Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Yunki Baek

Joon-Chul Goh

Cheolwoo Park

Si-Beak Pyo

Gigeun Kim

Nam-Gon Choi

Donggyu Lee

Won Sik Oh

Hongsoo Kim

Kyoungju Shin

Jinho Park

Jinpil Kim

Sooyeon Lee

Geunjeong Park

Mun-San Park

Kyoungwon Lee

Jakyoung Jin

Ahreum Kim

Eunho Lee

Heesoon Jeong

Manseung Cho

Taehyeong An

Yongjun Jang

Hyeonmin Kim

Jong-woong Park

Wonbok Lee

Hansin Lim

Jaemin Ha

Seung Seok Nam

Hye-sang Park

In a method of compressing stress data in a display device, the stress data is divided into block stress data for a pixel block, a plurality of compressed codes are generated by encoding the block stress data in a plurality of encoding modes, it is determined whether the plurality of encoding modes are available encoding modes for the block stress data based on code lengths of the plurality of compressed codes and a number of available bits for the pixel block, a final encoding mode is selected among the available encoding modes based on quantization values of the available encoding modes, and a compressed bitstream for the pixel block is generated based on a compressed code corresponding to the final encoding mode among the plurality of compressed codes.

Method of compressing stress data, encoder, display driver and display device

A flexible display device includes: a flexible display panel including a plurality of pixels, a power supply line coupled to the plurality of pixels, and at least one measuring line; a power management circuit, which supplies a power supply voltage to the plurality of pixels through the power supply line; and a display driver, which drives the flexible display panel. The display driver senses a resistance of the at least one measuring line, and detects at least one of a deformation position and a deformation amount of the flexible display panel based on the sensed resistance.

Flexible display device for detecting deformation position and deformation amount and electronic device including the same

Disclosed is a display device which includes a display panel that includes a plurality of pixels and includes a display area displaying an image, a panel controller that receives an external input signal from an external source and generates a control signal for dividing the display area into a first area and a second area which is disposed adjacent to the first area based on the external input signal, and an instrument module that stretches the first area and the second area of the display panel in response to the control signal. The number of the pixels per unit area in the first area is different from the number of the pixels per unit area in the second area.

Display device and electronic device including the same

Provided is an electronic device according to an embodiment of the inventive concept may include 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 connected to the plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit connected to the plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller generating image data, and controlling the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit to display a plurality of frames at a first frequency on the display panel based on the image data, wherein at least one of the plurality of frames includes an effective interval during which an image is transmitted, a blanking interval during which the image is not transmitted, and a refresh interval operating at a second frequency different from the first frequency.

Electronic device

A gamma reference voltage generator includes a first resistor string, black voltage setters, a selector, and a second resistor string. The first resistor string receives a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage. The black voltage setters extract a plurality of black candidate voltages from the first resistor string. The selector selects one of the black candidate voltages as a black gamma voltage based on a selection signal. The second resistor string receives a first voltage corresponding to one of the black candidate voltages and a second voltage extracted from the first resistor string. In addition, the gamma reference voltage generator includes gamma voltage setters that extract a plurality of gamma voltages from the second resistor string.

Gamma reference voltage generator selecting one of black candidate voltages as black gamma voltage and display apparatus including the same

A display apparatus includes a plurality of display panels, a power voltage generator and a driving controller. The power voltage generator generates power voltages of the plurality of display panels. The driving controller receives the power voltages from feedback points of the plurality of display panels and generates a control signal and controls levels of the power voltages based on fed-back power voltages from the feedback points of the plurality of display panels. The power voltage generator adjusts the levels of the power voltages and generates compensation power voltages based on the control signal.

Display apparatus and method of driving the same

A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a reference gray mapping table configured to store reference gray mapping information indicating gamma correction reference gray levels to which reference gray levels are mapped, a gray mapper configured to map original gray levels indicated by input data to gamma correction gray levels using the reference gray mapping information stored in the reference gray mapping table, a dither configured to generate dithered output data to represent the gamma correction gray levels using the original gray levels, where a number of bits representing each of the gamma correction gray levels is greater than a number of bits representing each of the original gray levels, and a data driver configured to drive the display panel using the dithered output data.

Gamma correction device for a display device, gamma correction method for a display device, and display device

A timing controller includes: a temperature sensor to sense an ambient-3.6   temperature; a memory to store a liquid crystal response time corresponding to the temperature, and a gamma signal corresponding to the ambient temperature; a field number determinator to identify the liquid crystal response time corresponding to the ambient temperature from the memory, and to determine a number of fields corresponding to the liquid crystal response time; and a gamma converter to identify the gamma signal corresponding to the ambient temperature and the number of fields from the memory, and to convert an image signal into an image data signal corresponding to the gamma signal.

Timing controller, display device including same and method of driving display device

An image processing device includes a first filter that filters the image signal to output a first image signal, a second filter that converts the image signal corresponding to a predetermined pixel to a second image signal based on image signals corresponding to a plurality of peripheral pixels adjacent to the predetermined pixel, a third filter that filters the second image signal from the second filter to output a third image signal, a fourth filter that filters the third image signal from the third filter to output a fourth image signal, and an image synthesizer that synthesizes the first image signal from the first filter and the fourth image signal from the fourth filter.

Image processing device and display device having the same

An image display system includes a camera part and an image display part. The image display part includes a user analyzer, a gamma corrector, a gamma voltage generator, and a display panel. The camera part takes a picture of a user and generates a user image signal. The user analyzer calculates the user's viewing direction based on the user image signal. The gamma corrector generates a correction gamma value based on the viewing direction. The gamma voltage generator generates a gamma voltage based on the correction gamma value, and the display panel displays an image corresponding to the gamma voltage. Accordingly, the image display system provides the image having an optimized gamma curve to the user in real time even without a separate input from the user.

Image display system and method of driving the same

An image processing controller, a display device including the image processing controller and a driving method of the display device are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes receiving an image signal and gamma correcting the image signal into at least one main area image signal. The method also includes interpolating the main area image signal into a boundary area image signal. The method further includes dithering the main area image signal and the boundary area image signal into a data signal and providing the data signal to a display panel.

Image processor, display device and driving method thereof

A method for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image in a display panel of a 3D display device is provided. The method includes generating M images corresponding to a maximum disparity in response to input two-dimensional (2D) images and disparity information of the respective 2D images. The 2D images include a left-side image and a right-side image. The method further includes selecting N images from among the M images, providing the selected N images to a display unit, and displaying the provided N images using the display panel.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Yunki Baek