Image processing system and method, and image display system

An image display system comprising:

• a display device configured to display a picture while changing the picture every frame picture;
• an image processing device comprising a picture signal converting part configured to convert an input picture signal, which is a picture signal for a picture to be displayed on a display device configured to display a picture while changing the picture every frame picture, and an input synchronizing signal, which is synchronized with the input picture signal, into an output picture signal, which is a picture signal for a picture suitable for the display for the display device, and an output synchronizing signal which is synchronized with the output picture signal, on the basis of picture information which indicates whether the picture to be displayed on the display device is a moving picture or a still picture;
• and
• a motion picture discriminating part configured to discriminate whether the picture to be displayed is a moving picture or a still picture,
• wherein the picture signal converting part comprises
• a device discriminating part configured to discriminate whether a display device is an impulse type device or not,
• an input frame memory configured to record an input frame picture;
• an input switching part configured to transmit an input frame picture to be displayed, to the input frame memory on the basis of the input picture signal and the input synchronizing signal,
• a black raster picture producing part configured to produce or store a black raster picture,
• a picture converting part configured to produce output frame pictures from input frame pictures, which have been recorded in the input frame memory, by producing an interpolated picture or inserting a black raster picture or thinning out the frame pictures, between frame pictures corresponding to the picture information, on the basis of the picture information and the input synchronizing signal and the output synchronizing signal,
• an output frame memory configured to record therein the output frame pictures;
• and,
• an output control switching part configured to take the output picture signal and the output synchronizing signal out of the output frame pictures, which have been recorded in the output frame memory, to transmit the signals to the display device, and
• wherein the motion discriminating part incorporates input frame pictures to be displayed, at regular intervals on the basis of the input picture signal and input synchronizing signal, obtains the correlation between two input frame pictures which have been continuously incorporated, and discriminates whether the input frame picture to be displayed is a moving picture or a still picture on the basis of the correlation result,
• wherein when it is determined that the picture to be displayed is a moving picture, the motion discriminating part determines whether the moving picture is in a first state in which the motion of a moving object in the moving picture is rapid, or in a second state in which the moving speed of the moving object is slower than that in the first state, on the basis of the correlation, and
• wherein when it is discriminated that the display device is the impulse type display device, when it is discriminated that the picture to be displayed is a moving picture, and when it is determined that the moving speed of the moving object in the moving picture is in the second state, the picture converting part
• compares the refresh rate of the input frame pictures with the refresh rate of the output frame pictures,
• outputs the input frame pictures as the output frame picture, when the refresh rate of the input frame pictures is equal to the refresh rate of the output frame pictures,
• stops the output of signals between the input frame pictures, or inserts and outputs a black raster picture, when the refresh rate of the output frame pictures is higher than the refresh rate of the input frame pictures, and
• thins out the input frame pictures to produce and output the output frame pictures, when the refresh rate of the output frame pictures is lower than the refresh rate of the input frame pictures.