Display device and display device driving method

• US 9,245,479 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2013
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Park, Won-Sang
• Primary Examiner(s): Simpson, Lixi C
• Application Number:
  US14/104,515
• Publication Number:
  US 20150009242A1
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0452 Details of colour pixel setup, e.g. pixel composed of a red, a blue and two green components
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0242 Compensation of deficiencies in the appearance of colours
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/045 Compensation of drifts in the characteristics of light emitting or modulating elements
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0666 for control of colour parameters, e.g. colour temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3233 with pixel circuitry controlling the current through the light-emitting element

Abstract

A display device includes: a signal controller which receives an input image signal and generates a changed image signal, where the signal controller divides the inputted image signal into red, green and blue image signals, changes the blue image signal to a first blue image signal or a second blue image signal, matches white balance of the red, green, first blue or second blue image signals, and generates the changed image signal by compensating a gamma value of the red, green, first blue or second blue image signals; a display panel which displays an image corresponding to the changed image signal, where the display panel includes a pixel including red, green, first blue and second blue sub-pixels; and a data driver which receives the changed image signal from the signal controller and applies a data voltage corresponding to the changed image signal to the display panel.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a signal controller configured to receive an input image signal and to generate a changed image signal, wherein the signal controller divides the input image signal into red, green and blue image signals, changes the blue image signal to at least one of a first blue image signal and a second blue image signal, matches white balance of at least one of the red, green, first blue and second blue image signals, and generates the changed image signal by compensating a gamma value of the at least one of the red, green, first blue and second blue image signals;

a display panel configured to display an image corresponding to the changed image signal, wherein the display panel comprises a pixel comprising a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a first blue sub-pixel and a second blue sub-pixel; and

a data driver configured to receive the changed image signal from the signal controller and to apply a data voltage corresponding to the changed image signal to the display panel,

wherein a blue ratio between a first blue image generated from the first blue image signal and a second blue image generated from the second blue image signal in the image to be displayed, is set to be greater than 1 to allow the first blue image to exceed the second blue image to increase the life-span of the display panel.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the signal controller comprises:

a mode selector configured to change the blue image signal to the at least one of the first blue image signal and the second blue image signal based on a driving mode;

a white balance matcher configured to generate a white balanced image signal by matching the white balance of the at least one of the red, green, first blue and second blue image signals;

a gamma compensator configured to generate a compensated image signal by compensating a gamma value of the white balanced image signal; and

a data driving signal controller configured to generate the changed image signal based on the compensated image signal.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein, when the driving mode is a normal mode, the mode selector changes the blue image signal to a combination of the first blue image signal and the second blue image signal.

4. The display device of claim 3, wherein the mode selector changes the blue image signal to the combination of the first blue image signal and the second blue image signal based on a predetermined blue ratio, which is a ratio between a first blue image and a second blue image in the image corresponding to the changed image signal.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein the predetermined blue ratio is greater than 1.

6. The display device of claim 2, wherein

when the driving mode is a bio-clock mode, the bio-clock mode comprises a day mode and a night mode, and

the mode selector changes the blue image signal to the first blue image signal when the driving mode is the day mode, and changes the blue image signal to the second blue image signal when the driving mode is the night mode.

7. The display device of claim 2, wherein

when the driving mode is a wake-up mode, the mode selector changes the blue image signal to the first blue image signal after a wake-up time.

8. The display device of claim 2, wherein

when the driving mode is a sleep mode, the mode selector changes the blue image signal to the second blue image signal after a sleep time.

9. The display device of claim 1, wherein

the first blue sub-pixel displays a first blue image in the image corresponding to the changed image signal, and

the second sub-pixel displays a second blue image in the image corresponding to the changed image signal.

10. The display device of claim 1, wherein

an emission layer of the first blue sub-pixel comprises a fluorescent material which emits blue light, and

an emission layer of the second sub-pixel comprises a phosphorescent material which emits blue light.

11. The display device of claim 1, wherein

an emission layer of the first blue sub-pixel comprises a fluorescent material and a phosphorescent material, and emits light having a wavelength of about 440 nanometers, and

an emission layer of the second blue sub-pixel comprises the fluorescent material and the phosphorescent material, and emits light having a wavelength of about 464 nanometers.

12. A driving method of a display device, the method comprising:

dividing an inputted image signal into red, green and blue image signals;

changing the blue image signal to at least one of a first blue image signal and a second blue image signal;

generating a white balanced image signal by matching white balance of at least one of the red, green, first blue and second blue image signals; and

generating a changed imaged signal by compensating a gamma value of the white balanced image signal to transmit the changed image signal to a data driver of the display device,

wherein a blue ratio between a first blue image generated from the first blue image signal and a second blue image generated from the second blue image signal in the image to be displayed, is set to be greater than 1 to allow the first blue image to exceed the second blue image to increase the life-span of the display panel.

13. The driving method of claim 12, wherein the changing the blue image signal to the at least one of the first blue image signal and the second blue image signal comprises:

changing the blue image signal to the at least one of the first blue image signal and the second blue image signal based on a driving mode of the display device.

14. The driving method of claim 13, wherein the changing the blue image signal to the at least one of the first blue image signal and the second blue image signal comprises:

changing the blue image signal to a combination of the first blue image signal and the second blue image signal when the driving mode is a normal mode.

15. The driving method of claim 14, wherein the changing the blue image signal to the at least one of the first blue image signal and the second blue image signal comprises:

changing the blue image signal to the combination of the first blue image signal and the second blue image signal based on a predetermined blue ratio, which is a ratio between a first blue image and a second blue image in an image to be displayed by the display device based on the changed image signal.

16. The driving method of claim 15, wherein the predetermined blue ratio is greater than 1.

17. The driving method of claim 13, wherein

when the driving mode is a bio-clock mode, the bio-clock mode comprises a day mode and a night mode, and

the changing the blue image signal to the at least one of the first blue image signal and the second blue image signal comprises:

changing the blue image signal to the first blue image signal when the driving mode is the day mode; and

changing the blue image signal to the second blue image signal when the driving mode is the night mode.

18. The driving method of claim 13, wherein the changing the blue image signal to the at least one of the first blue image signal and the second blue image signal comprises:

changing the blue image signal to the first blue image signal after a wake-up time when the driving mode is a wake-up mode.

19. The driving method of claim 13, wherein the changing the blue image signal to the at least one of the first blue image signal and the second blue image signal comprises:

changing the blue image signal to the second blue image signal after a sleep time when the driving mode is a sleep mode.