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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jae-Sun Park, Suwon-shi, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/36 ;
Abstract
There is provided a control method for driving backlight parts to provide backlight to a display and a keypad in a mobile terminal. The display backlight part and the keypad backlight part are controlled to be selectively driven, according to the state of the cover and the presence or absence of key input data. Therefore, power dissipation caused by unnecessary operation of the backlights can be prevented.