Patent ID: 7245307

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: calibration signal generation means for generating a first calibration signal for displaying a white calibration image and second calibration signals for displaying subtracted-primary-color calibration images having a plurality of kinds of primary colors forming white, one kind of the primary colors being subtracted by a predetermined input value in each of the subtracted-primary-color calibration images; image display means for displaying the white calibration image and the subtracted-primary-color calibration images at different time points, based on the first and second calibration signals respectively; sensing means for sensing each of the white calibration image and the subtracted-primary-color calibration images which has been displayed, and generating sensing signal values; primary-color amount information generation means for calculating first differential values between the sensing signal values for the white calibration image and the sensing signal values for each of the subtracted-primary-color calibration images, and calculating estimated sensing signal values for images, based on the first differential values and input-output characteristic information for the plurality of kinds of the primary colors in the subtracted-primary colors, each of the images not being affected by ambient light and having the highest output value of one of the plurality of kinds of the primary colors which is subtracted by the predetermined input value; ambient-light amount information generation means for calculating a second differential value between the total value of the estimated sensing signal values for each of the primary colors and the sensing signal values for the white calibration image, and generating ambient-light amount information indicating an amount of ambient light based on the second differential value; and correction means for performing a predetermined correction on input image signals in order to display images in which effects of ambient light have been reduced, based on the ambient-light amount information and the estimated sensing signal values, wherein the calibration signal generation means generates the second calibration signals for the subtracted-primary-color calibration images of the plurality of kinds of the primary colors, one kind of the primary colors being subtracted by the predetermined input value in each of the subtracted-primary-color calibration images, and wherein the image display means displays images, based on image signals which have been corrected by the correction means.