Gradation correcting apparatus for correcting luminance signal in accordance with detected color signal

Claim 1

A gradation correcting apparatus comprising a histogram memory for obtaining the histogram of an input luminance signal, said histogram shows how the pixels per screen are distributed in accordance with input luminance signal and one ordinary is added to histogram data as a summing data, an arithmetic unit for having the histogram data, outputted rom the histogram memory, as inputs so as to obtain the cumulative histogram, normalizing the maximum level of cumulative histogram so that it can be the same as that of an output signal, with look-up table memory which can store the normalized cumulative histogram data by corresponding address of the memory with the input luminance signal, the table memory will be referred by the corresponding input luminance signal and the data which is read from the memory is output data, an output circuit for having the output of the arithmetic unit as the input so as to synchronize the input luminance signal with the normalized arithmetic unit output, outputting the arithmetic unit output as the luminance signal data, in addition to taking into consideration the color signal corresponding to the luminance signal, a correction color detecting circuit for inputting at least one of the color signal and the luminance signal as the input, detecting the picture component having at least either of the particular color and luminance, a controlling circuit for correcting the summing data, to get more than "one" level, which is added to the histogram data to be retained in the histogram memory in accordance with the detection data to make the summing data of a particular color larger.