Power driver for light emitting diode illumination and control method thereof

A method of controlling a power driver for LED illumination including a power correction unit and a DC/DC converter unit, the method comprising:

• receiving, by the power correction unit, an AC voltage, rectifying the received AC voltage into a DC voltage, and correcting a power factor of the rectified DC voltage;
• receiving, by the DC/DC converter unit, the DC voltage from the power correction unit and converting the received DC voltage into a DC voltage which has a magnitude different from the received DC voltage and is supplied to an LED module;
• feeding a current, which flows in the LED module driven by receiving an output from the DC/DC converter unit, back to a skip control unit comprised in the DC/DC converter unit;
• and
• detecting a magnitude of the current and outputting a signal for a skip mode control depending on the detected magnitude of the current, by the skip control unit.