US 7,321,350 B2
Image display
Jae-Sung Lee, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Choon-Yul Oh, Gunpo (Korea, Republic of); Do-Hyung Ryu, Busan (Korea, Republic of); and Jin-Hyun Choi, Suwon (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Suwon (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/774,535.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2003-0008218 (KR), filed on Feb. 10, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0160168 A1, Aug. 19, 2004
Int. Cl. G09G 3/36 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 345—89  [345/82; 345/690; 315/169.3; 315/167; 315/291] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image display, comprising:
a display panel including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern, a plurality of first electrodes individually formed corresponding to the pixels, a second electrode formed in common with the first electrodes, a plurality of light emitting elements provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a light emitting layer, and a plurality of transistors provided corresponding to the pixels and connected between the first electrodes and a power supply voltage line for controlling the current supply to the EL elements;
a scan driver for sequentially selecting respective pixel lines;
a data driver for applying an RGB display signal corresponding to a pixel line of the display panel each time the pixel line is selected; and
a display controller for using a current value fed back from the second electrode of the display panel and externally input RGB data to correct a white gray level of the RGB data and generate RGB display data, and for providing the generated RGB display data to the data driver,
wherein the display controller determines an amount of emitted light on the corresponding screen according to the fed back current to generate a brightness control reference signal corresponding to the amount of emitted light, and controls the white gray level of the RGB data according to the brightness control reference signal to control the brightness of the display panel.