1. A display panel for use with a multi-panel display, the display panel comprising:
an array of display pixels to emit pixel light; and
a fiber bundle including an array of fibers disposed over the array of display pixels, the fiber bundle including:
a first end of the array of fibers rigidly fixed adjacent to the array of display pixels and optically aligned with the array of display pixels;
a fused fiber portion having a rigid structure at the first end of the array of fibers; and
a loose fiber portion that permits a second end of the array of fibers opposite the first end to slump-over and move, wherein the loose fiber portion is long enough such that the slump-over causes the array of fibers to intermesh at the second end,
wherein the fiber bundle receives the pixel light emitted from the array of display pixels into the first end of the array of fibers and emits the pixel light out the second end of the array of fibers.
2. The display panel of claim 1, wherein the array of display pixels is disposed within a display substrate, the display panel further comprising:
a bezel disposed around the array of display pixels as a trim that surrounds a periphery of the display substrate,
wherein the loose fiber portion is long enough to cause slump-over of the second end of the fibers disposed along a perimeter side of the fiber bundle that conceals the bezel disposed along the perimeter side when the perimeter side is mated to another display panel of the multi-panel display.
3. The display panel of claim 1, wherein the fused fiber portion includes:
micro lenses disposed into a bottom side of the fiber bundle that faces the array of display pixels, wherein each of the micro lenses is aligned with a corresponding fiber of the array of fibers.
4. The display panel of claim 1, wherein the fused fiber portion includes:
cross-talk trenches disposed in a bottom side of the fiber bundle, the cross-talk trenches running between adjacent fibers of the array of fibers; and
opaque material disposed within the cross-talk trenches to block stray light and reduce optical cross-talk between the adjacent fibers.
5. The display panel of claim 1, wherein the first end of the array of fibers is optically aligned on a one-to-one basis with the array of display pixels.
6. The display panel of claim 1, further comprising interconnecting optics disposed between the first end of the array of fibers and the array of display pixels, the interconnecting optics including:
a circular polarizing layer,
wherein the array of display pixels comprises a liquid crystal display (\u201cLCD\u201d) panel that rotates a polarization of ambient light incident on the LCD panel by 180 degrees, wherein a combination of the circular polarizer and the LCD panel reduces reflections of the ambient light.
7. The display panel of claim 1, further comprising interconnecting optics disposed between the first end of the array of fibers and the array of display pixels, the interconnecting optics including:
an array of micro lenses to focus the pixel light emitted from the array of display pixels into the first end of the array of fibers; and
an anti-reflective coating.
8. The display panel of claim 1, wherein the second end of each of the fibers includes a divergence lens to increase a divergence of the pixel light emitted from the second end of the array of fibers.
9. The display panel of claim 8, wherein the divergence lens comprises one of a curved end surface or a graded-index lens formed in the second end of each of the fibers.
10. The display panel of claim 1, further comprising dark paint coated on exterior side surfaces of the loose fiber portion of the array of fibers to increase an image contrast of the display panel.
11. At least one machine-accessible storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by one or more machines, will cause the one or more machines to perform operations comprising:
providing a registration image to a multi-panel fiber optic carpet display, wherein the registration image extends across multiple panels of the multi-panel fiber optic carpet display, wherein loose fiber portions of the multi-panel fiber optic carpet display are long enough to slump-over causing optic fibers to intermesh and conceal seams between the multiple panels;
capturing the registration image as emitted from the multi-panel fiber optic carpet display as a captured registration image;
analyzing the captured registration image for image discontinuities due to randomized positions of loose fiber ends that slump over; and
remapping display pixel to image pixel assignments of the multi-panel fiber optic carpet display to correct the image discontinuities.
12. The at least one machine-accessible storage medium of claim 11, wherein the slump over conceals bezels disposed around two adjacent image panels of the multi-panel fiber optic carpet display and the image discontinuities include misalignments occurring along a seam between the two bezels.
13. The at least one machine-accessible storage medium of claim 12, further providing instructions that, when executed by the machine, will cause the machine to perform further operations, comprising:
iterating the providing, the capturing, the analyzing, and the remapping until the misalignments are deemed to be acceptable.
14. The at least one machine-accessible storage medium of claim 11, wherein providing the registration image to the multi-panel fiber optic carpet display comprises providing the registration image via a cell phone and wherein the capturing the registration image as emitted from the multi-panel fiber optic carpet display comprises capturing the registration image with a camera integrated on the cell phone.
15. The at least one machine-accessible storage medium of claim 11, wherein each panel of the multi-panel fiber optic carpet display comprises:
a fiber bundle including an array of fibers disposed over an array of display pixels, the fiber bundle including a first end rigidly fixed adjacent to the array of display pixels and a loose fiber portion that permits a second end of the array of fibers opposite the first end to slump-over and move.
16. The at least one machine-accessible storage medium of claim 11, further providing instructions that, when executed by the machine, will cause the machine to perform further operations, comprising:
analyzing the captured registration image for discontinuities of an image characteristic other than physical placement of the loose fiber ends; and
adjusting the image characteristic on either a per display panel basis or a per pixel basis to increase uniformity of the image characteristic.
17. A multi-panel fiber optic carpet display, comprising:
a plurality of display panels mated to each other along a seam, each of the display panels including:
an array of display pixels to emit pixel light; and
a fiber bundle including an array of fibers disposed over the array of display pixels, the fiber bundle including:
a first end of the array of fibers rigidly fixed adjacent to the array of display pixels and optically aligned with the array of display pixels;
a fused fiber portion having a rigid structure at the first end of the array of fibers; and
a loose fiber portion that permits a second end of the array of fibers opposite the first end to slump-over and move, wherein the fiber bundle receives the pixel light emitted from the array of display pixels into the first end of the array of fibers and emits the pixel light out the second end of the array of fibers, wherein the loose fiber portion is long enough such that the slump-over causes the array of fibers to intermesh at the second end; and
a bezel disposed around the array of display pixels as a trim that surrounds a periphery of the display substrate,
wherein peripheral fibers disposed along either side of the seam between mated display panels slump over and conceal the bezel of each of the display panels at the seam.
18. The multi-panel fiber optic carpet display of claim 17, wherein the fused fiber portion includes:
micro lenses disposed into a bottom side of the fiber bundle that faces the array of display pixels, wherein each of the micro lenses is aligned with a corresponding fiber of the array of fibers.
19. The multi-panel fiber optic carpet display of claim 17, wherein the fused fiber portion includes:
cross-talk trenches disposed in a bottom side of the fiber bundle, the cross-talk trenches running between adjacent fibers of the array of fibers; and
opaque material disposed within the cross-talk trenches to block stray light and reduce optical cross-talk between the adjacent fibers.
20. The multi-panel fiber optic carpet display of claim 17, wherein the first end of the array of fibers is optically aligned on a one-to-one basis with the array of display pixels.
21. The multi-panel fiber optic carpet display of claim 17, wherein the second end of each of the fibers includes a divergence lens to increase a divergence of the pixel light emitted from the second end of the array of fibers.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of decoding an image, the method comprising:
obtaining information that indicates an intra prediction mode of a current block to be decoded, from a bitstream, the intra prediction mode indicating a particular direction among a plurality of directions, the particular direction being indicated by one of dx number of pixels in a horizontal direction and a fixed number of pixels in a vertical direction, and dy number of pixels in the vertical direction and a fixed number of pixels in the horizontal direction; and
obtaining a number of neighboring pixels located on one side among a left side of the current block and an upper side of the current block according to a position of a current pixel (j,i) and the particular direction (dx or dy) indicated by the intra prediction mode,
when the number of the neighboring pixels is 1, obtaining a prediction value of the current pixel based on the neighboring pixel; and
when the number of the neighboring pixels is 2, obtaining the prediction value of the current pixel based on a weighted average of the neighboring pixels,
wherein the image is split into a plurality of maximum coding units according to the extracted information about the maximum size of the coding unit,
the maximum coding unit is hierarchically split into one or more coding units of depths including at least one of a current depth and a lower depth according to the split information,
when the split information indicates a split for the current depth, the coding unit of a current depth is split into four coding units of a lower depth, independently from neighboring coding units, and
when the split information indicates a non-split for the current depth, one or more prediction units are obtained from the coding unit of the current depth.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein m and n are 5, and dx and dy are one of \u221232, \u221226, \u221221, \u221217, \u221213, \u22129, \u22125, \u22122, 0, 2, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 26, and 32.