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A portable computer system that comprises dynamically adjustable brightness range settings and brightness control for providing improved user readability and prolonged component lifetime of the display screen. The main processor can change the range settings based on ambient light conditions or the user can perform the changes. The brightness level of the display changes according to a user selected setting within the range selected. The time required to implement the brightness change can be set to a value which can be configured by the user.

An organic light emitting display capable of reducing power consumption and controlling brightness in response to the intensities of peripheral light. The organic light emitting display includes a data driver for supplying data signals to data lines, a scan driver for sequentially supplying scan signals to scan lines and sequentially supplying emission control signals to emission control lines, a display region including a plurality of pixels for receiving the data signals, the scan signals and the emission control signals to display images and a brightness controller for controlling the brightness of the display region. The brightness controller controls the brightness of the display region in response to the data of one frame and the intensities of peripheral light. This system reduces power consumption, controls the brightness of the display region in response to the intensities of the peripheral light and improves the contrast of the display region.

Disclosed herein is an electroluminescence device capable of controlling the brightness thereof based on the intensity of force or the intensity of pressure. The electroluminescence device includes a substrate at least a part of which is transparent; a first electrode formed on the bottom face of the substrate; an emission layer formed underneath the first electrode; a second electrode formed underneath the emission layer; a tactile sensor formed underneath the second electrode and sensing the intensity of force or the intensity of pressure; and a controller connected to the tactile sensor and adjusting a variation in electric field between the first and second electrodes based on the output of the tactile sensor to control the brightness of light emitted from the emission layer.

A settable light bulb whose brightness can be set by the user, and more particularly, to the use of a switch or a slide built in to the bulb itself to control the brightness in either discrete or continuous increments.

The backlight apparatus allows brightness control with minimum image quality deterioration. This apparatus has: an illuminating section (20) that radiates illumination light on a back of a liquid crystal panel (10) which comprises a plurality of image display areas and which displays an image by modulating per image display area the illumination light according to an image signal; and a brightness determining section (30) that determines a light emission brightness value of the illuminating section (20) and renews a light emitting state of the illuminating section (20), based on the determined light emission brightness value, and the illuminating section (20) has a plurality of light emitting areas illuminating each of a plurality of image display areas, and the brightness determining section (30) determines a light emission brightness value of the first image display area, from values acquired by applying weights to the first information based on an input image signal of the first image display area and the second information based on the input image signal of the second image display areas, and changes the weights for the first information and the second information based on luminance of ambient light surrounding the backlight apparatus.

Immediately before regular image pickup, a reference image is taken through exposure control by center-weighted photometry. A histogram indicative of a luminance distribution of all pixels is generated on the basis of luminance information of the reference image. Then, a luminance point in the histogram where the accumulated number of pixels from the high-luminance side is equal to a half of the total number of pixels is obtained, and a difference is calculated between the luminance point and a luminance point (“118”) when the brightness is uniform in the reference image. At the time of regular image pickup, proper exposure determined in response to the brightness of the subject when the reference image is taken is compensated with the previously calculated difference, and exposure control for the compensated proper exposure is performed.

A surface light source includes a discharge tube, a power source, and a surface light source control part. The discharge tube includes a plurality of lighting areas. Each lighting area has a discharge electrode part. The power source applies electric power to the discharge electrode parts. The surface light source control part separately controls brightness of each lighting area by separately controlling electric power levels applied to the discharge electrode part of each lighting area, respectively. Therefore, relatively high contrasts and relatively low power consumption are obtained.

A backlight device includes a light source module having a plurality of light sources, a detecting circuit, a control unit, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) driving circuit. The detecting circuit is used for detecting the brightness of the light source module and generating a detecting signal to the control unit, such that the control unit outputs a control signal according to the detecting signal. In addition, the PWM driving circuit is used for generating a PWM signal for driving the light source module. In the present invention, the PWM driving circuit adjusts the base frequency of the PWM signal according to the control signal without adjusting the duty cycle of the PWM signal, so as to control the brightness of the light sources.

A backlight driver includes an inverter controller, a dimming signal compensator and an inverter. The inverter controller generates a pulse width modulation signal in response to a control signal and outputs a first dimming signal that represents a duty ratio of the pulse width modulation signal and a second dimming signal that represents an amplitude of the pulse width modulation signal. The dimming signal compensator receives the first and second dimming signals, compares the first dimming signal with a predetermined reference duty ratio and compensates the second dimming signal in accordance with the compared result to generate a third dimming signal. The inverter outputs a driving voltage to drive the backlight and varies a voltage level of the driving voltage in response to the first and third dimming signals to control a brightness of the backlight.

An LED display assembly, comprising a grid of electrical conductors; light emitting diodes in association with the grid and in electrical communication with the conductors that provide power for LED operation, the grid operable to receive heat from the diodes during diode operation, and the array configured for passing coolant fluid for transfer of heat to the fluid. LED packages adjustable relative to a mounting grid, are also provided.

A three-dimensional display for the viewer to watch through glasses is provided, wherein the glasses have two lenses and the polarized directions thereof are perpendicular to each other. The three-dimensional display includes a display panel and a liquid crystal phase modulator. The display panel, suitable for displaying an image, has a plurality of pixels arranged in array and a polarizer having a transmission axis, wherein the polarizer disposed between the pixels and the glasses. The liquid crystal phase modulator suitable for providing phase retardation includes a liquid crystal layer and an alignment layer adjacent to the display panel. An included angle between an alignment direction of the alignment layer and the transmission axis is substantially equal to n×45 degrees, wherein an absolute value of n is an integer. The liquid crystal phase modulator adjusts a phase of the image and then outputs an image with three-dimensional information.

The invention relates to a ballast for operating at least one low-pressure discharge lamp, preferably a three- or four-lamp ballast. In order for all parallel- or series-connected low-pressure discharge lamps (L40-L43) to shine equally bright even in the case of strong dimming, the ballast according to the invention has a transformer (Tr40) for balancing the currents in the lamp branch circuits and a transformer (Tr41) for compensating the losses owing to parasitic capacitances.

A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first vertical electrode, a second vertical electrode, a first pixel electrode, a first counter electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The second substrate is disposed to be opposite to the first substrate, the liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first and second substrates. The liquid crystal layer includes polymer stabilized positive blue phase liquid crystal. The first vertical electrode is at an inner side of the first substrate, and faces the second substrate. The second vertical electrode is at an inner side surface of the second substrate and faces the first vertical electrode. The second vertical electrode and the first vertical electrode have different electrical potentials thus form a vertical electric field perpendicular to the first substrate and the second substrate. The first pixel electrode is at the inner side of the first substrate and faces the second substrate. The first counter electrode is at an inner side of the first substrate. The first pixel electrode and the first counter electrode have different electrical potentials. The first pixel electrode and the first counter electrode provide a horizontal electric field parallel to the first substrate and the second substrate.

An illumination device and a control method of the illumination device are provided. The illumination device includes a thermal sensor and a light emitting diode (LED) module. The control method include steps of: enabling the thermal sensor to detect the environment temperature outside the illumination device, and comparing the environment temperature with a threshold value, wherein if the environment temperature is higher than the threshold value, the driven current of the LED module is reduced and the thermal sensor is shut down within a continued period of time.

A display apparatus includes; a display panel which displays an image in response to a gate voltage and a data voltage, a panel driver which receives a control signal, and which supplies the gate voltage and the data voltage to the display panel according to the control signal, a backlight which supplies a light to the display panel, an inverter which receives a backlight dimming signal, and which controls a brightness of a light emitted from the backlight according to the backlight dimming signal, and a timing controller which receives a synchronization signal, determines a frame frequency of the display panel according to the synchronization signal, outputs the control signal, and modulates the synchronization signal based on a ratio of a predetermined backlight dimming frequency to the frame frequency, and which outputs the backlight dimming signal according to the modulated synchronization signal.

A portable computer system that comprises dynamically adjustable brightness range settings and brightness control for providing improved user readability and prolonged component lifetime of the display screen. The main processor can change the range settings based on ambient light conditions or the user can perform the changes. The brightness level of the display changes according to a user selected setting within the range selected. The time required to implement the brightness change can be set to a value which can be configured by the user.

The invention discloses a method for production of laser-induced images with internal structure, so as its internal structure is visible. The method provides the creation of the arrangement of laser-induced damages so that: the outer laser-induced damages do not shade the internal laser-induced damages; all laser-induced damages are located inside 3D image space and reproduced both internal shapes of separate fragments and their shades of gray; all laser-induced damages can be produced by laser-induced breakdown without internal crash of a transparent material. The method can be used for producing both art and tomographic images.

The invention provides a backlight and a display device, the backlight includes multiple backlight scanning lines and multiple backlight data lines, which are provided in different layers and are intersected with each other to divide the backlight into a plurality of light-emitting units, each of which is provided with one light-emitting diode and a light-emitting circuit for driving the light-emitting diode to emit light, the light-emitting circuits for a same row of light-emitting units are electrically connected to a corresponding backlight scanning line, the light-emitting circuits for a same column of light-emitting units are electrically connected to a corresponding backlight data line, the backlight scanning line is configured for providing a scanning signal to the light-emitting circuit, and the backlight data line is configured for providing a gray scale signal to the light-emitting circuit to control brightness of the light-emitting unit.

According to the present invention, common electrode lines each making a pair with scanning line are provided and a potential of the common electrode line is alternately changed between two predetermined values to make amplitude in potential of pixel electrode larger than that of image signals thereby decreasing the amplitude of image signals. The present invention also realizes a signal source low in price and further in power-consumption therefor, thereby realizing small-sized and low-priced liquid crystal display devices suitable for portable apparatus.

A display device including a color filter having a multiple types of electrochromic dyes disposed on a pixel by pixel basis, the electrochromic dyes allowing reversible coloring or decoloring, and a light quantity control element for controlling an amount of light emitted to the electrochromatic dyes of the color filter.

An organic light emitting display device including: a substrate having a pixel region and a non-pixel region; a first buffer layer and a second buffer layer formed over the substrate; a thin film transistor formed over the second buffer layer; an organic light emitting device formed in the pixel region and electrically connected with the thin film transistor; and a photo diode formed in the non-pixel region, for receiving external light of red wavelength at a certain absorption rate, and for controlling brightness of the organic light emitting device. Here, the first buffer layer can be formed to be from 2900 Å to 3100 Å in thickness, the second buffer layer can be formed to be from 200 Å to 400 Å in thickness, and the photo diode can include: an N-type doping region, a channel region being from 3 to 10 μm in width, and a P-type doping region.

A broadcasting signal receiving system includes: an obtaining part for obtaining program information of a receiving program; a broadcasting signal receiving part for receiving a broadcasting signal to obtain a video signal and an audio signal or a recorded image reproducing part for reproducing a previously recorded program to obtain a video signal and an audio signal; an image pick-up part for recording an image of a viewer; a certifying part for comparing the image with the previously registered image of a face of an individual to certify the viewing individual; an illumination intensity detecting part for detecting the brightness of a viewing space; and a viewing improvement control part for controlling the improvement of viewing on the basis of the certified result by the certifying part, a kind of the receiving program and the illumination intensity of the viewing space.

Disclosed are an LED lighting apparatus and a control circuit thereof which controls the brightness of a lamp including LEDs using a dimmer. The LED lighting apparatus and the control circuit use a starting current based on a rectified voltage, in order to supply a holding current to the dimmer in a state where a lamp including LEDs is turned off.

A method of driving a liquid crystal display device includes inputting source image data, each of which has one of m gray level values, wherein m is a natural number, defining T error data from the source image data, wherein the error data have top k gray level values, and T and k are a natural number, generating conversion image data having larger gray level values than the source image data using one having a largest gray level value from the source image data excluding the error data, inputting the conversion image data to a liquid crystal panel, controlling a brightness of a backlight unit in accordance with the conversion image data, forming a bitmap corresponding to the conversion image data, wherein the bitmap shows positional distribution of pixels with the error data, counting error areas by scanning the bitmap, wherein each of the error areas includes the predetermined number of the pixels having the error data, and controlling the T according to the number of the error.

A light-emitting diode stacked lighting core includes a core top board, a core bottom board, and vertical boards, all being circuit boards. The core top board and the vertical boards are provided with light-emitting diodes and the core bottom board is provided with a circuit that is formed of a rectifier and a voltage reduction element and having two terminals extending outward. The vertical boards form extended fitting tabs and the core top board and the core bottom board respectively form openings corresponding to the fitting tabs to receive the fitting tabs to fit therein and to be fixed thereto by means of soldering, whereby the light-emitting diodes of the core top board and the vertical boards are put in electrical connection with each other to form the lighting core that is receivable and fixed in a light-transmitting enclosure.