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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2017
Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Il-Hun Jeong, Yongin-si, KR;
Woo-Seok Jang, Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung Display Co., Ltd., , KR;
Abstract
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a power supply transmitting driving power to the pixels via a power line and stopping transmission of the driving power in response to a crack signal, a panel driver provides a driving signal to the pixels, the driving signal for displaying a black image during a non-emission period of each frame period and displaying a valid image during an emission period of each frame period, and a crack detector senses a current flowing through the power line and conditionally generate the crack signal according to values of the current sensed over M successive frame periods, where M is an integer greater than 1.