Patent ID: 7403318

Claim:
An image display device having an optical modulation element, which modulates light emitted from a light source according to display information, and displaying a display image based on the display information, the image display device comprising: a unit adjusting an amount of illumination light with respect to light emitted from the light source based on brightness information of the brightness of the display image based on the display information; a color conversion processing unit that performs a color conversion process according to the brightness information with respect to the display information so that the display image can be color-reproduced within a predetermined color space; a display and driving unit that drives the optical modulation element based on the display information having been subjected to the color conversion process so as to display the display Image; and a color conversion information storage unit that stores a plurality of conversion tables corresponding to the brightness information, each of the plurality of conversion tables associating each input pixel value corresponding to each color with each output pixel value for making the display image color-reproduced within a predetermined color space in correspondence with each input pixel value; wherein, when the color conversion processing unit performs the color conversion process, the color conversion processing unit converts each input pixel value for each color, which corresponds to each pixel, included in the display information into each output pixel value on the basis of based on one of the plurality of conversion tables corresponding to the brightness information.