Patents by Inventor Beom-Shik Kim

Beom-Shik Kim 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: 20140293155
    Abstract: Embodiments provide the energy recovery system capable of converting mechanical energy of a touch input to a touch screen panel into electrical energy and storing the converted electrical energy. The energy recovery system may include a touch screen panel including a piezoelectric material, an energy recovery device recovering electrical energy generated by the piezoelectric material, and an electrical energy storage device storing the recovered electrical energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Beom-Shik Kim, Hui Nam, Jun-Il Kwon
  • Publication number: 20140218472
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device includes a display including a plurality of pixels and displaying an image according to image data generated by processing an input video signal, and a controller for controlling the processing of an input video signal. The controller includes an image change gap setter for setting a first image change gap by using a user's reference input value, a calculation and correction unit for calculating an actual distance of the user who views a display image based on the user's observation position coordinate data, correcting the first image change gap corresponding to the actual distance, and calculating a second image change gap, and an image mode selector for selecting an image mode realized by the display, determining the user's position point with reference to the second image change gap, and generating image data for respective image modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Beom-Shik KIM, Hui NAM, Jun-Il KWON
  • Publication number: 20140104250
    Abstract: An electronic imaging device includes a display unit and a barrier layer. The display unit includes scan lines for transferring select signals, data lines for transferring data signals corresponding to first and second images formed according to one or more input signals, and pixels connected with the scan and data lines. The barrier layer includes first barriers and second barriers corresponding to the first barriers. The first image is displayed during a first period of a unit period during which an image of a single frame is displayed. The second image is displayed during a second period different from the first period. The first barriers are driven according to the first image, the second barriers are driven according to the second image, and a region of the barrier layer corresponding to a mixed region in which the first and second images coexist is a non-transmission region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Nam, Beom-Shik Kim, Chan-Young Park, Ja-Seung Ku
  • Publication number: 20140098040
    Abstract: Provided are a flexible display apparatus and a method of operating the same. The flexible display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays an image and is flexible; and a sensor for detecting an approach of an object to a bent space of the display unit while the display unit is bent. The flexible display apparatus may use a proximity touch as a user interface by detecting an approach of an object, by disposing a sensor in a region adjacent to a display unit or on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventors: Jun-Il Kwon, Hui Nam, Beom-Shik Kim
  • Publication number: 20140055693
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, each pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels, a lens module on the display panel, the lens module including a plurality of lenses having a pitch that corresponds to a horizontal pitch of the plurality of sub-pixels, and a driving unit configured to drive the display panel and the lens module to provide an image displayed by the display panel to a left eye of a viewer at a first frame and to provide the image displayed by the display panel to a right eye of the viewer at a second frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Hui NAM, Beom-Shik KIM
  • Patent number: 8619206
    Abstract: An electronic imaging device includes a display unit and a barrier layer. The display unit includes scan lines for transferring select signals, data lines for transferring data signals corresponding to first and second images formed according to one or more input signals, and pixels connected with the scan and data lines. The barrier layer includes first barriers and second barriers corresponding to the first barriers. The first image is displayed during a first period of a unit period during which an image of a single frame is displayed. The second image is displayed during a second period different from the first period. The first barriers are driven according to the first image, the second barriers are driven according to the second image, and a region of the barrier layer corresponding to a mixed region in which the first and second images coexist is a non-transmission region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hui Nam, Beom-Shik Kim, Chan-Young Park, Ja-Seung Ku
  • Patent number: 8610838
    Abstract: An electronic image device includes a display unit that displays an image; and a barrier portion disposed over the display unit and configured to control transmission of the image to a user. The barrier portion includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposing each other to define a space in which interception portions and lens portions are to be alternately disposed. The barrier portion further includes a common electrode disposed over one surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first electrode disposed at a region corresponding to each of the interception portions, and a second electrode including a plurality of sub-electrodes and disposed at a region corresponding to each of the lens portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beom-Shik Kim, Hui Nam, Jun-Il Kwon
  • Patent number: 8582062
    Abstract: A 2D/3D switchable display, including a display unit adapted to display an image, and a lens unit on the display unit, wherein the lens unit includes a first lens substrate on the display unit and including a first electrode array including a plurality of first electrodes that are spaced apart from each other, a second lens substrate on the first lens substrate and including a second electrode array including a plurality of second electrodes that are spaced apart from each other, and a liquid crystal layer between the first lens substrate and the second lens substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beom-Shik Kim, Hui Nam, Chan-Young Park
  • Publication number: 20130257840
    Abstract: A dual liquid crystal barrier includes a first substrate having space-division electrodes, the space-division electrodes including first electrodes and second electrodes, a second substrate having time-division electrodes, the time-division electrodes including third electrodes and fourth electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The dual liquid crystal barrier is configured to selectively operate as a space-division liquid crystal barrier based on the space-division electrodes, or a time-division liquid crystal barrier based on the time-division electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Beom-Shik Kim, Hui Nam
  • Publication number: 20130257855
    Abstract: A time-division liquid crystal barrier includes an upper substrate having first electrodes, second electrodes, and a first insulation layer between the first and second electrodes, the first electrodes being arranged with a first gap, and the second electrodes being arranged with a second gap, a lower substrate having third electrodes, fourth electrodes, and a second insulation layer between the third and fourth electrodes, the third electrodes being arranged with the first gap, and the fourth electrodes being arranged with the second gap, and a liquid crystal layer between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, the first and second electrodes being alternately arranged with respect to the first insulation layer, the third and fourth electrodes being alternately arranged with respect to the second insulation layer, the first electrodes overlap the third electrodes, and the second electrodes overlap the fourth electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Beom-Shik KIM, Hui NAM, Jun-Il KWON
  • Patent number: 8547488
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit, displaying an image; and an optical unit including a first substrate on the display unit, a first electrode on the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer on the first electrode and configured to be responsive to a vertical electric field or a horizontal electric field, a second electrode on the liquid crystal layer, an insulation layer on the second electrode, a third electrode on the insulation layer, and a second substrate on the third electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beom-Shik Kim, Hui Nam
  • Patent number: 8482485
    Abstract: A barrier device and a display device including the barrier device, include a plurality of column barrier electrodes and a plurality of row barrier electrodes. In the barrier unit, the column barrier electrodes are divided as a plurality of first column barrier electrodes and a plurality of second column barrier electrodes. Crossing regions of the first column barrier electrode and the plurality of row barrier electrodes are different from crossing regions of the second column barrier electrode and the plurality of row barrier electrodes. The barrier device improves image quality of stereoscopic images displayed by the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyoung-Wook Jang, Hui Nam, Beom-Shik Kim, Ja-Seung Ku, Chan-Young Park
  • Patent number: 8466454
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display according to an exemplary embodiment includes a substrate main body, a plurality of organic light emitting elements formed on the substrate main body, an encapsulation thin film formed on the substrate main body thereby covering the plurality of organic light emitting elements, and a disparity barrier rib layer formed on a boundary region between the plurality of organic light emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan-Young Park, Beom-Shik Kim, Hui Nam
  • Publication number: 20130127831
    Abstract: An electronic image device includes a display unit that displays an image; and a barrier portion disposed over the display unit and configured to control transmission of the image to a user. The barrier portion includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposing each other to define a space in which interception portions and lens portions are to be alternately disposed. The barrier portion further includes a common electrode disposed over one surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first electrode disposed at a region corresponding to each of the interception portions, and a second electrode including a plurality of sub-electrodes and disposed at a region corresponding to each of the lens portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Beom-Shik KIM, Hui NAM, Jun-Il KWON
  • Patent number: 8431930
    Abstract: A display device includes: i) a substrate member having a transparent area and a plurality of pixel areas, the pixel areas being spaced apart from each other along a first direction and a second direction, the transparent area located between the pixel areas, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction; and ii) an emission layer located at each of the pixel areas. Among the plurality of pixel areas, a width of the transparent area along the first direction between two pixel areas varies along the second direction. The first direction may be the horizontal direction of a screen realized by the substrate member, the second direction may be a vertical direction, and the emission layer may have a width along the horizontal direction that varies along the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan-Young Park, Beom-Shik Kim
  • Patent number: 8395572
    Abstract: An electronic display device includes a display unit that displays images and a barrier unit between the display unit and a user, and provides images to the user as two-dimensional images or stereoscopic images. The barrier unit includes first electrodes on a first surface, the first electrodes being spaced apart from each other, second electrodes on the first surface, at a first gap from the first electrodes and between the first electrodes, auxiliary electrodes on a second surface, corresponding to the first gap, the auxiliary electrodes configured to be driven in synchronization with any one of the two-dimensional images and the stereoscopic images, a common electrode on a third surface, and a liquid crystal layer between the common electrode and first, second, and auxiliary electrode. A barrier driver controls the barrier unit in accordance with whether two-dimensional images or stereoscopic images are to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beom-Shik Kim, Hui Nam, Chan-Young Park
  • Patent number: 8384834
    Abstract: An electronic imaging device includes a display unit having a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels, and a barrier layer disposed in front of the display unit and divided into a plurality of areas along a scan direction. The barrier layer includes a plurality of first barrier electrodes and a plurality of second barrier electrode. The plurality of first barrier electrodes includes a plurality of first and second sub-electrodes in a zigzag pattern along the scan direction, the plurality of second barrier electrodes includes a plurality of third and fourth sub-electrodes in a zigzag pattern along the scan direction, and the third and fourth sub-electrodes being offset with respect to the first and second sub-electrodes along the scan direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ja-Seung Ku, Beom-Shik Kim, Hui Nam, Chan-Young Park, Hyoung-Wook Jang
  • Patent number: 8373617
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stereoscopic image display device including an active barrier for varying a barrier display pattern so as to display various stereoscopic images. In further detail, the stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel, a barrier, a barrier driver, and a controller. A stereoscopic image is displayed on the display panel. The barrier is placed corresponding to the display panel, and includes a plurality of liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix format. The barrier driver drives the barrier such that the barrier display pattern may be a display pattern corresponding to the image signal by controlling the respective plurality of liquid crystal cells to become selectively transparent or opaque based on the mode information signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beom-Shik Kim, Jang-Doo Lee, Hyoung-Wook Jang, Hui Nam, Myoung-Seop Song
  • Patent number: 8363094
    Abstract: An electronic display device includes a display unit including a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels, and a barrier unit covering the display unit, including a plurality of first areas and a plurality of second areas alternately arranged along a length direction of the data lines, a first electrode group respectively provided in each of the first areas, each of the electrode groups including a plurality of first sub-electrodes and a plurality of second sub-electrodes alternately arranged along a length direction of the scan lines, a second electrode group provided in each of the second areas on a layer that is different from a layer on which the first electrode group is provided, each of the second electrode groups including a plurality of third sub-electrodes and a plurality of fourth sub-electrodes alternately arranged along the length direction of the scan line, and an insulation layer between the first and second electrode groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beom-Shik Kim, Hui Nam, Chan-Young Park, Ja-Seung Ku, Hyoung-Wook Jang
  • Patent number: 8284335
    Abstract: An electronic display device includes a display unit adapted to display an image, and a barrier unit overlapping the display unit, the barrier unit including a liquid crystal layer between first and second substrates, the first and second substrates facing each other, a common electrode between the liquid crystal layer and the first substrate, a transparent insulation layer between the liquid crystal layer and the second substrate, the transparent insulation layer having an inner surface facing the liquid crystal layer and an outer surface facing the second substrate, a plurality of first electrodes along a first direction between the outer surface of the transparent insulation layer and the second substrate, the first electrodes being spaced apart from each other along a second direction, and a plurality of second electrodes along the first direction between the inner surface of the transparent insulation layer and the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beom-Shik Kim, Ja-Seung Ku, Hui Nam, Chan-Young Park, Hyoung-Wook Jang