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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2000
Hiroyuki Mano, Chigasaki, JP;
Toshio Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Tsutomu Furuhashi, Yokohama, JP;
Masaaki Kitajima, Hitachiota, JP;
Toshio Futami, Mobara, JP;
Masaki Mega, Mobara, JP;
Shigeyuki Nishitani, Ebina, JP;
Naruhiko Kasai, Fujisawa, JP;
Kohji Takahashi, Mobara, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A liquid crystal halftone display system including a tone generator which, for pixels having P tones of K tones (1≦P≦K), alternately outputs first N-bit tone display data and second N-bit tone display data in successive frames at one of a first phase and a second phase. Within a block of pixels, the tone generator alternately inverts the phase of the N-bit tone display data at successive first pixels having different ones of the P tones within the block of pixels beginning at a left side of the block of pixels, and alternately inverts the phase of the N-bit tone display data at successive pixels having a same one of the P tones within the block of pixels beginning at the left side of the block of pixels.