Display device and driving method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8982108-B2
Application number	US-201213691365-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 30, 2012
Priority date	Jul 18, 2012
Publication date	Mar 17, 2015
Grant date	Mar 17, 2015

Abstract

A display device including: a display panel; and a signal controller which controls signals for driving the display panel, where the signal controller includes a representative value generator which sequentially operates a portion of image data of one frame, where the representative value generator moves a last position digit into another position digit of the portion of the image data and generates a representative value representing a portion of a frame image corresponding to the portion of the image data; a storage portion which stores the representative value therein; and a comparator which compares the representative values of present and prior frames to determine whether the portion of the frame image is a still image or a motion picture, and the signal controller controls the signals for driving the display panel such that a driving frequency for the still image is lower than a driving frequency for the motion picture.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display device comprising:
a display panel; and
a signal controller which controls signals for driving the display panel,
wherein
the signal controller comprises:
a representative value generator which sequentially operates at least a portion of image data of one frame, wherein the representative value generator moves a last position digit into another position digit of the at least a portion of the image data of the one frame and generates a representative value representing at least a portion of a frame image corresponding to the at least a portion of the image data of the one frame;
a storage portion which stores the representative value therein; and
a comparator which compares the representative value of a present frame and the representative value of a prior frame to determine whether the at least a portion of the frame image is a still image or a motion picture, and
the signal controller controls the signals for driving the display panel such that a driving frequency when the at least a portion of the frame image is the still image is lower than a driving frequency when the at least the portion of the frame image is the motion picture.

2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein
the representative value generator comprises:
an operator which sequentially generates a middle value based on the at least a portion of the image data of the one frame; and
a converter which moves a last position digit of the middle value to a first position digit to generate a changed value, and transfers the changed value to the operator,
wherein the operator generates the middle value using the changed value transferred from the converter based on the at least a portion of the image data of the one frame,
wherein the operator performs at least one of an addition and a subtraction, and
wherein the converter outputs the changed value as the representative value when an operation of the operator is completed.

3. The display device of claim 2 , wherein
the representative value generator further comprises:
a random number generator which generates a random number; and
a data converter which generates converted image data by combining input image data received from outside with the random number, and
the operator generates the middle value based on the converted image data.

4. The display device of claim 3 , wherein
the random number generator generates the random number using a linear feedback shift register.

5. The display device of claim 4 , wherein
the random number generator generates a first random number by moving an output value obtained by inputting last two position digits of a predetermined number to an exclusive OR gate to a first position digit of the predetermined number, and deleting a last position digit of the predetermined number, and
the random number generator generates a second random number by moving an output value obtained by inputting last two position digits of the first random number to the exclusive OR gate to a first position digit of the first random number, and deleting a last position digit of the first random number.

6. The display device of claim 3 , wherein
the random number generator generates a plurality of random numbers having the same number of position digits as the input image data.

7. The display device of claim 6 , wherein
the data converter generates the converted image data using an output value obtained by inputting each position digit of the at least a portion of the input image data and each position digit of the random number to an exclusive OR gate.

8. The display device of claim 6 , wherein
two random numbers used to generate the converted image data of two adjacent pixels in a same frame have different values, and
two random numbers used to generate the converted image data of a same pixel in two adjacent frames have a same value.

9. The display device of claim 1 , wherein
the signal controller further comprises a switching portion which is turned on when the at least the portion of the frame image is the motion picture.

10. The display device of claim 1 , wherein
the at least a portion of the image data of the one frame corresponds to one line of the frame image or an entire of the frame image.

11. A driving method of a display device, the method comprising:
generating a first representative value representing at least a portion of a frame image corresponding to at least a portion of image data of a first frame by sequentially operating based on the at least a portion of the image data of the first frame and moving a last position digit into another position digit;
storing the first representative value;
generating a second representative value representing at least a portion of the frame image corresponding to at least a portion of image data of a second frame by sequentially operating based on the at least a portion of the image data of the second frame and moving the last position digit into another position digit; and
determining the at least a portion of the frame image to be a still image when the first representative value and the second representative value are the same as each other and determining the at least a portion of the frame image to be a motion picture when the first representative value and the second representative value are different from each other by comparing the first representative value and the second representative value to each other,
wherein a driving frequency of the display device when the at least a portion of the frame image is the still image is controlled to be lower than a driving frequency of the display device when the at least a portion of the frame image is the motion picture.

12. The driving method of a display device of claim 11 , wherein
each of the generating the first representative value and the generating the second representative value comprises:
moving the last position digit into a first position digit; and
performing at least one of an addition and a subtraction.

13. The driving method of a display device of claim 12 , wherein
each of the generating the first representative value and the generating the second representative value further comprises:
generating a random number; and
generating converted image data by combining the at least a portion of the image data with the random number.

14. The driving method of a display device of claim 13 , wherein
the generating the random number comprises using a linear feedback shift register.

15. The driving method of a display device of claim 14 , wherein
the generating the random number further comprises:
generating a first random number by moving an output value obtained by inputting last two position digits of a predetermined number to an exclusive OR gate to a first position digit of the predetermined number, and deleting a last position digit of the predetermined number; and
generating a second random number by moving an output value obtained by inputting last two position digits of the first random number to the exclusive OR gate to a first position digit of the first random number, and deleting a last position digit of the first random number.

16. The driving method of a display device of claim 13 , wherein
the generating the random number comprises:
generating a plurality of random numbers,
wherein the random numbers have the same number of position digits as an input image data of the display device.

17. The driving method of a display device of claim 16 , wherein
the generating the converted image data comprises obtaining an output value by i

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Kyoung Won
• Nam Seung Seok
• Park Cheol Woo
• Lim Kyoung Ho
• Jang Dae-Gwang
• Kim Gi Geun
• Lee Eun Ho
• Min Ung Gyu
• Hong Seok Ha

Classifications

• G09G3/20 Primary

  for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix {no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters} · CPC title

• G09G2340/0435

  Change or adaptation of the frame rate of the video stream · CPC title

• G09G2360/16

  Calculation or use of calculated indices related to luminance levels in display data · CPC title

• G09G2320/103

  Detection of image changes, e.g. determination of an index representative of the image change · CPC title