IP Library Patent Application 12279662
Patent Application
App. No. 12/279,662

Image Display Apparatus

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12/279,662
Abstract

It is an object of the invention to provide an image display apparatus in which noticeability of image persistence of a self-luminous device can be suppressed to a low level without performing an electric control and by a simple configuration. In correspondence with a fixed image area ( 11 a ) of a self-luminous device ( 11 ), an opacified fixed image area ( 16 ) is formed in a transmission panel ( 15 ), and a fixed picture which is a fixed image that is susceptible to image persistence is placed in the fixed image area ( 16 ). According to the configuration, edges of the fixed picture are blurred, and noticeability of image persistence of the self-luminous device ( 11 ) is reduced. Therefore, noticeability of image persistence of the self-luminous device ( 11 ) can be suppressed to a low level without performing an electric control and by a simple configuration. A fixed picture originally has high contrast. Even when its edges are slightly blurred, therefore, its visibility is not largely impaired.

Claims (16)

1 - 8 . (canceled)

9 . An image display apparatus, comprising:

a self-luminous device, formed into a flat plate-like shape, and having a fixed image area for displaying a fixed image that is to light for a predetermined time period or longer; and

a transmission panel, placed in close proximity to a side of a display surface of the self-luminous device,

wherein an opacified area is disposed in the self-luminous device or the transmission panel in correspondence with the fixed image area.

10 . The image display apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein gradation is provided at least in the opacified fixed image area, and a fixed image having a high lighting probability is placed in a lower transmittance side of the fixed image area.

11 . The image display apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the fixed image is configured by at least two portions having different lighting probabilities, a portion having a higher lighting probability is placed in a lower transmittance side of the fixed image area, and a portion having a lower lighting probability is placed in a higher transmittance side of the fixed image area.

12 . The image display apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein gradation is provided in the fixed image area in a vertical direction which coincides with a width direction of the fixed image area.

13 . The image display apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein gradation is provided in the fixed image area in a horizontal direction which coincides with a length direction of the fixed image area.

14 . The image display apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein gradation is provided in the fixed image area in each of a vertical direction which coincides with a width direction of the fixed image area, and a horizontal direction which coincides with a length direction of the fixed image area.

15 . A portable terminal wherein the portable terminal comprises an image display apparatus according to claim 9 .

16 . An image display apparatus comprising:

a self-luminous device, formed into a flat plate-like shape, and having a first area for displaying a fixed image that is to light for a predetermined time period or longer, and a second area for displaying an irregular image having no regularity;

a transmission panel, placed in close proximity to a side of a display surface of the self-luminous device;

an opacified area, opacified in correspondence with the first area, and which is on the self-luminous device or the transmission panel; and

a tranparentized area, tranparentized in correspondence with the second area, which is higher in transmittance than the opacified area, and which is on the self-luminous device or the transmission panel.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 6, 2009
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 022363/0306 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 19, 2008
From: KATAGIRI, ATSUSHI
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021554/0372 →