Display apparatus

• US 4,788,535 A
• Filed: 11/02/1987
• Issued: 11/29/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hirata, Mitsutoshi, Takatori, Shuichi, Chikara, Yoshihisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Brigance, Gerald L.
• Application Number:
  US07/117,438
• Time in Patent Office: 393 Days
• Field of Search: 340/701, 340/703, 340/709, 340/730, 340/747, 340/748, 340/723, 340/791
• US Class Current: 345/600
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 1/16 the pattern of rectangular co-ordinates extending over the whole area of the screen, i.e. television type raster
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/02 characterised by the way in which colour is displayed details of colour display specific for CRTs G09G1/28; specific for flat matrix panels other than liquid crystal displays G09G3/2003; specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607

Abstract

A display apparatus having an inverting circuit which can be switched to invert white signals into black signals and black signals into white signals of image signal to reverse the contract of a black and white signal. This contrast can be switched independent of other color signals, or other color signals can be changed to complementary colors. The background color contrast can also be changed.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

means for receiving color component signals comprising red, green and blue signals representing pixels;

first means for (1) determining if said color component signals for a given pixel define a black signal or a white signals, (2) inverting said color component black or white signals to signals which define a reversed black or white signal, black becoming white and white becoming black and (3) selectively changing all signals representing other colors other than black and white into complementary color signals; and

switch means for controlling whether said first means changes said other color signals into said complimentary color signals.

2. Apparatus as in claim 1 further comprising:

an image signal output circuit for amplifying an output signal from said first means, and

display means for displaying an output signal from said output circuit.

3. A display apparatus comprising:

means for receiving color component signals comprising red, green and blue signals representing pixels;

detecting means for determining if said color component signals for a given pixel define a black signal or a white signal, and for generating a detecting signal when said determination is positive;

first means, upon receipt for said detecting signal, for selectively inverting the color component signals of that pixel to define a reversed black and white signal, black becoming white and white becoming black, and not changing color signals representing colors other than black and white; and

switch means for controlling whether said first means inverts said color component signals representing black or white.

4. A display apparatus in accordance with claim 3, further comprising:

a color changing circuit having means for varying values of said red, green and blue color component signals of said given pixel when such signals define a white signal, when said white signal is one which has been generated from an inverted black signal whereby a color other than black or white is generated.

5. Apparatus as in claim 3 further comprising:

an image signal output circuit for amplifying an output signal from said first means, and

display means for displaying an output signal from said output circuit.