Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes providing a first clock signal having a first frequency and a second clock signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency. The method also includes providing a data signal of an N-th frame image to the display panel using the first clock signal, and providing a data signal of an (N+1)-th frame image to the display panel using the second clock signal. N is a natural number.

Abstract: An image processing circuit includes a mapper configured to convert an image signal into an intermediate data signal, and a renderer configured to convert the intermediate data signal into a data signal, wherein the renderer includes a memory configured to store the intermediate data signal and a flag signal, and a rendering circuit configured to output a data signal corresponding to a current line in response to a next intermediate data signal corresponding to a next line, to output a current intermediate data signal corresponding to the current line from the memory, and to output a previous flag signal corresponding to a previous line from the memory.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a timing controller, a data driver and a display panel. The timing controller generates a mode selection signal and output image data in response to input image data. The data driver generates first through N-th data voltages in response to the mode selection signal and the output image data and applies the first through N-th data voltages to first through N-th data lines. The display panel is connected to the first through N-th data lines. During the first operation mode, each of a polarity pattern of first through M-th data voltages and a polarity pattern of (M+1)-th through N-th data voltages repeats a first polarity pattern. During the second operation mode, the polarity pattern of the first through M-th data voltages repeats the first polarity pattern, and the polarity pattern of the (M+1)-th through N-th data voltages repeats a second polarity pattern.

Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a data driving part, a comparing part, a data signal controlling part, and a gate driving part. The data driving part generates a dummy data signal in response to dummy image data, outputs the dummy data signal to a dummy data line of a display panel, generates a data signal in response to image data, and outputs the data signal to a data line of the display panel. The comparing part outputs a comparison signal in response to the dummy data signal and a delayed dummy data signal generated due to a load of the dummy data line. The comparison signal indicates how much the delayed dummy data signal is delayed with respect to the dummy data signal. The data signal controlling part controls the data signal using the comparison signal.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a timing controller, a gate driver, and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel groups. Each of the pixel groups includes a first pixel and a second pixel disposed adjacent to the first pixel. The first and second pixels together include n (n is an odd number equal to or greater than 3) sub-pixels. The first and second pixels share their collective {(n+1)/2}th sub-pixel.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines crossing the first direction and having polarities of data voltages consecutively repeated every four data lines, and pixels which each comprise three sub-pixels. One of the three sub-pixels has a width in the first direction different from a width in the first direction of another sub-pixel of the three sub-pixels. Each of the three sub-pixels is connected to a corresponding gate line and a corresponding data line. The polarities of the data voltages applied to a first data line and a third data line are opposite and the polarities of the data voltages applied to a second data line and a fourth data line are opposite. The pixels arranged between two adjacent data lines among the plurality of data lines are alternately connected to the two adjacent data lines.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel including gate lines, data lines, and pixels, a gate driver, a data driver, and a timing controller. The pixels include first and second pixels. The first and second pixels are arranged in pixel rows adjacent to each other, arranged in different pixel columns, connected to the same gate line, display the same color, and receive data voltages having different polarities from each other. The image data include first pixel data displayed in the first pixels and second pixel data displayed in the second pixels. When the first pixel data have a first grayscale value and the second pixel data have a second grayscale value different from the first grayscale value, the timing controller modulates the first and second pixel data to allow the first and second pixel data to have a grayscale value between the first and second grayscale values.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a frame memory storing an input image signal having first and second reference blank durations respectively corresponding to a first frame and a second frame. A blank controller circuit determines a second delay blank duration based on the first and second reference blank durations and a first delay blank duration, a signal delay part generates an output image signal having the first and second delay blank durations corresponding to the first frame and second frame, respectively, is based on the stored input image signal, and a display panel displays an image based on the output image signal. The display apparatus may reduce or prevent flicker caused by variations in driving frequency that may be variable on a per-frame basis. A blank duration of a frame is controller, or a frame may be inserted in a blank duration based on blank durations of adjacent frames.

Abstract: A display device may include display pixels configured to emit light at a luminance corresponding to a data signal, at least one auxiliary pixel configured to store an auxiliary voltage, a gate driver configured to supply a gate signal to the display pixels and the auxiliary pixel, a data driver configured to convert image data into the data signal, and supply an auxiliary voltage having a preset level to the auxiliary pixel. A sensing circuit is configured to sense a change in the auxiliary pixel for each frame, and generate compensation voltage information. A timing controller is configured to convert an image signal into the image data, and generate a driving voltage control signal. A voltage generation unit is configured to generate a driving voltage corresponding to the driving voltage control signal, and generate the reference gamma voltage based on the driving voltage.

Abstract: A method of driving a light source includes outputting a light source driving signal and outputting a delayed driving signal. The light source driving signal drives a light source based on image data. The delayed driving signal is generated by delaying the light source driving signal based on a vertical sync signal having a frame period of the image data and a data enable signal having a horizontal line period of the image data.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel for displaying an image and that includes a plurality of display areas, a light source part for providing a light to the display panel, a luminance measurer for measuring a luminance of each display area of the display panel and outputting a panel luminance signal of each display area of the display panel, and a light source driver for driving the light source part based on the panel luminance signal to decrease the light source luminance signal of each display area of the display panel when the panel luminance signal of each display area of the display panel increases and to increase the light source luminance signal of each display area of the display panel when the panel luminance signal of each display area of the display panel decreases.

Abstract: A signal processing circuit includes an input gamma adjuster configured to adjust gamma characteristics of an image signal and to output a gamma adjustment image signal, an image signal processor configured to generate a scaling signal corresponding to image characteristics of the gamma adjustment image signal and to convert the gamma adjustment image signal into an intermediate data signal in response to the scaling signal, and an output gamma adjuster configured to convert the intermediate data signal into a data signal on a basis of a first lookup table corresponding to a first gamma curve, a second lookup table corresponding to a second gamma curve, and the scaling signal.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, first color pixels, and second color pixels. A first color pixel arranged in an f-th column between an f-th data line and an (f+1)th data line is connected to one of the f-th data line and the (f+1)th data line. A first color pixel arranged in a g-th column between a g-th data line and a (g+1)th data line is connected to one of a (g?1)th data line and a (g+2)th data line. First color pixels in a first color pixel diagonal group receive data voltages having a same polarity. Second color pixels in a second color pixel diagonal group receive data voltages having a same polarity.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The pixels displaying first, second, third, and fourth colors are repeatedly arranged in the second direction. A k-th gate line connected to at least one of first pixels displaying the first color among the pixels arranged in an i-th row is electrically connected to a (k+j)th gate line connected to at least one of second pixels displaying the first color among pixels arranged in one row of (i+1)th, (i+2)th, and (i+3)th rows.

Abstract: A stage of a gate driving circuit includes: a first control transistor diode-connected between a first input end of the stage and a first node, biased by a first input signal, and back-biased by a second input signal; a second control transistor including a control end which receives a third input signal, a first end connected to the first node, and a second end connected to a first voltage, and back-biased by a fourth input signal; a first output transistor including a control end connected to the first node, a first end connected to a clock input end of the stage, and a second end connected to a first output end of the stage; and a capacitor connected between the control and second ends of the first output transistor. The second input signal and the fourth input signal have enable levels during different periods.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a first pixel configured to include first and second sub-pixels and a second pixel configured to include third and fourth sub-pixels. A timing controller generates pixel data including first and second pixel data respectively corresponding to the first and second pixels and representable in a second matrix space, from pixel signals including first and second pixel signals representable in a first matrix space to respectively correspond to the first and second pixels. The timing controller generates the second pixel data on the basis of the first pixel signal adjacent to the second pixel signal which correspond to each second pixel data in the column direction in the first matrix space.

Abstract: A display system includes a display apparatus and a pivot performing part. The display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image and including a gate line and a data line, a gate driving part configured to output a gate signal to the gate line, and a data driving part configured to output a data signal to the data line. The pivot performing part is configured to receive, from the display apparatus, a pivot request data for performing a pivot function which rotates the image, and is to perform the pivot function on image data of the image in response to the pivot request data. A manufacturing cost of a display apparatus may be decreased, and a delay time of an image display may be decreased.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a method for driving the same. The liquid crystal display includes: gate lines arranged in a row direction; data lines arranged in a column direction; and subpixels arranged in basic units of eight subpixels. Each subpixel is each connected to one of the gate lines and one of the data lines, and the subpixels are continuously arranged along a row and are arranged in a matrix. In the basic units, polarities between adjacent subpixels from a first subpixel to a fourth subpixel along the row are opposite to each other, polarities between adjacent subpixels from a fifth subpixel to an eighth subpixel along the row are opposite to each other, and polarities of the fourth subpixel and the fifth subpixel are the same.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The pixels include pixels arranged in a k-th row and pixels arranged in a (k+1)th row disposed adjacent to the pixels arranged in the k-th row in the second direction. An (i+1)th gate line is disposed between the pixels in the k-th row and the pixels in the (k+1)th row. A first pixel arranged in a g-th column among the pixels arranged in the k-th row and a second pixel arranged in the g-th column among the pixels arranged in the (k+1)th row are connected to a j-th data line. The pixels arranged in the k-th row are alternately connected to an i-th gate line and the (i+1)th gate line.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel in which a plurality of pixel units are disposed, a backlight providing light to the display panel, and a data processing circuit receiving image signals and providing the image signals to the plurality of pixel units. The data processing circuit sets a luminance level of the backlight to a value corresponding to a color gamut boundary of the image signals adjacent to a saturation region.