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Gray Scale Techniques for Liquid Crystal Displays
T.N. Ruckmongathan
June 2005
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Introduction Electro-optic response of LCDs
Line by line addressing
Frame modulation
Pulse width modulation
Amplitude modulation
Row pulse height modulation
Successive approximation
Wavelets for gray shade
Conclusion
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Electro-optic response of LCDs
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Matrix Displays
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Line by line addressing
Alt P M and Pleshko P, IEEE Trans. ED-21, pp 146-155, (1974)
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Line by line addressing
N1)V(N)V(V
V2c
2cr
RMS
1N
1NatioSelectionR
Maximum selection ratio
Ensures high contrast
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Line by line addressing
H Kawakami, et.al., BIENNIAL Display Conference, pp 50-53, (1976).
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Hardware complexity
A matrix display with N rows and M columns needs (N+M) drivers Typical driver consists of shift
register to accept serial data, latch to hold the data during row select time and multiplexer to apply a voltage
corresponding to the data Hardware complexity increases with number of voltage levels in the row
and column waveforms
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Schematic of a typical LCD driver
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Gray shade
1-bit 2-bits 3-bits
4-bits 5-bits 6-bits
7-bits 8-bits
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Gray scale in images
1-bit 2-bits 3-bits
4-bits 5-bits 6-bits
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Frame modulation
Y Suzuki et.al., SID 83 Digest, pp 32-33, (1983).
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Frame modulation
Simple technique
Low hardware complexity
Flicker- a few gray shades
Not useful for TV displays
Popular with STN
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Pulse width modulation
H Kawakami et.al., SID 80 Digest, pp28-29, (1980).
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Pulse width modulation
(w+1) gray shades with w duty cycles.
Limited number of gray shades
Poor brightness uniformity for large number of gray shades
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Amplitude modulationTwo time intervals
c2 )Vg1(g c
2 )Vg1(g
T N Ruckmongathan, Japan Display’92, pp 77-80, (1992)
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Amplitude modulation
NNVVgVV
V ccrrRMS
22 2
N2
V)g1(g)g1(g1)(NV)g1(gVV)g1(gV 2c
22222
c2
r
2
c2
r
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Amplitude modulation
A R Conner and T J Scheffer, Japan Display’92, pp. 69-72, (1992).
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Amplitude modulation
No limit on number of gray shades
Can be extended to multi-line addressing
Large number of voltage levels in the column waveforms
High cost of drivers
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Amplitude modulation
A 16x16 matrix LCD using amplitude modulation for displaying 8 shades
B.E Project, (2000-2001)
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Row pulse height modulation
H Mano et.al., SID 93 Digest, pp. 93-96, (1993)
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Row pulse height modulation
Amplitude of row select pulse is varied in each frame based on the gray shade bit used as data for scanning the
display 2m gray shades with m time intervals More gray shades with less flicker Selection ratio is less than the
maximum
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Nm
NmVV2V2V2
V
1m
0i
2cc
ir
2r
1m
0i
2i
RMS
m
i
m
iccr
i
RMSN
)V)N()VV((V
Row pulse height modulation
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Successive approximation
Similar to row pulse height modulation Amplitudes of both row and column
waveforms are varied in successive frames
Amplitude is increased by a factor 2½ for each bit from LSB to MSB
Selection ratio is maximum 2m gray shades with m time intervals
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Successive frames
B.E Project, (1999-2000)
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Successive pulses
B.E Project, (2000-2001)
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Successive approximation
1m
0i
1m
0i
1m
0ic
ic
ir
i
RMS
N
V)2(1)(NV)2(V)2(
V
22
mN)NVVV21)(V(2
V2ccr
2r
m
RMS
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Successive approximation
A 16x16 matrix LCD displaying 8 gray shades using Successive approximation
B.E Project, (2000-2001)
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Successive approximation andMulti-line addressing
Panikumar and Ruckmongathan, ASID’02, pp 229-232, (2002)
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Successive approximation with Multi-line addressing
A 32x32 matrix LCD displaying 16 gray shades 3 rows are selected at a time
ASID’02, (2002)
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Gray Shades based on Wavelets
Wavelets are used to deliver energies that are proportional to the weight of the gray shade data
T.N. Ruckmongathan, Nanitha P. Rao and Ankita Prasad, SID 2005
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Haar Wavelets and modified wavelets
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Typical waveforms
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Distributed waveforms
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Block Diagram
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Column signal generator
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Photographs
T.N. Ruckmongathan, Nanitha P. Rao and Ankita Prasad, SID 2005
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SummaryFrame modulation -- Limited gray shades
Pulse width modulation -- Limited gray shades
Amplitude modulation -- No limit on gray shades Large number of levels
in column waveform
Row pulse height modulation -- More gray shades Low selection ratio
Successive Approximation -- More gray shadesMaximum selection ratio
Wavelets – More gray shades and simple waveforms
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Summary
Row pulse height modulation, Successive Approximation and Wavelet based
techniques need less number of time intervals as compared to frame and pulse
width modulation
Hardware complexity is less for successive approximation
Successive approximation and Wavelet based techniques are well suited for
displaying large number of gray shades.
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Conclusion
More gray shades than frame modulation
Less hardware complexity as compared to amplitude modulation
Maximum selection ratio and hence good contrast in the display
Successive approximation and wavelet based techniques are a better choice for displaying
gray shades in passive matrix LCDs.
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Acknowledgments
K.G. Pani Kumar, M. Govind.
Sanjay,Santhosh,Santhosh and Raghavendra.
Anusha,Anitha and Suman
Nanitha P Rao and Ankita Prasad
B.P.Neena
A.R. Shashidhara
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Thank you
for your attention