• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2012

LED TV 통합검사유닛은 LED BLU의 구동과 동시에 이상 유무 체크, AGING 작업 등 LED BLU를 테스트하기 위한 검사 장비이다. 기존 검사 유닛은 LCD의 종류와 크기에 따라 생산라인에서 검사 유닛을 교체해야 하는 불편한 점이 있어 본 연구에서는 한 가지 LED TV BLU 모델이 아닌 32 ~ 52인치의 다양한 LED TV BLU 모델을 수용할 수 있는 멀티형(통합형) 검사유닛으로 개발한다. 멀티형으로 개발하기 위해서 멀티 LED TV 통합검사유닛의 출력 전류를 80mA ~ 215mA의 범위로 다양한 출력이 되도록 만들고, LED BLU의 상태를 확인 하는 기능, 디밍(밝기 조절)기능 및 장시간 사용 시 열 발생 완화 기능 등을 구현한다. 또한 펌웨어 프로그램을 개발하고 업그레이드 할 수 있도록 하여 새로운 패널에 대해서도 지원할 수 있도록 개발한다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.320-326
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• 2014

In this paper, the new smart dimming algorithm which is mixed with PWM and PAM control method is proposed for reducing the power consumption of LED TV Backlight. The proposed technique is using the curve characteristics of LED forward voltage and current which is proportionally changing LED forward voltage as changing LED forward current. Therefore, each PWM and PAM control method has different LED forward voltage and current in the same brightness condition. The PWM control method adjusts the brightness of LED TV Backlight by only varying the duty ratio of PWM and constantly sustaining the amplitude of LED forward current and voltage. So, the level of LED forward current and voltage in the PWM control method is relatively high and constant regardless of duty ratio of PWM. On the other hand, the PAM control method adjusts the brightness of LED TV Backlight by directly varying the level of LED forward current. So, the level of LED forward current and voltage in the PAM control method is lowered according to the brightness level. For the above-mentioned reason, the PAM control method has the advantage of reducing the total power consumption of LED TV Backlight at the brightness condition of below 100%, compared with PWM control method. By implementing this characteristic to LED driver circuit with control algorithm in MCU, the power consumption of LED TV Backlight can expect to be reduced. The effectiveness of the proposed method, new smart dimming algorithm, CPWAM(=Conditional Pulse Width Amplitude Modulation), has been verified by experimental results.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.71-71
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• 2009

Recently several LCD TV makers including Samsung, LG and Sony actively have released LED LCD TV models on market. LED LCD TV is just which applied LED BLUs so that its color contrast ratio fairly enhance up to 1 million:1 and its thickness minimize to a few mm. Even this aspect seems somewhat to be each panel maker's strategies for prior market occupations on whole TV market. Without regard to the reasons, we do obviously meet a new era of technically advanced LCD TV. However we have still lots of problems or issues which we must overcome technically including LED chip/packaging process, secondary optics treatment, heat managements and cost reduction issues. Here I would like to forecast market volume and trend of LED LCD TV first and then discuss above almost of technical issues and suggest their possible solutions. Even these solutions looks better technologies and if they may increase production cost significantly, we will not prefer to choice that technology since lower cost policy can open the market. Finally I'm trying to suggest how well LED, as future light source, can apply to future LCD TV technologies.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.319-326
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• 2010

LCD TV의 슬림화를 위한 전원장치는 고효율 및 고전력 밀도를 요구하고 있다. 최근 LCD TV의 LED 백라이트는 소비전력이 매우 적고 수명이 반영구적이며 밝기가 뛰어나는 동시에 기존의 CCFL 보다 적은 공간을 차지해서 두께를 혁신적으로 줄일 수 있는 장점을 지니고 있다. 그리고 본 논문에서는 LED 백라이트 구동용 고주파 평판형 트랜스포머를 이용하여 LLC 공진컨버터를 제안 적용하였고 실험 결과에 대하여 서술한다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.564-571
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• 2014

A single-stage current-balancing multi-channel light-emitting diode (LED) driver is proposed in this study. The conventional LED driver system consists of two cascaded power conversion stages, i.e., an isolation DC/DC converter and LED driver. LED driver is usually implemented with the same number of expensive boost converters as those of LED channels to tightly control the current through each LED channel. Therefore, its overall system size is not only bulky, but the cost is rather high. By contrast, the proposed LED driver system is composed of a single power stage with the DC/DC converter and LED driver merged. Although the current balancing circuit of the proposed LED driver requires only passive devices instead of expensive boost converters, all currents through multi-channel LEDs can be well balanced. Therefore, the proposed LED driver features a small system size, improved efficiency, and low cost. To confirm the validity of the proposed driver, its operation and performance are verified on a prototype for a 46" LED TV.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.8-13
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• 2010

For better picture quality in LCD TVs, it is important to reach a steady emitting state within as short a time as possible in the initial stage after the TV is turned on. The initial characteristics of LCD TVs are mainly determined by the properties of the backlight. In the present study, the photometric and spectroscopic properties of a 55-inch Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) and Light Emitting Diode (LED) backlights were investigated. The measured properties include time dependence of the spectrum, luminance, and color coordinates. The results show that the change in the spectroscopic properties of the LED backlight is smaller than that of the CCFL backlight. This indicates that the initial picture quality of the LCD TV with the LED backlight is superior to that with the CCFL backlight. The origins of this difference were discussed in relation to the inherent characteristics of the two light sources.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2014년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.347-348
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 3D TV를 위한 다채널 전류평형 단일스위치 LED 구동회로를 제안한다. 제안된 구동회로는 각각의 LED 채널의 정전류 제어를 위해 별도의 전력단을 사용하는 대신에 2차 측에 단 1개의 switch를 추가하여 하나의 채널 전류를 정전류 제어하고 나머지 다른 채널의 전류를 캐패시터의 성질을 이용한 회로를 사용함으로써 모든 채널 전류의 정전류 제어 및 전류평형이 가능한 회로이다. 추가된 switch는 ZCS(Zero Current Switching) 동작하므로 스위칭 손실을 최소화하여 고효율화 시킬 수 있다. 또한, 여러 LED 채널의 정전류 제어를 별도의 LED Driver단을 사용하지 않고 캐패시터의 성질을 이용하여 구현하기 때문에 소형화 및 저가격화가 가능하다. 최종적으로 제안된 회로의 우수성과 이론적 분석의 타당성 검증을 위해 46" LED 3D-TV 구동회로를 위한 시작품을 제작하여 고찰된 실험 결과를 제시한다.

• 정보통신설비학회논문지
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• 제9권3호
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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.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2009년도 정보통신설비 학술대회
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• pp.86-87
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• 2009

LED backlight for LCD TV is a great alternative to CCFL backlight due to its low power consumption and flexible arrangement. Various LED backlight configurations are being used to control the backlight locally in order to achieve both power efficiency and high contrast. However, the relatively small spatial resolution of the backlight system results in showing artifacts of backlight control that is acknowledgeable to human vision. Moreover, such artifacts get worse between temporal frames. In this paper we present a method of decreasing such temporal artifacts with a Human Visual System(HVS) approach to minimize distortion caused by local backlight dimming.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2004년도 하계학술발표회
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• pp.232-233
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• 2004

LED 광원의 특성인 높은 색재현성, 친환경성, 저소비전력 등을 디스플레이 광원으로 그 활용도가 높이 평가되고 있다. 최근 비약적인 광효율 증가를 보이고 있는 고출력 LED 광원을 대화면의 LCD TV 용 BLU 와 Projection TV의 조명계에 적용하기 위하여 기술개발에 필요한 주요 요소들을 살펴본다.