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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2019
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;
Shinji Yamamoto, Sakai, JP;
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A smartphone in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a control section capable of generating an output image by adjusting a gradation value of each pixel of an input image with use of specialized gradation change characteristics. In the specialized gradation change characteristics, (i) a gradation change rate is substantially constant in a low gradation region and a high gradation region, (ii) in a first side of an intermediate gradation region selected from (a) a low-gradation-region side and (b) a high-gradation-region side, the gradation change rate is lower than in the low gradation region and lower than in the high gradation region, and (iii) in a second side of the intermediate gradation region selected from (a) the low-gradation-region side and (b) the high-gradation-region side, the second side differing from the first side, the gradation change rate is higher than in the low gradation region and higher than in the high gradation region.