Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Daisuke Honda

Naoya Oka

Hiroshi Aoki

Ryo Hasegawa

Rikiya Asaoka

Masahiro Nako

Akira Kitazume

Hiroyuki Kurabayashi

Akihiro Shiraishi

Toshiaki Ohyama

Yuki Nagano

A television device structured to automatically adjust the color temperature on the display screen in accordance with the viewing environment includes an external light detection unit or an optical sensor for detecting the illuminance and the tint of the ambient light, and an image quality control unit or a microcomputer for adjusting quality of the video image to be displayed on the display panel. The image quality control unit adjusts the color temperature of the video image to be displayed in accordance with the illuminance value and the tint value detected by the external light detection unit. The optical sensor includes an illuminance sensor for mainly detecting the visible light, and an infrared sensor for mainly detecting the infrared light. The illuminance value and the tint value are obtained based on the output values of those two sensors.

Television device for adjusting quality of video image to be displayed

Disclosed is an image display technique for displaying a high-quality image by an image signal of appropriate color saturation. To this end, in the invention, color histogram information is detected from a color difference signal and average brightness information or brightness histogram information from a brightness signal. Based on the detected color histogram information and average brightness information or brightness histogram information, the demodulation axis of a color difference signal is adjusted, thereby controlling the color saturation (chroma) of an image. This enables display of an image having color intensity suited to the brightness and chroma of an image signal.

Image display apparatus, image signal processing circuit used therein, and method of controlling color saturation of image signal

An image processing apparatus is provided that performs more appropriate black stretch processing to display a high quality video. The image processing apparatus includes a luminance characteristics detection unit that analyzes a received video signal to detect a frequency of each of a plurality of luminance areas with a luminance at least equal to or lower than a predetermined luminance, a black stretch processing unit that performs black stretch processing for a luminance signal with a luminance equal to or lower than a predetermined luminance level, and a microcomputer that uses the frequency of each of the plurality of luminance areas, detected by the detection unit, to control the black stretch processing of the black stretch processing unit.

Image processing apparatus

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Yokohama, Japan

Daisuke Honda