Panasonic’s Intelligent Scene Controller consists two technologies for improving picture quality; Scene Adaptive Backlight Control and Scene Adaptive Contrast/Gamma Correction. This system optimizes contrast and brightness to ensure that blacks are blacker, whites are brighter and detail is sharper.

The Scene-adaptive backlight control technology auto detects video signal brightness levels and adjusts the backlight accordingly in real-time. It is basically a one dimensional form of local dimming working over the entire display and providing improvement to brightness and darkness levels but not to the level of local dimming. While the result improves the dynamic contrast ratio range it doesn’t improve the static contrast ratio. For further explanation of contrast ratio measurements read our contrast ratio technology guide.

Scene-adaptive contrast gamma correction detects video signal brightness levels and increases contrast by either dynamically (on-the-fly) boosting or cutting the individual elements of the signal. It also increases available number of gradation steps (see image) based on whether the scene is bright or dark. Up to 4 times the regular number shades (gradations) can be produced for a given scene providing greater detail through more subtle shading.