• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
• /
• 2012.05b
• /
• pp.502-506
• /
• 2012

본 논문은 LED 조명 환경에서 Zigbee를 이용해서 Dimming 제어 모듈을 구성 하였다. 현재 사용되고 있는 LED 제어 모듈는 일반적으로 단일 출력을 사용하여 LED 조명의 일정한 밝기를 고정 출력이 되도록 사용되어지고 있다. 본 논문에서 구성된 무선 통신 모듈은 Zigbee를 이용하여 실내 환경에서 측정된 조도값을 무선으로 전송하도록 조도 센서 모듈을 구성 하였으며, 무선으로 전송된 조도값에 대한 출력을 제어하도록 구성하였다. MCU는 LED Driver IC를 이용하여 PWM 신호에 따라서 LED Driver IC에서 출력 전압을 변화하도록 하여 6단계의 밝기로 LED조명을 Dimming하도록 구성하였으며, 무선조도 센서는 10~15m의 거리에서 안정적으로 동작된다.

• Journal of Information Display
• /
• v.11 no.4
• /
• pp.173-181
• /
• 2010

In this paper, light-emitting-diode (LED) backlight driving circuits and dimming method for medium-sized and large liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are proposed. The double loop control method, the intelligent-phase-shifted PWM dimming method, the fast-switching current regulator, and the current matching techniques are proposed to improve not only the current regulation characteristics and the power efficiency but also the current matching characteristics and the transient response of the LED current. The brightness of the backlight using the proposed local dimming method was determined from the histogram of the local block to reduce the power consumption of the backlight without image distortion. The measured maximum power efficiency of the LED backlight driving circuit for medium-sized LCDs was 90%, and the simulation results showed an 88% maximum power efficiency of the LED backlight driving circuit for large LCDs. The maximum backlight power-saving ratio of the proposed dimming method was 41.7% in the simulation with a high-contrast image. The experiment and simulation results showed that the performance of LEDs as LCD backlight units (BLUs) improved with the proposed circuits and method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
• /
• v.26 no.10
• /
• pp.16-26
• /
• 2012

This study conducted a subjective evaluation of brightness perception and visual discomfort according to dimming speeds and CCTs(Correlated Color Temperatures). Dimming speeds of two different CCT lights(2,700K, 6400K) were set to 1.7%/s, 3.3%/s, 5.0%/s, 6.7%/s, and 10.0%/s respectively. Subjects checked the time when they perceived the change of the brightness and visual discomfort. As a result, when dimming speeds were 1.7%/s, 3.3%/s, 5.0%/s, 6.7%/s, more than half of subjects responded the change of the brightness in 55.0~45.0% dimming ratios, and felt the visual discomfort in 35~25% dimming ratios. When the brightness was changed, dimming level responded to the brightness perception of hight CCT(6,400K) was higher about 8.0% then dimming level responded to the brightness perception of low CCT(2,700K). Dimming level responded to the visual discomfort of low CCT(2,700K) was higher about 5.0% then dimming level responded to the visual discomfort of hight CCT(6,400K).

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
• /
• v.27 no.12
• /
• pp.44-53
• /
• 2013

This study has attempted to investigate how subjects perceive changes of brightness and their visual comfort according to daylight responsive LED(Light Emitting Diode) dimming systems in the office with venetian blind. Two studies was conducted. First study is that how subjects perceive changes of brightness and their visual comfort depending on angle control method of the venetian blind while the workplane illuminance level is being maintained through daylight responsive LED dimming system. Second study is that how subjects perceive changes of brightness and their visual comfort depending on the amount of daylight penetrated into the building while the illuminance level is being maintained through daylight responsive LED dimming system. The results of this study could be proposed as basic data in the control of the venetian blind and LED lighting in consideration of their perception on changes of brightness and visual comfort.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
• /
• v.16 no.1
• /
• pp.64-70
• /
• 2011

This paper presents a zero-transient current control method for PWM dimming of LED. Since the proposed LED current control method has no transient state, it features a high resolution, high linearity, and no current overshoot through LED along a wide dimming range. The operational principles of the proposed LED current control circuit are presented. To confirm the validity of the proposed method experimental results from a prototype circuit of the 46-inch LCD TV are given.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
• /
• 2011.07a
• /
• pp.1956-1957
• /
• 2011

본 연구는 White LED를 이용하여 주변 밝기 변화에 빠르게 적응하는 퍼지 뉴로 Dimming Control System을 설계한다. 본 논문에서는 방사형기저함수 신경회로망(Radial Basis Function Neural Network: RBFNN)을 설계하여 실제 White LED Dimming Control System에 적용시켜 모델의 근사화 및 일반화 성능을 평가한다. 제안한 모델에서의 은닉층은 방사형기저함수를 사용하여 적합도를 구현하였고, 후반부의 연결가중치는 경사하강법을 사용한다. 이때 멤버쉽 함수의 중심점은 HCM 클러스터링 (Hard C-Means Clustering)을 적용하여 결정한다. 연결가중치는 4가지 형태의 다항식을 대입하여 출력을 평가하였다. 최종 출력의 최적화를 위하여 PSO(Particle Swarm Optimization)을 이용하여 은닉층 노드수 및 다항식 형태를 결정한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 LED Dimming Control System은 Atmega8535를 사용하여 PWM 제어 방식을 사용하고, 조도계(Cds)를 이용하여 LED의 밝기에 따른 주변의 밝기를 감지하여 조명에 적응시키는 방법을 적용하였다.

• Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
• /
• v.9 no.3
• /
• pp.80-85
• /
• 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.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
• /
• v.46 no.4
• /
• pp.57-65
• /
• 2009

This paper presents the image contrast enhancement technique suitable for local dimming backlight of small-sized mobile display while achieving the reduction of the power consumption. In addition to the large-sized TFT-LCD, small-sized one has adopted LED for backlight. Since, conventionally, LED was mounted on the side edge of a display panel, global dimming method has been widely used. However, recently, new advanced method of local dimming by placing the LED to the backside of the display panel and it raised the necessity of sub-blocked processing after partitioning the target image. When the sub-blocked image has low brightness, the supply current of a backlight LED is reduced, which gives both enhancement of contrast ratio and power consumption reduction. In this paper, we propose simple and improved image enhancement algorithm suitable for the small-sized mobile display. After partitioning the input image by equal sized blocks and analyzing the pixel information in each block, we realize the primary contrast enhancement by independently processing the sub-blocks using the information such as histogram, mean, and standard deviation values of luminance(Y) component. And then resulting information is transferred to each backlight control unit for local dimming to realize the secondary contrast enhancement as well as reduction of power consumption.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
• /
• v.29 no.1
• /
• pp.31-36
• /
• 2015

In this paper, an LED lighting system that is capable of automatic or maunal dimming control using a ultrasonic sensor and Bluetooth wireless communication technology is presented. The LED lighting system consists of a ultrasonic sensor, microcontroller unit, Bluetooth wireless communication, LED driver, and LED light source. By using the implemented LED lighting system sample, it is shown that the automatic and manual dimming control is realized. By using the ultrasonic sensor, the LED lighting is automatically brighter or dimmer depending on the distance between the sensor and an object. When using a smartphone that includes Bluetooth wireless communication function, one can not only manually control the brightness of the LED lighting from level 1 to 10, but also monitor the distance between the sensor and object on the smartphone.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
• /
• v.28 no.1
• /
• pp.64-68
• /
• 2015

In this paper, LED lighting system is realized by using Bluetooth wireless communications and smartphones. A bluetooth module with a lighting control function is manufactured by miniaturizing a development board of TI company and the volume of LED dimming system as a whole is reduced. And a trial product is materialized by designing a hardware composed of the manufactured bluetooth module, LED down light equipped with degree warm white and cool white, and 2-channel LED driver; and LED dimming software. The materialized trial product is controled in terms of the brightness and color temperature of LED light source using an application of a smartphone. The experiment showed that the users can easily control the intensity of illumination of LED light source by using the scroll bar of the applications of smartphones. In addition, the color temperatures of both warm white and cool white can be controlled, and when the color temperature of the trial product using the manufactured bluetooth module is compared with that of a trial product of TI company, they show the same color temperatures.