• 산업기술연구
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• 제30권B호
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• pp.109-112
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• 2010

Unlike the general lighting systems, stage lighting system requires accurate dimming control and reduction of flicker phenomenon. In this paper, we studied PWM dimming control and linear voltage level control methods. PWM Dimming is easy control and flicker phenomenon of linear voltage level dimming does not happen by experiment result. We concluded that stage lighting dimming system required to combine two techniques of the PWM and linear voltage level dimming control method.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.2280-2288
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• 2014

기존의 고출력 LED의 디밍(Dimming) 제어 방법에는 펄스폭변조, 주파수변조, 아날로그 제어 방법이 있으며, 아날로그 디밍은 순방향 고출력 LED 전류를 조정하는 방법으로 0%~100%의 전 범위에서 선형 밝기 조절이 가능하나 순방향 전류를 변화시킴으로써 파장의 변화가 존재하고, 펄스폭변조 디밍 제어는 고출력 LED에 흐르는 정격 전류의 듀티를 가변하여 조도를 제어하는 방식으로 저 레벨(0%~10%)에서 선형 밝기 조정이 어렵다. 그리고 주파수변조 디밍 또한 저 레벨의 디밍에서 빛이 깜박거리는 문제를 내포하고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 디밍 방식의 단점을 보완하고자 저 레벨 디밍 제어 시 아날로그 방식을 적용하고, 10%~100%의 디밍 제어 시에 펄스폭변조 방식을 적용하는 효율적인 디밍 제어 회로의 설계 및 구현을 제안한다. 전 범위에 걸쳐 선형 밝기 조절이 가능하고, 다양한 디밍 레벨에서 일정한 파장의 출력이 가능한 디밍 제어 회로를 구현하였으며, 실험 결과는 제안한 방법의 우수성을 보여주고 있다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.248-254
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• 2013

The size and power consumption of digital circuits including the dimming circuit part will increase for high-performance solid state lighting (SSL) systems in the future. This study examined the low-power consumption of adiabatic dynamic CMOS logic (ADCL) due to the principles of adiabatic charging. Furthermore, the designed low-power ADCL digital pulse width modulation (PWM) was optimized for SSL dimming systems. For this purpose, an ADCL digital 3-bit PWM was optimized in two steps. In the first step, the architecture of the ADCL digital 3-bit PWM was miniaturized. In the second step, the clock cut-off circuit was designed and added to the ADCL PWM. As a result, compared to the original configuration, 60 transistors and 15 capacitors of ADCL digital 3-bit PWM were reduced for miniaturization. Moreover, the clock cut-off circuit, which controls wake-up and sleep mode of ADCL D-FFs, was designed. The power consumption of an optimized ADCL digital PWM for all bit patterns decreased by 54 %.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2014년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.928-931
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• 2014

사용자와의 인터페이스가 많은 모바일 기기에서 TFT LCD는 현재 가장 많이 사용되는 디스플레이로 백라이트(backlight)로 인한 전력 소모가 많아 배터리 수명이 짧아지는 것이 큰 문제이다. 전력 절감을 위해 사용되는 backlight dimming 기법은 명암비 조정에 따른 이미지 왜곡의 보완 기법과 함께 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 PWM 구동에 의한 LED backlight 제어가 가능한 TFT LCD 보드 구현을 소개하고 이 보드를 대상으로 framebuffer와 LED 제어용 리눅스 장치 드라이버를 사용한 객체 기반의 저전력 인간 시각 만족의 화질 보상 dimming 알고리즘의 구현 연구 내용을 기술한다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.64-70
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 LED조명의 휘도조절을 위해 PWM 휘도조절시 발생하는 LED전류의 과도 상태제거를 위한 전류제어 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 LED전류 제어 기법은 과도상태가 존재하지 않으므로 휘도조절 신호의 동작 시비율이 매우 작은 영역에서도 전류 제어를 통해 낮은 휘도를 정밀하게 표현할 수 있다. 또한 전류의 Overshoot이 발생하지 않으므로 휘도를 일정하게 유지할 수 있는 장점을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 LED전류 제어 기법의 동작원리를 설명하고, PSIM을 이용한 모의실험 및 실제 46인치 LCD TV의 시작품 제작을 통해 제안된 기법의 타당성 및 우수성을 검증한다.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.73-82
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• 2012

In this paper, a light-emitting diode (LED) backlight driver integrated circuit (IC) for medium-sized liquid crystal displays (LCDs) is proposed. In the proposed IC, a linear current regulator with matched internal resistors and an adaptive phase-shifted pulse-width modulation (PWM) dimming controller are also proposed to improve LED current uniformity and reliability. The double feedback loop control boost converter is used to achieve high power efficiency, fast transient characteristic, and high dimming frequency and resolution. The proposed IC was fabricated using the 0.35 ${\mu}m$ bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) process. The LED current uniformity and LED fault immunity of the proposed IC were verified through experiments. The measured power efficiency was 90%; the measured LED current uniformity, 97%; and the measured rising and falling times of the LED current, 86 and 7 ns, respectively. Due to the fast rising and falling characteristics, the proposed IC operates up to 39 kHz PWM dimming frequency, with an 8-bit dimming resolution. It was verified that the phase difference between the PWM dimming signals is changed adaptively when LED fault occurs. The experiment results showed that the proposed IC meets the requirements for the LED backlight driver IC for medium-sized LCDs.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.247-252
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• 2013

An intelligent light emitting diode (LED) dimming system is designed and implemented for energy-saving lighting systems. An LED light bulb is powered by an LED driver controlled by a microcontroller using pulse width modulation (PWM) signals. By changing the duty cycle of the PWM signals, the LED driver generates a driving current of up to 1,000 mA. The current consumption by the LED light bulb exhibits a very linear characteristic that indicates that the level of LED dimming can be finely tuned. Multiple sensors-lighting intensity and ultrasonic range sensors-are combined with the LED dimming system to realize an automatically controllable LED lighting system. The light intensity sensor is capable of sensing ambient light. The ultrasonic range sensor can detect objects from 0.15 to 5.6 m at a resolution of 0.0254 m. The collected information by the light intensity and ultrasonic range sensors is processed by the microcontroller that in turn automatically controls the brightness of the LED light bulb. The algorithm of the software for the LED dimming system is also described.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.65-70
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• 2014

This paper is to improve the problem of the LED dimming control system using the conventional PWM and DAC method. The conventional PWM method controls the average current to switch dimming signal. This method generates the flicker when controlling at a low current. In order to solve the problem, this system prevents the flicker with the DAC method. The LED is lit at micro-current flowing in the LED. And offset voltage is generated in the output of the DAC when the DAC output is very low voltage as 0V. This was resolved by the voltage drop of the output voltage to construct a negative offset circuit. In addition, the LED current can't flow as set values because of overheating of FET. In order to solve the problem, the 16 bits ADC in the microprocessor is a more accurate current control receives the LED current in comparison with the set value. Therefore, the LED dimming control system proposed in this paper showed the accurate and reliable more than conventional systems.

• 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.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 V
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• pp.2847-2850
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• 2003

A input voltage conversion dimming control formula and a PMW dimming control formula which have been used for dimming control of CCFL driving inverter in TFT-LCD backlight, are the existing facilities so far, however, in this thesis the circuit is designed by applying The rover inverter that are able to measure output brightness according to changing of duty ratio at PWM and voltage. consequently, it's able to be confirmed that we can have dimming control more detailed than before.