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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2017
Applicant:
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Norimasa Furukawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Horiuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Nakaki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/34 (2006.01); G09G 3/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/3426 (2013.01); G09G 3/3674 (2013.01); G09G 3/342 (2013.01); G09G 2310/024 (2013.01); G09G 2310/0237 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0233 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0257 (2013.01); G09G 2320/064 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0633 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0646 (2013.01); G09G 2340/0435 (2013.01);
Abstract
A backlight unit of the present disclosure includes: a backlight including a plurality of light-emitting devices that are allowed to emit light at mutually different timings and include a first light-emitting device and a second light-emitting device; and a controller that controls a light emission operation of the backlight to cause the first light-emitting device and the second light-emitting device to emit light with mutually different average light emission intensities in a first sub-frame period of a plurality of sub-frame periods provided corresponding to a frame period.