【LCD】Frame rate control

Frame rate control (FRC) is a method for achieving higher color quality in low color resolution display panels such as TN+film LCD.

Most TN panels represent colors using only 6 bits per RGB color, or 18 bit in total, and are unable to display the 16.7 million color shades (24-bit truecolor) that are available from graphics cards. Instead, they use a dithering method that combines adjacent pixels to simulate the desired shade.

FRC is a form of temporal dithering which cycles between different color shades with each new frame to simulate an intermediate shade. This can create a potentially noticeable 30 Hz flicker. FRC tends to be most noticeable in darker tones, while dithering appears to make the individual pixels of the LCD visible.[1]

This method is similar in principle to field-sequential color system by CBS and other sequential color methods such as used in Digital Light Processing (DLP).

8 bit TN+film panels with dithering are sometimes advertised as having “16.2 million colors”.

Dithering (抖动显示)
它是一种欺骗你眼睛，使用有限的色彩让你看到比实际图象更多色彩的显示方式。通过在相邻像素间随机的加入不同的颜色来修饰图象，通常这种方式被用于颜色较少的情况下。
在实际实现过程中，抖动显示并不增加总的像素的个数，而是选择增加每个像素所能显示的颜色个数，这样会造成图片大小增加，但是图片质量也会好很多。心理学上，有科学家对此种显示方法归纳于自我欺骗的范围内，用于内人心理学研究。