• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2007

• 대한안전경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한안전경영과학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.283-289
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• 2004

The number of pixel defects including bright and black dots on a panel is one of the critical factors determining the quality of TFT-LCD. Since pixel defects on the TFT-LCD panels are sometimes unavoidable, manufacturers have to inspect the panels so that any panel with an unacceptable number of defects will not be delivered to the buyers. However, the buyers demand for the manufacturers to meet different pixel defects tolerances (acceptable number of pixel defects on a TFT-LCD panel) around central(tight) and peripheral(loose) inspection zones. The disagreement in quality standard among different buyers also cause confusions in screening non-confirmative products and unstable yield of production. Few research has focused on the effects of defect locations on a TFT-LCD panel on their detection probabilities and the rational division of defect inspection zones. In this research, experiments were conducted to find the detection probabilities of black dot defects with respect to their varying locations on a TFT-LCD. It is proposed a rational division of inspection zone on a TFT-LCD panel on the basis of detection probabilities of the defects. With these division of inspection zones and the mean defect detection probability within each zone, it is expected to establish a more reasonable pixel defects tolerances.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.946-949
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• 2005

This paper deals with the algorithm development that inspects defects such as Bright Defect Dots, Dark Defect Dots, and Line Defect caused by the process of LCD(Liquid Crystal Display). While most of LCD production process is automated, the inspection of LCD panel and its appearance depends on manual process. So, the quality of the inspection is affected by the condition of worker. Especially, the more LCD size increases, the more the worker feels fatigued, which causes the probability of miss judgement. So, the automated inspection is required to manage the consistent quality of the product and reduce the production costs. In this paper, to solve these problems, we developed the imaging processing algorithm to inspect the defects in captured image of LCD. Experimental results reveal that we can recognize various types of defect of LCD with good accuracy and high speed.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.525-534
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• 2013

최근 다양한 형태의 TFT-LCD의 수요가 증가함에 따라 LCD 생산 과정에서 얼룩결함을 검사하는 기술에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 가버 웨이블렛 변환(Gabor wavelet transform) 및 이산 코사인 변환(Discrete Cosine Transform, DCT)을 이용한 TFT-LCD 패널의 얼룩(mura)을 자동으로 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 DCT 변환 기반의 TFT-LCD 패널 영상의 참조 패널 영상을 생성한다. 원 영상과 생성된 참조 패널 영상에 대해서 실수 가버 웨이블렛 변환(real gabor wavelet transform)을 적용하여 패널 영상에 포함되어 있는 얼룩 결함을 검출하는데 방해가 되는 텍스쳐 정보를 제거하고 변환 영상간의 차영상을 이용하여 제거 결함 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 영역에 대해서는 정량적 평가 과정을 통해 보다 정확한 얼룩 검출을 수행한다. 실험결과는 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법에 비해 보다 정확하고 효율적으로 얼룩을 검출하는 것을 보여준다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.1783-1786
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• 2003

In this paper, an automated line-defect detection method for TFT-LCD panel is presented. A DFB(Directional Filter Bank) and line-projection method are used to find line-defect which is one of the major defects occurred in TFT-LCD panel. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm gave promising results for applying automated inspection technique for TFT-LCD panel.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.59-60
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• 2006

It is bringing out the importance of automated LCD testing equipment that satisfy a definite quality, confidence and testing speed, as LCD enterprises are recently expanding the production and facility investment in proportion to the sudden increase of LCD demand. So far, LCD inspection is however conducted by manual, or the confidence of existing testing equipment falls short of LCD enterprises's standard. It is therefore important to develop the testing equipment that determines the quality of product for production of an excellent LCD.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2004년도 Asia Display / IMID 04
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• pp.787-790
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• 2004

The large size and high brightness backlight system for LCD panel inspection equipment was designed, fabricated, and evaluated. The cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) instead of the hot cathode fluorescent lamp (HCFL) were used as the light source. The inverters for driving multi-lamp CCFL backlight systems were also designed and fabricated. The measured luminance of the fabricated CCFL backlight system was 20,000 cd/$m^2$ and the uniformity of the backlight was 85%. The fabricated backlight system was successfully applied to the LCD panel inspection equipment.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권7호
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• pp.1295-1297
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• 2008

Large-sized flat-panel displays are widely used for PC monitors and TV displays. In this paper, frequency domain pre-filter algorithms are presented for detection of defects in large-sized Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display(TFT-LCD) panel surfaces. Frequency analysis with 1-D, 2-D FFT methods for extract the periodic patterns of lattice structures in TFT-LCD is performed. To remove this patterns, frequency domain band-stop filters were used for eliminating specific frequency components. In order to acquire only defected images, 2-D inverse FFT methods to inverse transform of frequency domain images were used.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.59-63
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• 2010

This paper proposes computer visual inspection algorithms for various LCD defects which are found in a manufacturing process. Modular vision processing steps are required in order to detect different types of LCD defects. Those key modules include RGB filtering for pixel defects, gray-scale morphological processing and Hough transform for line defects, and adaptive threshold for spot defects. The proposed algorithms can give users detailed information on the type of defects in the LCD panel, the size of defect, and its location. The machine vision inspection system is implemented using C language in an embedded Linux system for a high-speed real-time image processing. Experiment results show that the proposed algorithms are quite successful.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.204-214
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• 2012

본 논문은 비전장비의 결함 검사 시스템을 위한 불균일한 휘도분포를 가지는 TFT-LCD 영상에서 결함 영역을 분할하는 방법을 다룬다. 불균일한 휘도분포 때문에 결함의 영역을 찾기 어려우며 이를 위해 많은 방법들이 제안되었다. Kamel과 Zhoa는 문자 및 그래픽의 분할을 위해 논리적 단계화 방법을 제안하였고, 이 방법은 공간상에서 수행되어지는 지역적 분할 방법으로 불균일한 분포 상에서도 문자가 잘 분할되는 장점이 있다. TFT-LCD의 저해상도 영상도 배경의 분포가 불균일하여 본 논문에서는 Kamel과 Zhoa의 방법을 답습하여 새로운 결함 영역 분할 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 결함주위에 발생하는 과검출(Ghost object)이 적은 장점이 있으며 제안 방법의 성능을 증명하기위해 실제 결함이 존재하는 TFT-LCD 영상을 이용하여 실험하고, 주파수상에서 많이 사용되는 FFT의 밴드패스 필터를 이용한 분할 방법과 비교하였다.