the color values, performing a gamma correction according to the corresponding grey level to obtain a reflectance, and calculating a pixel voltage according to the at least one parameter and the reflectance, in which the pixel voltage is applied to the pixel electrode of the corresponding first sub-pixel. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       The patent or application file contains at least one drawing executed in color. Copies of this patent or patent application publication with color drawing(s) will be provided by Office upon request and payment of the necessary fee. The disclosure can be more fully understood by reading the following detailed description of the embodiment, with reference made to the accompanying drawings as follows. 
         FIG. 1A  is a local cross-sectional view of a LCOS display device  100  in accordance with an embodiment. 
         FIG. 1B  is a local top view of the LCOS display device in accordance with an embodiment. 
         FIG. 2  is a curve diagram between reflectance and pixel voltage in accordance with an embodiment. 
         FIG. 3  illustrates diagrams for the relationship between the x, y color values and the parameters. 
         FIG. 4  is a schematic diagram of calculating the pixel voltage in accordance with an embodiment. 
         FIG. 5  is a flow chart of a method for calculating the pixel voltage in accordance with an embodiment. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     Specific embodiments of the present invention are further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings, however, the embodiments described are not intended to limit the present invention and it is not intended for the description of operation to limit the order of implementation. Moreover, any device with equivalent functions that is produced from a structure formed by a recombination of elements shall fall within the scope of the present invention. Additionally, the drawings are only illustrative and are not drawn to actual size. 
     The using of “first”, “second”, “third”, etc. in the specification should be understood for identifying units or data described by the same terminology, but are not referred to particular order or sequence. 
       FIG. 1A  is a local cross-sectional view of a LCOS display device  100  in accordance with an embodiment. The LCOS display device  100  includes a silicon substrate  102 , a reflective layer  104 , a dielectric layer  106 , pixel electrodes  108 A,  108 B, a color filter layer  110 , a first alignment layer  112 , a second alignment layer  114 , a liquid crystal layer  116 , a common electrode layer  118 , a transparent substrate  120 , and a computation circuit  130 . 
     The silicon substrate  102  is a CMOS silicon wafer including active components such at transistors and circuits silicon substrate  102 . Multiple sub-pixels are arranged on the silicon substrate  102 , and these sub-pixels include red sub-pixels, blue sub-pixels and green sub-pixels. In some embodiments, every three sub-pixels (i.e. one red sub-pixel, one green sub-pixel and one blue sub-pixel) constitute one pixel. For example,  FIG. 1B  is a local top view of the LCOS display device in accordance with an embodiment. Referring to  FIG. 1B , a pixel  140  includes sub-pixels  141 - 143  which correspond to red, green, and blue respectively; and a pixel  150  includes sub-pixels  151 - 153  which correspond to red, green and blue respectively. Note that only two sub-pixels P 1  and P 2  (e.g. the sub-pixels  141  and  142  of  FIG. 1B ) are illustrated in  FIG. 1A  for simplification, but the invention is not limited thereto. In addition, the red, green and blue sub-pixels may be arranged in another shape in other embodiments. In some embodiments, each pixel may further include a white pixel. The invention is not limited to the embodiment of  FIG. 1B . 
     Referring to  FIG. 1A , the reflective layer  104  is disposed on the silicon substrate  102 . The reflective layer  104  reflects light incident into the LCOS display device  100 . In some embodiments, the reflective layer  104  includes a metal material such as copper, aluminum, titanium, tantalum, nickel, gold, zinc, or a metal alloy containing the above metals, or a metal compound such as aluminum oxide, titanium oxide, titanium nitride, zinc oxide, or other suitable material. In some embodiments, the reflective layer  104  is a reflective film or a reflective coating formed on the silicon substrate  102 . 
     The dielectric layer  106  is disposed on the reflective layer  104 , and the pixel electrodes  108 A,  108 B are formed on the dielectric layer  106 . The dielectric layer  106  is used for insulating the pixel electrodes  108 A,  108 B from the reflective layer  104  and the silicon substrate  102 , penetrating a portion of incident light and penetrating reflected light from the reflective layer  104 . The dielectric layer  106  includes a dielectric material, such as silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, combinations thereof, or other suitable material. 
     The pixel electrodes  108 A,  108 B are used for providing pixel voltages such that the pixels P 1 , P 2  render respective gray levels. The pixel electrodes  108 A,  108 B may be reflective or transparent. In some embodiments, the pixel electrodes  108 A,  108 B are reflective electrodes including a material such as aluminum, titanium, copper, gold, or the like. In some embodiments, the pixel electrodes  108 A,  108 B are transparent electrodes including a material such as indium tin oxide (ITO), indium zinc oxide (IZO), or other suitable conductive material. 
     The color filter layer  110  is disposed on the pixel electrodes  108 A,  1086 . The color filter layer  110  has multiple color filter units  110 A and  1106  that respectively correspond to the sub-pixels for passing light with a particular color. For example, the color filter unit  110 A corresponds to the sub-pixel P 1  for passing red light; and the color filter unit  1106  corresponds to the sub-pixel P 2  for passing green light. In some embodiments, the color filter layer  110  includes a dyed or pigmented material such as polymer, or other suitable material. 
     The first alignment layer  112  is disposed on the color filter layer  110 , and the second alignment layer  114  is disposed opposite to the first alignment layer  112 , and the liquid crystal layer  116  is disposed between the first alignment layer  112  and the second alignment layer  114 . The liquid crystal layer  116  has liquid crystal molecules aligned by the first alignment layer  112  and the second alignment layer  114  and twisted in response to an electric field generated between the pixel electrodes  108 A,  108 B and the common electrode layer  118 . The first alignment layer  112  and the second alignment layer  114  may be formed to have respective rubbing directions. The liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer  116  may be configured for a vertical alignment (VA) display or a twisted nematic (TN) display, which is not limited in the invention. 
     The common electrode layer  118  includes a transparent and conductive material such as ITO, IZO, or other suitable material. In the embodiment, the common electrode layer  118  includes a common electrode  118 A belonging to the sub-pixel P 1  and a common electrode  1186  belonging to the sub-pixel P 2 . 
     The transparent substrate  120  is disposed on the common electrode layer  118  for receiving incident light and protecting the internal components of the LCOS display device  100 . In some embodiments, the transparent substrate  120  includes a transparent material such as glass, silicon dioxide, or the like. 
     The computation circuit  130  calculates the pixel voltages for the pixel electrodes  108 A,  1086 . In general, a gamma correction is performed to calculate the pixel voltages. However, the electric field between the pixel electrode  108 A and the common electrode  118 A affects the sub-pixel P 2 , and the electric field between the pixel electrode  108 B and the common electrode  118 B also affects the sub-pixel P 1 . The electric field in each sub-pixel varies with respect to the color of the pixel to be rendered. In addition, the extent that the sub-pixels are affected also varies with respect to the material of the color filter units  110 A and  1106 . For example, the sub-pixel P 1  may be affected by electric fields of the sub-pixel P 2  with different magnitudes when different grey levels are to be rendered in the sub-pixel P 2 , and thus the sub-pixel P 1  may have different reflectance even the same pixel voltage is applied to the sub-pixel P 1 . Referring to  FIG. 2  which is a curve diagram between reflectance and pixel voltage in accordance with an embodiment in which the horizontal axis represents the pixel voltage and the vertical axis represents the reflectance. It is shown in  FIG. 2  that curves of red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels (labeled as R, G, B, and White respectively) are not consistent for a particular color (the symbols for “R” curve overlaps with the Fit curve, and therefore may be seen in the figure). Accordingly, the pixel voltages of the sub-pixels cannot be calculated by the same gamma curve (e.g. the “Fit” curve). In addition, the curves of  FIG. 2  may vary when different colors are rendered. In theory, every color and every sub-pixel needs a particular gamma curve to calculate the respective pixel voltage, but it is not practical due to a total of 16.7 million colors for a pixel of 24 bits. A method is provided herein to calculate the pixel voltages effectively. 
     First, a color is represented in the CIE-1931 color space in the embodiments, and thus three grey levels of red, green and blue are transformed into x and y stimulus. This step may be performed through a transformation matrix as written in the following equation (1).
 
CIE xy=tf ×inputRGB  (1)
 
     inputRGB denotes a vector consisting of red, green and blue grey levels. CIExy denotes the x and y stimulus in the CIE-1931 color space. tf denotes the transformation matrix which is written as tf=[0.5767 0.1856 0.1882; 0.2974 0.6274 0.0753; 0.027 0.0707 0.9911] in some embodiments. However, other color spaces such as Munsell Color System and so on may be adopted to represent one color in other embodiments, and the therefore the transformed values are called color values for applying to a variety of color spaces. The values of the transformation matrix are not limited in the invention. 
     Next, the reflectance of a sub-pixel is measured for a set of x, y color values, and the applied pixel voltages are recorded. The reflectance is represented as Refl c , where c=R, G or B. In other words, c denotes one of the red, green and blue sub-pixels. For example, Refl R  is the reflectance of the red sub-pixel  141  of  FIG. 1B ; Refl G  is the reflectance of the green sub-pixel  142 ; and Refl B  is the reflectance of the blue sub-pixel  143 . The relationship between the reflectance and the pixel voltage is approximated by a reflectance fitting function written in the following equation (2). In other words, the reflectance fitting function is used to approximate the curve shown in  FIG. 2 . 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
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     v c  denotes the pixel voltage of the corresponding sub-pixel. For example, v R  is the pixel voltage for the red sub-pixel  141 , v G  is the pixel voltage for the green sub-pixel  142 , and v B  is the pixel voltage for the blue sub-pixel  143 . A1 and A2 are constant. v 0,c  and dv c  are parameters. Note that different sets of x, y color values correspond to different parameters v 0,c  dv c . There are infinite sets of x, y color values because the x, y color values are continuous. In the embodiment, the x, y color values are sampled as 16 sets, but not limited to, when measuring the reflectance Refl c . Appropriates parameters v 0,c , dv c  can be calculated for each set of x, y color values such that the reflectance Refl c  calculated in the equation (2) approximates to the measured reflectance. Next, multiple lookup tables are created for mapping the x, y color values to the parameters v 0,c , dv c . Referring to  FIG. 3 , a diagram  301  illustrates the relationship between the x, y color values and the parameter v 0,B ; a diagram  302  illustrates the relationship between the x, y color values and the parameter v 0,G ; a diagram  303  illustrates the relationship between the x, y color values and the parameter v 0,R ; a diagram  304  illustrates the relationship between the x, y color values and the parameter dv B ; a diagram  305  illustrates the relationship between the x, y color values and the parameter dv G ; a diagram  306  illustrates the relationship between the x, y color values and the parameter dv R . The diagrams  301 - 306  are implemented as lookup tables and recorded in a database which will be described below. 
     Furthermore, the reflectance that each sub-pixel should have is calculated according to the gamma correction written as the following equation (3). 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
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     γ denotes a real number which is determined based on the product or customer requirement. grey c  denotes the corresponding grey level in a range of 0-255. For example, grey R  is the red grey level when calculating the reflectance Refl R  and so on. C MAX  is a maximum grey level such as 255. Note that the equation (3) recites “grey c +1” instead of “grey c ” to avoid dividing the grey level by zero. However, the following equation (4) may be adopted in other embodiments, which is not limited in the invention. In other embodiments, each grey level may have more bits than 8, and the range of each grey level and the maximum grey level are not limited in the invention. 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
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     Next, the equation (3) is substituted into the equation (2) to obtain the relationship between the pixel voltage v c  and the reflectance Refl c  as written in the following equation (5). 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
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     Note that the following equation (6) is obtained if the equation (3) is replaced with the equation (4). 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
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       FIG. 4  is a schematic diagram of calculating the pixel voltage in accordance with an embodiment. Referring to  FIG. 4 , grey levels of a pixel are obtained that are represented as R, G, and B. In step  401 , the grey levels are transformed into x, y color values in the CIE-1931 color space. Next, the x, y color values are inputted into lookup tables of a database  410  to obtain parameters v 0,c , dv c  of a reflectance fitting function. The lookup tables were created based on the diagrams of  FIG. 3 . Since each lookup table only records finite sets of x, y color values, the parameters v 0,c , dv c  may be calculated through interpolation. Take the diagram  301  of  FIG. 3  as an example, all the parameters to be calculated are represented as a three-dimensional surface, and the sample points  311  on the surface are the parameters that are calculated according to the measured reflectance. The surface is divided into multiple triangles while the sample points  311  serve as the vertices of the triangles. When a set of x, y color values are inputted, a corresponding triangle is found, and the parameter on any point inside such triangle can be interpolated according to the parameters on the vertices of such triangle. Each diagram of  FIG. 3  corresponds to a lookup table. In addition, in step  402 , the gamma correction is performed to obtain the reflectance Refl c , and that is, the aforementioned equation (3) or (4) is performed. 
     In step  403 , a pixel voltage v c  is calculated according to the parameters v 0,c , dv c  and the reflectance Refl c . In other words, the equation (5) or (6) is performed in the step  403 . In some embodiments, the calculation within the In function is done in real time, but the In function itself is done by a lookup table. In other words, the calculation of the following equation (7) is done in real time, and the result of the equation (7) is inputted to a lookup table in a database  420  to obtain the output of the In function. 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
                     
                       
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     Therefore, the step  403  can be simplified as the following equations (8) and (9). Only a few calculations are needed to obtain the pixel voltage.
 
 v   c   =dv   c   ×α+v   0,c   (8)
 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
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     Note that the pixel voltages of three sub-pixels are calculated separately.  FIG. 5  is a flow chart of a method for calculating the pixel voltage in accordance with an embodiment. In step  501 , multiple grey levels of a pixel are obtained, and the grey levels are transformed into color values in a color space such as the CIE-1931 color space. Next, steps  511 - 513  are applied to the red sub-pixel, the steps  521 - 523  are applied to the green sub-pixel, and the steps  531 - 533  are applied to the blue sub-pixel. In step  511 , the parameters v 0,R , dv R  are obtained according to the color values x, y. In step  512 , the gamma correction is performed to calculate the reflectance Refl R  of the red sub-pixel. In step  513 , the pixel voltage v R  of the red sub-pixel is calculated according to the parameters v 0,R , dv R  and the reflectance Refl R . The steps  521 - 523  are similar to the steps  511 - 513 , but the parameters v 0,G , dv G  are calculated in the  521 , the reflectance Refl G  is calculated in the step  522 , and the pixel voltage v G  is calculated in the step  523 . Similarly, the parameters v 0,B , dv B  are obtained in the step  531 , the reflectance Refl B  is calculated in the  532 , and the pixel voltage v B  is calculated in the step  533 . In other words, different pixel voltages are calculated for different sub-pixels with respect to the same color. 
     Other reflectance fitting functions may be adopted in other embodiments, which are not limited in the invention. The reflectance fitting function may be written as a general form as the following equation (10).
 
Refl c   =f (   p   c   , v   c )  (10)
 
       p c    denotes a vector with respect to c. The vector  p c    includes at least one parameter such as the parameters v 0,c , dv c  in the aforementioned embodiments. In the step  511 ,  521 , and  531 , the color value is inputted to at least one lookup table to obtain the parameter  p c   . In the steps  512 ,  522 , and  532 , the equation (3) or (4) is performed to obtain the reflectance Refl c . In the steps  513 ,  523 , and  533 , the following equation (11) is performed to calculate the pixel voltage.
 
 v   c   =f   −1 (   p   ,Refl c )  (11)
 
     f −1 ( ) is the inverse function of the reflectance fitting function. In other words, the equation (2) is a special case of the equation (10), and the equation (5) or (6) is a special case of the equation (11). In some embodiments, the reflectance fitting function includes a linear function, a polynomial function, an exponential function, a trigonometric function, a logarithmic function or a combination thereof, which is not limited in the invention. People in the art should be able to derive the inverse function after the reflectance fitting function is determined. 
     Although the present invention has been described in considerable detail with reference to certain embodiments thereof, other embodiments are possible. Therefore, the spirit and scope of the appended claims should not be limited to the description of the embodiments contained herein. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present invention cover modifications and variations of this invention provided they fall within the scope of the following claims.