Abstract: An image matching apparatus includes a numerical analyzing unit that solves an equation of motion numerically. The equation of motion is formulated as an image matching state transition model representing a mapping relation between a source image and a destination image. The equation of motion represents a force applied on each lattice point of the destination image including potential energy force. The numerical analyzing unit calculates the potential energy force, and sets a convergence value of a solution of the equation of motion as a mapping relation between the lattice point of the source image and the lattice point of the destination image based on the numerical analysis.

Abstract: An image interpolation method comprises searching a motion vector from different pairs of blocks on a first and a second reference image symmetrically, extracting a first and a second image block from the first and the second reference image, respectively, the first and the second image block being located by the motion vector, determining a region determination threshold using an absolute difference between paired opposite pixels of the first and the second image block, extracting from each of the first and the second image block a first pixel region that the absolute difference is smaller than the region determination threshold, and obtaining a pixel value of a second pixel region of the to-be-interpolated block from a pixel value of the first pixel region of each of the first and the second image block, the second pixel region corresponding to the first pixel region.

Abstract: An image display device comprising: a display 18 to display an input image and a black image within one frame period; a motion detector 14 to detect a motion information from the input image; a display ratio controller 16 to set a black display time ratio as a ratio of a black period to said one frame period based on the motion information, the black period being a period for displaying the black image within said one frame period; and a display luminance controller 30 to suppress, within a predetermined range, a luminance fluctuation caused by a change in the black display time ratio, the luminance fluctuation corresponding to a fluctuation of a total luminance for said one frame period.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an image display device for improving the image quality of moving images and still images displayed on a liquid crystal display device while controlling increase in power consumption. A liquid crystal panel for performing input image display and black image display at an arbitrary black display time ratio in one frame period, a movement detection unit for detecting a movement of the input image and outputting movement information, a display ratio control unit for fixing the black display time ratio based on the movement information, and a display brightness control unit for controlling brightness of the liquid crystal panel for one frame period to be substantially constant irrespective of the black display period are provided.

Abstract: An image matching apparatus includes a numerical analyzing unit that solves an equation of motion numerically. The equation of motion is formulated as an image matching state transition model representing a mapping relation between a source image and a destination image. The equation of motion represents a force applied on each lattice point of the destination image including potential energy force. The numerical analyzing unit calculates the potential energy force, and sets a convergence value of a solution of the equation of motion as a mapping relation between the lattice point of the source image and the lattice point of the destination image based on the numerical analysis.

Abstract: A method of processing a moving picture includes determining, based on a pixel value at a predetermined position in a first frame included in a moving picture, a pixel value at a corresponding position to the predetermined position in a second frame which is subsequent to the first frame in the moving picture, and a degree of response delay caused at a display of the moving picture by a liquid crystal display, an output value for an output of a picture at the predetermined position in the second frame. The method further includes detecting an edge area from the second frame; and correcting the output value for the edge area so that an absolute difference between the output value for the edge area and a current output value is larger by a predetermined first correction amount.

Abstract: An image interpolation method comprises searching a motion vector from different pairs of blocks on a first and a second reference image symmetrically, extracting a first and a second image block from the first and the second reference image, respectively, the first and the second image block being located by the motion vector, determining a region determination threshold using an absolute difference between paired opposite pixels of the first and the second image block, extracting from each of the first and the second image block a first pixel region that the absolute difference is smaller than the region determination threshold, and obtaining a pixel value of a second pixel region of the to-be-interpolated block from a pixel value of the first pixel region of each of the first and the second image block, the second pixel region corresponding to the first pixel region.

Abstract: A solvent separator includes an introduction member which introduces a mixture including chlorine containing organic solvent and water; a separation unit including a separation member made of a water-repellent and/or lipophilic porous material, which carries out the separation of the mixture; a water drainage member through which water separated by the separation unit is discharged; and a solvent drainage member through which the chlorine containing organic solvent separated by the separation unit is discharged. Also, a method and a device for treating waste liquid are provided by which chlorine containing organic solvent present in waste liquid is selectively separated, decomposed by a photocatalyst, and converted into a harmless substrate.

Abstract: A solvent separator includes an introduction member which introduces a mixture including chlorine containing organic solvent and water; a separation unit including a separation member made of a water-repellent and/or lipophilic porous material, which carries out the separation of the mixture; a water drainage member through which water separated by the separation unit is discharged; and a solvent drainage member through which the chlorine containing organic solvent separated by the separation unit is discharged. Also, a method and a device for treating waste liquid are provided by which chlorine containing organic solvent present in waste liquid is selectively separated, decomposed by a photocatalyst, and converted into a harmless substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus comprises a plurality of signal lines and scanning lines which are arranged so as to extend in directions orthogonal to each other and cross each other at cross portions, a plurality of pixel electrodes respectively provided at the cross portions so as to form a matrix arrangement, and a plurality of thin film transistors respectively provided between the pixel electrodes and the signal lines and respectively having gates connected with the scanning lines, for functioning as switches for writing image signals which are supplied from the signal lines into the pixel electrodes, picture change detecting means for detecting a change between still and moving pictures in a direction of time-axis included in a display image, and gate signal change means for changing the number of interlaced scanning lines in accordance with a change component detected in the picture change detecting means.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having pixel selection switching elements in a one-to-one correspondence with pixels includes an interlace processing circuit for performing n (n is an odd number of 3 or larger): m (m is an arbitrary number equal to or smaller than n) interlace processing for a one-frame image signal, an n-fold rate converting device for performing n-fold rate conversion for the interlaced image signal, an image display for displaying an image by driving the pixel selection switching elements in accordance with the image signal subjected to the n-fold rate conversion, and a non-picture period processing means for disconnecting the n-fold rate converting device from the image display and performing desired processing for the image display during a non-picture period longer than a vertical blanking period.