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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2008
Jun Someya, Tokyo, JP;
Masako Asamura, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Someya, Tokyo, JP;
Masako Asamura, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image display apparatus, and an apparatuse for and a method of image processing are provided that can reduce in real time a quantization noise in an image signal received by the image display apparatus. The image processor apparatus includes a variation calculator that calculates, as a variation B of grayscale, a difference in a grayscale value between adjacent pixels in a single dimension in a spatial direction, of an image signal A; a variation limiter that limits a range of a possible value of the variation B calculated by the variation calculator; a gradient determination unit that calculates a gradient of grayscale of image signals from the variation C having the value limited; an additional bit generator that generates an additional bit, based on the image signal grayscale gradient calculated by the gradient determination unit; a bit adder that adds to the image signals the additional-bit-generator-generated additional bit, to output the additional-bit-added image signals; and a display unit that displays an image based on an image signal to be output from the bit adder.