Patent 8624813 was granted and assigned to LG on January, 2014 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A gate driver and a method for repairing the same are disclosed. The gate driver includes a shift register including a plurality of stages each having a respective one of a plurality of first output lines; at least one repair line connectable to the first output lines; a storage device to store information therein to identify a position of a certain stage of the plurality of stages; and a repair scan pulse generator to provide repair scan pulses to the repair line based on information stored in the storage device.