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US 11,232,733 B2Granted
Display apparatus and method of driving display panel using the same
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorsSoonnyung Park, Sungbae Park, Sangyoon Lee, Seongyun Lee, Hyeseon Choi
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Abstract
A display includes a window, a display panel and a display panel driver. The display panel includes an active area and a spare area around the active area. The active area includes pixels. The spare area includes spare pixels which are selectively activated to compensate for an amount of tilt of the active area.
Claims20
A display apparatus comprising:
- a window;
- a display panel disposed beneath the window, and comprising an active area and a spare area surrounding the active area, the active area comprising pixels, and the spare area comprising spare pixels configured to be selectively activated;
- and
- a display panel driver configured to drive the display panel, wherein
- at least one selectively activated pixel is selected based on at least one of a vertical offset and a horizontal offset between a center of the active area and a center of a viewing area of the display panel, the viewing area being defined by the window, and
- the display panel shifts a center of the active area to the center of the viewing area of the display panel such that a displayed image is centered on the viewing area.
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A method of driving a display panel, comprising:
- displaying an image in an active area, the active area comprising pixels;
- determining a vertical offset and a horizontal offset between a center of the active area and a center of a viewing area of the display panel, the viewing area being defined by a light blocking portion disposed along a window around the viewing area;
- selectively activating—at least one spare pixel of a plurality of spare pixels disposed in a spare area surrounding the active area based on at least one of the vertical offset and the horizontal offset;
- and
- shifting the center of the active area to the center of the viewing area of the display panel such that a displayed image is centered on the viewing area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.