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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2020
Himax Technologies Limited, Tainan, TW;
Chih-Ying Lin, Tainan, TW;
Chia-Wei Tsai, Tainan, TW;
HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, Tainan, TW;
Abstract
A circuitry for controlling a backlight module, the circuitry includes a local dimming control circuit and a backlight control circuit. The local dimming control circuit is configured to generate local dimming data based on image data and an arrangement of a plurality of light emitting units of the backlight module, in which the local dimming data includes a first local dimming data corresponding to a first light emitting unit of the plurality of light emitting units and a second local dimming data corresponding to a second light emitting unit of the plurality of light emitting units, and the number of bits of the first local dimming data is different from the number of bits of the second local dimming data. The backlight control circuit is configured to control the backlight module to irradiate backlight based on the local dimming data.