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Displaying gray shades in liquid crystal displays

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Quality of image in a display depends on the contrast, colour, resolution and the number of gray shades. A large number of gray shades is necessary to display images without any contour lines. These contours are due to limited number of gray shades in the display causing abrupt changes in grayness of the image, while the original image has a gradual change in brightness. Amplitude modulation has the capability to display a large number of gray shades with minimum number of time intervals [1,2]. This paper will cover the underlying principle of amplitude modulation, some variants and its extension to multi-line addressing. Other techniques for displaying gray shades in passive matrix displays are reviewed for the sake of comparison.

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Ruckmongathan, T.N. Displaying gray shades in liquid crystal displays. Pramana - J Phys 61, 313–329 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02708312

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