Abstract

Emerging high brightness of color displays and high signal-to-noise ratio of camera sensors require an addition of white (W) subpixels to ordinary red, green, and blue (RGB) subpixels. Conventional algorithms converting RGB signals to RGBW signals suffer from reduced chroma of highly saturated colors and complicated coordinate transformations between RGB color spaces and color spaces defined by the Commission internationale de l’éclairage (CIE). In this work, we developed a complete set of RGBW algorithms to digitally code a color in the CIE-based color spaces, making complicated processes including color space transformations and white balancing become largely unnecessary. The analytic three-dimensional gamut can be obtained so that the maximal hue and luminance of a digital frame could be simultaneously obtained. Exemplary applications in adaptive controls of the colors of an RGB display in accordance with the W component of background light validate our theory. The algorithm opens an avenue toward accurate manipulations of digital colors for RGBW sensors and displays.

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