Patent ID: 7330181

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for processing an image signal to be displayed by an image display apparatus, the image processing apparatus comprising: storage means for storing a supplied image signal with a first frame rate; output control means for controlling outputting of the image signal to a plurality of image display apparatuses or a plurality of image signal display processing units disposed in an image display apparatus; and display control means for controlling displaying of an image corresponding to the image signal output under control of the output control means; wherein, in a case in which there are provided at least n image display apparatuses or display processing units disposed in an image display apparatus: the output control means controls the outputting of the image signal such that the image signal is output frame by frame from the storage means to the n image display apparatuses or display processing units at a second frame rate equal to 1/n of the first frame rate; and the display control means controls the displaying of images corresponding to the image signal output to the n image display apparatuses or display processing units such that images corresponding to the image signal output to the n image display apparatuses or display processing units are displayed in turn in a dot-sequential or line-sequential manner while a display start timing is shifted from one frame to another by 1/n of one scanning period at the second frame rate.