US 12,380,863 B2
Data driver, display device including the same, and method for driving display device
Taegon Im, Yongin-si (KR); Youngmin Bae, Yongin-si (KR); and Jinyoung Jeon, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Mar. 19, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/609,648.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2023-0100287 (KR), filed on Aug. 1, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0046258 A1, Feb. 6, 2025
Int. Cl. G09G 3/3291 (2016.01); G09G 3/3275 (2016.01); G09G 3/36 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 3/3291 (2013.01) [G09G 2310/08 (2013.01); G09G 2330/021 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising: a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a plurality of data lines connected to the pixels; and a data driver which provides a plurality of data voltages to the data lines, wherein the data driver includes: a plurality of channels, wherein each of the channels outputs an n.sup.th data voltage in an n.sup.th horizontal period, and outputs an (n+1).sup.th data voltage in an (n+1).sup.th horizontal period, wherein n is a natural number; a common line; a plurality of data switches which selectively connects the channels to the data lines, respectively; a plurality of common switches, wherein each of the common switches selectively connects a corresponding one of the channels to the common line; and a voltage sensor which senses a common voltage of the common line; wherein the data driver further includes a voltage comparator which compares the common voltage, the n.sup.th data voltage, and the (n+1).sup.th data voltage with each other; wherein a channel among the channels is connected to the common line by a common switch corresponding thereto among the common switches when the common voltage is between the n.sup.th data voltage of the channel and the (n+1).sup.th data voltage of the channel.