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Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009

Filed:

Dec. 08, 2005
Applicant:

Norihiro Higashi, Osaka, JP;

Inventor:

Norihiro Higashi, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:

Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Daito-shi, Osaka, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/01 (2006.01); H04N 11/20 (2006.01); H04N 9/12 (2006.01); G09G 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

When showing a picture without trimming it while a video signal stored in a frame memoryhas an aspect ratio different from that of a screen of a plasma display panel, with respect to video signals Eand Ein areas bordering on blank zones Eand Econtaining no picture appearing in upper and lower or right and left ends of the screen of the plasma display panel, a video signal processorreduces a luminance difference by lowering levels of overshootsandand undershootsandaccompanying sharpness processing applied to cope with blurring in edge portions caused by bilinear interpolation, thereby suppresses burn-in of the video signals Eand Ein said areas bordering on the blank zones on the plasma display panel


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