Patent ID: 8217924

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a display panel including a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines, data lines of the plurality of data lines being insulated from and intersecting gate lines of the plurality of gate lines, the gate lines configured to receive a gate signal and the data lines configured to receive a data signal to display an image; a plurality of driver integrated circuits disposed on the display panel and electrically connected to the data lines to convert an image signal to the data signal based on a control signal; a printed circuit board which outputs the control signal and which controls drive operations of driver integrated circuits of the plurality of driver integrated circuits and the image signal; and a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards disposed on the display panel and the printed circuit board to apply the control signal and the image signal from the printed circuit board to the driver integrated circuits disposed on the display panel, wherein a total number of flexible printed circuit boards of the plurality of flexible printed circuit boards is equal to n/2, n being a natural number, and a total number of the drive integrated circuits of the plurality of drive integrated circuits is 2n, driver integrated circuits of the second driver group are directly connected to adjacent driver integrated circuits of the first driver group, the data lines are divided into a first group of data lines and a second group of data lines, driver integrated circuits of the first driver group are directly connected to corresponding flexible printed circuit boards of the plurality of flexible printed circuit boards, driver integrated circuits of the second driver group are connected to adjacent driver integrated circuits, each driver integrated circuit of the first driver group outputs a first repair signal to at least one data line of the first group of data lines, the first group of data lines corresponding to the first driver group, and each driver integrated circuit of the second driver group outputs a second repair signal to at least one data line of the second group of data lines, the second group of data lines corresponding to the second driver group.