Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Byung-Hyun Kim

Geun-Young Jeong

Ji-Yeon Yang

Takeshi Kato

Myung-Ho Lee

Jong-Woong Park

Yong-Seok Choi

Seok Hwan Roh

Ju-Hyung Lee

Ki-Won Shin

A data compensator includes a voltage drop compensator configured to output a voltage drop compensation value based on input data of pixels included in a display panel, a color difference compensator configured to output a color difference compensation value to compensate for compensate the color difference of the pixels, a compensation data generator configured to generate a compensation value of the input data based on the voltage drop compensation value and the color difference compensation value, and to generate a compensation data by performing an operation on the input data and the compensation value, and a dithering block configured to generate output data by dithering the compensation data.

Data compensator and display device having the same

A display driving apparatus and a driving method may improve the compression rate of data. The display driving apparatus may include: an encoder configured to compress data of a Pentile method, using any one of a plurality of encoding methods, and compress the data according to a pattern encoding method in addition to the any one of the plurality of encoding methods when the data corresponds to a specific pattern; a decoder configured to decompress the data compressed in the encoder according to a decoding method corresponding to the any one of the encoding methods; and a data driver configured to generate a data signal using the data decompressed in the decoder.

Display driving apparatus and driving method thereof

A method of evaluating visibility of a plurality of sub-pixel structures in a panel having a plurality of red sub-pixels, green sub-pixels, and blue sub-pixels arranged in stripes, the method including establishing a target sub-pixel structure different from the stripe sub-pixel structure of the panel by combining the plurality of pixels, and evaluating a displayed image by using the target sub-pixel structure.

Display apparatus and method of evaluating visibility thereof

An image data encoding device includes a data block generating unit configured to split image data into a plurality of data blocks, and a compressing unit configured to generate compressed data with respect to each of the plurality of data blocks, the compressed data including position information regarding positions of first pixels each having a gray scale value equal to a reference gray scale value, and difference values between the reference gray scale value and gray scale values of second pixels, which are different from the reference gray scale value.

Image data encoding device and method

An apparatus for encoding an image data includes a sub-pixel rendering unit and a first differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) processing unit. The sub-pixel rendering unit converts first image data of an RGB type to second image data of an RG-BG type. The DPCM processing unit generates first differential data including primary differential values corresponding to respective sub-pixels. To perform this operation, the DPCM processing unit calculates a gray value difference from a neighboring sub-pixel for each of the sub-pixels based on the second image data.

Apparatus and method for encoding image data

An apparatus for encoding an image data includes a sub-pixel rendering unit configured to convert a first image data of a RGB type, supplied from an outside thereof, into a second image data of a RG-BG type by performing sub-pixel rendering on the first image data, a first differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) processing unit configured to generate a first differential data including a differential value between gray scale values corresponding to green sub-pixels in the second image data, and a second DPCM processing unit configured to generate a second differential data including a differential value between a gray scale value corresponding to a red or blue sub-pixel in the second image data and an average value of gray scale values corresponding to green sub-pixels adjacent to the red or blue sub-pixel.

A data processor for a display device that includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes red, first green, blue, and second green sub-pixels, may include an input gamma processor for processing image data including red, green, and blue grayscale data into linearized image data by applying a gamma function to the image data, a first sub-pixel rendering unit for rendering the linearized image data according to layout of a plurality of sub-pixels included in the plurality of pixels using a 3&#xd7;1 rendering filter to output linearized second sub-pixel data, and an output gamma processor for processing the linearized second sub-pixel data into non-linearized second sub-pixel data by applying an inverse gamma function to the linearized second sub-pixel data.

Display device, data processor and method thereof

A data processing apparatus includes a diagonal detector, a first processor, and a second processor. The diagonal detector may determine whether a red-blue data set includes data for controlling a display device to display any diagonal line, the display device including subpixels arranged in first-type lines and second-type lines that are alternately disposed, the red-blue data set including 9 data values that correspond to 9 subpixels among the subpixels, the 9 subpixels forming a 3-by-3 array that includes a center subpixel, the 9 data values including a center data value that corresponds to the center subpixel. The first/second processor may process the center data value using a first/second coefficient to produce a first/second value that corresponds to the center subpixel if the center subpixel is in the first-type/second-type lines.

Display device, data processing apparatus, and related method

A display apparatus is disclosed. In one aspect the apparatus includes an encoder configured to encode a Nth first image data, where N is an integer of 2 or greater and a (N&#x2212;1)th second image data at different rates. The display further includes a memory configured to store the encoded Nth first image data and the encoded (N&#x2212;1)th second image data, a decoder configured to decode the encoded Nth first image data and the encoded (N&#x2212;1)th second image data received from the memory and, an image processor configured to perform color processing on the decoded Nth first image data. It also includes an image converter configured to convert the Nth first image data received from the image processor into Nth second image data and an image quality enhancer configured to enhance image quality of the Nth second image data based on the decoded (N&#x2212;1)th second image data.

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Yongin, South Korea

Byung-Hyun Kim