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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Nobuyuki Suzuki, Mercer Island, WA (US);
John Patrick Fogarty, Seattle, WA (US);
Aaron Gilbert Moo, Seattle, WA (US);
Kari Jussi Ropo, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A backlight control system is provided. A modulation value register is included in memory of the system. A display backlight is included in the system, the display backlight including a light emitting diode (LED) light source configured to illuminate a liquid crystal display (LCD). Processing circuitry included in the system is configured to execute a clock timer and a temporal dither pattern generator. The temporal dither pattern generator is configured to receive a modulation value from the modulation value register, and apply a temporal dither according to a signal from the clock timer to the modulation value to generate a dithered modulation value. A modulator executed by the processing circuitry is configured to receive the dithered modulation value and modulate a power signal according to the dithered modulation value to drive the display backlight.