Patent ID: 8872757

Claim:
A mobile terminal, comprising: a liquid crystal display panel configured to display information; a backlight unit configured to emit backlight to the liquid crystal display panel; a memory configured to store a matching relationship between each application of at least one installed application and a corresponding dimming algorithm among a plurality of dimming algorithms; and a controller configured to: select a first dimming algorithm from among the plurality of dimming algorithms stored in the memory in response to a first input for executing a specific application, wherein the first dimming algorithm has the matching relationship with the specific application; control the liquid crystal display panel to display an execution screen of the specific application based on the selected first dimming algorithm; control the backlight unit to change the first dimming algorithm to a second dimming algorithm among the plurality of dimming algorithms in response to a second input causing display of an image on the execution screen, the image having a luminance value that is outside a reference luminance range set for the execution screen, wherein the second dimming algorithm is selected based on the luminance value of the image; and control the liquid crystal display panel to display the execution screen based on the selected second dimming algorithm, wherein the execution screen displayed based on the second dimming algorithm includes the image.