Hitachi, Ltd.

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Hitachi Video and Information System, Inc.

Hitachi Video & Information

Shinji Uchida

Yasuyuki Kudo

Tsutomu Furuhashi

Hiroyuki Mano

Tatsuhiro Inuzuka

Takeshi Maeda

Satoshi Konuma

Tomohide Ohira

A display apparatus includes a display having a plurality of pixels, and a controller which selects a pattern corresponding to a gradation of gradation data. On-state pixels are added to a pattern corresponding to one gradation of the gradation data to obtain a pattern corresponding to another gradation of the gradation data higher than the one gradation of the gradation data while maintaining unchanged an arrangement of on-state pixels in the pattern corresponding to the one gradation of the gradation data.

Liquid crystal display control apparatus and liquid crystal display apparatus

A liquid crystal display control apparatus includes a display on/off data generation circuit for generating plural display on/off data per pixel corresponding to M (M>N, M and N being integers) frame periods of a video output signal in N frame periods of a video input signal on a unit pixel basis in response to gray-scale data of pixel units included in the video input signal, a write control circuit for writing display on/off data per pixel corresponding to M frames of the video output signal generated by the display on/off data generation circuit into a frame memory during N frame periods of the video input signal, and a read control circuit for sequentially reading out, from the frame memory, display on/off data corresponding to M frames of the video output signal written in the frame memory in synchronism with one display scan period of the video output signal, thereby the data written in the frame memory is not gray-scale data but display on/off data of one bit, therefore, a data bus width at a time of accessing the frame memory can be reduced.

A liquid crystal controller for controlling display of a liquid crystal display device of passive matrix type includes gray scale processing being performed on input data before being written in a frame memory for frame frequency conversion and gray scale processing being performed after the frequency conversion and reading of the data from the frame memory so that an amount of information of display data written in the frame memory can be reduced. Further, since the gray scale display pattern is switched by the same switching frequency as the converted frame frequency, pattern movement and flicker of the gray scale display portions can be reduced.

Liquid crystal controller and liquid crystal display unit

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Chiba-ken, Japan

Shinji Uchida