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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2004
Nobuaki Honbo, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuaki Honbo, Kanagawa, JP;
NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd., Kawasaki-Shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A liquid crystal display is provided which is capable of improving a quality of a displayed image made up of a moving image and a static image in a mixed manner. By arranging backlights and by dividing one frame of a video input signal into four frame blocks and by getting a moving image detecting circuit to judge whether an image for each of the frame blocks is a moving image or a static image and having a lighting timing duty control section get the backlight corresponding to an image for the frame block having been judged to be a moving image to flash and also get the backlight corresponding to an image for the frame block having been judged to be a static image to be turned ON all the time, occurrence in an image retention phenomenon or a blur of an edge is reduced when a moving image is to be displayed and occurrence of a flicker is eliminated when a static image is to be displayed, which enables improvements in a quality of a displayed image.