IP Library Granted Patent US 7,982,744
Granted Patent B2
US 7,982,744 · App. 11/968,961 · Granted Jul 19, 2011

Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, recording medium storing image processing program, and image display device

Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
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Patent No.
US 7,982,744
App. No.
11/968,961
Granted
Jul 19, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image processing device outputs four-color image data to a display section, the display section performing display using display pixels each composed of four sub-pixels, and having an arrangement of the display pixels in which a pixel arrangement in an even line of a scan lines and a pixel arrangement in an odd line of the scan lines are shifted a half pitch of the display pixels from each other, and the image processing device includes a color conversion section which obtains three-color image data and converts the three-color image data into first four-color image data while maintaining the number of display pixels in the three-color image data, a conversion section which generates second four-color image data by performing an interpolation process on the first four-color image data based on a relationship between a position of a sub-pixel in the first four-color image data and a position of a sub-pixel in the display section, and an output section which outputs the second four-color image data to the display section.

Claims (37)

1. An image processing device for outputting four-color image data to a display section, the display section performing display using display pixels each composed of four sub-pixels, and having an arrangement of the display pixels in which a pixel arrangement in an even line of a plurality of scan lines and a pixel arrangement in an odd line of the scan lines are shifted a half pitch of the display pixels from each other, the image processing device comprising:

a color conversion section that obtains three-color image data and converts the three-color image data into first four-color image data while maintaining the number of display pixels in the three-color image data;

a conversion section that generates second four-color image data by performing an interpolation process on the first four-color image data based on a relationship between a position of a sub-pixel in the first four-color image data and a position of a sub-pixel in the display section; and

an output section that outputs the second four-color image data to the display section.

2. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the conversion section generates the second four-color image data having the even line and the odd line shifted a half pitch of the display pixels from each other by performing the interpolation process on the first four-color image data.

3. The image processing device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the conversion section switches operations to be performed in the interpolation process in accordance with whether the second four-color image data to be generated is positioned in the even line or in the odd line.

4. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the conversion section performs the interpolation process in accordance with whether or not the first four-color image data is data with the even line and the odd line shifted a half pitch of the display pixels.

5. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the conversion section performs the interpolation process using a linear function defined by a distance between a position of a sub-pixel in the first four-color image data and a position of a sub-pixel in the display section.

6. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the conversion section performs the interpolation process using a cubic function defined by a distance between a position of a sub-pixel in the first four-color image data and a position of a sub-pixel in the display section.

7. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the conversion section generates the second four-color image data reducing the number of the display pixels to be 0.75 times the number of display pixels in the first four-color image data.

8. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the conversion section generates the second four-color image data reducing the number of the display pixels to be 0.5 times the number of display pixels in the first four-color image data.

9. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the conversion section generates the second four-color image data having the same number of the display pixels as the number of display pixels in the first four-color image data.

10. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first and the second four-color image data are composed of red, green, blue, and white.

11. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first and the second four-color image data are composed of red, yellow-green, blue, and emerald-green.

12. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the color conversion section performs the color conversion using at least one of a three-dimensional look-up table and a one-dimensional look-up table.

13. An image display device comprising:

the image processing device according to claim 1 ; and

a display section that displays the image data processed by the image processing device.

14. An image processing method for outputting four-color image data to a display section, the display section performing display using display pixels each composed of four sub-pixels, and having an arrangement of the display pixels in which a pixel arrangement in an even line of a plurality of scan lines and a pixel arrangement in an odd line of the scan lines are shifted a half pitch of the display pixels from each other, the image processing method comprising:

converting three-color image data obtained previously into first four-color image data while maintaining the number of display pixels in the three-color image data;

generating second four-color image data by performing an interpolation process on the first four-color image data based on a relationship between a position of a sub-pixel in the first four-color image data and a position of a sub-pixel in the display section; and

outputting the second four-color image data to the display section.

15. A computer readable recording medium storing an image processing program for allowing a computer to output four-color image data to a display section, the display section performing display using display pixels each composed of four sub-pixels, and having an arrangement of the display pixels in which a pixel arrangement in an even line of a plurality of scan lines and a pixel arrangement in an odd line of the scan lines are shifted a half pitch of the display pixels from each other, the image processing device program allowing the computer to function as a device comprising:

a color conversion section that obtains three-color image data and converts the three-color image data into first four-color image data while maintaining the number of display pixels in the three-color image data;

a conversion section that generates second four-color image data by performing an interpolation process on the first four-color image data based on a relationship between a position of a sub-pixel in the first four-color image data and a position of a sub-pixel in the display section; and

an output section that outputs the second four-color image data to the display section.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 15, 2018
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: 138 EAST LCD ADVANCEMENTS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 046153/0397 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 3, 2008
From: MORIYA, HIDEKUNI; ARAGAKI, TAKUMI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 020322/0416 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2007-024200 · Feb 2, 2007 · national
JP 2007-287503 · Nov 5, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
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