A driving method for a backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The driving method includes: generating mapping information from each local dimming area to the corresponding piece of local area dimming data according to preset positional relationships between a backlight driving chip and lamp beads in the backlight module; receiving, by a timing control chip, a frame of display data, and converting the display data into panel driving data and corresponding multiple pieces of local area dimming data; receiving, by a backlight driving circuit, the multiple pieces of local area dimming data in sequence, turning on the channel corresponding to the current local dimming area in turn according to the mapping information, and driving the lamp beads in the current local dimming area.

A display apparatus include a display panel and a display panel driver. The display panel includes a panel block. The display panel driver senses a driving current to generate a sensing current, generates a temperature weight of the panel block based on the sensing current and location information of a circuit component, generates a load value of the panel block based on input image data, and generates a predicted temperature of the panel block based on the temperature weight of the panel block and the load value of the panel block.

A display device includes: a cell matrix including a first cell line and a second cell line, wherein the first cell line includes first cells sharing first row lines, and the second cell line includes second cells sharing second row lines; a redundancy integrated circuit including a redundancy cell line including redundancy cells, wherein the redundancy cells share a third row line and are connected to the first and second cells through a plurality of column lines and a plurality of connection lines; and a display driver integrated circuit (DDI) configured to replace the first cell line or the second cell line with the redundancy cell line through the first row lines, the second row lines, and the third row line based on whether the first and second cell lines include a bad cell.

An embodiment modular light-emitting diode (LED) display panel includes attachment points for use in attachment as part of a multi-panel modular LED display, a printed circuit board including a first side and an opposite second side, and a plastic casing attached to the opposite second side of the printed circuit board. A perimeter of the plastic casing is substantially rectangular and has a height and a width. The modular LED display panel further includes a display surface including a plurality of LEDs arranged as pixels and attached to the first side of the printed circuit board. The pixels are arranged in a rectangular array including at least fifty pixels. Each of the pixels of the rectangular array is spaced from each respective adjacent pixel of the rectangular array by a pitch. The pitch is a predetermined constant number. The pitch does not depend on the height and the width.

An LED controller system includes an LED controller including an image frame buffer able to receive image data. A sensor processing module is used to receive and process sensor data and a decision module is used to determine actions taken in response to processed sensor data. An image creation module is used to create images to be sent to the image frame buffer of the LED controller.

A micro-light emitting diode (micro-LED) display backplane includes a plurality of macro-pixels. Each macro-pixel includes: a contiguous two-dimensional (2-D) array of bitcells storing display data bits for driving a set of micro-LEDs of a 2-D array of micro-LEDs; and drive circuits configured to generate, based on the display data bits stored in the contiguous 2-D array of bitcells, pulse-width modulated (PWM) drive signals for driving the set of micro-LEDs of the 2-D array of micro-LEDs. In one example, the plurality of macro-pixels is grouped into a plurality of sub-arrays, where each sub-array of the plurality of sub-arrays includes a set of macro-pixels and a local periphery circuit next to the set of macro-pixels. The local periphery circuit includes, for example, a buffer, a repeater, a clock gating circuit for gating an input clock signal to the sub-array, and/or a sub-array decoder for selecting the sub-array.

Discussed is a display apparatus including a substrate including a display portion, a plurality of pixels connected to a gate line and a data line disposed in the display portion, and a gate driving circuit disposed in the display portion to drive the gate line. The gate driving circuit includes a stage circuit unit including a plurality of stage circuits respectively disposed in a plurality of division regions defined in the display portion, and a circuit repair portion configured to repair at least one of the plurality of stage circuits and including a plurality of repair patterns. Further, at least one of the plurality of repair patterns is configured to be electrically disconnected from the at least one of the plurality of stage circuits.

A dual-pixel-driver display includes pixels distributed in an array of rows and columns defining a display area and a dual-pixel driver disposed within the display area. Ones of the pixels are grouped in mutually exclusive first and second pixel clusters. The dual-pixel driver comprises a driver input, a first driver output, and a second driver output. The first driver output and the second driver output are both commonly responsive to the driver input. The first driver output drives the pixels in the first pixel cluster and the second driver output drives the pixels in the second pixel cluster.

Pixel structure, driving method thereof and display device are disclosed. The pixel structure includes: light-emitting device having first electrode coupled to corresponding first voltage line. Driving chip includes: receiving circuit configured to decode first digital clock signal on first control line in display phase to obtain first address data and light emission data; address storage circuit configured to store reference address data before the display phase; data processing circuit configured to output PWM signal and current control signal corresponding to each light-emitting device according to the light emission data when the first address data is the same as the reference address data; current output circuit configured to output driving current according to the current control signal; and gating circuit configured to sequentially receive the PWM signal corresponding to each light-emitting device and transmit the driving current to the output terminal when the PWM signal is in active-level state.

A display apparatus include a display panel and a display panel driver. The display panel includes a panel block. The display panel driver senses a driving current to generate a sensing current, generates a temperature weight of the panel block based on the sensing current and location information of a circuit component, generates a load value of the panel block based on input image data, and generates a predicted temperature of the panel block based on the temperature weight of the panel block and the load value of the panel block.