Patent ID: 8044980

Claim:
An image display displaying a multicolor image by using image data expressing color components of a first color system comprising predetermined colors as reference colors, comprising: a display unit displaying an image on the basis of a second color system comprising each of a red color, green color and blue color which are different from said first color system as reference colors, and displaying each of a white color, the red color, the green color and the blue color included in said second color system per pixel in correspondence to input device data; a basic color computing unit determining basic data expressing each of color components of the red color, the green color and the blue color in the second color system comprising each of the red color, the green color and the blue color of said display unit as the reference colors by using the input image data of the first color system; a specific color computing unit determining specific data expressing each of the color components of any two colors of the red color, the green color and the blue color of said display unit and a white color in a third color system comprising said two color and the white color as reference colors, by using the input image data of the first color system; a combining unit determining combined data of each of the white color, the red color, the green color and the blue color by combining each of basic data of said basic color computing unit, and each of the specific data of said specific color computing unit with respect to the same color so as not to exceed the maximum luminance of said display unit; and an output data computing unit determining device data of each of the colors of said display unit on the basis of said combined data, wherein the combining unit includes an adding unit adding reference data of said basic color computing unit and the specific data of said specific color computing unit per each color at a predetermined rate, and a determining unit determining said predetermined rate.