VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD, VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20080079852A1
• Filed: 09/07/2007
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: KOMATSU, Toyoaki, NAGAISHI, Michihiro
• Application Number:
  US11/851,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20080079852A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/739
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0251 Precharge or discharge of pixel before applying new pixel voltage
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0257 Reduction of after-image effects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0261 in the context of movement of objects on the screen or movement of the observer relative to the screen
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/106 Determination of movement vectors or equivalent parameters within the image
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/32 semiconductive, e.g. using light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/36 using liquid crystals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/312 Driving therefor driving of electronic spatial light modulators in displays other than projection devices G09G3/34, G09G3/36; control of liquid crystal elements G02F1/133; control of micromechanical modulators G02B26/08

Abstract

A video display method is used in a display device that displays images in correspondence with frames or fields defined by a video signal on the basis of the video signal. The video display method includes a step of generating mask patterns in correspondence with frames or fields defined by the video signal such that the mask patterns corresponding to consecutive frames or fields defined by the video signal are different from each other. The mask patterns include randomly arranged black and white dots or patterns. At least one of the images is displayed on the basis of the video signal and then at least one of the generated mask patterns is displayed.

Claims

1. A video display method used in a display device that displays images in correspondence with frames or fields defined by a video signal on the basis of the video signal, the video display method comprising:

generating mask patterns in correspondence with frames or fields defined by the video signal such that the mask patterns corresponding to consecutive frames or fields defined by the video signal are different from each other, the mask patterns including randomly arranged black and white dots or patterns; and

displaying at least one of the images on the basis of the video signal and then at least one of the generated mask patterns.

2. The video display method according to claim 1,

wherein the displaying of the at least one of the images is performed on the basis of a read video signal in a period shorter than that of the frame or field defined by the video signal by storing the video signal in a memory and then reading the video signal from the memory at a speed faster than a speed at which the video signal is stored, and

wherein the displaying of the at least one of the generated mask patterns includes displaying the at least one of the mask patterns at least for a part of a remaining period of the frame or field after the at least one of the images has been displayed on the basis of the read video signal.

3. The video display method according to claim 2, further comprising

displaying a white or gray image after displaying the at least one of the mask patterns for the part of the remaining period.

4. The video display method according to claim 1, further comprising:

detecting a moving area in the images on the basis of the video signal, the mask patterns being generated for the moving area and a peripheral area thereof of the frames or fields.

5. The video display method according to claim 4,

wherein the displaying of the at least one of the images is performed on the basis of a read video signal in a period shorter than that of the frame or field defined by the video signal by storing the video signal in a memory and then reading the video signal from the memory at speed faster than a speed at which the video signal is stored, and

wherein the displaying of the at least one of the generated mask patterns includes displaying the at least one of the mask patterns at least for a part of a remaining period of the frame or field after the at least one of the images has been displayed on the basis of the read video signal

6. The video display method according to claim 5, further comprising

displaying a white or gray image after displaying the mask pattern for the part of the remaining period.