Image display device and image display method

• US 8,248,504 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2010
• Issued: 08/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nozawa, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Cutler, Albert
• Application Number:
  US12/762,679
• Publication Number:
  US 20100295983A1
• Time in Patent Office: 855 Days
• Field of Search: 348/333.01, 348/333.02, 348/333.04, 348/333.05, 348/333.06, 348/333.12, 345/659
• US Class Current: 348/333.06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/531 being rotatable or detachable
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/265 Mixing

Abstract

An image display device includes first and second image display units that display images, a video signal processing unit that executes a predetermined signal processing, a scanning direction instructing unit that instructs the second image display unit to execute a scanning, first and second color specifying units that specify a color of a graphics image, first and second position specifying units that specify a position of the graphics image to be synthesized, a first synthesizing unit that outputs a signal obtained by synthesizing a signal of a color stored when the first color specifying unit specifies a color with the video signal input from the video signal processing unit, and a second synthesizing unit that outputs a signal obtained by synthesizing a signal of a color stored when the second color specifying unit specifies a color with the video signal input from the video signal processing unit.

Claims

1. An image display device comprising:

a first image display unit that is provided not to reverse a display direction and displays an image by receiving a first display video signal and executing a scanning;

a second image display unit that is provided to change a display direction to a first display direction and a second display direction which is a reversed direction to the first display direction and displays an image by receiving a second display video signal and performing a scanning;

a video signal processing means that executes a predetermined signal processing for the video signal obtained based on a captured image;

a scanning direction instructing means that instructs the second image display unit to execute a normal scanning in a first state corresponding to the first display direction and execute a reversed scanning by reversing a corresponding scanning direction to a movement direction of the second image display unit to reverse an image from the first display direction to the second display direction in a second state corresponding to the second display direction;

a first color specifying means that specifies a color of a graphics image corresponding to the first image display unit;

a second color specifying means that specifies a color of a graphics image corresponding to the second image display unit;

a first position specifying means that specifies a position of the graphics image to be synthesized with an image of the video signal corresponding to the first image display unit;

a second position specifying means that specifies a position of the graphics image to be synthesized with an image of the video signal corresponding to the second image display unit in such a way that a normal position is specified without horizontal reversing in the first state and a reversed position is specified by horizontally reversing in the second state;

a first synthesizing means that outputs, as the first display video signal, a signal obtained by synthesizing a signal of a color stored when the first color specifying means specifies a color with the video signal input from the video signal processing means at a position specified by the first position specifying means; and

a second synthesizing means that outputs, as the second display video signal, a signal obtained by synthesizing a signal of a color stored when the second color specifying means specifies a color with the video signal input from the video signal processing means at a position specified by the second position specifying means.

2. The image display device according to claim 1, wherein the first and second position specifying means output a position specifying control signal representing a position of a pixel where the graphics image is to be synthesized with the video signal and a position of a pixel where the graphics image is not to be synthesized with the video signal using a single bit.

3. The image display device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first and second color specifying means specify a plurality of predetermined colors,

wherein the image display device further includes

a first color selection specifying means that specifies a single color to be selected from a plurality of colors specified by the first color specifying means for each position of the graphics image synthesized with the image of the video signal specified by the first position specifying means corresponding to the first image display unit, and

a second color selection specifying means that specifies a single color to be selected from a plurality of colors specified by the second color specifying means for each position of the graphics image synthesized with the image of the video signal specified by the second position specifying means corresponding to the second image display unit,

wherein the first synthesizing means stores a plurality of color signals corresponding to a plurality of colors specified by the first color specifying means, selects a color signal specified by the first color selection specifying means from the color signals, synthesizes the selected color signal with the video signal input from the video signal processing means at the position specified by the first position specifying means, and outputs the synthesized signal as the first display video signal, and

wherein the second synthesizing means stores a plurality of color signals corresponding to a plurality of colors specified by the second color specifying means, selects a color signal specified by the second color selection specifying means from the color signals, synthesizes the selected color signal with the video signal input from the video signal processing means at the position specified by the second position specifying means, and outputs the synthesized signal as the second display video signal.

4. The image display device according to claim 3, wherein the first and second color selection specifying means are configured such that the color to be selected is specified based on a combination of bit values by a color selection control signal of m bits satisfying a condition of n≦

2^m,

where, “

^”

denotes a power function, and n denotes the number of colors specified by the first and second color specifying means, respectively.

5. The image display device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first and second color specifying means transmit a control signal for specifying a color using a single field as a shortest period to the first and second synthesizing means, respectively, and

wherein the first and second synthesizing means store a color signal based on a control signal for specifying the input color at a field duration subsequent to a field duration in which the control signal for specifying the color is input.

6. An image display method comprising:

a video signal processing process that executes a predetermined signal processing for a video signal obtained based on an image capturing, the video signal being displayed on a first image display unit that is provided not to reverse a display direction and displays an image by receiving a first display video signal and executing a scanning and a second image display unit that is provided to change a display direction to a first display direction and a second display direction which is a reversed direction to the first display direction and displays an image by receiving a second display video signal and performing a scanning;

a scanning direction instructing process that instructs the second image display unit to execute a normal scanning in a first state corresponding to the first display direction and execute a reversed scanning by reversing a corresponding scanning direction to a movement direction of the second image display unit to reverse an image from the first display direction to the second display direction in a second state corresponding to the second display direction;

a first color specifying process that specifies a color of a graphics image corresponding to the first image display unit;

a second color specifying process that specifies a color of a graphics image corresponding to the second image display unit;

a first position specifying process that specifies a position of the graphics image to be synthesized with an image of the video signal corresponding to the first image display unit;

a second position specifying process that specifies a position of the graphics image to be synthesized with an image of the video signal corresponding to the second image display unit in such a way that a normal position is specified without horizontal reversing in the first state and a reversed position is specified by horizontally reversing in the second state;

a first synthesizing process that outputs, as the first display video signal, a signal obtained by synthesizing a signal of a color stored when the color is specified through the first color specifying process with the video signal input from the video signal processing process at a position specified by the first position specifying process; and

a second synthesizing process that outputs, as the second display video signal, a signal obtained by synthesizing a signal of a color stored when the color is specified through the second color specifying process with the video signal input from the video signal processing process at a position specified by the second position specifying process.

7. An image display device comprising:

a first image display unit that is provided not to reverse a display direction and displays an image by receiving a first display video signal and executing a scanning;

a second image display unit that is provided to change a display direction to a first display direction and a second display direction which is a reversed direction to the first display direction and displays an image by receiving a second display video signal and performing a scanning;

a video signal processing unit that executes a predetermined signal processing for the video signal obtained based on a captured image;

a scanning direction instructing unit that instructs the second image display unit to execute a normal scanning in a first state corresponding to the first display direction and execute a reversed scanning by reversing a corresponding scanning direction to a movement direction of the second image display unit to reverse an image from the first display direction to the second display direction in a second state corresponding to the second display direction;

a first color specifying unit that specifies a color of a graphics image corresponding to the first image display unit;

a second color specifying unit that specifies a color of a graphics image corresponding to the second image display unit;

a first position specifying unit that specifies a position of the graphics image to be synthesized with an image of the video signal corresponding to the first image display unit;

a second position specifying unit that specifies a position of the graphics image to be synthesized with an image of the video signal corresponding to the second image display unit in such a way that a normal position is specified without horizontal reversing in the first state and a reversed position is specified by horizontally reversing in the second state;

a first synthesizing unit that outputs, as the first display video signal, a signal obtained by synthesizing a signal of a color stored when the first color specifying unit specifies a color with the video signal input from the video signal processing unit at a position specified by the first position specifying unit; and

a second synthesizing unit that outputs, as the second display video signal, a signal obtained by synthesizing a signal of a color stored when the second color specifying unit specifies a color with the video signal input from the video signal processing unit at a position specified by the second position specifying unit.