LED driving circuit, illuminating device, and electro-optical device
View Patent ↗An LED driving circuit for driving a plurality of different LEDs includes: a first power supply circuit that is supplied with an input voltage for generating a plurality of driving voltages and a reference voltage with respect to the input voltage and generates a first output voltage and a second output voltage from the input voltage, on the basis of a first control signal; and a second power supply circuit that is supplied with the first output voltage, the second output voltage, and the reference voltage, selects a voltage for driving the LEDs, on the basis of a second control signal, and outputs them.
1. An LED driving circuit for driving a plurality of different backlight LEDs, comprising:
a first power supply circuit that is adapted to be supplied with an input voltage for generating a plurality of driving voltages and a reference voltage with respect to the input voltage and is adapted to generate a first output voltage and a second output voltage from the input voltage, based on a first control signal; and
a second power supply circuit that is adapted to be supplied with the first output voltage, the second output voltage, and the reference voltage, the second power supply circuit adapted to select a voltage for driving the backlight LEDs, based on a second control signal, and adapted to output the voltage for driving the backlight LEDs.
2. The LED driving circuit according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first power supply circuit includes:
a booster unit that is adapted to raise the input voltage with respect to the reference voltage to generate a plurality of driving voltages; and
a voltage selecting unit that is adapted to select the first output voltage and the second output voltage from the reference voltage and the plurality of driving voltages supplied from the booster unit and output the selected voltages.
3. The LED driving circuit according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first power supply circuit includes:
a voltage dividing unit that is composed of a resistor ladder circuit having a plurality of resistors connected in series to each other and adapted to divide a voltage into a plurality of driving voltages in the range of the input voltage and the reference voltage, both ends of resistor ladder circuit adapted to be supplied with the input voltage and the reference voltage; and
a voltage selecting unit that is adapted to select the first output voltage and the second output voltage from the reference voltage and the plurality of driving voltages supplied from the voltage dividing unit and output the selected voltages.
4. The LED driving circuit according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second power supply circuit includes:
a voltage dividing unit that is composed of a resistor ladder circuit having a plurality of resistors connected in series to each other and is adapted to divide a voltage into a plurality of voltages in the range of the first output voltage and the second output voltage, both ends of the resistor ladder circuit adapted to be supplied with the first output voltage and the second output voltage; and
a voltage selecting unit that is adapted to select the voltage for driving the backlight LEDs from the plurality of voltages supplied from the voltage dividing unit, based on the second control signal and is adapted to output the selected voltage.
5. An illuminating device comprising the LED driving circuit according to claim 1 .
6. An electro-optical device comprising:
the illuminating device according to claim 5 ; and
an electro-optical panel.
7. An LED driving circuit that drives a plurality of different LEDs, comprising:
a first power supply circuit that is adapted to be supplied with an input voltage for generating a plurality of driving currents and a reference voltage with respect to the input voltage and adapted to generate a first output current from the input voltage, based on a first control signal; and
a second power supply circuit that is adapted to be supplied with the first output current and the reference voltage and adapted to output a current for driving the LEDs, based on a second control signal, the second power supply circuit including a pulse width modulating circuit that has a switching element, and is adapted to modulate the pulse width of the first output current based on square waves that are su lied to the switching element as the second control signal, to output the current for driving the LEDs.
8. The LED driving circuit according to claim 7 ,
wherein the first power supply circuit includes:
a current amplifying unit that is composed of a current mirror circuit having a plurality of transistors, gates of the plurality of transistors connected to each other, the current minor circuit adapted to be supplied with the input voltage; and
a current control unit that is adapted to control currents output from the current amplifying unit by using a plurality of transistors and adapted to output the sum of the controlled currents as a first output current.