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US 10,311,801 · App. 14/654,940 · Granted Jun 4, 2019

Liquid crystal display device

Inventor: Katsuya Otoi (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Patent No.
US 10,311,801
App. No.
14/654,940
Granted
Jun 4, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

It is possible to realize a liquid crystal display device 1 which is provided with a down-converter 7 , a local dimming control circuit 8 , and an upscaling control circuit 9 including a luminance ratio calculation circuit and a gradation conversion circuit, and thus, capable of processing an image having an image size that is not assumed, and further, reducing a storage area, a processing load and a circuit size.

Claims (15)

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

a local dimming control circuit that outputs backlight luminance data in accordance with first-size input image data, and outputs first-size liquid crystal gradation data such that the first-size input image data is reproduced by superimposing the backlight luminance data on the first-size liquid crystal gradation data;

a liquid crystal panel;

a backlight in which a luminance of each region of a plurality of backlight regions is controlled in accordance with the backlight luminance data;

at least one or more down-converters that convert second-size image data, which is larger than the first-size image data, to the first-size image data;

a luminance ratio calculation circuit that calculates a gradation ratio by dividing the first-size liquid crystal gradation data output from the local dimming control circuit by the first-size image data output from the down-converter, each of the data corresponding to a same position on a display face; and

a gradation conversion circuit that calculates second-size liquid crystal gradation data by multiplying a plurality of data, which corresponds to neighboring positions on the display face and selected from the second-size image data in accordance with a reduction rate between the second-size image data and the first-size image data by the gradation ratio at a corresponding position on the display face, wherein

the at least one or more down-converters includes a first down-converter and a second down-converter,

the first-size image data output from the first down-converter is supplied to the local dimming control circuit and the first-size image data output from the second down-converter is supplied to the luminance ratio calculation circuit,

the luminance ratio calculation circuit and the gradation conversion circuit are provided in an upscaling control circuit.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein

a number of the at least one or more down-converters is one, and

the first-size image data output from the down-converter is supplied to the local dimming control circuit and the luminance ratio calculation circuit.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the luminance ratio calculation circuit, the gradation conversion circuit and the second down-converter are provided in an upscaling control circuit.

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the gradation conversion circuit is provided in an upscaling control circuit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 23, 2015
From: OTOI, KATSUYA
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-009551 · Jan 22, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150348469A1 · Dec 3, 2015