Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Samsung Displayco., Ltd.

Hoi Sik Moon

Chang-Soo Lee

Byoung Seok Yoo

Kang Hyun Kim

Min Su Kim

Jae-Seob Chung

Mingyu Kim

Nam-Gon Choi

Kee-Bum Park

Jong Jae Lee

Namjae Lim

Jai-Hyun Koh

Hak-Mo Choi

Jae Sung Bae

Taehyeong An

Hyungwoo Yim

Min-Yup Chae

Hee Joon Kim

Seung Young Choi

Juneyoung Lee

Jeongwoon Lee

Se Yun Kim

Yun Jae Park

Si Hun Jang

Gwang Ho Nam

Jae-won Jeong

Kang-Hyun Kim

Jaesung Bae

Sang Cheol Park

Woo-jin Jung

Ik Hyun Ahn

Woo-Young Lee

Yoon Gu Kim

Jae-Suk Choi

Yoongu Kim

Duc-Han Cho

Nam Jae Lim

Jae-Seok Choi

Hyung Woo Yim

Su-Bin Park

Jin Pil Kim

Seung Hwan Park

Jae Seob Chung

Tae Hyeong An

Minyup Chae

Jeong Woon Lee

Hak Mo Choi

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller and a data driver. The driving controller processes input image data according to a variable input frequency and generates a data signal having a varied frame length. The data driver converts the data signal into a data voltage and outputs the data voltage to the display panel. The driving controller determines a variable frequency mode and generates an asymmetric data signal including a positive data signal and a negative data signal which are asymmetric with respect to a common voltage for a same grayscale value in the variable frequency mode.

Display apparatus having variable frequency mode and method of driving the same

A vision inspection apparatus includes an inspection controller which displays a grid pattern with a plurality of gray levels on a display panel, an imaging converter which drives a charge-coupled device with a predetermined or set exposure-time and converts the grid pattern displayed on the display panel into a grid pattern signal, a charge calculator which calculates a charge amount per unit time for each color of a reference gray level using a reference gray level signal, included in the grid pattern signal, and the set exposure-time, and an exposure-time calculator which calculates an optimum exposure-time for each color of the reference gray level based on a target charge amount of the reference gray level.

Vision inspection apparatus and a method of driving the same

A display device according to some embodiments includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a timing controller for correcting an input image signal, and for transmitting the input image to the display panel, a memory for storing model correction data for correcting a gray value, the model correction data corresponding to respective models of a plurality of timing controllers, and for storing image quality correction data for correcting a gamma deviation of the display panel, and a correction controller for generating final correction data by using the model correction data and the image quality correction data, and for transmitting the final correction data to the timing controller.

Display apparatus and method for driving the same

An image data correcting device included in a display device includes a correction data memory and a correction calculator. The correction data memory stores sampling window select information indicating a sampling window selected from a plurality of sampling windows that are different from each other, and correction data obtained utilizing the selected sampling window with respect to the display device. The correction calculator receives image data, and corrects the image data based on the correction data for pixels at positions corresponding to the selected sampling window indicated by the sampling window select information.

Image data correcting device, and display device including the same

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver and a driving controller. The display panel is configured to display an image based on input image data. The gate driver is configured to output gate signals to gate lines of the display panel. The data driver is configured to output data voltages to data lines of the display panel. The driving controller includes a first compensation lookup table and a second compensation lookup table which are configured to compensate the input image data. The driving controller is configured to select one of the first compensation lookup table and the second compensation lookup table based on a first color shift and a second color shift and to apply the selected one of the first compensation lookup table and the second compensation lookup table to the input image data.

Display apparatus, display system having the same and method of compensating display quality using the same

In a method of generating correction data for each of a plurality of display devices, a characteristic distribution for initial display devices among the plurality of display devices may be obtained, center characteristic compensation data may be generated based on the characteristic distribution for the initial display devices, the center characteristic compensation data may be applied to subsequent display devices that are subsequent to the initial display devices among the plurality of display devices, mura correction data and image quality correction data may be generated by performing mura correction and image quality correction on each of the subsequent display devices to which the center characteristic compensation data are applied, and the center characteristic compensation data, the mura correction data and the image quality correction data may be written into each of the subsequent display devices.

Method of generating correction data for display device, test device, and display device

A display device includes a plurality of pixels, and a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of pixels; a data driver for transmitting a data voltage to the data line; and a signal controller for receiving input image signals from the outside and outputting a digital image signal to the data driver. The signal controller includes an adjacent image signal compensator for comparing input gray data of the input image signals to be continuously input to the data line and generating adjacent image signal compensation data based on the comparison, and a pixel characteristic compensator for generating pixel characteristic compensation data according to a characteristic of a pixel to be displayed.

Display device and driving method thereof

A display device includes a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels, a data driver configured to generate data voltages based on a gamma reference voltage, and to provide the data voltages to the plurality of pixels, a gate driver configured to provide gate signals to the plurality of pixels, and a controller configured to control the data driver and the gate driver. The controller is configured to initialize the gamma reference voltage when a blank period starts in a frame period comprising an active period and the blank period, and to change the gamma reference voltage when a duration of the blank period reaches at least one threshold time.

Display device supporting variable frame mode, and method of operating display device

A controller includes a bit shifter and a stain compensator. The bit shifter may determine a bit shift value corresponding to a stain compensation value according to an area of a display panel. The bit shift value represents a quantity of integer bits and a quantity of decimal bits. At least one of the quantity of integer bits and the quantity of decimal bits corresponds to a quantity of stain compensation steps. The stain compensator may compensate a grayscale value of input image data using the stain compensation value and the bit shift value to generate compensated image data.

Controller, related display apparatus, and related method for controlling display panel

An image processing device for a mass produced display device includes an image obtaining capture to provide a single image frame including intensity values for respective coordinates of a display surface of the display device, and an image correcting unit to correct the intensity values of the single image frame of the display surface by using correction amount values with the corresponding correction direction values to provide a de-blurring image frame for the display surface, wherein the image correcting unit includes a correction amount calculating unit to calculate the correction amount values for the respective coordinates by using first derivative values with respect to the intensity values of the single image frame, and a correction direction calculating unit to calculate the correction direction values for the respective coordinates by using second derivative values with respect to the intensity values of the single image frame.

Image processing device and image processing method for correcting images obtained from a display surface of mass produced display device

A display apparatus includes a local dimmer, an image compensator, a display panel and a light source. The local dimmer is configured to generate a dimming signal representing a degree of dimming for a light source block based on input image data. The image compensator is configured to determine a grayscale gain based on input grayscale value of the input image data and the dimming signal and to compensate luminance of the input image data based on the grayscale gain. The display panel is configured to display an image based on the compensated input image data. The light source is configured to provide light to the display panel based on the dimming signal.

Display apparatus and method of driving the same

A display device includes: a first memory storing mura correcting data respectively corresponding to a plurality of reference pixels, each of the plurality of reference pixels comprising (n&#xd7;m) pixels, the mura correcting data configured to correct mura of a reference pixel ('n' and 'm' are natural numbers being equal to or more than 2); a first correction controller configured to generate mura correcting data of a pixel using the mura correcting data of the reference pixel stored in the first memory; a second memory storing spot correcting data respectively corresponding to a plurality of spot-muras; a second correction controller configured to output the spot correcting data from the second memory based on a position data of the spot-mura; and an operation part configured to correct pixel data of the pixel using the mura correcting data and the spot correcting data of the pixel.

Display device and method of correcting mura in the same

A liquid-crystal display device includes a first substrate, a plurality of pixel units disposed on the first substrate, a color filter layer overlapping the plurality of pixel units and including first to third color filters, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid-crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each of the pixel units of the plurality of the pixel units includes a first pixel, a second pixel and a third pixel. The first pixel includes a first pixel electrode, the second pixel includes a second pixel electrode, and the third pixel includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode. A voltage applied to the first sub-pixel electrode is different from a voltage applied to the second sub-pixel electrode.

Liquid-crystal display device having paired sub-pixel electrodes

A driving controller includes a first compensator and a second compensator. The first compensator is configured to generate first compensation data based on input image data. The second compensator is configured to generate second compensation data based on present frame data of the input image data, previous frame data of the input image data, present frame data of the first compensation data and previous frame data of the first compensation data.

Driving controller, display apparatus having the same and method of driving display panel using the same

In a method of generating correction data for a display device, an image is captured, a plurality of correction values are obtained at a plurality of sampling positions based on the captured image, whether a frequency criterion about a total number of overflow correction values is satisfied is determined, the overflow correction values being the correction values outside at least one reference range whether an adjacency criterion about a number of the overflow correction values at sampling positions adjacent to a sampling position of the each of the overflow correction values is satisfied is determined, a bit shift operation is selectively performed on the plurality of correction values according to whether the frequency and/or adjacency criterion is satisfied, and correction data representing the plurality of correction values on which the bit shift operation is performed, and bit shift information about the bit shift operation are stored in the display device.

Method of generating correction data for display device, and display device storing correction data

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