Gate driver and display device including the same

A display device, comprising:

• a stretchable display panel including a plurality of pixels;
• a gate driver to provide a gate signal to the stretchable display panel via a plurality of gate lines;
• a data driver to provide a data signal corresponding to image data to the stretchable display panel via a plurality of data lines;
• and
• a timing controller to control the gate driver and the data driver, wherein the gate driver includes:
• a plurality of shift registers including input terminals and output terminals, the output terminals of the plurality of shift registers connected to the plurality of gate lines of the stretchable display panel, respectively, the shift registers being grouped into a plurality of shift register groups, each of the shifting register groups including two adjacent shift registers;
• and
• a plurality of connection controllers to change a connection structure of the input terminals and the output terminals of the two adjacent shift registers included in the each of the shift register groups according to a distance between two adjacent gate lines of the stretchable display panel connected to the two adjacent shift registers as a physical dimension of the stretchable display panel is changed by stretching of the stretchable display panel,
• wherein the two adjacent shift registers output gate signals regardless of whether the input terminals of the two adjacent shift registers are connected to each other or separated from each other, and wherein the input terminals of the two adjacent shift registers are connected to each other when the distance between the two adjacent gate lines connected to the two adjacent shift registers is shorter than or equal to a reference distance.