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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2006
Applicant:
Masanori Hori, Echizen, JP;
Inventor:
Masanori Hori, Echizen, JP;
Assignee:
Orion Electric Company, Ltd., Fukui-ken, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A memory section stores a plurality of electric power saving modes classified into groups by combining a plurality of electric power saving items in a television image receiver, a DVD or an LCD. Microcomputer controls one of the plurality of the electric power saving modes to be set to ON/OFF, thereby making it possible to ON/OFF control a plurality of electric power saving items included in that electric power saving mode includes all together. In accordance with this electric power saving mode, a dimming level of a backlight is decreased to a preset brightness or the backlight is automatically shut down.