Liquid crystal display device
View Patent ↗A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal display unit including pixels and displaying an image based on an input image signal; a drive unit that applies a voltage based on the input image signal to the pixels while inverting a polarity of the voltage for each of frames; a luminance determination unit that determines whether a detected average luminance has changed, between the frames, by an amount equal to or more than a reference luminance; and a signal generation unit that generates a phase inversion enabling signal for inverting a phase of the polarity of the voltage applied to the pixels, in a case where the luminance determination unit determines that the average luminance has changed by the above amount, wherein the drive unit inverts the phase of the polarity of the voltage applied to the pixels when the phase inversion enabling signal is generated.
1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising:
a liquid crystal display unit that includes pixels and displays an image based on an input image signal input for each of frames;
a drive unit that applies a voltage based on the input image signal to the pixels of the liquid crystal display unit while inverting a polarity of the voltage for each of the frames;
a luminance determination unit that detects, for each of the frames, an average luminance of the image displayed on the liquid crystal display unit, and determines whether the detected average luminance has changed, between the frames adjacent to each other, by an amount equal to or more than a reference luminance;
a signal generation unit that generates a phase inversion enabling signal for inverting a phase of the polarity of the voltage applied to the pixels, in a case where the luminance determination unit determines that the average luminance has changed by the amount equal to or more than the reference luminance, wherein the drive unit inverts the phase of the polarity of the voltage applied to the pixels when the phase inversion enabling signal is generated by the signal generation unit; and
a first reference changing unit that decreases the reference luminance in a case where the drive unit does not perform an operation of inverting the phase of the polarity of the voltage for a predetermined first period.
2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the signal generation unit coercively generates the phase inversion enabling signal in a case where the drive unit does not perform an operation of inverting the phase of the polarity of the voltage for a predetermined second period.
3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a flatness computing unit that calculates a flatness of the image, which is based on the input image signal, based on a signal level of the input image signal of the pixels in the frame; and
a second reference changing unit that decreases the reference luminance, which is used in a case where the flatness calculated by the flatness computing unit is less than a predetermined first threshold value, in comparison to the reference luminance, which is used in a case where the flatness calculated by the flatness computing unit is not less than the first threshold value.
4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a third reference changing unit that decreases, when the luminance of the image displayed on the liquid crystal display unit is a value within a range from a predetermined minimum value to a predetermined maximum value, the reference luminance, which is used in a case where the average luminance detected by the luminance determination unit is higher than an average value of the minimum value and the maximum value, in comparison to the reference luminance, which is used in a case where the average luminance is equal to the average value, and decreases the reference luminance, which is used in a case where the average luminance detected by the luminance determination unit is lower than an average value of the minimum value and the maximum value, in comparison to the reference luminance, which is used in a case where the average luminance is equal to the average value.
5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a setting unit that sets a phase inversion enabling period as a period enabling an inversion of the phase of the polarity of the voltage applied to the pixels, wherein
the drive unit inverts the phase of the polarity of the voltage applied to the pixels only when the phase inversion enabling signal is generated by the signal generation unit during the phase inversion enabling period set by the setting unit,
a cycle of inverting the phase of the polarity of the voltage applied to the pixels by the drive unit is defined as a phase inversion cycle, and
the setting unit sets the phase inversion enabling period so that the values of the phase inversion cycles are substantially equal to each other.
6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 5 , wherein the setting unit sets a subsequent phase inversion enabling period when the drive unit performs the operation of inverting the phase of the polarity of the voltage.
7. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 5 , wherein the luminance determination unit determines whether the average luminance has changed by the amount equal to or more than the reference luminance only during the phase inversion enabling period set by the setting unit.