Patents by Inventor Manhyeop Han

Manhyeop Han has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20190197287
    Abstract: A fingerprint recognition system may comprise: a display panel configured to display an image on a screen; a light source device configured to irradiate light onto a transparent substrate disposed on the screen of the display panel; an image sensor configured to obtain a fingerprint image with light reflected from a fingerprint contacting the transparent substrate on the screen; and an image sensor controller configured to control an exposure time of the image sensor to obtain the fingerprint image based on a contrast ratio of the fingerprint image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Manhyeop HAN, Jiho CHO
  • Publication number: 20190163315
    Abstract: A touch sensor integrated display device is provided comprising gate lines and data lines formed on a substrate to be intersected with each other, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed at intersections between the gate lines and the data lines, and a common electrode formed to overlap the plurality of pixel electrodes through an insulating film disposed between the common electrode and the plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein the common electrode includes at least two touch electrodes, each of which is connected to at least one of signal lines arranged in one of a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheolse KIM, Buyeol LEE, Sunjung LEE, Sangsoo HWANG, Yoonhwan WOO, Manhyeop HAN
  • Publication number: 20190080140
    Abstract: A display device and a mobile information terminal including the same are disclosed. The display device includes a display panel on which a fingerprint is touched, and a fingerprint sensor coupled to the display panel configured to sense light reflected from the fingerprint on a display area of the display panel. The fingerprint sensor is attached obliquely on the display panel at a predetermined angle to a reference line parallel to a long axis of the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Guensik LEE, Kyoseop CHOO, Manhyeop HAN, Junghoon LEE
  • Patent number: 10216971
    Abstract: A display device and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The display device includes a display panel including a first display area and a second display area that are adjacent to each other, and a first touch sensor disposed in the first display area, a sensor screen disposed on the display panel and including a fingerprint sensor and a second touch sensor at a location corresponding to the second display area of the display panel, a display touch integrated circuit (IC) configured to drive pixels of the first and second display areas and the first touch sensor, and a fingerprint touch IC configured to drive the fingerprint sensor in a portion of one frame period, in which the first touch sensor is not driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiho Cho, Kyoseop Choo, Buyeol Lee, Moonbong Song, Manhyeop Han
  • Publication number: 20190051694
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a circuit comprising a first thin film transistor (TFT) and storage capacitor having a first electrode and a second electrode configured to face to each other. A second TFT is coupled to the capacitor, wherein a first gate electrode of the first TFT, a first electrode of the storage capacitor and a second gate electrode of the second TFT are integrally formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Kyoseop CHOO, Guensik LEE, Manhyeop HAN
  • Patent number: 10180750
    Abstract: A touch sensor integrated display device is provided comprising gate lines and data lines formed on a substrate to be intersected with each other, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed at intersections between the gate lines and the data lines, and a common electrode formed to overlap the plurality of pixel electrodes through an insulating film disposed between the common electrode and the plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein the common electrode includes at least two touch electrodes, each of which is connected to at least one of signal lines arranged in one of a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheolse Kim, Buyeol Lee, Sunjung Lee, Sangsoo Hwang, Yoonhwan Woo, Manhyeop Han
  • Patent number: 10176358
    Abstract: A touch sensing device comprises touch electrodes having a first resolution for sensing touch in the active area. The touch sensing device also includes combination touch and fingerprint electrodes having a second resolution for sensing both touch and a fingerprint in the active area, the second higher than the first resolution. The touch sensing device also includes a touch and fingerprint controller that respectively applies a touch driving voltage for sensing touch to the plurality of touch electrodes and the plurality of combination touch and fingerprint electrodes during a touch driving mode of a touch period of the touch sensing device, and the touch and fingerprint controller applies a fingerprint driving voltage for sensing a fingerprint to the plurality of combination touch and fingerprint electrodes during a fingerprint mode of the touch period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manhyeop Han, Kyoseop Choo, Moonbong Song
  • Patent number: 10134800
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a photo sensor comprising a first thin film transistor (TFT) configured to convert light energy to electric energy; a storage capacitor having a first electrode and a second electrode configured to face to each other, and storing the electric energy from the first TFT as charge; and a second TFT configured to output the charge stored in the storage capacitor according to a control signal, wherein a first gate electrode of the first TFT, a first electrode of the storage capacitor and a second gate electrode of the second TFT are integrally formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoseop Choo, Guensik Lee, Manhyeop Han
  • Patent number: 10101832
    Abstract: A touch sensor integrated type display device includes a plurality of first areas where a plurality of first electrodes are respectively located; and a plurality of second areas where a plurality of second electrodes and a plurality of third electrodes are arranged alternately in a first direction so as to avoid contact with each other. The plurality of first electrodes located in the plurality of first areas are connected to each other in the first direction, the plurality of second electrodes located in the plurality of second areas are connected to each other in the first direction, and the plurality of third electrodes located in the plurality of second areas are arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manhyeop Han, Cheolse Kim
  • Patent number: 10095349
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor screen capable of recognizing a touch and a fingerprint. A touch screen includes an active area having a minor axis and a major axis intersecting each other, and a bezel area outside the active area. The touch screen includes a plurality of touch sensing electrode groups arranged in the minor axis direction, a plurality of touch driving electrode groups arranged in the major axis direction, a plurality of fingerprint and touch driving electrodes arranged in the major axis direction between the touch driving electrode groups, a plurality of fingerprint and touch sensing electrodes arranged adjacent to the outermost touch sensing electrode group from among the plurality of touch sensing electrode groups and a read-out IC arranged adjacent to the plurality of fingerprint and touch sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manhyeop Han, Jiho Cho, Junghoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10083336
    Abstract: A touch sensing device comprises a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes located in an active area of the touch sensing device, the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes arranged in a first direction. The touch sensing device also includes a plurality of third touch electrodes located in the active area and arranged in a second direction that crosses the first direction. The first touch electrodes, second touch electrodes, and third touch electrodes have a first resolution for sensing touch in the active area. The touch sensing device also includes a plurality of combination touch and fingerprint electrodes located in the active area, the plurality of combination touch and fingerprint electrodes having a second resolution for sensing both touch and a fingerprint in the active area and the second resolution being higher than the first resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manhyeop Han, Moonbong Song, Jiho Cho
  • Patent number: 10042450
    Abstract: A touch sensor integrated type display device includes first touch electrodes located in the active area and divided in first and second directions crossing each other; second touch electrodes located in the active area, divided in the first direction, and alternating with the first touch electrodes arranged in the first direction; and a plurality of first sub routing wires respectively connected to the plurality of first touch electrodes, and arranged side by side in the second direction, wherein the first touch electrodes located in outermost both sides of the active area in the first direction, among the first touch electrodes arranged in the second direction, are smaller in size than another first touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manhyeop Han, Juhan Kim
  • Patent number: 10037452
    Abstract: Provided are a fingerprint sensor and a display device including the same. A fingerprint sensor array includes: a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a first direction, each of the plurality of first electrodes including at least one of: a first transparent electrode including a transparent conductive material and a first metal electrode including a low-resistance metal material; a plurality of second electrodes arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, each of the plurality of second electrodes including at least one of: a second transparent electrode including the transparent conductive material and a second metal electrode including the low-resistance metal material; and an insulating layer between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes to insulate the first electrodes from the second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manhyeop Han, Kyoseop Choo, Jiho Cho
  • Patent number: 10007828
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fingerprint sensor integrated type touch screen device that includes a touch screen having at least one fingerprint & touch area and a plurality of touch areas, each touch area including Tx electrode lines of a first group crossing Rx electrode lines of the first group, and touch sensors at crossings of the Tx electrode lines of the first group and the Rx electrode lines of the first group; and a touch integrated circuit (IC) that supplies a sensor driving signal of a same phase to the Tx electrode lines of the first group, groups first effective Rx channels of the Rx electrode lines of the first group as a bundle, and simultaneously senses the first effective Rx channels through a first touch sensing part, wherein first ineffective Rx channels of the Rx electrode lines of the first group are electrically disconnected from the first touch sensing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manhyeop Han, Kyoseop Choo, Moonbong Song, Jiho Cho
  • Publication number: 20180151656
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electroluminescent display device integrated with image sensors, including: a display panel having a plurality of pixels; a display panel driving circuit configured to write data of an input image into the pixels during a display mode so as to display the input image with the pixels; and a sensor processing circuit configured to apply a reverse bias to Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) disposed in at least some of the pixels during a sensor mode so as to process sensor signals received from the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Kyoseop CHOO, Guensik LEE, Manhyeop HAN
  • Publication number: 20180130844
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a photo sensor comprising a first thin film transistor (TFT) configured to convert light energy to electric energy; a storage capacitor having a first electrode and a second electrode configured to face to each other, and storing the electric energy from the first TFT as charge; and a second TFT configured to output the charge stored in the storage capacitor according to a control signal, wherein a first gate electrode of the first TFT, a first electrode of the storage capacitor and a second gate electrode of the second TFT are integrally formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Kyoseop CHOO, Guensik LEE, Manhyeop HAN
  • Publication number: 20180113346
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fingerprint sensor integrated type touch screen panel having at least one fingerprint/touch area and a plurality of touch areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manhyeop HAN, Guensik LEE, Kyoseop CHOO
  • Publication number: 20180113548
    Abstract: A touch screen device with an integrated fingerprint sensor comprises: a touch screen having a fingerprint recognition area with fingerprint sensors and a touch recognition area with touch sensors physically separated from the fingerprint sensors; and a touch IC that drives the touch sensors and the fingerprint sensors in fingerprint sensing mode to sense fingerprint recognition information from the fingerprint sensors and touch recognition information from the touch sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junghoon LEE, Kyoseop CHOO, Jiho CHO, Manhyeop HAN
  • Publication number: 20180113558
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touchscreen device with an integrated fingerprint sensor. The touchscreen device including a touchscreen having a touch area for touch sensing and a fingerprint and touch area for touch sensing and fingerprint sensing, the touch area having Tx electrodes arranged in a first direction and Rx electrodes arranged in a second direction, and the fingerprint and touch area having FTx electrodes arranged in the first direction and FRx electrodes arranged in the second direction, and a touch IC that performs touch sensing through the touch area and the fingerprint and touch area and performs fingerprint sensing through the fingerprint and touch area, wherein the Rx electrodes form a plurality of groups, and the groups are individually and separately connected to Rx lines in the boundary region between the touch area and the fingerprint and touch area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Jiho CHO, Kyoseop CHOO, Manhyeop HAN
  • Patent number: 9911025
    Abstract: A sensor screen and a display device including the same are described. The sensor screen can include a first base member including a first active area and a first bezel area and having a first thickness, a second base member which is positioned opposite the first base member and has a second thickness less than the first thickness, and at least one fingerprint sensor disposed in a portion of the first bezel area of one of the first and second base members. The fingerprint sensor can include a plurality of first fingerprint electrodes arranged in a first direction and a plurality of second fingerprint electrodes, which are insulated from the first fingerprint electrodes and are arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manhyeop Han, Kyoseop Choo