Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (101) of the present invention includes an NR circuit (106) for carrying out a signal processing process in which a predetermined noise amount is added to or subtracted from data of a target pixel in accordance with a result of a comparison of signal levels between the target pixel and at least two surrounding pixels which are beside the target pixel, the NR circuit (106) adding or subtracting the predetermined noise amount to or from data of respective pixels adjacent to each other temporally or positionally in respective different signal processing processes. This allows providing a liquid crystal display device having a noise reduction effect. It is thus possible to provide a liquid crystal display device enabling less blur of an image after a noise reduction process.

Abstract: A signal processing device (500) that processes sharpening of an image with respect to an input signal (SR) that represents the image and outputs an output signal (SO) that represents the sharpened image includes an oversampler (200) that generates an oversampled signal (S200) by interpolating a signal in order to increase a sampling frequency with respect to in input signal (SR), and a sharpening processing unit (100) to which the oversampled signal (200) is inputted and which generates a sharpened signal (S100) which is nonlinearly monotonically increased over a wide range high band frequency components in the oversampled signal (S200), and the sharpened signal (S100) is outputted as the output signal (SO).

Abstract: An image processing device includes a signal supplementing unit that generates a harmonic signal of a signal of a predetermined frequency band in an image signal, and supplements the image signal with the generated harmonic signal.

Abstract: A signal processing device (500a) subjects an input signal indicating an image to a process of sharpening the image and outputs a signal indicating the sharpened image, and includes: a two-dimensional filter (200) for removing, from the input signal, a high frequency component of frequency components in directions other than horizontal/vertical directions of the image indicated by the input signal, to generate an obliquely reduced signal; a sharpening process section (100A) for generating a sharpened signal (S101) by a nonlinear process section (102) performing a nonlinear process on a signal indicating pixels adjacently aligned in a horizontal direction of an image indicated by the obliquely reduced signal; and a sharpening process section (100B) for generating a sharpened signal (S102) by a nonlinear process section (102) performing a nonlinear process on a signal indicating pixels adjacently aligned in a vertical direction of an image indicated by the sharpened signal (S101).

Abstract: A waveform shaping device shapes a waveform of an externally input signal and outputs the input signal with the shaped waveform as an output signal to an equalizer for compensating a distortion of a signal, and includes a nonlinear process section for generating a nonlinear process signal (i) in which positive and negative signs of a low-frequency-free signal obtained by removing at least a direct current component from frequency components of the externally input signal are retained and (ii) which broadly monotonically increases nonlinearly with respect to the low-frequency-free signal when values of the low-frequency-free signal are at least in the vicinity of 0, the nonlinear process signal being added to the low-frequency-free signal so as to generate the input signal.

Abstract: An image processing system for processing a target pixel to be processed, which target pixel corresponds to inputted image data, a plurality of pixels including the target pixel being arranged in a matrix manner, includes an NR circuit (106). The NR circuit (106) includes a signal processing process circuit (114) for carrying out subtraction or addition, with respect to a pixel value Aij of the target pixel, of a value equivalent to a noise quantity Er calculated in advance, in a case where the pixel value Aij of the target pixel is larger or smaller, respectively, than a first couple of estimated values Bij and Cij for the pixel value Aij of the target pixel, the first couple of estimated values Bij and Cij being estimated from pixel values of respective pixels adjacent to the target pixel, centered at the target pixel, in a temporal axis or in a spatial axis.

Abstract: A signal processing device (201) includes noise reduction units (101), cascade-connected to each other, each of which includes: a signal selection section (31) for selecting a representative value from sampled signals obtained from an input signal by sampling a target signal and signals which are away from the target signal by given intervals; a voltage determination section (51), for determining which of a determined representative value and a voltage of the target signal is larger; and a signal output section (61) for increasing or decreasing the voltage of the target signal depending on a result of the determining and outputs the target signal as the output signal. A combination of intervals between the target signal and a the signals excluding the target signal vary from noise reduction unit (101) to noise reduction unit (101). A noise reduction unit on a more upstream side has a larger maximum value of the intervals.

Abstract: Provided is a video image display device that emits light so as to degrade image quality of illegally camcorded video images, thereby making it impossible to use the illegally camcorded image contents. A video image display system includes a projector that generates a display image based on digital video image signals; and a screen on which the image generated by the projector is projected and displayed. On a backside of the screen, there is provided an infrared ray emitting unit that emits infrared light from a video image display surface during a period while video images are being displayed on the screen. A light amount of the infrared light varies with time. It varies at a time interval equal to or less than a time constant of auto-iris control of a content recording device.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (101) of the present invention includes an NR circuit (106) for carrying out a signal processing process in which a predetermined noise amount is added to or subtracted from data of a target pixel in accordance with a result of a comparison of signal levels between the target pixel and at least two surrounding pixels which are beside the target pixel, the NR circuit (106) adding or subtracting the predetermined noise amount to or from data of respective pixels adjacent to each other temporally or positionally in respective different signal processing processes. This allows providing a liquid crystal display device having a noise reduction effect. It is thus possible to provide a liquid crystal display device enabling less blur of an image after a noise reduction process.

Abstract: Light other than visible light is emitted from a video image display section such as a screen, together with display images, so as to degrade image quality of illegally camcorded video images, thereby making it impossible to use the illegally camcorded image contents. A video image display system includes a projector that generates a display image; and a screen on which the image generated by the projector is projected and displayed. On a backside of the screen, there is provided an infrared ray emitting unit that emits infrared light from a video image display surface during a period while video images are being displayed on the screen.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for easily detecting a person who attempts illegal camcording, by using device(s) that removes non-visible light as an anti-camcording interference image from a video image containing the non-visible light. A video image display system includes: a screen that displays a video image; an infrared ray emitting unit that projects infrared rays together with the video image toward an observer; and an infrared ray camera that detects infrared rays reflected by a video camera owned by the observer. The infrared ray camera particularly detects reflection light from an infrared ray cut filter attached to the video camera of the observer.

Abstract: A signal processing device (500a) subjects a signal indicative of a moving image constituted by frames to a sharpening process for the moving image, to output a signal indicative of the sharpened moving image, and includes: a motion detection section (200) for detecting motion between the frames with respect to each block region consisting of one or a plurality of adjacent pixels constituting each frame; a sharpening process section (100) for subjecting a signal indicative of an image of a block region from which motion has been detected to a nonlinear process by a nonlinear process section (102) and sharpening the signal to generate a harmonic; and a signal output section (300) for outputting, with respect to the block region from which motion has been detected, the harmonic produced by sharpening a signal indicative of a moving image of the block region, while outputting, with respect to a block region from which motion has not been detected, a signal indicative of a moving image of the block region.

Abstract: A motion detection device (200) receives a signal indicative of a moving image and detects motion between frames with respect to each block region consisting of one or a plurality of adjacent pixels constituting each frame constituting the moving image, and includes: a difference calculation section (220) for obtaining a difference signal (S220) indicative of a difference between adjacent two frames; a first edge detection section (230) for obtaining, with respect to each block region, a first edge signal (S230) included in one of the two frames; a second edge detection section (240) for obtaining, with respect to each block region, a second edge signal (S240) included in the other of the two frames; an edge calculation section (250) for obtaining, with respect to each block region, an edge signal (S250) by adding a product of the first edge signal (S230) and a first coefficient to a product of the second edge signal (S240) and a second coefficient; and a division section (260) for obtaining, with respect to

Abstract: A decoding device outputs an output signal by receiving, as an input, an encoded signal including a signal in which an original signal is encoded, the original signal being indicative of contents of at least one of image and audio, and the output signal being indicative of the contents. The decoding device includes a decoding process section that generates a decoded signal, and a nonlinear process section that generates a nonlinear process signal (i) in which positive and negative signs of a low-frequency-free signal are retained, which low-frequency-free signal is obtained by removing from the input signal at least a direct current of frequency components included in the decoded signal, and (ii) which broadly monotonically increases nonlinearly with respect to the low-frequency-free signal when values of the low-frequency-free signal are at least in the vicinity of 0. The nonlinear process signal is added to the decoded signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an encoding device, which is an encoding device that outputs an encoded signal including a signal in which an original signal is encoded, the original signal indicative of at least one of image and audio, which encoding device includes a frequency component extraction section that extracts a part of frequency components of the original signal from the original signal to generate a frequency component extraction signal and an encoding process section that encodes the frequency component extraction signal and the original signal while switching between the frequency component extraction signal and the original signal, and making the signal thus encoded be included in the encoded signal.

Abstract: In an image display device of at least one embodiment, a regional maximum detection section detects an areal maximum pixel luminance (regional maximum) on the basis of an input image. A regional mean calculation section calculates an areal mean pixel luminance (regional mean) on the basis of the input image. A data comparison section compares a control determination threshold retained in a control determination threshold storage section with the regional maximum for each area, and outputs a comparison result for that area. An LED output value calculation section sets a value corresponding to the regional maximum as an LED output value for each area with the regional maximum greater than the control determination threshold, and sets a value corresponding to the regional mean as an LED output value for each area with the regional maximum less than or equal to the control determination threshold.

Abstract: A video display system of the present invention includes (i) a projector that generates a display image in accordance with a digital video signal and (ii) a screen on which an image generated by the projector is projected and displayed. Provided behind the screen is an infrared-emitting unit that emits infrared light through a video display surface during a period of time in which a picture is being displayed on the screen. This allows invisible light to be emitted through a video display section such as a screen together with a displayed image, thereby degrading the image quality of a re-shot picture and rendering use of re-shot image content impossible.

Abstract: A waveform shaping device shapes a waveform of an externally input signal and outputs the input signal with the shaped waveform as an output signal to an equalizer for compensating a distortion of a signal, and includes a nonlinear process section for generating a nonlinear process signal (i) in which positive and negative signs of a low-frequency-free signal obtained by removing at least a direct current component from frequency components of the externally input signal are retained and (ii) which broadly monotonically increases nonlinearly with respect to the low-frequency-free signal when values of the low-frequency-free signal are at least in the vicinity of 0, the nonlinear process signal being added to the low-frequency-free signal so as to generate the input signal.

Abstract: A signal processing device first decomposes an input signal into a plurality of frequency components in different frequency ranges, then causes a higher harmonic wave generating section to generate a higher harmonic for each of a part or all of frequency components obtained by removing a frequency component in the lowest frequency range from frequency components obtained by the decomposition, and finally composes (i) the higher harmonic thus generated and (ii) a frequency component for which no higher harmonic has been generated. The higher harmonic wave generating section adds the frequency component and a nonlinear process signal (i) in which positive and negative signs of a frequency component for which the higher harmonic is to be generated are retained and (ii) which broadly monotonically increases nonlinearly with respect to the frequency component when the frequency component is located at least in the vicinity of zero.

Abstract: A prefilter for use in a compressive coding apparatus, the compressive coding apparatus including the prefilter for limiting a frequency band of an input image and a compressive coding unit for implementing compressive coding of an image signal of which frequency band is limited with the prefilter, the prefilter includes: a time filter unit; a two-dimensional filter unit; and an enhancement unit. A compressive coding pre-processing apparatus provided with the prefilter includes: a prefilter unit for attenuating a diagonal frequency component of each image; a pixel skipping unit for skipping a pixel of an image signal of which diagonal frequency component is attenuated by the prefilter unit by folding back a horizontal high frequency component to a vertical high frequency component, or folding back the vertical high frequency component to the horizontal high frequency component; and a pixel space contracting unit for contracting a space of the skipped pixel.