Control apparatus and control method thereof

• US 9,582,241 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2012
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Osawa, Seiji, Kagaya, Sosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Watko, Julie Anne
• Application Number:
  US13/542,166
• Publication Number:
  US 20130021383A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,699 Days
• Field of Search: 345/102, 715/800, 715/815, 715/798, 715/788, 715/252
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/066 for control of contrast
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/04 Exchange of auxiliary data, i.e. other than image data, between monitor and graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/39 Control of the bit-mapped memory

Abstract

A control apparatus, according to the present invention, for controlling a display apparatus having a liquid crystal panel and a backlight which is configured from a plurality of divided regions and which emits light, with one or more divided regions as one light-emitting unit, based on decided emission brightness of each light-emitting unit, comprises a control unit that sets, upon displaying a second image formed by enlarging a first image, a size of the light-emitting unit larger in comparison to a case of displaying the first image according to an enlargement ratio of the second image relative to the first image.

Claims

1. A control apparatus for controlling a display apparatus having a backlight of which emission brightness is controlled for each of a plurality of blocks of a screen, and a display panel which displays an image on the screen by transmitting light from the backlight, wherein each of the plurality of blocks corresponds to a plurality of pixels being backlit with light of a common brightness, the control apparatus comprising:

a control unit that sets, in a case of displaying a first image, a plurality of first blocks, and sets, in a case of displaying a second image formed by enlarging the first image, according to an enlargement ratio of the second image relative to the first image, a plurality of second blocks of which a size is larger than a size of the first blocks, wherein an enlargement ratio of a second block relative to a first block is an enlargement ratio that is substantially equal to the enlargement ratio of the second image relative to the first image, and wherein in a case of displaying the first image, a size of each of the plurality of first blocks corresponds to a minimum controllable size for the backlight, and in a case of displaying the second image, the size of each of the plurality of second blocks is greater than the size of each of the plurality of first blocks by a factor of the enlargement ratio of the second block relative to the first block, and wherein

in a case of displaying the first image, the backlight emits, for each of the plurality of first blocks, light with brightness according to brightness of each portion of the first image to be displayed in each first block, and

in a case of displaying the second image, the backlight emits, for each of the plurality of second blocks, light with brightness according to brightness of that portion of the first image which was previously displayed in each first block whose position in the first image corresponds to position of each second block in the second image.

2. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of first blocks correspond to a plurality of divided regions constituting a region of the screen,

the display apparatus further comprises a decision unit that decides, for each of the plurality of first block, emission brightness of the backlight, by using statistics of an image to be displayed in a divided region corresponding to that first block,

the control apparatus further comprises a storage unit that stores, for each of the plurality of first blocks corresponding to divided regions in which the first image is displayed, the statistics of that first block in a case of displaying the first image, and

in a case of displaying the second image, the control unit instructs the display apparatus so that the decision unit uses, for each of the plurality of second blocks corresponding to regions of the screen in which the second image is displayed, the statistics of a first block, which are stored in the storage unit, corresponding to that second block as the statistics of first blocks corresponding to divided regions included in a region of the screen corresponding to that second block.

3. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of first blocks correspond to a plurality of divided regions constituting a region of the screen,

the display apparatus further comprises:

an acquisition unit that acquires, for each of the plurality of divided regions, statistics of an image to be displayed in that divided region; and

a decision unit that decides, for each of the plurality of first blocks, emission brightness of the backlight by using the statistics of a divided region corresponding to that first block acquired by the acquisition unit, and

in a case of displaying the second image, the control unit instructs the display apparatus so that the acquisition unit acquires, for each of the plurality of second blocks, statistics of the second image to be displayed in a region of the screen corresponding to that second block as the statistics of divided regions included in the region of the screen corresponding to that second block.

4. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control apparatus further comprises a region decision unit that decides a display region of an image so that each edge of the display region coincides to an edge of any of regions of the screen corresponding to the blocks set as the plurality of first blocks or the plurality of second blocks.

5. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the control apparatus further comprises a selection unit that selects a first mode or a second mode according to a user operation;

and

the control unit sets, in a case where the first mode is selected by the selection unit, the plurality of blocks, which are set as the plurality of first blocks, corresponding to a plurality of divided regions constituting a region of the screen; and

sets, in a case where the second mode is selected by the selection unit and the second image is displayed, the size of the second block larger than the first block.

6. A control method for a control apparatus for controlling a display apparatus having a backlight of which emission brightness is controlled for each of a plurality of blocks of a screen, and a display panel which displays an image on the screen by transmitting light from the backlight, wherein each of the plurality of blocks corresponds to a plurality of pixels being backlit with light of a common brightness,

the method comprising:

a step of controlling to set, in a case of displaying a first image, a plurality of first blocks, and sets, in a case of displaying a second image formed by enlarging the first image, according to an enlargement ratio of the second image relative to the first image, a plurality of second blocks of which a size is larger than a size of the first blocks, wherein an enlargement ratio of a second block relative to a first block is an enlargement ratio that is equal to the enlargement ratio of the second image relative to the first image, and wherein in a case of displaying the first image, a size of each of the plurality of first blocks corresponds to a minimum controllable size for the backlight, and in a case of displaying the second image, the size of each of the plurality of second blocks is greater than the size of each of the plurality of first blocks by a factor of the enlargement ratio of the second block relative to the first block, and wherein

in a case of displaying the first image, the backlight emits, for each of the plurality of first blocks, light with brightness according to brightness of each portion of the first image to be displayed in each first block, and

in a case of displaying the second image, the backlight emits, for each of the plurality of second blocks, light with brightness according to brightness of that portion of the first image which was previously displayed in each first block whose position in the first image corresponds to position of each second block in the second image.

7. The control method for a control apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the plurality of first blocks correspond to a plurality of divided regions constituting a region of the screen,

the display apparatus further comprises a decision unit that decides, for each of the plurality of first blocks, emission brightness of the backlight by using statistics of an image to be displayed in a divided region corresponding to that first block,

the control method for a control apparatus further comprises a step of storing, for each of the plurality of first blocks corresponding to divided regions in which the first image is displayed, the statistics of that first block in a case of displaying the first image, and

in the controlling to set step, in a case of displaying the second image, a command is issued to the display apparatus so that the decision unit uses, for each of the plurality of second blocks corresponding to regions of the screen in which the second image is displayed, the statistics of a first block, which are stored in the storage step, corresponding to that second block as the statistics of first blocks corresponding to divided regions included in a region of the screen corresponding to that second block.

8. The control method for a control apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the plurality of first blocks correspond to a plurality of divided regions constituting a region of the screen,

the display apparatus further comprises:

an acquisition unit that acquires, for each of the plurality of divided regions, statistics of an image to be displayed in that divided region; and

a decision unit that decides, for each of the plurality of first blocks, emission brightness of the backlight by using the statistics of a divided region corresponding to that first block acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein

in the controlling to set step, in a case of displaying the second image, a command is issued to the display apparatus so that the acquisition unit acquires, for each of the plurality of second blocks, statistics of the second image to be displayed in a region of the screen corresponding to that second block as the statistics of divided regions included in the region of the screen corresponding to that second block.

9. The control method for a control apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a step of deciding a display region of an image so that each edge of the display region coincides to an edge of any of regions of the screen corresponding to the blocks set as the plurality of first blocks or the plurality of second blocks.

10. The control method for a control apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a step of selecting a first mode or a second mode according to an user operation;

and

in the controlling to set step,

in a case where the first mode is selected by the selecting step, the plurality of blocks, which are set as the plurality of first blocks, corresponding to a plurality of divided regions constituting a region of the screen are set; and

in a case where the second mode is selected by the selecting step and the second image is displayed, the size of the second block larger than the first block is set.