Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Jinpil Kim

Namjae Lim

Sungjae Park

Jaesung Bae

Jung-Won Kim

Jai-hyun Koh

Hoisik Moon

Ik Soo Lee

Yu-Kwan Kim

Iksoo Lee

Jaehoon Lee

Nam-Gon Choi

Heendol Kim

Se Ah Kwon

Kyungsu Lee

Seokha Hong

Jai-Hyun Koh

Moonshik Kang

Joon-chul Goh

Jae Sung Bae

Dongwon Park

Seunghwan Moon

Taehyeong An

Kuk-Hwan Ahn

Kisoo Park

Kyoung Ho Lim

Kangmin Kim

Seokyun Son

KyoungHo Lim

Yunki Baek

Kanghee Lee

Jonghak Hwang

Byoung Seok Yoo

Seoung-Bum Pyoun

Gigeun Kim

Kunhee Jo

Moon Shik Kang

Donghwa Shin

Dongjoon Kwag

Jeongwoon Lee

Bonggyun Kang

Gyusu Lee

Youngsuk Ha

An electronic device is disclosed that includes a display panel, a data driving circuit, a scan driving circuit, and a driving controller. The driving controller generates image data based on a received image signal. The driving controller includes a minimum emission gray level determining unit that determines a gray level of the image signal, a pattern determining unit that determines a dither pattern of the image signal, a driving frequency sensing unit that determines a driving frequency of the image signal, and a data compensation unit that compensates for the image data based on the gray level and at least one of the dither pattern and the driving frequency.

Electronic device and driving method of electronic device

A display device includes: a display panel, which displays an image; a panel driver, which drives the display panel; and a driving controller, which controls a drive of the panel driver. The driving controller includes a compensation determination block and a data compensation block. The compensation determination block is activated after a still image is displayed for a predetermined time or more and generates a compensation value based on a final afterimage component calculated using an afterimage algorithm obtained by a combination of a first afterimage calculation equation and a second afterimage calculation equation. The data compensation block receives an image signal with respect to a target image and reflects the compensation value to the image signal to generate a compensation image signal.

Display device

Disclosed is a display device which includes a display panel that includes a plurality of pixels and includes a display area displaying an image, a panel controller that receives an external input signal from an external source and generates a control signal for dividing the display area into a first area and a second area which is disposed adjacent to the first area based on the external input signal, and an instrument module that stretches the first area and the second area of the display panel in response to the control signal. The number of the pixels per unit area in the first area is different from the number of the pixels per unit area in the second area.

Display device and electronic device including the same

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller and a data driver. The display panel is configured to display an image. The driving controller is configured to generate a compensated image data for compensating a decrease of a luminance of an edge portion of the display panel based on input image data. The data driver is configured to output a data voltage to the display panel based on the compensated image data. The driving controller is configured to generate the compensated image data by comparing a maximum value among subpixel grayscale values of the input image data to which a luminance compensating coefficient is applied and a maximum grayscale value of the input image data. The luminance compensating coefficient is configured to be determined according to a location in the display panel.

Display apparatus and method of driving display panel using the same

A display apparatus includes: a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels configured to display an image based on input image data; a gate driver configured to output a gate signal to the display panel; a data driver configured to output a data voltage to the display panel; a light source part configured to provide light to the display panel and comprising a plurality of light sources; and a light source driver configured to drive the light source part, wherein a first light source of the light source part is configured to output a first luminance in an active period defined by the data voltage being output to the pixel and a second luminance greater than the first luminance in an inactive period defined by the data voltage is not being output to the pixel.

Display apparatus and method of driving the same

A display apparatus includes a backlight unit including a first light source for outputting a first color light, and a second light source for outputting a second color light that is different from the first color light, a switching element layer on the backlight unit, and including a plurality of switching elements, a liquid crystal layer on the switching element layer, and a color conversion layer on the liquid crystal layer, including a color-converting material for converting a color of light passing therethrough, including a first color area, a second color area, and a third color area, and including quantum dot particles.

A display device includes a display panel including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, a gamma generator configured to change a dividing ratio of a high gamma curve and a low gamma curve applied to the high sub-pixel and the low sub-pixel based on a position of the first sub-pixel and to generate a high gamma data corresponding to the high gamma curve and a low gamma data corresponding to the low gamma curve, and a data driver configured to convert the high gamma data and the low gamma data to a high data voltage and a low data voltage.

An image processing circuit includes a memory, a gamma converter which converts a first image data signal of a frame to a current image data signal thereof corresponding to first or second gamma types based on a spatial distribution pattern, a compression circuit which separates the current image data signal into first and second gamma signals corresponding to the first and second gamma types and compresses the first and second gamma signals to first and second compression gamma signals to store the first and second compression gamma signals, a decompression circuit which output a previous image data signal of a previous frame by decompressing the first and second compression gamma signals and combines first and second decompression gamma signals, and a gamma correction circuit which performs a gamma adjustment based on current and previous image data signals to output a second image data signal.

Image processing circuit, display device having the same, and method of driving the display device

A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the display panel including a first display area and a second display area, a first image processor which receives a first image data to be provided to the first display area, convert the first image data to a first convert data, and generate a first compensation data provided to the first display area using a first average filter, and a second image processor which receives a second image data to be provided to the second display area, converts the second image data to a second convert data, and generates a second compensation data provided to the second display area using a second average filter.

Display device and driving method of the same

In an image processing method that converts image data into output data by performing tone mapping, an edge of an image represented by the image data is determined, a first tone mapping operation is performed on first image data included in the image data, where the first image data represent a first portion of the image not including the edge, whether a gray level of second image data is within a predetermined gray range is determined, where the second image data represent a second portion of the image including the edge, a second tone mapping operation is performed on the second image data when the gray level of the second image data is within the gray range, and the first tone mapping operation is performed on the second image data when the gray level of the second image data is not within the gray range.

Image processing method and image processor performing the same

A display apparatus includes a mapper configured to map a primary color data including information on three primary colors to generate mapping primary data including red, green, and blue information and mapping white data including white information, a splitter configured to generate split primary data based on the mapping primary data and one gamma curve, and to generate split white data based on the mapping white data and another gamma curve different from the one gamma curve, and a compensator configured to compensate for the split primary data based on a target color coordinate and a primary color coordinate corresponding to a color coordinate of the split primary data to generate compensated primary data.

Display apparatus and driving method thereof

A method of image processing includes extracting first image information from an input image by analyzing the input image, determining, based on the first image information, whether to utilize a high dynamic range (HDR) function for the input image, setting an image output mode based on a result of the determination, setting a reference tone curve for the input image based on the image output mode, and generating an output image by converting the input image based on the reference tone curve.

Method of image processing and display apparatus performing the same

A display apparatus includes first-kind data lines and second-kind data lines. Each of the first-kind data lines is connected to one of two pixels arranged in a k-th pixel row and a (k+1)th pixel row. Each of the second-kind data lines is connected to two pixels arranged in different pixel columns in the k-th pixel row and the (k+1)th pixel row. At least two first-kind data lines are consecutively arranged.

A display panel includes a plurality of pixels, data lines, gate lines, a gate driver and terminals. The plurality of pixels form a plurality of rows and columns. The plurality of data lines extend in a first direction parallel to the pixel columns. Each data line is connected to at least two adjacent pixels included in a single pixel row. The plurality of gate lines extend in a second direction parallel with the plurality of pixel rows. The gate lines each connect to at least one pixel included in a single pixel row. At least two gate lines are disposed between two adjacent pixel rows. The gate driver generates signals to drive the plurality of gate lines. The plurality of terminals receives the gate signals to transmit the gate signals to the plurality of gate lines. Some of the terminals connect with some gate lines having a cross-coupled structure.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Jinpil Kim