Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate to a method of processing images capable of performing natural saturation enhancement having a balance between color components with a small amount of calculation is provided. The image processing device may be arranged in an image display device or may be a device for providing display image data to the external image display device to perform the saturation enhancement of the input image data. Specifically, saturation information can be extracted from the input image data to determine a saturation enhancement amount. In addition, a color component to which the saturation enhancement is performed can be extracted from the input image data. Further, based on the determined saturation enhancement amount, the saturation enhancement for each color component can be performed. Here, for the predetermined color component, the saturation is enhanced after the saturation enhancement amount is adjusted.

Abstract: A fluid discharging device includes: a head having a predetermined number of nozzle arrays in which n (n is an integral number equal to or more than 2) nozzles capable of discharging a predetermined fluid are arranged, the respective nozzle arrays formed to allow the fluid discharged from the kth (k=1, 2, . . .

Abstract: A fluid discharging device includes: a head having a predetermined number of nozzle arrays in which n (n is an integral number equal to or more than 2) nozzles capable of discharging a predetermined fluid are arranged, the respective nozzle arrays formed to allow the fluid discharged from the kth (k=1, 2, . . .

Abstract: The invention provides an image processing device that reduces flickering on a screen by simplifying the structure of an image processing device. The image processing device can include a statistical value calculating unit, a correction parameter calculating unit, and an image correcting unit. The statistical value calculating unit can generate statistical value data. The correction parameter calculating unit equalizes the statistical value data using the low pass filter whose time constant changes according to whether change occurs in the scene, thereby generating the correction parameter. A look-up table is generated based on the correction parameter.

Abstract: To provide a display device, a color filter, and an electronic apparatus, which can prevent the deterioration of resolution and display quality and can improve display characteristics. There is provided a display device comprising a plurality of dots in a unit pixel. The dots includes first to third dots having first to third peak wavelengths in the wavelength characteristics of emitted light, and a fourth dot having a fourth peak wavelength which is located between the first peak wavelength and the second peak wavelength, and has the fourth peak wavelength which is closer to the second peak wavelength than to the first peak wavelength, in the wavelength characteristics. The fourth dot is arranged not to be adjacent to the second dot, but is arranged to be adjacent to the first dot or the third dot.

Abstract: An image processing device outputs four-color image data to a display section, the display section performing display using display pixels each composed of four sub-pixels, and having an arrangement of the display pixels in which a pixel arrangement in an even line of a scan lines and a pixel arrangement in an odd line of the scan lines are shifted a half pitch of the display pixels from each other, and the image processing device includes a color conversion section which obtains the three-color image data and converts the three-color image data into a first four-color image data while maintaining the number of display pixels in the three-color image data, a conversion section which generates second four-color image data by performing an interpolation process on the first four-color image data based on a relationship between a position of a sub-pixel in the first four-color image data and a position of a sub-pixel in the display section, and an output section which outputs the second four-color image data to

Abstract: A color conversion device that color-converts colors of input image data into colors used in a display unit for displaying images using at least white includes: a ratio calculating unit that calculates a lightness ratio and a saturation ratio between a color reproduction range in the standard color space and a color reproduction range in colors used by the display unit in L*a*b* space at least when a color outside of the color reproduction range in colors used by the display unit is calculated; and a color compressing unit that performs color compression on the image data based on the ratios calculated by the ratio calculating unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for performing processing for converting a color space of image data includes a color conversion section which acquires wide color gamut image data and converts the wide color gamut image data into image data in a standard wide color gamut space, and a transmission section which transmits the image data converted by the color conversion section to a display section capable of displaying the image data in the standard wide color gamut space.

Abstract: An image processing device connected to a display device and a printing device, the image processing device includes an image data acquiring module that acquires image data; a setting module that sets a print image quality adjustment condition constituting a condition for image quality adjustment for a print image; a print image data generating module that performs a image quality adjustment process on the acquired image data on the basis of the set print image quality adjustment condition, and generates print image data; a display image data generating module that generates display image data, wherein the display image data generating module, when requested to display an image subjected to a image quality adjustment process on the basis of the set print image quality adjustment condition, performs a image quality adjustment process on the acquired image data on the basis of the set print image quality adjustment condition, and generates adjusted display image data, or when requested to display an image not s

Abstract: An image processing device connected to a display device and a printing device, the image processing device includes an image data acquiring module that acquires image data; a setting module that sets a print image quality adjustment condition that is a condition for adjusting image quality for a print image; a print image data generating module that performs a image quality adjustment process on the acquired image data on the basis of the set print image quality adjustment condition, and generates print image data; a display image data generating module that performs a image quality adjustment process on the acquired image data on the basis of the set print image quality adjustment condition, and generates display image data; a display image adjusting module that adjusts the display image data so as to conform or approximate characteristics of a display image reproduced by the display device using the display image data to characteristics of a print image reproduced by the printing device using the print ima

Abstract: A printing device comprising: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire image data; an image processing unit configured to generate display image data and printing image data based on the image data by with pixel value of a pixel at a first position in an image of the printing image data, performing an image process of modifying a pixel value of a first subject pixel of the printing image data at the first position or another position, the first position being determined according to a first parameter P1, with pixel value of a pixel at a second position in an image of the display image data, performing an image process of modifying a pixel value of a second subject pixel of the display image data at the second position or another position, the second position being determined according to a second parameter P2, and determining the second parameter P2 such that a ratio (P2/P1) of the second parameter P2 and the first parameter P1 is in a specified range that includes a ratio (P×2/P×1) of a display pixel coun

Abstract: An image processing method of performing a color balance correction on an image, includes: determining a first value representing color and saturation of a pixel in a skin color region of the image; generating correction amount based on the first value, a second value representing ideal color and saturation of skin, and an adjusting value for adjusting a degree of the color balance correction; performing the color balance correction on the image based on the correction amount; and outputting the corrected image. The correction amount is varied depending on an output apparatus that outputs the corrected image.

Abstract: The invention provides an image processing device capable of reducing flickering on a screen by simplifying the structure of an image processing device. The image processing device can include a statistical value calculating unit, a correction parameter calculating unit, and an image correcting unit. The statistical value calculating unit can generate statistical value data. The correction parameter calculating unit generates a control signal in accordance with the degree of change in the scene thereby generating a correction parameter by using a low pass filter whose time constant changes based on the control signal and equalizing the statistical value data. A look-up table can then be generated based on the correction parameter.

Abstract: An image display device displays an image by using a plurality of display pixels, each display pixel including four sub-pixels corresponding to different colors. The four sub-pixels forming each of the display pixels are located such that two sub-pixels having a smaller level of luminance are located at edges of the display pixel, each of the two sub-pixels being located at either edge of the display pixel, and such that two other sub-pixels are located at a central portion of the display pixel so that an absolute value of a difference between a luminance added value, which is a value obtained by adding luminance levels of one of the sub-pixels located at the edges of the display pixel and an adjacent pixel, and a luminance added value, which is a value obtained by adding luminance levels of the other sub-pixel located at the edge of the display pixel and an adjacent pixel, is reduced.

Abstract: An image display device displays an image by using a plurality of display pixels, each display pixel including four sub-pixels corresponding to different colors. The four sub-pixels forming each of the display pixels are located such that a sub-pixel having a smallest level of chroma is located at an edge of the display pixel and such that two sub-pixels having a smallest difference in color components are not adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A display device includes a first sub-pixel formed by a blue-type-hue colored area included in a visible light region whose hue changes in accordance with wavelength, a second sub-pixel formed by a red-type-hue colored area included in the visible light region, a third sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel formed by colored areas of two types of hues included in the visible light region, the two types of hues being selected from a hue range of from a blue hue to a yellow hue, and a plurality of pixels regularly disposed horizontally and vertically and each including the first to fourth sub-pixels. At least two of the four sub-pixels have different areas, and two of the four sub-pixels having smaller areas among the four sub-pixels are disposed so as not to be adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A color conversion apparatus performs color conversion of input image data in which the number of a plurality of colors used in the input image data is changed to the number of a plurality of colors used in a display device for displaying an image. The apparatus includes a predetermined-point color-conversion-value calculator that calculates color conversion values corresponding to each of a plurality of predetermined points at least including a point outside a color reproduction region that can be displayed by the display device in a color space; and an interpolation calculator that performs the color conversion by performing interpolation calculation on the input image data using the color conversion values corresponding to each of the predetermined points.

Abstract: A tone-conversion-characteristic determining apparatus determines tone-conversion characteristics for use in converting tone characteristics of original data so that targeted tone characteristics are obtained when display is performed by a display device. The apparatus includes a tristimulus value determining unit that, on the basis of tristimulus values corresponding to a tone value of each of a plurality of colors capable of being displayed by the display device, determines a tristimulus value which is greater than the other tristimulus values, and a tone-conversion-characteristic determining unit that, on the basis of the tristimulus value determined by the tristimulus value determining unit, determines the tone-conversion characteristics so that the targeted tone characteristics are obtained.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing device that does not convert image data into a grayscale value which may cause defects in the displayed images, such as flickering or fluctuation, when performing color reduction/pseudo-halftone processing to convert the data into data which can be displayed on the color LCD panel (20). Alternatively, the frequency of occurrence of such a grayscale value can be reduced. The present invention thereby prevents a decrease in the display quality of an image output apparatus in advance by processing data supplied to the image output apparatus, such as a color LCD panel.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; and a plurality of pixels that are provided at positions corresponding to intersections of the scanning lines and the data lines and include pixels each having a red color filter and pixels each having a blue color filter. A plurality of frames are set as a reference frame, the pixels are displayed with either a first gray-scale or a second gray-scale whose level is higher than that of the first gray-scale by one gray-scale level, in each frame, and image signals are supplied to the plurality of data lines such that adjacent pixels nave phases opposite to each other at a spatial frequency among the pixels each having the red color filter and the pixels each having the blue color filter.