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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2005
Yukihiro Sasazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshitake Kondo, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukihiro Sasazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshitake Kondo, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display device able to give an image giving a good impression such as a sharp contrast in a dark scene and maintaining brightness in a bright scene, that is, a display device comprising a variable aperture iris and a control circuit for controlling opening/closing of the iris in accordance with a state of a level of an input signal forming a screen, wherein the control circuit controls the iris so that a response of an open/close operation of the iris is different between a case where the signal level fluctuates from a dark level to a bright level and a case where the signal level fluctuates from a bright level to a dark level.