Abstract: A luminance control method for an organic EL display comprises a first step of calculating a luminance accumulation value for each screen on the basis of a video input signal, and a second step of controlling the amplitude of the video input signal on the basis of the luminance accumulation value calculated in the first step and feeding to the organic EL display the video signal whose amplitude has been controlled.

Abstract: A display device has: an RGB-RGBW conversion circuit that converts RGB signals fed thereto into RGBW signals; a display panel that has a plurality of dots each composed of four, namely R, G, B, and W, unit pixels and that displays an image based on the RGBW signals; a defect position specifier that specifies, if a unit pixel is found defective, a position of the defective pixel on the display panel; and a conversion rate controller that controls the rate at which, when the RGB signals are converted into the RGBW signals, the RGB signals are converted into a W signal according to the position of the defective pixel. If the defective pixel is a W pixel, the conversion rate for pixels adjacent thereto is made lower than the standard conversion rate set for the entire display panel.

Abstract: An uneven display correction method including a first step of dividing a display area of a display panel into a plurality of unit areas, the first step setting one arbitrary unit area among the unit areas at a reference area, the first step previously determining a value as a correction parameter in each unit area, the value corresponding to a difference between a light-emission start gradation level of the unit area and the light-emission start gradation level of the reference area; and a second step of correcting an input video signal based on the correction parameter determined in each unit area.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes an RGB-RGBX signal converter having a variable RGB-RGBX conversion ratio and configured to convert an RGB signal into an RGBX signal. An RGBX type self light-emitting display is configured to display video, based on the RGBX signal obtained by the RGB-RGBX signal converter. A controller is configured to control the RGB-RGBX conversion ratio utilized for converting the RGB signal into the RGBX signal, in accordance with a display position of the RGB signal.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes an RGB-RGBX signal converter configured to convert digital R, G, and B input signals into digital R, G, B, and X input signals. A D/A converter is configured to convert the digital R, G, B, and X input signals into analog R, G, B, and X output signals. An RGBX type self light-emitting display is configured to receive the analog R, G, B, and X output signals. A calculator is configured to calculate an accumulated power consumption value of the self light-emitting display for each screcn, based on the digital R, G, B, and X input signals. A controller is configured to control amplitudes of the respective analog R, G, B, and X input signals by controlling a reference voltage supplied to the D/A converter based on the accumulated power consumption value, and to supply the respective amplitudeaontrolled analog R, G, B, and X input signals to the self light-emitting display.

Abstract: In a motion detecting device, with respect to a target pixel for which detection of motion is going to be performed, the threshold value to be used by comparator circuits 9 and 10 is varied based on the difference of image data between two pixels vertically adjacent to the target pixel. The comparator circuit 9 compares the difference, between two fields, of the image data of the target pixel with the threshold value, and the comparator circuit 10 compares the differences, between two fields, of the image data of the two pixels vertically adjacent to the target pixel with the threshold value. An adder circuit 12 adds together the comparison results with weights assigned thereto, and the detection of motion is performed based on the resulting sum.

Abstract: A color space correction circuit in a display apparatus comprises: means for holding optimal R, G and B correction values at chromaticity coordinate points corresponding to a white, primary colors and complementary colors, respectively, in a color reproduction region of a display on a chromaticity diagram; means for connecting the respective chromaticity coordinate points corresponding to the primary colors and the complementary colors to the chromaticity coordinate point corresponding to the white in the color reproduction region of the display on the chromaticity diagram, thereby dividing the color reproduction region of the display into a plurality of areas and judging to which area the chromaticity coordinate points corresponding to input signals belong; and means for correcting R, G and B values for the input signals based on optimal R, G and B correction values corresponding to the chromaticity coordinate points that correspond to three vertexes of the area to which the chromaticity coordinate points co

Abstract: An image interpolating method for interpolating a pixel at an intermediate position between a first original pixel and a second original pixel adjacent to the first original pixel, comprising a first step of calculating an edge component for judging whether or not an interpolated pixel is positioned in the vicinity of an edge position of original image data, a second step of determining a range where pixel data on the interpolated pixel is settable on the basis of the calculated edge component and pixel data on the first and second original pixels, and a third step of selecting a plurality of sets of opposed pixels between which the interpolated pixel is sandwiched diagonally, and determining, for each of the sets, the pixel data on the interpolated pixel in a case where a correlation value represented by the sum of the absolute values of the differences between the pixel data on the interpolated pixel and pixel data on the opposed pixels is the minimum in the range where the pixel data on the interpolated pi

Abstract: In a telecine converting method for converting a video in a movie film composed of 24 frames per second into a video signal composed of 60 frames per second, a telecine converting method is characterized in that in order that respective integration values of display time periods of frame videos in the movie film become equal after the telecine conversion, used as a video in the predetermined frame after the conversion is an interpolated video obtained by interpolating the frame videos ahead of and behind the video in the movie film.

Abstract: In a self-luminous type display in which one pixel includes four unit pixels of RGBW, a signal processing circuit includes first, second and third parts. The first part subtracts a minimum value in RGB input signals from each input signal of RGB. The second part calculates an RGBW signal corresponding to the case in which all the RGB input signals are the minimum value, based on an RGB signal value for realizing target white when all the RGB input signals are a maximum value. The third part determines the RGBW signal by adding a signal corresponding to each RGB subtraction result to the RGBW signal calculated by the second part. Each RGB subtraction result is calculated by the first part.

Abstract: There are provided image taking means for taking an image displayed on a display panel on which the non-uniformity of the display is to be corrected, and correction value calculating means for generating the correction value for the non-uniformity of the display with respect to each luminescence area on the display panel based on the image taken by the image taking means in a state where all pixels on the display panel produce luminescence.

Abstract: When an input detection unit has detected that no user operation has been performed to an organic EL display apparatus for a predetermined period of time or when a processing detection unit has detected that a predetermined processing is being performed, the input detection unit or the processing detection unit outputs an instruction to a reference voltage adjusting unit to modify a reference voltage referenced by a DAC unit upon conversion to an analog output signal.

Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.

Abstract: A luminance control method for an organic EL display comprises a first step of calculating a luminance accumulation value for each screen on the basis of a video input signal, and a second step of controlling the amplitude of the video input signal on the basis of the luminance accumulation value calculated in the first step and feeding to the organic EL display the video signal whose amplitude has been controlled.

Abstract: In a telecine converting method for converting a video in a movie film composed of 24 frames per second into a video signal composed of 60 frames per second, a telecine converting method is characterized in that in order that respective integration values of display time periods of frame videos in the movie film become equal after the telecine conversion, used as a video in the predetermined frame after the conversion is an interpolated video obtained by interpolating the frame videos ahead of and behind the video in the movie film.

Abstract: In a motion detecting device, with respect to a target pixel for which detection of motion is going to be performed, the threshold value to be used by comparator circuits 9 and 10 is varied based on the difference of image data between two pixels vertically adjacent to the target pixel. The comparator circuit 9 compares the difference, between two fields, of the image data of the target pixel with the threshold value, and the comparator circuit 10 compares the differences, between two fields, of the image data of the two pixels vertically adjacent to the target pixel with the threshold value. An adder circuit 12 adds together the comparison results with weights assigned thereto, and the detection of motion is performed based on the resulting sum.

Abstract: In the present invention, two-dimensional images are converted into three-dimensional images by producing from a two-dimensional image signal a main image signal and a sub-image signal delayed from the main image signal. A field delay indicating how many fields are there from a field corresponding to the main image signal to a field corresponding to the sub-image signal is changed depending on the speed of the horizontal movement of the main image signal. The upper limit of the field delay is determined on the basis of vertical components of motion vectors detected from the main image signal. The field delay is so determined that it is not more than the determined upper limit.

Abstract: A 3-D display including a light source which emit lights in a flat plate shape, a liquid crystal panel for color images which displays left eye images and right eye images respectively with left eye pixels and right eye pixels, and color filters each being formed for pixels of a number of the observing positions of 3-D images, which convert emitted lights from the light source into very small luminescences of red, green and blue being aligned in a predetermined order. The traveling direction of the emitted lights from the light source and given to a observer is decided depending on each color.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of judging the back-and-forth positional relationship between subjects. Amounts of horizontal movement of the subjects which are detected for detecting areas set in an image area constituting a 2D image are compared after being assigned plus or minus signs depending on the direction of the movement, thereby to classify all the detecting areas into two types of detecting areas in such a manner that the detecting areas where a relatively large amount of horizontal movement is detected are taken as first detecting areas, while the detecting areas where a relatively small amount of horizontal movement is detected are taken as second detecting areas. A target area is set in a peripheral portion in the image area, to judge which of the total number of first detecting areas existing in the target area and the total number of second detecting areas existing in the target area is larger.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of converting 2D images into 3D images by producing from a 2D image signal a main image signal and a sub-image signal delayed from the main image signal. In the present invention, a temporary field delay from the main image signal to the sub-image signal is found on the basis of data related to the movement in the current field of the main image signal (a first step). A target field delay is then found on the basis of the temporary field delay found in the first step (a second step). A true field delay used in the succeeding field is found on the basis of the target field delay found in the second step and the true field delay used in the current field (a third step).