IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20120056905A1
• Filed: 03/25/2011
• Published: 03/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: BABA, Masahiro, NONAKA, Ryosuke, SANO, Yuma
• Application Number:
  US13/072,094
• Publication Number:
  US 20120056905A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/690
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0285 using tables for spatial correction of display data
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0646 Modulation of illumination source brightness and image signal correlated to each other
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/16 Calculation or use of calculated indices related to luminance levels in display data
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3426 the different display panel areas being distributed in two dimensions, e.g. matrix

Abstract

In one embodiment, an image display apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight, a calculation unit, a reference unit, a multiplier unit, and a determination unit. The backlight includes light sources illuminating the liquid crystal panel unit. The calculation unit calculates a representative value of relative luminances of pixels in the each of small regions into which the display region is divided. The reference unit refers to prestored lighting pattern data items for the light sources. The multiplier unit multiplies, for each of the small regions, the referred lighting pattern data item by the representative value. The determination unit determines emission intensities of respective light sources based on multiplication results of the multiplier unit.

Claims

1. An image display apparatus comprising:

a liquid crystal panel unit configured to display a video image in a display region;

a backlight unit including a plurality of light sources illuminating the liquid crystal panel unit, the light sources is configured to illuminate illumination regions into which the display region is tentatively divided;

a calculation unit configured to calculate a representative value of relative luminances of pixels in the each of small regions into which the display region is divided, the small regions being smaller than the illumination regions;

a reference unit configured to refer to prestored lighting pattern data items for the light sources, and select a referred light pattern data item in accordance with a position of each of the small regions in the display region;

a multiplier unit configured to multiply the referred lighting pattern data item by the representative value, for each of the small regions; and

a determination unit configured to determine emission intensities of respective light sources based on multiplication results of the multiplier unit.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, the determination unit determines the emission intensities based on maximum values of multiplication results of the multiplier unit corresponding to the small regions.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the lighting pattern data items referred to by the reference unit correspond to relative positions of each of the illumination regions of the light sources and each of the small regions.

4. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the reference unit refers to a same lighting pattern data item if relative positions of one of the illumination regions and one of the small regions are the same as relative positions of another of the illumination regions and another of the small regions.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein if at least part of a lighting pattern indicated by one of the lighting pattern data items exits outside an end of the display region, the at least part is folded along the end of the display region, and the reference unit refers to a lighting pattern data item corresponding to the at least part, and to a lighting pattern data item corresponding to another part of the display region on which the at least part is folded.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a selection unit configured to select a desired lighting pattern data item from lighting pattern data items included in the pattern data items and indicating lighting patterns of different display characteristics,

wherein the reference unit refers to the desired lighting pattern data item.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of reference units similar to the reference unit and configured to refer to lighting pattern data items included in the pattern data items and indicating lighting patterns of different display characteristics; and

a combining unit configured to combine the lighting pattern data items referred by the reference units,

wherein the multiplier unit executes multiplication using the combined lighting pattern data items.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the light sources are provided along sides of the liquid crystal panel unit;

and

if the luminances of the light sources in the each of the small regions are calculated, the reference unit refers to lighting pattern data items included in the lighting pattern data items and indicating lighting patterns that differ in accordance with relative positions of the illumination regions of the light sources and the small regions.

9. An information processing apparatus wherein

a representative value of input video signals is calculated in each of small regions, divisions of a display region corresponding to illumination regions of light sources being divided into the small regions, the small regions being smaller than the divisions;

when a luminance of each of the light sources in each of the small regions is calculated, lighting pattern data preset in accordance with relative positions of the illumination region of each of the light sources and the each of the small regions is referred to.

10. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a calculation unit configured to calculate, for each of small regions, a representative value of relative luminances of pixels in the each of the small regions, the small regions being included in a display region of the information processing apparatus, and being smaller than illumination regions of light sources into which the display region is divided;

a reference unit configured to refer to prestored lighting pattern data items for the light sources, and select a referred light pattern data item in accordance with a position of each of the small regions and each of the illumination regions of the light sources;

a multiplier unit configured to multiply, for the each of the small regions, each value of the referred lighting pattern data item by the representative value; and

a determination unit configured to determine respective emission intensities of the light sources based on multiplication results of the multiplier unit.