Patent ID: 7400321

Claim:
An image display unit using an active matrix type display panel which has a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, and holds and displays an electrical signal pixel by pixel for a predetermined time, comprising: a rate conversion circuit which converts a video signal having a first vertical frequency into a video signal having a second vertical frequency which is m/n-fold (wherein m is an integer of 2 or more, n is an integer of 1 or more, and conditions of m>n are satisfied) of the first vertical frequency, and outputs the converted signal; a time base emphasizing circuit which emphasizes a high-zone component in a direction of the time base by using image data corresponding to at least two adjacent frames in the video signal having the second vertical frequency output from the rate conversion circuit; and a drive circuit which displays the video signal having the second vertical frequency output from the rate conversion circuit in the active matrix type display panel, wherein the rate conversion circuit comprises: an image memory which writes the video signal having the first vertical frequency and outputs the written video signal as the video signal having the second vertical frequency; a motion vector detection circuit which detects a motion vector by using image data output from the image memory; and first and second interpolation circuits which perform motion compensation interpolation by using the image data output from the image memory and the motion vector, and output respective image data each being a video signal having the second vertical frequency and shifted as much as one frame from the other, and the time base emphasizing circuit emphasizes the high-zone component in the direction of the time base by using the respective image data output from the first and second interpolation circuits as the image data corresponding to the at least two adjacent frames.