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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2008
Ling-hsiu Huang, Tainan County, TW;
Ling-Hsiu Huang, Tainan County, TW;
Himax Technologies Limited, Tainan, TW;
Abstract
A method of controlling backlight module, a backlight controller and a display device using the same are provided herein. First, an image having a plurality of regions is received, wherein the image is displayed by a plurality of color backlights which are provided from the backlight module. Next, a first average of a characteristic in a specific region of the image is calculated, wherein the specific region is one of the regions. According to the first average of the characteristic and a weight function, a characteristic weight is calculated. Next, one of the color backlights provided to the specific region is adjusted according to the characteristic weight. Therefore, adjusting the color backlights according to the image content can enhance the displaying quality of the image and adaptively reduce the artifacts perceived by human eyes in different images.