• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.85-88
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• 2000

We present a new approach to analyzing the dynamic false contour noise of AC plasma display panels (PDP), which is known to degrade the image quality severely. Compared with the existing methods that consider only the amount of light emission from PDP during 1 field time, the proposed approach uses the impulse response model of the human vision system and estimates how the human beings actually feel as the function of time. Experimental results using various benchmark sub-field scan algorithms are included.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.30-34
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• 2006

A sub-field rearrangement driving method has been proposed to reduce a DFC (Dynamic False Contour) phenomenon in plasma display panels. The proposed driving method expresses 256 gray levels with 16 sub-fields, while conventional one uses only 8 sub-fields. Notwithstanding the increase in the number of sub-fields, the display time is similar to the conventional 8 sub-fields driving method by appropriate choosing selective writing and selective erasing for sub-fields.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.12-17
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• 2007

The dynamic false contour noise was analyzed with consideration for the phosphor decay time of an ac PDP by computer simulation based on the measurement of the 1/10 phosphor decay times of the primary colors red, green and blue at the main wavelengths of each phosphor. The noise level of dynamic false contour is strongly dependent on phosphor decay time. The noise level decreases incrementally with the phosphor decay time, whereas the noise width increases. The moving velocity of an object does not affect the noise level. The entire experiment was performed under the condition of 8 subfields ADS driving scheme, 2.5[${\mu}sec$] scan speed, and 5[${\mu}sec$] sustain period with VGA grade panel.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.258-260
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• 2003

In this paper, we study the reduction of the Dynamic False Contour in a new driving method. This method divides scan lines into Multi Blocks, and drives both selective write and selective erase address. Because of the characteristic of proposed waveform, each scan line has a different sustain pulse weight. Therefore, the Dynamic False Contour occurs seriously in the boundary of each Block. Finally, if scan-lines tie several lines, the Dynamic False Contour can reduce in the boundary of each Block.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1462-1467
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• 2013

A pseudo 480-Hz drive method has been proposed to reduce the dynamic false contour noise that occurs on flat panel displays with displaying grayscale image in the digital mode, such as plasma display panels. The proposed method makes the image movements nearly continuous by rearranging the 8-bit image data displayed for 1 TV field into 8 subfields. The position of the image data rearranged in subfields has been optimized on the basis of the speed of the moving image by computer simulations for the dynamic false contour noise. It is verified that a significant reduction in the dynamic false contour noise is achieved with the proposed method as compared to the conventional noise reduction technologies. Moreover, to reduce the noise in digital mode displays, the proposed technology requires only 8 subfields. Therefore, there is no reduction in the brightness of the image.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.697-702
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• 2010

Contour artifact is known as the unintentional result of quantizing a flat area that has smooth gradients. In this letter, a decontouring algorithm is proposed to efficiently remove false contours that occur in typical block-based video coding applications. First, the algorithm goes through a refinement stage to determine candidate blocks probably having noticeable false contours with different kinds of features in a block. Then, pseudo-random noise masking is applied to those blocks to mitigate the contour artifacts. This block-based selective decontouring can efficiently remove the unnecessary processing of those blocks that have no false contour, which incidentally ensures a minor penalty in visual quality and computational complexity. The proposed algorithm was demonstrated, integrated into H.264/AVC, that visual quality can be significantly enhanced with an ignorable rate-distortion (RD) loss and an minor increase in computational complexity.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.407-410
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• 2005

For reducing DFC(Dynamic False Contour), we propose a new PDP driving method by rearrangement of sub-fields. The proposed method constructs a frame using 16 sub-fields for expressing 256 gray levels. Although the number of sub-fields increases, the display time increases compared to the conventional 8 sub-fields driving method. This increase in display time is achieved by properly using both selective writing and selective erasing for each sub-field.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.97-101
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• 2013

Bit-depth expansion is a process of enhancing the image quality by increasing the number of intensity levels. To solve this problem, a hybrid method is proposed, where the pixels are categorized into smooth and complex regions, and are processed using different methods. The pixels in the smooth region are reconstructed with a smooth prior, and a Bayesian estimator is used for the pixels in the complex region. The proposed method effectively removes the false contour artifacts while requiring less computation than conventional methods. In addition, the method shows good quantitative performance, and the PSNR gains over the best existing method are 1.45 dB and 0.26 dB for 4 bits and 3 bits expansion cases, respectively.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.46-54
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• 2002

Plasma Display Panel (PDP) is required to be both the determination of white point of each gray level and the inverse gamma correction since no-balanced RGB cell and linear property of PDP, respectively. However, these two methods cause degradation of grey level representation and undesirable false contour in the dark areas on PDP. In this paper, we implemented real time image processor of the proposed error diffusion algorithm and unsharp masking operation to protect the blurring image caused by the error diffusion. Experimental results showed drastic improvements of gray level representation and reduction of undesirable false contour.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.8-12
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• 2003

In this paper, we report relatively simple equalizing pulse method for reducing dynamic false contour in PDP. Calculation cost is reduced by limiting pixels to add equalizing pulse and using look-up-table(LUT) for given subfield pattern. Pixels to be modified are determined after comparing selected number of most significant bits(MSB) with those of adjacent pixels. The equalizing pulse amount is determined by consulting LUT, which is for a fixed velocity of 1 pixel/tv field. Even though the suggested scheme does not cover every luminance combination of neighboring pixels, it is expected to work well after appropriate modifications are made according to the velocity.