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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2013
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Atsushi Ozawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsuru Tada, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/10 (2006.01); G09G 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a character highlighting control apparatus including a highlighting degree controller and an image quality converter, wherein a character part and a background part are in an image to be displayed on a display screen. The highlighting degree controller is configured to control a panel driver to increase a luminance of a pixel in the character part. The image quality converter is configured to decrease a luminance of a pixel in the background part when the luminance of the pixel in the character part is increased.