Adaptive backlight control dampening to reduce flicker

摘要

One embodiment of display system is disclosed that comprises a display; a backlight providing illumination for said display; a backlight control module for providing backlight control signals to said backlight; an adaptive transition rate module, said module calculating an adaptive parameter, said adaptive parameter being calculated as a function of changes in backlight illumination commands, wherein further said adaptive parameter is provided to a smoothing function, said smoothing function calculating said backlight control signals. Techniques for adaptively controlling and/or decaying the illumination of the backlight according to the difference in the commanded illumination of the backlight between two different sets of image data are also disclosed.