Speaker: Dick McCartney (National Semiconductor)
Title: LCD Electronics
Abstract: This lecture will overview the theory of operation of LCD drive electronics. Issues related to panel size, format, response time requirements, motion images, color gamut, refresh rate, and other requirements will be discussed.
Speaker Background: Dick McCartney leads intellectual property strategy for National Semiconductor and was formerly Chief Technologist for the Display Division. He has more than 30 years of experience, 11 display related patents including CRT and LCD technologies and a numerous published papers and articles. He received the H.W. Sweat Scientist and Engineer Award and other honors for his work in commercializing the industry’s first wide-viewing-angle technology now widely used in LCD TVs today. He was responsible for key seminal work in commercializing the response time compensation overdrive methods now used in LCD TVs as well as having innovated a key use of brightness enhancement films for mobile LCD applications. Most recently, he has co-developed the PPDS™ display driving architecture used in LCD televisions. He is past General Chair of SID 2005 and former Chair of the Prestigious, Display of the Year Award Committee as well as an adjunct professor of display electronics at NCTU in Taiwan and Kyung Hee University in South Korea. He has lectured widely on LCD electronic technology at industry and university forums.
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