• Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.80-85
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• 2010

In this paper, we present an algorithm for efficient control of backlight LED in order to reduce the power consumption of LCD TV. In addition, a pragmatic implementation method is presented. In conventional local dimming control, backlight LEDs of LCD TV are divided into $M{\times}N$ blocks. And, the proper luminance for each block is computed according to input image and used for dimming control. But, LED light of each block is diffused and affects the neighboring blocks, so that luminance of each block becomes larger than that of intent. In the proposed algorithm, dimming control values are reduced by the amount of quantity affected by the neighboring blocks using light spread function, resulting in additional reduction of power consumption.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.242-244
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• 2006

본 논문은 LCD Backlight 인버터 구동 응용을 위한 다중 램프 점등 시 트랜스포머 소자 수 감소를 이를 수 있는 전류평형 트랜스포머의 구조 및 형상에 관한 것으로서, 제안된 트랜스포머 구조는 기존의 트랜스포머 구조 방식에 비해 소자 수가 줄어들어, LCD Backlight 인버터의 원가를 저감 할 수 있는 트랜스포머 구조 및 형상에 관한 것이다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.478-483
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• 2009

An optical sheet with a cone array is designed, simulated, and fabricated in order to substitute the dual crossed prism sheets in the edge-type LCD backlight. The optimum structure of cone textures that is compatible with the dual crossed prism sheets was obtained by simulating the backlight installed with the cone array optical sheet. A SU-8 photoresist films of thickness $30{\sim}50{\mu}m$ were spin-coated on a polyethylene terephtalate film (PET), and the cone texture array was formed by using the diffuse lithography that employed a photomask with circular patterns and an optical diffuser.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.538-545
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• 2014

Microlens array (MLA) films have been used as brightness-enhancement components in many illumination systems, such as a backlight, which should meet the industrial needs of low cost and high brightness performance. A hexagonally-arranged MLA (HA-MLA) was chosen due to its high filling factor, which was a prerequisite for achieving high brightness-enhancement capability. The moir$\acute{e}$ fringes produced in a film stack composed of two HA-MLA were investigated, under four different lens configurations, by optical simulation. It was found that randomizing the lens configuration, while keeping the filling factor high, was effective way to develop high-gain MLA films for backlight applications.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.309-310
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• 2006

This paper presents an enhanced algorithm for compensating the visual quality in backlight image. Current cameras do not represent all details of scene into human's eye. Saturation and underexposure are common problems in backlight image. Retinex algorithm, derived from Land's theory on human visual perception is known to be effective in enhancing the contrast. However, its weaknesses are long processing time and low contrast of bright area in backlight scene because of compensating the details of dark area. In this paper, K-Retinex algorithm is proposed to reduce the processing time and enhance the contrast in both dark and bright area. To show the superiority of proposed algorithm, we compare the processing time and local variance of each area above.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.79-82
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• 2009

This work presents a novel lighting technology based on a YAG:$Ce^{3+}$ phosphor converter with micro line lenticular structure, to accompany an array of bare LED chips on a board. This technology is especially effective in TFT-LCD backlight applications as it offers the advantages of high light radiation efficiency, low color deviation, uniform luminance distribution and compact backlight thickness. Additionally, the proposed configuration is low-cost, can be manufactured quickly, and can be mass-produced economically.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.152-157
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• 2009

The structure of the prism sheet and the reflective polarizer sheet in the direct - illumination liquid crystal display (LCD) backlight is optimized and fabricated. The apex angle of the prism sheet was changed from 90 degree to 96.5 and 101.5 degree and the angular spread of the diffuser films attached on the reflective polarizer sheet was changed from 7 to 1.5 degrees. The measured view angle, the normal luminance, and the contrast ratio from the optimized backlight unit showed improved optical performances.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.578-581
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• 1999

Dot pattern print methods composed of a diffusion film and two prism sheets, have been generally used for backlighting systems of LCDs. However, this methods require complex structures and show high power consumption and optical loss. To improve these disadvantages of conventional backlight units, light guides using highly scattering optical transmissions (HSOT) polymer as scatters, have been introduced. In this study we analyzed multiple scattering effect in light guide by means of Monte carlo simulation based on Mie scattering theory and ray tracing method. As a result it was revealed that scattering intensity depends on the size of scatters. On the other hands, it was shown that scattering efficiency depends on the wavelength of fluorescent lamp as well as the size of scatters.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.166-168
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• 2007

본 논문은 LCD backlight 인버터의 Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp(CCFL)를 구동하기 위해 승압 기능과 전류 평형 효과를 동시에 갖는 트랜스포머에서 부피 및 원가 저감 효과를 갖는 새로운 구조의 트랜스포머를 제안하였다. 제안된 트랜스포머의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 실제 40인치 LCD backlight 인버터에 적용하여 실험을 수행하였다.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.323-324
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• 2007