A novel dot-pattern generation to improve luminance uniformity of LCD backlight

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 11, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 659-665

  Idé, Tsuyoshi ^a   Numata, Hidetoshi ^a   Taira, Yoichi ^a   Mizuta, Hideyuki ^a   Suzuki, Masaru ^b   Noguchi, Michikazu ^b   Katsu, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Intl Display Technol Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collimated backlight; Irregular dot pattern; Light guide; Luminance uniformity; Masking pattern

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOIRE FRINGES; OPTICAL FILMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

COLLIMATED BACKLIGHT; IRREGULAR DOT PATTERN; LIGHT GUIDE; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY BACKLIGHT; LUMINANCE UNIFORMITY; MASKING PATTERN;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 0942279061     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.1825693     Document Type: Article

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