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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2005
Joon-koo Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Joon-Koo Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus for driving a discharge display panel using dual subfield coding, which can prevent a gradient low discharge effect due to an address discharge failure by performing a subfield gradient weight design, by which a subfield gradient has a plurality of redundancies in all gradients except gradients having the lowest gradient weight and the highest gradient weight, and a dynamic dual subfield coding. The apparatus divides an image signal into frame units, obtains an input gradient of a frame from the image signal, performs a time division gradient display on the discharge display panel according to the input gradient by dividing the frame into a plurality of subfields having respective gradient weights, and has at least two subfields having a least gradient weight.