Image-quality adjusting apparatus, image-quality adjusting method, and display apparatus

• US 20060221241A1
• Filed: 03/29/2006
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Okumichi, Kenji, Kawaguchi, Hirofumi
• Application Number:
  US11/391,684
• Publication Number:
  US 20060221241A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/571
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/02 Improving the quality of display appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0238 Improving the black level
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/008 Clock recovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4318 by altering the content in the rendering process, e.g. blanking, blurring or masking an image region image enhancement or restoration in general G06T5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/202 Gamma control circuits for controlling camera response irrespective of the scene brightness H04N23/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/205 for correcting amplitude versus frequency characteristic
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/208 for compensating for attenuation of high frequency components, e.g. crispening, aperture distortion correction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/21 Circuitry for suppressing or minimising disturbance, e.g. moiré or halo
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/57 Control of contrast or brightness
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/646 for image enhancement, e.g. vertical detail restoration, cross-colour elimination, contour correction, chrominance trapping filters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/69 for modifying the colour signals by gamma correction controlling camera response for colour signals H04N23/83

Abstract

A sharpness adjusting apparatus (20) detects the level of noise included in a video signal, for each of a plurality of frequency bands, and sets and changes a sharpness intensity value in accordance with the detected noise level, for each of the plurality of frequency bands. Then, the sharpness adjusting apparatus (20) adjusts the sharpness of a video image, in accordance with the sharpness intensity value, for each of the plurality of frequency bands.

Claims

1. An image-quality adjusting apparatus for adjusting image quality of a video image corresponding to a video signal by performing signal processing for the video signal, said image-quality adjusting apparatus comprising:

a noise-level detecting device for detecting a level of noise included in the video signal;

an adjustment-value changing device for changing an image-quality adjustment value, in accordance with the noise level detected by said noise-level detecting device; and

an image-quality adjusting device for adjusting the image quality of the video image, in accordance with the image-quality adjustment value changed by said adjustment-value changing device.

2. The image-quality adjusting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said adjustment-value changing device comprises a sharpness changing device for changing a sharpness intensity value in accordance with the noise level detected by said noise-level detecting device, and

said image-quality adjusting device comprises a sharpness adjusting device for adjusting sharpness of the video image, in accordance with the sharpness intensity value changed by said sharpness changing device.

3. The image-quality adjusting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said image-quality adjusting apparatus further comprises a noise extracting device for extracting the noise included in the video signal, for each of a plurality of frequency bands,

said noise-level detecting device detects the level of the noise extracted by said noise extracting device, for each of the plurality of frequency bands,

said sharpness changing device changes the sharpness intensity value in accordance with the noise level detected by said noise-level detecting device, for each of the plurality of frequency bands, and

said sharpness adjusting device adjusts the sharpness of the video image, in accordance with the sharpness intensity value changed by said sharpness changing device, for each of the plurality of frequency bands.

4. The image-quality adjusting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said adjustment-value changing device comprises a contrast-ratio changing device for changing a contrast ratio value in accordance with the noise level detected by said noise-level detecting device, and

said image-quality adjusting device comprises a contrast-ratio adjusting device for adjusting a contrast ratio of the video image in accordance with the contrast ratio value changed by said contrast-ratio changing device.

5. The image-quality adjusting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said adjustment-value changing device comprises a color-depth changing device for changing a color depth value in accordance with the noise level detected by said noise-level detecting device, and

said image-quality adjusting device comprises a color-depth adjusting device for adjusting a color depth of the video image in accordance with the color depth value changed by said color-depth changing device.

6. The image-quality adjusting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said adjustment-value changing device comprises a gamma-value changing device for changing a gamma adjustment value in accordance with the noise level detected by said noise-level detecting device, and

said image-quality adjusting device comprises a gamma-value adjusting device for adjusting a gamma value of the video image in accordance with the gamma adjustment value changed by said gamma-value changing device.

7. The image-quality adjusting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said adjustment-value changing device comprises a noise-reduction changing device for changing a noise reduction intensity value in accordance with the noise level detected by said noise-level detecting device, and

said image-quality adjusting device comprises a noise-reduction processing device for performing a noise reduction process for the video image in accordance with the noise reduction intensity value changed by said noise-reduction changing device.

8. The image-quality adjusting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said adjustment-value changing device comprises a filter-intensity changing device for changing a filter intensity value in accordance with the noise level detected by said noise-level detecting device, and

said image-quality adjusting device comprises a filter-intensity adjusting device for adjusting intensity of a filter for extracting a synchronization signal included in the video image, in accordance with the filter intensity value changed by said filter-intensity changing device.

9. The image-quality adjusting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said noise-level detecting device detects noise included in a blanking interval of the video signal.

10. The image-quality adjusting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said noise-level detecting device comprises:

an extracting device for extracting noise included in a predetermined section in a blanking interval of the video signal;

a level detecting device for detecting a level of the noise extracted by said extracting device; and

an average-value generating device for generating an average value of the noise level included in the predetermined section detected by said level detecting device.

11. An image-quality adjusting method of adjusting image quality of a video image corresponding to a video signal by performing signal processing for the video signal, said image-quality adjusting method comprising:

a noise-level detecting process of detecting a level of noise included in the video signal;

an adjustment-value changing process of changing an image-quality adjustment value, in accordance with the noise level detected in said noise-level detecting process; and

an image-quality adjusting process of adjusting the image quality of the video image, in accordance with the image-quality adjustment value changed in said adjustment-value changing process.

12. A display apparatus comprising an image-quality adjusting apparatus for adjusting image quality of a video image corresponding to a video signal by performing signal processing for the video signal, said image-quality adjusting apparatus comprising:

a noise-level detecting device for detecting a level of noise included in the video signal;

an adjustment-value changing device for changing an image-quality adjustment value, in accordance with the noise level detected by said noise-level detecting device; and

an image-quality adjusting device for adjusting the image quality of the video image, in accordance with the image-quality adjustment value changed by said adjustment-value changing device.

13. A computer program product in a computer-readable medium for tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a computer, to make the computer function as an image-quality adjusting apparatus for adjusting image quality of a video image corresponding to a video signal by performing signal processing for the video signal, said image-quality adjusting apparatus comprising:

a noise-level detecting device for detecting a level of noise included in the video signal;

an adjustment-value changing device for changing an image-quality adjustment value, in accordance with the noise level detected by said noise-level detecting device; and

an image-quality adjusting device for adjusting the image quality of the video image, in accordance with the image-quality adjustment value changed by said adjustment-value changing device.