Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light source control apparatus controls a light source emitting phosphorescence. The light source control apparatus includes a driver configured to supply a drive pulse to the light source. The driver is configured to generate a first drive pulse comprising constant amplitude and a pulse width based at least in part on the lighting value and a second drive pulse comprising a constant pulse width and amplitude based at least in part on the lighting value. The driver is configured to supply the first drive pulse or the second drive pulse to the light source in accordance with the lighting value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light source control apparatus controls a light source emitting phosphorescence. The light source control apparatus includes a driver configured to supply a drive pulse to the light source. The driver is configured to generate a first drive pulse comprising constant amplitude and a pulse width based at least in part on the lighting value and a second drive pulse comprising a constant pulse width and amplitude based at least in part on the lighting value. The driver is configured to supply the first drive pulse or the second drive pulse to the light source in accordance with the lighting value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight, a liquid crystal driving unit and a backlight driving unit. In each area, when the brightness level calculated based on the video signal is greater than or equal to a first threshold level, the backlight driving unit fixes a driving current supplied to the light emitting elements in one frame period and controls a lighting time according to the calculated brightness level. In each area, when the brightness level is less than the first threshold level, the backlight driving unit fixes the lighting time of the light emitting elements in one frame period and controls the driving current according to the calculated brightness level.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video display device includes a display panel and a light source modules, for example. The display panel includes a video display area capable of displaying video and is arranged adjacent to another display panel. The light source module includes a light source that irradiates the video display area with light. The light source module is configured to control an amount of light irradiated against the video display area such that a first area located on a side of a border with the other display panel is brighter than a second area other than the first area in the video display area.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing system which transmits a transmission video signal in which information indicating that an image is prepared by using a second reproduction color gamut standard which is capable of reproducing a color gamut wider than a first reproduction color gamut standard is described in control information in a predetermined description form, the control information being multiplexed in the transmission video signal.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video display device includes a display panel and a light source modules, for example. The display panel includes a video display area capable of displaying video and is arranged adjacent to another display panel. The light source module includes a light source that irradiates the video display area with light. The light source module is configured to control an amount of light irradiated against the video display area such that a first area located on a side of a border with the other display panel is brighter than a second area other than the first area in the video display area.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a mobile terminal includes module, display, receiver, and transmitter. The module acquires image of at least portion of screen of display device. When image contains side of the screen, the transmitter calculates distance from the screen to the mobile terminal by using the size of the screen, angle of view of the module, and ratio between length of side of the screen contained in the image and length of side of the image. When the image contains test chart, the transmitter receives number of pixels of the test chart, resolution of the screen, and angle of view of the module, calculates the distance by using the number of pixels, the resolution, the angle of view, and a ratio between size of the test chart contained in the image and size of the image.

Abstract: An image display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a light emission unit capable of illuminating light rays onto at least two divided areas; an image display capable of receiving light rays from the light emission unit and displaying an image signal which includes a plurality of elemental images having multiple parallax image components; a determination module configured to determine a representative pixel value from among the elemental images included in respective areas with respect to the respective areas; and a light intensity calculation module configured to calculate intensities of light rays illuminating respective areas on the basis of the determined representative pixel value.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, there is provided an image display apparatus in which a display pixel displaying an image comprises a plurality of parallax image pixels respectively displaying a plurality of parallax images. The image display apparatus includes: an intermediate gradation level processing unit configured to prepare an intermediate gradation level generation pattern every parallax image to generate an intermediate gradation level with respect to an image signal including a plurality of parallax images, and perform processing of adding an intermediate gradation level to each of the parallax images by using the intermediate gradation level generation pattern and the image signal; and an image display unit configured to display the parallax images each having an intermediate gradation level added by the intermediate gradation level processing unit.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light-emission control device controls light emission of light sources of a light emitter including a plurality of light source areas each corresponding to one of the light sources, and includes a virtual light-value calculator, a light-value calculator, and a light controller. The virtual light-value calculator calculates a virtual light value for each virtual light source area including a light source area and a virtual area obtained by virtually dividing the light emitter into areas different in size from the light source areas. The light-value calculator calculates a light value of a light sources corresponding to the light source area based on the virtual light value. The light controller lights the light source based on the light value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light-emission control device controls light emission of light sources of a light emitter including a plurality of light source areas each corresponding to one of the light sources, and includes a light-value calculator, a light-value modifying module, and a light controller. The light-value calculator calculates a light value for each of the light source areas. The light source areas include a target area for which a light value is to be modified and surrounding areas surrounding the target area. The light-value modifying module modifies a light value calculated for the target area using light values for the surrounding areas. The light controller lights a light source in the target area based on the modified light value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video display apparatus includes a display module, a light source device, a video signal input module, a virtual illumination value calculator, a light source illumination value calculator, and a light source controller. The light source device is divided into light source areas in a honeycomb shape and provided with light sources to light up the light source areas. The virtual illumination value calculator calculates an area illumination value indicating the brightness of light source areas to light up based on a video signal received by the video signal input module. The light source illumination value calculator calculates a light source illumination value to light up the light sources based on the area illumination value. The light source controller lights up the light sources synchronously with the video signal being displayed on the display module based on the light source illumination value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image display device includes an image-signal input module, an image-quality corrector, a light emitter, and a liquid-crystal display module. The image-signal input module receives an image signal. The image-quality corrector performs, based on an image-quality correction amount, an image-quality correction process on the image signal. The light emitter includes a plurality of light sources for emitting light. The liquid-crystal display module modulates, among light emitted from the light sources, light transmitted through the liquid crystal to display an image according to the image signal subjected to the image-quality correction process. The light emitter emits the light according to the image signal with less image-quality correction amount than that of the image signal subjected to the image-quality correction process.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light-emission control device controls light emission of light sources of a light emitter including a plurality of light source areas each corresponding to one of the light sources, and includes a light-value calculator, a light-value modifying module, and a light controller. The light-value calculator calculates a light value for each of the light source areas. The light source areas include a target area for which a light value is to be modified and surrounding areas surrounding the target area. The light-value modifying module modifies a light value calculated for the target area using light values for the surrounding areas. The light controller lights a light source in the target area based on the modified light value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light-emission control device controls light emission of light sources of a light emitter including a plurality of light source areas each corresponding to one of the light sources, and includes a virtual light-value calculator, a light-value calculator, and a light controller. The virtual light-value calculator calculates a virtual light value for each virtual light source area including a light source area and a virtual area obtained by virtually dividing the light emitter into areas different in size from the light source areas. The light-value calculator calculates a light value of a light sources corresponding to the light source area based on the virtual light value. The light controller lights the light source based on the light value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light emission controller has a light-value-change detector and a lighting controller. The lighting-value-change detector is configured to detect a change in a lighting value of a plurality of light sources. The lighting controller is configured to turn on the plurality of light sources at a plurality of lighting timings within a lighting period defined between an initial lighting timing and a final lighting timing of the plurality of lighting timings by pulse width modulation in accordance with the change in the lighting value, a number of the lighting timings in a later lighting period of the lighting period being greater than a number of the lighting timings in an earlier lighting period of the lighting period.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light emitting portion of a backlight control unit is a direct lighting type. Accordingly, a light emission intensity of all over the light emitting portion cannot be measured by disposing an optical sensor at a portion as a conventional way. However, in the backlight control unit, a light emission control with high accuracy is realized while suppressing a variation between areas on a basis of a measurement of the light emission intensity of all over the light emitting portion, because an optical sensor detects each light source, a measuring device measures the light emitting intensity thereof, and a backlight control portion performs a control of the light emission intensity of each light source based on a measurement result of the measuring device.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a broadcast recording apparatus has a temporary recording region portion that records broadcast contents from a tuner, a storage region portion that records broadcast contents, and control unit that carries out recording of broadcast contents within a range of a time limit in the temporary recording region, that carries out loop image recording for making overwrite recording in the temporary recording region in which recording has already been made if the time limit is exceeded, that, if an operating signal is supplied at this time, copies broadcast contents recorded in a temporary recording region to a storage region, and that disables overwriting into the temporary recording region until copying is completed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a broadcast recording apparatus has a tuner unit which receives a broadcast signal, demodulates the received signal, and outputs video image and voice signals, first and second hard disk drive units which record the video image and voice signals from the tuner unit in a memory region, and a control unit which controls the first and second hard disk drive units to record the video image and voice signals in each one of a first storage memory region of the first hard disk drive unit and a second storage memory region of the second hard disk drive unit.

Abstract: Copyright protection for a broadcast signal, personally acquired content or personal information can be easily achieved. For such an object, a digital television broadcast receiver having a print data output unit comprises a specification information detection unit 56k1 to detect whether or not specification information is added to input content, a proper information discrimination unit 56k2 to discriminate whether or not the detected specification information is proper information, and a print output control unit 56k4 to set the print data output unit in an operation allowed sate when the specification information is the proper information and to set the print data output unit in an operation disallowed state when the specification information is not the proper information.