Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Jin-wook Yang

Jae-hyeon Jeon

Donggyu Lee

Sehyuk Park

Yu-chol Kim

Jihye Kim

Jakyoung Jin

Seongoh Yeom

Jaekeun Lim

Youngha Sohn

Eui-Myeong Cho

Hongsoo Kim

Eui-myeong Cho

Taehoon Kim

Sangan Kwon

Jinyoung Roh

Changnoh Yoon

Seon Young Choi

Bon-seog Gu

Hae-kwan Seo

Soon-dong Kim

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a data driver, a power saving mode determiner, a power voltage control signal generator and a power voltage generator. The data driver is configured to output a data voltage to the display panel. The power saving mode determiner is configured to determine a driving mode selected from a power saving mode and a normal mode based on a risky display quality condition. The power voltage control signal generator is configured to generate a power voltage control signal determining a level of a power voltage based on the driving mode. The power voltage generator is configured to generate the power voltage based on the power voltage control signal and to output the power voltage to at least one of the display panel and the data driver.

Display apparatus and method of driving the same

A display device includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of first gate lines, a plurality of second gate lines, and a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels includes a first group of pixels and a second group of pixels. The plurality of data lines includes a first group of data lines connected to the first group of pixels and a second group of data lines connected to the second group of pixels. A data signal is provided to the first group of pixels in a first sub-frame period of one frame period. A data signal is provided to the second group pixels in a second sub-frame period of the one frame period that is adjacent to the first sub-frame period.

Display device

A luminance compensation method of a display device includes a first luminance for a reference grayscale at a first operating frequency and a second luminance for the reference grayscale at a second operating frequency are measured. A first reference value is calculated based on the first luminance and the second luminance, a first duty ratio of the initialization control signal is changed into a second duty ratio depending on a comparison result of the first reference value and a threshold value After the first duty ratio is changed into the second duty ratio, a third luminance for the reference grayscale is measured, and a second reference value is calculated based on the first luminance and the third luminance. A final duty ratio corresponding to the threshold value is calculated depending on a comparison result of the second reference value and the threshold value.

Luminance compensation method of display device by adjusting initialization control signal and display device

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 device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a panel driver that drives the display panel in a first mode where an operating frequency is fixed, and a second mode where the operating frequency is variable. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light-emitting element and a pixel driving circuit connected to a first electrode of the light-emitting element. The panel driver includes a driving controller that determines whether the operating frequency corresponds to one of predetermined compensation frequencies in the second mode, and outputs a voltage control signal depending on the determination result, and a voltage generator that changes a voltage level of an anode initialization voltage applied to the first electrode in response to the voltage control signal.

Display device providing uniform luminance characteristics even when operation frequency is varied

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

Disclosed is a display device including a display panel including a pixel, a scan driver, and a driving controller that controls driving of the scan driver. The scan driver provides the pixel with a first mode scan signal having a first active period and a second active period in a first mode and provides the pixel with a second mode scan signal having a compensation active period in a second mode. The driving controller determines whether an operating frequency of the display device corresponds to one of predetermined compensation frequencies in a variable frequency mode, and operates the scan driver in the first mode or the second mode depending on a determination result of the determining.

Light emitting display device with a scan driver that operates in first mode or second mode

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.

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 display device includes a display panel which includes first and second pixels disposed in one pixel row, a first gate line connected to the first pixel, a second gate line connected to the second pixel, a first data line connected to the first pixel, and a second data line connected to the second pixel, a gate driver which provides a first gate signal and a second gate signal to the first gate line and the second gate line, respectively, and a data driver disposed adjacent to a first side of the display panel, where the data driver provides a data signal to the first data line. The first data line and the second data line are connected to each other at a second side of the display panel opposite to the first side of the display panel.

A display device includes a display panel, a gate driver, and a driving controller. The display panel includes a pixel. The gate driver applies an anode initialization signal to the pixel. The driving controller receives a horizontal synchronization signal, receives input image data at a variable frame frequency, and controls the gate driver. A frame period for the display panel includes a scan period and one or more hold periods, the driving controller generates a count value by counting a number of pulses of the horizontal synchronization signal, and determines a current frame period as the hold period when the count value exceeds a reference value, and a time length of the anode initialization signal in each of the one or more hold periods is longer than a time length of the anode initialization signal in the scan period.

Display device and method of driving the same

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.

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Jin-wook Yang