LCD Backlight Control via Weighted Intensity Blending
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional liquid crystal display (LCD) backlight control methods cause unnatural luminance variations, leading to discomfort for observers, especially when bright objects move across boundaries between illuminated areas, resulting in rapid changes in backlight intensity.
Innovation Solution
A video display apparatus with a two-step emission intensity calculation process, where small-area emission intensities are determined based on video signals and combined using weight coefficients to smoothly vary light source intensities, reducing luminance gaps between adjacent areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by stationary object
If backlight luminance is controlled based on representative values from divided luminous areas, then power consumption is reduced and display dynamic range is expanded, but unnatural luminance variations occur causing observer discomfort
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is divided into multiple luminous areas, each with independently controllable backlight luminance. This segmentation enables localized brightness adjustment, allowing the system to reduce overall power consumption by dimming areas that do not require high brightness while maintaining high brightness only in areas containing bright objects, thus resolving the contradiction between power consumption reduction and natural luminance display.
Solution Approach 2:
Different luminous areas are assigned different backlight luminance levels based on their local content requirements. The system calculates representative values for each luminous area and adjusts the backlight luminance locally according to these values, ensuring that each area has the appropriate brightness quality for its specific content, thereby avoiding unnatural luminance variations while optimizing power consumption.
2Measurement precision
If backlight luminance changes rapidly when bright objects cross area boundaries, then the bright object is tracked accurately, but observer comfort deteriorates due to perceptible luminance jumps
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary calculations of representative values for all luminous areas before adjusting backlight luminance. By pre-calculating the required luminance levels based on video signal analysis, the system can smoothly transition between different luminance states as bright objects move across boundaries, avoiding sudden jumps while maintaining accurate tracking of bright object positions.
Solution Approach 2:
The backlight luminance control system dynamically adjusts luminance levels in response to moving bright objects. The representative value calculations and subsequent luminance adjustments are continuously updated as objects move, enabling the system to track bright objects accurately while maintaining smooth, natural transitions in luminance that prevent observer discomfort.
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AI summary
According to one embodiment, a video display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel configured to display a video on a display area and light sources, each configured to be controlled respectively and to light in an illumination area into which the display area is virtually divided according as arrangement of the light sources. The apparatus includes a first calculation unit configured to calculate a second emission intensity corresponding to a small-area based on a video signal in a small-area, wherein the small-area is segmented area of the display area and smaller than the illumination area. The apparatus includes a second calculation unit configured to calculate a first emission intensity to control the light source from the second emission intensities and a control unit configured to light the light sources at the first emission intensities.


