Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kangjoo Kim

Sunkwon Kim

Sugyeung Kang

Yongil Kwon

Yilho Lee

Sewoong Ahn

Taehyeon Kwon

Hyunsang Park

Uijong Song

Yongsik Kwak

Jongsung Lee

Changyeon Cho

Sungmok Lee

A backlight system includes a plurality of pixel ICs respectively including a plurality of channels connected to a plurality of LEDs and that control the LEDs to be turned on and off through the channels, and a driver IC connected to the pixel ICs and that supplies a data signal to each of the pixel ICs. The pixel ICs include a first pixel IC connected to first LEDs and a second pixel IC connected to second LEDs. The first pixel IC turns the first LEDs on or off in a first order based on first control data included in the data signal, and the second pixel IC turns the second LEDs on or off in a second order different from the first order based on second control data included in the data signal.

Backlight system

A device includes a pixel array, a row driver configured to, generate a plurality of control signals, drive a plurality of rows of the pixel array using the plurality of control signals, and generate a plurality of clock signals, a row multiplexer configured to receive the plurality of clock signals, and transmit one clock signal of the plurality of clock signals, a data driver configured to transmit a plurality of data signals to the pixel array by column units, each pixel of the plurality of pixels includes, a light emitting device, a shift register configured to receive the selectively transmitted clock signal from the row multiplexer, and generate a width adjusted pulse width modulation (PWM) signal based on a desired brightness level of the light emitting device, and a transistor configured to transmit a driving current to the light emitting device based on the PWM signal.

Small size pixel and display device including the same

A backlight system includes a backlight and a master driving circuit. The backlight includes a plurality of slave driving circuits and a plurality of light sources driven by the plurality of slave driving circuits, wherein the plurality of slave driving circuits are arranged in a matrix of driving rows and driving columns such that first through m-th slave driving circuits, where m is a positive integer greater than one, are arranged in each driving row of the driving rows, and the first through m-th slave driving circuits are connected in a daisy chain structure. The master driving circuit is configured to generate a plurality of input data signals, wherein each input data signal of the plurality of input data signals corresponds to the each driving row, and the each input data signal includes first through m-th packets including luminance data corresponding to the first through m-th slave driving circuits.

Backlight system, display device including the backlight system and method of transferring data in the backlight system

A display device includes: a cell matrix including a first cell line and a second cell line, wherein the first cell line includes first cells sharing first row lines, and the second cell line includes second cells sharing second row lines; a redundancy integrated circuit including a redundancy cell line including redundancy cells, wherein the redundancy cells share a third row line and are connected to the first and second cells through a plurality of column lines and a plurality of connection lines; and a display driver integrated circuit (DDI) configured to replace the first cell line or the second cell line with the redundancy cell line through the first row lines, the second row lines, and the third row line based on whether the first and second cell lines include a bad cell.

Display device including cell matrix including redundancy cell

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Kangjoo Kim