Patent ID: 7872631

Claim:
A method for displaying an image on a liquid crystal display comprising: (a) illuminating a first pixel at a first non-zero illumination level during an initial frame; (b) illuminating said first pixel at a second non-zero illumination level during a subsequent frame, wherein said subsequent frame is temporally later than said initial frame; (c) wherein said first pixel is selectively decreased in illumination to an intermediate illumination level, where the luminance magnitude of said intermediate illumination level, maintained over an interval beginning after illuminating said first pixel during said initial frame and ending before illuminating said first pixel during said subsequent frame, is automatically selected based upon a predicted amount of temporal blur, prediction of said temporal blur being based on measurements of an input image signal limited to a region local to said first pixel, measured after modifying said input image signal by a point spread function of a backlight of said display as modified by a diffusion layer, said point spread function stored in memory accessible to said display.