Mini LED display technology has the characteristics of high contrast, high brightness, high dynamic range, long service life, etc., and is considered by the industry to be one of the mainstream display technologies in the next 5 to 10 years, and ushers in the first year of commercial use in 2021. Some experts pointed out that Mini LED display technology is the best choice to improve the performance of LCD panels, and predicted that the penetration rate of Mini LED in displays, TVs and other fields will exceed 20% in 2025. Market research firm Omdia expects Mini LED backlit TVs to reach 25 million units in 2025.
Due to the many advantages of Mini LED, both TV manufacturers and display manufacturers have accelerated their layout in the field of Mini LED. As a leader in the global TV industry, Samsung continues to deepen its Mini LED backlight technology, continuously upgrades and develops its quantum dot matrix technology, so that it can better control Samsung quantum dot Mini LED, and launched the Neo QLED series OF TVs based on Mini LED technology in 2021. GGII survey data shows that in 2021, the global Mini LED TV shipments reached about 1.3 million units, of which Samsung occupied the largest market share, shipping 1 million units, accounting for nearly 77% of the market.
On April 7, Samsung Home Appliances launched a new product launch for the theme of "Technology, Art, home" and launched the 2022 TV new products. Samsung has upgraded the backlight source, light control technology and image chip of the 2022 Neo QLED to present a better display for users.
Samsung quantum dot Mini LED, technology leading the industry
Compared to ordinary LEDs, Mini LEDs are much smaller and only 50-200 microns in size. In the same large screen size, Mini LED has a higher density per unit area and a smaller unit size of the light source, which can bring higher brightness and controllable color gamut, more vivid picture quality, and can present a more detailed display.
Samsung Neo QLED series TVs use Mini LED as a backlight, and its volume is only 1/40 of that of traditional LEDs. This also means that under the same panel size, Samsung Neo QLED series TVs can be loaded with a large number of Mini LED backlights, thus achieving more fine luminous adjustment.
Of course, it is much more difficult to precisely control each backlight grain. The quantum dot matrix technology used in the Samsung Neo QLED series TV can perform ultra-fine and precise control of the densely arranged Mini LED, which has further improved the picture contrast, peak brightness, color richness, and image quality delicacy.
The 2022 version of the Samsung Neo QLED series evolves, bringing three major upgrades
As a leader in the TV industry, Samsung's 2022 version of the Neo QLED series of TVs has achieved three major upgrades.
In terms of backlighting, while continuing Samsung's quantum dot Mini LED backlight technology, the brightness level of its backlight has been upgraded from the original 12 bits to 14 bits, showing a better level of detail. The 14-bit grayscale brightness control of the 2022 Samsung Neo QLED series TV can reach 16,384 black and white levels, which is 4 times that of the 2021 Neo QLED, bringing more ultra-subtle and precise light and dark control, allowing users to enjoy the ultimate detail of all the pictures in the scene.
In terms of light control technology, the quantum dot matrix technology has been upgraded: the 2022 version of the Samsung Neo QLED series TV has added shape adaptive optical path control, and the quantum dot matrix technology analyzes the shape of the object and precisely adjusts the light shape of the light source output. Upgraded from the fixed light width of the Neo QLED in 2021 to the adaptive light width of the Neo QLED in 2022. Adaptively changing the width of the light provides accurate contrast adjustments for all shapes of different sizes in the image, reaching higher contrast levels: brighter areas and sharper edges.
In terms of image chips, it also brings an upgraded version of the Neo quantum dot processor, adding three-dimensional depth of field enhancement technology: the 2022 version of the Samsung Neo QLED series TV Neo quantum dot processor uses 2 neural networks to enhance the depth of field contrast, the processor can accurately classify the objects in the image and enhance their contrast, which can bring a real scene feeling similar to naked-eye 3D.
Mini LED technology has become the new darling of the TV industry, opening the golden track of high-end TV. In the coming years, Mini LED TV will become a hot word in the smart TV market. With the combination of "Mini LED + quantum dot" two technologies, Samsung Neo QLED series TVs bring better display quality through top hardware and software collaboration technology and AI algorithms, and have become the industry benchmark of Mini LED.