BACKLIGHT DRIVE APPARATUS AND VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS

摘要

A backlight drive apparatus for current driving a plurality of strings has a period in which at least one of the strings is a current driven idly during a liquid crystal OFF period, in addition to a current driving period in which video information is displayed via liquid crystals. A failure detection section can monitor stabilized detection voltages in the period when current driven idly and detects failure state of the backlight panel.