# US 12,002,432 B2 · Information processing method, information processing program, information processing device, and image display device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,002,432 B2 - Document ID: US12002432B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/303,400 - Filed: 2021-05-27 - Published: 2021-12-02 - Granted: 2024-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2020-05-29 - Assignees: Nichia Corporation - Applicants: Nichia Corporation - Inventors: Kohei Suzaki - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12002432B2 ## CPC - G09G 3/3426: {the different display panel areas being distributed in two dimensions, e.g. matrix} - G09G 3/36: using liquid crystals - G09G 2300/0842: forming a memory circuit, e.g. a dynamic memory with one capacitor - G09G 2320/0233: Improving the luminance or brightness uniformity across the screen - G09G 2320/0626: for control of overall brightness - G09G 2320/0646: Modulation of illumination source brightness and image signal correlated to each other - G09G 2360/16: Calculation or use of calculated indices related to luminance levels in display data - G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00) ## Abstract An information processing method, including: generating second luminance profile data by inputting first luminance profile data of a spreading of light when one light source of a backlight device including at least one light source is lit, and adjusting a thin-out spacing according to positions in a luminance distribution based on the first luminance profile data. Values of the first luminance profile data are thinned in the second luminance profile data. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An information processing method, comprising: inputting first luminance profile data of spreading of light when one light source of a backlight device including at least one light source is lit; and thinning by reducing a data amount of values of the first luminance profile data with adjustment of a thin-out spacing according to positions in a luminance distribution of the at least one light source based on the first luminance profile data to generate second luminance profile data, wherein the luminance distribution based on the first luminance profile data is divided into at least a first region, a second region, and a third region, a spatial luminance variation in the first region is larger than a spatial luminance variation in the second region and a spatial luminance variation in the third region, the spatial luminance variation in the third region is smaller than the spatial luminance variation in the second region, the thinning is not performed in the first region, a ratio of a data amount after the thinning in the second region to a data amount before the thinning in the second region is larger than a ratio of a data amount after the thinning in the third region to a data amount before the thinning in the third region. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) An information processing device, comprising: a memory element storing second luminance profile data generated by the information processing method according to claim 1; and a luminance distribution calculator configured to calculate a luminance distribution of an entirety of the backlight device when one or more light sources arranged in a backlight device are lit at respective positions and with respective light output levels of the one or more light sources, the calculating being performed with reference to values of the second luminance profile data stored in the memory element. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) An image display device, comprising: a backlight device including one or more light sources; a backlight device controller configured to control a brightness of the one or more light sources; a liquid crystal panel configured to display an image; a liquid crystal panel controller configured to control transmittances of pixels of the liquid crystal panel; a light output level calculator configured to calculate a light output level of each of the one or more light sources from image data; a luminance distribution calculator being the information processing device according to claim 2 and configured to calculate luminance distribution data at each position of the one or more light sources from the second luminance profile data and the light output levels; and an image processor configured to calculate transmittances of the pixels of the liquid crystal panel from a result of a calculation by the luminance distribution calculator. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) An information processing device, comprising: a first memory element storing first luminance profile data, the first luminance profile data being of spreading of light when one light source of one or more light sources of a backlight device is lit; an information processor configured to generate second luminance profile data from values of the first luminance profile data using the information processing method according to claim 1; a second memory element storing the second luminance profile data; and a luminance distribution calculator configured to calculate a luminance distribution of an entirety of the backlight device when the one or more light sources arranged in the backlight device is lit at respective positions and with respective light output levels of the one or more light sources, the calculating being performed with reference to values of the second luminance profile data stored in the second memory element. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) An image display device, comprising: a backlight device including one or more light sources; a backlight device controller configured to control a brightness of the one or more light sources; a liquid crystal panel configured to display an image; a liquid crystal panel controller configured to control transmittances of pixels of the liquid crystal panel; a light output level calculator configured to calculate a light output level of each of the one or more light sources from image data; a luminance distribution calculator being the information processing device according to claim 4 and configured to calculate luminance distribution data at each position of the one or more light sources from the second luminance profile data and the light output levels; and an image processor configured to calculate transmittances of the pixels of the liquid crystal panel from a result of a calculation by the luminance distribution calculator. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The information processing method according to claim 1, wherein the luminance distribution based on the first luminance profile data further includes a fourth region, the third region and the fourth region are adjacent to each other outside the second region in the luminance distribution, the thin-out spacing in the third region is smaller than a thin-out spacing in the fourth region. ### Claim 7 An information processing method, comprising: inputting first luminance profile data of spreading of light when one light source of a backlight device including at least one light source is lit; and thinning by reducing a data amount of values of the first luminance profile data with adjustment of a thin-out spacing according to positions in a luminance distribution of the at least one light source based on the first luminance profile data to generate second luminance profile data, wherein the first luminance profile data is divided into at least a first region, a second region, and a third region, the first region includes a portion having a highest luminance in the first luminance profile data, a distance of the second region from the first region is less than a distance of the third region from the first region, the thinning is not performed in the first region, a ratio of a data amount after the thinning in the second region to a data amount before the thinning in the second region is larger than a ratio of a data amount after the thinning in the third region to a data amount before the thinning in the third region.