• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.7
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• pp.100-106
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a fast algorithm for low-power image enhancement method for mobile LCD. In the proposed fast algorithm, the spatial resolution of the input image is significantly reduced, and the image characteristics are analyzed on the reduced resolution image to find a dimming rate adaptive to the image content, thereby saving power. The proposed fast adaptive dimming and image enhancement algorithm is implemented as an application that runs on an Android device. Image quality evaluation and running time analysis experiments on the device indicate that the proposed fast algorithm jointly minimizes the quality degradation and power consumption, reducing the required computation load by over 95%.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.8-17
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• 2012

This paper proposes high performance control of light emitting diode(LED) drive system for liquid crystal display(LCD) backlight. The CCFL(cold cathode fluorescent lamp)was used to a conventional LCD backlight. Due to improvement on luminous efficiency, long life and wide color gamut, LED has gradually substituted for CCFL as backlight. The backlight using LED is necessary to use many LED. For that reason, the LED backlight is using a lot of LED driving circuits. The many LED driving circuit is generated a current deviation between LED. Eventually, it is caused brightness deviation between LED. Therefore, this paper improves the current deviation using transformer and balancing capacitor to solve this problem. Also, for accurate and uniform brightness control, this paper is applied the artificial intelligent control to a dimming control. This paper is compared with conventional system, and validity of this paper proves through that result.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.843-848
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• 2006

This paper explains the design and fabrication of an inverter for LCD backlight using a multilayer piezoelectric transformer. That inverter is operated by the burst dimming method whose dimming signal is controlled by the duty ratio of rectangular switching signal to a PWM controller. The brightness of CCFL's are investigated according to the various dimming signals, and when those CCFL's are turned on, the temperature distributions on the piezoelectric transformer and circuit components of the inverter are also investigated by a thermo-camera.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.461-468
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• 2010

This paper presents a simple digital LCD backlight inverter using a single-chip microcontroller. The proposed inverter reduces the ignition voltage and eliminates the current spikes and hence improves the ignition behavior of the cold cathode fluorescent lamp(CCFL). Thus it increases the CCFL's life span. This is achieved by implementing a digital dimming control algorithm, that contains the soft-starting algorithm, all on a single-chip microcontroller. The inverter utilizes the full-bridge resonant circuit topology. The design example along with a simple analysis for the inverter is shown, and the experimental results of the designed prototype results in close agreement with the theoretical analysis and explanation. The overall system's power efficiency is approximately 85%. Compared with conventional inverters, the ignition voltage is reduced by around 30% without any lamp current spike occurring during the dimming control operation.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• v.4B no.4
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• pp.201-205
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• 2004

The CCFL dimming control methods are generally used lamp current regulation or average current adjustment method feeding the CCFL inverter. Inverter operation frequency is higher than resonant frequency for safe operation. In this study, we design the half-bridge type series and parallel resonant converter circuit that switches at variable frequency modulation methods to control the output power. This method has advantages such as low EMI and reduced harmonics, and it is convenient for dimming control using a microprocessor. The validity of this study is confirmed from the simulation and experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.393-395
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• 2006

This Paper represents a dimming control characteristics of an external electrode fluorescent lamp (EEFL) inverter, which is replacing a cold cathode (luorescent lamp (CCFL) in the area of the large-sized LCD backlight. The analog and burst dimming control methods for the EEFL are compared and the control characteristics are anlayzed through the experiments.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1149-1152
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• 2005

The frequency of inverters for driving multi-lamp backlights for LCD TV was synchronized to reduce noise from lamps and noise generated from PWM dimming.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.1503-1506
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• 2008

A novel white-LED (light emitting diode) backlight system for 46"LCD TVs which involves the current controlled X-Y channel driving method is proposed in this paper. There are two problems related to the LED current in the conventional X-Y channel driving driven by a constant voltage source. To solve these problems, a real time current sensing system is applied to the conventional one and the time-division current sensing method is employed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• summer
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• pp.1211-1213
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• 2004

CCFL(cold cathode fluorescent lamp) are used to backlight of LCD(liquid crystal display). CCFL dimming methods are used to pulse frequency modulation(PFM) or pulse width modulation(PWM). In this paper, design of CCFL driving and control circuit by half-bridge type series and parallel resonant inverter that variable frequency modulation method to control the output voltage current. Inverter switching frequency is higher than resonant frequency for stable operating, and it is possible dimming control. On the basis of equivalent circuit, the validity of this study is confirmed by the comparison of simulation and experimental result.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.73-74
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• 2013

본 논문은 LED Driver 휘도(Luminance) 제어 방식인 펄스폭 변조(PWM), 진폭변조 방식(PAM)을 조합한 스마트디밍 알고리즘에 대해 제안한다. 제안된 방식은 LED 구동 순방향 전류($I_f$)양에 따라 순방향 전압($V_f$)이 비례적으로 변화되는 특성을 이용한 것으로, LED Backlight 적용 LCM의 소비전력을 저감할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 스마트 디밍 (CPWAM=Conditional Pulse Width Amplitude Modulation) 알고리즘에 대해 소개하고 실험을 통해 제안된 알고리즘의 타당성을 검증한다.