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 device displays an image according to an input image signal on a display panel. The display device includes a plurality of display cells for creating the image from pixel signals with different emission colors according to the signal levels thereof. The display cells are arrayed in a matrix. The display device includes a brightness level calculation circuit for calculating emission brightness of the displayed image, and generating a brightness level signal that indicates the level of the emission brightness. The display device also includes an emission level correction circuit for correcting the signal levels of pixel signals included in the image signal for respective emission colors according to the brightness level signal.
Abstract:
An infrared remote control device used for a plasma display device in which a light-reception signal is obtained by reception of infrared rays, the light-reception signal is demodulated, a signal component during an emission sustaining period is removed from the modulated output signal by a gate circuit, the output signal is output, the output signal of the gate circuit is delayed by a delaying circuit in the field, the logical sum of the output signal of the gate circuit and the output signal of the delaying circuit is calculated, and the contents of the remote control signal that controls the operation of the plasma display device are judged in accordance with a signal obtained by the calculation of the logical sum.
Abstract:
A display panel driving method capable of realizing a high definition gradation display while reducing power consumption. In each of a plurality of divisional display periods constituting a unit display period in a video signal, a pixel data writing stage is performed for setting each of pixel cells to either a light emitting cell or a non-light emitting cell in accordance with pixel data corresponding to the video signal, and a light emission sustain stage is performed for causing only the light emitting cells to emit light a number of light emissions allocated in correspondence to a weighting factor applied to each of the divisional display periods. A luminance distribution of the video signal is measured every display line on the display panel, and the number of divisional display periods in the unit display period is changed every display line in accordance with the luminance distribution.
Abstract:
A display panel driving method sequentially writes pixel data of every display line into pixel cells on display lines belonging to a region other than a black display region on a screen, while the method stops writing pixel data into pixel cells on display lines belonging to the black display region or simultaneously sets the pixel cells into a non-light emitting cell state. Since a time spent for each pixel data writing process in one field is reduced, a light emission period (number of times) allocated to each light emission sustain process is increased, or the number of subfields is increased by the reduction in time, thereby making it possible to improve the quality of a displayed image.
Abstract:
A method for driving a plasma display panel capable of obtaining a good display quality. In a pixel data writing step in a sub-field that is weighted small, discharge cells in the plasma display panel are scanned in a unit of plurality of display lines and are set to one of a light emitting state and a non-light emitting state depending upon the pixel data.
Abstract:
A first correlation between a present field of an input video signal and a one-field preceding field, and a second correlation between the present field and a one-field succeeding field are detected. The first correlation and the second correlation are compared with each other, and the input video signal is determined as a telecine-converted video signal when either of the first correlation or the second correlation is larger than the other correlation.
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 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:
A luminance level compensating apparatus passes only the luminance signal of a pixel in a first detection range in the vertical direction of an image indicated by an input luminance signal, detects and stores a first frequency for each luminance level of the passed luminance signal for each predetermined period, passes only a luminance signal of a pixel in a second detection range including the first detection range in the vertical direction of the image, detects and stores a second frequency for each luminance level of the passed luminance signal for each predetermined period; generates a mixed frequency data based on the first and second frequencies stored.