Display device, electronic device having display device and method of operating the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10565963-B2
Application number	US-201414583728-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2014
Priority date	May 21, 2014
Publication date	Feb 18, 2020
Grant date	Feb 18, 2020

Abstract

A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a scan driving unit configured to provide a scan signal to the pixels, a data driving unit configured to provide a data signal to the pixels, and a controller configured to provide driving frequency information to a processor, which transfers image data with a driving frequency determined based on the driving frequency information to the display device, to receive the image data with the driving frequency from the processor, and to control the scan driving unit and the data driving unit to drive the display panel with the driving frequency.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising;
a display device configured to receive image data from a processor, to display an image corresponding to the image data, and to provide driving frequency information to the processor; and
the processor configured to receive the driving frequency information, to adjust a frequency of the image data based on the driving frequency information, and to transfer the image data to the display device with the adjusted frequency,
wherein the display device comprises:
a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels;
a scan driving unit configured to provide a scan signal to the pixels;
a data driving unit configured to provide a data signal to the pixels; and
a controller connected to a memory of the display device, in which a flicker profile is stored, the controller configured to determine a driving frequency as the driving frequency information based on the flicker profile, to provide the driving frequency information to the processor such that the processor transmits the image data to the display device at the driving frequency, to receive the image data with the driving frequency from the processor, and to control the scan driving unit and the data driving unit to drive the display panel with the driving frequency,
wherein the flicker profile stored in the memory is inaccessible to the processor,

wherein the controller comprises:
an image data receiving unit configured to receive the image data;
a still image determining unit configured to determine whether the image data are still image data;
a driving frequency deciding unit configured to decide a driving frequency by analyzing the image data when the image data are the still image data;
a frequency information providing unit configured to provide the decided driving frequency as the driving frequency information to the processor; and
a timing controller configured to generate control signals based on the image data with the adjusted frequency, and to provide the control signals to the scan driving unit and the data driving unit, and
wherein the processor comprises:
a frequency information receiving unit configured to receive the decided driving frequency as the driving frequency information from the frequency information providing unit; and
an image data transferring unit configured to adjust the frequency of the image data to the decided driving frequency, and to transfer the image data with the decided driving frequency to the image data receiving unit.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the driving frequency deciding unit calculates a grayscale of the image data, and decides a driving frequency corresponding to the grayscale of the image data as the decided driving frequency using the flicker profile of the display device.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the image data transferring unit adjusts the frequency of the image data to the decided driving frequency by masking the image data.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein
the processor further comprises an image data memory configured to store the image data, and
the image data transferring unit adjusts the frequency of the image data to the decided driving frequency using the image data memory.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the frequency information providing unit provides the decided driving frequency to the frequency information receiving unit when the driving frequency is changed.

6. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein
the frequency information receiving unit periodically sends a driving frequency providing request to the frequency information providing unit, and
the frequency information providing unit provides the decided driving frequency to the frequency information receiving unit in response to the driving frequency providing request.

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Myeong-Su
• Park Su-Hyeong
• Jung Ho-Yong
• Choi Jae-Ho

Classifications

• G09G3/2096 Primary

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