Patent ID: 8907974

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for displaying an image in a display panel in which pixels configured of four sub-pixels, with two sub-pixels each disposed in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, are disposed in matrix form, the apparatus comprising: an obtainment unit that obtains image data in which each pixel disposed in the first direction and the second direction is expressed as a three-color tone value; a scaling unit that enlarges the first direction and second direction sizes, respectively, of an image expressed by the image data obtained by the obtainment unit by a scaling rate of (n/m) times (where m and n are predetermined integers that fulfill 1<(n/m)<2); a color conversion unit that converts the three-color image data enlarged by the scaling unit into four-color image data that corresponds to the four sub-pixels; and a decimating unit that reduces the number of pixels in the image data resulting from the conversion performed by the color conversion unit in accordance with the disposition of the four sub-pixels.