IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD

• US 20120013646A1
• Filed: 05/21/2009
• Published: 01/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ichioka, Hideki, Kusumoto, Toshiharu
• Application Number:
  US12/737,760
• Publication Number:
  US 20120013646A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/690
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4436 Power management, e.g. shutting down unused components of the receiver power management in computer systems G06F1/3203; hibernate or awake process in computer systems G06F9/4418
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A television receiver according to at least one embodiment of the present invention includes a display section capable of displaying a TV image and a harmonious image being in harmony with a wall surface against which the image display device is provided.

Claims

1. An image display device comprising:

a display section for displaying an image;

image capturing means for obtaining a background image of a background against which the image display device is provided;

the display section displaying a harmonious image according to the background image obtained by the image capturing means, the harmonious image being in harmony with the background.

2. An image display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the harmonious image is hued similarly to the background.

3. An image display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the harmonious image is the background image.

4. An image display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the image capturing means is a digital camera or a photosensor.

5. An image display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the image display device is a television receiver; and

the display section displays the harmonious image when the display section does not display a television image.

6. An image display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the display section displays an image smaller than a size of the display section, and displays the harmonious image in a region in which the image is not displayed.

7. An image display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the region in which the harmonious image is displayed has a surface brightness of 50 cd/m² or less.

8. A method of driving an image display device having a display section for displaying an image, the method comprising:

obtaining a background image of a background against which the image display device is provided; and

the display section displaying a harmonious image according to the background image thus obtained, the harmonious image being in harmony with the background.

9. A method as set forth in claim 8, wherein:

the image display device is a television receiver; and

the display section displays the harmonious image when the display section does not display a television image.

10. A method as set forth in claim 8, wherein:

the display section displays an image smaller than a size of the display section, and displays the harmonious image in a region in which the image is not displayed.