Display device and method for driving the same

摘要

A display device and a method for driving the same are discussed. The display device includes a display panel including data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, and pixels, and source driver integrated circuits (ICs) which are connected to a timing controller through data line pairs, recover control information of a control data packet input from the timing controller, and supply a data voltage to the data lines. The timing controller sets the number of control data packets transmitted in a horizontal blank period to be less than the number of control data packets transmitted in a period except the horizontal blank period. The source driver ICs read the number of control data packets based on start information transmitted prior to the control data packet.

主权项

1. A display device comprising:
a display panel including data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, and pixels arranged in a matrix form; and source driver integrated circuits (ICs) which are connected to a timing controller through data line pairs and are configured to recover control information of a control data packet input from the timing controller and supply a data voltage of video data to the data lines, wherein: the timing controller sets a number of control data packets transmitted in a horizontal blank period to be less than a number of control data packets transmitted in a period except the horizontal blank period, the source driver ICs read the number of control data packets based on start information transmitted prior to the control data packets by extracting a second control start bit from the start information via a start information extracting unit, the start information includes a first control start bit, the second control start bit, and a control start packet, and the timing controller sets the number of control data packets based on the second control start bit that is subsequent to the first control start bit.