Barco's idea exploits the fact that, to the human eye, picture cells blur and overlap when a screen is viewed from a normal distance - say a few metres away. The company says algorithms can reliably determine how the eye should perceive an area containing a defective pixel and alter the brightness of the ones around it to compensate.Read more about the Belgian firm its pixel camouflaging technique at at New Scientist
Barco patents pixel camouflaging
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Barco has come up with a way to make dead pixels nearly invisible by tweaking the properties of the pixels surrounding them.