Foldable display device and driving method of the same
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorWontae Kim
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Abstract
A foldable display device includes a display panel including a first display area and a second display area, a timing controller configured to receive input image data and to provide a first data packet corresponding to the first display area and a second data packet corresponding to the second display area concurrently, and a data driver configured to receive the first data packet and the second data packet, to determine whether the first display area or the second display area is folded based on the first data packet and the second data packet, and to not output a first data signal corresponding to the first data packet or a second data signal corresponding to the second data packet when the first display area or the second display area is folded.
Claims20
A foldable display device comprising:
- a display panel comprising a first display area, a second display area, and a folding area between the first display area and the second display area, the first display area and the second display area being configured to be folded or unfolded with respect to the folding area;
- a timing controller configured to receive input image data and to provide a first data packet corresponding to the first display area and a second data packet corresponding to the second display area concurrently;
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- a data driver configured to receive the first data packet and the second data packet, to determine whether the first display area or the second display area is folded with respect to the folding area based on the first data packet and the second data packet, and to not output a first data signal corresponding to the first data packet or a second data signal corresponding to the second data packet when the first display area or the second display area is folded with respect to the folding area.
A driving method of a foldable display device, the method comprising:
- receiving a first data packet and a second data packet concurrently;
- determining whether a first display area or a second display area of a display panel is folded with respect to a folding area between the first display area and the second display area;
- not outputting a first data signal corresponding to the first data packet when the first display area is folded with respect to the folding area;
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- not outputting a second data signal corresponding to the second data packet when the second display area is folded with respect to the folding area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.