Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Jae-hyeon Jeon

Donggyu Lee

Jin-wook Yang

Sehyuk Park

Yu-chol Kim

Youngha Sohn

Jaekeun Lim

Hongsoo Kim

A display device includes a display panel that includes a plurality of pixels and displays an image corresponding to each of a plurality of frames, and a drive controller that receives an image signal and drives the plurality of frames at a plurality of driving frequencies. The drive controller includes a representative frequency calculator, a compensation signal calculator, and a data compensation unit that receives an image signal and outputs a compensation data signal by adding a gray of the image signal and a gray value based on a data correction lookup table in which the gray value is stored. Luminance of the image is controlled based on the compensation signal and the compensation data signal.

Display device, drive controller, and display device driving method

A display system includes a host processor configured to provide frame data using a scan order, and a display device including a display panel including pixels and a display panel driver configured to refresh the pixels according using the frame data and to provide the scan order to the host processor.

Display system providing frame data according to a received scan order and method of driving the same

A display device including: a display panel including a pixel; and a panel driver configured to provide a reference voltage and a data voltage to the pixel, wherein the pixel emits light with a luminance corresponding to a difference between the reference voltage and the data voltage, and when the reference voltage changes, and a range of the data voltage is shifted by a voltage level that corresponds to the amount of change in the reference voltage.

Display device

A display device includes: a display panel which displays an image corresponding to each of a plurality of frames, and a source driver which drives the display panel. The plurality of frames includes a first frame operating at a first operating frequency, and a second frame operating at a frequency higher than the first operating frequency. The first frame includes a write cycle section, a hold cycle section, and a blank section including a standby section. The source driver operates in a normal driving mode during the write cycle section and the hold cycle section, and operates in a low-power driving mode during the standby section.

Source driver and display device including the same

A display device includes a light emitting element, a first transistor, and a second transistor connected between the first transistor and the light emitting element and including a gate electrode which receives an emission signal. One frame includes a first period a second period continuous with the first period. An emission off period of the emission signal has a first time duration during the first period, and the emission off period of the emission signal has a second time duration different from the first time duration during the second period.

A pixel connected to a first scan line includes a light-emitting element including an anode and a cathode, a first transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode connected to a first node, a first capacitor connected between the first node and a second node, a second transistor connected between the second electrode of the first transistor and the first node including a gate electrode connected to the first scan line, a third transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode connected to the second node, and a gate electrode connected to the first scan line, and a fourth transistor including a first electrode connected to a first driving voltage line, a second electrode connected to the first electrode of the first transistor, and a gate electrode connected to the first scan line.

Pixel and display device capable of operating at high operating frequency

A display device includes a display panel including a pixel which receives a luminance control voltage, a driving controller which receives an input image signal and a control signal and provides an output image signal to the display panel, and a voltage generator which generates the luminance control voltage in response to a voltage control signal from the driving controller. The driving controller determines a current operating frequency based on the control signal, and outputs the voltage control signal based on a difference value between the current operating frequency and a previous operating frequency and an operating time of the previous operating frequency when the current operating frequency is different from the previous operating frequency, where the luminance control voltage is changed from a first voltage level to a second voltage level based on the voltage control signal.

Display device and driving method thereof

A display device includes a display panel including a pixel and a driving controller to drive the display panel. The driving controller generates a compensating signal, when a first driving frequency of a first frame is determined as being higher than a second driving frequency of a second frame by comparing a first cycle count value of the first frame with a second cycle count value of the second frame subsequent to the first frame.

Driving controller and display device including the same

A pixel includes: a light-emitting element including an anode and a cathode, a first transistor including a first and a second electrode and a gate electrode connected with a first node, a third transistor connected between the second electrode of the first transistor and the first node and including a gate electrode connected with a first scan line, a sixth transistor connected between the second electrode of the first transistor and the anode and including a gate electrode connected with a first emission line, and a seventh transistor connected between the anode and an initialization voltage line and including a gate electrode connected with a second scan line. During an initialization period, the third, sixth, and seventh transistors are turned on such that an initialization voltage from the initialization voltage line is transferred to the gate electrode of the first transistor.

Pixel, display device including pixel, and pixel driving method

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver and an emission driver. The display panel includes a pixel. The gate driver is configured to output a gate signal to the pixel. The data driver is configured to output a data voltage to the pixel. The emission driver is configured to output an emission signal to the pixel. The pixel includes a light emitting element, a driving switching element configured to apply a driving current to the light emitting element and a bias switching element configured to apply a bias voltage to the driving switching element. The display apparatus increases a level of the bias voltage when a duration of a light emission time of the pixel is increased.

Display apparatus, method of driving the same and electronic apparatus including the same

An electronic device includes a display panel which includes a plurality of pixels and displays an image at each of multiple frames, a driving circuit which drives the multiple frames at multiple operating frequencies, a voltage generator which provides a voltage to the display panel, and a drive controller. The drive controller includes a representative frequency calculator which calculates a representative frequency, based on operating frequencies of 'n' number of frames before one frame of the multiple frames, and a compensating signal calculator which outputs a compensating signal, based on the representative frequency and a count number in the one frame. The drive controller transmits the compensating signal to the voltage generator, the voltage includes a reference voltage, the voltage generator generates the reference voltage based on the compensating signal, and the voltage generator provides the reference voltage to each of the plurality of pixels.

Drive controller and electronic device including same

A display device includes: a pixel electrically connected to a data line, a write scan line, an initialization scan line, a compensation scan line, a transmission control line, and an emission control line; a first driving circuit configured to provide a write scan signal to the write scan line and a second driving circuit configured to receive a plurality of clock signals, each of which has a time duration of one unit horizontal period and provide an initialization scan signal, a compensation scan signal, a transmission control signal, and an emission control signal to the initialization scan line, the compensation scan line, the transmission control line, and the emission control line, respectively. Each of the initialization scan signal and the compensation scan signal has an activation interval of one unit horizontal periods or more.

Pixel, driver and display device having the same

A display device includes: a display panel and a panel driver for driving the display panel during a plurality of driving frames whose frequencies are varied. Among the driving frames, a first driving frame having a first frequency includes a first write period, and a second driving frame having a second frequency lower than the first frequency includes a second write period and a variable blank period. The panel driver includes a data driver and a driving controller. Each of the first and second write periods includes N horizontal periods (N is an integer number equal to or greater than 1), each of the N horizontal periods has a first duration, and each of the first and second write periods has a second duration corresponding to N times of the first duration. The driving controller applies a training synchronizing signal to the data driver during the variable blank period.

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Jae-hyeon Jeon