An image processing apparatus includes a memory from which a plurality of image signals can be parallelly read out, a read-out circuit for parallelly reading out the plurality of image signals from the memory, a correlation detection circuit for detecting a correlation between the plurality of image signals read out by the read-out circuit, an encoding circuit for encoding the image signals read out by the read-out circuit, and a control circuit for controlling an encoding operation of the encoding circuit in accordance with an output from the correlation detection circuit. The apparatus can simplify the hardware arrangement and allows easy encoding processing.
Disclosed is an LCD having an adaptive luminance intensifying function and driving method thereof. A timing controller checks features of externally provided image data, and when they are found to be moving pictures, it determines a luminance level required from the image data and outputs a luminance level control signal, and when they are found to be still images, outputs a predetermined luminance signal. A backlight driver outputs a high-potential backlight driving voltage to the backlight unit when a luminance control signal of high-luminance level driving is provided by the timing controller, and outputs a constant level luminance signal when a constant luminance signal is input. As a result, by selecting a plurality of portions of the displayed screen and tracking and monitoring the changes of the image data, features of the images are defined and application conditions of the luminance intensifying function are determined to control the luminance level of the backlight and outputs of gamma voltage levels. Accordingly, the contrast of a display screen is improved and the power consumption is
An image recording apparatus comprises means for storing in a memory input image data as basic image data in a period of a predetermined number of fields as well as feeding the input image data to image compression means, means for finding, with respect to each of the input image data corresponding to the fields between the field corresponding to the input image data which has been stored in the memory and the field corresponding to the input image data which is to be subsequently stored in the memory, the difference between the input image data and the basic image data which has been most newly stored in the memory, and feeding data representing the obtained difference to the image compression means, and means for recording on a recording medium compressed data for each field which has been compressed by the image compression means, together with identification indicating whether the compressed data corresponds to the basic image data or the difference data.
