Color image display apparatus

• US 5,737,036 A
• Filed: 08/31/1995
• Issued: 04/07/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Junya, Kanai, Akira, Yamakawa, Masaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Powell, Mark R.
• Application Number:
  US08/522,100
• Time in Patent Office: 950 Days
• Field of Search: 345/150, 345/154, 345/151, 348/567, 348/445, 348/566, 348/565, 348/742, 348/743, 348/761, 349/8
• US Class Current: 348/742
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/012 Conversion between an interlaced and a progressive signal for graphics images G09G2310/0229
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/22 using the same beam for more than one primary colour information H04N9/27 takes precedence

Abstract

A color image display apparatus utilizing a field sequential signal displays a picture normally without disturbance or deteriorating vertical resolution even when displaying an interlace image signal. The color image display apparatus is formed by a field sequential signal generator for converting a primary color signal to be interlaced into a field sequential signal, a monochrome image display apparatus for sequentially displaying a converted field sequential signal, a color apparatus 5 disposed to face a display screen of the monochrome image display apparatus to color a field sequential signal displayed on the display screen, and a control circuit for controlling timing of operations of these elements. A field judging result is supplied to the control circuit, and the control circuit operates so that a horizontal synchronizing signal of the field sequential signal is outputted continuously in a constant cycle even when an image signal to be interlaced is inputted. Even when displaying an interlace image signal, the color image display apparatus does not cause a picture disturbance or a brightness variation. The color image display apparatus outputs an excellent picture and is manufactured at a reduced cost.

Claims

1. A color image display apparatus, comprising:

field sequential signal generating means including a memory device for storing one field of each one of a plurality of primary color signals which form a color image signal, said field sequential signal generating means receiving the plurality of primary color signals and reading the plurality of primary color signals which are stored in said memory device at a speed which is n times faster than a speed at which the plurality of primary color signals are stored in said memory device to convert the plurality of primary color signals into a field sequential signal;

image displaying means for sequentially displaying the field sequential signal which is output from said field sequential signal generating means;

coloring means, disposed to face a display screen of said image displaying means, in synchronization with the field sequential signal which is sequentially displayed by said image displaying means, said coloring means coloring the field sequential signal in a color which corresponds to each one of the plurality of primary color signals which form the field sequential signal;

reference clock generating means for generating a reference clock signal having a predetermined frequency in accordance with a horizontal synchronizing signal of the color image signal; and

control means for controlling said field sequential signal generating means, said image displaying means and said coloring means in accordance with the horizontal synchronizing signal of the color image signal and a vertical synchronizing signal of the color image signal and in accordance with the reference clock signal which is outputted from said reference clock generating means so that said field sequential signal generating means, said image displaying means and said coloring means each operate at predetermined timing, wherein

said control means controls said field sequential signal generating means so that a horizontal synchronizing signal of the field sequential signal which is outputted from said field sequential signal generating means, appears continuously in a constant cycle.

2. The color image display apparatus of claim 1, wherein said control means includes,

a field judging circuit which receives the horizontal synchronizing signal of the color image signal and the vertical synchronizing signal of the color image signal and judges whether a field of the color image signal stored in said memory device of said field sequential signal generating means is an even-numbered field or an odd-numbered field in accordance with the horizontal synchronizing signal of the color image signal and the vertical synchronizing signal of the color image signal, and said control means controls said field sequential signal generating means in accordance with a field judging result produced by said field judging circuit so that the horizontal synchronizing signal of the field sequential signal appears continuously in a constant cycle.

3. The color image display apparatus of claim 2, wherein said field judging circuit judges a phase difference between the horizontal synchronizing signal of the color image signal and the vertical synchronizing signal of the color image signal to determine whether the field of said color image signal is an even-numbered field or an odd-numbered field.

5. The color image display apparatus to claim 1, wherein the plurality of primary color signals which are supplied to said field sequential signal generating means are primary color signals of three primary colors of red, green and blue, and said number n is three.

6. The color image display apparatus of claim 2, wherein said control means controls horizontal scanning by said image displaying means so that said image displaying means scans in a certain cycle of a speed n times faster and said control means controls a vertical scanning position on said image displaying means in accordance with the field judging result produced by said field judging circuit so that a field of the field sequential signal which is displayed by said image displaying means coincides with a field of the color image signal stored in said memory device.

7. The color image display apparatus of claim 6, wherein said control means synchronizes a vertical scanning period of said image displaying means with the horizontal synchronizing signal of the color image signal having a speed n or n/2 times faster for each field in accordance with the field judging result by said field judging circuit, whereby a field the field sequential signal which is displayed by said image displaying means coincides with a field of the color image signal which is stored in said memory device.

8. The color image display apparatus of claim 7, wherein said control means synchronizes a vertical scanning period of said image displaying means with the horizontal synchronizing signal of the color image signal having a speed n or n/2 times faster for each field in accordance with the field judging result produced by said field judging circuit, whereby a field and a vertical scanning position of the field sequential signal which is displayed by said image displaying means coincide with a field and a vertical scanning position of the color image signal which is stored in said memory device, respectively.

9. The color image display apparatus of claim 8, wherein when the color image signal is an NTSC signal, said control means controls said image displaying means so that the vertical scanning period of the image displaying means has a width of 263, 262.5, 263,262, 262.5 and 262 where 1 is a horizontal period of n times faster as measured from a point where an odd-numbered field changes to an even-numbered field.

10. The color image display apparatus of claim 1, wherein said control means includes a non-interlace judging circuit which judges whether the plurality of primary color signals which are supplied to the field sequential signal generating means are interlace signals or non-interlace signals, and said control means synchronizes vertical scanning timing of said image displaying means with the horizontal synchronizing signal of the color image signal when the plurality of primary color signals which are supplied to said field sequential signal generating means are non-interlace signals so that interlacing is not performed.

11. The color image display apparatus of claim 10, wherein said control means controls said reference clock generating means so that said reference clock generating means outputs a non-interlace reference clock signal which corresponds to the non-interlace signals when said non-interlace judging circuit detects the non-interlace signals.

12. The color image display apparatus of claim 1, wherein said reference clock generating means provides said control means with a horizontal reference signal for comparing frequency-converted horizontal synchronizing phases instead of supplying the horizontal synchronizing signal of the color image signal to said control means.

4. A color image display apparatus, comprising:

field sequential signal generating means including a memory device for storing one field of each one of a plurality of primary color signals which form a color image signal, said field sequential signal generating means receiving the plurality of primary color signals and reading the plurality of primary color signals which are stored in said memory device at a speed which is n times faster than a speed at which the plurality of primary color signals are stored in said memory device to convert the plurality of primary color signals into a field sequential signal;

image displaying means for sequentially displaying the field sequential signal which is output from said field sequential signal generating means;

coloring means, disposed to face a display screen of said image displaying means, in synchronization with the field sequential signal which is sequentially displayed by said image displaying means, said coloring means coloring the field sequential signal in a color which corresponds to each one of the plurality of primary color signals which form the field sequential signal;

reference clock generating means for generating a reference clock signal having a predetermined frequency in accordance with a horizontal synchronizing signal of the color image signal; and

control means for controlling said field sequential signal generating means, said image displaying means and said coloring means in accordance with the horizontal synchronizing signal of the color image signal and a vertical synchronizing signal of the color image signal and in accordance with the reference clock signal which is outputted from said reference clock generating means so that said field sequential signal generating means, said image displaying means and said coloring means each operate at predetermined timing,

wherein said control means controls said field sequential signal generating means so that a horizontal synchronizing signal of the field sequential signal which is outputted from said field sequential signal generating means, appears continuously in a constant cycle,

wherein said control means includes a memory which allots certain addresses to one line of a horizontal direction in advance, moves an address to a next predetermined address value in synchronization with the horizontal synchronizing signal of the color image signal even if the address is in the middle of a line and resets a memory address in synchronization with the vertical synchronizing signal of the color image signal, and therefore said memory can read and write at the same time.