Patents by Inventor Bong-Im Park

Bong-Im Park 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: 9886883
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a timing controller and a display panel. The timing controller generates first and second image data based on input image data and generates output image data based on the first and second image data. The first image data corresponds to a boundary region in a first image. The second image data corresponds to a non-boundary region in the first image. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels and displays the first image based on the output image data. The plurality of pixels include boundary pixels corresponding to the boundary region and non-boundary pixels corresponding to the non-boundary region. The boundary pixels operate based on a reference gamma curve. The non-boundary pixels operate based on first and second gamma curves different from the reference gamma curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ik-Hyun Ahn, Yoon-Gu Kim, Bong-Im Park, Hyun-Sik Hwang
  • Patent number: 9837037
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes comparing a previous line data and a present line data to generate a charge sharing enable (EQ) signal indicating whether or not a charge sharing is to be applied to a pixel; selectively applying the charge sharing to the present line data utilizing a charge sharing voltage according to the EQ signal to generate a data voltage; and outputting the data voltage to the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Sik Hwang, Bong-Im Park, Ik Hyun Ahn, Won-Sik Oh, Yoon-Gu Kim, Ho-Seok Son, Young-Woo Choi
  • Patent number: 9818318
    Abstract: A method of driving a display device includes a preliminary frame charging step and a main frame charging step. The method comprises a preliminary frame charging step of simultaneously charging liquid crystal cells in a pixel line group having a selected pixel row and a unselected pixel row with pixel data of the selected pixel row of the pixel line group and a main frame charging step of charging liquid crystal cells in the unselected pixel line group with pixel data of the unselected pixel line group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ik-Hyun Ahn, Bong-Im Park, Seon-Ki Kim, Se-Huhn Hur
  • Patent number: 9812088
    Abstract: A display device includes a signal controller and a data driver. The signal controller processes an input image signal to generate an output image signal. The signal controller processes the input image signal using a correction unit. The correction unit corrects the input image signal to a first gray scale value greater than 0 gray scale value when the gray scale value of the input image signal is 0. The output image signal is based on the corrected input image signal. The data driver converts the output image signal into a data voltage to be applied to a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ik Hyun Ahn, Yoon Gu Kim, Bong Im Park, Seon Ki Kim, Ah Young Son
  • Patent number: 9706196
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes outputting a data voltage of three-dimensional (“3D”) image data included in a left-eye data frame and a right-eye data frame to the display panel along a scanning direction of a first direction during a first period, blocking the data voltage from being provided to the display panel during a second period and outputting a black data voltage to the display panel during a third period that is less than the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ik-Huyn Ahn, Seon-Ki Kim, Se-Huhn Hur, Jun-Pyo Lee, Bong-Im Park, Ho-Seok Son
  • Patent number: 9691341
    Abstract: A data driver includes a digital-to-analog converter, a control signal output circuit, and an output buffer. The digital-to-analog converter generates first data voltages and second data voltages based on image data and a polarity control signal. Each first data voltage has a positive polarity, and each second data voltage has a negative polarity. The control signal output circuit outputs a first output control signal and a second output control signal based on the polarity control signal. A phase of the second output control signal is different from a phase of the first output control signal. The output buffer outputs the first data voltages based on the first output control signal and outputs the second data voltages based on the second output control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ik-Hyun Ahn, Yoon-Gu Kim, Bong-Im Park
  • Patent number: 9674513
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes outputting a data voltage of three-dimensional (“3D”) image data included in a left-eye data frame and a right-eye data frame to the display panel along a scanning direction of a first direction during a first period, blocking the data voltage from being provided to the display panel during a second period and outputting a black data voltage to the display panel during a third period that is less than the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ik-Huyn Ahn, Seon-Ki Kim, Se-Huhn Hur, Jun-Pyo Lee, Bong-Im Park, Ho-Seok Son
  • Patent number: 9633595
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver and a data driver. The display panel includes gate lines, data lines and pixels electrically connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The gate driver is disposed adjacent to a first side of the display panel, and outputs a gate signal to the gate line. The data driver is disposed adjacent to the first side of the display panel, and outputs a data voltage to the data line. A gate signal applied to a position having a low resistance-capacitance (“RC”) delay of the gate line has a kickback slice greater than a kickback slice of a gate signal applied to a position having a high RC delay of the gate line. The kickback slice is defined as a portion having a level lower than a gate-on voltage level in a gate pulse of the gate signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Sik Hwang, Bong-Im Park, Jung-Deok Seo, Byung-Kook Sim
  • Publication number: 20170092201
    Abstract: In a method of operating a display panel, a plurality of data lines are divided into a first data line group through an N-th data line group, where N is a natural number equal to or greater than two. Each of the first through N-th data line groups includes at least two data lines. The first through N-th data line groups are sequentially driven by applying first data voltages through N-th data voltages to the first through N-th data line groups, respectively at different times. A first number of data lines in the first data line group is variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: JUNG-DEOK SEO, YOON-GU KIM, BONG-IM PARK, BYUNG-KOOK SIM, HYUN-SIK HWANG
  • Publication number: 20170018255
    Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a data processing circuit, a data driver, and a gate driver. The data processing circuit increases a first gamma value of input image data of which the gamma value is 0, according to a second gamma value of the input image data of which the second gamma value is not 0. The data driving part outputs a data signal based on the output image data to a data line. The gate driving part outputs a gate signal to a gate line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: YOON-GU KIM, BONG-IM PARK, IK-HYUN AHN, HYUN-SIK HWANG, WON-JOO LEE, JIN-YOUNG LEE
  • Publication number: 20170004747
    Abstract: A method of driving a display device includes a preliminary frame charging step and a main frame charging step. The method comprises a preliminary frame charging step of simultaneously charging liquid crystal cells in a pixel line group having a selected pixel row and a unselected pixel row with pixel data of the selected pixel row of the pixel line group and a main frame charging step of charging liquid crystal cells in the unselected pixel line group with pixel data of the unselected pixel line group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Ik-Hyun AHN, Bong-Im PARK, Seon-Ki KIM, Se-Huhn HUR
  • Publication number: 20160379541
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a timing controller and a display panel. The timing controller generates first and second image data based on input image data and generates output image data based on the first and second image data. The first image data corresponds to a boundary region in a first image. The second image data corresponds to a non-boundary region in the first image. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels and displays the first image based on the output image data. The plurality of pixels include boundary pixels corresponding to the boundary region and non-boundary pixels corresponding to the non-boundary region. The boundary pixels operate based on a reference gamma curve. The non-boundary pixels operate based on first and second gamma curves different from the reference gamma curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: IK-HYUN AHN, Yoon-Gu Kim, Bong-Im Park, Hyun-Sik Hwang
  • Publication number: 20160372025
    Abstract: The display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels coupled to gate lines and data lines, a gate driving unit for outputting a gate signal to the gate lines, a data driving unit for outputting a data signal to the data lines, a voltage supply unit for supplying, to the gate driving unit a gate-on voltage to generate the gate signal, a gate-off voltage, and a kickback compensation voltage having a voltage level varied at a section of the gate-on voltage, and a display mode control unit for controlling the voltage supply unit to supply the kickback compensation voltage during a first display mode for displaying an image on an entire area of the display unit, and to block supply of the kickback compensation voltage during a second display mode for displaying an image on only a partial area of the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Ik Hyun Ahn, Yoon Gu Kim, Bong Im Park, Hyun Sik Hwang
  • Patent number: 9497446
    Abstract: A method of displaying a stereoscopic image provides first light having a first wavelength and second light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength to the a display panel according to left-eye and right-eye images displayed on the display panel. Color correcting data are generated by correcting at least one of left-eye color data corresponding to the left-eye image and right-eye color data corresponding to the right-eye image such that a first color coordinate according to the first light and a second color coordinate according to the second light coincide with each other with respect to the same color. The left-eye and right-eye images are displayed using light having wavelengths different from each other, so that a display quality of the stereoscopic image may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bong-Im Park, Byoung-Jun Lee, Yun-Jae Kim, Seon-Ki Kim, Se-Huhn Hur, Jae-Woo Jung, Jun-Pyo Lee, Ah-Reum Kim, Ik-Huyn Ahn, Kang-Min Kim, Jung-Won Kim
  • Patent number: 9460682
    Abstract: A method of driving a display device includes a preliminary frame charging step and a main frame charging step. The method comprises a preliminary frame charging step of simultaneously charging liquid crystal cells in a pixel line group having a selected pixel row and a unselected pixel row with pixel data of the selected pixel row of the pixel line group and a main frame charging step of charging liquid crystal cells in the unselected pixel line group with pixel data of the unselected pixel line group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ik-Hyun Ahn, Bong-Im Park, Seon-Ki Kim, Se-Huhn Hur
  • Publication number: 20160232869
    Abstract: A display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel rows, a data driver configured to transfer data voltages to the display panel, a gate driver configured to transfer gate signals to the display panel, and a signal controller configured to control the data driver and the gate driver. The pixel rows are divided into i (i is a natural number of 2 or more) pixel row groups including a plurality of pixel rows, respectively. The display panel displays one still image for one frame set including the i sequential frames, and each of the i pixel row groups is charged by receiving the data voltage for each frame of the frame set, and the frames in which the i pixel row groups are charged are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Ik Hyun Ahn, Yoon Gu Kim, Bong Im Park, Seon Ki Kim
  • Patent number: 9396694
    Abstract: A display device and a driving method thereof is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of gate lines arranged in a column direction, and a plurality of data lines intersecting the plurality of gate lines; a data driver transferring data voltages to the plurality of data lines; a gate driver transferring gate signals to the plurality of gate lines; and a signal controller controlling the data driver and the gate driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ik Hyun Ahn, Yoon Gu Kim, Bong Im Park, Ho Seok Son
  • Publication number: 20160203753
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver and a data driver. The display panel includes gate lines, data lines and pixels electrically connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The gate driver is disposed adjacent to a first side of the display panel, and outputs a gate signal to the gate line. The data driver is disposed adjacent to the first side of the display panel, and outputs a data voltage to the data line. A gate signal applied to a position having a low resistance-capacitance (“RC”) delay of the gate line has a kickback slice greater than a kickback slice of a gate signal applied to a position having a high RC delay of the gate line. The kickback slice is defined as a portion having a level lower than a gate-on voltage level in a gate pulse of the gate signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Hyun-Sik HWANG, Bong-Im PARK, Jung-Deok SEO, Byung-Kook SIM
  • Publication number: 20160196799
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines which are connected to the plurality of pixels, a data driver applying data voltages to the plurality of data lines, and a gate driver delaying and outputting first gate signals applied to gate lines among the plurality of gate lines in a first sub-frame included in one frame and advancing and outputting second gate signals which are applied to remaining gate lines among the plurality of gate lines in a second sub-frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Ik Hyun AHN, Woo Joo LEE, Hyun Sik HWANG, Bong Im PARK
  • Publication number: 20160180816
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display has a first transistor, a first capacitor, a second transistor, a liquid crystal element, and a third transistor. A controller may be configured to alternately, based on a period of a horizontal signal, apply a common voltage through a common voltage line at a high level and a low level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Hyun Sik HWANG, Bong Im Park, Ik Hyun Ahn, Woo Joo Lee