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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2011
Mitsuyasu Asano, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Nishi, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuyasu Asano, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Nishi, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A liquid crystal display device includes: a light source section so configured that independently-controllable emission subsections are formed on a light-exit plane of a light-guide plate; a liquid crystal display panel modulating, based on an input picture signal, light exited from each of the emission subsections in the light source section; and a display controlling section having a partitioning-drive processing section generating, based on the input picture signal, an emission pattern signal representing a light emission pattern of the emission subsections in the light source section, and a partitioning-drive picture signal. The display controlling section performs, based on the partitioning-drive picture signal, display-drive on each pixel in the liquid crystal display panel, and performs, based on the emission pattern signal, light-emission drive through allowing one or more of first light sources and one or more of second light sources to emit concurrently so as to form the emission subsections.