Moving image display apparatus

• US 9,601,045 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2014
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Nagahashi, Kenichi, Yoshida, Akihiro, Wakatsuki, Tomotake, Nishiyama, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): MARINELLI, PATRICK
• Application Number:
  US14/445,336
• Publication Number:
  US 20140333511A1
• Time in Patent Office: 966 Days
• Field of Search: 345 55- 59, 345 76-104, 345204-215, 345690-699, 3151691-1694, 406/24, 40421-425, 40427-445, 40541-583
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0261 in the context of movement of objects on the screen or movement of the observer relative to the screen
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/02 Handling of images in compressed format, e.g. JPEG, MPEG
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2350/00 Solving problems of bandwidth in display systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/02 Graphics controller able to handle multiple formats, e.g. input or output formats
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/004 to give the appearance of moving signs
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/26 to give the appearance of moving signs
• 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 5/22 characterised by the display of characters or indicia using display control signals derived from coded signals representing the characters or indicia, e.g. with a character-code memory

Abstract

A moving image display apparatus includes a display unit which sequentially displays an image pattern in the form of a moving image on a display screen, a storage unit which stores area sectional information and display format information, the area sectional information defines predetermined divided areas corresponding to the image pattern among a plurality of divided areas into which the display screen is divided, and the display format information defines display formats of the divided areas defined by the area sectional information in a time sequential manner, and a display control unit which controls to display the predetermined divided areas corresponding to the image pattern in accordance with the display formats defined by the display format information.

Claims

1. A moving image display apparatus, comprising:

a display unit which sequentially displays image patterns in the form of a moving image on a matrix type display screen;

a storage unit which stores area sectional information and display format information, wherein the area sectional information defines a plurality of divided areas into which the matrix type display screen is divided in a matrix, and the display format information defines display formats of the divided areas identified by the area sectional information in a time sequential manner; and

a display control unit which controls to display the corresponding divided areas defined by the area sectional information in accordance with the display formats defined by the display format information to display the image patterns in the form of the moving image in the time sequential manner, wherein

the display format information includes area identification data and display effect identification data, wherein the area identification data identifies the divided areas to be set with the display formats, and the display effect identification data is data for changing a display effect including at least one of a display color, a color density level and a gradation level of each of the divided areas identified by the area identification data in the time sequential manner such that two different display effects are provided to at least one divided area of the plurality of divided areas, and

the display control unit controls to display the divided areas while changing the display effect of each of the divided areas in the time sequential manner in accordance with the area identification data and the display effect identification data,

wherein one area identification data among the area identification data commonly identifies two or more divided areas among the divided areas to be set with a common display format, and

the display effect of the two or more divided areas commonly identified by the one area identification data is changed in the time sequentially manner with the common display format.

2. The moving image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the area sectional information includes area sectional data which defines divided areas corresponding to different positions on the matrix type display screen;

wherein the display control unit controls to display the corresponding divided areas in the time sequential manner so that an image moves to the different positions in the form of the moving image on the matrix type display screen in accordance with the area sectional data and the display formats defined by the display format information.

3. The moving image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of divided areas includes at least a 2×

2 matrix.