Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Samsung Displayco., Ltd.

Sangan Kwon

Changnoh Yoon

Taehoon Kim

Soon-Dong Kim

Sehyuk Park

Jinyoung Roh

Hui Nam

Hyo Jin Lee

Eun Sil Yun

Hongsoo Kim

Hyojin Lee

Kyunho Kim

Soon-dong Kim

Yong-Jin Shin

Seungjae Lee

Jin Young Roh

Kyung-hwa Lim

Jaekeun Lim

Sungjin Kim

Sukhun Lee

Junheyung Jung

Shimho Yi

Jihye Kim

Joon-Chul Goh

Bonghyun You

Hong Soo Kim

Neung-Beom Lee

Heebum Park

Geunjeong Park

Junpyo Lee

Jin-Wook Yang

Hae-kwan Seo

Bon-seog Gu

Junhee Moon

Suk Hun Lee

Jinhyuk Jang

Jun Pyo Lee

Jin-wook Yang

Yeseul Lee

Seon Young Choi

Jinoh Kwag

Joon-chul Goh

Joonsuk Baik

Jun Heyung Jung

Seok Hwan Roh

Kyung-Hwa Lim

Subin Park

Min-Kyu Park

Ukjae Jang

Myungbo Sim

A display device includes a display panel including pixels connected to scan lines, a scan driving circuit including scan stages corresponding to the scan lines, respectively, where each of the scan stages receives a masking signal and a carry signal and outputs a scan signal, and a driving controller which divides the display panel into the first display area and the second display area, controls the scan driving circuit such that the first display area and the second display area operate with different frequencies, and outputs start signals provided at different timings. A first scan stage disposed in the first display area from among the scan stages receives a first start signal of the start signals as the carry signal, and a first scan stage disposed in the second display area from among the scan stages receives a second start signal of the start signals as the carry signal.

Display device

A driving controller includes a compensation unit that receives an image signal corresponding to a first display area and a second display area, calculates stress data based on the image signal and previous stress data, and outputs an image data signal, which is obtained by compensating for the image signal based on the stress data, a memory that stores the stress data of a previous frame from the compensation unit and provides the previous stress data, and a multi-frequency compensation unit that receives a data enable signal, counts a number of consecutive masking enable frames when the data enable signal indicates a multi-frequency mode, calculates accumulated second stress data based on the number of the consecutive masking enable frames and second stress data, which corresponds to the second display area, from among the stress data from the memory, and stores the accumulated second stress data in the memory.

Driving controller, display device and driving method thereof

An electronic device includes a display panel that operates in a normal mode, a multi-frequency mode, or a refresh mode, a driving controller, and a host generating and outputting a luminance information. In the multi-frequency mode, a display area defined in the display panel is divided into a first display area and a second display area, and the driving controller controls the first display area and the second display area so as to operate at different frequencies. In the normal mode, the driving controller controls the display area so as to operate at a normal frequency. In the refresh mode, the driving controller controls the display area so as to operate at the normal frequency during one frame. When the luminance information changes, the display panel operates in the refresh mode.

Electronic device with normal mode, multi-frequency mode and refresh mode

A display device includes a display panel including a pixel including a pixel circuit and a light emitting element, a plurality of scan lines connected to the pixel circuit, an emission control line connected to the pixel circuit, and a data line connected to the pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a first capacitor connected to a first node and a second node opposite to the first node, a first circuit portion that includes a first transistor connected between the data line and the first node and a second transistor connected between the first transistor and the first node, and a second circuit portion connected to the second node and the light emitting element. Before the light emitting element emits light, a reference voltage is provided to a third node between the first transistor and the second transistor.

Display device operated in single frequency mode and multi-frequency mode

A display device includes a display panel including pixels, and a panel driver which drive the display panel. Each frame period for the display panel includes N emission cycles, where N is an integer greater than 1. In a partial driving mode, the panel driver sets a black region of the display panel from a M/N point of the display panel along a direction perpendicular to an emission signal line, where M is an integer greater than 0 and less than N, and drives the display panel to display an image corresponding to input image data in a remaining region of the display panel other than the black region and to display a black image in the black region.

Display device, and method of operating a display device

A display device which includes a display panel that includes a first display area and a second display area, and a driving controller. During a multi-frequency mode, the driving controller drives the first display area by using a first driving frequency and drives the second display area by using a second driving frequency. During the multi-frequency mode, when the second driving frequency changes from a first frequency to a second frequency, the driving controller drives the first display area and the second display area during at least one frame by using a base frequency, drives the first display area and the second display area during at least one second frame by using an intermediate frequency between the base frequency and the second frequency, and then drives the first display area by using the first driving frequency and drives the second display area by using the second frequency.

Electronic device, display device, and driving method thereof

A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of scan lines; a scan driving circuit, which drives the plurality of scan lines in synchronization with a clock signal; and a driving controller, which outputs the clock signal. While an operating mode is a multi-frequency mode, the driving controller comparts the display panel into a first display area and a second display area. A hold frame of the multi-frequency mode includes a first section during which the first display area is driven, and a second section during which the second display area is driven. The driving controller outputs the clock signal of a normal power mode during the first section and outputs the clock signal of a low-power mode during the second section.

Display device and driving method thereof

A display device includes: a display panel including pixels, a data driving circuit, a scan driving circuit which drives a plurality of first scan lines and a plurality of second scan lines, and a driving controller which controls the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit to drive a first display area of the display panel at a first operating frequency and drive a second display area of the display panel at a second operating frequency lower than the first operating frequency while an operating mode is a multi-frequency mode. During the multi-frequency mode, first scan signals provided to first scan lines, which correspond to the second display area, of the plurality of first scan lines are maintained at inactive levels in predetermined frames, and second scan signals provided to the plurality of second scan lines transition to active levels at least twice in each of the predetermined frames.

Display device including multiple display regions for multi-frequency driving

A display panel driving circuit includes a scan driving circuit including a scan stage and a timing controller. The scan stage includes a first circuit connected to a first input node of receiving a first clock signal, a second circuit connected to a second input node of receiving a second clock signal, a third circuit connected to a third input node of receiving a carry signal, the first circuit, and the second circuit and connected to a first control node and a second control node, a pull-up transistor electrically connected to the first input node and an output node of outputting a scan signal and turned on/off by the first control node, and a pull-down transistor electrically connected to the output node and a low-level voltage line and turned on/off by the second control node.

Display panel driving circuit and display device including the same

A display device includes a display panel, a data driver, a scan driver, and a light emitting driver. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. The display panel displays a first image on the first display area and the second display area in a first mode, and displays a second image on the first display area in a second mode. The light emitting driver activates emission control signals applied to the first display area and the second display area in the first mode. The light emitting driver activates emission control signals applied to the second display area during a first partial frame in the second mode, and maintains the emission control signals applied to the second display area in a deactivation state during a plurality of second partial frames in the second mode.

A display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in m rows and n columns, where the pixels receive write scan signals, data voltages and compensation scan signals, a plurality of write scan lines which provides the write scan signals to the pixels, a plurality of data lines which provides the data voltages to the pixels, and a plurality of compensation scan lines which provides the compensation scan signals to the pixels, wherein in h-th to p-th frames, the data voltages are applied to pixels arranged in first to i-th rows, and in h-th to (h+k)-th frames, the data voltages are applied to pixels of a row unit by increasing sequentially the number of the row unit to which the data voltages are applied in at least one row unit from an i-th row to an (i+1)-th row.

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver and a driving controller. The display panel including a gate line and a data line displays an image based on input image data. The gate driver outputs a gate signal to the gate line. The data driver outputs a data voltage to the data line. The driving controller includes an area divider dividing the input image data into first and second area data, a first variable frequency driver determining a first driving frequency of the first area data based on a flicker value according to a grayscale value and generating a first data signal of the first driving frequency and a second variable frequency driver determining a second driving frequency of the second area data based on a flicker value according to a grayscale value and generating a second data signal of the second driving frequency.

Display apparatus and method of driving display panel using the same

A pixel includes: a storage capacitor connected between a first power supply voltage and a gate node; a first transistor including a gate electrode connected to the gate node; a second transistor to transfer a data signal to a source of the first transistor in response to a scan signal; a third transistor to diode-connect the first transistor in response to the scan signal, and including first and second sub-transistors serially connected between the gate node and a drain of the first transistor; a fourth transistor to transfer an initialization voltage to the gate node in response to an initialization signal, and including third and fourth sub-transistors serially connected between the gate node and the initialization voltage; and an organic light emitting diode including a cathode connected to a second power supply voltage. At least one of the second and fourth sub-transistors includes a bottom electrode.

Pixel of an organic light emitting diode display device, and organic light emitting diode display device

Provided is a display device. The display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, a data driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller configured to divide the display panel into a first display region and a second display region during a multi-frequency mode, and control the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit so as to drive the first display region at a first driving frequency and drive the second display region at a second driving frequency lower than the first driving frequency, wherein, during the multi-frequency mode, the driving controller sets a frequency for each of horizontal lines in a boundary region, which is adjacent to the first display region, in the second display region to a third driving frequency between the first driving frequency and the second driving frequency.

Display device having varied driving frequency in the boundary region and driving method thereof

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