Patent ID: 9262975
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G09G,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A display device, comprising: a first light source configured to emit a first color light; a second light source configured to emit a second color light; a third light source configured to emit a third color light; a memory configured to store a video signal an optical modulation device configured to modulate the first color light, the second color light, and the third color light based on the video signal; a controller configured to control the first light source, the second light source, and the third light source, the controller controlling the light sources such that the first, second and third color lights are each sequentially emitted in a respective sub unit period, the sub unit periods being produced by dividing one unit period for producing an image based on the video signal; and a mode switch portion configured to switch between a first mode and a second mode, a single sub unit period for the first color light having a single duration in both the first and second modes, wherein in the first mode, the controller controls the first light source the second light source, and the third light source to turn on simultaneously at least one time to emit white light, the first color light being emitted in the first mode for a first time portion of the single sub unit period having the single duration, and the white light being emitted in the first mode for a second time portion of the single sub unit having the single duration such that the first time portion and the second time portion together define the single duration of the single sub unit period, wherein the controller varies a ratio of a period of emitting the white light relative to a total of periods of emitting the lights from the light sources for emitting the white light, and in the second mode, the controller controls the first light source, the second light source, and the third light source to turn on separately at distinct times, the first color light being emitted in the second mode for a third time portion of the single sub unit period having the single duration such that the third time portion defines the single duration of the single sub unit period, the third time portion being longer than the first time portion.