DISPLAY DEVICE WITH A BACKLIGHT

• US 20090160756A1
• Filed: 04/23/2007
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Oepts, Wouter, Van Beek, Wilhelmus Henricus Maria
• Application Number:
  US12/300,154
• Publication Number:
  US 20090160756A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/102
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0633 by amplitude modulation of the brightness of the illumination source
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0646 Modulation of illumination source brightness and image signal correlated to each other
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3413 Details of control of colour illumination sources
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3426 the different display panel areas being distributed in two dimensions, e.g. matrix

Abstract

A display device comprises an image display unit (2) configured to display an image, a backlight (6) comprising at least one group of light emitting sources arranged on a substrate (3), said group comprising at least a red, a green, a blue and a white light emitting source, and backlight control means (7). The backlight control means are configured to identify respective specific drive levels of the red, green and blue light sources, select a drive level for the white light source in dependence thereof and generate actual drive levels of the red, green and blue light sources.

Claims

1. A display device comprising

an image display unit (2) configured to display an image,

a backlight (6) comprising at least one group (4) of light emitting sources arranged on a substrate (3), said at least one group (4) comprising at least a red (R), a green (G), a blue (B) and a white (W) light emitting source, and

a backlight control unit (7) configured to:

identify red, green and blue specific drive levels (Rspec, Gspec, Bspec) for the red, green and blue light sources in said at least one group (4) of light emitting sources,

set a white drive level (Wdrive) for said at least one white light source in said at least one group (4) in dependence of the red, green and blue specific drive levels, and

generating red, green and blue actual drive levels (R, G, B) from the red, green and blue specific drive levels (Rspec, Gspec, Bspec) and the white drive level.

2. A display device according to claim 1, wherein the backlight control unit (7) is further configured to activate the at least one white light source using the white drive level, and the at least one red, green and blue light sources using the red, green and blue actual drive levels.

3. A display device according to claim 1, wherein the backlight control unit (7) is configured to set the red, green and blue drive levels (R, G, B) to a corresponding one of the red, green and blue specific drive levels (Rspec, Gspec, Bspec), decreased by the white drive level (W).

4. A backlight device according to claim 1, wherein the light emitting sources are inorganic light emitting diodes.

5. A display device according to claim 1, wherein the backlight comprises at least one segment (5), each segment (5) comprising groups of light emitting sources.

6. A display device according to claim 5, wherein the number of segments (5) depend on a content of the image.

7. A display device according to claim 5, wherein the shape of the segments (5) depend on a content of the image.

8. A display device according to claim 1, further comprising video image processing means (8) configured to analyze the image and input to the backlight control means (7), the red, green and blue specific drive levels (Rspec, Gspec, Bspec).

9. A display device according to claim 8, wherein the backlight control means (7) is configured to decrease light source drive levels based on image content.

11. A mobile terminal comprising a display device (1) according to claim 1.

10. A method of controlling a backlight device (6) in a display device (1) comprising an image display unit (2), said backlight device (6) comprising at least one group (4) of light emitting sources arranged on a substrate (3), said at least one group (4) comprising at least a red (R), a green (G), a blue (B) and a white (W) light emitting source, said method comprising the steps of:

identifying (301) red, green and blue specific drive levels (Rspec, Gspec, Bspec) for the red, green and blue light sources in said at least one group (4) of light emitting sources,

setting (302) a white drive level (Wdrive) for said at least one white light source in said at least one group (4) in dependence of the red, green and blue specific drive levels, and

generating (303) red, green and blue actual drive levels (R, G, B) from the red, green and blue specific drive levels (Rspec, Gspec, Bspec) and the white drive level.