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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2010
Hyung-rae Kim, Seoul, KR;
Jae-sung Park, Seoul, KR;
Jung-jin Park, Seongnam-si, KR;
Jun-ho Sung, Seoul, KR;
Tae-hyeun Ha, Suwon-si, KR;
Rustam Abdulaev, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Hyung-rae Kim, Seoul, KR;
Jae-sung Park, Seoul, KR;
Jung-jin Park, Seongnam-si, KR;
Jun-ho Sung, Seoul, KR;
Tae-hyeun Ha, Suwon-si, KR;
Rustam Abdulaev, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
A display apparatus includes a display panel which include a plurality of areas; a communication unit which receive information about brightness sensed by a pointing device; a backlight unit which includes a plurality of light sources; and a controller which controls the backlight unit to change the brightness of the plural areas by a predetermined unit, and determines a pointing position of the pointing device on the basis of relative variation in the information about the brightness. With this, it is possible to detect a pointing position of a pointing device in a display apparatus having a hold-type display panel.