Display Technologies Flashcards
What is Pixel short for?
Picture Element.
What does LCD mean?
Liquid Crystal Display
What is RGB?
RGB refer to the red, green, blue colours that make up a pixel.
The mix of which can be assigned an RGB value
What is CCFL?
Cold Cathode Flourescent Lamp. An old technology used to back light displays.
What is LED?
Light-Emitting Diode. A technology used to backlight a display.
What is TN?
Twisted Nematic, is a lower cost display panel type.
What is IPS?
In-Plane Switching, a type of display panel.
What is resolution of a monitor?
Resolution is the number of pixels horrizontal and vertical.
What is Nt?
Nit, a measure of the light emitted from a display.
What is the measurement of light emitted from a display panel?
Nt, Nit.
What is response time of monitor?
How long it takes a pixel to go from black to white and back to black, however some monitors rate themselves grey to white to grey.
Is measured in Miliseconds, ms and is replacing refresh rate, normal range 1-4ms.
What is OLED?
Organic Light-Emitting Diode. Each colour is a signle bulb.
Produces thinner monitors and has the ability to be flexible.
What is DLP?
Digital Light Processing. Using a grid of mirrors shine a light through a colour wheel to create an image, more common in projectors than monitors.
What are the main parts of and LCD monitor?
Screen panel,
Backlight unit,
Inverter if CCFL,
Connectors:
Inputs from data,
Power connection.
What is the job of the back panel or backlight unit?
To evenly distribute light across the whole of the panel.
Why do CCFL have inverters?
As they are powered in AC unlike LED’s
What is a GPU?
Graphic Processing Unit, aka Video card. Provide visual output.
What is Frame buffering?
Frame buffing is old technology that used on board RAM to track each pixel of a screen.
Who manufacturers GPUs?
Nvidia and AMD, historically ATI.
Intel their own onboard.
What is an Integrated GPU?
Intels GPU that is built into the CPU.
Also called an APU by AMD
What is an APU?
Accelerated Processing Unit by AMD. GPU built into the CPU.