Backlight Unit Excessive Dimming Based on Perceptual Image Analysis
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Abstract
A method to maximize backlight dimming of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) based on human visual system are proposed to minimize power consumption of display panels. Based on images, the proposed method optimizes global, local, and red, green, blue (RGB) backlight dimming by enhancing dimming about 12% on average for various images while maintaining tolerable degradation of perceived image qualities in pixel saturation areas. The method considers and utilizes the brightness sensitivity and contrast response functions of human visual system using the mean luminance and the contrast of an image, which are mathematically modelled to allow optimization for display panels and application areas. A simulator that can calculate various dimming cases with the evaluations of numerical and perceptual image qualities as well as power consumption amount is introduced. With pattern and real photo images, the degree of power savings and the preservation of image quality of the proposed method are verified to outperform conventional approaches with high scores of the mean opinion score (MOS) and the structural similarity index measure (SSIM) over 0.97 while saving more than 10% of power dissipation.
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Research context
OpenAlex topics: Color Science and Applications · Image and Video Quality Assessment · Image Enhancement Techniques
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Affiliations
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University, Seoul 04066, Korea
Funding
Korea Electric Power Corporation
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