Display device using mems and driving method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSung-Jin HONG, Jae-Byung PARK, Don-Chan CHO, Hyun-Min CHO, Yu-Kwan KIM, Seul LEE
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Abstract
A display device using a microelectromechanical system (“MEMS”) element includes; a display panel including the MEMS element having at least three states, the at least three states including an on state, a half-on state, and an off state and a backlight unit which provides light to the display panel.
Claims20
A display device using a microelectromechanical system element, the display device comprising:
- a display panel comprising:
- the microelectromechanical system element having at least three states, the at least three states including an on state, a half-on state, and an off state;
- and
- a backlight unit which provides light to the display panel.
A driving method of a display device using a microelectromechanical system element having a display panel and a backlight unit which provides light to the display panel, wherein the display panel includes a pixel, and the pixel includes at least three states, the at least three states comprising an on state, a half-on state, and an off state, the method comprising:
- receiving an image signal represented in an n numerical system, wherein n is greater than or equal to 3;
- applying a data signal corresponding to a digit value of each digit of the image signal to the pixel wherein the digit value is between 0 and n−1;
- and
- operating the microelectromechanical system element to have a state among the at least three states corresponding to the digit value of each digit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.