Patent ID: 8139018

Claim:
A method for driving a liquid crystal display device, the liquid crystal display device including a plurality of lamps and a liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystals, the method comprising: sequentially driving the plurality of lamps to supply light to the liquid crystal panel, at least one of the lamps having a different on-time interval from another one of the lamps, wherein the on-time of the lamp in a first region having a relatively fast response time of the liquid crystal is lengthened and on-time of lamp in a second region having a relatively slow response time of the liquid crystal is shortened, wherein the second region in a low-temperature region is shortened in an on-time of the lamp and lengthened in an off-time of the lamp, and wherein the first region in a high-temperature region is lengthened in an on-time of the lamp and is shortened in an off-time of the lamp.