Patents by Inventor Woong Ki-Min

Woong Ki-Min 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).

  • Patent number: 8624937
    Abstract: A gray scale voltage generator includes a voltage dividing resistor string to generate blue (B), red (R), and green (G) gamma voltage signals, the voltage dividing resistor string including a B gamma voltage signal generating section, a R/G gamma voltage generating section, and a common (COM) gamma voltage generating section to individually control a B gray scale voltage and a R/G gray scale voltage to maintain a constant color temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo Hong Lee, Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Yong Gi Son
  • Patent number: 8605023
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for driving an LCD device is disclosed, in which an inversion method of an LCD panel is changed depending on a specific pattern of image data so as to improve picture quality of images displayed on the LCD panel. The apparatus for driving an LCD device includes an LCD panel displaying images, a polarity control signal generator comparing image data with pattern data previously stored for the unit of frame and generating a polarity control signal in accordance with the compared result, a data driver converting an inversion method in accordance with the polarity control signal and supplying the received image data to the LCD panel, a gate driver supplying scan pulses to the LCD panel, and a timing controller controlling the data driver and the gate driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Oh Hyun Lee, Woong Ki Min, Hyuk Jin Kim
  • Publication number: 20130314393
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device which includes: a liquid crystal display panel configured to include at least one common electrode bar and a plurality of divisional areas defined along a length direction of the at least one common electrode bar; a common voltage controller configured to divide a single frame into a plurality of intervals corresponding to the plurality of divisional areas and generate a common voltage control signal in each interval; and a common voltage compensator configured to generate a compensated common voltage on the basis of the common voltage control signal in each interval and apply the compensated common voltage to the at least one common electrode bar of the liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woong Ki MIN, Hong Sung SONG, Dong Kyoung OH, Yong Ki SON, Su Hyuk JANG
  • Patent number: 8581823
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a driving method can produce reduced direct current image sticking and flicker. An LCD panel for the LCD device has liquid crystal cells having a common same color in each horizontal line and has columns of liquid crystal cells having a repeating sequence of color, a timing controller for generating a polarity control signal such that the polarity control signal is varied at intervals of one frame period, a data driving circuit supplying data voltages to the data lines in response to the polarity control signal, and a gate driving circuit supplying scan pulses to the gate lines. The liquid crystal cells include first liquid crystal cell groups supplied with data voltages having polarities inverted from polarities the previous frame period, and second liquid crystal cell groups supplied with data voltages having polarities identical to the polarities supplied in the previous frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woong Ki Min, Yong Gi Son, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 8493418
    Abstract: An LCD has a drive power supply structure simplified to simplify manufacturing processes of LCDs and to reduce manufacturing costs thereof. The LCD includes a liquid crystal panel, a drive unit, a controller, a backlight drive unit, and a drive voltage generator. The liquid crystal panel includes image display regions. The drive unit drives gate and data lines in the panel. The controller controls the drive unit using image data and synchronization signals from outside. The drive voltage generator is provided on a system or at least one source printed circuit board on which at least one of the drive unit or the controller is formed and converts a voltage level of a drive power provided from outside to generate drive powers of different voltage levels and provides the drive powers to the drive unit, the controller, and the backlight drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woong-Ki Min, Hong-Sung Song, Ju-Young Lee
  • Patent number: 8446395
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines to which a data voltage is supplied, a plurality of gate lines to which a gate pulse is supplied, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells, a data drive circuit to invert a polarity of the data voltage in response to a polarity control signal and to output the data voltage to the data lines in response to a source output enable signal, a gate drive circuit to supply the gate pulse to the gate lines, and a POL/SOE logic circuit to invert the polarity control signal for every frame period except at Nth-multiple frame period (where N is a positive integer), wherein the POL/SOE logic circuit controls the polarity control signal at every Nth-multiple frame period such that the polarity of the data voltage is the same as the previous frame period and controls a pulse width of the source output enable signal at every Nth-multiple frame period to be longer than for the other frame periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Byung Jin Choi, Dong Il Kim, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 8373819
    Abstract: A backlight unit capable of preventing an initial driving malfunction is disclosed. The backlight unit includes a bottom cover opened upwardly, a reflective sheet disposed in the inner surface of the bottom cover; a plurality of lamps arranged at a fixed interval on the reflective sheet; an auxiliary light source disposed at the outer side surface of the bottom cover; and a light guide member, opposite to the emitting surface of the auxiliary light source, configured to guide light emitted from the auxiliary light source to the lamps through first and second penetration holes formed on one of the side walls of the bottom cover and the reflective sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: LG. Display Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo Hong Lee, Hong Sung Song, Seok Hwan Oh, Woong Ki Min, Ji Woon Min
  • Patent number: 8289258
    Abstract: A disclosed display includes a display panel including a first group of data lines and second group of data lines, a plurality of gate lines crossing the first and a second groups of data lines, and a plurality of picture cells arranged in a matrix. The display also includes a first source PCB coupled to first data integrated circuits (ICs) to supply first data voltages to the first group of data lines and a second source PCB coupled to second data ICs to supply second data voltages to the second group of data lines. The display further includes a timing controller having a single output port with a plurality of output pins which are configured to output video data to both the first and second data ICs, and to output a timing control signal to control both the first and second data ICs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Byung Jin Choi, Dong Hoon Cha, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 8237648
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a simplified printed circuit board (PCB) is disclosed. The LCD device includes a first integrated circuit (IC) group operating in accordance with timing control signals to convert digital video data into data voltage and to supply the data voltage to a first data line group, and a second IC group receiving the timing control signals and the digital video data via a first source PCB and LOG wirings and operating in accordance with the timing control signals to convert the digital video data into the data voltage and to supply the data voltage to a second data line group Each IC of the first and second IC groups includes a polarity control signal (POL) generator for generating a polarity control signal to control a polarity of the data voltage, using a part of the timing control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Byung Jin Choi, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 8164556
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines crossing the plurality of data lines, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells defined as a first and second liquid crystal cell groups, a data driving circuit to supply a data voltage to the data lines in response to a polarity control signal, a gate driving circuit to supply a scanning pulse that swings between a gate high voltage and a gate low voltage to the gate lines, a first logic circuit to generate the polarity control signal differently for each frame period to maintain a polarity of the data voltage charged in the first liquid crystal cell group, and to invert one time a polarity of the data voltage charged in the second liquid crystal cell group for two frame periods, and a second logic circuit to control the gate driving circuit to decrease the gate high voltage of the scanning pulse to a modulated voltage between the gate high voltage and the gate low voltage for a prede
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20120088547
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal having an information recognition module. The mobile terminal having an information recognition module of the present invention comprises: a terminal casing with a front casing and a rear casing coupled with each other; an information recognition module coupled to the terminal casing; and an information recognition module drive unit, which has a trigger provided at the terminal casing in such a manner that the trigger is exposed outside of the terminal casing, and an operation switch, which generates an electrical signal for operating the information recognition module by a trigger pull motion. According to the present invention, procedures for operating the information recognition module can be improved in convenience and stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: BLUEBIRD SOFT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jang Won Lee, Woong Ki Min
  • Patent number: 8125428
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a data transition part to compare a number of transitions between a previous data and a current data and to compare a number of transitions between the current data and a next data to determine whether or not the current data is to be inverted in accordance with a comparison result thereof, and to determine whether or not the current data is to be inverted in accordance with a high level number difference of the data, thereby generating a reverse signal when the current data is inverted, a memory to store a data from the data transition part, a data reverse transition part to reversely convert the data from the memory using the reverse signal, a lookup table to compare the current data and the previous frame data reversely converted by the data reverse transition part to select a modulated data and a display drive circuit to display the data from the lookup table on a liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jo Koo, Su Hyuk Jang, Song Jae Lee, Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min
  • Patent number: 8111229
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells, the plurality of liquid crystal cells associated to a first and second liquid crystal cell groups, a data drive circuit to supply a data voltage to the data lines in response to a polarity control signal, a gate drive circuit to supply a scan pulse to the gate lines, and a polarity control circuit to generate different polarity control signals for each frame period and to control data voltage frequencies of the first and second liquid crystal cell groups to be different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Ju Young Lee, Woong Ki Min, Dong Hoon Cha, Sun Young Choi, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 8044910
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a method for driving the LCD device are disclosed. The LCD device includes a frame rate adjusting circuit for controlling a frame rate to be maintained at a 1-fold rate in frame periods other than an Nth frame period (“N” is a multiple of 8 or more), while being increased to an “i”-fold-accelerated rate (“i” is a positive integer of 2 or more) in the Nth frame period, to output reference timing signals in the frame periods other than the Nth frame period, and to output accelerated timing signals in the Nth frame period, a timing controller for generating data and gate timing control signals, based on at least one of each reference timing signal and each accelerated timing signal, and a logic circuit for accelerating a frequency of a polarity control signal in the Nth frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20110169797
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines to which a data voltage is supplied, a plurality of gate lines to which a gate pulse is supplied, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells, a data drive circuit to invert a polarity of the data voltage in response to a polarity control signal and to output the data voltage to the data lines in response to a source output enable signal, a gate drive circuit to supply the gate pulse to the gate lines, and a POL/SOE logic circuit to invert the polarity control signal for every frame period except at Nth-multiple frame period (where N is a positive integer), wherein the POL/SOE logic circuit controls the polarity control signal at every Nth-multiple frame period such that the polarity of the data voltage is the same as the previous frame period and controls a pulse width of the source output enable signal at every Nth-multiple frame period to be longer than for the other frame periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Byung Jin Choi, Dong II Kim, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 7961163
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a data transition part to compare a number of transitions between a previous data and a current data to selectively invert the current data and to generate a reverse signal, a memory to store the data from the data transition part and to output the stored data as the previous frame data, a data reverse transition part to reversely convert the data from the memory using the reverse signal, a lookup table to compare the current data and the previous frame data reversely converted by the data reverse transition part to select a modulated data, and a display drive circuit to display the data from the lookup table on a liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jo Koo, Su Hyuk Jang, Song Jae Lee, Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min
  • Publication number: 20110134169
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a data transition part to compare a number of transitions between a previous data and a current data and to compare a number of transitions between the current data and a next data to determine whether or not the current data is to be inverted in accordance with a comparison result thereof, and to determine whether or not the current data is to be inverted in accordance with a high level number difference of the data, thereby generating a reverse signal when the current data is inverted, a memory to store a data from the data transition part, a data reverse transition part to reversely convert the data from the memory using the reverse signal, a lookup table to compare the current data and the previous frame data reversely converted by the data reverse transition part to select a modulated data and a display drive circuit to display the data from the lookup table on a liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Sung Jo Koo, Su Hyuk Jang, Song Jae Lee, Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min
  • Patent number: 7932884
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines to which a data voltage is supplied, a plurality of gate lines to which a gate pulse is supplied, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells, a data drive circuit to invert a polarity of the data voltage in response to a polarity control signal and to output the data voltage to the data lines in response to a source output enable signal, a gate drive circuit to supply the gate pulse to the gate lines, and a POL/SOE logic circuit to invert the polarity control signal for every frame period except at Nth-multiple frame period (where N is a positive integer), wherein the POL/SOE logic circuit controls the polarity control signal at every Nth-multiple frame period such that the polarity of the data voltage is the same as the previous frame period and controls a pulse width of the source output enable signal at every Nth-multiple frame period to be longer than for the other frame periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Byung Jin Choi, Dong Il Kim, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 7916105
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel, a data driver configured to supply a pixel driving signal to pixels on the liquid crystal panel in one line unit, an input unit configured to input video data to be supplied to the data driver, a low gray scale compensator configured to compensate a low gray scale value video data in the video data received from the input unit to generate a high gray scale value video data, and a selection controller configured to detect a brightness of the video data received from the input unit, and to selectively supply the high gray scale value video data received from the low gray scale compensator or the video data received from the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woong Ki-Min, Jae Woo Lee, So Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20100309236
    Abstract: An LCD has a drive power supply structure simplified to simplify manufacturing processes of LCDs and to reduce manufacturing costs thereof. The LCD includes a liquid crystal panel, a drive unit, a controller, a backlight drive unit, and a drive voltage generator. The liquid crystal panel includes image display regions. The drive unit drives gate and data lines in the panel. The controller controls the drive unit using image data and synchronization signals from outside. The drive voltage generator is provided on a system or at least one source printed circuit board on which at least one of the drive unit or the controller is formed and converts a voltage level of a drive power provided from outside to generate drive powers of different voltage levels and provides the drive powers to the drive unit, the controller, and the backlight drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Woong-Ki MIN, Hong-Sung Song, Ju-Young Lee