Patent ID: 11887561
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method of determining pixel luminance, the method comprising:
determining a smoothing reference line between a display region and a non-display region in a display panel;
determining a boundary pixel, through which the smoothing reference line passes, among pixels included in the display region;
dividing the boundary pixel into a first pixel region in the display region and a second pixel region in the non-display region based on the smoothing reference line;
calculating a smoothing rate corresponding to a ratio of an area of the first pixel region to a total area of the boundary pixel; and
determining dimming luminance of the boundary pixel based on the smoothing rate,
wherein each of the pixels includes sub-pixels, and a luminance dimming is performed on all of the sub-pixels of the boundary pixel based on the dimming luminance determined based on the smoothing rate corresponding to the ratio of the area of the first pixel region to the total area of the boundary pixel including the sub-pixels.