Patent ID: 6188382
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: G02B,G09G

Abstract:
An image display apparatus comprising:an image display plane comprising a plurality of pixels arranged with a pixel pitch;image display control means for receiving an input image signal and, in accordance with said input image signal, displaying an image on a sustantially whole area of the image display plane and a part of the image, which is less than the entire image, on a selected region of the image display plane, said selected region being less than said substantially whole area, by shifting image display positions of the image with respect to said image display plane in a given direction by an integer multiple or an inverse of an integer multiple of the pixel pitch of the image display plane; andimage display plane shift means for effectively and selectively shifting, in synchronism with the operation of said image display control means, a display position of said part of said image with respect to said selected region of said image display plane, in a direction opposite to said given direction in which said image display position shifting is carried out,wherein said image display control means displays, for said selected region of the image display plane, said part of the image whose display position is shifted, plural times for a given time period, and displays, for a remaining portion of the image display plane, the image only once for said given time period.