• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.139-141
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• 2007

This paper presents a digital LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) backlight inverter control using an 8-bit microcontroller. The backlight uses cold cathode fluorescent lamps(CCFLs) that have the negative resistance characteristics, so it requires the ballast function. For this, the proposed LCD backlight inverter uses an 8-bit microcontroller, ATmega128. Therefore, the controller circuit is simplified and cost-minimized. It shows through the experimental results that the proposed inverter has good performance for the LCD backlight inverter.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.38-48
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• 2011

Block based LCD backlight nonideality and crosstalk compensation methodologies are proposed based on the analysis of backlight profiles and image pixel homogeneity. Large computation complexity required in the conventional compensations is minimized without the degradation of image qualities by optimizing image block size, image area inside the block to be excluded from the compensation computation and the required backlight range to be computed. The optimization results of computation complexity as well as image qualities are verified for the proposed compensation by real image data simulations.

• Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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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.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.378-380
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• 2007

대화면 LCD TV (40인치 이상 LCD TV)에서 LCD 인버터의 가격 경쟁력을 위해 인버터 하나로 다수의 램프를 병렬 구동하면서 Two Stage System 구조인 Super IP Board 형태의 인버터 회로가 많이 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 Super IP Board의 인버터 구동 방식인 PWM 제어 방식을 분석하고, 문제점으로 제기되었던 Half-Bridge단 스위치의 하드 스위칭과 과도한 Circulating Energy 등의 문제를 해결한 새로운 Pulse Count Modulation (PCM) 방식을 적용한 인버터를 제안하고 이론적 및 실험적 검증을 통해 제안된 방식의 우수성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.503-505
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• 2007

효율적인 LCD Backlight 구동 시스템 설계를 위해서는 CCFL에 대한 전기적 특성 파악이 중요하지만 디스플레이의 대형화에 따라 LCD Backlight 램프는 길어지고 비선형 특성으로 인해 특성 표현이 곤란하여 회로 설계시 간략화된 등가 모델을 사용하게 되어 실제 인버터 제작과정에서 많은 시행착오를 거치게 한다. 회로 설계시 수식모델 적용을 위한 CCFL의 모델이 필요하며, 이러한 모델은 인버터를 효율적으로 설계할 수 있게 하므로서 설계에 필요한 시간과 자원 절감을 가능하게 한다. 본 논문에서는 42인치 LCD 구동인버터 설계에 필요한 CCFL의 수식 모델링을 IsSpice를 이용하여 구현하였으며, 회로 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통하여 모델의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.860-873
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• 2019

LCD backlight boosting and the integration of boosting and dimming are proposed based on image analysis to maximize perceptual image qualities and to reduce display system power. Based on the histogram of the image data, methods for selecting an image suitable for boosting and for adjusting the optimum backlight brightness are proposed. A comprehensive combined optimization method of LCD backlight boosting, dimming and bypass based on image characteristics is also described. Perceptual image quality enhancement and power consumption are evaluated based on well known image databases. Average subjective image quality is improved by 24.8%, RMS contrast is improved more than 20%, and average power consumption is reduced by 15.94% compared to conventional uniform boosting.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.230-230
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• 2007

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.397-402
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• 2006

We have investigated the effect of each ingredient in the light diffusing film (LDF) which was used as backlight unit (BLU) of TFT-LCD TV on physical, electrical, thermal and optical properties of LDF. In anti-blocking layer, the excellent anti-blocking ability was obtained when 0.5~1.5 wt% of acrylic bead was added, and good decay-time and water-stability were shown when 0.8 wt% of tertiary ammonium salt was added. Optimal results for adhesion strength, curing rates and flexibility on the surface of PET film have been obtained in the light diffusing layer by using acrylic polyol as a binder resin, and by addition of 30~35 wt% non-yellowing type HDI crosslinker. In addition, the highest normal luminance value was obtained by addition of 250 wt% poly-dispersive polystyrene ($20{\mu}m$ PS) and polymethylmethacrylate ($20{\mu}m$ PMMA) beads into the binder resin (100 wt%). The higher normal luminance could be got for PMMA beads than PS beads because of the transmittance difference.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.617-618
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.200-204
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• 2001

The high efficiency and high power inverter for driving LCD backlight was designed and fabricated. The operating frequency was variable and dimming capability was also included. High dimming ratio could be achieved by PWM dimming. The optimum driving condition for LCD backlight could be obtained by using the excited type inverter.