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Patent No.:

US 8411116 B1

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Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2009
Applicants:

Andreas Karrenbauer, St. Wendel, DE;

Marc Albrecht, San Francisco, CA (US);

Chihao Xu, Saarbruecken, DE;

Inventors:

Andreas Karrenbauer, St. Wendel, DE;

Marc Albrecht, San Francisco, CA (US);

Chihao Xu, Saarbruecken, DE;

Assignee:

Chihao XU, Saarbruecken, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/10 (2006.01); G09G 3/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system for displaying an image on a liquid crystal display (LCD) that may reduce power consumption. The method and system can include calculating a luminance for pixels in an image in a LCD based upon a light spread function and brightness values of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The method and system can also include changing a brightness of an LED based upon a consideration of the gray value of the pixels and the distance of the pixels from a dominant LED. The method and system can further set the brightness of the LED units to a brightness or brightness value substantially greater than or equal to a gray value of each pixel of the image.


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