Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Soulbrain Co., Ltd.

Seungho Park

Namjae Lim

Youngsu Moon

Sungjae Park

Kyoungho Lim

Jinho Lee

Youngwoon Choi

Seunghwan Park

Byoungkwan An

Seyun Kim

Sangmyeon Han

Donghyun Kim

Jaehoon Lee

Hyungwoo Yim

Wonwoo Jang

Younghoon Jeong

Guiwon Seo

Kihyun Pyun

Wook Su Lee

Minjae Lee

Taegyoung Ahn

Jihye Shin

Seokgyu Ban

Kitae Yoon

Beomjoon Kim

Youngseok Han

Kyung-sik Joo

Seonhaeng Kim

Baekwoon Lee

Jisu Lee

Huisu Kim

Hakmo Choi

Joonhyeok Jeon

Mingyu Kim

Dae-Sik Lee

Jung-taek Kim

Sanghyun Park

Sangjo Lee

Hyunseung Lee

Joonsuk Baik

Sangkyun Kim

Sung-Mo Yang

Byoung Seok Yoo

Boyoung An

Jung-Taek Kim

Bongjoe Kim

Jongman Kim

Jongha Shin

Yun-Jeong Kim

Kyuha Choi

Jae Shin Kim

Hao Cui

Myeong Hoon Han

Dong-Ki Eun

Sunghoon Bang

Jongbin Kim

Wonki Hur

Hong-kyu Kim

Sung-mo Yang

Miyoung Joo

Ji-woong Jeong

Kyung-il Park

Yoonju Kim

A display device is disclosed that includes a display panel, a memory storing compensation signals respectively corresponding to blocks of the display panel, and a driving controller receiving an input image signal, compensating for the input image signal based on the compensation signals, and outputting an output image signal. The driving controller includes first to fourth memories storing the compensation signals from the memory. The compensation signals stored in the memory include first row compensation signals corresponding to blocks disposed at a first row among the blocks and second row compensation signals corresponding to blocks disposed at a second row among the blocks. Some of the first row compensation signals are stored in the first memory, and the others thereof are stored in the second memory. Some of the second row compensation signals are stored in the third memory, and the others thereof are stored in the fourth memory.

Display device and method of operating the same

A display apparatus including a display, a memory configured to store moving trajectory information related to a plurality of moving trajectories, and a processor configured to control the display to display a specific pixel which is pixel-shifted according to a first moving trajectory among the plurality of moving trajectories in a plurality of image frames included in a first frame interval. The processor, based on completing of the specific pixel being pixel-shifted according to the first moving trajectory, moves the specific pixel located at a starting point of the first moving trajectory by pixel units in any one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction, and control the display to display the specific pixel by being pixel-shifted according to a second moving trajectory among the plurality of moving trajectories in a plurality of image frames included in a second frame interval.

Display apparatus and control method thereof

Disclosed is a display device, which includes a display panel that displays an image, and a controller that receives image data corresponding to a frame and drives the display panel. The controller divides the image data into a plurality of blocks and determines whether the image is a fixed image based on an inter-frame variation of a block of the plurality of blocks. The controller changes an afterimage prevention operation mode when the number of blocks displaying the fixed image for a period equal to or greater than a first reference value among the plurality of blocks is equal to or greater than a second reference value.

Display device and method of driving display device

A display device includes a display panel, a controller, and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The controller receives image data including data representing a logo, detects a logo region including the logo in the image data, determines a correction gain based on a quotient of a second gray level of a peripheral region adjacent to the logo region and a first gray level of the logo region, and generates corrected image data by correcting the image data based on the correction gain. The data driver provides data signals to the plurality of pixels based on the corrected image data.

Display device and method of operating a display device

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller and a data driver. The driving controller divides input image data into a plurality of partial image data corresponding to a plurality of display areas of the display panel, calculates local loads corresponding to the plurality of partial image data, determines a scale factor based on the local loads, and applies the scale factor to the input image data to generate a data signal. The data driver converts the data signal to a data voltage and outputs the data voltage to the display panel. The scale factor for a center display area corresponding to a center of the display panel among the plurality of display areas is determined differently from the scale factor for an edge display area corresponding to an edge of the display panel among the plurality of display areas.

Display apparatus driving panel based on scale factor and method using the same

A display device includes a data driver providing a data voltage to each of multiple pixels, a scan driver providing first and second scan signals to each of the pixels, and a controller to control the data driver and the scan driver. The scan driver performs a first active scan operation that sequentially provides the first and second scan signals to the pixels in an active period of a first frame period, and initiates a dummy scan operation that sequentially provides the second scan signal to the pixels in a blank period of the first frame period. When a second frame period starts before the dummy scan operation for the pixel in a last row, the data driver changes a level of the data voltage in an overlap period in which the dummy scan operation and a second active scan operation in the second frame period are simultaneously performed.

Display device performing a dummy scan operation

A driving controller includes an overcurrent load calculator calculating a load of an input image signal, comparing the load and a reference load, and outputting a first signal corresponding to a first comparison result, an overcurrent reference controller analyzing a grayscale of the input image signal and outputting one of a first reference current signal corresponding to the grayscale and a second reference current signal, whose current level is higher than that of the first reference current signal, as a reference current signal, a current sensor receiving a feedback current signal, comparing a current level of the feedback current signal and a current level of the reference current signal, and outputting a second signal corresponding to a second comparison result, and a voltage controller outputting a voltage control signal for adjusting a voltage level of a driving voltage, based on the first signal and the second signal.

Driving controller and display device including the same

A method of detecting a stain of a display panel is disclosed that includes capturing a first color image of the display panel, capturing a second color image of the display panel, generating a merged image by merging a color coordinate map of the first color image and a color coordinate map of the second color image, generating a background image of the merged image by a morphology filtering, generating a flattened image by operating the merged image and the background image and detecting an area of the flattened image in which a color coordinate value exceeds a threshold value as a stain area.

Method of detecting stain of display panel, method of compensating stain of display panel including the same and display apparatus configured to perform the same

A display device includes a display unit which includes a plurality of pixels, a degradation controller which includes a voltage compensator configured to calculate a driving voltage increase amount based on a degradation amount of a maximum degradation pixel among the pixels and a global current controller configured to calculate calculates a first scale factor for compensating a power increase amount according to the driving voltage increase amount, a driving voltage provider which is configured to increase a driving voltage provided to the pixels based on the driving voltage increase amount, a data compensator which is configured to generate output image data by scaling the first scale factor to grayscale values of input image data, and a data driver which is configured to provide data voltages to the pixels based on the output image data.

Driving controller, display device, and method of driving display device

An inspection system for inspecting a display device including pixels includes a camera for capturing the display device and providing a sensing image signal and an inspection device for receiving the sensing image signal and outputting a compensation signal for compensating for luminance of a defective pixel. The inspection device includes an image detector outputting a sensing input signal corresponding to the sensing image signal, a defect coordinate detector detecting the defective pixel based on the sensing input signal and outputting defect coordinates indicating a position of the defective pixel, an image analyzer analyzing consistency of the defect coordinates based on the sensing image signal and the sensing input signal and outputting final coordinates, and a defect compensation calculator outputting a compensation signal for adjusting luminance of compensation pixels adjacent to the defective pixel from among the pixels based on the final coordinates.

Inspection system for inspecting display device, display device for compensating for defective pixel and defective pixel compensation method

A display driver includes a nonvolatile memory, an encoder, a decoder, and a compensator. The nonvolatile memory is configured to store accumulated stress data and compensation data corresponding to the accumulated stress data. The encoder is configured to encode the compensation data received from the nonvolatile memory to generate encoded compensation data. The decoder is configured to decode the encoded compensation data to generate decoded compensation data. The compensator is configured to process input image data based on the decoded compensation data and generate accumulated stress data.

Display driver

A driving controller of a display device includes: an accumulation unit, which outputs accumulation data, which is obtained by accumulating a deterioration state, and a deterioration stress value based on an input image signal and a deterioration prediction temperature value; a temperature prediction unit that calculates the deterioration prediction temperature value based on the accumulation data, a color acceleration coefficient, a color current contribution ratio, and a temperature signal; and a compensation unit that outputs an output image signal based on the input image signal and the deterioration stress value.

Driving controller, display device, and operation method of the display device

An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a memory configured to store a plurality of neural network models, and a processor connected to the memory and control the electronic apparatus in which the processor is configured to obtain a weight map based on an object area included in an input image, and obtain a plurality of images by inputting the input image to each of the plurality of neural network models, and obtain an output image by weighting the plurality of images based on the weight map, and each of the plurality of neural network models is a model trained to upscale an image.

Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller and a data driver. The display panel includes a pixel. The driving controller generates an age compensation value using a sensed age generated based on sensing data of the pixel and an accumulated age generated based on accumulated grayscale values of input image data, generates a final age based on the age compensation value, and compensates a grayscale value of the input image data based on a final age to generate a data signal. The data driver converts the data signal to a data voltage and outputs the data voltage to the display panel.

Display apparatus and method of compensating image of display panel using the same

An image processing apparatus includes: a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor by executing the one or more instructions stored in the memory is configured to: extract a first image feature from a first image; search for, based on a transmission characteristic of the first image and the first image feature, a first cluster corresponding to the first image from among a plurality of clusters stored in the image processing apparatus, each cluster including a representative image feature and a representative image quality parameter; perform image quality processing on the first image based on a first representative image quality parameter in the first cluster; obtain, based on the first image that has undergone the image quality processing, a first update parameter obtained by updating the first representative image quality parameter; and update the plurality of clusters based on the first update parameter.

Image processing apparatus and operation method thereof

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