Display apparatus and control method thereof

• US 20050156950A1
• Filed: 12/13/2004
• Published: 07/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Kil-soo, Jang, Sung-hwan
• Application Number:
  US11/009,553
• Publication Number:
  US 20050156950A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/690
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/064 by time modulation of the brightness of the illumination source
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/144 the light being ambient light
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3406 Control of illumination source illumination devices structurally associated with liquid crystal cells G02F1/1336
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3611 Control of matrices with row and column drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/10 Intensity circuits

Abstract

A display apparatus having a displayer which displays a picture and a brightness adjuster which adjusts a brightness of the displayer, including: an optical sensor detecting circumferential brightness; and a controller calculating criterion brightness data of the displayer on a basis of the circumferential brightness, and calculating brightness data of the displayer according to a variation of the circumferential brightness on a basis of the criterion brightness data so as to control the brightness adjuster to adjust the brightness of the displayer according to the brightness data.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising a displayer which displays a picture and a brightness adjuster which adjusts a brightness of the displayer, further comprising:

an optical sensor detecting circumferential brightness; and

a controller calculating criterion brightness data of the displayer on a basis of the circumferential brightness, and calculating brightness data of the displayer according to a variation of the circumferential brightness on a basis of the criterion brightness data so as to control the brightness adjuster to adjust the brightness of the displayer according to the brightness data.

2. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the criterion brightness data of the displayer has an upper limit and a lower limit, and

wherein the controller adjusts the brightness of the displayer on a basis of criterion data of the upper limit when the criterion brightness data exceeds the upper limit and on the basis of criterion data of the lower limit when the criterion brightness data is below the lower limit.

3. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the criterion brightness data is data with which the displayer outputs maximum brightness.

4. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller calculates the criterion brightness data on a basis of an average value of the circumferential brightness detected during a specified time.

5. The display apparatus of claim 2, wherein the controller calculates the criterion brightness data on a basis of an average value of the circumferential brightness detected during a specified time.

6. The display apparatus of claim 3, wherein the controller calculates the criterion brightness data on a basis of an average value of the circumferential brightness detected during a specified time.

7. The display apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an optical sensor, wherein the controller controls the brightness adjuster to output the maximum brightness of the displayer on a basis of the criterion brightness data when the circumferential brightness detected by the optical sensor is identical to or above a particular brightness corresponding to the criterion brightness data.

8. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller calculates the brightness data linearly reduced by as much as the variation of the circumferential brightness on a basis of the criterion brightness data.

9. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller controls the brightness adjuster so as to adjust the brightness of the displayer on a basis of the brightness data that reflects the variation of the circumferential brightness.

10. The display apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an optical sensor, wherein the controller includes a storage part storing a sampling time during which the optical sensor extracts samples out of the detected circumferential brightness, the number of samples extracted out of the circumferential brightness, and a sampling period with which the samples are extracted out of the circumferential brightness for updating the brightness data; and

a memory which stores a sampling time during which an optical sensor extracts samples out of the detected circumferential brightness, the number of samples extracted out of the circumferential brightness, and a sampling period with which the samples are extracted out of the circumferential brightness for updating the brightness data.

11. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller includes a mircoprocessor calculating the criterion brightness data on a basis of the circumferential brightness detected by an optical sensor and the brightness data reflecting the variation of the circumferential brightness to generate a corresponding control signal, and a microcomputer transferring the control signal generated by the microprocessor to the brightness adjuster.

12. The display apparatus of claim 11, wherein the brightness adjuster includes a first timer and a second timer, and transfers a pulse width modulation (PWM) control signal to the displayer to adjust the brightness of the displayer.

13. The display apparatus of claim 12, wherein the first timer generates a specified pulse signal.

14. The display apparatus of claim 12, wherein the second timer adjusts a duty ratio of the pulse signal on a basis of the control signal transferred from the microcomputer.

15. A control method of a display apparatus comprising a displayer which displays a picture and a brightness adjuster which adjusts brightness of the displayer, further comprising:

detecting circumferential brightness;

calculating a criterion brightness data on a basis of the detected circumferential brightness;

calculating brightness data according to a variation of the circumferential brightness on a basis of the criterion brightness data; and

adjusting the brightness of the displayer with the brightness adjuster according to the calculated brightness data.

16. The control method of claim 15, wherein the criterion brightness data has an upper limit and a lower limit, and wherein the brightness of the displayer is adjusted on a basis of criterion data of the upper limit when the criterion brightness data exceeds the upper limit and on the basis of criterion data of the lower limit when the criterion brightness data is below the lower limit.

17. The control method of claim 15, wherein the criterion brightness data is data with which the displayer outputs maximum brightness.

18. The control method of claim 15, wherein the calculating the criterion brightness data on a basis of the detected circumferential brightness includes calculating the criterion brightness data on a basis of an average value of the circumferential brightness detected for a specified time.

19. The control method of claim 16, wherein the calculating the criterion brightness data on a basis of the detected circumferential brightness includes calculating the criterion brightness data on a basis of an average value of the circumferential brightness detected for a specified time.

20. The control method of claim 17, wherein the calculating the criterion brightness data on a basis of the detected circumferential brightness includes calculating the criterion brightness data on a basis of an average value of the circumferential brightness detected for a specified time.

21. The control method of claim 15, wherein the calculating the criterion brightness data includes adding brightness data corresponding to a current circumferential brightness to stored former criterion brightness data.