IP Library Granted Patent US 11,443,700
Granted Patent B2
US 11,443,700 · App. 17/182,037 · Granted Sep 13, 2022

Display device

Inventors: Si-Beak Pyo (Cheonan-si, KR); Won-Ju Shin (Cheonan-si, KR); Kyung-Ho Hwang (Hwaseong-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 11,443,700
App. No.
17/182,037
Granted
Sep 13, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device includes a display panel including a gate line, a data line, and a pixel at a crossing region of the gate line and the data line, a timing controller configured to generate a gate driving control signal, a data driving control signal, and a power control signal based on a display period corresponding to a time interval of frames, a gate driver configured to provide a gate signal to the pixel through the gate line based on the gate driving control signal, a data driver configured to provide a data signal to the pixel through the data line based on the data driving control signal, and a power supply configured to generate a power voltage to drive the pixel, and configured to adjust the power voltage based on the power control signal during the display period.

Claims (30)

1. A display device comprising:

a display panel comprising a gate line, a data line, and a pixel at a crossing region of the gate line and the data line;

a timing controller configured to generate a gate driving control signal, a data driving control signal, and a power control signal that is determined based on a length of a display period corresponding to a time interval of frames;

a gate driver configured to provide a gate signal to the pixel through the gate line based on the gate driving control signal; and

a data driver configured to provide a data signal to the pixel through the data line based on the data driving control signal,

wherein a power voltage for driving the pixel is provided to the pixel through a power line.

2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the timing controller is configured to select one of a plurality of display periods of different lengths as the display period based on input image data.

3. The display device of claim 2 , wherein each of the plurality of display periods corresponds to a responsiveness of a user for a corresponding image.

4. The display device of claim 2 , wherein the timing controller is configured to:

calculate an on-pixel ratio corresponding to the input image data;

determine whether an input image corresponds to a special image when the on-pixel ratio is within a reference range; and

select a third display period from among the plurality of display periods when the input image corresponds to the special image.

5. The display device of claim 2 , wherein the timing controller is configured to:

determine whether an input image corresponds to a video, or corresponds to a still image, based on the input image data;

select a first display period from among the plurality of display periods when the input image corresponds to the video; and

select a second display period from among the plurality of display periods, which is greater than the first display period, when the input image corresponds to the still image.

6. The display device of claim 5 , wherein the display period comprises a plurality of frame times,

wherein the timing controller is configured to generate a mask signal that has a logic low level during a frame time from among the plurality of frame times, and that has a logic high level during a remainder of frame times from among the plurality of frame times, and

wherein the frame time is an amount of time to display one frame.

7. The display device of claim 6 , wherein the gate driver is configured to provide the gate signal to the pixel based on the mask signal during the frame, and is configured to stop providing the gate signal to the pixel based on the mask signal during the remainder of frame times.

8. The display device of claim 1 , further comprising a light emission driver configured to generate a light emission control signal to control an off-duty ratio of the pixel, and configured to adjust the off-duty ratio, which represents a ratio of light non-emission time of the pixel to light emission time of the pixel, based on the display period.

9. The display device of claim 8 , wherein the light emission driver is configured to calculate the off-duty ratio based on input image data, and configured to gradually reduce the off-duty ratio during the display period.

10. A display device comprising:

a display panel comprising a gate line, a data line, a power line, and a pixel at a crossing region of the gate line, the data line, and the power line;

a timing controller configured to generate a gate driving control signal, a data driving control signal, a second power control signal, and a switch control signal based on a display period representing a time interval of frames; and

a driving circuit configured to provide a gate signal to the pixel through the gate line based on the gate driving control signal, and configured to provide a data signal to the pixel through the data line based on the data driving control signal,

wherein a power voltage for driving the pixel is provided to the pixel through the power line, and

wherein the driving circuit comprises:

a charging pump unit configured to generate a secondary power voltage to be adjusted with time during the display period in response to the second power control signal; and

a power selecting unit configured to connect the power line to a power supply or the charging pump unit based on the switch control signal.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2015-0149928 · Oct 28, 2015 · national
Continuity (3)
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