Calibration Method; Hardware Calibration - NEC SpectraView Profiler 5 User Manual

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4.3 Calibration method

A correct calibration of your monitor is the basis for a good profile.
The better you pre-adjust the monitor hardware to the desired display
characteristics, the better the quality of the resulting profile. By calibrat-
ing the monitor you will improve the representation of all colors because
the profile conversion will have to correct for less and smaller differ-
ences.
SpectraView Profiler 5 offers three different calibration methods. At first
launch it will automatically select the highest level method available for
Video-LUT of a monitor
with a full hardware
your monitor/video card combination. When you quit the application, the
calibration
calibration method you may have selected manually, will be stored and
Result: All RGB-colors
can be used for the
recalled next time you use SpectraView Profiler 5.
output on the monitor

4.3.1 Hardware calibration

Hardware calibrateable monitors are connected to the computer via
Video-LUTof an
automatic/manually
a digital data connection. This could be a DDC/CI video cable or a
combined hard/software
calibrated monitor
separate USB or serial cable. SpectraView Profiler 5 uses this connec-
Result: Allmost all
tions to directly control the monitor and to calibrate it automatically,
RGB-colors can be used
for the output on the
based on the results of your measurements.
monitor.
This functionality is only available for selected, hardware calibrateable
monitors (see „HW_Support_List.txt" in the SpectraView Profiler 5
Video-LUT of a non-
calibrateable monitor
program folder).
(e.g. a notebook)
Result: A lot of
RGB-colors are getting
LCD flat screens
lost for the monitor
output.
LCD monitors normally use a backlight with defined lighting characteris-
tics. Colors are generated by filtering this light source with liquid crystal
filters.
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