Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide an image rearranging unit that synthesizes an input image with a delayed signal thereof and arranges an image having a horizontal frequency n times larger than a horizontal frequency of the input image in a signal arrangement according to scanning of a scanning driver, to thereby obtain a write image. The scanning driver selects n scanning lines spaced apart from each other in one horizontal period of the input image and drives pixels with image signals having the same polarity between most adjacent lines. Thus, a horizontal electric field can be reduced or prevented by a plane inversion driving. Adjacent to a blanking period having a polarity, a write operation by an image signal having an opposite polarity is performed. In this case, however, a low level blanking signal, for example, is also used, instead of a blanking signal. Thus, in the blanking period, the write operation of the image signal is not affected by a high black level ghost.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of scanning lines arranged in rows, a plurality of data lines arranged in columns and grouped in blocks for every m columns (m being an integer more than one), a plurality of pixels, a scanning-line driving circuit, a block selecting circuit, a sampling circuit, and a control circuit. Each pixel is made to have a gray scale level in accordance with a data signal sampled into a corresponding data line of the plurality of data lines when a predetermined selection voltage is applied to a corresponding scanning line of the plurality of scanning lines. The scanning-line driving circuit selects the plurality of scanning lines one by one in a predetermined order in each of a first field and a second field to which a frame is divided and applies the selection voltage to the selected scanning line.

Abstract: A projector includes a light source unit that supplies light, and a spatial light modulator that modulates light supplied from the light source unit according to an image signal. The spatial light modulator is driven by an applied voltage whose polarity is reversed according to a polarity-reversing frequency which is specific to the spatial light modulator. The light source unit supplies light which is modulated according to pulse width modulation for which fundamental frequency is set based on the polarity-reversing frequency.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a display unit that has a plurality of pixel portions constituting a display area on a substrate and an image signal processing. The image signal processing circuit generates an image signal that sets a first subframe frame luminance of the pixel portion in a first subframe and sets a second subframe luminance of the pixel portion in a second subframe. The first subframe and the second subframe are obtained by partitioning a first frame of a first frame image signal. The first frame has a frame luminance. The first subframe luminance is higher than the frame luminance and the second subframe luminance is lower than the frame luminance.

Abstract: The invention provides a driving method for an electro-optical apparatus, the electro-optical apparatus, and electronic equipment in which unevenness of luminance in the vertical direction can be controlled. A data signal is written to pixels in a first sub field SF1 and a non-data signal, having the same polarity as the data signal, and of the maximum voltage is written to the pixels in a second sub field SF2 in each frame. When proceeding from SF1 to SF2, variations in potential applied to each signal line can be decreased, and the amount of leakage of each pixel electrode potential is reduced. After having obtained a black display (in the case of a normally white mode) by writing the non-data signal, a data signal having the opposite polarity from the data signal in the previous frame is written to the pixels.

Abstract: A method of driving a liquid crystal device having an optically compensated bend mode and including an image display area including a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a row direction in which a plurality of scanning lines extend and in a column direction in which a plurality of data lines extend. The method includes performing an initial transition of a liquid crystal alignment from a splay alignment to a bend alignment. The initial transition includes inversion driving for driving the plurality of pixels by using, among a plurality of inversion driving modes, one inversion driving mode for inverting relative polarities of voltages applied to the plurality of pixels, and different inversion driving for switching the inversion driving mode in the inversion driving to a different inversion driving mode before driving the plurality of pixels.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention can provide a display device capable of providing stable light control with simplified control and structure. A display device can include light sources in which light control can be performed by controlling the operating conditions. The light sources can include a plurality of lamps having light-emitting diodes (LEDs), respectively. The display device can further include an outside-air temperature sensor that measures the temperature outside the casing in which the plurality of lamps are disposed, and a light-source control unit that controls the operating conditions of the lamps on the basis of the measurement of the outside-air temperature sensor.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in association with intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, each of the plurality of pixels displaying a grayscale level corresponding to a data signal supplied to a corresponding data line when a scanning line is selected; a memory that stores upper n bits of input image data in which the grayscale level of each of the plurality of pixels is designated by m bits and that reads the stored n bits of image data, where “m” and “n ” represent positive integers satisfying a condition m>n; an adding circuit that adds lower (m?n) bits to the n bits of image data read from the memory; a selector that selects the input image data when the m bits of image data are input and that selects image data including the (m?n) bits added thereto by the adding circuit when the n bits of image data are read from the memory; a scanning line driving circuit that selects, from among the plurality of scanning lines, the scanning

Abstract: A method of driving an electro-optical device includes dividing a vertical scanning period into first and second sub-fields of individual colors; stopping irradiation of light in the first sub-field; almost simultaneously selecting one scanning line and one or more adjacent scanning lines in a predetermined order; supplying to pixels data signals designating a gray-scale level of the color corresponding to one field, as data signals corresponding to the pixels located at the one scanning line among the selected scanning lines during each selection of the scanning lines; in the second sub-field, controlling the light so as to irradiate light of a corresponding color; selecting scanning lines other than the one scanning line; and supplying to pixels data signals designating a gray-scale level of the color corresponding to the one field, as data signals corresponding to the pixels of the selected scanning line during each selection of the scanning lines.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention can provide a display device capable of providing stable light control with simplified control and structure. A display device can include light sources in which light control can be performed by controlling the operating conditions. The light sources can include a plurality of lamps having light-emitting diodes (LEDs), respectively. The display device can further include an outside-air temperature sensor that measures the temperature outside the casing in which the plurality of lamps are disposed, and a light-source control unit that controls the operating conditions of the lamps on the basis of the measurement of the outside-air temperature sensor.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide an image rearranging unit that synthesizes an input image with a delayed signal thereof and arranges an image having a horizontal frequency n times larger than a horizontal frequency of the input image in a signal arrangement according to scanning of a scanning driver, to thereby obtain a write image. The scanning driver selects n scanning lines spaced apart from each other in one horizontal period of the input image and drives pixels with image signals having the same polarity between most adjacent lines. Thus, a horizontal electric field can be reduced or prevented by a plane inversion driving. Adjacent to a blanking period having a polarity, a write operation by an image signal having an opposite polarity is performed. In this case, however, a low level blanking signal, for example, is also used, instead of a blanking signal. Thus, in the blanking period, the write operation of the image signal is not affected by a high black level ghost.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment provides an electro-optical device having an improved display quality of moving picture, while obtaining the display uniformity in a screen by suppressing a crosstalk. The electro-optical device according to the invention can include a plurality of pixels are arranged in an image display region and a driving circuit unit for driving the pixels in a matrix. The driving circuit unit divides data of one frame into a plurality of data corresponding to a plurality of fields, one of data of two continuous fields being image data and the other being black display data. The data of the two continuous fields is alternately written in every one horizontal period while changing the starting time of the writing-in of each field within one vertical period, and the polarity of data signal is inversed fields against a predetermined electric potential between the two continuous.

Abstract: The invention provides a driving method for an electro-optical apparatus, the electro-optical apparatus, and electronic equipment in which unevenness of luminance in the vertical direction can be controlled. A data signal is written to pixels in a first sub field SF1 and a non-data signal, having the same polarity as the data signal, and of the maximum voltage is written to the pixels in a second sub field SF2 in each frame. When proceeding from SF1 to SF2, variations in potential applied to each signal line can be decreased, and the amount of leakage of each pixel electrode potential is reduced. After having obtained a black display (in the case of a normally white mode) by writing the non-data signal, a data signal having the opposite polarity from the data signal in the previous frame is written to the pixels.

Abstract: To provide a drive circuit, a drive method, a display device, and a projection display device capable of increasing contrast of an image a mean gray level (first gray level characterizing brightness) Gf is detected from an image signal DATA per unit time. On the basis of the mean gray level Gf, a variation signal &Dgr;S is set. By supplying the variation signal &Dgr;S to an opposing electrode, the image signal DATA applied to a liquid crystal layer is modulated. In accordance with an increase in the mean gray level Gf, the gray level of an effective signal applied to the liquid crystal layer (image signal modulated using the variation signal &Dgr;S) is set to be greater than the gray level of the unmodulated image signal.