Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Hyunjun Lim

Byung Ki Chun

Jungyu Lee

Kuk-Hwan Ahn

Youngwook Yoo

Hongsoo Kim

Junheyung Jung

Young Wook Yoo

Hyeonmin Kim

A driving controller of a display device includes a driving frequency controller for receiving an image signal, determining a driving frequency based on the image signal, and outputting a masking enable signal corresponding to the driving frequency, and an image processor for converting the image signal into a data signal and outputting the data signal, wherein the image processor sequentially converts, based on the masking enable signal being at an active level, a part of bits of the image signal into the data signal corresponding to a plurality of dither patterns.

Driving controller for displaying image using dithering patterns and display device having the same

The present disclosure provides a display device with a display panel and driver. The driver includes a logo compensator to generate a logo map data with respect to a logo area through which the logo image is displayed and compensates for a brightness of the logo area using the logo map data. The logo compensator includes an extractor, a logo calculator, a logo determination unit, and a brightness compensation block. The extractor extracts logo area data. The logo calculator calculates the logo map data with first data corresponding to a first image recognized as the logo image and second data corresponding to a second image recognized as a logo background image. The logo determination unit sets a boundary area and determining whether a first area corresponding to the first image overlaps the boundary area to output determination data. The brightness compensation block compensates for the brightness of the logo area.

Display device and method of driving the same

A display device includes a display panel, a memory, a dithering processor, and a panel driver. The display panel includes a display surface, and the memory stores dither patterns with respect to at least one spot area included in the display surface. The dithering processor selects a dither pattern among the dither patterns in a predetermined time unit and outputs a compensation image signal corresponding to the dither pattern. The panel driver outputs a data signal corresponding to the spot area based on the compensation image signal. Each of the dither patterns includes a first grayscale area having a first grayscale value higher than a first target grayscale value of the spot area and a second grayscale area having a second grayscale value lower than the first target grayscale value.

A driving controller includes a logo detector. The logo detector includes a histogram extractor which receives input image data and extracts a first histogram from logo area data of the input image data, a first histogram regenerator electrically connected to the histogram extractor and configured to receive the first histogram from the histogram extractor to generate a second histogram based on the first histogram and a logo map determiner electrically connected to the histogram extractor and the first histogram regenerator, and configure to select one of the first histogram and the second histogram to generate a first logo map. The driving controller is configured to compensate the logo area data of the input image data using the first logo map.

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Hyunjun Lim