US 12,307,938 B2
Display apparatus, method of driving display panel using the same and electronic apparatus including the same
Jongha Shin, Yongin-si (KR); Daye Moon, Yongin-si (KR); Kitae Yoon, Yongin-si (KR); Kyoungho Lim, Yongin-si (KR); Wonwoo Jang, Yongin-si (KR); and Yooshin Chon, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/435,514.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2023-0062722 (KR), filed on May 15, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0386828 A1, Nov. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. G09G 3/20 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 3/2007 (2013.01) [G09G 2310/027 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0686 (2013.01); G09G 2354/00 (2013.01); G09G 2360/145 (2013.01); G09G 2360/16 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display apparatus comprising:
a display panel; and
a display panel driver which drives the display panel,
wherein the display panel driver determines at least one selected from a first low luminance pattern and a second low luminance pattern, wherein the first low luminance pattern includes a first low luminance area at a first end portion of the display panel in a vertical direction and a second low luminance area at a second end portion of the display panel in the vertical direction, and the second low luminance pattern includes a third low luminance area at a first end portion of the display panel in a horizontal direction and a fourth low luminance area at a second end portion of the display panel in the horizontal direction,
wherein when the first low luminance pattern is determined, the display panel driver determines a first compensation area including a first boundary between the first low luminance area and a first normal area and a second compensation area including a second boundary between the second low luminance area and the first normal area and operates a compensation for reducing grayscale values of the first compensation area and the second compensation area, and
wherein when the second low luminance pattern is determined, the display panel driver determines a third compensation area including a third boundary between the third low luminance area and a second normal area and a fourth compensation area including a fourth boundary between the fourth low luminance area and the second normal area and operates a compensation for reducing grayscale values of the third compensation area and the fourth compensation area.