Lg Display Co., Ltd.

Myunggi Lim

KyoungDon Woo

Seokhyun Hong

Seungtae Kim

Hyuckjun Kim

Bumsik Kim

Chulwon Lee

OSung Do

Byungjae Lee

Juyoung Noh

Taeyoung Lee

Jaeyoon Bae

Jaeik Yoo

Kyoungdon Woo

Minkyu Song

A current sensing device and the organic light-emitting display device including the same are disclosed. The current sensing device may include a plurality of sensing units, each sensing unit playing a role of converting a pixel current input through a sensing line into a digital sensing value, and each sensing unit comprising: a current integrator including an integrating amplifier and a feedback capacitor, the integrating amplifier comprising an inverting input terminal, a non-inverting input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the feedback capacitor is connected between the inverting input terminal and the output terminal, and a first reference voltage is input to the non-inverting input terminal; and a current transmitting unit connected between the sensing line and the current integrator to separate the electric connection of the sensing line and the current integrator, wherein the current transmitting unit mirrors the pixel current and causes the mirrored current to be output from the inverting input terminal of the integrating amplifier.

Current sensing device and organic light emitting display device including the same

An organic light-emitting display can include a display panel including sensing lines connected to pixels; a current integrator configured to receive current from a pixel through a sensing line connected to a first input terminal, receive a reference voltage through a reference voltage line connected to a second input terminal, and swap a path through which the current applied through the first input terminal flows and a path through which the reference voltage applied through the second input terminal is supplied; a sampling part including a first sample and hold circuit for sampling a first output voltage of the current integrator and a second sample and hold circuit for sampling a second output voltage of the current integrator, subsequent to the first output voltage, which outputs the first and second output voltages sampled by the first and second sample and hold circuits simultaneously through a single output channel.

Current integrator and organic light-emitting display comprising the same

The present invention provides an OLED display device including a display panel, a data driver and a timing controller. The display panel has sub-pixels for displaying images. The data driver supplies a data signal to data lines of the sub-pixels. The timing controller supplies the data signal to the data driver and controls the data driver. The data driver outputs a stress prevention voltage for preventing application of stress to driving transistors included in the sub-pixels in response to a stress compensation signal output from the timing controller, and the stress prevention voltage is applied to M (M being an integer equal to or greater than 1) sub-pixels selected per frame.

Organic light emitting diode display device and driving method thereof

A display device comprises a display panel that displays an image and has a data line and a sensing line, a data driver that drives the display panel, and a power supply part that delivers a driving reference voltage through a wiring line connected to the data driver. The data driver supplies a data signal to the data line, supplies the driving reference voltage through the sensing line, senses the sensing line based on an internally generated sensing reference voltage, and integrates a sensing result.

Data driver and display device using the same

An organic light-emitting display includes a driving transistor that drives an organic light-emitting diode, a first transistor connected between a data line supplying a data voltage and a gate electrode of the driving transistor, a second transistor connected between a reference voltage input line and a source electrode of the driving transistor, and a third transistor that directly charges the gate electrode of the driving transistor with a reference voltage supplied from the reference voltage input line, in response to a black data control signal, wherein the third transistor directly receives the reference voltage by being turned on for a certain period of time after the gate electrode of the driving transistor is programmed with the data voltage in one frame before receiving a data voltage in the next frame.

Organic light-emitting display and driving method thereof

An organic light-emitting display comprises: a display panel with a plurality of pixels; a plurality of source driver ICs comprising sensing blocks that are connected to the pixels and sense the electrical characteristics of the pixels; and a calibration block that applies test currents to the sensing blocks in order to sense offset variations between the sensing blocks in a preset calibration mode. The calibration block comprises: a plurality of discrete current sources that generate the test currents; and a switch array that connects the source driver ICs and the discrete current sources, wherein two or more neighboring source driver ICs share one discrete current source, and each source driver IC is selectively connected to two or more discrete current sources.

Calibration device and method and organic light-emitting display including the same

The sensing method for an organic light-emitting display comprises: defining a pixel group comprising a reference pixel and two or more valid pixels, among a plurality of pixels arranged on a horizontal line; obtaining a black level current sensing value by applying a black level data voltage to the reference pixel; obtaining a current sensing value for a given gray level by applying a data voltage for the given gray level higher than the black level to each of the valid pixels; and obtaining a pixel current sensing value by subtracting the black level current sensing value from the current sensing value for the given gray level to eliminate common noise.

Organic light emitting display and sensing method therefor

An organic light emitting diode display is disclosed. The organic light emitting diode display includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of sensing units configured to integrate current information of the pixels through a plurality of sensing channels connected to sensing lines of the display panel and output a first sensing value, a reference sensing unit configured to integrate previously set reference current information and output a reference sensing value, a calculation block configured to calculate the first sensing value and the reference sensing value, remove a common noise component from the first sensing value, and output a second sensing value, and an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the second sensing value into a digital sensing value.

Organic light emitting diode display for sensing electrical characteristic of driving element

An organic light emitting diode display includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, each pixel including an organic light emitting diode (OLED) and a driving thin film transistor (TFT) configured to control an amount of current flowing in the OLED depending on a difference between a data voltage and a reference voltage, a source driver integrated circuit (IC) configured to produce the data voltages corresponding to data of an input image and apply the data voltages to data lines connected to the pixels, an image analyzer configured to analyze the data of the input image and produce reference voltage control data, and a reference voltage regulator configured to produce the reference voltages varying depending on the input image based on the reference voltage control data and apply the reference voltages to reference lines connected to the pixels.

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Ansan-si, South Korea

Myunggi Lim