Image display device

1. An image display device configured to display an image based on a video signal, the image display device comprising:

a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixels; and

an overdrive execution section configured to read out, with respect to each of target pixels for which overdrive is performed in a current frame obtained from the video signal, among the plurality of pixels of the liquid crystal panel, a set gain value stored in a table in accordance with a combination of a gradation value in the current frame and a gradation value in a preceding frame immediately before the current frame, configured to determine, with respect to each target pixel, a gain usage value to be used for the overdrive, based on the read-out set gain value, and configured to apply, based on the gain usage value, a liquid-crystal driving voltage to the corresponding target pixel, wherein

with respect to a pixel, among the target pixels, for which it is judged that the gradation value in the current frame is an intermediate gradation value, the overdrive execution section performs a gain suppressing operation for determining the gain usage value as a value smaller than the set gain value, wherein

the overdrive execution section determines the gain usage value by multiplying the set gain value by a predetermined gain adjustment coefficient.

2. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein

with respect to a pixel, among the target pixels, for which it is judged that the gradation value in the current frame is an intermediate gradation value and that the difference between the gradation value in the current frame and a gradation value in the preceding frame is within a determined judging range, the overdrive execution section performs the gain suppressing operation.

3. The image display device according to claim 2 , wherein

an execution condition for the overdrive is a condition that the difference between the gradation value in the current frame and the gradation value in the preceding frame is within a determined range, and

the judging range is a range that is included in the determined range for the execution condition and that is narrower than the determined range.

4. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein

with respect to a pixel, among the target pixels, for which it is judged that the gradation value in the current frame is an intermediate gradation value, that a gradation value in the preceding frame is an intermediate gradation value, and that the difference between the gradation value in the current frame and the gradation value in the preceding frame is within a judging range, the overdrive execution section performs the gain suppressing operation.

5. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein

with respect to a pixel, among the target pixels, for which it is judged that the gradation value in the current frame is an intermediate gradation value, and that a gradation value in the preceding frame is an intermediate gradation value, the overdrive execution section performs the gain suppressing operation.

6. The image display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a type judging section configured to judge the type of the video signal, wherein

in the gain suppressing operation, the overdrive execution section determines a reduction amount of the gain usage value corresponding to the set gain value, in accordance with the type of the video signal determined by the type judging section.

7. The image display device according to claim 6 , wherein

the overdrive execution section increases the reduction amount when the video signal is a three-dimensional video signal, compared with a case where the video signal is a two-dimensional video signal.

8. The image display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a type judging section configured to judge the type of the video signal, wherein

even when the gradation value, in the current frame, of each of the target pixels is an intermediate gradation value, if the type of the video signal determined by the type judging section is a determined video signal, the overdrive execution section does not perform the gain suppressing operation.

9. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein

in the gain suppressing operation, according to the extent the gradation value in the current frame is located toward the lower gradation end in an intermediate gradation range, the overdrive execution section increases a reduction amount of the gain usage value corresponding to the set gain value.

10. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the intermediate gradation value is a value, when the gradation is divided into 256 levels, that falls in a range of gradation values being 30 or more and 128 or less.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a program that causes an image display device, provided with a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixels and configured to display video on the liquid crystal panel based on a video signal, to perform steps comprising:

a set value obtaining step of reading out, with respect to each of target pixels for which overdrive is performed in a current frame obtained from the video signal, among the plurality of pixels of the liquid crystal panel, a set gain value stored in a table in accordance with a combination of a gradation value in the current frame and a gradation value in a preceding frame immediately before the current frame; and

a usage value determination step of determining, with respect to each of the target pixels, a gain usage value to be used for determining, based on the read-out set gain value, a liquid-crystal driving voltage to be applied to the corresponding target pixel, wherein

in the usage value determination step, with respect to a pixel, among the target pixels, for which it is judged that the gradation value in the current frame is an intermediate gradation value, the gain usage value is determined as a value smaller than the set gain value, wherein

an overdrive execution section determines the gain usage value by multiplying the set gain value by a predetermined gain adjustment coefficient.

12. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the overdrive execution section:

judges whether the gradation value in the current frame is the intermediate gradation value;

performs the gain suppressing operation, with respect to a pixels, among the target pixels, for which it is judged that the gradation value in the current frame is the intermediate gradation value; and

does not perform the gain suppressing operation, with respect to a pixels, among the target pixels, for which it is judged that the gradation value in the current frame is not the intermediate gradation value.

13. The image display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a gradation value storage section storing the gradation value in the preceding frame; wherein:

the overdrive execution section reads out the set gain value, with respect to the target pixels, in accordance with the combination of the gradation value in the current frame obtained from the video signal and the gradation value in preceding frame stored by the gradation value storage section.

14. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the intermediate gradation value is a gradation value in a predetermined range that is within a part of a range from the second smallest gradation value to the second largest gradation value of all the gradation values.

15. The image display device according to claim 1 , wherein the overdrive execution section calculates the liquid-crystal driving voltage by multiplying an RGB (Red Green and Blue) signal obtained from the video signal by the gain usage value.

16. The image display device according to claim 6 , wherein the overdrive execution section increases the reduction amount when the video signal is a dynamic mode signal, compared with a case where the video signal is a cinema mode signal.

17. The image display device according to claim 6 , wherein the overdrive execution section does not perform the gain suppressing operation when the video signal is not a Personal Computer (PC) signal even when the gradation value, in the current frame, of each of the target pixels is an intermediate gradation value.

18. The image display device according to claim 8 , wherein the overdrive execution section does not perform the gain suppressing operation when the video signal is a 24 progressive scan signal as a progressive scan signal, even when the gradation value, in the current frame, of each of the target pixels is an intermediate gradation value.