Image quality improvement for electrophoretic displays by combining contrast enhancement and halftoning techniques

Wen Chung Kao; Jia An Ye; Ming I. Chu; Chung Yen Su

doi:10.1109/TCE.2009.4814408

Image quality improvement for electrophoretic displays by combining contrast enhancement and halftoning techniques

Wen Chung Kao^*, Jia An Ye, Ming I. Chu, Chung Yen Su

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Department of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

The electrophoretic display (EPD) has dominated the panel used in electronic readers. However, getting more than 16 observable gray levels on an EPD is still a big challenge. A true color image should be converted into a 16 gray level image for displaying it on an EPD. In this paper, we propose an image processing tool that combines contrast enhancement and the modified Nasik pattern halftoning to deal with the problems in the image conversion chain. The experimental results show that the processed image has preserved more image textures after the image data are quantized into 16 gray levels1.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	15-19
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
Volume	55
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2009.4814408
Publication status	Published - 2009

Keywords

Contrast enhancement
Electrophoretic display
Halftoning
Nasik pattern

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Media Technology
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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