Display technology is evolving at an impressive rate with LCD and flat panel technologies gaining an increasing market share over traditional CRT display applications. Focusing on the development of new industry standards, this timely exposition of display systems and applications covers display timings, interfaces, specifications, measurement procedures and all forms of display control and identification.
- Reviews interface and graphics subsystem standards, including FPDI (Flat Panel Display Interface), P&D (Plug and Display) and Intel's Digital Video Interface (DVI)
- Compares and contrasts current and future developments of television and computer industry standards
- Describes the major new display system applications (HDTV, notebook computer, cellphone, cockpit instrumentation etc) and illustrates how user needs have dictated technological requirements (eg power, size and bistability)
- Provides an accessible treatment of current and future display device development, including guidance on selecting devices gor particular applications
Designed to meet the needs of professionals using and implementing display technologies and as a reference for those developing new display systems, this text is a valuable resource for display technology developers and system integrators, video graphics interface engineers and professionals. The comprehensive coverage of this leading edge topic makes it also of interest to postgraduate students in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
The Society for Information Display (SID) is an international society, which has the aim of encouraging the development of all aspects of the field of information display. Complementary to the aims of the society, the Wiley-SID series is intended to explain the latest developments in information display technology at a professional level. The broad scope of the series addresses all facets of information displays from technical aspects through systems and prototypes to standards and ergonomics
Table of Contents:
Series Editor’s Foreword xi
Preface xiii
1 Basic Concepts in Display Systems 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.1.1 Basic components of a display system 1
1.2 Imaging Concepts 3
1.2.1 Vector-scan and raster-scan systems; pixels and frames 4
1.2.2 Spatial formats vs. resolution; fields 7
1.2.3 Moving images; frame rates 8
1.2.4 Three-dimensional imaging 10
1.3 Transmitting the Image Information 11
2 The Human Visual System 13
2.1 Introduction 13
2.2 The Anatomy of the Eye 14
2.3 Visual Acuity 19
2.4 Dynamic Range and Visual Response 22
2.5 Chromatic Aberrations23
2.6 Stereopsis 24
2.7 Temporal Response and Seeing Motion 25
2.8 Display Ergonomics 30
References 31
3 Fundamentals of Color 33
3.1 Introduction 33
3.2 Color Basics 34
3.3 Color Spaces and Color Coordinate Systems 37
3.4 Color Temperature 42
3.5 Standard Illuminants 44
3.6 Color Gamut 45
3.7 Perceptual Uniformity in Color Spaces; the CIE L*u*v* Space 46
3.8 MacAdam Ellipses and MPCDs 48
3.9 The Kelly Chart 49
3.10 Encoding Color 49
4 Display Technologies and Applications 53
4.1 Introduction53
4.2 The CRT Display 55
4.3 Color CRTs 57
4.4 Advantages and Limitations of the CRT 60
4.5 The “Flat Panel” Display Technologies 61
4.6 Liquid-Crystal Displays 64
4.7 Plasma Displays 69
4.8 Electroluminescent (EL) Displays 71
4.9 Organic Light-Emitting Devices (OLEDs) 72
4.10 Field-Emission Displays (FEDs) 73
4.11 Microdisplays 75
4.12 Projection Displays 78
4.12.1 CRT projection 79
4.13 Display Applications 80
5 Practical and Performance Requirements of the Display Interface 83
5.1 Introduction 83
5.2 Practical Channel Capacity Requirements 84
5.3 Compression 86
5.4 Error Correction and Encryption 88
5.5 Physical Channel Bandwidth 89
5.6 Performance Concerns for Analog Connections 92
5.6.1 Cable impedance 92
5.6.2 Shielding and filtering 95
5.6.3 Cable losses 96
5.6.4 Cable termination 98
5.6.5 Connectors 100
5.7 Performance Concerns for Digital Connections 102
6 Basics of Analog and Digital Display Interfaces 105
6.1 Introduction 105
6.2 “Bandwidth” vs. Channel Capacity 106
6.3 Digital and Analog Interfaces with Noisy Channels 107
6.4 Practical Aspects of Digital and Analog Interfaces 109
6.5 Digital vs. Analog Interfacing for Fixed-Format Displays 111
6.6 Digital Interfaces for CRT Displays 112
6.7 The True Advantage of Digital 113
6.8 Performance Measurement of Digital and Analog Interfaces 113
6.8.1 Analog signal parameters and measurement 114
6.8.2 Transmission-line effects and measurements 119
6.8.3 Digital systems 121
7 Format and Timing Standards 123
7.1 Introduction 123
7.2 The Need for Image Format Standards 123
7.3 The Need for Timing Standards 125
7.4 Practical Requirements of Format and Timing Standards 126
7.5 Format and Timing Standard Development 130
7.6 An Overview of Display Format and Timing Standards 131
7.7 Algorithms for Timings – The VESA GTF Standard 135
8 Standards for Analog Video – Part I: Television 139
8.1 Introduction 139
8.2 Early Television Standards 139
8.3 Broadcast Transmission Standards 141
8.4 Closed-Circuit Video; The RS-170 and RS-343 Standards 144
8.5 Color Television 146
8.6 NTSC Color Encoding 147
8.7 PAL Color Encoding 154
8.8 Secam 155
8.9 Relative Performance of the Three Color Systems 156
8.10 Worldwide Channel Standards 157
8.11 Physical Interface Standards for “Television” Video 157
8.11.1 Component vs. composite video interfaces 157
8.11.2 The “RCA Phono” connector 158
8.11.3 The “F” connector 159
8.11.4 The BNC connector 159
8.11.5 The N connector 160
8.11.6 The SMA and SMC connector families 160
8.11.7 The “S-Video”/mini-DIN connector 160
8.11.8 The SCART or “Peritel” connector 161
9 Standards for Analog Video – Part II: The Personal Computer 163
9.1 Introduction 163
9.2 Character-Generator Display Systems 164
9.3 Graphics 165
9.4 Early Personal Computer Displays 166
9.5 The IBM PC 167
9.6 MDA/Hercules 167
9.7 CGA and EGA 168
9.8 VGA – The Video Graphics Array 168
9.9 Signal Standards for PC Video 170
9.10 Workstation Display Standards 173
9.11 The “13W3” Connector 176
9.12 EVC – The VESA Enhanced Video Connector 177
9.13 The Transition to Digital Interfaces 179
9.14 The Future of Analog Display Interfaces 181
10 Digital Display Interface Standards 183
10.1 Introduction 183
10.2 Panel Interface Standards 184
10.3 Lvds/eia- 644 185
10.4 PanelLink ™ and TMDS ™ 188
10.5 Gvif ™ 191
10.6 Digital Monitor Interface Standards 191
10.7 The VESA Plug & Display ™ Standard 191
10.8 The Compaq/VESA Digital Flat Panel Connector – DFP 193
10.9 The Digital Visual Interface ™ 194
10.10 The Apple Display Connector 196
10.11 Digital Television 197
10.12 General-Purpose Digital Interfaces and Video 197
10.13 Future Directions for Digital Display Interfaces 199
11 Additional Interfaces to the Display 203
11.1 Introduction 203
11.2 Display Identification 203
11.3 The VESA Display Information File (VDIF) Standard 205
11.4 The VESA EDID and DDC Standards 207
11.5 ICC Profiles and the sRGB Standard 210
11.6 Display Control 212
11.7 Power Management 213
11.8 The VESA DDC-CI and MCCS Standards 214
11.9 Supplemental General-Purpose Interfaces 216
11.10 The Universal Serial Bus 217
11.11 IEEE-1394/” FireWire TM ” 219
12 The Impact of Digital Television and HDTV 223
12.1 Introduction 223
12.2 A Brief History of HDTV Development 224
12.3 HDTV Formats and Rates 227
12.4 Digital Video Sampling Standards 229
12.4.1 Sampling structure 230
12.4.2 Selection of sampling rate 230
12.4.3 The CCIR-601 standard 231
12.4.4 4:2:0 Sampling 232
12.5 Video Compression Basics 233
12.5.1 The discrete cosine transform (DCT) 235
12.6 Compression of Motion Video 237
12.7 Digital Television Encoding and Transmission 241
12.8 Digital Content Protection 242
12.9 Physical Connection Standards for Digital Television 244
12.10 Digital Cinema 245
12.11 The Future of Digital Video 247
13 New Displays, New Applications, and New Interfaces 249
13.1 Introduction 249
13.2 Color, Resolution, and Bandwidth 251
13.3 Technological Limitations for Displays and Interfaces 253
13.4 Wireless Interfaces 255
13.5 The Virtual Display – Interfaces for HMDs 257
13.6 The Intelligent Display – DPVL and Beyond 259
13.7 Into the Third Dimension 261
13.8 Conclusions 264
Glossary 267
Bibliography, References, and Recommended Further Reading 279
Printed Resources 279
Fundamentals, Human Vision, and Color Science 279
Display Technology 280
Television Broadcast Standards and Digital/High-Definition Television 280
Computer Display Interface Standards 281
Other Interfaces and Standards 281
On-Line Resources 281
Standards Organizations and Similar Groups 282
Other Recommended On-Line Resources 283
Index 285
About the Author :
Robert L. Myers is the author of Display Interfaces: Fundamentals and Standards, published by Wiley.
Review :
"…much can be learned from this book about the details of modern display interfaces." (Color Research and Applications, February 2005) "...The book should feature on the shelf of every technical support or product marketing team that's seriously involved with display technology..." (Display Monitor, 28 October 2002)
