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Glossary
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Embedded Power Supply
An embedded power supply is a power adaptor built into the body of a display device that replaces a bulky external power adaptor.
Energy Star Computers Program
An energy conservation program launched by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), promotes the manufacture and marketing of
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Gamma
Screen luminance as a function of video voltage approximately follows a mathematical power function of the input video signal, the exponent of which is called gamma.
Grayscale
An achromatic scale ranging from black through a series of successively lighter grays to white. Such a series may be made up of steps, which appear to be equally distant from one another. If the Analog/ Digital converter is 8 bit, then the monitor can display at most 28 = 256 levels. For a color monitor, R.G.B. each color hads 256 levels. Thus, total color can display is 256x256x256= 16.7 million.
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