Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Lg Electronics Inc.

Sabic Global Technolgoies B.v.

Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Seoul National University

Kiss Nail Products, Inc.

Taehoon Kim

Soon-Dong Kim

Sangan Kwon

Changnoh Yoon

Eun Sil Yun

Hui Nam

Hae-Kwan Seo

Min-Jae Kim

Min-Hee Kim

Soon-dong Kim

Danbi Yang

Kyunghae Park

Bonghyun You

Jaekeun Lim

Jin-Wook Yang

Jihye Kim

Chang-Hun Lee

Jisu Na

Seungkyu Lee

Hanjun Yu

DoKyung Youn

Keunwoo Park

Joon-Hyung Park

Joon-chul Goh

Seongheon Cho

Dinesh Mana

Yoosang Hwang

Jongho Lee

Jinwan An

Wontae Kim

Kyungryun Kim

Sunghee Han

Taejin Park

Sangkwon Moon

Geunjeong Park

Bumhan Kim

Chul-yong Jang

Dongho Ham

Junheyung Jung

Minjae Kim

Chulkwon Park

Heegu Park

Junhee Moon

Kyujin Kim

Dokyung Youn

Minhee Kim

Sangyeol Kim

Chang-hun Lee

Joonhyung Park

Changhun Lee

Junwan Bang

Jae-seung Kim

Kyongsub Kim

Tae Seop Kim

Seungjae Lee

Joon-Chul Goh

Suhwan Kim

Junyoung Choi

Jinyoung Roh

Dasom Lee

Youngwoo Kim

Jaehwan Kim

Beomsup Kim

Jinhyoung Kim

Sunyoung Kwon

Sang-Uk Han

Young Lyong Kim

Jin-wook Yang

Seonghun Kim

Seon Young Choi

Jinoh Kwag

Jieun Jang

Sangyeon Han

Jongwon Kim

Jae-Hyeon Jeon

Jungsoo Kim

Jongkook Kim

Changwook Jeong

Bon-seog Gu

Hae-kwan Seo

Young-lyong Kim

Sungwoo Choi

Shic Yoon

Gakseok Lee

Jihong Bae

Jeongseob Kim

Jeongrok Oh

Chulsoo Yoon

Sangsu Ha

Sunjune Kong

Jung-Do Lee

Seok Hwan Roh

Hak-Kyoon Byun

Jaeho Jeong

Jeonghoon Ko

Min-Kyu Park

Kangseob Jeong

Sunghoon Bang

Jonghyeon Lee

Seonhyang You

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, a data driving circuit, a scan driving circuit, and a driving controller. The driving controller receives an image signal and a control signal and controls the data and scan driving circuits to display an image on the display panel. The driving controller divides the display panel into first and second display regions based on the image signal, and outputs start and masking signals indicating starts of one frame and the second display region, respectively. First and second frames have first and second durations, respectively. The scan driving circuit sequentially drives scan lines in synchronization with the start signal and stop the driving of scan lines, corresponding to the second display region, of the scan lines, in response to the masking signal.

Display device

A foldable electronic device may include a flexible display, a sensor circuit, a processor and a memory. The foldable electronic device may be such that it: executes an application on the basis of a first mode, if a folding angle is within a first range; identifies a folding angle via the sensor circuit according to a first cycle while the application is executed in the first mode; if the identified folding angle is not within the first range, switches the execution mode of the application from the first mode to a second mode; and changes the range for switching the execution mode of the application from the first range to the second range based on at least one of the identified folding angles.

Method for executing application, and electronic device supporting same

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 semiconductor device includes a substrate including a cell region and a peripheral circuit region; a conductive structure on the cell region and the peripheral circuit region, the conductive structure extending in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate; a gate structure on the peripheral circuit region, the gate structure spaced apart from the conductive structure in the first direction; a spacer contacting a sidewall of the gate structure; and a first capping pattern contacting a sidewall of an end portion in the first direction of the conductive structure and a sidewall of the spacer, wherein the spacer and the first capping pattern include different insulating materials.

Semiconductor devices

The display panel includes an upper display substrate including a plurality of pixel areas and a light blocking area, a lower display substrate. The upper display substrate includes a base substrate, a barrier part overlapping the light blocking area and disposed on the base substrate, a light blocking layer including a first light blocking portion disposed on the barrier part and a second light blocking portion disposed on the same layer as the barrier part to respectively overlap the pixel areas, a reflection layer including a first reflection portion disposed on the first light blocking portion and a second reflection portion disposed on the second light blocking portion, and a light control layer overlapping the pixel areas and disposed on the reflection layer. A plurality of openings passing through the second light blocking portion and the second reflection portion are defined in each of the pixel areas.

Display panel and method for manufacturing the same

Disclosed is a display device including a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a voltage generator providing an anode initialization voltage to the pixels. The display panel is divided into a first display area operating at a first operating frequency and a second display area operating at a second operating frequency. While pixels, which correspond to the first display area, from among the plurality of pixels are driven, the anode initialization voltage has a first voltage level. While pixels in the second display area from among the plurality of pixels are driven, the anode initialization voltage has a second voltage level different from the first voltage level.

Multi -frequency mode display device

A scan driving circuit includes: a driving circuit configured to output a scan signal to an output terminal in response to clock signals and a carry signal; and a masking circuit configured to stop the driving circuit from outputting the scan signal in response to a masking signal and a signal indicating an operating state of the driving circuit.

Scan driving circuit and display device including the same

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 is disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, provided is a display device comprising a display panel having a first display area and a second display area on the outside of the first display area, wherein the display panel comprises: a first substrate which includes a main pixel unit disposed in the first display area and having main pixels, and a GIP unit disposed in the second display area and generating a gate signal; and a second substrate which is bonded to the first substrate and includes an auxiliary pixel unit disposed in the second display area and having auxiliary pixels, the GIP unit supplying the gate signal to the main pixels and the auxiliary pixels.

An integrated circuit device includes a substrate having an active region and a word line trench therein. The word line trench includes a lower portion having a first width, and an upper portion, which extends between the lower portion and a surface of the substrate and has a second width that is greater than the first width. A word line is provided, which extends in and adjacent a bottom of the word line trench. A gate insulation layer is provided, which extends between the word line and sidewalls of the lower portion of the word line trench. An electrically insulating gate capping layer is provided in the upper portion of the word line trench. An insulation liner is provided, which extends between the gate capping layer and sidewalls of the upper portion of the word line trench. The gate insulation layer extends between the insulation liner and a portion of the gate capping layer, which extends within the upper portion of the word line trench.

Method of forming an integrated circuit devices having buried word lines

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