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    Overview: Display characteristics

    Display characteristics describe the screen's picture grid, light production and color interpretation.

    Native resolution, panel technology and brightness behavior influence different aspects of the visible picture. Calibration and color management add interpretation across the presentation path. This area helps identify which property is being observed before it is attributed to the source file.

    • Native display resolution
      Native display resolution describes the physical imaging grid, which remains distinct from the accepted input mode and the resolution of the source picture.

    • Display technologies
      Display technologies produce light and visible images through different panel or projection mechanisms.

    • HDR and brightness
      HDR display behavior relates supported signal interpretation to brightness control across a picture and over time.

    • Color calibration
      Display calibration adjusts a defined output state toward a chosen target, while characterization and profiling describe how that state reproduces colors.

    • Display color management
      Display color management relates the source’s defined color meaning to the current output state through transformations implemented by the application, operating system and display path.

    References

    • Linux: Connector properties, EDID and HDR metadata
    • Microsoft: Advanced Color display pipeline
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