Patent ID: 8289243

Claim:
A light emitting display comprising: a pixel circuit unit comprising a plurality of pixels that display an image; a data driver that supplies a data signal to the pixel circuit unit; a scan driver that supplies a scan signal to the pixel circuit unit; a brightness characteristic table storage unit that stores a brightness characteristic that is varied according to the driving time of the pixel circuit unit; a timing controller that applies control signals to the data driver and the scan driver, and that supplies a first gamma control signal from a first time to a second time, a second gamma control signal from the second time to a third time and a third gamma control signal after the third time according to the brightness characteristic stored on the brightness characteristic table storage unit; and a gamma correcting unit that supplies a first gamma value to the data driver according to the first gamma control signal, a second gamma value to the data driver according to the second gamma control signal, and a third gamma value to the data driver according to the third gamma control signal, wherein the data driver supplies a first data signal to the pixel circuit unit from the first time when the light emitting device is initially driven to the second time according to the first gamma value to offset a variation of the brightness characteristic unstably increased when the light emitting device is initially driven, supplies a second data signal to the pixel circuit unit from the second time to the third time according to the second gamma value, and supplies a third data signal to the pixel circuit unit after the third time according to the third gamma value, and wherein the first data signal is gradually decreased, the second data signal is gradually increased, and the third data signal is constant.