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It's turning into winter, the second wave of COVID-19 is hitting again. Outdoor LED signs can strengthen the deployment of preventing COVID-19 through delivering precaution message to the public and helping people keep physical distancing. Macroblock owns various LED outdoor driver ICs to support our clients to manufacture excellent LED signs. We are so glad to do our part for global pandemic precautions together.

Macroblock driver ICs' benefit toward LED signs

Macroblock's clients of outdoor digital signs devote to providing the highest quality outdoor LED signs for their customers. As their LED driver ICs provider, Macroblock assists them to build up brilliant and reliable LED signs. Macroblock driver ICs for outdoor LED signs application equip the feature of brightness adjustment, which can realize automatically adjust the brightness of LED screens through "Current Gain" function. LED signs can adjust the screen brightness according to the ambient light for day-and-night use without losing grayscales performance. It can be concluded that the LED signs are able to maintain high brightness during the day; reduce brightness at night.

Macroblock has introduced multiples driver IC suitable for outdoor LED signs application, such as MBI5251, MBI5043, MBI5124. MBI5251 is the latest Macroblock's LED driver IC designed for outdoor LED signs application; it meets three elements of “New Basics” that is launched by Macroblock this year, including Image Quality, Minimum Gray, and Low Power. The great performance of MBI5251 is really suitable to apply in outdoor LED signs.

The role of LED signs during the pandemic

COVID-19 spreads globally. According to the data of United Daily News, a Taiwanese media, it reveals that until the end of October, the global COVID-19 cases reached 42 million and the death toll passed one million. As the weather turns cold gradually, experts and professions indicate that second COVID-19 surge could be nearly as bad as its first time. Many countries' governments launched new policies or restrictions to deter COVID-19 spreading.

During the pandemic, LED signs are not only for releasing commercial advertisements but also for helping inform important message and educate the public. Moreover, using LED signs also can help people keep physical distancing. Please find the three examples below:

Example 1, Government agencies delivered prevention information through LED signs

LED signs are mainly used to release advertisement in the past; however, during the pandemic, LED signs are great platforms for government agencies to convey important information. They could provide instant message or detail information, such as how to prevent COVID-19 spreading, how to protect ourselves safety or how to help your local community, to support the society to overcome COVID-19.

Example 2, Medical institutions provided patients with information through LED signs

Due to the spread of COVID-19, medical institutions in Europe or the US are really busy nowadays. They could apply outdoor LED signs to let people know what kind of medical service is offered now and what kind of methods could prevent COVID-19, to reduce the load of medical staff. Many hospitals have used LED signs to answer general questions, including waiting times, triage process and so on to keep patients calm.

Example 3, High schools held virtual graduation ceremonies through LED signs

Because of COVID-19, many high schools abandoned traditional graduation and adopted virtual graduation to avoid the risk of social contact infection. LED signs were utilized by many schools; they put congratulations messages, graduates' name and their photos on the LED signs. So graduates family and friends could drive by those LED signs and cheer for their graduates.

There are increases in COVID-19 cases across the world, and this is still a threat to us. Macroblock expects to leverage outdoor LED signs to support government units and private institution to defense COVID-19 and get together with the whole world to face this difficult challenge.