US 11,699,385 B2
Display device and method of driving the same
Dong Won Lee, Yongin-si (KR); and Seok Young Yoon, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/445,281.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0117967 (KR), filed on Sep. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0084461 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G09G 3/32 (2016.01)
CPC G09G 3/32 (2013.01) [G09G 2310/027 (2013.01); G09G 2320/045 (2013.01); G09G 2340/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display unit comprising pixels, wherein each of the pixels comprises stacks connected in series and each of the stacks comprises a light emitting element;
a storage to store pieces of stack number information, wherein each of the pieces of the stack number information indicates a number of stacks constituting an effective light source from among the stacks for each of the pixels;
a compensator to generate compensated data by compensating image data based on the pieces of the stack number information; and
a data driver to generate data voltages based on the compensated data and to provide the data voltages to the display unit,
wherein the pixels are to emit light with luminances corresponding to the data voltages.