Color signal processing device

• US 9,430,986 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2013
• Issued: 08/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 (IP Bridge, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 (IP Bridge, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ito, Takeshi, Yamashita, Haruo, Hirashima, Tsuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Faulk, Devona
• Assistant Examiner(s): BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD
• Application Number:
  US13/861,841
• Publication Number:
  US 20130222414A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,236 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/06 Colour space transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3607 for displaying colours or for displaying grey scales with a specific pixel layout, e.g. using sub-pixels display of colours in flat matrix panels other than liquid crystal displays G09G3/2003; grey scales specific for television H04N3/127
• 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 color signal processing device for generating image data to be displayed on a display device which represents a color by using at least four primary colors, includes an obtainer that obtains a color signal regarding three primary colors for image data composed of a plurality of pixels, a changer that changes a value of the obtained color signal regarding the three primary colors, and a converter that converts the changed color signal regarding the three primary colors into a color signal regarding four primary colors. When a predetermined region contains a color saturated pixel, the changer makes the value of the color signal of at least one color of the three primary colors smaller, for pixels contained in the predetermined region.

Claims

1. A color signal processing device for generating image data to be displayed on a display device which represents a color by using at least four primary colors, comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory memory having stored thereon executable instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to operate as;

an obtainer that obtains a color signal regarding three primary colors for image data composed of a plurality of pixels;

a changer that changes a value of the obtained color signal regarding the three primary colors based on the hue of the color indicated by the color signal; and

a converter that converts the changed color signal regarding the three primary colors into a color signal regarding four primary colors, wherein

the value of the obtained color signal in the changer is changed by performing a feedback control in which the converter feeds back the converted color signal to the changer,

the changer detects whether a pixel having a color indicated by the converted color signal fed back from the converter is a color saturated pixel,

the changer counts a number of the detected color saturated pixels,

the changer weighs the counted number for a pixel of the color signal indicating a yellow hue with a weight for the yellow hue which is larger than each weight for other color hues, so as to increase a rate of decreasing a color signal for a pixel of which the color signal indicates a yellow hue higher than a rate of decreasing color signals for pixel of which the color signals indicate other color hues,

the changer compares the counted number with a first threshold value and a second threshold value, the first threshold value being an integral number of 1 or more and the second threshold value being smaller than the first threshold value,

when the counted number is larger than the first threshold value, the changer decreases the value of the obtained color signal for the pixels contained in a predetermined region,

when the counted number is smaller than the second threshold value, the changer increases the value of the obtained color signal for the pixels contained in the predetermined region, and

the color saturated pixel is a pixel having a color outside of a displayable color gamut of the display device.

2. The color signal processing device according to claim 1, wherein

when the changer changes the value of the color signal, the changer changes the value at a predetermined rate.

3. The color signal processing device according to claim 2, wherein

when the changer increases the value of the color signal, the changer increases the value at a first rate, and

when the changer decreases the value of the color signal, the changer decreases the value at a second rate which is different from the first rate.

4. The color signal processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the executable instructions, when executed, cause the processor to further operate as a generator that generates a control signal regarding the amount of emission of a backlight in the display device from the obtained color signal for the plurality of pixels, and

when the changer decreases the value of the color signal, the generator controls the control signal to increase the amount of emission of the backlight.

5. The color signal processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the executable instructions, when executed, cause the processor to further operate as:

a block divider that divides the entire region of the image into a plurality of blocks; and

a detector that detects whether there is a pixel of which a color signal converted by the converter is a signal indicating a color outside of the displayable color gamut of the display device in each block, and

the changer changes the value of the color signal based on the detection result of the detector for each block.

6. The color signal processing device according to claim 5, wherein

the changer calculates a gain value based on the detection result of the detector and changes the value of the color signal based on the calculated gain value for each block.

7. The color signal processing device according to claim 6, wherein

the changer performs smoothing processing for smoothing the gain values calculated for the respective blocks among the blocks, and

the smoothing processing smoothes the gain values so that, out of blocks around a target block of the smoothing processing, a block having a brightness smaller than a brightness of the target block influences stronger than a block having a brightness larger than the brightness of the target block.

8. The color signal processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the changer calculates a gain value based on the converted color signal fed back from the converter, and changed the value of the color signal based on the calculated gain value.