Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Display device and method for driving same
- Patent Title (中): 显示装置及其驱动方法
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Application No.: US13138244Application Date: 2010-05-14
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Publication No.: US08797305B2Publication Date: 2014-08-05
- Inventor: Kentarou Imamura , Shigeto Yoshida
- Applicant: Kentarou Imamura , Shigeto Yoshida
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2009-131554 20090529
- International Application: PCT/JP2010/058223 WO 20100514
- International Announcement: WO2010/137474 WO 20101202
- Main IPC: G09G5/00
- IPC: G09G5/00 ; G09G3/30 ; H04N13/04

Abstract:
Provided is a display device for carrying out seamless display so that a sense of strangeness is not given to a viewer or the sense of strangeness is reduced. In at least one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel on which a plurality of display elements are disposed in a matrix, the display panel having a frame area which is located at an end of the display panel and in which no display element is provided; a light guide element provided on the display panel, the light guide element changing a light path of part of light emitted from the plurality of display elements so that the part of light is guided to the frame area; a photosensor provided on the display panel, the photosensor detecting environment illuminance; an image signal correcting section which (i) corrects, in accordance with the environment illuminance detected by the photosensor, an image signal to be supplied to a display element included in an area where the light guide element is provided so that a reduction in luminance or coloring of display light of the image caused by the light guide element is reduced, and (ii) outputs a corrected image signal; and a driving section which drives the display element in accordance with the corrected image signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110279426A1 DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME Public/Granted day:2011-11-17
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