학술논문

Color control in RGB driver system applicable to LED of all ageing conditions
Document Type
Conference
Source
IECON 2012 - 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. :2186-2191 Oct, 2012
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Geoscience
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Color
Threshold current
Optical sensors
Heating
Light emitting diodes
Accelerated aging
Language
ISSN
1553-572X
Abstract
This paper presents a method of controlling the white color point in red/green/blue (RGB) LED driver system. In contrast to conventional systems where the average driving currents of the primary-color LEDs can become saturated when the LEDs have sufficiently aged, and causes the resulting white color point to go out of regulation, the proposed method avoids this problem by adjusting the color set points when a predefined threshold current is reached by one or more of the primary-color LEDs. It is shown that the method can effectively maintain the white color point of the RGB LED at the desired value when the LEDs are subjected to an accelerated ageing through repetitive current stress cycles.