公开(公告)号：US5491347A

公开(公告)日：1996-02-13

申请号：US235011

申请日：1994-04-28

申请人： Robert R. Allen, deceased ,  Richard H. Bruce ,  Tzu-Chin Chuang ,  Thomas G. Fiske ,  Ronald T. Fulks ,  Michael Hack ,  Jackson H. Ho ,  Alan G. Lewis ,  Russel A. Martin ,  Louis D. Silverstein ,  Hugo L. Steemers ,  Susan M. Stuber ,  Malcolm J. Thompson ,  William D. Turner ,  William W. Yao

发明人： Robert R. Allen, deceased ,  Richard H. Bruce ,  Tzu-Chin Chuang ,  Thomas G. Fiske ,  Ronald T. Fulks ,  Michael Hack ,  Jackson H. Ho ,  Alan G. Lewis ,  Russel A. Martin ,  Louis D. Silverstein ,  Hugo L. Steemers ,  Susan M. Stuber ,  Malcolm J. Thompson ,  William D. Turner ,  William W. Yao

IPC分类号： G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/36 ,  H01L33/00

CPC分类号： G09G3/3688 ,  G09G3/3648 ,  G09G3/3677 ,  G09G2300/0452 ,  G09G2310/0251 ,  G09G2320/028

摘要： A thin-film structure on an insulating substrate includes an array of binary control units with an area of at least 90 cm.sup.2 and a density of at least 60 binary control units per cm. One implementation has an area of approximately 510 cm.sup.2, a diagonal of approximately 33 cm, and a total of approximately 6.3 million binary control units. Each binary control unit has a lead for receiving a unit drive signal, to which it responds by causing presentation of a segment of images presented by the array. Each binary control unit can present a segment with either a first color having a maximum intensity or a second color having a minimum intensity. Each binary control unit's unit drive signal causes the binary control unit to present its first and second colors. The substrate can be glass. Each binary control unit can include an amorphous silicon thin-film transistor (TFT) and a storage capacitor. Each binary control unit can be square. The thin-film structure can be used in an active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD), monochrome or, with an appropriate filter, color.

摘要翻译： 绝缘基板上的薄膜结构包括具有至少90cm 2的面积和至少60个二进制控制单位/ cm的密度的二进制控制单元阵列。 一个实施方案具有约510cm2的面积，约33cm的对角线，以及总共约630万个二进制控制单元。 每个二进制控制单元具有用于接收单元驱动信号的引线，通过引起阵列呈现的图像段的呈现来对其进行响应。 每个二进制控制单元可以呈现具有最大强度的第一颜色或具有最小强度的第二颜色的片段。 每个二进制控制单元的单位驱动信号使得二进制控制单元呈现其第一和第二颜色。 基底可以是玻璃。 每个二进制控制单元可以包括非晶硅薄膜晶体管（TFT）和存储电容器。 每个二进制控制单元可以是平方的。 薄膜结构可用于有源矩阵液晶显示器（AMLCD），单色或具有适当滤光片的颜色。

公开(公告)号：US5703621A

公开(公告)日：1997-12-30

申请号：US679168

申请日：1996-07-12

申请人： Russel A. Martin ,  Richard H. Bruce ,  Victor M. DaCosta ,  Thomas G. Fiske ,  Alan G. Lewis ,  Louis D. Silverstein ,  Hugo L. Steemers ,  Malcolm J. Thompson ,  William D. Turner

发明人： Russel A. Martin ,  Richard H. Bruce ,  Victor M. DaCosta ,  Thomas G. Fiske ,  Alan G. Lewis ,  Louis D. Silverstein ,  Hugo L. Steemers ,  Malcolm J. Thompson ,  William D. Turner

IPC分类号： G09G3/20 ,  G09G5/10

CPC分类号： G09G3/2044 ,  G09G2300/0452 ,  G09G2320/0613 ,  G09G3/2051

摘要： An array of light control units has an area large enough to present images for direct viewing. The array also has light control units sufficiently dense that ordinary acuity artifacts are not noticeable in presented images when the array is directly viewed at usual viewing distances by a human with normal vision. Signal circuitry can provide signals to the light control units. The array can present an image that includes M colors, where M is more than three, even though each light control unit can only cause presentation of one of a segment with one of a set of N colors, where N is less than M. Data defining an input image with M colors are used to obtain data defining an output image that is a version of the input image but includes, for each light control unit, a color data item indicating one of its set of N colors. The signal circuitry provides signals to the light control units so that each light control unit presents a segment with the color indicated by its color data item. As a result, the array presents the output image so that its appearance to a human with normal vision viewing the array at usual viewing distances is substantially identical to the appearance the input image would have if presented.

摘要翻译： 一组光控制单元具有足够大的面积以呈现用于直接观看的图像。 该阵列还具有足够密集的光控制单元，当通过具有正常视力的人以通常的观看距离直接观看阵列时，所呈现的图像中的普通视力伪影不显着。 信号电路可以向光控制单元提供信号。 即使每个光控制单元只能使N个颜色中的一个N的颜色中的一个呈现，其中N小于M，该阵列可以呈现包括M个颜色的M个颜色的图像，其中M大于三个。数据 使用M个颜色定义输入图像来获得定义作为输入图像的版本的输出图像的数据，但是对于每个光控制单元，包括指示其N个颜色集合之一的颜色数据项。 信号电路向光控制单元提供信号，使得每个光控制单元呈现具有由其颜色数据项指示的颜色的段。 结果，阵列呈现输出图像，使得其在具有正常视觉的人的外观上以通常的观看距离观看阵列基本上与输入图像将呈现的外观相同。