• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.376-382
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• 2008

In this paper, scanning backlight unit which can reduce motion blur was designed and fabricated using flat fluorescent lamp. The FFL(flat fluorescent lamp) is in the limelight as a new illuminant of next generation BLU(backlight unit), because of simple assembly and reduction of driving components. In order to control lamp brightness, lamp on-time was controlled. In this experiment, it was confirmed that lamp brightness can be dimmed linealy and in a wide range.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.08a
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• pp.86-87
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• 2009

LED backlight for LCD TV is a great alternative to CCFL backlight due to its low power consumption and flexible arrangement. Various LED backlight configurations are being used to control the backlight locally in order to achieve both power efficiency and high contrast. However, the relatively small spatial resolution of the backlight system results in showing artifacts of backlight control that is acknowledgeable to human vision. Moreover, such artifacts get worse between temporal frames. In this paper we present a method of decreasing such temporal artifacts with a Human Visual System(HVS) approach to minimize distortion caused by local backlight dimming.

• 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 Optical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.174-177
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• 2008

The luminance properties of FFL(Flat Fluorescent Lamp) backlights have been investigated in detail for the first time. The on-axis luminance gain as well as viewing-angle characteristics on various combinations of optical films were obtained from FFL backlight and compared to the results of conventional CCFL(cold-cathode fluorescent lamps) backlights. It was found that the on-axis luminance gains achieved by using optical films in the FFL backlight were lower than those in the CCFL backlight indicating that the recycling processes occurring between optical films and light sources/reflection sheet are not so effective in the FFL backlight due to the much larger area of, and thus higher absorption probability of the FFL. This result suggests that new optical films should be developed for FFL backlight and other flat-lamp backlight technologies.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.795-798
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• 2004

After showing 32 inch two-dimensionally integrated fluorescent lamp (TIFL) and its module at SID '04, 40 inch TIFL and its module of prototype have been developed at the first time. It is the biggest size in the world as well as has a backlight unit without BEF optical film. The luminance of TIFL is 14000 nit at 190 watt power consumption and its luminous efficacy is 51 lumen/watt. The use of TIFL simplifies backlight assembly process and removes high price optical sheets. As a result, LCD TV, used by TIFL, is rapidly going to expand its market share in the large size TV area.

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

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.16-19
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• 2008

In this study, it was investigated about optical simulation in direct-type backlight design. Direct-type backlight has been used high-brightness backlight such as medical LCD application. The key parameter in designing direct-type backlight was consists of three geometrical dimension such as the distance of two lamps, the gap of lamp and reflection plate and the number of lamps. It has many of variations in optical design and it causes the different properties in backlight system. It shows the best values of above parameters; 26 mm of the distance of two lamps, 4.5 mm of the gap of lamp and reflection plate and 16 lamps. And we produced the specimen as above condition, and acquired good result in backlight such as the value of the brightness is 6423 nit in center of emission area and less than 5 % in brightness uniformity. It shows the effective ways of designing backlight system using optical simulation method for medical LCD application.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.415-415
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• 2007

In this study. it was investigated about optical simulation in direct-type backlight design. Direct-type backlight has been used high-brightness backlight such as LCD television application. The key parameter in designing direct-type backlight was consists of three geometrical dimension such as the distance of two lamps. the gap of lamp and reflection plate and the number of lamps. It has many variation in optical design and it causes the different properties in backlight system. It shows the best values of above parameters; 26mm of the distance of two lamps. 4.5mm of the gap of lamp and reflection plate and 16 lamps. And we produced the specimen as above condition. and acquired good result in backlight such as the value of the brightness is 6436 nit in center of emission area and less than 5% in brightness uniformity. It shows the effective ways of designing backlight system using optical simulation method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.8-17
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• 2012

This paper proposes high performance control of light emitting diode(LED) drive system for liquid crystal display(LCD) backlight. The CCFL(cold cathode fluorescent lamp)was used to a conventional LCD backlight. Due to improvement on luminous efficiency, long life and wide color gamut, LED has gradually substituted for CCFL as backlight. The backlight using LED is necessary to use many LED. For that reason, the LED backlight is using a lot of LED driving circuits. The many LED driving circuit is generated a current deviation between LED. Eventually, it is caused brightness deviation between LED. Therefore, this paper improves the current deviation using transformer and balancing capacitor to solve this problem. Also, for accurate and uniform brightness control, this paper is applied the artificial intelligent control to a dimming control. This paper is compared with conventional system, and validity of this paper proves through that result.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.416-423
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• 2007

To drive the CCFL In LCD backlight inverter, a new transformer structure with small volume is proposed which have a boosting voltage and a lamp current balancing functions. The proposed transformer structure has been verified through experimental test with 40inch LCD backlight inverter.