Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090027882 | Backlight Assembly, Method of Manufacturing the Same and Display Device Having the Same - A backlight assembly includes a light-generating unit and a receiving container. The light-generating unit includes at least one point light source generating light and a power supply line transferring power for driving the point light source. The receiving container receives the light-generating unit, and the power supply line is formed on an insulating layer included in the receiving container. | 01-29-2009 |
20090121652 | LIGHT SOURCE MODULE, BACKLIGHT ASSEMBLY HAVING THE SAME, DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME AND METHOD FOR REDUCING NUMBER OF WIRES USED IN INTERCONNECT CABLE OF THE SAME - A light source module includes a driving substrate, a plurality of light source blocks and a currents control element. The light source blocks are disposed on the driving substrate, and each of the light source blocks includes at least one light source. The currents control element is disposed on the driving substrate, and has channel terminals for individually controlling driving currents passed through at least two light source blocks. The channel terminals are electrically connected to the at least two light source blocks, respectively. The currents control element is disposed on the driving substrate and individually controls the driving currents applied to the light source blocks, so that a number of wires of a connection cable connected to a light source driving connector is less than the number of light source drive currents being individually controlled. | 05-14-2009 |
20090213576 | OPTICAL MEMBER, BACKLIGHT ASSEMBLY AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An optical member according to one or more embodiments includes an optical plate and an optical film. In an embodiment, the optical plate includes an incident part receiving light provided from the exterior and an emitting part emitting the light. The optical film is attached to the incident part and includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer facing the first conductive layer and polarized particles disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. Thus, light sources of a backlight assembly may be individually driven regardless of the type of light source and the disposition of the light sources, and image display quality may be improved by improving a contrast ratio by realizing various gradation voltages. | 08-27-2009 |
20090267926 | METHOD FOR DRIVING LIGHT SOURCE BLOCKS, DRIVING UNIT FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE DRIVING UNIT - A display apparatus includes light source blocks driven as follows in displaying at least one frame (possibly every frame). An image to be displayed includes image pixels. Each light source block corresponds to an image pixels block which is a block of image pixels to be displayed directly opposite to the light source block. For each image pixels block, a block mean value and a block maximum value are determined. A parameter is determined which corresponds to a total luminance of the frame. For each image pixels block, a block representative value is determined which corresponds to the parameter, the block representative value being within a range between the block mean value and the block maximum value inclusive. During the frame, each light source block is driven to provide a luminance which is an increasing function of the corresponding block representative value. | 10-29-2009 |
20090295309 | FEEDBACK CONTROL OF LIGHTING-EMITTING BLOCKS IN A DISPLAY APPARATUS - To drive light-emitting blocks, currents are sensed through the light-emitting blocks arranged in an M×N matrix (wherein M and N are natural numbers), wherein M rows are connected to a row switching part and N columns are connected to a column switching part. The light-emitting blocks are driven by a local dimming method with feedback control responsive to the sensed currents. | 12-03-2009 |
20090295841 | METHOD OF BOOSTING A LOCAL DIMMING SIGNAL, BOOSTING DRIVE CIRCUIT FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE BOOSTING DRIVE CIRCUIT - There is provided a method of boosting a local dimming signal. In the method, it is determined whether or not local dimming signals, which are applied for individually driving light source blocks per frame, satisfy boosting conditions. Then, a predetermined local dimming signal corresponding to at least one of the light source blocks is boosted to a reference luminance value when the local dimming signals continuously satisfy the boosting conditions, and the boosting luminance of the predetermined local dimming signal at the reference luminance value is gradually decreased after a light adaptation time of an observer's eye. When the luminance of light source blocks that are boosted is gradually decreased before the light adaptation time or luminance of light source blocks that will be boosted is gradually increased to the light adaptation time, power consumption required to boost the light source blocks may be decreased. | 12-03-2009 |
20100039452 | METHOD FOR DRIVING A LIGHT SOURCE, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - A light source device includes a light source part, a power supply part and a light source control part. The light source part includes a plurality of light sources that generates a plurality of color lights. The power supply part applies electric power to the light source part. The light source control part controls the electric power by sensing the light intensity of a portion of the color lights. | 02-18-2010 |
20100060671 | LOCAL-DIMMING METHOD, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS PERFORMING THE LOCAL-DIMMING METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - A light source module of a display device comprises light-emitting blocks each of which comprises multiple sets of light sources, with different sets emitting different colors (e.g. red, green and blue). Each set is independently controllable according to one or more driving parameters. A local-dimming method comprises: (a) in each color-dimming period, driving each light-emitting block by the first color-dimming process; (b) in each compensating period, driving each light-emitting block by a full-color process which is independent of the image; (c) in each compensating period, sensing emitted light and determining the one or more driving parameters' reference driving values operable to generate a reference color; (d) in at least one of the color-dimming and compensating periods, driving each light-emitting block using the one or more driving -parameters' values which depend on the reference driving values; and (e) between a color-dimming period and an adjacent compensating period, gradually switching the light-source module between the first color-dimming process and the full-color process. | 03-11-2010 |