Abstract: A display apparatus, including a display panel which includes a light emitting element, a storage configured to store a plurality of compensation coefficients corresponding to a plurality of gray levels according to a parasitic capacitance of the light emitting element, and a processor configured to obtain a compensation coefficient from the plurality of compensation coefficients based on at least one of a position of a scan line and a gray level of scan data, compensate the gray level of the scan data based on the obtained compensation coefficient, and drive the light emitting element based on the compensated gray level.

Abstract: A display apparatus and controlling method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display including a plurality of light emitting components, a display driver that drives the display by applying a current to the plurality of light emitting components, a storage that stores current intensity information for each of a plurality of display modes providing different color gamuts, and a processor that acquires current intensity information corresponding to a present display mode, among the plurality of display modes, from the storage and controls the display driver to apply the current to the plurality of light emitting components based on the acquired current intensity information.

Abstract: A drive method of a plasma display panel that can increase the dark contrast, without causing a discharge failure. When a discharge cell that assumes a black display state in a first field from among first and a second fields that are adjacent in time and switches to a display state representing a brightness other than black in the second field is detected as a lighting transition cell, at least one drive of the below-described first and second forced lighting drives is executed. In the first forced lighting drive, the lighting transition cell is forcibly set into the lighting mode only in the address process of a predetermined subfield within the field in the first field. In the second forced lighting drive, an adjacent discharge cell that is adjacent to the lighting transition cell is forcibly set into the lighting mode only in the address process of the predetermined subfield in the second field.

Abstract: Prepared is brightness frequency data that indicates the number of pixels, having the same brightnesses in a brightness distribution for each of the fields represented by an input image signal. Based on the brightness frequency data, the number of subfields for emission at each brightness in a brightness region is adjusted for each of at least two brightness regions. As a result, the greater the frequency indicating the total number of pixels at each of the same brightnesses in a brightness region, the larger the number of subfields allocated to that brightness region. Therefore, satisfactory grayscale representation suitable to human visual characteristics is achieved.

Abstract: The object is to provide a display device in which high-quality image display that is free from luminance nonuniformity can be obtained with a simplified structure. A magnitude of load corresponding to the light emission state of each pixel cell on a display line is measured for each display line based on a video signal, and correction of the luminance level according to the magnitude of load corresponding to the display line is conducted for the interval of the video signal corresponding to each display line.

Abstract: Disclosed is an user-friendly display device for operating with a power consumption desired by the user. The display device comprises: a characteristic acquisition unit for obtaining a characteristic indicative of a correspondence relationship between an average peak level and the number of display pulses corresponding to a target power consumption; an average peak level detector for detecting an average peak level of an input image signal; a driving control unit for determining the number of display pulses corresponding to the detected average peak level with reference to the characteristic; a driver for generating a display pulse a number of times equal to the number determined by the driving control unit; and a display panel for receiving the display pulses supplied from the driver to emit light at a luminance depending on the number of display pulses.

Abstract: A method of driving a display panel for displaying a quality image reduced of display noise. A first process is executed for making the sub-field different between display lines adjacent in the number of M, in order for causing the state of the pixel cells to transfer from the one state into the other state of on and off modes, in a particular sub-field group having sub-fields in number of M (M: integer of 2 or greater) arranged successive within the frame display period and in a subsequent sub-field group of among sub-field groups subsequent to the particular sub-field group. Within the particular sub-field group, executed is any one of a second process for causing a state of the pixel cells from the one state into the other state only within a predetermined one of the sub-fields of the particular sub-field group and the first process.

Abstract: An improved driving device for a display panel. In the display panel, pixel cells serving as pixels are positioned in a plurality of display lines. The driving device drives the display panel according to pixel data derived from an input image signal. The display lines are divided into a plurality of display line groups, and each group includes a plurality of neighboring display lines. The driving device has a light emission driving circuit. This circuit causes the pixel cells in each of the neighboring display lines in the respective display line groups to emit light at different brightness levels based on weighting values assigned to the display lines. The weighting values are assigned to the display lines such that bias in brightness differences between the pixel cells positioned in neighboring display lines falls within a prescribed range for all neighboring display lines in the display panel.

Abstract: A drive method of a plasma display panel that can increase the dark contrast, without causing a discharge failure. When a discharge cell that assumes a black display state in a first field from among first and a second fields that are adjacent in time and switches to a display state representing a brightness other than black in the second field is detected as a lighting transition cell, at least one drive of the below-described first and second forced lighting drives is executed. In the first forced lighting drive, the lighting transition cell is forcibly set into the lighting mode only in the address process of a predetermined subfield within the field in the first field. In the second forced lighting drive, an adjacent discharge cell that is adjacent to the lighting transition cell is forcibly set into the lighting mode only in the address process of the predetermined subfield in the second field.

Abstract: A driver device for a display panel. Pixel cells are arranged on respective display lines of the display panel. Each N adjacent display lines makes one display line group. N is an integer of two or more. The pixels in each display line group are driven to emit light at different luminance levels based on one of M different dither patterns. One of the M dither patterns is selected sequentially and in predetermined periods, and the selected dither pattern is used. M is less than N. In the dither processing, N different weighting values are allocated to the N display lines in the display line group, respectively.

Abstract: A display panel drive suppresses dither patterns in a displayed image. Each of the display lines of the panel is divided into M display line groups including a group of [M?(k?1)+1]th display lines (where M is a natural number, and k is a natural number of n/M or smaller), a group of [M?(k?1)+2]th display lines, . . . and a group of [M?(k?1)+M]th display lines. A different offset value is added to pixel data corresponding to each display line group to derive multi-grayscale pixel data. Then, a lighting or extinction mode setting is done based on the pixel data with respect to each pixel cell belonging to the display line groups, each different in at least M subsubfields among subfields constituting a video signal field. In one example, the luminance levels represented by the pixel cells vertically adjacent to one another in a screen are varied.

Abstract: A method of grayscale-driving a display panel in accordance with pixel data derived from a video signal. The display panel includes a plurality of display lines, with a plurality of pixel cells serving as pixels being arranged on each display line. A display period of a single field of the video signal is divided into a plurality of subfields. The method includes dividing one subfield into M lower subfields. M is an integer greater than one. M groups of display lines are prepared by sequentially taking every M display lines from the display lines. First to Mth address steps are performed in the M lower subfields respectively and sequentially. Each address step sets the pixel cells belonging to the display lines of the display line group concerned, to a drive mode determined by the pixel data. A first light emission step is performed to cause the pixel cells whose drive mode is a lit mode, to emit light directly before or after the address step concerned. Another subfield is divided into N lower subfields.

Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a display control section for controlling display on a plasma display panel, a drive section for driving the plasma display panel on the basis of a signal supplied from the display control section, and a transmission line for transferring data between the display control section and the drive section. The drive section includes a decoder section for decoding the signal supplied from the display control section and generating a control signal to generate drive pulses.

Abstract: A video signal conversion apparatus which can enhance display qualities for video signals of both film source and video source. The conversion apparatus includes an input signal discrimination unit which discriminates the sort and signal supply source of an input video signal, and an operation mode setting unit which sets the operation modes of the individual sorts of video signals for each of a plurality of signal supply sources. The operation mode which corresponds to the sort and signal supply source of the input video signal as discriminated by the input signal discrimination unit is obtained from the operation mode setting unit, and the operation of at least one of a film source discrimination unit, an interlace/progressive conversion unit and a frame rate conversion unit is controlled in accordance with the obtained operation mode.

Abstract: A device for driving a display panel, in which a predetermined number of continuous subfields in one field is each formed by M divided subfields and n display lines are divided into M display line groups for each display lines, data conversion is applied to pixel data corresponding to each of the M display line groups with a different conversion characteristic from each other, multi-gradation processing is applied to the pixel data subjected to the data conversion, and address scanning for changing each of the pixel cells from the lit mode to the unlit mode in accordance with the pixel data subjected to the multi-gradation processing is performed for each of the display line groups in each of the M divided subfields.

Abstract: A driving method of a plasma display panel capable of executing a dither processing without lowering display quality. When only discharge cells set to a light emission cell state in accordance with input image signals are allowed to emit light a predetermined number of light emissions allotted in accordance with weighting of sub-fields, the number of light emissions to be allotted is rendered different for each discharge cell inside a discharge cell block.

Abstract: An image information displaying system includes a media receiver that receives image signals and a PDP device that displays performs display based on the image signals. The media receiver includes an encoding unit that converts an N-bit input image signal, where N is a positive integer, into an M-bit output image signal, where M is a positive integer satisfying M<N, and outputs the M-bit output image signal. The PDP device includes a decoding unit that receives the M-bit output image signal, converts the M-bit output image signal to an N-bit display image signal; and a display unit that performs display processing based on the N-bit display image signal.

Abstract: In an apparatus for processing video signals to control a display device that displays a video, a display video signal is generated for each of the colors from received video signals; a delayed display video signal is generated for each display video signal by delaying the display video signal by one field; an afterglow level of at least a first color among the colors is calculated based on the delayed display video signals; a correction signal is generated based on the afterglow level; a display video signal for the first color is selected as the display video signal of the first color when a level of the display video signal of the first color is equal to or higher than the correction signal, and the correction signal is selected when a level of the display video signal of the first color is lower than the correction signal.

Abstract: A display panel drive device is provided with: a parallel-to-serial converter for conducting parallel-to-serial conversion on an input signal and outputting a serial signal; a transmission section for converting the serial signal output from the parallel-to-serial converter to a signal complying with a differential serial transmission system and transferring a signal via a transmission line; a reception section for receiving the signal transferred via the transmission line; a serial-to-parallel converter for conducting serial-to-parallel conversion on the signal received by the reception section and outputting a parallel signal; and a drive pulse output section for generating a drive pulse to drive a display panel based on the parallel signal output by the serial-to-parallel converter.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a method for driving a plasma display panel that provides an improved expression of levels of halftone as well as an improved display quality. In N sub-fields constituting a display period of one field, when a pixel data writing step for setting discharge cells to either one of non-light-emitting cells or light-emitting cells in response to pixel data and a light-emission sustaining step for allowing only the aforementioned light-emitting cells to emit light only during a light-emission period corresponding to weights assigned to the sub-fields respectively are executed, the light-emission period in the light-emission sustaining step of the respective sub-fields is changed field by field or frame by frame. According to another aspect, the invention allows for carrying out selectively a first drive pattern or a second drive pattern.