Organic light-emitting display and method for driving the same

1. An organic light-emitting display device including a plurality of pixels each having a driving element for controlling current of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) according to a gate-source voltage of the driving element, comprising:

a data modulation module that analyzes input image data in units of a window mask to detect a halftone data block, adjusts a voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 of center data disposed at a center of the halftone data block to a voltage higher than 0V, and adjusts the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 in a data block other than the halftone data block to 0V,

wherein the halftone data block is a data block in which center data of the window mask has grayscale 0 and a number of grayscales higher than 0 exceeds a predetermined threshold value in neighbor data of the center data,

wherein a reference voltage higher than 0V is supplied to a source of the driving element, and the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 is supplied to a gate of the driving element.

2. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 in the halftone data block is adjusted to a higher level within a voltage range in which the driving element is controlled to be turned off.

3. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 in the halftone data block is selected within a voltage range from 0V to the reference voltage.

4. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the data block other than the halftone data block is a data block in which the number of grayscales higher than 0 in neighbor data of center data of the window mask is less than the threshold value when the grayscale of the center data of the window mask is 0 or higher than 0.

5. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein the data modulation module comprises a first data compensation unit that adjusts the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 to a higher level by adding a first compensation value to data corresponding to grayscale 0.

6. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 4 , wherein the data block other than the halftone data block includes a data block in a dither pattern representing decimal grayscales less than 1.

7. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 5 , wherein the first compensation value varies with the number of higher grayscales in the halftone data block.

8. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 5 , wherein the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 increases in proportion to the number of higher grayscales in the halftone data block.

9. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 5 , wherein the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 is highest when the number of higher grayscales in the halftone data block is half the number of pieces of data in the window mask.

10. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 1 , further comprising a data driver for outputting a data voltage in a range increased by the reference voltage.

11. A method for driving an organic light-emitting display device including a plurality of pixels each having a driving element for controlling current of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) according to a gate-source voltage of the driving element, the method comprising:

analyzing input image data in units of a window mask to detect a halftone data block;

adjusting a voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 of center data disposed at a center of the halftone data block to a voltage higher than 0V; and

adjusting the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 in a data block other than the halftone data block to 0V,

wherein the halftone data block is a data block in which center data of the window mask has grayscale 0 and a number of grayscales higher than 0 exceeds a predetermined threshold value in neighbor data of the center data,

wherein a reference voltage higher than 0V is supplied to a source of the driving element, and the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 is supplied to a gate of the driving element.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the adjusting the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 in the halftone data block includes adjusting the voltage to a higher level within a voltage range in which the driving element is controlled to be turned off.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the adjusting the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 in the halftone data block includes selecting a voltage within a range from 0V to the reference voltage.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the adjusting the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 to a voltage higher than 0V includes adding a first compensation value to data corresponding to grayscale 0.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the first compensation value varies with the number of higher grayscales in the halftone data block.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 increases in proportion to the number of higher grayscales in the halftone data block.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the voltage corresponding to grayscale 0 is highest when the number of higher grayscales in the halftone data block is half the number of pieces of data in the window mask.

18. The method of claim 11 , wherein the data block other than the halftone data block includes a data block in a dither pattern representing decimal grayscales less than 1.

19. The method of claim 11 further comprising outputting a data voltage in a range increased by the reference voltage.