US 12,103,457 B2
Lamp control device
Wanyuan Qu, Daejeon (KR); Se Won Lee, Daejeon (KR); Byeong Ho Jeong, Daejeon (KR); Ju Pyo Hong, Daejeon (KR); Ju Hyun Lee, Daejeon (KR); Sung Hwan Kim, Daejeon (KR); Hai Feng Jin, Daejeon (KR); Joo Wan Ha, Daejeon (KR); and Tae Young Yoo, Daejeon (KR)
Assigned to SILICON WORKS CO., LTD., Daejeon (KR)
Filed by Silicon Works Co., Ltd., Daejeon (KR)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/951,128.
Application 16/951,128 is a division of application No. 15/541,213, granted, now 10,887,962, previously published as PCT/KR2015/014477, filed on Dec. 30, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2014-0193792 (KR), filed on Dec. 30, 2014; and application No. 10-2014-0193793 (KR), filed on Dec. 30, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0076467 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. H05B 45/10 (2020.01); B60Q 1/34 (2006.01); B60Q 1/44 (2006.01); H05B 45/37 (2020.01); H05B 45/46 (2020.01); H05B 47/10 (2020.01); H05B 45/375 (2020.01)
CPC B60Q 1/44 (2013.01) [B60Q 1/34 (2013.01); H05B 45/10 (2020.01); H05B 45/37 (2020.01); H05B 45/46 (2020.01); H05B 47/10 (2020.01); H05B 45/375 (2020.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lamp control device comprising:
a lamp having an LED channel;
a channel current control unit configured to generate a channel reference voltage that has a slope and rises at the time of enabling the LED channel and falls at the time of disabling the LED channel, and has a flat voltage level in between the rise section and fall section; and
a channel driving circuit configured to control a channel current of the LED channel using a voltage corresponding to a current flowing through the LED channel and the channel reference voltage, wherein the channel current control unit comprises: a ramp voltage generator configured to generate a ramp voltage with a rising/falling slope at the point of time that the LED channel is enabled/disabled; and a selector configured to select any one of the ramp voltage and a reference voltage as the channel reference voltage according to a selection signal, and provide the selected voltage to the channel driving circuit and wherein the ramp voltage generator comprises: a ramp capacitor; a charging current unit configured to charge the ramp capacitor such that the ramp voltage rises with a slope at the point of time that the LED channel is enabled; and a discharging current unit configured to discharge the ramp capacitor such that the ramp voltage falls with a slope at the point of time that the LED channel is disabled.