What's the gray scale of LED Screen?
The Grayscale of LED screen can also be called the luminance of the screen. The grade of grayscale also called the half-tone, is mainly used to transmit pictures through their grades, namely Grade 16, Grade 32, and Grade 64. It uses the matrix to process the pixels of files into Grade 16, Grade 32, and Grade 64 to make pictures clearer. No matter if it is a monochrome, bi-color, or tri-color display, every luminous grayscale that constitutes pixels should be adjusted to suggest pictures or motion pictures. The accuracy level of the adjustment is the grade of grayscale.G
Glossary of Grayscale of LED Screen:
1. Brightness discrimination level
The brightness discrimination level refers to the brightness level between the darkest and whitest of images that can be distinguished by humans. As mentioned above, the grade of grayscale of some displays may be very high, such as Grade 256 or even Grade 1024. But due to the limited sensitivity to brightness, these grades of grayscale cannot be fully recognized by human eyes. That is to say, it is possible that grayscales with close grades may be the same in human eyes. Moreover, the discrimination ability of eyes varies from person to person. It is good for humans to recognize as many grades of grayscales as they can, for displays are made for humans to watch. The more brightness levels humans can distinguish, the bigger the color space for displays, and the greater it’s potential to suggest colors. The brightness discrimination level can be tested by special software. Generally, good displays can reach above Grade 20.
2. Nonlinear transformation of grayscale
The nonlinear transformation of grayscale refers to transforming the grayscale data according to experience data or some arithmetic nonlinear relations and then providing it to displays. LED is a linear device. It has different nonlinear display characteristics from traditional displays. To make sure that the LED display effect conforms to the traditional data source without losing the grayscale, the nonlinear transformation of the data of grayscale will generally be performed inside LED display systems. Data bits will be increased after the transformation (to ensure that the data of grayscale are not lost).
How to Control the Grayscale of LED Screen
There are two ways to control the grayscale of LED displays: to change the current flowing through and to modulate the pulse width. 1. Change the current flowing through the LED. Generally, the continuous working current of LED is around 20mA. Except for the saturation of red LEDs, the grayscales of other LEDs are basically proportional to the current flowing through. The other method is to take advantage of the visual inertia of human eyes, by controlling the grayscale by modulating the pulse width. It can change the optical pulse width periodically. As long as the period of lighting repeatedly is short enough, human eyes cannot feel the luminous pixels vibrating.
Since digital control is more suitable for pulse width modulation, almost all LED displays use pulse width modulation to control the grade of grayscale when microcomputers are widely used today to provide the content for LED Screens.
