Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090002562 | Image Processing Device, Image Processing Method, Program for Image Processing Method, and Recording Medium Having Program for Image Processing Method Recorded Thereon - An image processing device for processing input image data includes a contrast correcting section. The contrast correcting section corrects the input image data using image data of a gradient image, which has a luminance gradient in which a luminance level gradually changes, to make a luminance level of the input image data similar to the luminance level of the gradient image. | 01-01-2009 |
20090097773 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing device to process a moving image, which is shot by a video shooting device, in increments of access units, includes: a correcting unit to correct the access unit to be processed by changing the properties of a low-pass filter which indicates imaging blur according to parameter values showing the properties of imaging blur which occurs at the time that the moving image is shot with the video shooting device, generating an inverse filter having inverse properties as to the low-pass filter, and performing processing to apply the inverse filters as to the access unit to be processed; wherein, with a frequency of which the frequency property of the low-pass filter indicating the imaging blur is zero being zero points, performing processing to apply the inverse filter is forbidden for predetermined frequency components of the frequency components of the access unit to be processed including the zero points. | 04-16-2009 |
20090115720 | Liquid crystal display, liquid crystal display module, and method of driving liquid crystal display - A liquid crystal display includes: a light source section including a plurality of lighting sections; a light source driving section for determining a light intensity of each lighting section according to the image signal inputted and driving the light source section so that each lighting section is independently activated with the light intensity determined; a liquid crystal display panel; and a display driving section for driving the liquid crystal display panel based on the image signal. In a case that a display region corresponding to the lighting section includes a high-luminance part and a low-luminance part, the display driving section corrects the image signal in the low-luminance part so that the display luminance of the low-luminance part results in the same level as the display luminance under a maximum light intensity of the corresponding lighting section, and drives the low-luminance part according to the image signal corrected. | 05-07-2009 |
20090208124 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus which performs processing on an input moving image including a plurality of access units arranged every first period, includes a motion vector calculation unit which calculates a motion vector of an object included in the input moving image every second period, a motion vector conversion unit which, converts the motion vector by multiplying the calculated motion vector by a predetermined gain, a frame compensation unit which generates an output moving image including a plurality of access units arranged every third period by performing frame compensation processing of converting or compensating for the access units on the input moving image so that the object moves in accordance with the motion vector which has been subjected to the conversion, and a gain calculation unit which calculates the gain in accordance with brightness in a user environment and supplies the obtained gain to the motion vector conversion unit. | 08-20-2009 |
20090295839 | Display device, drive method therefor, and electronic apparatus - A display device includes: a light source section having multiple light sources to emit light in illumination colors including three primary colors of light; a display section for displaying an image in monochrome color by modulating the light emitted from the light source section; and a display control section for driving the light source section and the display section in a field sequential system. The display control section includes a determining section for determining a degree of white or a degree of complementary color of the light sources on the basis of an amount of lighting of each of the illumination colors of the light sources, a setting section for setting white components or complementary-color components of a color determined by a mixing ratio of the illumination colors, and an allocating section for allocating the set white components or the complementary-color components to the fields. | 12-03-2009 |
20090310880 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A signal processing apparatus includes a separation unit configured to separate first image data into a first component in which an edge of the first image data is saved and a second component in which elements other than the edge are saved, an improvement unit configured to apply a processing of improving a transient on the first component separated by the separation unit, and an adder unit configured to add the first component on which the processing by the improvement unit is applied with the second component separated by the separation unit and output second image data obtained as a result of the addition. | 12-17-2009 |
20100117948 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a display control apparatus and method, and a program with which a luminance deficiency by a back light can be suppressed. | 05-13-2010 |
20100127964 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a display control apparatus and method, and a program which make it possible to suppress deterioration in the image quality of an image. | 05-27-2010 |
20100134527 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a display control apparatus and method, and a program which make it possible to prevent deterioration in image quality due to insufficient luminance of light from a backlight. | 06-03-2010 |
20100156926 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display device is provided, with less color breaking in the field sequential method. A color component image with a relatively high luminance level is extracted as a fundamental image from an input image. A differential image is obtained by subtracting color component of the fundamental image from an input image, and is decomposed into a plurality of color components. The differential image for each color component is divided into two. The fundamental image is displayed at a middle timing of a frame period. The half-divided differential images are displayed at timings before and after the middle timing for the fundamental image so that the half-divided differential image with higher luminance level with consideration for visibility characteristic is displayed at a timing closer to the middle timing for the fundamental image. | 06-24-2010 |
20100188433 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a display control apparatus and method, and a program that are capable of appropriately controlling the luminance of light to be emitted by backlights with simple processing. On the basis of an input image signal, a peripheral-representative-value computation unit ( | 07-29-2010 |
20100265281 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The image display device includes a light source section having light emitting subsections; a display panel; and a display control section performing a control. An input frame image is decomposed into a plurality of field images and the field images are displayed in a field sequential manner. A differential image for each of the three primary-color components is obtained by subtracting a common luminance portion from the subsection-drive frame image. The differential image and a common image configured of the common luminance portion are sequentially outputted to the display panel in a time-divisional manner. In the first field period for outputting the differential image of a primary color component, corresponding primary color light is emitted, and in a second field period for outputting the common image, multiple kinds of primary color light, corresponding to the primary-color components configuring the common luminance portion, are emitted together. | 10-21-2010 |
20100309294 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image display apparatus - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including, a motion-vector detection section configured to find a motion vector corresponding to an image disparity existing between left and right eyes to appear as a disparity in images, and a format determination section configured to determine whether the input image signal is a signal of the 3-dimensional image format or a signal of the 2-dimensional image format. | 12-09-2010 |
20110221788 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND PICTURE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A liquid crystal display includes: a light source section including light emission subsections; a liquid crystal display panel modulating, based on an input picture signal, light emitted from each light emission subsection to display pictures through switching of picture streams from one to another in order; and a display control section including a divisional-drive processing section generating a light emission pattern signal for the light emission subsections and a divisional-drive picture signal based on the input picture signal. The display control section performs a light emission drive on the light emission subsection with use of the light emission pattern signal and performs a display drive on the liquid crystal display panel with use of the divisional-drive picture signal. The divisional-drive processing section determines a logical-OR picture of the picture streams, and generates the light emission pattern signal and the divisional-drive picture signal with use of the logical-OR picture. | 09-15-2011 |
20110234478 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes: a light source section so configured that independently-controllable emission subsections are formed on a light-exit plane of a light-guide plate; a liquid crystal display panel modulating, based on an input picture signal, light exited from each of the emission subsections in the light source section; and a display controlling section having a partitioning-drive processing section generating, based on the input picture signal, an emission pattern signal representing a light emission pattern of the emission subsections in the light source section, and a partitioning-drive picture signal. The display controlling section performs, based on the partitioning-drive picture signal, display-drive on each pixel in the liquid crystal display panel, and performs, based on the emission pattern signal, light-emission drive through allowing one or more of first light sources and one or more of second light sources to emit concurrently so as to form the emission subsections. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234566 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes: a light source unit that includes a light-guiding plate with a light-exit plane partitioned into emission subsections, and one or plural sides, and light sources; a liquid-crystal-display panel that includes pixels, and modulates light emitted from the light source unit, thereby performing image display; and a display control unit that includes a partitioning-drive processing section generating each of a light-emission pattern signal and a partitioning-drive image signal, performs light-emission driving for each light source, and performs display driving for each pixel. The partitioning-drive processing section performs a gain correction of multiplying each pixel signal in the input image signal by a predetermined gain factor that is set so that a value increases as a pixel position of the pixel signal goes away from the light source, and generates the light-emission pattern signal and the partitioning-drive image signal, by using gain-corrected pixel signal. | 09-29-2011 |
20110249178 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device including: a light source section including emission subsections; a LCD panel; and a display control section having a partitioning-drive processing section which generates an emission-pattern signal and a partitioning-drive image signal based on the input image signal. The display control section performs light-emission drive on each emission subsection based on the emission-pattern signal, and performs display-drive on the LCD panel based on the partitioning-drive image signal. The partitioning-drive processing section generates a primary emission-pattern signal corresponding to a primary pattern formed from lighting emission subsections based on the input image signal, performs a first frame-rate-increasing conversion on the primary emission-pattern signal to create the emission-pattern signal, performs a second frame-rate-increasing conversion on the input image signal by frame interpolation method with motion compensation, and generates the partitioning-drive image signal, based on the emission-pattern signal and the resultant of the second frame-rate-increasing conversion. | 10-13-2011 |
20110254873 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes: a light source section including light-emission subsections controlled separately from one another; a liquid crystal display panel modulating, based on an input picture signal, light emitted from each light-emission subsection to display pictures; and a display control section including a partitioning-drive processing section which generates a light-emission pattern signal representing a two-dimensional pattern formed from lighting light-emission subsections and a partitioning-drive picture signal based on the input picture signal, the display control section performing a light-emission drive on each light-emission subsection based on the light-emission pattern signal and performing a display-drive on the liquid crystal display panel based on the partitioning-drive picture signal. The partitioning-drive processing section determines, based on the input picture signal, a barycentric position in a partitioned picture corresponding to each light-emission subsection, and generates the light-emission pattern signal and the partitioning-drive picture signal based on the barycentric position. | 10-20-2011 |
20110285611 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes: a light source section including emission subsections; a liquid crystal display panel performing image display through modulating light coming from each of the emission subsections; and a display control section having a partitioning-drive processing section which generates an emission-pattern signal and a partitioning-drive image signal and performs light-emission drive on each of the emission subsections, and performing display-drive on the liquid crystal display panel. The partitioning-drive processing section calculates a first maximum pixel value and a first average pixel value the first maximum pixel value representing a maximum pixel value in each of pixel regions which correspond to the respective emission subsections, and the first average pixel value representing an average pixel value in each of the pixel regions, and generates the emission-pattern signal and the partitioning-drive image signal based on both the first maximum pixel value and the first average pixel value. | 11-24-2011 |
20110285762 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes: a light source section including emission subsections; a LCD panel including pixels each having sub-pixels for four colors of R, G, B, and Z, and modulating light from the emission subsections based on input image signals for three colors of R, G, and B; and a display control section including a partitioning-drive processing section, driving the emission subsections with an emission pattern signal, and driving the four sub-pixels with partitioning-drive image signals for the four colors. The partitioning-drive processing section generates pixel signals for the four colors through performing a first color-conversion based on the input image signals, generates the emission pattern signal from pixel signals for the three colors, primary partitioning-drive image signals for the three colors from both the input image signals and the emission pattern signal, and the partitioning-drive image signals through performing a second color-conversion on the primary partitioning-drive image signals. | 11-24-2011 |
20120223977 | DISPLAY CONTROLLING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a display controlling apparatus, including a light source controlling section adapted to generate a light emitting signal which defines a luminance of a light source based on an input image signal representative of an image and transmit the generated light emission signal to the light source; a gradation conversion section adapted to convert a gradation of the input image signal; and a transmission factor controlling section adapted to generate, based on the light emission signal and a conversion image signal which is an image signal having a gradation converted from that of the input image signal, a transmission controlling signal which defines a transmission factor of light emitted from the light source through a display panel and transmit the generated transmission controlling signal to the display panel. | 09-06-2012 |
20120224099 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Program - An image processing apparatus for processing an input moving image including a plurality of access units arranged every first period. The image processing apparatus includes a motion vector calculation unit which calculates a motion vector of an object included in the input moving image every second period, a motion vector conversion unit which converts the motion vector by multiplying the calculated motion vector by a predetermined gain, and a gain calculation unit which calculates the predetermined gain in accordance with a brightness in a user environment and supplies the predetermined gain to the motion vector conversion unit. | 09-06-2012 |
20120242657 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays an image; an image signal processing unit that divides each of left-eye and right-eye images input in accordance with a frame sequential format into an upper-half signal of a screen upper portion and a lower-half signal of a screen lower portion and generates left-eye and right-eye images of the frame sequential format in upper and lower division simultaneous driving of a screen of the display unit so that the upper-half signal of the left-eye image and the lower-half signal of the right-eye image at each time become an input image at an identical time; and a driving control unit that vertically divides the screen of the display unit into two portions and simultaneously drives the screen upper portion and the screen lower portion to display the left-eye and the right-eye images processed by the image signal processing unit. | 09-27-2012 |
20130120475 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - Disclosed herein is a display device including: a liquid crystal display section adapted to display an image based on a video signal; a backlight; and a processing section adapted to correct the video signal and set the luminance of the backlight based on two pieces of information, a peak level of the video signal in a display screen or in each of a plurality of partial display areas into which the display screen is divided, and factor data obtained from a data map made up of a reference position on the display screen and the factor data that are associated with each other. | 05-16-2013 |
20130249970 | DISPLAY DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a display device including a temporal direction control unit that causes a gain used to control a video signal to respond to an input video signal at high speed when the input video signal sharply increases, and causes the gain to respond to the input video signal at low speed when the input video signal gently increases. | 09-26-2013 |
20130335457 | DISPLAY UNIT, IMAGE PROCESSING UNIT, AND DISPLAY METHOD - An image processing unit includes: a gain calculating section obtaining, based on first luminance information for each pixel, a first gain, in which the first gain is configured to increase with an increase in pixel luminance value in a range where the pixel luminance value is equal to or larger than a predetermined luminance value, and in which the pixel luminance value is derived from the first luminance information; and a determination section determining, based on the first luminance information and the first gain, second luminance information for each of the pixels. | 12-19-2013 |
20130342587 | DISPLAY, IMAGE PROCESSING UNIT, AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display includes: a gain calculation section obtaining, according to an area of a high luminance region in a frame image, a first gain for each pixel in the region; a determination section determining, based on first luminance information for each pixel in the high luminance region and the first gain, second luminance information for each pixel in the high luminance region; and a display section performing display based on the second luminance information. | 12-26-2013 |