Patent ID: 7286121

Claim:
In a computing system that includes a display device having a plurality of pixels, a method for rendering an object on a portion of the display device that includes a plurality of pixel sub-components for each pixel, the plurality of pixel sub-components having an actual striping direction in a certain direction, the method taking advantage of improved resolution due to sub-component based sampling which takes into account the relationship between the object and the actual striping direction of the display device, the method comprising: determining through computerized processing that the object has spatial frequency dominance in a first direction; determining if the first direction of the spatial frequency dominance is parallel to the actual striping direction of the display device; performing pixel sub-component based sampling such that when the first direction is not parallel to the actual striping direction of the display device, the pixel sub-component based sampling is preformed, for the purposes of sampling, that the striping direction is the actual striping direction of the display device, and when the direction is parallel to the actual striping direction of the display device, the pixel sub-component based sampling is performed, assuming for purposes of sampling, that the striping direction of the display device is perpendicular to the actual striping direction of the display device; and rendering at least a derivative of the sampled representation of the object on the display device having the actual striping direction.