Patent ID: 8462200

Claim:
A video-image processing apparatus comprising: a video-image processing section configured to execute output control on a plurality of video-image streams each including a plurality of unitary video images appearing along the time axis so as to output every unitary video image pertaining to each of said video-image streams repeatedly a plurality of times in a row by sequentially switching said video-image streams to be output from one stream to another on a time-division basis; a frame memory for temporarily storing an immediately preceding unitary video image as it is or after replacing the luminance gradation of said immediately preceding unitary video image with a post-replacement luminance gradation where said immediately preceding unitary video image is defined as a unitary video image which immediately leads ahead of a current unitary video image being output by said video-image processing section and is selected among unitary video images pertaining to a video-image stream other than and different from a video-image stream including said current unitary video image; and an overdrive processing section configured to carry out overdrive processing on said current unitary video image in accordance with said luminance gradation of said immediately preceding unitary video image already stored in said frame memory and the luminance gradation of said current unitary video image, wherein a unitary video image pertaining to each of said video-image streams is output repeatedly a plurality of times in a row in the same plurality of output operations; in said overdrive processing carried out on said current unitary video image output in any one of said output operations, said overdrive processing section refers to a lookup table used for prescribing an overdrive quantity set for said current unitary video image in accordance with the luminance gradation of said immediately preceding unitary video image and the luminance gradation of said current unitary video image; and a lookup table referred to in any specific one of said output operations is different from a lookup table referred to in any output operation other than said specific output operation, and wherein for each unitary video image the unitary video image is output a plurality of times in a row during a predetermined period, the outputs of the unitary video image during the predetermined period correspond to respective subperiods, and a plurality of lookup tables are provided for respective ones of the subperiods, the plurality of lookup tables varying from sub-period to sub-period.