Patents Assigned to Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11967044
    Abstract: Provided is a device for upscaling resolution based on a slice image, in which a low-resolution image is divided into a plurality of slice images so that a high-resolution image is generated. The device includes a convolution operation unit configured to convert a low-resolution input slice image into a high-resolution output slice image using a convolutional neural network. The convolutional neural network includes a cascading block configured to perform a convolution operation using a convolution filter having a predetermined size and a residual operation on an input feature map generated from the low-resolution input slice image to generate an output feature map, and an upscaling block configured to upscale the output feature map to generate the high-resolution output slice image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Cheol Song, Dong Yoon Choi, Ji Yun Park
  • Patent number: 11961807
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor package, comprising: a support part; a semiconductor chip provided on the support part and including a plurality of signal pads; a buffer layer provided on the semiconductor chip; an adhesive layer provided on the buffer layer; a pressure-reducing layer provided on the adhesive layer; and a mold layer provided on the pressure-reducing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Myoung Su Song
  • Publication number: 20240118762
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch system and a method for selectively operating firmware. In particular, it relates to a touch system and a method for selectively operating touch firmware in a touch device by storing a number of pieces of touch firmware supporting a number of host operating systems (OS) respectively in different storing areas of a nonvolatile memory, identifying a host OS installed in the host through communication with the host, and selectively operating the touch firmware supporting the identified host OS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Su Hyun AHN
  • Patent number: 11953873
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for transmitting and receiving safety information, which generates first safety information about a control target and second safety information representing the occurrence or not of an error in the control target by using one microcontroller. The system includes a first slave controller generating first safety information and second safety information by using sensing data obtained from a control target and a master controller receiving the first safety information and the second safety information from the first slave controller through a wireless channel. When an error occurs in the first slave controller, the first slave controller transmits the second safety information to a second slave controller, and the second slave controller transmits the second safety information, received from the first slave controller, to the master controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myoung Su Song, Jae Wan Kim, Il Kwon Kim
  • Publication number: 20240111265
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for transmitting and receiving safety information, which generates first safety information about a control target and second safety information representing the occurrence or not of an error in the control target by using one microcontroller. The system includes a first slave controller generating first safety information and second safety information by using sensing data obtained from a control target and a master controller receiving the first safety information and the second safety information from the first slave controller through a wireless channel. When an error occurs in the first slave controller, the first slave controller transmits the second safety information to a second slave controller, and the second slave controller transmits the second safety information, received from the first slave controller, to the master controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myoung Su SONG, Jae Wan KIM, Il Kwon KIM
  • Patent number: 11948488
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data driving device, a data processing device, and a system for driving a display device and, more particularly, it relates to a data driving device, a data processing device, and a system for smoothly performing a low-speed communication through a communication line including an alternating current coupling capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Seok Kim, Yong Hwan Mun, Myung Yu Kim, Hyun Pyo Cho
  • Patent number: 11941790
    Abstract: The present disclosure may improve contrast and deep black by efficiently controlling local dimming in consideration of the ratio of a black image data and the non-uniformity in the area between blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pil Jae Min, Kwon Chung
  • Patent number: 11934250
    Abstract: The present disclosure, which relates to a technology for controlling power of a display device, allows reducing power consumption by driving circuits for a display operation and circuits for a touch sensing operation with low power depending on a display operation or a touch sensing operation of a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung Min Choi
  • Publication number: 20240087501
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a display panel having a plurality of pixels, the display panel comprising a first display area having first resolution and a second display area having second resolution, the second resolution being lower than the first resolution, and a controller configured to generate display area information of each of the plurality of pixels, to blur an image that is displayed in the second display area based on the display area information, and to perform control such that the blurred image is displayed on the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Hee BAE, Bo Sung KIM, Jun Hun PARK, Ji Hong YUK, Sung Woo HAN, Ji Hoon CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240080176
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data driving device and a method of driving the data driving device and, more particularly, to a data driving device and a method of driving the same in which a tuning of a set value of an internal circuit is automatically performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Seok KIM, Yong Hwan MUN, Myung Yu KIM, Hyun Pyo CHO
  • Publication number: 20240078950
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data driving device, a data processing device, and a system for driving a display device and, more particularly, it relates to a data driving device, a data processing device, and a system for smoothly performing a low-speed communication through a communication line including an alternating current coupling capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Seok KIM, Yong Hwan MUN, Myung Yu KIM, Hyun Pyo CHO
  • Publication number: 20240062732
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a contrast and deep black can be enhanced by differentially performing spatial filtering according to a position of a block of a video image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pil Jae MIN
  • Patent number: 11908372
    Abstract: The present disclosure allows reducing the variation of the luminance depending on the types of images and improving image quality by calculating a plurality of representative values, representing the luminance of pixels so that the types of images can be distinguished, calculating a weight using such representative values, and compensating image data according to the weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Jun Jun, Hee Yeol Lee, Young Seo Yoon
  • Patent number: 11892895
    Abstract: The present disclosure, which relates to a technology for controlling power of a display device, allows reducing power consumption by driving circuits for a display operation and circuits for a touch sensing operation with low power depending on a display operation or a touch sensing operation of a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung Min Choi
  • Patent number: 11893921
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, both the high-speed communication and the low-speed communication are performed using a single communication line, thereby reducing limitations on wiring on a PCB and increasing the utilization efficiency of a transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Seok Kim, Yong Hwan Mun, Young Soo Ryu
  • Patent number: 11887901
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device, and a test apparatus and method thereof, capable of accurately detecting a defect by using a plurality of resistor circuits in a test process. The test apparatus of a semiconductor device according to an aspect of the present disclosure may include semiconductor chips each including an external resistor circuit disposed to be dispersed along an outer region of a chip and an internal resistor circuit disposed in an inner region of the chip in order to test cracks, and test equipment that drives the external resistor circuit and the internal resistor circuit and compares an output of the external resistor circuit with an output of the internal resistor circuit to detect whether a defect occurs in each of the semiconductor chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Won Kim, Yong Jun Ban, Wan Tae Kim, Jin A Kim, Soo Chul Jeon
  • Publication number: 20240029613
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image; a restoring unit configured to receive a data packet and sequentially restoring display data corresponding to red, green and blue colors of sub-pixels from the data packet; a mura compensation circuit configured to receive the restored display data, generate adjusted compensation values and compensate for mura on the display data corresponding to the colors of the sub-pixels using the adjusted compensation values corresponding to location information of the sub-pixels having the mura; and an output circuit configured to receive the mura compensated display data and output a source signal to the display panel in accordance with the data packet, wherein the adjusted compensation values are generated by applying a first gain that is proportionally increased from 0% to 100% at a first region between a lowest gray scale and a first gray scale, a second gain that is 100% at a second region between the first gray scale and a second gray scale,
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Young Park, Ki Taek Kim
  • Publication number: 20240029668
    Abstract: An embodiment enables natural and smooth change in the brightness of a backlight unit and is able to reduce flicker by changing a dimming value between frames through a mixed function including a plurality of functions having different characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu JEON, Ji Won LEE, Jung Eun BAEK, Xin CUI, Do Hoon LEE
  • Patent number: 11880180
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for transmitting and receiving safety information, which generates first safety information about a control target and second safety information representing the occurrence or not of an error in the control target by using one microcontroller. The system includes a first slave controller generating first safety information and second safety information by using sensing data obtained from a control target and a master controller receiving the first safety information and the second safety information from the first slave controller through a wireless channel. When an error occurs in the first slave controller, the first slave controller transmits the second safety information to a second slave controller, and the second slave controller transmits the second safety information, received from the first slave controller, to the master controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myoung Su Song, Jae Wan Kim, Il Kwon Kim
  • Patent number: 11874744
    Abstract: A mobile phone having a flash memory reset function, which solves a malfunction of the mobile phone due to an abnormal state of a flash memory, and a flash memory control apparatus thereof. The flash memory control apparatus includes an application processor configured to provide the hold signal and the chip select signal for resetting when it is determined, on the basis of error information due to a read error of an integrated circuit operating by reading flash data, that an abnormal case due to a read error for the flash data has occurred more than a predetermined number of times; and a flash memory configured to reset the flash data when the hold signal and the chip select signal for resetting are received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Myung Kyu Jeon