Display device and method for driving the same

1. A method for driving a display device, comprising:

dividing an entire gray-scale region corresponding to a data gray scale into a first gray-scale region and a second gray-scale region and setting a first gamma value of the first gray-scale region and a second gamma value of the second gray-scale region, the first gamma value being smaller than the second gamma value;

providing a first gray-scale display voltage corresponding to the data gray scale to a display panel during a first section of one horizontal period by using the first gamma value or the second gamma value selected by an inputted data gray scale; and

providing a second gray-scale display voltage corresponding to a black gray-scale to the display panel during a second section of the one horizontal period.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second gray-scale region has a larger data gray scale than the first gray-scale region.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the second gray-scale region occupies about 10% to about 40% of the entire gray-scale region.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the first gamma value is set to about 2.1 to about 2.3, and the second gamma value is set to about 2.4 to about 3.1.

5. A display device, comprising:

a display panel having a liquid crystal that operates in response to first and second gray-scale display voltages; and

a display panel driver for converting externally inputted data into the first and second gray-scale display voltages by using first and second gamma curves and providing the first and second gray-scale display voltages to the display panel,

wherein the first gamma curve has a first gamma value of a first gray-scale region and a second gamma value of a second gray-scale region, the first gamma value being larger than the second gamma value,

wherein the first and second gray-scale display voltages are provided by the display panel driver to the display panel during one horizontal period.

6. The display device of claim 5 , wherein the first gamma curve is a gamma curve applied to the data, and the second gamma curve is a gamma curve for impulsive driving.

7. The display device of claim 5 , wherein entire gray-scale region that the data has is a gray-scale region obtained by adding the first gray-scale region and the second gray-scale region, and the second gray-scale region occupies about 10% to about 40% of the entire gray-scale region.

8. The display device of claim 7 , wherein the entire gray-scale region comprises a 1 to 256 gray scale, the first gray-scale region comprises a 1 to 199 gray scale, and the second gray-scale region comprises a 200 to 256 gray scale.

9. The display device of claim 8 , wherein the first gamma value is about 2.1 to about 2.3, and the second gamma value is about 2.4 to about 3.1.

10. The display device of claim 9 , wherein the display panel driver comprises a storage portion for storing the data inputted at a first driving frequency, and a timing controller for synchronizing the data stored in the storage portion with a second driving frequency that is a multiple of the second driving frequency before reading out.

11. The display device of claim 10 , wherein the display panel driver further comprises

a gamma voltage generator comprising a first gamma resistor portion having a characteristic of the first gamma value and a second gamma resistor portion having a characteristic of the second gamma value, the first gamma resistor portion generating a first reference gamma voltage, the second gamma resistor portion generating a second reference gamma voltage; and

a data driver for generating the first gray-scale display voltage corresponding to a gray scale of the data by using the first and second reference gamma voltages and providing the first gray-scale display voltage to the display panel.