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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2010
Hye Dong Jung, Seoul, KR;
Hyung Su Lee, Seoul, KR;
Hye Dong Jung, Seoul, KR;
Hyung Su Lee, Seoul, KR;
Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Seongnam-si, KR;
Abstract
Provided are a display apparatus and a method for controlling a backlight. A display apparatus including a backlight partitioned into a plurality of sections according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: an external brightness measurer measuring and providing front brightness values of the display apparatus corresponding to the sections; an image signal analyzer analyzing an inputted image signal and calculating and providing a brightness influence value of each section by adjacent sections; and a control signal corrector converting a source backlight control signal of each section corresponding to the image signal into an intermediate backlight control signal of each section on the basis of the front brightness values and the brightness influence values of the sections and comparing the intermediate backlight control signal with the previous final backlight control signal to generate the current final backlight control signal.