Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Bong-Im Park

Bong-Ju Jun

Jae-won Jeong

Yong-Jun Choi

Yun-Jae Kim

Seon-Ki Kim

Ik-Hyun Ahn

Jun-Pyo Lee

Woo-Chul Kim

Dong-Beom Cho

Jong-Hyon Park

Ik-Huyn Ahn

Ho-Seok Son

Yoon-gu Kim

Se-Huhn Hur

Jung-Won Kim

Nam-Gon Choi

Kang-Hyun Kim

Byung-Kil Jeon

Kang-Min Kim

Woo-Young Lee

Hyun-sik Hwang

Jung-Deok Seo

Hoi-Sik Moon

Woo-Joo Lee

Byung-Kook Sim

Jin-young Lee

Byoung-Jun Lee

Won-Sik Oh

Hyun Sik Hwang

Woo-jin Jung

Ik Hyun Ahn

Ah-Reum Kim

Dong-Gyun Ra

Jae-Woo Jung

Hyun-Sik Hwang

Young-Woo Choi

In a method of operating a display panel, a plurality of data lines are divided into a first data line group through an N-th data line group, where N is a natural number equal to or greater than two. Each of the first through N-th data line groups includes at least two data lines. The first through N-th data line groups are sequentially driven by applying first data voltages through N-th data voltages to the first through N-th data line groups, respectively at different times. A first number of data lines in the first data line group is variable.

Method of operating display panel and display apparatus performing the same

An adaptive black clipping circuit in a display device includes a data corrector, a register, a pattern detector and a clipping selector. The data corrects input image data to generate corrected image data such that the corrected image data is equal to or greater than a black clipping value where the black clipping value corresponds to the input image data having a grayscale value of zero and the black clipping value is greater than zero. The register stores and provides configuration data. The pattern detector generates a pattern detection signal based on the input image data corresponding to a plurality of rows. The clipping selector selects one of the corrected image data and the configuration data in response to the pattern detection signal to provide output image data.

Adaptive black clipping circuit, display device including the same and adaptive black clipping method

A display panel driving apparatus includes a data processing circuit, a data driver, and a gate driver. The data processing circuit increases a first gamma value of input image data of which the gamma value is 0, according to a second gamma value of the input image data of which the second gamma value is not 0. The data driving part outputs a data signal based on the output image data to a data line. The gate driving part outputs a gate signal to a gate line.

Display panel driving apparatus for increasing gamma value of image data, method of driving display panel using the same and display apparatus having the same

A method of driving a display device including a display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of gate lines. The gate lines are divided into a plurality of gate line groups. The method includes applying different gate delay values to each of the gate line groups to generate gate signals and outputting the gate signals to the gate lines. A first gate delay value is applied to at least one of the gate lines during a first frame and a second gate delay value different from the first delay value is applied to the at least one of the gate lines during a second frame.

Method of driving a display panel and a display apparatus for performing the same

A display apparatus includes a timing controller and a display panel. The timing controller generates first and second image data based on input image data and generates output image data based on the first and second image data. The first image data corresponds to a boundary region in a first image. The second image data corresponds to a non-boundary region in the first image. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels and displays the first image based on the output image data. The plurality of pixels include boundary pixels corresponding to the boundary region and non-boundary pixels corresponding to the non-boundary region. The boundary pixels operate based on a reference gamma curve. The non-boundary pixels operate based on first and second gamma curves different from the reference gamma curve.

Display apparatus and a method of operating the same

A method of driving a display panel includes comparing a previous line data and a present line data to generate a charge sharing enable (EQ) signal indicating whether or not a charge sharing is to be applied to a pixel; selectively applying the charge sharing to the present line data utilizing a charge sharing voltage according to the EQ signal to generate a data voltage; and outputting the data voltage to the pixel.

Method of driving display panel and display apparatus for performing the same

A method of driving a display device includes a preliminary frame charging step and a main frame charging step. The method comprises a preliminary frame charging step of simultaneously charging liquid crystal cells in a pixel line group having a selected pixel row and a unselected pixel row with pixel data of the selected pixel row of the pixel line group and a main frame charging step of charging liquid crystal cells in the unselected pixel line group with pixel data of the unselected pixel line group.

Method of driving a display device

A method of driving a display panel includes outputting a data voltage of three-dimensional ('3D') image data included in a left-eye data frame and a right-eye data frame to the display panel along a scanning direction of a first direction during a first period, blocking the data voltage from being provided to the display panel during a second period and outputting a black data voltage to the display panel during a third period that is less than the first period.

Method of driving a display panel and display apparatus for performing the same

A data driver includes a digital-to-analog converter, a control signal output circuit, and an output buffer. The digital-to-analog converter generates first data voltages and second data voltages based on image data and a polarity control signal. Each first data voltage has a positive polarity, and each second data voltage has a negative polarity. The control signal output circuit outputs a first output control signal and a second output control signal based on the polarity control signal. A phase of the second output control signal is different from a phase of the first output control signal. The output buffer outputs the first data voltages based on the first output control signal and outputs the second data voltages based on the second output control signal.

Data driver and display apparatus including the same

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver and a data driver. The display panel includes gate lines, data lines and pixels electrically connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The gate driver is disposed adjacent to a first side of the display panel, and outputs a gate signal to the gate line. The data driver is disposed adjacent to the first side of the display panel, and outputs a data voltage to the data line. A gate signal applied to a position having a low resistance-capacitance ('RC') delay of the gate line has a kickback slice greater than a kickback slice of a gate signal applied to a position having a high RC delay of the gate line. The kickback slice is defined as a portion having a level lower than a gate-on voltage level in a gate pulse of the gate signal.

Display apparatus and method of driving display panel using the same

A method of displaying a stereoscopic image provides first light having a first wavelength and second light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength to the a display panel according to left-eye and right-eye images displayed on the display panel. Color correcting data are generated by correcting at least one of left-eye color data corresponding to the left-eye image and right-eye color data corresponding to the right-eye image such that a first color coordinate according to the first light and a second color coordinate according to the second light coincide with each other with respect to the same color. The left-eye and right-eye images are displayed using light having wavelengths different from each other, so that a display quality of the stereoscopic image may be enhanced.

Method of displaying stereoscopic image and display apparatus for performing the same

A method of compensating image data, the method includes generating a compensation data of an image data in accordance with a temperature value by using a compensation data of a previous frame and a compensation data generated through a look-up table which is mapped with corresponding to a compensation data of a previous frame and a set temperature value which is smaller than and closest to the temperature value or which is greater than and closest to the temperature value among set temperature values.

Method of compensating image data and display apparatus for performing the same

Provided are an image signal compensation apparatus and a liquid crystal display (LCD) including the same. The image signal compensation apparatus includes a lookup table (LUT) and an image signal compensation unit. The LUT includes reference data that corresponds to each combination of first and second reference gray levels and is arranged in a matrix. The image signal compensation unit receives first and second image signals, receives reference data corresponding to the first and second image signals from the LUT, and compensates the second image signal using the reference data. The reference data includes diagonal reference data located on a diagonal line in the matrix, and at least one diagonal reference data from among the diagonal reference data has a different value from a corresponding combination of the first and second reference gray levels.

Image signal compensation apparatus and liquid crystal display including the same

A method for displaying a stereoscopic image, the method comprises generating k images for a left eye and k images for a right eye based on a left-eye image and a right-eye image, where 'k' is a natural number greater than two, correcting an image currently received using an n-th image of the k images for the left eye and the k images for the right eye that are previously received, where 'n' is a natural number greater than &#x2018;k&#x2019;, displaying corrected k images for the left eye and corrected k images for the right eye on a display panel, and providing the display panel with lights based on the image displayed on the display panel.

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