Patent ID: 8339355

Claim:
An LED backlight drive for driving an LED backlight having a plurality of LED lines connected in parallel to a power feed line, each of the LED lines having an arbitrary number of LEDs connected in series, the LED backlight drive comprising: an arithmetic section for calculating a delay time from driving one of the plurality of LED lines to driving a next LED line; a signal generator for generating a plurality of control signals successively at intervals corresponding to the delay time calculated by the arithmetic section; a driver for driving the plurality of LED lines successively in response to the plurality of control signals generated by the signal generator; and an open-short detector for detecting the number of the LED lines connected, wherein the arithmetic section calculates the delay time in accordance with the number of the LED lines detected with the open-short detector, and the open-short detector detects the number of the LED lines connected except for a faulty LED line.