Display brightness control circuit
View Patent ↗A display brightness control circuit of a liquid crystal display device includes a logarithmic-linear converting circuit for converting an illuminance signal having a logarithmic relationship with incident light into a linear signal. When an output of an external light sensor is a logarithmic signal, the logarithmic signal is converted into a linear signal through the logarithmic-linear converting circuit, and when an output of the external light sensor is a linear signal, the logarithmic-linear converting circuit is not involved. The logarithmic-linear converting circuit corresponds to an exponential circuit which is an inverse function of a logarithm log. Further, when even the same logarithmic output illuminance sensor is different in input-output characteristics, setting of the abovementioned exponential circuit can be changed.
1. A display brightness control circuit, wherein, in where a drive circuit for a display device in which display brightness is switched based on an illuminance signal outputted by an external light sensor which measures environmental illuminance, there exists a case where the illuminance signal has a linear relationship with incident light and a case where the illuminance signal has a logarithmic relationship with incident light, the display brightness control circuit comprising:
a converting circuit for converting the illuminance signal having the logarithmic relationship with incident light into a linear signal, where the converting circuit subjects the illuminance signal to exponential processing in the case where the illuminance signal has a logarithmic relationship with incident light,
wherein, in the case where the illuminance signal has a linear relationship with incident light, the illuminance signal is not converted by preventing the illuminance signal from passing through the converting circuit and is directly used for display brightness control in the display brightness control circuit,
wherein, in the case where the illuminance signal has a logarithmic relationship with incident light, the illuminance signal is converted by passing the illuminance signal through the converting circuit and is then used for display brightness control in the display brightness control circuit,
wherein a signal inputted into the display brightness control circuit in a linear mode is the illuminance signal or in a logarithmic mode is a signal outputted by the converting circuit, and switching between the linear mode and the logarithmic mode can be performed externally,
wherein the linear mode is separate from the logarithmic mode, and
wherein the exponential processing to which the illuminance signal is subjected by the converting circuit is adjustable.
2. The display brightness control circuit according to claim 1 ,
wherein adjusted values of the exponential processing to which the illuminance signal is subjected by the converting circuit are coordinate values of an arbitrary two points in a relationship between the illuminance signal and an output of the converting circuit.
3. The display brightness control circuit according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a setting register for setting adjusted values of the exponential processing to which the illuminance signal is subjected by the converting circuit.
4. The display brightness control circuit according to claim 3 ,
wherein the values settable to the setting register are coordinate values of arbitrary two points in a relationship with an output of the converting circuit.
5. The display brightness control circuit according to claim 1 ,
wherein adjusted values of the exponential processing to which the illuminance signal is subjected by the converting circuit are a coordinate value of an arbitrary one point and a coordinate value of a fixed one point in a relationship between the illuminance signal and an output of the converting circuit.
6. The display brightness control circuit according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a setting register for setting a coordinate value of an arbitrary one point as an adjusted value of the exponential processing to which the illuminance signal is subjected by the converting circuit.
7. The display brightness control circuit according to claim 1 ,
wherein the display brightness control circuit controls illuminating intensity of a button-type input unit of an information equipment in which a display device is installed.
8. The display brightness control circuit according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a register capable of externally setting whether the illuminance signal from the external light sensor is logarithmic or not or whether conversion of the illuminance signal from a logarithmic signal to a linear signal in the converting circuit is executed or not.