Patent ID: 7605948

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising: a plurality of pixels including first and second pixels neighboring each other, each pixel including (a) a device generating energy rays and (b) a luminous body irradiated with the energy rays to emit light according to an amount of the energy rays so as to display in a gray level; a correction circuit for correcting an input data corresponding to the gray level of the first pixel on the basis of a correction value, and for outputting corrected data by correcting the input data; and a drive circuit for driving the first pixel according to the corrected data, wherein the correction value is obtained by adjusting a value in accordance with a nonlinear characteristic between the input data corresponding to the gray level which the first pixel displays and the gray level which the first pixel displays, wherein the value to be adjusted corresponds to a part of the energy rays, which is generated by driving the device of the second pixel, and which irradiates the luminous body of the first pixel, and wherein the correction value is obtained by dividing the value to be adjusted by a gradient of a curve, which expresses the nonlinear characteristic, at a neighborhood of the input data corresponding to the gray level which the first pixel displays.