Patent ID: 7852349
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: A61B,G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image display method for displaying an image on a color monitor, based on a n-bit color display image-data group that is represented by plural channels including three channels or more, and that is acquired by converting (n+m)-bit monochromatic image data represented by a single channel to the n-bit color display image-data group, based on a correlation established in advance between the (n+m)-bit monochromatic image data and the n-bit color display image-data group, wherein numeral “n” indicates a positive integer equal to or greater than 8, while numeral “m” indicates a positive integer equal to or greater than 2, the image display method comprising: selecting “H” sets of signal-values of the plural channels out of all combinations of signal-values of the plural channels included in the n-bit color display image-data group as candidate color display signal-value sets, wherein numeral “H” indicates a positive integer; determining a single color display signal-value set, to be correlated with each of signal values represented by the (n+m)-bit monochromatic image data, from among the “H” sets of candidate color display signal-value sets, with respect to each of the signal values represented by the (n+m)-bit monochromatic image data; and establishing the correlation by correlating each of the signal values represented by the (n+m)-bit monochromatic image data with the color display signal-value set determined in the determining step while corresponding thereto.