Patent ID: 7474282
Filing Date: 2009-01-06
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
1. A display-unit-use lighting control method for a display unit including (i) an array of electro-optic elements, the electro-optic elements having brightness that changes in accordance with a value of a current supplied thereto, and (ii) one or more power supplying conductors, connected to the electro-optic elements, for supplying power to the electro-optic elements, the lighting control method comprising: controlling the lighting of the electro-optic elements by selectively supplying power thereto via the power supplying conductors, the lighting being controlled so that an upper limit of a lighting period of each of the electro-optic elements connected respectively to the one or more power supplying conductors will be a predetermined value that is less than 100% of a time period currently displaying an image of one screen in the display unit; wherein the electro-optic elements are arrayed in a column direction and a row direction; and wherein the predetermined value is set for each line or every plural number of lines less than all lines in the row direction.