(keitai-l) Re: korean handset subsidies

hi guys,

the number of colors is also an LCD driver/twister/filter issue,
too.  the input signal may have more bits than LCD can output.

like the resolution of a digital camera, Fujifilm claims much
higher number of pixels than its super-CCD physically contains.

so color, what color?

cheers,
  Ken


>From: Tom Motoyoshi Kalland <tmk@earthling.net>
>Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
>To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
>Subject: (keitai-l) Re: korean handset subsidies
>Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 13:01:03 +0200
>
>
>the human eye's ability to distinguish colours depends on the colours
>though. like, our eyes suck at distinguishing blue gradients. in most cases
>24bit should be enough, but there are cases in which one needs an even
>higher accuracy. some years back they used 30 bit colour depth (10 bit on 
>each
>channel) for colour vision research. they might use even more now.
>
>tmk
>
>At 12:40 04.04.2002 +0200, you wrote:
>
> >I heard the human eye can in fact distinguish something like two million
> >colors. Whether this is necessary is another question.
> >
> >What's not in question is that 262,144 colors need 2 bits more per pixel
> >than 65536 colors and that's a potential 12.5% price increase for the 
>same
> >size of a picture in packet fees (not counting compression here, for 
>jpeg's
> >it wouln't make a difference at all afaik). Subtle opportunity to 
>increase
> >prices (more difficult with products like milk and butter where at least 
>in
> >Germany there's a law on how much empty space you may package)! Same is 
>true
> >for an increase of screen format - if widely adopted.
> >
> >Regards
> >marc


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