Optical Bonding Technology
Main Factors affecting Outdoor readability
Why you cannot see the display near the sunlight? We have listed some major factors that affect your display’s readability near sunlight and our corresponding solutions.
Reflection of light may be specular (that is, mirror-like) or diffuse (that is, not retaining the image, only the energy) depending on the nature of the interface.
Optical bonding helps you to reduce the Reflection Problem
How does Reflection happen?
Optical bonding is mainly dealing with the Reflection. Now let’s look more detail on how reflection happens and the law of reflection. Reflection is the change in direction of a wave front at an interface between two different media so that the wave front returns into the medium from which it originated. Common examples include the reflection of light, sound and water waves.
Reflection of light may be specular (that is, mirror-like) or diffuse (that is, not retaining the image, only the energy) depending on the nature of the interface.
Specular,reflection,source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_%28physics%29
Diffuse reflection, source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_%28physics%29
When light moves from a medium of a given refractive index n1 into a second medium with refractive index n2, both reflection and refraction of the light may occur.
Refraction of light waves in water, the dark rectangle represents the actual position of a pencil sitting in a bowl of water. The light rectangle represents the apparent position of the pencil. Notice that the end (X) looks like it is at (Y). A position that is considerably shallower than (X).
Variables used in the Fresnel equations.
- Law Reflection
It states that the direction of incoming light (the incident ray), and the direction of outgoing light reflected (the reflected ray) make the same angle with respect to the surface normal, thus the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection; this is commonly stated as θi = θr.
- Law of Refraction (Snell's Law)
Snell's law states that the ratio of the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction is equal to the ratio of velocities in the two media, or equivalently to the inverse ratio of the indices of refraction:
3. How much Reflection happens?
The reflection is caused by the difference between material’s refractive index. The larger the difference, the bigger the reflection happens
- Fresnel equations
When light moves from a medium of a given refractive index n1 into a second medium with refractive index n2, both reflection and refraction of the light may occur.
The fraction of the intensity of incident light that is reflected from the interface is given by reflection coefficient R.
- Calculation of reflection
Refractive index
1. Vacuum air -- 1,
2. II.glass – 1.5
In this case, the reflection coefficient is about 4%.
How Optical bonding can help reduce Reflection ?
- Calculation of reflection:
Refractive index
i. Vacuum air -- 1,
II. glass – 1.5
iii Adhesive – 1.474
The reflection between the glass and the adhesive is close to 0%.
By using the Adhesive whose refractive index is very close to Glass and Panel (Polarizer glass), it can help to reduce the reflection happen when light transmit through glass and panel.
Reduce Reflection help improve Contrast
Now you have known that our optical bonding can help to reduce the reflection. Furthermore, we will show you how the reduction of the reflection and help improve the “extrinsic” contrast ratio and therefore help the outdoor visibility.
“Brightness” lightens or darkens the image. “Contrast” changes the distinction between the light and dark areas.
The human eye eventually becomes saturated with brightness and becomes more responsive to contrast.
Contrast ratio is much more significant than brightness in high ambient illumination environments.
Wide Operating Temperature
What is this technology?
Our selected AUO and CMI TFT-LCD modules and driver board are designed to deliver optimum performance over a wide range of temperatures (Panel operating temp. from -20 to 70 degrees C) in order to accommodate for diverse industrial applications such as outdoor Kiosks in winter and summer in some Northern and Southern countries or areas like Russia, Ice Land, Finland, Poland, India, Egypt, etc.
How does this technology work?
With our heater electronic control mechanism with temperature sensors, the heater control board can control the heater on or off and then regulate the internal system temperature change. (In generally test condition, real case should depend on your panel and mechanical selection).At the low temperature condition, the mechanism starts from pre-heating process and then the LCD panel turn on when its 4 degrees Celsius. When the internal temperature drop below 7 degrees, the heater will be turned on again to keep the system on and keep the temperature above 0 degree Celsius.
On the other side, at the high temperature condition, the mechanism maintains the power switch to protect from overheating. The power will turn off when over 65 degrees C, and will back to turn on status when the internal temperature drop back to 55 degrees. With advanced fan cooling system design, the turn-off temperature can also be applied on this mechanism. Combined with mechanical NMEA/IP degree front bezel and other technical module integration, the wide temperature range system technology shows excellent reliability in harsh environment application.
Technology/ Diagrams
Advantages Of Wide operating temperature
This industrial touch displays with wide operating temperature can work in very harsh environment in very low temperature in Winter or very high temperature in Summer for outdoor. It’s mainly used in outdoor kiosk, theme park POS, industrial automation, and nasty vehicles
Wide operating temperature LCD displays from ITD Technology
ITD provides full sizes of industrial touch displays with wide operating temperature from -20 degrees to 70 degrees including inches 5.7” to 21.5” in open frame, chassis, panel mount, rack mount, panel PC mainly used in kiosks, gaming, ATM, transportation, industrial automation, etc.
Advantages of Customized Mechanical Design
Reliable and long lifetime proof design
Versatile mounting design with full range from 5” to 82”
Flexible mounting design on different demands
Customized industrial Touch displays from ITD Technology
ITD engineers understand, no matter how thoughtful our designs are, there are always things you need to modify from this base design. That is the reason ITD industrial touch displays is very flexible to modify into your project requirements. ITD sales engineers are standing by to answer your project questions and provide solutions to you.
Auto-Dimming
What is this technology?
It is a sensor that detects light, so if it’s dark, the screen monitor brightness will dim down so you're not looking at one source of extreme bright light. When it’s bright the screen monitor will go up to compensate for the extra light around you, so you can still see the monitor comfortably.
Ambient-light sensor (ALS) ICs are increasingly used in a variety of displays and lighting applications to save power and improve the user experience. With ALS solutions, system designers can automatically adjust display brightness based on the amount of ambient light. Since backlighting accounts for a significant portion of the system's power budget, dynamic brightness control can translate into substantial power savings. It can also improve the user experience, allowing screen brightness to be optimized based on ambient-light conditions.
Implementing such a system requires three sections: a light sensor to monitor the amount of ambient light, a device (usually a microcontroller) to process the data, and an actuator to control the current through the backlight.
How does this technology work?
The output of the analog ambient light sensor provides the control input to the system MCU. The processor, in turn, controls the LED brightness based on the lighting environment (The ROHM analog ALS, illustrated here, has two gain control inputs allowing selection of shutdown mode or high, medium or low gain.
Now ITD' standard light sensor design has five-step brightness settings, lightest, Lighter, Normal, Dark, and Darkest.
Steps Panel Specification Display Brightness
Steps |
Panel Specification |
Display Brightness |
Lightest |
Outdoor/Direct Sunlight |
100% |
Lighter |
Cloudy Sky |
75% |
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Indoor with windows or Night with light |
50% |
Darker |
Indoor without window |
25% |
Darkest |
Night without light or dark room |
Min. |
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