IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20100264850A1
• Filed: 07/29/2008
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Shiono, Mayumi, Yasuda, Akio, Kishii, Noriyuki, Nakagawa, Kazuhiro, Yamashita, Shiko, Hayakawa, Tomohiro, Yamamoto, Takuro
• Application Number:
  US12/670,485
• Publication Number:
  US 20100264850A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/312
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1336 Illuminating devices
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0666 for control of colour parameters, e.g. colour temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0686 with two or more screen areas displaying information with different brightness or colours
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3208 organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3413 Details of control of colour illumination sources
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

An object is to provide an image display device which exercises a function of adjusting a biological clock without changing a visibility of an image. An image display device (A) for displaying an image by radiating a light from a light source (1) to a display portion (2) includes: the light source (1) having a radiation emitter for emitting a light having a wavelength band of 445 to 480 nm; and control means (3) for controlling an intensity of the light having the wavelength band; in which a display portion includes an area (21) on which a predetermined image is displayed; and an area (22) on which an image for which the intensity of the light having the wavelength band is controlled by the control means (3) separately, independently of each other.

Claims

1. An image display device for displaying an image by radiating a light from a light source to a display portion, comprising:

a radiation emitter for emitting a light having a wavelength band of 445 to 480 nm in the light source; and

control means for controlling an intensity of the light having the wavelength band;

wherein the display portion includes an area on which a predetermined image is displayed, and an area on which an image for which the intensity of the light having the wavelength band is controlled by the control means separately, independently of each other.

2. The image display device according to claim 1, characterized by further comprising:

discriminating means for discriminating a work area and a non-work area for a user in the display portion from each other;

wherein the control means causes an image for which the intensity of the light having the wavelength band is controlled to be displayed in the non-work area in accordance with an output from the discriminating means.

3. The image display device according to claim 1, characterized by further comprising:

input means for setting an arbitrary control pattern in accordance with which the intensity of the light having the wavelength band is controlled; and

storage means for holding the control pattern thus inputted;

wherein the control means controls the intensity of the light having the wavelength band in accordance with the control pattern set by the input means and outputted from the storage means.

4. The image display device according to claim 1, characterized by further comprising:

a light receiving portion for receiving a light from an environment;

wherein the control means controls the intensity of the light having the wavelength band in accordance with an output from the light receiving portion.