Abstract: A method of driving a display panel, the method including analyzing input image data, determining a driving method of the display panel as one of a progressive driving method and an interlace driving method, and rearranging the input image data according to the determined one of the progressive driving method and the interlace driving method.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel including a first display area and a second display area; a first control driver configured to receive first data signals, control the display panel to display images on the first display area, and generate a first histogram corresponding to the first data signals; a second control driver configured to receive second data signals, control the display panel to display images on the second display area, and generate a second histogram corresponding to the second data signals; and a backlight unit configured to supply light to the display panel. The first control driver is further configured to receive the second histogram from the second control driver and generate a backlight control signal for controlling luminance of the backlight unit based on the first and second histograms.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes first pixels, second pixels, a gate driver, and a data driver. The first pixels receive data voltages in response to gate signals. The second pixels are alternately arranged with the first pixels in row and column directions and receive the data voltages in response to the gate signal. The gate and data drivers provide the gate and data signals, respectively, to the first and second pixels. Dual-gate signals each including two sub-gate signals having a same phase as each other are sequentially applied to the first and second pixels in the unit of two rows of odd-numbered rows and in the unit of two rows of even-numbered rows as the gate signals in a three-dimensional mode.

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 backlight assembly, a driving circuit part, and a display panel. The backlight assembly emits light. The driving circuit part receives an image signal, converts the image signal into image data, and generates a driving signal based on the image data. The display panel includes at least one pixel in which a plurality of sub-pixels is arranged in a two row by four column array, wherein the panel receives the light to display an image in response to the driving signal, wherein two sub-pixels of the sub-pixels arranged in a first row of the array each comprise a white color filter and two sub-pixels of the sub-pixels arranged in a second row of the array each comprise a white color filter.

Abstract: A method of driving a light source includes outputting a light source control signal controlling a plurality of light sources, and outputting a plurality of light source driving signals to the light sources, respectively, based on the light source control signal, wherein the light source driving signals have different bit values.

Abstract: A method of driving an image includes receiving fundamental image data that includes a plurality of first main colors; converting the fundamental image data into output image data that includes a plurality of second main colors; calculating corrected brightness values of the second main colors that correct a decreased apparent brightness of the second main colors when the first main colors include a saturated color; and delaying application of the calculated corrections based on a brightness decrease speed that is determined based on at least one of an image change speed and an image change level.

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: A display panel includes a pixel group having first through fourth pixels disposed in a two-by-two matrix form. Each of the first through fourth pixels includes at least three subpixels. The first and second pixels have the same subpixel layout. The third pixel has a different subpixel layout from the first pixel. The fourth pixel has a different subpixel layout from the first and third pixels.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a backlight assembly, a driving circuit part, and a display panel. The backlight assembly emits light. The driving circuit part receives an image signal, converts the image signal into image data, and generates a driving signal based on the image data. The display panel includes at least one pixel in which a plurality of sub-pixels is arranged in a two row by four column array, wherein the panel receives the light to display an image in response to the driving signal, wherein two sub-pixels of the sub-pixels arranged in a first row of the array each comprise a white color filter and two sub-pixels of the sub-pixels arranged in a second row of the array each comprise a white color filter.

Abstract: A display device which includes pixels, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a gate driver configured to drive the plurality of gate lines, a data driver configured to drive the plurality of data lines, and a timing controller configured to control the gate driver and the data driver. The timing controller receives a first image signal and outputs a second image signal to the data driver. The timing controller sequentially outputs a boosting signal and the first image signal as the second image signal. The boosting signal is based on the first image signal and the previous first image signal.

Abstract: A method of driving a light-source which provides a display panel displaying a picture during at least one frame period with light, includes determining a dimming-level configured to control a luminance of the light based on image data, determining whether the dimming-level of a current picture corresponds to a repetition dimming mode based on the dimming-level of a first previous picture, the first previous picture being displayed on the display panel prior to the current picture, and determining the dimming-level of the current picture to a fixed dimming-level in the repetition dimming mode.

Abstract: A method of processing an image signal includes: converting a source image signal into an image signal corresponding to a color space for a color gamut mapping; reducing a color gamut of the image signal; and mapping the image signal corresponding to colors within the reduced color gamut into an image signal corresponding to colors within a display color gamut, wherein the colors of the display color gamut are displayed by a display panel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device including a first block including a first primary color pixel and a second primary color pixel having substantially a same area, a second block alternatingly disposed with the first block along the first direction, the second block including a third primary color pixel, a fourth primary color pixel and a white pixel. The first block and the second block have substantially a same area and the third primary color pixel has an area wider than the fourth primary color pixel and the white color pixel.

Abstract: A display panel includes a pixel group having first through fourth pixels disposed in a two-by-two matrix form. Each of the first through fourth pixels includes at least three subpixels. The first and second pixels have the same subpixel layout. The third pixel has a different subpixel layout from the first pixel. The fourth pixel has a different subpixel layout from the first and third pixels.

Abstract: A display device which includes pixels, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a gate driver configured to drive the plurality of gate lines, a data driver configured to drive the plurality of data lines, and a timing controller configured to control the gate driver and the data driver. The timing controller receives a first image signal and outputs a second image signal to the data driver. The timing controller sequentially outputs a boosting signal and the first image signal as the second image signal. The boosting signal is based on the first image signal and the previous first image signal.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a backlight assembly, a driving circuit part, and a display panel. The backlight assembly emits light. The driving circuit part receives an image signal, converts the image signal into image data, and generates a driving signal based on the image data. The display panel includes at least one pixel in which a plurality of sub-pixels is arranged in a two row by four column array, wherein the panel receives the light to display an image in response to the driving signal, wherein two sub-pixels of the sub-pixels arranged in a first row of the array each comprise a white color filter and two sub-pixels of the sub-pixels arranged in a second row of the array each comprise a white color filter.

Abstract: A method of processing an image signal includes: converting a source image signal into an image signal corresponding to a color space for a color gamut mapping; reducing a color gamut of the image signal; and mapping the image signal corresponding to colors within the reduced color gamut into an image signal corresponding to colors within a display color gamut, wherein the colors of the display color gamut are displayed by a display panel.

Abstract: A method of displaying a three-dimensional stereoscopic image includes generating a plurality of left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color data using a left-eye or right-eye data frame, calculating a plurality of left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color dimming levels using the left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color data, sequentially outputting a plurality of left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color data frames, corrected based on the left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color dimming levels, to a display panel, and sequentially providing a plurality of left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color lights, generated from a light source part based on the left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color dimming levels, to the display panel.