Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Kyung-Hoon Chung

Seong-Il Park

Chong-Chul Chai

Sang-Moo Choi

Keum-Nam Kim

Hae-Yeon Lee

Chul-Kyu Kang

Min-Jae Jeong

Dong-Wook Park

You-Min Cha

Gyung-Soon Park

Hyung-Min Kim

Jae-Yong Jang

A display apparatus includes a base substrate including a display region and a peripheral region that is a non-display region surrounding the display region, a plurality of data lines disposed in the display region on the base substrate and extending to the peripheral region, a bypass data line disposed in the display region and the peripheral region on the base substrate and electrically connected to at least one of the data lines, and a dummy pattern spaced apart from the bypass data line and disposed on a same layer as the bypass data line.

Display apparatus having an improved display quality and a reduced peripheral (non-display) region for use in electronic device having a bypass data line arranged in the display and peripheral regions

A scan sense driver includes a scan driver and a sense driver. The scan line driver provides a scan line enable signal based on a plurality of clock signals, a global clock signal, and a scan input signal during a scan time interval. The sense driver provides a sense enable signal based on the clock signals and a sense input signal during a sense time interval. The sense driver provides the sense enable signal during a period when an organic light-emitting diode of a pixel is to be tested for a malfunction.

Scan sense driver and display device including the same

An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a plurality of emission pixels, a plurality of dummy pixels, and a plurality of repair lines. The emission pixels are aligned in column and row directions in an active region. The dummy pixels are in a dummy region. The repair lines are connected to at least one of the at least one sub-emission pixel or at least one of the dummy pixels. Each emission pixel includes at least one sub-emission pixel. At least two sub-emission pixels aligned in a column or row direction are alternately connected to two repair lines.

Organic light-emitting display apparatus, method of repairing the same using repair lines and dummy pixels, and method of driving the same

A display panel includes: an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit area in a peripheral area surrounding a display area including pixels, the ESD protection circuit area including ESD protection circuits; a fan-out area in the peripheral area, including fan-out lines to receive data signals and a first pad to receive a first global signal; a common line area between the ESD protection circuit area and the fan-out area, including a first common line extending lengthwise in a pixel row direction; a first transmission line connecting lengthwise from the first pad to the first common line to transmit the first global signal to the first common line; and first global signal lines extending lengthwise in a pixel column direction from the first common line to the display area to concurrently transmit the first global signal to the pixels. The first transmission line is wider than the first global signal lines.

Display panel and display device having the same

A thin-film depositing apparatus including a mask, and a chucking unit for adhering the mask to a surface of a substrate, wherein the chucking unit includes a plurality of magnet units that contact another surface of the substrate by independently rising or falling by using their weight and thus are magnetically combined with the mask.

Thin-film depositing apparatus

There are provided stage circuits and a scan driver using the same, which can supply scan signals using a simultaneous method or an interlace method. Each of the stage circuits includes a progressive driver and a simultaneous driver. The progressive driver outputs a scan signal to an output terminal, corresponding to a plurality of clock signals supplied simultaneously or progressively, and the coupling between the progressive driver and the output terminal is blocked when a third control signal is supplied. The simultaneous driver outputs a scan signal to the output terminal, corresponding to first and second control signals which do not overlap each other, and the coupling between the simultaneous driver and the output terminal is blocked when a fourth control signal, which does not overlap the third control signal, is supplied.

Stage circuits and scan driver using the same

A display device includes a data driver; a scan driver; a compensation control signal unit configured to reset voltages of data signals transmitted to a plurality of pixels during a previous frame at a current frame, and configured to generate and transmit a first control signal to compensate for threshold voltages of driving transistors of the pixels and a second control signal to control simultaneous light emission of the pixels; a power controller configured to control and supply the voltage levels of a first and second power source voltages; a display unit including the plurality of pixels coupled to corresponding data lines, scan lines, first control lines, second control lines, first voltage lines, and second voltage lines; and a timing controller configured to generate a plurality of data signals by processing external image signals and generate a plurality of driving control signals for controlling driving of the drivers.

Pixel, display device comprising the pixel and driving method of the display device

Embodiments may provide a scan driver including a plurality of stages for simultaneously outputting first scan signals in a simultaneous driving period and for progressively outputting second scan signals in a progressive driving period, wherein each of the stages includes a first signal processing unit coupled to an input terminal, a first clock terminal, a third clock terminal, an auxiliary terminal, a first power source terminal, and a second power source terminal to output a first output signal and a second output signal, and a second signal processing unit coupled to a second clock terminal and the first power source terminal to receive the first output signal and the second output signal and to output a first scan signal and a second scan signal to an output terminal.

Scan driver and organic light emitting display using the same

A scan driver includes a plurality of stages for receiving a first start signal and a second start signal, a first clock signal and a second clock signal, and at least one of two interrupt signals and outputting a scan signal. Each stage includes an up-signal output unit for receiving the first start signal and for outputting a first output signal that is shifted by one horizontal period from the first start signal, a down-signal output unit for receiving a second start signal and outputting a second output signal shifted by one horizontal period from the second start signal, and a scan signal output unit for receiving the first and second output signals and outputting a high-level or low-level scan signal.

Scan driver and organic light emitting display using the scan driver

A scan driver is coupled to a plurality of scan lines and includes a plurality of stages. Each of the stages is configured to sequentially receives clock signals that are phase delayed by two horizontal cycles or more from three of a plurality of clock lines, and output a scan signal having a pulse width of two horizontal cycles or more to a corresponding scan line. The scan signals are overlapped with each other by one horizontal cycle or more.

A scan driving device including scan driving blocks including a first node receiving a second-voltage according to a signal input to a first-input terminal, a second node receiving a first-voltage according to a signal input to the first-input terminal, and receiving an input signal according to a clock signal input to a second-input terminal, a first transistor connected to the first node, the first power source, and an output terminal, and a second transistor connected to the second node and the output terminal and configured to receive a clock signal input to a third-input terminal, wherein, during the initial driving period, the input signal is applied with a gate-off-voltage, and clock signals input to the first-, second-, and third-input terminals are applied with a gate-on-voltage to reset a voltage at the first node with the gate-on-voltage and reset a voltage at the second node with the gate-off-voltage.

Scan driving device and driving method thereof

An organic electroluminescent display apparatus including a pixel circuit and a method of driving the organic electroluminescent display apparatus are provided. Embodiments of the present invention may solve problems where the luminance of light is changed due to a change of a voltage of an anode of an organic electro-light emitting device such that an image quality is deteriorated when N-type transistors are used to form the organic electroluminescent display apparatus.

Pixel circuit, organic electro-luminescent display apparatus using the pixel circuit and method of driving the apparatus

A stage circuit includes an output unit including a first transistor coupled between a first power source and an output terminal of the stage circuit, and having a gate electrode coupled to a first node, a second transistor coupled between the output terminal and a third input terminal of the stage circuit, and having a gate electrode coupled to a second node, and a third transistor coupled between the output terminal and a second power source, and having a gate electrode coupled to a third node; a progressive driver coupled to first, second, and sixth input terminals of the stage circuit; and a concurrent driver coupled to at least one of fourth and fifth input terminals of the stage circuit. In the stage circuit, clock signals supplied to the first, second, and third input terminals during the second period are concurrently set to a gate-on or gate-off voltage.

Stage circuit and scan driver using the same

A scan driver includes a plurality of stages. Each of the plurality of stages includes an odd-numbered scan unit, an even-numbered scan unit, and a signal shift unit. The scan driver can selectively perform progressive scan and interlaced scan by varying logic levels of mode signals and clock signals applied to the stages.

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Yongin, South Korea

Kyung-Hoon Chung