Patent ID: 8350798

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a backlight dimming modulating unit configured to modulate an internal algorithm backlight dimming control signal using an external input algorithm backlight dimming control signal and to maintain a dimming duty cycle equal to or wider than an allowable dimming range of a backlight unit; an arithmetic unit configured to multiply the external input algorithm backlight dimming control signal by the modulated internal algorithm backlight dimming control signal and to output a final backlight dimming control signal; and a data modulating unit configured to modulate image data using the external input algorithm backlight dimming control signal corresponding to the modulated final backlight dimming control signal; and an internal algorithm backlight dimming range setting unit configured to set a modulation range of the backlight dimming modulating unit, wherein the internal algorithm backlight range setting unit calculates a minimum internal algorithm backlight dimming duty using a minimum backlight allowable range duty and external backlight dimming duty.