Patent ID: 7868863

Claim:
A liquid crystal display, comprising: a data circuit; and a timing control and video output unit configured for receiving YCbCr image signals, and connected to the data circuit, the timing control and video output unit comprising a converter circuit and an image edge enhancement circuit configured for sharpening at least one edge of an image shown by the liquid crystal display, the image edge enhancement circuit comprising a color adjusting unit and a brightness comparison unit, the YCbCr image signals comprising a plurality of signal sets, each signal set including a sampling signal and at least one non-sampling signal; the brightness comparison unit configured for comparing the difference between brightness factors Y of each non-sampling signal of a previous signal set and the sampling signal of the previous signal set with the difference between brightness factors Y of each non-sampling signal of the previous signal set and the sampling signal of a next signal set, the color adjusting unit configured for receiving color factors Cb, Cr of the YCbCr image signals and adjusting the color factors Cb, Cr of the non-sampling signals of the YCbCr image signals according to a result of the comparison received from the brightness comparison unit, and the converter circuit configured for converting the adjusted YCbCr image signals to corresponding RGB signals and sending the RGB signals to the data circuit; wherein when the difference between the brightness factors Y of the non-sampling signal of the previous signal set and the sampling signal of the previous signal set is less than or equals the difference between the brightness factors Y of the non-sampling signal of the previous signal set and the sampling signal of the next signal set, the color adjusting unit keeps the color factors Cb, Cr of the non-sampling signal of the previous signal set equaling the color factors Cb, Cr of the sampling signal of the previous signal set; and when the difference between the brightness factors Y of the non-sampling signal of the previous signal set and the sampling signal of the previous signal set is greater than the difference between the brightness factors Y of the non-sampling signal of the previous signal set and the sampling signal of the next signal set, the color adjusting unit changes the color factors Cb, Cr of the non-sampling signal of the previous signal set to the color factors Cb, Cr of the sampling signal of the next signal set.