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).

  • Publication number: 20100157196
    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: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Joo Hong Lee, Hong Sung Song, Seok Hwan Oh, Woong Ki Min, Ji Woon Min
  • Publication number: 20100073339
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for correcting a gamma for shortening a gamma correction time period and improving gamma correction efficiency and reliability thereof, and simplifying a gamma correction device for reducing a production cost of image display devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Joo Hong Lee, Hong Sung Song, Oh Hyun Lee, Woong Ki Min
  • Publication number: 20090153593
    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: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Joo Hong Lee, Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Yong Gi Son
  • Publication number: 20090002292
    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: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Sung Jo Koo, Su Hyuk Jang, Song Jae Lee, Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min
  • Publication number: 20080316161
    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: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20080297457
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a driving method where the LCD device includes a data controller for interleaving one of black gray scale data and intermediate gray scale data into input digital video data to input digital video data in a specific period preceding a second one of two successive frame periods in which data voltages having the same polarity are successively supplied to liquid crystal cells. A timing signal controller generates a data timing signal and a gate timing signal, based on an input timing signal, and accelerates a frequency of the data timing signal and a frequency of the gate timing signal in the specific period. A data driving circuit is included for converting the interleaved digital video data into an analog voltage in response to the data timing signal, and supplying the analog voltage to data lines in the specific period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20080291189
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a matrix of liquid crystal cells defined by crossings of the data lines and the gate lines. The LCD device includes a data driving circuit for inverting a polarity of a data voltage in response to a polarity control signal, and supplying the polarity-inverted data voltage to an associated one of the data lines in response to a source output enable signal; a gate driving circuit for sequentially supplying a scan voltage to each of the gate lines in response to a gate output enable signal; and a controller for modulating the polarity control signal such that data voltages having the same polarity are respectively supplied to liquid crystal cells along one gate line in consecutive frame periods and generating the source output enable signal and the gate output enable signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20080284941
    Abstract: A lamp electrode printed circuit board of a backlight unit includes an insulating substrate, first and second conductive patterns on the insulating substrates along a first direction and in parallel, a connecting pattern extending from one of the first and second conductive patterns, a connecting pad at one end of the connecting pattern, auxiliary patterns extending from an edge of the connecting pad, and lamp holders electrically connected to the first and second conductive patterns and spaced apart from each other along the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung-Jin Choi, Hong-Sung Song, Woong-Ki Min
  • Publication number: 20080284704
    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: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20080278428
    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: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Byung Jin Choi, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20080225036
    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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Byung Jin Choi, Dong Hoon Cha, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20080170024
    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: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Woong Ki Min, Byung Jin Choi, Dong Il Kim, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20080170025
    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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Ju Young Lee, Woong Ki Min, Dong Hoon Cha, Sun Young Choi, Su Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20080088556
    Abstract: A method of driving a liquid crystal display device includes supplying data voltages to a pixel on a moving path of an image during a scroll operation, wherein the data voltages displaying the image have opposite polarities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Woong-Ki Min, Hong-Sung Song
  • Publication number: 20080001880
    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: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Woong Ki-Min, Jae Woo Lee, So Hyuk Jang
  • Publication number: 20080001890
    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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Hong Sung Song, Oh Hyun Lee, Woong Ki Min, Hyuk Jin Kim