Image displaying apparatus

• US 20060279481A1
• Filed: 03/06/2006
• Published: 12/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fumio Haruna, Toshimitsu Watanabe
• Original Assignee: Fumio Haruna, Toshimitsu Watanabe
• Inventors: Watanabe, Toshimitsu, Haruna, Fumio
• Application Number:
  US11/367,691
• Publication Number:
  US 20060279481A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/63
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0233 Improving the luminance or brightness uniformity across the screen
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0285 using tables for spatial correction of display data
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/029 by monitoring one or more pixels in the display panel, e.g. by monitoring a fixed reference pixel
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/043 Preventing or counteracting the effects of ageing
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/16 Calculation or use of calculated indices related to luminance levels in display data
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/22 using controlled light sources

Abstract

An image displaying apparatus, comprises: a plural number of electron sources, being disposed in matrix-like manner, each for emitting electrons therefrom; a driver for producing drive voltage for driving the electron sources upon basis of a video signal, to be supplied to the electron sources; and a correct circuit for correcting the video signal, wherein the correct circuit determines a predetermined number of correction points in horizontal and vertical directions, for the plural number of electron sources disposed in the matrix-like manner, corrects the video signal to the electron source corresponding to the correction point upon basis of a first correction value, which is determined in advance, and corrects the video signal corresponding to the electron source located between the correction points, upon basis of a second correction value, which is obtained through an interpolation calculation with using said first correction values, which are determined at each of the correction points, thereby correcting or compensating the unevenness in brightness, with using a small number of correction values therein.

Claims

1. An image displaying apparatus, comprising:

a plural number of electron sources, being disposed in matrix-like manner, each for emitting electrons therefrom;

a driver for producing drive voltage for driving said electron sources upon basis of a video signal, to be supplied to said electron sources; and

a correct circuit for correcting said video signal,

wherein said correct circuit determines a predetermined number of correction points in horizontal and vertical directions, for said plural number of electron sources disposed in the matrix-like manner,

corrects the video signal to the electron source corresponding to said correction point upon basis of a first correction value, which is determined in advance, and

corrects the video signal corresponding to the electron source located between said correction points, upon basis of a second correction value, which is obtained through an interpolation calculation with using said first correction values, which are determined at each of the correction points.

2. The image displaying apparatus, as described in the claim 1, wherein said correct circuit includes a memory portion for memorizing said first correction value therein, and a calculation portion for calculating said second correction value.

3. The image displaying apparatus, as described in the claim 2, wherein said calculation portion calculates out said second correction value through a linear interpolation calculation of at least two (2) pieces of said first correction values.

4. The image displaying apparatus, as described in the claim 2, wherein said calculation portion calculates out said second correction value through a non-linear interpolation calculation of at least two (2) pieces of said first correction values.

5. The image displaying apparatus, as described in the claim 1, wherein said correction points are determined in the horizontal and the vertical directions, being equal to ten (10) pieces thereof or more.

6. The image displaying apparatus, as described in the claim 1, wherein said first correction value includes data for compensating at least unevenness in electron emission start voltage of the electron source, which is determined to be said correction point.

7. The image displaying apparatus, as described in the claim 1, wherein at least one of said plural number of correction points is determined to be a reference correction point, and an offset value depending on a difference between the electron emission start voltage of the electron source corresponding to said reference correction point and the electron emission start voltage of the electron source corresponding to the correction point other than said reference correction point is determined to be said first correction value at the correction points other than said reference correction point.

8. The image displaying apparatus, as described in the claim 1, wherein a number of said correction points is equal to seven (7) or more in the horizontal direction, while being equal to or less than a half (½

) of a total number of the electron sources in the horizontal direction, and a number of said correction pints is equal to seven (8) or more in the vertical direction, while being equal to a half (½

) of a total number of the electron sources in the vertical direction.

9. An image displaying apparatus, comprising:

a plural number of scanning lines;

a scanning line controller circuit, connected at either one ends of said plural number of scanning lines, for supplying scanning voltages to said plural number of scanning lines, sequentially;

a plural number of signal lines;

a signal line controller circuit, connected with said plural number of signal lines, for supplying driving voltages depending on the video signal inputted, to said plural number of signal lines;

electron sources, connected at intersecting portions of said plural number of scanning lines and said plural number of signal lines intersect, respectively, and each for emitting electrons depending on potential difference between said scanning voltage and said driving voltage; and

a correct circuit for correcting said video signal,

wherein a display region of said image displaying apparatus is divided into a plural number of blocks, and said correct circuit corrects the video signals corresponding to the electron source located at four (4) corners of each of said blocks upon basis of a predetermined correction value, which is memorized in advance, and corrects the video signals corresponding to the electron source locating other than said four (4) corners by a correction value, which is obtained through calculation of said correction value.

10. The image displaying apparatus, as described in the claim 9, wherein said correct circuit calculates a correction amount of the video signal corresponding to each of the electron sources located within the block, from the correction values corresponding to the four (4) corners of the each block, through an interpolation thereof.

11. The image displaying apparatus, as described in the claim 9, wherein said correct circuit holds said correction value for each of plural gradations predetermined.

12. The image displaying apparatus, as described in the claim 9, wherein said correct circuit calculates the correction value between said predetermined gradations through an interpolation.

13. The image displaying apparatus, as described in the claim 9, wherein said correct circuit measures voltage-current characteristics of the plural number electron sources, which are neighboring with at the four (4) corners of said each block, and calculates the correction amounts at the four (4) corners of said each block in a form of an averaged value thereof.

14. An image displaying apparatus, comprising:

a plural number of electron sources, being disposed in matrix-like manner, each for emitting electrons therefrom;

a driver for producing drive voltage for driving said electron sources upon basis of a video signal, to be supplied to said electron sources; and

a correct circuit for correcting said video signal, wherein said correct circuit determines a predetermined number of correction points in horizontal and vertical directions, for said plural number of electron sources disposed in the matrix-like manner, and

said video signal is so corrected that at least one (1) column of the video signal in the vertical direction outputted from said correct circuit has a shape of a broken line having breaking points at said predetermined number of correction points, when a video signal having a constant graduation for one (1) piece of a screen is inputted as said video signal.

15. The image displaying apparatus, as described in the claim 14, wherein said video signal is so corrected that at least one (1) line of the video signal in the horizontal direction outputted from said correct circuit has a shape of a broken line having breaking points at N pieces of the correction points, when a video signal having a constant graduation for one (1) piece of a screen is inputted as said video signal.