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US 7,385,599 · App. 10/959,904 · Granted Jun 10, 2008

Information display

Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
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Patent No.
US 7,385,599
App. No.
10/959,904
Granted
Jun 10, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

An information display displays predetermined information on a display screen, the type of drawing element is detected for each pixel of the display screen (step S 105 ), a brightness correction LUT is set based on the type of drawing element (step S 106 ), and the brightness is corrected for each pixel based on the selected brightness correction LUT group (step S 107 ).

Claims (8)

1. An information display which displays predetermined information on a display screen, and comprises: a drawing element type detection section for detecting a type of drawing element for each pixel of the display screen; a characteristic setting section for setting the brightness correction characteristic for each pixel of the display screen based on the type of drawing element;

a brightness correction section for correcting the brightness for each pixel based on the brightness correction characteristic; and

an illumination detection section for detecting the illumination of the surrounding portion of the display screen,

wherein the characteristic setting section sets the brightness correction characteristics based on the illumination detected by the illumination detection section and the type of drawing element detected by the drawing element type detection section,

when the drawing element type detection section detects that the type of drawing element is a character, the characteristic setting section sets the brightness correction characteristic such that the smaller the illumination detected by the illumination detection section, the smaller the brightness of the gray-scale portion of the outline of a character,

when the drawing element type detection section detects an image as a type of drawing element, the characteristic setting section sets the brightness correction characteristic such that the smaller the illumination detected by the illumination detection section, the smaller the correction of the brightness of the low gray-scale level portion which is equal to or lower than a predetermined brightness value, and the larger the correction of the brightness of the high gray-scale portion which is larger than the predetermined brightness vale, and

the drawing element type is one of a character and an image, and pixel data and the type of a drawing element corresponding to the pixel data corresponding to the coordinate of the pixel corresponding to the pixel data.

2. The information display according to claim 1 , wherein each pixel has VRAM storing a type of drawing element and brightness, and the brightness correction section and the characteristic setting section set the brightness correction characteristic based on the type of drawing element stored in the VRAM, and the display control device corrects the brightness stored in the VRAM based on the brightness correction characteristic.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 11, 2005
From: MUKAI, TOMOHIRO
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 016154/0968 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2003-348054 · Oct 7, 2003 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20050116911A1 · Jun 2, 2005