Patent ID: 7982810
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal television comprising: a liquid crystal module that displays images on a screen of the liquid crystal module; a tuner that extracts TV broadcast signals of a channel selected from a TV broadcast signals received by an antenna and outputs the extracted signals; a scaler large scale integration (LSI) equipped with: a decoder that separates image signals and audio signals from input TV signals, and simultaneously decodes the image signals and extracts amounts of three primary color signal components, that is, amounts of R (red), G (green), and B (blue) components; a scaler that generates image data for one frame to be displayed in the liquid crystal module after performing scaling processing on input image signals in order to match the input image signals to a pixel number of the screen of the liquid crystal module; and an on-screen display (OSD) processing section that generates still images and superimposes the still images onto image signals after being supplied with data used to generate OSD signals; an image quality adjustment circuit that performs a specified image quality adjustment processing on the image signals input by the scaler LSI, and outputs the processed image signals to the liquid crystal module; and a microcomputer that controls the tuner, the scaler LSI, and the liquid crystal module, and simultaneously supplies an OSD processing section with data used to generate OSD signals, the liquid crystal television further including: a delay circuit that delays the image signals output by the scaler LSI by a time needed for the image quality adjustment circuit to perform image quality adjustment processing; and a switch that switches a connection between the image quality adjustment circuit and the delay circuit according to a control of the microcomputer so that the image signals are output from either of the image quality adjustment circuit or the delay circuit, the OSD processing section generates OSD signals used to display rectangular OSDs on the screen after being supplied with data used to generate OSD signals by the microcomputer and outputs the OSD signals superimposed onto the image signals; and