Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Wonjin Seo

Kihyun Pyun

Eunjin Choi

Daeho Hwang

Jaehoon Lee

Nam-Gon Choi

Jonghyun Lee

Yeseul Lee

Hyun-sik Yoon

Junpyo Lee

Jang-Mi Lee

Hyun-Sik Yoon

Hun-Tae Kim

Jongwoon Kim

Kihyun Sung

Yongjun Lee

Hyeonuk Won

Choong-Hwa Kim

Kihong Song

Seung-woon Shin

Hwaan Sung

Jeongah Lee

Jian Shin

Taekyoung Kim

A display apparatus is disclosed that includes a display panel including a pixel, a gate driver applying a gate signal, a data driver applying a data voltage, an emission driver applying an emission signal and a power voltage generator receiving a sensed power voltage and outputting a compensated power voltage. The pixel includes a driving transistor including a first control electrode receiving the data voltage, a second control electrode connected to a hold capacitor, a first electrode receiving a first power voltage and a second electrode connected to a first electrode of a light emitting element, the hold capacitor including a first electrode receiving the first power voltage and a second electrode connected to the second control electrode of the driving transistor and the light emitting element including a first electrode receiving the first power voltage and a second electrode receiving a second power voltage.

Display apparatus and method of operating the same

A display apparatus includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a panel driver for applying a data voltage to pixels by the same pixel-column and performing a sensing operation, which senses the pixels receiving the data voltage. The plurality of pixels include first pixels having a first color and second pixels having a second color different from the first color. After the sensing operation is performed on a first odd-numbered group of the first pixels, the sensing operation is performed on a first even-numbered group of the first pixels. After the sensing operation is performed on the first even-numbered group of the first pixels, the sensing operation is performed on a second odd-numbered group of the second pixels. After the sensing operation is performed on the second odd-numbered group, the sensing operation is performed on a second even-numbered group of the second pixels.

Display apparatus and method of driving the display apparatus

A method of aging a display device includes: inputting a display device including a plurality of pixels into an aging chamber, reaching a preset condition of the display device, sensing each of the plurality of pixels, compensating each of the plurality of pixels, and aging the display device.

Method of aging a display device

A display apparatus includes: a display panel including: a gate line; a data line; and a pixel electrically connected to the gate line and the data line, and to display a normal image and a compensation image; a gate driver to output a gate signal to the gate line; a data driver to output a data voltage to the data line; and a power voltage generator to vary a level of a gate power voltage based on a compensation duty ratio corresponding to a ratio between a display duration of the normal image and a display duration of the compensation image.

Display apparatus and method of driving display panel using the same

A display device is disclosed that includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a printed circuit board connected to the display panel, a temperature sensor disposed on the printed circuit board, a flexible circuit board that connects the display panel to the printed circuit board, a data driver disposed on the flexible circuit board, and a temperature sensing part disposed on the printed circuit board. The flexible circuit board is bent such that the printed circuit board is disposed under the display panel and the temperature sensor is disposed adjacent to a sensing pixel outputting a sensing current among the pixels.

Display device including sensing pixel on display panel and temperature sensor on printed circuit board, and driving method thereof

A driving controller includes: a logo determiner configured to determine whether or not input image data includes a logo; a logo grayscale value calculator configured to calculate a logo grayscale value of a logo area corresponding to the logo in response to the input image data including the logo; a light emitting element life expectancy determiner configured to determine a life expectancy of a light emitting element corresponding to the logo area; a compensation reference grayscale value generator configured to determine a compensation reference grayscale value according to the life expectancy of the light emitting element corresponding to the logo area; and a logo luminance compensator configured to compare the logo grayscale value to the compensation reference grayscale value to determine whether or not to compensate a luminance of the logo area.

Driving controller, display apparatus including the same and method of driving display panel using the same

A driving controller set includes a net power control setter, a data clamper, a data line, and a data driver. The net power control setter may determine a first scale factor for adjusting a grayscale value of (N+1)-th frame data based on a load of N-th frame data and a net power control reference value. N is an integer equal to or greater than two. The data clamper may determine a second scale factor for adjusting a grayscale value of the N-th frame data based on a load of (N&#x2212;1)-th frame data and the N-th frame data. A data signal may be generated using the first scale factor and/or the second scale factor. The data line may include a conductive material. The data driver may convert the data signal into a data voltage and may output the data voltage to the data line.

A display apparatus include a display panel and a display panel driver. The display panel includes a panel block. The display panel driver senses a driving current to generate a sensing current, generates a temperature weight of the panel block based on the sensing current and location information of a circuit component, generates a load value of the panel block based on input image data, and generates a predicted temperature of the panel block based on the temperature weight of the panel block and the load value of the panel block.

Display apparatus and method of driving the same

An electronic device includes a display panel which includes a plurality of light emitting elements and in which a plurality of areas is defined based on the plurality of light emitting elements, a compensation unit which calculates compensation values for image data provided to each of the plurality of areas, and a control unit which controls the output of the image data provided to the display panel based on the compensation values and the image data, where the control unit may include a correction unit which outputs a correction ratio of each of the plurality of areas based on the compensation values and a comparison unit which determines whether an input current of the image data is in a normal range based on the correction ratio.

Electronic device with improved overcurrent protection reliability and method for driving the same

A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of panel blocks, a block load calculator which calculates block loads of the panel blocks based on an input image data and determines a maximum block load among the block loads, a block load comparing part which generates a first output image data based on the input image data when the maximum block load is less than a critical block load, and a first load controller which generates a first power control curve and generates a second output image data based on the input image data when the maximum block load is greater than or equal to the critical block load.

Display device and method of operating the same

A display apparatus includes a display, a frequency compensator, a frequency adjuster, and a driver. The display includes first, second, and third pixels to display an image having color information. The frequency compensator receives first, second, and third pixel data respectively corresponding to the first, second, and third pixels, converts the first, second, and third pixel data to hue data, and outputs a frequency control signal to change a current driving frequency of the display based on the hue data. The frequency adjuster changes the driving frequency to a predetermined compensation frequency in response to the frequency control signal and changes a frequency of image data and an image control signal such that the display is driven at the predetermined compensation frequency. The driver receives the changed image data and the changed image control signal and drives the display at the predetermined compensation frequency.

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver and a timing controller. The display panel displays an image. The gate driver outputs a gate signal to the display panel. The data driver includes a plurality of data driving chips which outputs data voltages to the display panel based on data signals. The timing controller adjusts a waveform of the data signals based on a temperature of the data driving chips.

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Seoul, South Korea

Wonjin Seo