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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2009
In-jae Hwang, Cheonan-si, KR;
In-Jae Hwang, Cheonan-si, KR;
Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Abstract
A display device and a driving method of the same are provided. The display device includes a display panel having gate lines and data lines. A gate driver is included in each of stages and supplies each of the plurality of gate lines with gate signals using a clock signal and a clock bar signal. Each of the stages includes a gate output terminal through which the gate signal is outputted, a pull-down unit connected to the gate output terminal that pulls down a level of the gate signal using a first gate-off voltage. A holding unit is connected to the gate output terminal and holds the level of the pulled-down gate signal at a level of a second gate-off voltage using the second gate-off voltage, which is higher than the first gate-off voltage.