VIDEO OUTPUT DEVICE

• US 20120236130A1
• Filed: 03/05/2012
• Published: 09/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: ISHII, Shuji, NOHARA, Chuichi
• Application Number:
  US13/411,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20120236130A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/161 Encoding, multiplexing or demultiplexing different image signal components for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/341 using temporal multiplexing

Abstract

A video output device that is capable of luminance adjustment while preventing signal degradation includes a display unit which respectively displays a left eye image that is transmitted to the left eye and a right eye image that is transmitted to the right eye and which also outputs, by insertion between the left-eye image and the right-eye image, a black image that lowers luminance and does not contribute to the display, and a control unit that controls and adjusts the luminance by adjusting an insertion time of the black image inserted between the left-eye image and the right-eye image displayed on the display unit.

Claims

1. A video output device comprising:

a display unit that displays a left eye image that is transmitted to a left eye and a right eye image that is transmitted to a right eye, and the display unit also outputs, by insertion between the left-eye image and the right-eye image, a luminance adjustment image to lower luminance and that does not contribute to image display; and

a control unit programmed and arranged to perform control such that the luminance is adjusted by adjusting an insertion time of the luminance adjustment image inserted between the left-eye image and the right-eye image displayed on the display unit.

2. The video output device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is programmed and arranged to perform control to adjust the insertion time of the luminance adjustment image following luminance adjustment to be longer than the insertion time of the luminance adjustment image prior to luminance adjustment, thereby adjusting the post-adjustment luminance to be lower than the pre-adjustment luminance, and which also adjusts the insertion time of the luminance adjustment image following luminance adjustment to be shorter than the insertion time of the luminance adjustment image prior to luminance adjustment, thereby adjusting the post-adjustment luminance to be higher than the pre-adjustment luminance.

3. The video output device according to claim 1, wherein

the luminance adjustment image includes a black image, and

the control unit is programmed and arranged to perform control to adjust the luminance by adjusting the insertion time of the black image inserted between the left-eye image and the right-eye image.

4. The video output device according to claim 3, wherein the control unit is programmed and arranged such that when adjusting the luminance, the control unit performs control to adjust a display time of the left-eye image and the right-eye image and to also adjust the insertion time of the black image according to the adjusted display time.

5. The video output device according to claim 4, wherein the control unit is programmed and arranged to perform control to adjust the luminance such that a total time of the display time of the left-eye image or the right-eye image plus the insertion time of the black image prior to luminance adjustment is substantially equal to a total time of the display time of the left-eye image or the right-eye image plus the insertion time of the black image following luminance adjustment.

6. The video output device according to claim 3, further comprising an illuminance sensor arranged to measure illuminance;

wherein

the control unit is programmed and arranged to perform control to adjust the luminance by adjusting the insertion time of the black image inserted between the left-eye image and the right-eye image based on the illuminance measured by the illuminance sensor.

7. The video output device according to claim 3, further comprising a luminance adjustment unit arranged to allow a user to adjust the luminance, wherein the control unit is programmed and arranged to perform control to adjust the luminance by adjusting the insertion time of the black image inserted between the left-eye image and the right-eye image according to an amount of adjustment of the luminance adjustment unit when the adjustment operation of the luminance adjustment unit is performed by the user.