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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2020
Himax Technologies Limited, Tainan, TW;
Wu-Feng Chen, Tainan, TW;
Hsueh-Tsung Lu, Tainan, TW;
Tsai-Hsing Chen, Tainan, TW;
Cheng-Che Tsai, Tainan, TW;
HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, Tainan, TW;
Abstract
The local dimming method includes: dividing a digital image into multiple blocks and calculating a backlight parameter of each of the blocks; performing a backlight simulation based on the backlight parameters to calculate source brightness of each pixel; quantifying the backlight parameters into multiple reference backlight parameters according to numerical ranges; performing the backlight simulation based on the reference backlight parameters to calculate reference source brightness of each pixel; for each of the pixels, setting a gain of the pixel to be less than or equal to a first value if the corresponding reference source brightness is equal to the darkest backlight parameter, otherwise determining the gain of the pixel according to a ratio of the source brightness to the reference source brightness; adjusting grey levels of the pixels according to the gains to obtain adjusted grey levels and driving the display panel according to the adjusted grey levels.