Display device and method of driving the display device

摘要

A display device includes a display panel assembly having a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns and a backlight unit disposed behind the display panel assembly and having a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns. The number of the pixels of the backlight unit is less than a number of the pixels of the display panel assembly. The backlight unit includes a plurality of scan electrodes arranged along one of row and column directions and a plurality of data electrodes arranged along the other of the row and column directions; and the pixels of the backlight unit are adapted to emit lights having intensities in accordance with gray levels of the pixels of the display panel assembly.