Optimal gamut volume design for three primary and multiprimary display systems

Primary selection plays a fundamental role in display design. Primaries affect not only the gamut of colors the systems is able to reproduce, but also, they have an impact on the power consumption and other cost related variables. Using more than the traditional three primaries has been shown to be a versatile way of extending the color gamut, widening the angle view of LCD screens and improving power consumption of displays systems. Adequate selection of primaries requires a trade-off between the multiple benefits the system offers, the costs and the complexity it implies, among other design parameters. The purpose of this work is to present a methodology for optimal design for three primary and multiprimary display systems. We consider the gamut in perceptual spaces, which offer the advantage of an evaluation that correlates with human perception, and determine a design that maximize the gamut volume, constrained to a certain power budget, and analyze the benefits of increasing number of primaries, and their effect on other variables of performance like gamut coverage.