Electro-optic device and electronic apparatus

摘要

An electro-optic device according an embodiment of the invention can increase the number of gray scales capable of being expressed. A liquid crystal panel is viewed via a blocking unit which blocks the field of view in a predetermined non-viewing period. A converting unit converts, based on a video signal, a gray-scale value input for each frame composed of a subfields into a subfield code indicating a combination of ON and OFF of b (2≦b≦a) subfields included in a viewing period other than the non-viewing period and c (1≦c≦b) subfields included in the non-viewing period. A driving unit drives a plurality of electro-optic elements each based on the converted subfield code.

主权项

1. An electro-optic device comprising:
a plurality of electro-optic elements which are viewed via a shutter glass which blocks a field of view in a predetermined non-viewing period, and each of which is brought into an optical state corresponding to a supplied signal; a non-transitory memory that stores a combined subfield code indicating a combination of ON and OFF and combines a non-viewing subfield code for the non-viewing period and a viewing sub-field code for a viewing period other than the non-viewing period; a converting unit that refers to the non-transitory memory and converts, based on a video signal indicating a video divided into a plurality of frames, a gray-scale value input for the viewing period of each of the frames which is composed of a subfields into the combined subfield code including the viewing subfield code of b (2≦b≦a) subfields and the non-viewing subfield code of c (1≦c≦b) subfields; and a driving unit which drives the plurality of electro-optic elements by supplying, based on the combined subfield code converted by the converting unit, the signal for controlling the optical state of each of the plurality of electro-optic elements.