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TFT-LCD Defect Enhancement Using Frequency Sensitivity of HVS

인간 시각시스템의 주파수 감도를 이용한 TFT-LCD 결함 강조

  • Oh, Jong-Hwan (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Park, Kil-Houm (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
  • Published : 2007.09.25
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Abstract

Generally, the TFT-LCD image signal have nonuniform brightness and are composed of largely varying background signal, noise signal and abruptly changing Mura signal within Mura region. In this paper, Mura region enhancing algorithms using the proposed modified-MTF, which describes how human-visual-system's sensitivity varies in frequency domain, is proposed. The validity of the proposed algorithm was demonstrated ideal 1-dimensional signal and also then it was also tested TFT-LCD image. By the experimental results, the proposed algorithm is very effective in TFT-LCD image Mura enhancement.

일반적으로 TFT-LCD영상은 휘도 분포가 불균일하며, 전체적으로 크게 변화하는 배경신호, 노이즈 신호, 그리고 결함 영역에서만 급격하게 변하는 결함 신호로 이루어져 있다. 본 논문에서는 HVS(human visual system)의 가장 큰 특징인 주파수에 따라 차이를 인지하는 정도가 다르다는 것을 나타내는 MTF(modulation transfer function)를 변형하여 TFT-LCD영상의 결함을 상대적으로 강조하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 이상적인 1차원 신호를 생성하여 제안한 방법의 유효성을 살펴보고 실제 TFT-LCD영상에 적용하여 제안한 알고리즘이 영상 결함 강조에 우수한 효과를 가짐을 확인하였다.

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