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Abstract. This paper reports transient response characteristics of active-matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) displays for mobile applications. This work reports that the rising responses look like saw-tooth waveform and are not always faster than those of liquid crystal displays. Thus, a driving technology is proposed to improve the rising transient responses of AMOLED based on the overdrive (OD) technology. We modified the OD technology by combining it with a dithering method because the conventional OD method cannot successfully enhance all the rising responses. Our method can improve all the transitions of AMOLED without modifying the conventional gamma architecture of drivers. A new artifact is found when OD is applied to certain transitions. We propose an optimum OD selection method to mitigate the artifact. The implementation results show the proposed technology can successfully improve motion quality of scrolling texts as well as moving pictures in AMOLED displays.

This paper introduces a new low-power driving method based on gaze tracking for organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays.In the proposed method, the image data becomes darker as it is farther from the gaze point. We verified that our proposed method can reduce power consumption by about 27% without degradation in quality of experience (QoE) through a psychophysical experiment. Author Keywordsgaze tracking; eye tracker; low-power; driving technology; human visual perception; quality of experience (QoE); image quality; organic light emitting diode (OLED) display; 23-2 / J.-S. Kim SID 2018 DIGEST • 287 ISSN 0097-996X/18/4701-0287-$1.00

Abstract. An adaptive one-dimensional (1-D) dimming technique for liquid crystal displays that compensates for nonuniform backlight distribution is proposed. Dimming techniques that do not consider luminance distribution may cause severe visual artifacts, such as a block artifact. However, an adaptive 1-D dimming technique that considers luminance distribution can reduce power consumption without causing any visual artifacts. Hardware implementation results verified that our method achieved lower power consumption compared to nondimming techniques and removed block artifacts from International Electrotechnical Commission 62087 standard images. The power consumption using the proposed method ranged from 85.5% to 94.7% compared to nondimming techniques. Furthermore, the contrast ratio increased by up to 231% and 165% on average compared to nondimming techniques. © The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI.

This paper proposes an adaptive charge sharing (ACS) method for reducing power consumption in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Our ACS method involves calculating the power consumption of all data lines assuming the charge is shared and analyzing the analog characteristics of the data transitions. With conventional CS, charge is shared between data lines only when the polarities of data signals change. Our ACS method selectively shares charge even when no polarity change occurs, but only if CS provides an overall reduction in power consumption. To compare the performance of ACS and conventional CS, we applied the ACS method to common inversion methods, namely, column, two-dot, and Z inversion. Our simulation results demonstrate that the ACS method can effectively reduce power consumption, especially with the column and Z inversion methods. The average power consumption of the ACS method with column and Z inversion was 87.7% and 84.7%, respectively, of the conventional CS power consumption.