Abstract
The data that forms the image viewed on an electronic display device is almost always transmitted to the display in serial format. Yet in almost all cases an electronic information display (EID) displays a 2D image. In this chapter, we review, and consider the implications of, some commonly used options for implementing the serial-to-parallel conversion. We further review different methods of generating gray levels in the pixels of a monochrome display, similarly the constituent gray levels in each of the individual color components of a color display, and finally the range of colors in the pixels of a color display. Much of the above is relevant to a broad range of display systems. Microdisplay systems, however, offer additional possibilities due to the superior capabilities (in terms of integration and speed of operation) of CMOS active matrix backplane electronics and the additional dimension afforded by optical transmission and/or magnification.
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- AM:
-
Active Matrix or Amplitude Modulation
- AES:
-
All-Electronic Scanning
- AMLCD:
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Active Matrix LCD
- AMOLED:
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Active Matrix OLED
- AOS:
-
All-Optical Scanning
- BLU:
-
Backlight Unit
- BP:
-
Bit Plane
- BWPCM:
-
Binary Weighted Pulse Count Modulation
- BWPWM:
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Binary Weighted Pulse Width Modulated or Modulation
- CP:
-
Color Plane
- CRT:
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Cathode Ray Tube
- DMD:
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Digital Micromirror Device
- EID:
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Electronic Information Display
- EO:
-
Electro-Optic
- FET:
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Field Effect Transistor
- FPS:
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Frames Per Second
- FSC:
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Field Sequential Color
- GLV:
-
Grating Light Valve
- IM:
-
Intensity Modulated or Modulation
- LCD:
-
Liquid Crystal Display
- LSBP:
-
Least Significant BP
- MEMS:
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Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
- MEOS:
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Mixed Electronic Optical Scanning
- MSBP:
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Most Significant BP
- NTE:
-
Near-To-Eye
- OLED:
-
Organic Light Emitting Diode
- PCM:
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Pulse Count Modulated or Modulation
- PDP:
-
Plasma Display Panel
- PM:
-
Passive Matrix
- PWM:
-
Pulse Width Modulation
- RGB:
-
Red Green Blue
- RGBG:
-
Red Green Blue Green
- RGBW:
-
Red Green Blue White
- TFT:
-
Thin Film Transistor
- SLM:
-
Spatial Light Modulator
- SP:
-
Sub-Pixel
- SSFLC:
-
Surface-Stabilized Ferroelectric LC
- SSP:
-
Sub-Sub-Pixel
- TNLCD:
-
Twisted Nematic LCD
- TV:
-
Television
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Armitage D, Underwood I, Wu ST (2006) Introduction to microdisplays. Wiley, Chichester
Brennesholtz MS, Stupp EH (2008) Projection displays. Wiley, Chichester
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The author wishes to thank Ahmad Wafi Mahmood Zuhdi and Krzysztof Nguyen of the University of Edinburgh for assistance in the preparation of the manuscript.
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Underwood, I. (2012). Methods of 2-D Image Formation in Microdisplay-based and Related Systems. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79567-4_131
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