• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.231-234
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• 2000

This paper has been studied a method that effectively displaying color image to monochromatic display such as PDA and movable-phone. Generally, the Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm has been used in this area and its' effectiveness were well known. But it shows some ugly patterns in white area and also shows some directionality in vertical and horizontal directions. To reduce those directionality, I suggest the error diffusion direction to be rotated randomly according to the bit value of the current position. This can also mitigate some ugly pattern in white area

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.850-856
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• 2011

The error diffusion method is one of the digital halftoning methods that diffuses quantization errors of current processing pixel to neighboring pixels and get a high-quality black-white image. This method has the problematic case which partially increase or decrease summation of diffused errors in the process of diffusing the quantization error. In this paper, we analyze Floyd-Steinberg method, Jarvis-Judice-Ninke method, Stucki method, and Shiau-Fan method as a representative case of error diffusion methods and propose a solution method of this problem.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.362-371
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• 2009

The key technology for developing high quality LCDs is about manufacturing BLUs with homogeneous dot distributions. Commonly, homogeneous dot distributions are obtained by the halftoning methods which convert a gray-scale image to a binary image. Among many halftoning algorithms, the error-diffusion technique based on the principle distance is known to show homogeneous dot distributions. However, this technique has a drawback; the extent of the principle distance at each pixel with respect to those of the neighboring pixels can be too small or big creating a gap or overlap. In this paper, we propose a new error diffusion algorithm based on the variable principle distance which improves the existing error diffusion technique based on the principle distance. The variable principle distance at a given pixel is calculated with gray-scale values of the pixel and its neighbors and thus the principle distance value is variable depending on the direction from that pixel. This variable principle distance technique helps BLUs obtain homogeneous dot distributions.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.179-181
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• 2005

There is asymmetric in horizontal and vertical side of PDP cell. Every vertical line has BM(Black Mask) to improve luminance contrast. When error diffusion is processed in PDP system, these problems make an error bigger. In 4 inch PDP system, every red, green, blue color of test pattern is presented and each luminance is measured. That is called horizontal(H), diagonal right(R), diagonal left(L) and vertical(V). In red channel, high luminance descending order is V-H-R-L. In green channel, V-H-L-R. In blue channel, V-M-R=L. After average luminance of each direction is calculated. new weighted error diffusion(Weighted ED) is proposed. In digital image signal processing, the error in weighted ED is differ from ED's. The image of weighted ED is more less error compare to conventional ED and close to original image. As the gray level linearity and big size panel is adopted, weighted ED could produce good image.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.96-104
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• 2011

A halftoning method is used to obtain a binary image visually similar to a continuous gray-level image through the image output devices employing the limited number of gray-levels. As a halftoning method, the error diffusion method is widely used in various applications because of its low computational complexity and good image quality. However, this method weakens the edge in the process of error diffusion to the neighboring pixels. In this case, degradation of the edge quality and damage of the vivid image is expected. To solve these problems, the proposed method determines the adaptive error filter considering the error information of the present pixel and edge distribution of the neighbor pixels. Compared with the conventional methods for enhancing edges, the proposed method involves relatively a few process resources because of its simple procedure, still considerably improving the edges in the halftone image. To evaluate the objective image quality, the performance of the proposed method is compared with that of the conventional method in terms of the edge correlation and the local average accordance.