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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2002
Jurgen Jean Louis Hoppenbrouwers, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An image processing unit ( ) for processing an image that is to be displayed in a plurality of sub-fields on a plasma display panel ( ), has a storage ( ) for storing the set of combinations of sub-fields that are available as intensity levels, and a selector ( ) for selecting, from the storage, a particular combination for a pixel to be displayed. The difference regarding sub-fields between a first one of the combinations representing a first available illumination level, and a second one of the combinations representing the next higher illumination level, has been limited, the limiting including control such that only a limited number of the sub-fields that are switched on in the first one of the combinations, are not switched on in the second one of the combinations.