FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING DARK SPOT THEREOF

A flat panel display apparatus capable of preventing a reduction in yield due to dark spots thereof, and a method of compensating for the dark spots are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a subpixel of a first color, a subpixel of a second color and a subpixel of third color, where the first color, the second color and the third color are different from each other; an image signal input unit; a dark spot detection unit configured to detect a color and location of a dark spot subpixel that comprises a dark spot; a neighboring subpixel detection unit configured to identify location of one or more neighboring same color subpixels that are adjacent to the dark spot subpixel and having the same color as the dark spot subpixel; a luminance detection unit configured to detect a luminance of the one or more neighboring same color subpixels; and a control unit configured to coordinate increasing the luminance of all or a subset of the one or more neighboring same color subpixels.