IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20180218672A1
• Filed: 03/20/2018
• Published: 08/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kondo, Tatsumasa
• Application Number:
  US15/926,600
• Publication Number:
  US 20180218672A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0233 Improving the luminance or brightness uniformity across the screen
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0257 Reduction of after-image effects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/046 Dealing with screen burn-in prevention or compensation of the effects thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0606 Manual adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0613 The adjustment depending on the type of the information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0686 with two or more screen areas displaying information with different brightness or colours
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/025 Reduction of instantaneous peaks of current
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/026 Arrangements or methods related to booting a display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/08 Biomedical applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3208 organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

[Object] To provide a technology that can mitigate accurately the ghosting problem.

[Solving Means] An image display control apparatus according to the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit switches a first mode for reducing a brightness of an image without inverting the brightness of the image fixedly displayed on a specific area of a screen to a second mode for inverting the brightness of the image and reducing the brightness of the image inverted, and controls a display such that the image is displayed on the area of the screen depending on the mode switched.

Claims

1. An image display control apparatus, comprising:

control circuitry configured to

control a display to display a first image and a second image for diagnosis, and

change a brightness of the first image displayed in an area of the first image on the display.

2. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 1, wherein the second image is at least one of an X-ray image, a computed tomography image, or a magnetic resonance imaging image.

3. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 2, wherein the first image includes a white background and black characters.

4. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 2, wherein the first image includes a white background and black lines.

5. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 2, wherein the control circuitry reduces the brightness of the first image displayed in the area of the first image on the display.

6. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 5, wherein the control circuitry reduces the brightness of the first image without reducing a brightness of the second image displayed in an area of the second image on the display.

7. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 5, wherein the control circuitry reduces the brightness of the first image automatically when a mode is selected.

8. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 5, wherein the second image includes a black background and white lines.

9. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 5, wherein the control circuitry determines a degree of the brightness of the first image that is to be reduced based on a deterioration degree of a pixel of the display.

10. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 9, wherein the control circuitry determines the degree of the brightness of the first image that is to be reduced based on a first deterioration degree of the first area of the first image on the display or a second deterioration degree of an area of the second image on the display.

11. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 5, wherein the control circuitry determines a degree of the brightness of the first image that is to be reduced based on visibility for a doctor.

12. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 5, wherein the area of the first image on the display is around an area of the second image on the display.

13. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 5, wherein the first image is a fixedly displayed image.

14. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 5, wherein the first image is a menu bar image or a tool bar image.

15. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 10, wherein

the control circuitry is configured to

reduce the brightness of the first image automatically when a mode is selected,

calculate a difference between the first deterioration degree and the second deterioration degree, and

select the mode when the difference exceeds a threshold value.

16. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 2, wherein the diagnosis is a mammography diagnosis.

17. The image display control apparatus according to the claim 5, wherein the control circuitry controls the display to display the first image and the second image in a full screen mode.

18. A method of controlling brightness of a display, comprising:

controlling the display to display a first image and a second image for diagnosis, and

changing the brightness of the first image displayed in an area of the first image on the display.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method of controlling brightness of a display, the method comprising:

controlling the display to display a first image and a second image for diagnosis, and

changing the brightness of the first image displayed in an area of the first image on the display.