Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Displayco., Ltd.

Kwan-Young Oh

Po-Yun Park

Jae-won Jeong

Sangsu Han

Jung Hwan Cho

Jee-Hoon Jeon

Kyoungwon Lee

Junghwan Cho

Hyoung-Sik Nam

Jin-Soo Kim

Wonhee Lee

Jae-Ho Choi

Bum Sung Lee

Hong-Sun Hwang

Kuk-Hwan Ahn

Yong-Jun Choi

Jae Wan Park

Yun-Jae Kim

Seung Hwan Moon

Jung-Hwan Cho

Kyung-Uk Choi

Myeong-Su Kim

Min Joo Lee

Joo Seok Yeom

Jimyoung Seo

Jae-Suk Choi

Jae-Ho Oh

Yeon-Sun Na

Young-Su Han

Youn Jin Jung

Silyi Bang

Youn-Jin Jung

Sil-Yi Bang

Seung-Ho Baek

Eric R Fossum

Yoon-Dong Park

Seung-Woo Lee

Jae Ho Choi

Chul-woo Park

Bonghyun You

Jae-Han Lee

In-gyu Baek

Sang-beom Kang

Dongin Kim

Jaeho Choi

Young Gu Jin

Hak-soo Yu

Kang-Hyun Kim

Sang-Ho Park

Jae Won Jeong

Sang Su Han

Ji-Woong Jeong

Jae Hyoung Park

Woo-jin Jung

Myeong Su Kim

Kyoung-Won Lee

Kyoung-Lae Cho

Jin-kyu Park

Jang-Hyun Yeo

Myeongsu Kim

Yoongu Kim

Hyun Seok Hong

Seung-Won Lee

Gyeong-Ub Moon

Jin-hyoung Kwon

Ga-Na Kim

Young-Suk Ha

Youngsoo Sohn

Se-won Seo

Sang-Su Han

Hyun-Seok Hong

Kwang-Chol Choe

Sil Yi Bang

Sangmi Kim

Suk Jin Park

Dong-In Kim

Changgil Oh

Sangyoung Lee

Sukjin Park

Jae-Won Jeong

Ji-Hee Kim

Samuel Sungmok Lee

Younjin Jung

Jin-Hyun Ko

A liquid crystal display device comprising, a liquid crystal display panel, a timing controller configured to output a light-source controlling signal during a variable frequency mode comprising a plurality of frames with variable frame frequencies, the light-source controlling signal having a high level during a light-on period preset in an early period of a frame of the plurality of frames and a low level during a light-off period preset to a length according to a frame frequency in a latter period of the frame of the plurality of frames, and a light source configured to emit light during the light-on period and not emit light during the light-off period in response to the light-source controlling signal.

Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same

A method of operating a display device involves detecting whether a frame mode of the display device is a normal mode in which image data are received with a constant frame rate or a variable frame mode in which the image data are received with a variable frame rate. An output buffer drivability of a data driver included in the display device may be set according to the detected frame mode, and an image is displayed by outputting data voltages corresponding to the image data with slew rates corresponding to the set output buffer drivability. Power consumption in output buffer amplifiers may be selectively lowered by setting a relatively low output buffer drivability corresponding to a relatively low slew rate.

Display device supporting normal and variable frame modes

A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and divided into a plurality of regions, a data driver generating a plurality of reference gamma voltages based on a gamma control signal and including a data driving integrated circuit applying a data signal generated using the plurality of reference gamma voltages to a corresponding pixel among the plurality of pixels, a memory storing a plurality of gamma voltage data corresponding to a plurality of gamma curves of each of the plurality of regions, and a signal controller determining characteristics of a plurality of images divided and displayed in the plurality of regions using an input image signal, selecting the gamma curves corresponding to the plurality of regions according to the characteristics, and reading gamma voltage data corresponding to the selected gamma curve from the memory to generate the gamma control signal.

Display device and driving method thereof

A display apparatus includes a display panel to display an image, a first frame counter to count a first number of frames during a first duration and to be reset when the first number reaches a first reference number, a second frame counter to count a second number of the frames during a second duration and to be reset when the second number reaches a second reference number, wherein the second duration occurs after and is shorter than the first duration, a level counter to hold a count value at a first count value during the first duration, to change the count value when the first frame counter is reset, and to change the count value when the second frame counter is reset, and a common voltage generator to control a level of a common voltage to correspond to the count value and to output the common voltage.

Display apparatus and a method of driving the same

A method of driving a display panel includes compensating first pixel data corresponding to a first pixel of a plurality of pixels in the display panel based on at least one of a first decision, a second decision, or a third decision and generating a first data voltage corresponding to the compensated first pixel data. The first data voltage is applied to the first pixel through a data line. The first decision includes determining, based on a position of the first pixel, whether compensation for the first pixel data is required. The second decision includes determining, based on previous subpixel data and present subpixel data for the first pixel, whether the compensation for the first pixel data is required. The third decision includes determining whether the first pixel data complies with a compensation avoidance condition.

Method of driving a display panel and display apparatus performing the same

A display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image; a timing controller configured to output line configuration signals, frame configuration signals, and image signals; a plurality of data drivers each of which is configured to receive the line configuration signals, the frame configuration signals, and the image signals and provide a data voltage corresponding to the image signals to the display panel according to the line configuration signals and the frame configuration signals; a high speed driving line configured to connect the timing controller and one of the data drivers and transfer the image signals; and a low speed driving line configured to connect the timing controller and the data drivers and transfer the line configuration signals.

Display apparatus and driving method thereof

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a timing controller, a data driver, and a gate driver. The timing controller receives image data at a number of frames per second of a first level and generates a gate control signal and a data control signal. The timing controller includes an image converter that operates in film mode or normal mode when the input image data are moving image data, and that outputs film image data at a number of frames per second of second level lower than the first level during the film mode. The data driver applies a data voltage corresponding to the film image data to the display panel based on the data control signal. The gate driver applies a gate voltage to the display panel based on the gate control signal. The display panel operates at a frequency of the second level during the film mode.

Display apparatus and method of driving the same

A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to a plurality of gate lines and to a plurality of data lines, a gate driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of gate lines, a data driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of data lines, a timing controller configured to provide a data signal to the data driving circuit, configured to control the gate driving circuit, and configured to output a voltage control signal, and a voltage generator configured to generate a plurality of reference voltages in response to the voltage control signal, wherein the data driving circuit is further configured to convert the data signal into a grayscale voltage based on the plurality of reference voltages, wherein a voltage level of each of the reference voltages is changed periodically within a range.

Display device

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a first timing controller, a second timing controller and a third timing controller. The first timing controller controls an operation of a first region in the display panel, and generates a reference clock signal. The second timing controller controls an operation of a second region in the display panel, and receives the reference clock signal. The third timing controller controls an operation of a third region in the display panel, and receives the reference clock signal. The first, second and third timing controllers are synchronized with one another in response to the reference clock signal and a state synchronization signal, and operate in one of a plurality of states depending on an operation of the display apparatus.

Display apparatus including synchronized timing controllers and a method of operating the display apparatus

A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel which includes gate lines, data lines crossing the gate lines, and pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines; a timing controller for receiving a control signal and image data and for generating a gate control signal and a data control signal; a gate driver for generating a gate signal based on the gate control signal and outputting the gate signal to the gate lines; and a data driver for performing data conversion on the image data based on the data control signal and outputting a conversion result to the data lines, wherein the timing controller analyzes the image data frame by frame data and applies two or more inversion driving techniques to frame data.

Liquid crystal display apparatus using inversion driving and driving method thereof

A display apparatus includes: a display panel including a first display area and a second display area; a first timing controller to control an operation of the first display area, generate a first reference clock signal, generate a first internal reference clock signal based on the first reference clock signal, and generate a first synchronization clock signal based on the first internal reference clock signal; and a second timing controller to control an operation of the second display area, receive the first reference clock signal, generate a second internal reference clock signal based on the first reference clock signal, and generate a second synchronization clock signal based on the second internal reference clock signal, wherein the first and second timing controllers are to be synchronized with each other based on the first reference clock signal, and exchange first data based on the first and second synchronization clock signals.

Display apparatus and method of operating display apparatus

The present invention provides a display device with reduced power consumption and that reduces changes in luminance, and perceptibility of flicker, and a driving method thereof. A display device according to an exemplary embodiment comprises: a display panel configured to display a still image and a motion picture; a signal controller configured to control signals for driving the display panel; and a graphics processing unit configured to transmit input image data to the signal controller, wherein the signal controller comprises a frame memory configured to store the input image data, and the display panel is driven at a first frequency when the motion picture is displayed and the display panel is driven at a second frequency that is lower than the first frequency when the still image is displayed.

A display device including a display panel, including a plurality of pixels, a driver circuit configured to display an image on the display panel in response to an image signal and a control signal, and a voltage generator configured to generate an analog driving voltage for an operation of the driver circuit in response to a voltage control signal. The driver circuit is configured to compare the image signal to ripple image patterns and is configured to output the voltage control signal to change a voltage level of the analog driving voltage, according to the result of the comparison.

Display device including driving circuit to prevent vibration noise

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a data driving part, and a timing control part. The display panel includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and first and second pixel groups. The first and second pixel groups are disposed at opposing sides of a data line and are alternately connected to the data line. The data driving part includes channels connected to the data lines. The channels output a data signal to the data lines, the data signal has a first polarity or a second polarity, and the second polarity has an inversed phase to the first polarity. The timing control part outputs a data inverse control signal and first and second polarity control signal, which control the polarity of the data signal based on the data inverse control signal.

Method of driving display panel using polarity inversion and display apparatus for performing the same

A display device includes a first pixel connected to a first gate line and a data line, a second pixel connected to a second gate line, different from the first gate line, and the data line, the second pixel being pre-charged when the first pixel is charged, a compensation LUT which stores LUT values for compensating a charging rate during a main charging of the second pixel; and an image signal processor which generates a compensated image signal for the main charging of the second pixel. The image signal processor may include a correction value calculating unit which calculates a correction value from the compensation LUT based on first and second input image signal of respective first and second pixels, and a compensated value generating unit which generates a compensated image signal for the second pixel based on the correction value and the second input image signal.

Display device and image signal compensating method

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Kwan-Young Oh