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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2008
Mun-soo Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Gun-woo Moon, Daejeon, KR;
Won-sik OH, Daegu, KR;
Dae-youn Cho, Daejeon, KR;
Kyu-min Cho, Daegu, KR;
Nam-deog Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Seung-hwan Moon, Yongin-si, KR;
Mun-Soo Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Gun-Woo Moon, Daejeon, KR;
Won-Sik Oh, Daegu, KR;
Dae-Youn Cho, Daejeon, KR;
Kyu-Min Cho, Daegu, KR;
Nam-Deog Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Seung-Hwan Moon, Yongin-si, KR;
Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Korea Advanced Institute Science & Technology, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
A backlight unit of a liquid crystal display device supplies light to one or more corresponding pixels of a liquid crystal display panel. The backlight unit includes a plurality of blocks formed into a matrix shape. Each block includes a light emitting diode module. The blocks in a row of the matrix are driven by a same row driving signal and the blocks in a column of the matrix are driven by a same column driving signal, to adjust luminance of the light supplied to the corresponding pixels.