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Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2008

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2005
Applicants:

Takezo Murakami, Kagoshima Prefecture, JP;

Yoshiharu Simizu, Kagoshima Prefecture, JP;

Inventors:

Takezo Murakami, Kagoshima Prefecture, JP;

Yoshiharu Simizu, Kagoshima Prefecture, JP;

Assignee:

Pioneer Plasma Display Corporation, Kagoshima Prefecture, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 3/20 (2006.01); H04N 5/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A display device having a prolonged lifetime by preventing deterioration of image quality by reducing a burn-in is provided. A display device includes a still image region detecting unit for detecting still image data from video data, a detecting unit for detecting, as an edge portion, a pair of pixels having a level difference of image data larger than a set level difference, of a plurality of pair of adjacent pixels for the still image data, and a level adjusting unit for adjusting a level of the image data of a group of pixels including the edge portion and arranged consecutively and outputting the image data after the adjustment to a driving unit. The level adjusting unit adds/subtracts a random noise to/from the image data of the group of pixels.


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