Abstract: A stethoscope device is disclosed, which comprises a heart sound sensor comprising a sensing portion to detect a heart sound signal having a periodic first heart sound and a periodic second heart sound; an electrocardiogram sensor comprising two electrodes to detect an electrocardiogram signal having a periodic R wave; a microprocessor for extracting amplitudes of the R wave from the electrocardiogram signal and analyzing appearing positions of the R wave to provide appearing positions of a periodic notification pulse wave to a predetermined reference signal and combine the reference signal with the heart sound signal to form a sound signal; and an output unit to output the sound signal; wherein each pulse of the notification pulse wave of the sound signal provides a notification sound.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method of adaptively controlling a light-emitting diode (LED) backlight. A content analyzer analyzes luminance of image data to be displayed on a display panel. An LED current controller controls illumination of the LED backlight via an LED driver according to an analysis result of the content analyzer. The LED current controller over-drives the LED backlight such that a drive current flowing in the LED backlight is above a normal current, when the analysis result of the content analyzer indicates that the luminance of image data is above a predetermined value.