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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2008
Masutaka Inoue, Moriguchi, JP;
Tomoya Terauchi, Moriguchi, JP;
Masutaka Inoue, Moriguchi, JP;
Tomoya Terauchi, Moriguchi, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi-shi, JP;
Abstract
A lighting unit includes: a light source unithaving a plurality of solid state light sources, a liquid crystal paneldisplaying an image in accordance with an image input signal, a light source controlling unitcontrolling, in accordance with the image input signal, a light amount of color component lights emitted from light source unit, and a speckle degree calculating unitcalculating a speckle degree that indicates a degree to which the color component lights generate a speckle displayed in accordance with the image input signal. The light source controlling unitchanges a control ratio between a first control mode and a second control mode, in accordance with the speckle degree acquired by the speckle degree calculating unit