• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.5998-6016
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• 2017

In thin-film transistor liquid-crystal displays (TFT-LCDs), which are most commonly used in mobile devices, the backlight accounts for about 70% of the power consumption. Therefore, most low-power-related studies focus on realizing power savings through backlight dimming. Image compensation is performed to mitigate the visual distortion caused by the backlight dimming. Therefore, popular techniques include pixel compensation for brightness recovery and contrast enhancement, such as histogram equalization. However, existing pixel compensation techniques often have limitations with respect to blur owing to the pixel saturation phenomenon, or because contrast enhancement cannot adequately satisfy the human visual system (HVS). To overcome these, in this study, we propose a novel dimming technique to achieve both power saving and HVS-awareness by combining the pixel compensation and histogram specifications, which convert the original cumulative density function (CDF) by designing and using the desired CDF of an image. Because the process of obtaining the desired CDF is customized to consider image characteristics, histogram specification is found to achieve better HVS-awareness than histogram equalization. For the experiments, we employ the LIVE image database, and we use the structural similarity (SSIM) index to measure the degree of visual satisfaction. The experimental results show that the proposed technique achieves up to 15.9% increase in the SSIM index compared with existing dimming techniques that use pixel compensation and histogram equalization in the case of the same low-power ratio. Further, the results indicate that it achieves improved HVS-awareness and increased power saving concurrently compared with previous techniques.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.53-55
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• 2007

This paper describes an implementation of a wide-range dimming controller of a LED backlight for Avionics applications such as the control data unit(CDU) and multi-function display(MFD). A feedback controller using a light sensor is proposed to control the brightness in the low dimming range. The proposed controller provides an improved control performance in the wide dimming range of 1:3000 even under the temperature variations. The experimental results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed control system.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1086-1089
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• 2006

We have developed 2.4" QVGA wide color gamut LCD module using RGB-LED backlight. The color gamut is achieved 100% of NTSC compared to 70% of NTSC when used with White-LED backlight. But RGB LED backlight is difficult to maintain its color balance since RGB LED is gradually degraded by the change of ambient temperature and a long term aging characteristic, etc. This paper describes a feasibility study of our optical feedback system developed for preventing such a color shift.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2005년도 International Meeting on Information Displayvol.I
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• pp.522-524
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• 2005

The LED light source has many excellent advantages for the application of LCD backlight module. As we know, the operational temperature can significantly influence the characteristics of LEDs. Heat can damage the LED 's quality, and decrease its lifetime and output light intensity. In this paper, we perform computer software, Flomerics CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), to simulate heat distribution of the 20.1" LED backlight module we designing, and realize how the different heat sinks can solve the serious heat problem in practice.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2007년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.381-383
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• 2007

Charge-pump high voltage inverter for Plasma backlight with CIM(Current Injection Method) is proposed in this paper. Adoption of ERC is a new attempt in high voltage inverter so that it is not only energy recovery but also improvement of discharge stability and system unstability which is interrupted by noise. Using a charge-pump technique enables low voltage switches to be usable, the cost can be reduce. CIM is adopted to achieve high speed energy recovery in proposed circuit. Operations of the proposed circuit are analyzed for each mode. The proposed circuit is verified to be applicable on a 32 inch plasma backlight panel by experimental results.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 LCD TV의 인치에 따라 다르게 적용되는 기존의 PID(Power-Integrated Drive)시스템과 PSD(Power-Separated Drive)시스템을 검토하여, 두 시스템의 장점만을 모아 LCD TV 전원 시스템의 표준화가 가능한 새로운 방식의 구동 전원 통합 시스템을 제안한다. 제안 시스템은 가격 및 효율이 우수한 2단 구성으로 이루어져 있고, 안전규격을 만족하기 위하여 1:1 트랜스포머를 사용하였다. 인버터 부의 최적 동작을 위해 인버터 구동신호의 주파수와 시비율을 고정하고 펄스 개수를 제어하는 Pulse Count Modulation(PCM)방식을 채용 하였다. 제안 시스템의 인버터 단은 전 부하 범위에서 영전압 스위칭이 가능하여 스위치의 발열이 우수하고, 별도의 전류 평형 트랜스포머가 필요치 않으므로 Balance Coil의 삭제가 가능하다. 이로 인해 신뢰성이 높은 제품 구성이 가능하고, PCB Size 축소 및 제작 원가가 낮아지는 장점을 갖는다. 최종적으로 제안 시스템을 기존 시스템과 비교 및 실험적 검증을 통하여 제안 시스템의 우수성을 확인한다.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.76-80
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 LCD 백라이트용 외부전극 형광램프를 구동하기 위한 인버터를 설계하였다. 시스템을 AC 입력으로부터 램프를 구동하는 인버터까지의 과정을 2단 시스템으로 구성하면 기존의 시스템 보다 전력의 효율을 높일 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 부피나 무게의 감소, 나아가 저가격화에도 유리하다. EEFL를 구동하기 위해서 AC입력 전원을 안정적이고 역률을 높이며 AC 85V~265V에서 사용할 수 있도록 PFC Block과 EEFL를 구동하기 위한 Inverter Block으로 구성하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2007년도 추계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.817-821
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• 2007

제한된 배터리를 가지고 있는 내장형 시스템에서 전력을 최소화하여 제한된 전력을 오랫동안 사용하는 기술은 중요한 문제로 인식되어 왔다. 최근 내장형 시스템은 대형 TFT-LCD와 터치스크린을 장착하면서 그에 따른 전력소비가 더 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 GUI에서 전력소모를 감소할 수 있는 방안인 프레임버퍼 모니터링을 연구하였다. 프레임버퍼 모니터링 기법은 화면의 퀄리티(Quality)를 보장하는 범위 내에서 Refresh-rate과 Backlight을 조절하여 LCD에서 전력 소모를 줄이는 방법이다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.351-356
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• 2010

A new current-balancing multi-channel LED driver is proposed in this paper. The conventional LED driver system consists of three cascaded power conversion stages and its driver stage has the same number of expensive boost converters as those of the LED channels. On the other hand, the proposed LED driver system consists of two cascaded power stages and its driver stage requires only passive devices instead of expensive boost converters. Nevertheless, all of the currents through multi-channel LEDs can be well balanced. Therefore, it features a smaller system size, improved efficiency, and lower cost. To confirm the validity of the proposed driver, its operation and performance are verified on a prototype for a 46" LCD TV.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.382-388
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• 2016

When Flat Panel Display (FPD) is made with backlight module, such as LED TV, it inherently suffers from the non-uniform backlight luminance problem that results in un-even brightness distribution throughout the TV screen. If the luminance of each pixel location of a TV screen as a function of the driving voltage can be measured, it can be used to compensate the non-uniformity of the backlight module. We use a carefully calibrated imaging system to take pictures of a TV screen at different levels of brightness and generate the compensation functions for the driving circuitry to correct the luminance level at each pixel location. Making use of the fact that the luminance of the screen is normally brightest at around the center of the screen and gradually decreases toward the border of the screen, the luminance of the whole TV screen is approximated by a mathematical function of the pixel locations. The parameters of the function are computed in the least square sense by the values of both the pixel luminance sent from the driving circuit and the grayscale value measured from the image taken by the imaging system. To justify the correction system, a simple second order polynomial function is used to approximate the luminance across the screen. When the driving circuit voltage is corrected according to the measured function, the variance of the screen luminance is reduced to one tenth of the one measured from the un-corrected TV screen.