Display method and display apparatus using this method

A display method which allows a display apparatus to display gray levels represented by a first number of bits of an image signal inputted to a driver circuit that drives said display apparatus, when said first number of bits is larger than a second number of bits of gray-level data outputted from said driver circuit, said method comprising:

• a first pseudo gray-level display step of performing frame rate control so as to add first pseudo gray levels, using a first number of frames to display each of the first pseudo gray levels, into intervals between adjacent ones of gray levels represented by said second number of bits;
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• a second pseudo gray-level display step of performing frame rate control so as to add at least one second pseudo gray level, using a second number of frames to display the second pseudo gray level, into at least one of two consecutive intervals between the gray levels represented by said second number of bits.

A display apparatus which displays gray-level data represented by a first number of bits of an image signal inputted to a driver circuit that drives said display apparatus, by using a display method which allows said display apparatus to display gray levels represented by said first number of bits when said first number of bits is larger than a second number of bits of gray-level data outputted from said driver circuit, said apparatus comprising:

• a controller configured to execute a method, said method including,
• a first pseudo gray-level display step of performing frame rate control so as to add first pseudo gray levels, using a first number of frames to display each of the first pseudo gray levels, into intervals between individual gray levels represented by said second number of bits, and
• a second pseudo gray-level display step of performing frame rate control so as to add at least one second pseudo gray level, using a second number of frames to display the second pseudo gray level, into at least one of the intervals between the individual gray levels to which said first pseudo gray-level display step has been applied, said second number of frames being different from said first number of frames.

A display apparatus which displays gray-level data represented by a first number of bits of an image signal inputted to a driver circuit that drives said display apparatus, by using a display method which allows said display apparatus to display gray levels represented by said first number of bits when said first number of bits is larger than a second number of bits of gray-level data outputted from said driver circuit, said apparatus comprising:

• a controller configured to execute a method, said method including,
• a first pseudo gray-level display step of performing frame rate control so as to add first pseudo gray levels, using a first number of frames to display each of the first pseudo gray levels, into intervals between adjacent ones of gray levels represented by said second number of bits, and
• a second pseudo gray-level display step of performing frame rate control so as to add at least one second pseudo gray level, using a second number of frames to display the second pseudo gray level, into at least one of two consecutive intervals between the gray levels represented by said second number of bits.