analogue dials with central tft display factory

Thin Film Transistor displays will be the next wave of in-vehicle infotainment progress. These new information displays will replace the gauges and screens you now view to get needed information. Brighter, crisper, and more visible from angles, the screens will enable easier viewing.

In a typical mainstream car in 2016 the view one sees is a large speedometer with an analog-like look, and possibly a tachometer or group of other needle-indicators showing fuel and temperature. Going forward, the new TFT screens will enable those same views, and they’ll show you much more.

TFT screens are the intersection of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and semiconductor manufacturing. Created on a glass or plastic substrate, the material is deposited onto the surface with high-tech machinery long used to produced semiconductor devices like computer chips. The classic deposit, etch, and repeat steps enable the manufacturers to produce resolutions and abilities not previously possible.

Since these displays are entirely digital, more like a laptop or smartphone screen than past displays, the information you see can change easily. The classic display you view between the spokes of the steering wheel will still be the default.

However, automakers will give you the option of seeing a large, clear map as an alternative. Or perhaps you prefer to minimize the speedo and instead have the audio options use the majority of the screen. The customization options will let you dial in the display to get the information you want.

Audi is taking the lead, and the new TT sports carhas used the screen since its introduction about a year ago. Audi pairs a new computer processor from Silicon Valley’s NVIDIA called the Tegra 30 chip, with a screen our research indicates is made by Tekswo, an LCD manufacturer in China.

Together they produce a fantastic display that incorporates all of the driver’s needed information into the gauge area. The secondary and tertiary screens we are used to seeing in the center of and on top of the dashboard are gone. Even the backup camera is viewed in this new central location.

The traditional mechanical instrument lacks the ability to satisfy the market with characters of favorable compatibility, easy upgrading, and fashion. Thus the design of a TFT-LCD (thin film transistor-liquid crystal display) based automobile instrument is carried out. With a 7-inch TFT-LCD and the 32-bit microcontroller MB91F599, the instrument could process various information generated by other electronic control units (ECUs) of a vehicle and display valuable driving parameters on the 7-inch TFT-LCD. The function of aided parking is also provided by the instrument. Basic principles to be obeyed in circuits designing under on-board environment are first pointed out. Then the paper analyzes the signals processed in the automobile

instrument and gives an introduction to the sampling circuits and interfaces related to these signals. Following this is the functional categorizing of the circuit modules, such as video buffer circuit, CAN bus interface circuit, and TFT-LCD drive circuit. Additionally, the external EEPROM stores information of the vehicle for history data query, and the external FLASH enables the display of high quality figures. On the whole, the accomplished automobile instrument meets the requirements of automobile instrument markets with its characters of low cost, favorable compatibility, friendly interfaces, and easy upgrading.

As an essential human-machine interface, the automobile instrument provides the drivers with important information of the vehicle. It is supposed to process various information generated by other ECUs and display important driving parameters in time, only in which way can driving safety be secured. However, the traditional mechanical automobile instrument is incompetent to provide all important information of the vehicle. Besides, the traditional instrument meets great challenge with the development of microelectronic technology, advanced materials, and the transformation of drivers’ aesthetics [1, 2]. Moreover, the parking of the vehicle is also a problem puzzling many new drivers. Given this, traditional instruments should be upgraded in terms of driving safety, cost, and fashion.

The digital instrument has functions of vehicle information displaying, chord alarming, rear video aided parking, LED indicating, step-motor based pointing, and data storage. The instrument adopts dedicated microcontroller MB91F599, a 7-inch LCD, and two step-motors to substitute for the traditional instrument. All the information generated by other ECUs can be acquired via not only the sample circuits but also the CAN bus.

The CAN bus interface and the 7-inch TFT-LCD make it more convenient to upgrade the instrument without changing the hardware. If the software needs to be upgraded, we need not bother to take the instrument down and program the MCU. Instead, we can upgrade the instrument via the vehicle’s CAN network without taking the instrument down, which makes the upgrading more convenient. Most of the information from other ECUs can be transmitted via the CAN bus; so, we do not have to change the hardware circuits if some of the ECUs’ signals are changed in different applications. Besides, since most of the driving parameters are displayed on the TFT-LCD, and the graphical user interface can be designed with great flexibility by programming, only the software needs to be revised to meet different requirements of what kind of driving parameters to display and so forth. These characters, together with the reserved interfaces, enhance the instrument’s compatibility in different applications.

On the one hand, there are some automobile instruments which adopt 8-bit MCUs or 16-bit MCUs which have limited peripherals, so it is difficult for them to meet some requirements such as rearview video and high real-time data processing performance. And many extra components are needed if the designer wants to accomplish some functions such as video input. On the other hand, there are some advanced automobile instruments which adopt high performance MCUs (such as i.MX 53, MPC5121e, and MPC5123) and run Linux on them. They even use larger TFT-LCDs (such as the 12.3-inch TFT-LCD with a resolution of 1280 × 480 pixels) to display driving parameters. These automobile instruments show higher performances than the instrument in this paper. However, they are more expensive than this automobile. This instrument is able to provide almost all the functions of the advanced automobile instrument with a lower cost.

Respecting the above mentioned factors, we finally chose the MB91F599 produced by Fujitsu as the microcontroller. The MB91F599 is particularly well-suited for use in automotive instrument clusters using color displays to generate flexible driver interfaces. It integrates a high performance FR81S CPU core which offers the highest CPU performance level in the industry. Besides, it has a graphics display controller with strong sprite functionality, rendering engine, and external video capture capabilities. These greatly reduce the need for extra components and enhance the stability of the system. The rendering engine can operate in combination with the video capture to enable image manipulation. Overlaid graphics such as needles or parking guidelines can be rendered in conjunction with captured video, which helps to accomplish the aided parking. What is more, multiple built-in regulators and a flexible standby mode enable the MB91F599 to operate with low power consumption.

Figure 6 shows RGB with sync in NTSC format. The RGB varies in a positive direction from the “black level” (0 V) to 700 mV. Meanwhile, a sync waveform of −300 mV is attached to the video signal. Since the output video signal of the camera is AC-coupled, a clamp circuit is needed to clamp the RGB and sync to a reference voltage and leave the others to vary. If not clamped, the bias voltage will vary with video content and the brightness information will be lost [5].

Here, the sync signal is not present, so the clamp level is controlled by the clamp level output pin of the microcontroller, which is called “keyed clamp” [5]. The graphics display controller of the microcontroller let the clamp level output occur in coincidence with the sync pulse; that is, the clamp level output occurs during the sync tip in Figure 6, thus we get the “sync tip clamp” [5].

Since the FLASH size of the microcontroller is only 1 MB which is limited for the storage of pictures displayed on the LCD, external FLASH is needed to store different kinds of meaningful pictures such as the background of the dial. Two S29GL256N chips with a memory capacity of 256 Mb are chosen for picture data storage for their high performance and low power consumption. The application circuits of the chips are provided in their datasheets, so it is unnecessary to go into the details of them here.

Controller Area Network (CAN) is widely deployed in automobile, industry, and aerospace domains. As a major trend of the technological development of in the automation industry, CAN is now reputed as a local area network in automation [6]. Its low cost and ability to integrate with most microcontroller silicon families have made it a standard for automobile applications [7–9].

For this design, only the CAN transceiver and its auxiliary circuit are needed since the MB91F599 is integrated with two CAN controllers, which are connected to the high-speed and low-speed CAN bus, respectively. TJA1040 is chosen as the CAN transceiver for its low consumption in standby mode. Besides, it can also be woken up via CAN bus, which is required by some automobile instruments. Detailed circuit is provided in the datasheet of TJA1040, so the repetitious details need not be given here. Note that for high-speed CAN, both ends of the pair of signal wires must be terminated. ISO 11898 requires a cable with a nominal impedance of 120 Ω [19]; therefore, 120 Ω resistors are needed for termination. Here, only the devices on the ends of the cable need 120 Ω termination resistors.

The 7-inch TFT-LCD has a resolution of pixels and supports the 24-bit for three RGB colors. The interface of the 60-pin TFT-LCD can be categorized into data interface, control interface, bias voltage interface, and gamma correction interface.

The data interface supports the parallel data transmitting of 18-bit (6 bits per channel) for three RGB colors. Thus, a range of colors can be generated. The control interface consists of a “horizontal synchronization” which indicates the start of every scan line, a “vertical synchronization” which indicates the start of a new field, and a “pixel clock.” This part is controlled by the graphics display controller which is integrated in the MB91F599. We just need to connect the pins of the LCD to those of the microcontroller correspondingly.

Bias voltages are used to drive the liquid crystal molecules in an alternating form. The compact LCD bias IC TPS65150 provides all bias voltages required by the 7-inch TFT-LCD. The detailed circuit is also provided in the datasheet of TPS65150.

The greatest effect of gamma on the representations of colors is a change in overall brightness. Almost every LCD monitor has an intensity to voltage response curve which is not a linear function. So if the LCD receives a message that a certain pixel should have certain intensity, it will actually display a pixel which has intensity not equal to the certain one. Then the brightness of the picture will be affected. Therefore, gamma correction is needed. Several approaches to gamma correction are discussed in [20–22]. For this specific 7-inch LCD, only the producer knows the relationship between the voltage sent to the LCD and the intensity it produces. The signal can be corrected according to the datasheet of the LCD before it gets to the monitor. According to the datasheet, ten gamma correction voltages are needed. These voltages can be got from a resistive subdivision circuit.

For this instrument, the LED indicators, the backlight, and the chord alarm need to be supplied with a voltage of +12 V; the CAN transceiver, the EEPROM, and the buttons need to be supplied with a voltage of +5 V; the video buffer circuit, the external FLASH, and the data interface of the LCD need to be supplied with a voltage of +3.3 V. Besides, the microcontroller needs to be supplied with voltages of +5 V and +3.3 V simultaneously. Figure 8 offers a detailed block diagram of the power supply for the automobile instrument.

The main task for the program is to calculate the driving parameters of the vehicle and display them on the TFT-LCD. The calculation is triggered by the input signals via the sampling circuits or the CAN bus. The main program flow chart of the system is shown in Figure 10.

The design scheme of a TFT-LCD based automobile instrument is carried out form aspects of both the hardware and the main program flow chart. The MB91F599 simplifies the peripheral circuits with its rich on-chip resources and shows high performance in real-time data processing. The automobile instrument is capable of displaying the velocity of the vehicle, the engine speed, the cooling water temperature, the oil pressure, the fuel volume, the air pressure, and other information on the TFT-LCD, which contributes a lot to driving safety and satisfies drivers’ aesthetics. Besides, the rearview video makes the parking and backing easier and safer for the driver. Moreover, the CAN bus interface and TFT-LCD make it easier for the upgrading of the instrument without changing the hardware, thus saving the cost.

The declared fuel consumption figures are determined by testing under standardised laboratory conditions to comply with ADR 81/02. Real world fuel consumption is influenced by many additional factors such as individual driving style, load, traffic and vehicle condition. The declared fuel consumption figure should only be used for the purpose of comparison amongst vehicles.

A thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT LCD) is a variant of a liquid-crystal display that uses thin-film-transistor technologyactive matrix LCD, in contrast to passive matrix LCDs or simple, direct-driven (i.e. with segments directly connected to electronics outside the LCD) LCDs with a few segments.

In February 1957, John Wallmark of RCA filed a patent for a thin film MOSFET. Paul K. Weimer, also of RCA implemented Wallmark"s ideas and developed the thin-film transistor (TFT) in 1962, a type of MOSFET distinct from the standard bulk MOSFET. It was made with thin films of cadmium selenide and cadmium sulfide. The idea of a TFT-based liquid-crystal display (LCD) was conceived by Bernard Lechner of RCA Laboratories in 1968. In 1971, Lechner, F. J. Marlowe, E. O. Nester and J. Tults demonstrated a 2-by-18 matrix display driven by a hybrid circuit using the dynamic scattering mode of LCDs.T. Peter Brody, J. A. Asars and G. D. Dixon at Westinghouse Research Laboratories developed a CdSe (cadmium selenide) TFT, which they used to demonstrate the first CdSe thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT LCD).active-matrix liquid-crystal display (AM LCD) using CdSe TFTs in 1974, and then Brody coined the term "active matrix" in 1975.high-resolution and high-quality electronic visual display devices use TFT-based active matrix displays.

The liquid crystal displays used in calculators and other devices with similarly simple displays have direct-driven image elements, and therefore a voltage can be easily applied across just one segment of these types of displays without interfering with the other segments. This would be impractical for a large display, because it would have a large number of (color) picture elements (pixels), and thus it would require millions of connections, both top and bottom for each one of the three colors (red, green and blue) of every pixel. To avoid this issue, the pixels are addressed in rows and columns, reducing the connection count from millions down to thousands. The column and row wires attach to transistor switches, one for each pixel. The one-way current passing characteristic of the transistor prevents the charge that is being applied to each pixel from being drained between refreshes to a display"s image. Each pixel is a small capacitor with a layer of insulating liquid crystal sandwiched between transparent conductive ITO layers.

The circuit layout process of a TFT-LCD is very similar to that of semiconductor products. However, rather than fabricating the transistors from silicon, that is formed into a crystalline silicon wafer, they are made from a thin film of amorphous silicon that is deposited on a glass panel. The silicon layer for TFT-LCDs is typically deposited using the PECVD process.

Polycrystalline silicon is sometimes used in displays requiring higher TFT performance. Examples include small high-resolution displays such as those found in projectors or viewfinders. Amorphous silicon-based TFTs are by far the most common, due to their lower production cost, whereas polycrystalline silicon TFTs are more costly and much more difficult to produce.

The twisted nematic display is one of the oldest and frequently cheapest kind of LCD display technologies available. TN displays benefit from fast pixel response times and less smearing than other LCD display technology, but suffer from poor color reproduction and limited viewing angles, especially in the vertical direction. Colors will shift, potentially to the point of completely inverting, when viewed at an angle that is not perpendicular to the display. Modern, high end consumer products have developed methods to overcome the technology"s shortcomings, such as RTC (Response Time Compensation / Overdrive) technologies. Modern TN displays can look significantly better than older TN displays from decades earlier, but overall TN has inferior viewing angles and poor color in comparison to other technology.

Most TN panels can represent colors using only six bits per RGB channel, or 18 bit in total, and are unable to display the 16.7 million color shades (24-bit truecolor) that are available using 24-bit color. Instead, these panels display interpolated 24-bit color using a dithering method that combines adjacent pixels to simulate the desired shade. They can also use a form of temporal dithering called Frame Rate Control (FRC), which cycles between different shades with each new frame to simulate an intermediate shade. Such 18 bit panels with dithering are sometimes advertised as having "16.2 million colors". These color simulation methods are noticeable to many people and highly bothersome to some.gamut (often referred to as a percentage of the NTSC 1953 color gamut) are also due to backlighting technology. It is not uncommon for older displays to range from 10% to 26% of the NTSC color gamut, whereas other kind of displays, utilizing more complicated CCFL or LED phosphor formulations or RGB LED backlights, may extend past 100% of the NTSC color gamut, a difference quite perceivable by the human eye.

The transmittance of a pixel of an LCD panel typically does not change linearly with the applied voltage,sRGB standard for computer monitors requires a specific nonlinear dependence of the amount of emitted light as a function of the RGB value.

Initial iterations of IPS technology were characterised by slow response time and a low contrast ratio but later revisions have made marked improvements to these shortcomings. Because of its wide viewing angle and accurate color reproduction (with almost no off-angle color shift), IPS is widely employed in high-end monitors aimed at professional graphic artists, although with the recent fall in price it has been seen in the mainstream market as well. IPS technology was sold to Panasonic by Hitachi.

IPS has since been superseded by S-IPS (Super-IPS, Hitachi Ltd. in 1998), which has all the benefits of IPS technology with the addition of improved pixel refresh timing.

In 2004, Hydis Technologies Co., Ltd licensed its AFFS patent to Japan"s Hitachi Displays. Hitachi is using AFFS to manufacture high end panels in their product line. In 2006, Hydis also licensed its AFFS to Sanyo Epson Imaging Devices Corporation.

A technology developed by Samsung is Super PLS, which bears similarities to IPS panels, has wider viewing angles, better image quality, increased brightness, and lower production costs. PLS technology debuted in the PC display market with the release of the Samsung S27A850 and S24A850 monitors in September 2011.

TFT dual-transistor pixel or cell technology is a reflective-display technology for use in very-low-power-consumption applications such as electronic shelf labels (ESL), digital watches, or metering. DTP involves adding a secondary transistor gate in the single TFT cell to maintain the display of a pixel during a period of 1s without loss of image or without degrading the TFT transistors over time. By slowing the refresh rate of the standard frequency from 60 Hz to 1 Hz, DTP claims to increase the power efficiency by multiple orders of magnitude.

Due to the very high cost of building TFT factories, there are few major OEM panel vendors for large display panels. The glass panel suppliers are as follows:

External consumer display devices like a TFT LCD feature one or more analog VGA, DVI, HDMI, or DisplayPort interface, with many featuring a selection of these interfaces. Inside external display devices there is a controller board that will convert the video signal using color mapping and image scaling usually employing the discrete cosine transform (DCT) in order to convert any video source like CVBS, VGA, DVI, HDMI, etc. into digital RGB at the native resolution of the display panel. In a laptop the graphics chip will directly produce a signal suitable for connection to the built-in TFT display. A control mechanism for the backlight is usually included on the same controller board.

The low level interface of STN, DSTN, or TFT display panels use either single ended TTL 5 V signal for older displays or TTL 3.3 V for slightly newer displays that transmits the pixel clock, horizontal sync, vertical sync, digital red, digital green, digital blue in parallel. Some models (for example the AT070TN92) also feature input/display enable, horizontal scan direction and vertical scan direction signals.

New and large (>15") TFT displays often use LVDS signaling that transmits the same contents as the parallel interface (Hsync, Vsync, RGB) but will put control and RGB bits into a number of serial transmission lines synchronized to a clock whose rate is equal to the pixel rate. LVDS transmits seven bits per clock per data line, with six bits being data and one bit used to signal if the other six bits need to be inverted in order to maintain DC balance. Low-cost TFT displays often have three data lines and therefore only directly support 18 bits per pixel. Upscale displays have four or five data lines to support 24 bits per pixel (truecolor) or 30 bits per pixel respectively. Panel manufacturers are slowly replacing LVDS with Internal DisplayPort and Embedded DisplayPort, which allow sixfold reduction of the number of differential pairs.

Backlight intensity is usually controlled by varying a few volts DC, or generating a PWM signal, or adjusting a potentiometer or simply fixed. This in turn controls a high-voltage (1.3 kV) DC-AC inverter or a matrix of LEDs. The method to control the intensity of LED is to pulse them with PWM which can be source of harmonic flicker.

The bare display panel will only accept a digital video signal at the resolution determined by the panel pixel matrix designed at manufacture. Some screen panels will ignore the LSB bits of the color information to present a consistent interface (8 bit -> 6 bit/color x3).

With analogue signals like VGA, the display controller also needs to perform a high speed analog to digital conversion. With digital input signals like DVI or HDMI some simple reordering of the bits is needed before feeding it to the rescaler if the input resolution doesn"t match the display panel resolution.

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Within each of these are several model grades. The Defender 110 has the broadest line-up, spanning the entry-level Defender, followed by the S, then the SE, X-Dynamic HSE, X and the top-spec supercharged V8.

Petrol engine choices are a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo, 3.0-litre six-cylinder turbo and a 5.0-litre supercharged V8. There’s also a 3.0-litre twin-turbo diesel with two power outputs. All come with a dual-range eight-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive.

The Comfort and Convenience Pack can be optioned on the base Defender, S and SE and has premium cabin lighting, covered twin front cup holders, a fridge compartment within the centre console and a Meridian sound system. The added cost is $2924 on the Defender and S and $1665 on the Defender SE.

Next is the Premium Upgrade Interior Pack, once again only available on the Defender, S and SE variants. You get a 14-way powered, heated and cooled driver’s seat with position memory and four-way manual head restraint adjustment. There’s also a power-adjustable steering column, leather steering wheel and upgraded leather trim. This pack costs $4959 on the Defender, $4687 on the S and $3386 on the SE.

An Off-Road Pack includes an electronic active diff with torque vectoring for improved cornering, black roof rails and a domestic plug socket. This pack costs $1663 on the 90 Defender, S and SE and $1017 on the 110 Defender, S and SE. This pack is also available on the X-Dynamic HSE in the 90 or 110 series for $1017.

With the $5658 Family Comfort Pack, you get heated third-row seats, three-zone climate control, an air quality sensor and cabin purification for your 110 Defender, S, SE, X-Dynamic HSE and X.

The Bright Exterior Pack adds bling with chrome grille badging, front and rear skidpans, silver side vents, bonnet finishers, lower body cladding and Luna finish on the wheels. Available on the base Defender, S and SE, the cost is $2646.

Safety-wise, all Land Rover Defender models come standard with anti-lock brakes, electronic stability and traction control, low-traction launch, roll stability control, trailer stability assist, cornering brake control and six airbags.

Driver assist features extend to autonomous emergency braking (AEB) with pedestrian avoidance, front, side and rear parking distance controls, hill launch assist, hill descent control, blind spot sensors and a 3D 360-degree surround camera.

The base Land Rover Defender, S and SE – across the 90, 110 and 130 body styles – have a centrally mounted 10-inch infotainment colour touch-screen with 180W six-speaker sound.

Included are satellite navigation, AM/FM/digital radio, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity, along with music and phone streaming functions and an online pack with data plan.

Land Rover Defender, S, SE, X-Dynamic HSE and X all have dual-zone climate-control air-conditioning, with the V8 having a three-zone system and rear cooling assist plus an air quality sensor.

Powered seats you ask? The Defender has them in all variants starting with eight-way power and heated front seats in the base model. Stepping up to the S gets you 12-way power front seats, while another step up to the SE gains memory settings and four-way adjustable head restraints.

Staying indoors for a moment, standard tread plates come with the Defender, S and SE, while the X-Dynamic HSE gets unique plates and the X has the brand name scripted on them. Only the V8 has branded illuminated plates.

LED lights at each end are standard with the SE and X-Dynamic HSE having premium LEDs, while the X and V8 feature Matrix LEDs with darkened tail-lights. And if you want the convenience of auto high beam, the S is your starting point. But all models come with alpine lights.

The Defender looks quite rugged on its 18-inch white-painted steel wheels. Alloy wheels start with the 19-inch versions on the Defender S, with the SE, X-Dynamic HSE and X rolling on 20-inch alloys.

If you decide on a petrol-powered Land Rover Defender 90 or Defender 110, your engine choices at the entry level are a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo with 221kW and 400Nm, or a 3.0-litre six-cylinder turbo producing 294kW/550Nm.

The Defender 110 stretches to 5018mm (with a 3022mm wheelbase), and has the same width as the 90 (2008mm) and a slightly lower overall height at 1967mm.

The five-door Defender 110 at $84,350 plus on-road costs with its 2.0-litre turbo engine gives you a very capable and comfortable family wagon with a decent level of kit and caboodle and isn’t too hard on the budget.

Funds aside, the extra urge, towing and climbing ability lands me behind the wheel of the Defender 110 D300 with its 220kW twin-turbo diesel engine in SE trim.

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The TFT Display Shield Board (CY8CKIT-028-TFT) has been designed such that a TFT display, audio devices, and sensors can interface with Infineon"s PSoC 6™ MCUs.

The TFT Display Shield Board is compatible with the PSoC 6™ WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit CY8CKIT-062-WiFi-BT and the PSoC 6™ BLE Pioneer Kit CY8CKIT-062-BLE. Refer to the respective kit guides for more details.

IPS (In-Plane Switching) lcd is still a type of TFT LCD, IPS TFT is also called SFT LCD (supper fine tft ),different to regular tft in TN (Twisted Nematic) mode, theIPS LCD liquid crystal elements inside the tft lcd cell, they are arrayed in plane inside the lcd cell when power off, so the light can not transmit it via theIPS lcdwhen power off, When power on, the liquid crystal elements inside the IPS tft would switch in a small angle, then the light would go through the IPS lcd display, then the display on since light go through the IPS display, the switching angle is related to the input power, the switch angle is related to the input power value of IPS LCD, the more switch angle, the more light would transmit the IPS LCD, we call it negative display mode.

The regular tft lcd, it is a-si TN (Twisted Nematic) tft lcd, its liquid crystal elements are arrayed in vertical type, the light could transmit the regularTFT LCDwhen power off. When power on, the liquid crystal twist in some angle, then it block the light transmit the tft lcd, then make the display elements display on by this way, the liquid crystal twist angle is also related to the input power, the more twist angle, the more light would be blocked by the tft lcd, it is tft lcd working mode.

A TFT lcd display is vivid and colorful than a common monochrome lcd display. TFT refreshes more quickly response than a monochrome LCD display and shows motion more smoothly. TFT displays use more electricity in driving than monochrome LCD screens, so they not only cost more in the first place, but they are also more expensive to drive tft lcd screen.The two most common types of TFT LCDs are IPS and TN displays.

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