Patent ID: 7129959

Claim:
An image display device for displaying an image according to image data for different primary colors, comprising: a plurality of smoothing units for filtering the image data of respective primary colors, using different filtering characteristics for the different primary colors; and a display unit coupled to the smoothing units, for displaying the image according to the filtered image data, and wherein the display unit displays picture elements in which a first one of the primary colors occupies a leftmost position, a second one of the primary colors occupies a central position, and a third one of the primary colors occupies a rightmost position; a first one of the smoothing units, filtering the image data of the first one of the primary colors, has an asymmetric filtering characteristic with a centroid shifted right; a second one of the smoothing units, filtering the image data of the second one of the primary colors, has a symmetric filtering characteristic; and a third one of the smoothing units, filtering the image data of the third one of the primary colors, has an asymmetric filtering characteristic with a centroid shifted left.