LG Display Co., Ltd.
Display device and compensation method thereof

Abstract:

Disclosed are a display device and a compensation method thereof for preventing and compensating for deterioration of pixels using average data of stress for each pixel. The display device includes a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels provided thereon and configured to display an image, a display driver configured to output a driving signal for driving the display panel, a timing controller configured to generate stress data by converting grayscale values included in image data into stress values, to accumulate the stress data for each pixel, to calculate average data for each pixel corresponding to an accumulated number of times, to determine a compensation value by performing lossless and lossy compression and restoration on the average data in a regular region and an irregular region, respectively, and to provide the compensation value to the display driver.