Patent ID: 7126591

Claim:
An image display device, comprising: a black correction part performing a black correction processing of correcting a black reproducibility of an image data containing a predetermined number of color data, to output black-corrected image data; and an image display means performing an image display on a predetermined screen based solely on said black-corrected image data, said black correction part including: a black-display characteristic specifying means performing a predetermined operation to specify a black-display characteristic specifying data related to a characteristic in displaying black with said image display means; a black-approximated data calculating means calculating a black-approximated data composed of said predetermined number of color data and related to luminance and at least one of chromaticity and tristimulus values in displaying black based on said characteristic in displaying black with said image display means on the basis of said black-display characteristic specifying data; and a black-correction processing executing means executing said black correction processing to said image data in units of said predetermined number of color data based on said black-approximated data, to output said black-corrected image data.