Patent ID: 11968759
Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A dimming data transmission device, comprising
a first processor configured to determine whether each of a plurality of divided regions, into which a lightable region of an illumination device is divided, is a light-on region or a light-off region and configured to transmit dimming data to dim only such a divided region of the divided regions as is serving as the light-on region,
wherein the illumination device is a backlight unit of a liquid crystal display device, and
the first processor is configured:
to perform signal processing of storing the dimming data in a non-display region portion of an image signal including a display region portion, the non-display region portion, and a blanking region portion; and
to transmit the image signal having been subjected to the signal processing.