US 12,154,489 B2
Display device
Taehoon Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); Sangan Kwon, Cheonan-si (KR); Soon-Dong Kim, Osan-si (KR); Hui Nam, Suwon-si (KR); Eun Sil Yun, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Changnoh Yoon, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Aug. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/234,477.
Application 18/234,477 is a continuation of application No. 17/982,889, filed on Nov. 8, 2022, granted, now 11,854,470.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0176232 (KR), filed on Dec. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0395017 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G09G 3/32 (2016.01); G09G 3/20 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 3/32 (2013.01) [G09G 3/2007 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0819 (2013.01); G09G 2300/0842 (2013.01); G09G 2310/0267 (2013.01); G09G 2310/027 (2013.01); G09G 2310/08 (2013.01); G09G 2330/021 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel including a first display area and a second display area;
a data driver which outputs a plurality of data signals to the display panel;
a scan driver which outputs a plurality of scan signals to the display panel; and
a light emitting driver which outputs a plurality of emission control signals to the display panel,
wherein the display panel displays a first image on the first display area and the second display area in a first mode, and displays a second image on the first display area in a second mode, and
wherein the light emitting driver
activates the plurality of emission control signals applied to the first display area and the second display area in the first mode,
maintains emission control signals applied to the second display area among the plurality of emission control signals in a deactivation state during at least one partial frame in the second mode.