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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2024
Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Masao Orio, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Nose, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirobumi Furihata, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoo Minaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kazutoshi Aogaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A display device includes a backlight device, a driver circuit, and a backlight control circuit. The backlight device includes an array of light sources configured to illuminate a display area of a display panel. The display area is segmented into zones corresponding to the light sources, respectively. The zones include inner zones and outmost zones. The inner light sources of the light source array are each located at a center of corresponding one of the inner zones. Each outmost zone is different in shape from at least one inner zone which is adjacent to at least one outmost zone. The backlight control circuit is configured to control a luminance level of a first outmost light source of the array of light sources based on pixel data of pixels in a first outmost zone of the outmost zones, and the first outmost light source corresponds to the first outmost zone.