Patent ID: 8310438

Claim:
An image display device comprising: a liquid crystal panel that displays an image thereon based on an image signal; a backlight device that is mounted on a back side of the liquid crystal panel and segmented into plural regions, and has light sources for emitting light to the liquid crystal panel which are arranged on each region; a delay unit that delays a first image signal with a first frame frequency for one frame period to generate a second image signal; an interpolation image signal generating unit that generates one or plural interpolation image signals to be inserted between adjacent frames in the first image signal, using the first image signal and the second image signal; a gain calculator that calculates a gain based on a ratio of a maximum gradation in one frame period of the first image signal and a maximum gradation to be determined depending on the number of bits in an image signal, with respect to each region of the liquid crystal panel corresponding to the each region of the backlight device; a first multiplier that multiplies the first image signal by the gain to generate the multiplied first image signal; a second multiplier that multiplies the second image signal by the gain to generate the multiplied second image signal; at least one multiplier that multiplies the one or plural interpolation image signals by the gain to generate the multiplied one or plural interpolation image signals; an overdrive unit that carries out processing for emphasizing the multiplied first image signal and the multiplied one or plural interpolation image signals in a time axis direction, using the multiplied one or plural interpolation image signals and the multiplied second image signal adjacent to the multiplied first image signal and the multiplied one or plural interpolation image signals on time series, to generate a first image signal and one or plural interpolation image signal subjected to the emphasis processing; and a frame frequency conversion unit that inserts the one or plural interpolation image signals having been subjected to the emphasis processing between the adjacent frames in the first image signal having been subjected to the emphasis processing to generate an image signal with a second frame frequency higher than the first frame frequency.