Patent ID: 8243002

Claim:
A driving apparatus of a display device including a plurality of pixels respectively having a switching element and displaying images according to data signals, and a plurality of gate lines and data lines respectively connected to the pixels, the driving apparatus comprising: a data driver configured to generate data signals corresponding to input image signals to apply to the data lines; a gate driver configured to sequentially scan a gate-on voltage to the gate lines to turn on the switching elements in a first mode, and stop sequential scanning of the gate-on voltage in a second mode; a signal controller configured to receive, process and transmit the input image signals to the data driver, and to transmit a control signal to the gate driver; and a gate driver controller coupled between the signal controller and the gate driver, the gate driver controller being configured to detect image signals that are directly input to the signal controller, the display device being in the first mode when the gate driver controller determines that no new image signals are being directly input to the signal controller, the display device being in the second mode when the gate driver controller determines that at least some new input image signals are being directly input to the signal controller while an image associated with previous input image signals is being displayed.