Abstract:
A capacitance-type touch panel, allowing disturbance noise and touch detection time to be reduced and having a simple configuration, is provided. The capacitance-type touch panel including: a plurality of drive electrodes each having a strip shape; a drive control circuit performing control such that a drive signal for touch detection is selectively applied to the drive electrodes; a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged to intersect with the drive electrodes in such a manner that capacitance is formed in each intersecting part, and each outputting a detection signal in synchronization with the drive signal; and a detection circuit detecting an external proximity object based on the detection signal. The drive control circuit controls application of the drive signal in such a manner that the detection signal is a polarity-alternating signal including a positive-negative asymmetrical signal component which is due to presence of the external proximity object.
Abstract:
According to an aspect, a display device includes a display unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix along two directions intersecting with each other. Each of the pixels includes three sub-pixels corresponding to three of four colors including a first color, a second color, a third color, and a fourth color. An area of one sub-pixel among the three sub-pixels is larger than the area of each of the other two sub-pixels. A sub-pixel of the fourth color is one of the other two sub-pixels. Pixels each including the sub-pixel of the fourth color are not adjacent to each other in at least one of the two directions in the display unit.
Abstract:
According to an aspect, the liquid crystal display device includes: an expansion coefficient determining unit that determines an expansion coefficient of each of partial areas based on a signal level of the first, the second, and the third colors; a luminance level determining unit that determines a luminance level of each partial area based on the signal level; a signal processing unit that uses the expansion coefficient to expand the signal level; and a light source control unit that controls brightness of a light source based on the expansion coefficient and the luminance level. The light source can change the brightness of the partial areas individually. The light source control unit controls the light source such that the brightness of the light source in a partial area having a luminance level equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold is higher than the brightness based on the expansion coefficient.
Abstract:
A display device includes an image display panel, a light source unit, and a signal processing unit. The tentative expansion coefficient calculating unit calculates a tentative expansion coefficient. The tentative index value calculating unit calculates a tentative index value serving as an index of the irradiation amount of light based on the tentative expansion coefficient. The low-saturation pixel detecting unit detects low-saturation pixels in a certain region on an image display surface. The light irradiation amount calculating unit calculates a comparative light irradiation amount based on a detection by the low-saturation pixel detecting unit, a display quality maintenance reference value at which the display quality of colors displayed by the low-saturation pixels is maintained, and an index value calculated based on the tentative index value and calculates, based on the comparative light irradiation amount, a light irradiation amount serving as the irradiation amount of light.
Abstract:
A display device includes an image display panel section which displays an image on the basis of an image signal, a light source section which emits light to the image display panel section by dimming control according to a control signal based on the image signal, and a control section which determines on the basis of the image signal from a mode of change in light emission luminance of the light source section whether the image displayed by the image display panel section is a dynamic image or a static image and which performs switching according to a determination result between a static image control speed and a dynamic image control speed of the dimming control. The display device suppresses image quality degradation caused at the time of displaying a dynamic image or a static image.
Abstract:
A display device includes a first processing circuit mounted on a substrate separate from a translucent substrate constituting a display panel, and a second processing circuit mounted on the translucent substrate. The first and the second processing circuits receive the same image data. The first processing circuit includes a determination unit that uses color values of a plurality of pixels constituting an image based on the image data to determine an expansion coefficient value serving as a value for improving luminance of the image, and outputs the expansion coefficient value to the second processing circuit. The second processing circuit includes an expansion processing unit that uses the expansion coefficient value to provide expansion processing for improving the luminance of the image for the image based on the image data.
Abstract:
A display device includes: an image display unit in an image display region, the image display unit including a plurality of main pixels each including sub-pixels; a light source portion that irradiates the image display region; a signal correction unit that calculates saturation and value of the main pixels based on first color information to be displayed on a predetermined pixel, the first color information being obtained based on an input video signal, and generates second color information by correcting the first color information based on the calculated saturation and value; a signal generation unit that calculates the saturation and the value of the main pixels based on the second color information, and generates a signal for determining light source luminance of the light source based on the calculated saturation and value; and a light source control unit that controls luminance of the light source based on the signal.
Abstract:
According to an aspect, a display device includes: an image display panel; and a planar light source including a light guide plate and an edge-lit light source, the light guide plate illuminating the image display panel from a back side, the edge-lit light source including a plurality of light sources arranged facing a plane of incidence; and a controller that controls luminance of each of the light sources independently. The controller stores therein, as lookup tables for the respective light sources, information on light intensity distributions of light that is incident on the light guide plate from the respective light sources and is emitted to a plane of the image display panel from the light guide plate, and controls a light quantity of each of the light sources based on information on an input signal of an image, and on the lookup tables.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a display area which displays images, a plurality of light sources irradiating light to display an image on the display area and a control unit which sequentially causes the plurality of light source, which correspond to a plurality of areas divided from the display area, to emit light for each of the areas. The control unit repeatedly causes the light source, which corresponds to an area specified from the plurality of areas based on the image, to emit light during one frame period of displaying an image on the display area.
Abstract:
According to an aspect, a display device includes: an image display panel having an image display surface on which display is to be controlled based on an image signal; a light source device that includes light sources provided corresponding to divided partial areas of the image display surface, and is configured to illuminate the image display surface; and a signal processor configured to calculate a light quantity of each light source for each of the partial areas. The signal processor is configured to calculate the light quantity for each partial area based on the image signal, set one of the partial areas as an adjustment target partial area for the light quantity, and adjust the light quantity in the adjustment target partial area when the light quantity of an adjacent partial area located around the adjustment target partial area is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.