Image processing circuit, image display device, and an image processing method

An image processing circuit, comprising:

• a current field I/P conversion section for converting received interlace image data of a current field to progressive image data for the current field;
• a previous field I/P conversion section for converting received interlace image data of a previous field to progressive image data for the previous field;
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• image processing means for subjecting the current field and previous field progressive image data to color correction as image processing, the image processing including time series data comparison.

An image processing circuit, comprising:

• a current field I/P conversion section for converting received interlace image data of a current field to a progressive image data for the current field;
• a previous field I/P conversion section for converting received interlace image data of a previous field to progressive image data for the previous field;
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• image processing means for subjecting the current field and previous field progressive image data to white balance correction as image processing, the image processing including time series data comparison.

An image processing circuit, comprising:

• I/P conversion means for converting received interlace image data to progressive image data;
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• image processing means for subjecting the progressive data to image processing in relation to overshoot drive, wherein the image processing means conducts image processing including time series data comparison, and the I/P conversion means independently includes:
• a current field I/P conversion section for subjecting image data of the current field to the I/P conversion;
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• a previous field I/P conversion section for subjecting image data of the previous field to the I/P conversion.

An image processing circuit, comprising:

• a current field I/P conversion section for converting received interlace image data of a current field to progressive image data for the current field:
• a previous field I/P conversion section for converting received interlace image data of a previous field to a progressive image data for the previous field;
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• image processing means for subjecting the current field and previous field progressive image data to image processing, the image processing including time series data comparison, wherein the I/P conversion means conducts I/P conversion including time series data comparison, in both the current field I/P conversion section and the previous field I/P conversion section.

An image processing circuit, comprising:

• a current field I/P conversion section for converting received interlace image data of a current field to progressive image data for the current field:
• a previous field I/P conversion section for converting received interlace image data of a previous field to progressive image data for the previous field;
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• image processing means for subjecting the current field and previous field progressive image data to image processing, the image processing including time series data comparison, wherein the I/P conversion means conducts I/P conversion not including time series data comparison, in both the current field I/P conversion section and the previous field I/P conversion section.

An image processing circuit, comprising:

• a current field I/P conversion section for converting received interlace image data of a current field to progressive image data for the current field;
• a previous field I/P conversion section for converting received interlace image data of a previous field to progressive image data for the previous field;
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• image processing means for subjecting the current field and previous field progressive image data to image processing, the image processing including time series data comparison, wherein the I/P conversion means conducts I/P conversion including time series data comparison in the current field I/P conversion section, whereas the I/P conversion means conducts I/P conversion not including time series data comparison in the previous field I/P conversion section.

An image processing circuit, comprising:

• I/P conversion means for converting received interlace image data to progressive image data;
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• image processing means for subjecting the progressive data to image processing in relation to overshoot drive, wherein the image processing means conducts image processing including time series data comparison, and progressive signals which have been converted by the I/P conversion means are, before being supplied to the image processing means, divided into:
• image data of the current field that is directly supplied to the image processing means;
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• image data of the previous field that is temporarily stored in a memory for delaying data by one field and then supplied to the image processing means.

An image processing method, comprising the steps of:

• converting received interlace image data via interlace/progressive (I/P) conversion into progressive image data;
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• subjecting the progressive image data to image processing,
• wherein the converting step creates new data, in each field of the interlace image data, which is used for interpolation so that the number of fields of whole image data does not vary during converting of the interlace image data to progressive image data, and a line to be interpolated by I/P conversion receives data in accordance with calculation using data of at least one line located before and after the line to be interpolated in a sub-scanning direction.

An image processing method, comprising the steps of:

• first converting received interlace image data of a current field via interlace/progressive (I/P) conversion to progressive image data for the current field;
• second converting received interlace image data of a previous field via I/P conversion to progressive image data for the previous field;
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• subjecting the current field and previous field progressive image data to image processing in relation to overshoot drive, the image processing including time series data comparison.

An image processing method, comprising the steps of:

• first converting received interlace image data of a current field via I/P conversion to progressive image data for the current field;
• second converting received interlace image data of a previous field via I/P conversion to progressive image data for the previous field;
• and
• subjecting the current field and previous field progressive image data to color correction as image processing, the image processing including time series data comparison.

An image processing method, comprising the steps of:

• first converting received interlace image data of a current field via I/P conversion to progressive image data for the current field;
• second converting received interlace image data of a previous field via I/P conversion to progressive image data for the previous field;
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• subjecting the current field and previous field progressive image data to white balance correction as image processing, the image processing including time series data comparison.