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EKB-3P-DLP4500EVM: Gray scale point issue when projecting pattern sequence

Part Number: EKB-3P-DLP4500EVM
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: DLP4500, DLPC350
 I have 17 blank pictures which go from black to white. When I try to form pattern sequence on the DLP4500 GUI, I project each picture with 8-bit green plane, 8-bit red plane, 8-bit blue plane. And therefore the projector should project 17*3 = 51 times. Starting from a gray scale point of 0, each time it projects the grey scale point of the picture should increase 5; and when it reaches to the 51th picture the grey scale point should be 255. 
          In that sense, if we imagine a plot of grey scale point vs. # of pictures, it should show a positive linear line. However, things did not happen as expected. Below is what I found:
          When we project 51 pictures, when it reaches the 27th time, the gray scale point of the picture drops down to 0 and starts to increase again from 0 gray scale point. This is not expected because the gray scale point should be continuously increasing, meaning at the 27th time it should increase 5 gray scale point in addition to the 26th's gray scale point. 
           I did some experiments and found that if the projector projects 30times, gray scale point drops down to 0 on the 16th time; 25 times will make gray scale point drops to 0 on 14; 20 times will make gray scale point drops to 0 on 11; 15 times will make gray scale point drops to 0 on 9; 10 times will make gray scale point drops to 0 on 6; 6 times will make gray scale point drops to 0 on 4; 4 times will make gray scale point drops to 0 on 3........
Why is this and how could I solve it? I would really appreciate if you can take time to look into this problem. Thank you!
  • Hi Raymond, Welcome to TI E2E Forums! We will certainly help you with your issue. To help us understand the issue better, kindly let us know the following info:

    1. Kindly confirm that you are using DLPC350 FWv4.1.0 with LCR4500 GUI v4.0.0.

    2. Kindly confirm if you are storing these 17 images in flash (pattern display from flash) or sending these frames from any external video source (pattern display from external video source).

    3. Kindly provide the INI configuration settings for your pattern sequence and provide exact steps that you performed to see the issue. 

    This will help us reproduce,understand and fix the issue faster!

    Thanks & Regards,

    Hirak. 

  • Hello Hirak,

             I'm using the 4.1 version firmware and the 4.0 version GUI. I have 22 images in total. The 17 images that I talked about starts from index 5. 

             What I did was I go to patter sequence and I select a bit depth of 8, and white color. My pattern exposure was adjusted to 8333 μs and my pattern period was adjusted to 200000 μs. Having a long pattern time is for me to observe the problem. Starting from index 5, I add its 8 bit green plane to the sequence, then red, then blue. And I repeat the step for index 5 to index 22. Then I clicked play once, send, validate and play. The LED current was kept as origin, which was red 104, green 135, blue 130.

    Below is the ini file and a capture of my images, as I am not able to upload them here. Thank you very much!

    APPCONFIG.VERSION.SUBMINOR 0x0 ;
    APPCONFIG.VERSION.MINOR 0x0 ;
    APPCONFIG.VERSION.MAJOR 0x3 ;
    DEFAULT.FIRMWARE_TAG 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.AUTOSTART 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.DISPMODE 0x1 ;
    DEFAULT.SHORT_FLIP 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.LONG_FLIP 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.TRIG_OUT_1.POL 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.TRIG_OUT_1.RDELAY 0xbb ;
    DEFAULT.TRIG_OUT_1.FDELAY 0xbb ;
    DEFAULT.TRIG_OUT_2.POL 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.TRIG_OUT_2.WIDTH 0xbb ;
    DEFAULT.TRIG_IN_1.DELAY 0x1 ;
    DEFAULT.TRIG_IN_2.POL 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.RED_STROBE.RDELAY 0xbb ;
    DEFAULT.RED_STROBE.FDELAY 0xbb ;
    DEFAULT.GRN_STROBE.RDELAY 0xbb ;
    DEFAULT.GRN_STROBE.FDELAY 0xbb ;
    DEFAULT.BLU_STROBE.RDELAY 0xbb ;
    DEFAULT.BLU_STROBE.FDELAY 0xbb ;
    DEFAULT.INVERTDATA 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.TESTPATTERN 0x3 ;
    DEFAULT.LEDCURRENT_RED 0x97 ;
    DEFAULT.LEDCURRENT_GRN 0x78 ;
    DEFAULT.LEDCURRENT_BLU 0x7d ;
    DEFAULT.PATTERNCONFIG.PAT_EXPOSURE 0x208d ;
    DEFAULT.PATTERNCONFIG.PAT_PERIOD 0x30d40 ;
    DEFAULT.PATTERNCONFIG.PAT_MODE 0x3 ;
    DEFAULT.PATTERNCONFIG.TRIG_MODE 0x1 ;
    DEFAULT.PATTERNCONFIG.PAT_REPEAT 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.PATTERNCONFIG.NUM_SPLASH 0x11 ;
    DEFAULT.SPLASHLUT 0x5 0x6 0x7 0x8 0x9 0xa 0xb 0xc 0xd 0xe 0xf 0x10 0x11 0x12 0x13 0x14 0x15 0x16 ;
    DEFAULT.PATTERNCONFIG.NUM_LUT_ENTRIES 0x33 ;
    DEFAULT.PATTERNCONFIG.NUM_PATTERNS 0x33 ;
    DEFAULT.SEQPATLUT 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 0x7804 0x7808 0x47800 ;
    DEFAULT.LED_ENABLE_MAN_MODE 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.MAN_ENABLE_RED_LED 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.MAN_ENABLE_GRN_LED 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.MAN_ENABLE_BLU_LED 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.PORTCONFIG.PORT 0x2 ;
    DEFAULT.PORTCONFIG.BPP 0x3 ;
    DEFAULT.PORTCONFIG.PIX_FMT 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.PORTCONFIG.PORT_CLK 0x0 ;
    DEFAULT.PORTCONFIG.ABC_MUX 0x4 ;
    DEFAULT.PORTCONFIG.PIX_MODE 0x1 ;
    DEFAULT.PORTCONFIG.SWAP_POL 0x1 ;
    DEFAULT.PORTCONFIG.FLD_SEL 0x0 ;
    PERIPHERALS.I2CADDRESS[0] 0x34 ;
    PERIPHERALS.I2CADDRESS[1] 0x3a ;
    PERIPHERALS.I2CBUSYGPIO_ENABLE 0x0 ;
    PERIPHERALS.I2CBUSYGPIO_SELECT 0x0 ;
    DATAPATH.SPLASHSTARTUPTIMEOUT 0x1388 ;
    DATAPATH.SPLASHATSTARTUPENABLE 0x0 ;
    MACHINE_DATA.COLORPROFILE_0_BRILLIANTCOLORLOOK 0x0 ;

  • Hi Raymond,

    I have experimented with your INI and images and have found that there is a FW bug that causes the pattern sequence to skip through certain splash images in the pattern LUT. With your INI it was missing almost every other splash images. I am sending you a private message request where we can talk more about this. I am closing this thread.

    If you think we are able to answer your query kindly click "This resolved my issue" on the resolving answer!


    Thanks & Regards,
    Hirak.