Patent ID: 8031147

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: a display panel configured to display an image through a plurality of pixels defined by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a gate driver configured to sequentially apply gate signals to the gate lines; a gray scale data compensator configured to determine if a primitive gray scale data of an (n−1)-th frame is lower than a first gray scale level, the gray scale data compensator further configured to determine if a primitive gray scale data of an n-th frame is higher than a second gray scale level that is higher than the first gray scale level, and the gray scale data compensator further configured to output a first compensated gray scale data of the n-th frame if the primitive gray scale data of the (n−1)-th frame is lower than the first gray scale level and the primitive gray scale data of the n-th frame is higher than the second gray scale level, the compensated gray scale data of the n-th frame being lower than the second gray scale level; and a data driver configured to convert the first compensated gray scale data of the n-th frame into a data voltage corresponding to the compensated gray scale data of the n-th frame to apply the data voltage to the data lines.