Patent ID: 8872861

Claim:
One or more non-transitory computer-readable memories, the memories collectively storing instructions for executing a method of facilitating the display of an image, the method comprising: in a display system comprising a display panel having pixels and a backlight having individually addressable colored light emitters configured to provide light to the pixels of the display panel, receiving image data corresponding to an image for display upon the display panel, the pixels each having a color to be displayed, so as to collectively display the image; for each pixel, evaluating whether the corresponding color to be displayed is out-of-gamut to the each pixel, so as to form a set of out-of-gamut pixels; determining an exclusion gamut; determining a set of virtual primaries defining intensities of light emitted by the colored light emitters of the backlight during display of the image, the virtual primaries determined according to the colors of the set of out-of-gamut pixels, and according to colors of the pixels that are outside the exclusion gamut; displaying a first portion of the image from a first set of the pixels according to a first mode in which color values of sub-pixels of a first set of the pixels are determined according to time-averaged colors of the corresponding colored light emitters; displaying a second portion of the image from a second set of the pixels according to a second mode in which color values of the sub-pixels of the second set of the pixels are determined independently for each of the colors of the corresponding colored light emitters; and at an interface between the first portion and the second portion, generally linearly blending the first portion and the second portion so as to form a blended portion of the image, wherein the generally linearly blending comprises blending the first portion and the second portion according to a blending value α.