Patents by Inventor Byung-Ki Chun

Byung-Ki Chun 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: 11967262
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a controller, and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The controller is configured to: receive input image data for the display panel; divide the display panel into a plurality of first pixel blocks each having a first size; divide the display panel into a plurality of second pixel blocks each having a second size different from the first size; generate, based on the input image data, a first stress map for the plurality of first pixel blocks and a second stress map for the plurality of second pixel blocks; and generate output image data by compensating the input image data based on the first stress map and the second stress map. The data driver is configured to provide data voltages to the plurality of pixels based on the output image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Hyeonmin Kim, Yongseok Choi
  • Publication number: 20240112630
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including, a driving transistor configured to generate driving current, a light emitting element configured to emit light based on the driving current and an initialization transistor configured to apply an initialization voltage to an output electrode of the driving transistor, a sensing driver configured to generate sensing data by receiving the driving current of the pixels through initialization transistors and a driving controller configured to generate accumulated image data by accumulating input image data for frames and to compensate for the input image data based on the accumulated image data and the sensing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: MIN-SEOK BAE, CHANGBIN IM, BYUNG KI CHUN
  • Publication number: 20240105134
    Abstract: A display device including: a display panel including pixels; a controller configured to receive input image data, to detect a high gray region adjacent to a low gray region in an image represented by the input image data, to set at least a portion of the low gray region adjacent to the high gray region as a light spread region based on a light spread distance or a pixel density of the display panel, and to generate output image data by correcting the input image data for the light spread region; and a data driver configured to provide data voltages to the pixels based on the output image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: DAE-GWANG JANG, Byung Ki Chun
  • Publication number: 20240105127
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller, and a data driver. The driving controller generates a data signal based on input image data. The data driver converts the data signal into a data voltage and outputs the data voltage to the display panel. The driving controller includes a deterioration compensator. The deterioration compensator generates an alpha value based on a ratio between a sensed current read from a portion of the display panel applied with a high power voltage or a portion of the display panel applied with a low power voltage and a predicted current calculated from the input image data and generates the data signal using the input image data, a stress value of a pixel, and the alpha value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: JONG-WOONG PARK, WONJU SHIN, BYUNG KI CHUN, KANGHEE LEE
  • Patent number: 11922600
    Abstract: An afterimage compensator includes: a logo detector configured to detect a logo area including a logo image displayed in a display panel and a logo background image included in a preset range at the periphery of the logo image, based on input image data; a blurring determiner configured to determine a blurring area corresponding to the logo image, using the logo image and the logo background image; and an image corrector configured to blur the logo image, based on the blurring area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Young Wook Yoo, Jun Gyu Lee
  • Publication number: 20230419873
    Abstract: Provided is a display device comprising pixel circuits included in the display area, the pixel circuits including light emitting elements with grayscales corresponding to data input from the outside, a dummy pixel circuit included in the non-display area, the dummy pixel circuit including a dummy light emitting element and a dummy driving transistor, a sensing unit for inputting to the dummy pixel circuit, a test data signal for sensing an output signal corresponding to predetermined test data for each predetermined time, and then performing an operation of generating compensation information for compensating for degradation according to a driving time of at least one of the light emitting element and the driving transistor based on the output signal output from the dummy pixel circuit, and a timing controller for accumulating and storing the compensation information, and generating compensated data by compensating for the data input from the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Byung Ki CHUN, Jae Hoon LEE, Tae Hyeong AN
  • Publication number: 20230410755
    Abstract: Provided is a display device comprising at least one sensing pixel including a sensing pixel circuit, a sensing unit including sensing circuit, and a temperature output unit to calculate a temperature of the display panel based on the sensing data. The sensing data is generated from a sensing pixel including a driving transistor in which a current generated according to temperature varies, and a temperature is measured from the sensing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Tae Hyeong AN, Jae Hoon LEE, Byung Ki CHUN
  • Patent number: 11842675
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, a data driving circuit for driving the plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit for driving the plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller for receiving a control signal and an image signal and controlling the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit such that an image is displayed on the display panel. The driving controller identifies a first region and a second region of an image to be displayed on the display panel based on the image signal and provides the data driving circuit with an image data signal obtained by compensating for the image signal to be provided to pixels adjacent to the second region among pixels corresponding to the first region as a compensation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Won Lee, Byung Ki Chun, Joon-Chul Goh, Bonghyun You
  • Patent number: 11842276
    Abstract: The display device includes a plurality of pixels, a data driver, and a timing controller. The plurality of pixels are connected to a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines. The data driver supplies a data voltage to the plurality of data lines in a light-emitting mode and supplies a neural network input voltage to the plurality of data lines in an artificial neural network mode. The timing controller is in an artificial neural network mode, and supplies a weight value control signal for performing a deep learning operation by using at least one of the plurality of pixels to the data driver. The weight value control signal is generated based on a predetermined weight value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Wook Yoo, Hyeon Min Kim, Jun Gyu Lee, Hyun Jun Lim, Byung Ki Chun
  • Patent number: 11682335
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a memory, a dithering processor, and a panel driver. The display panel includes a display surface, and the memory stores dither patterns with respect to at least one spot area included in the display surface. The dithering processor selects a dither pattern among the dither patterns in a predetermined time unit and outputs a compensation image signal corresponding to the dither pattern. The panel driver outputs a data signal corresponding to the spot area based on the compensation image signal. Each of the dither patterns includes a first grayscale area having a first grayscale value higher than a first target grayscale value of the spot area and a second grayscale area having a second grayscale value lower than the first target grayscale value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Youngwook Yoo, Jungyu Lee, Hyunjun Lim, Byung Ki Chun
  • Patent number: 11657764
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels, an image converter generating second image data using first image data of an N-th frame and first image data of an (N+1)th frame; and a data driver supplying a data signal corresponding to the second image data to the pixels during an (N+1)th frame period. The image converter detects a logo and a logo area using the first image data, calculates a first representative value of data corresponding to a peripheral area of the logo area among the first image data of an N-th frame and a second representative value of data corresponding to a reference area among the first image data of the (N+1)th frame, and selectively converts data for the logo among the first image data of the (N+1)th frame according to the first representative value and the second representative value to generate the second image data of the (N+1)th frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Hyeon Min Kim, Young Wook Yoo, Jun Gyu Lee, Hyun Jun Lim
  • Publication number: 20230134326
    Abstract: A display device may include first pixels disposed in a display area and including respective first driving transistors. A second pixel is disposed in a non-display area and includes a second driving transistor. A sensor is configured to sense a current of the second pixel during a sensing period and generate sensing data. A degradation compensator is configured to convert first image data into second image data. A data driver is configured to generate data signals based on the second image data and supply the data signals to the first pixels. The degradation compensator calculates an age of the first pixels based on accumulating the second image data, converts the first image data into the second image data by deriving a compensation value from representative compensation data according to the age of the first pixels, and calibrates the representative compensation data based on the sensing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: JAE HOON LEE, TETSUHIRO TANAKA, DAE SEOP KIM, CHEOL MIN KIM, BYUNG HYUK SHIN, HAI JUNG IN, BYUNG KI CHUN
  • Publication number: 20230135235
    Abstract: A display device may compensate for such changes in characteristics of light emitting elements and transistors in pixels of a display. For example, a driving circuit of a display device may update a lookup table that stores one or more compensation values. Each compensation value may correspond to a characteristic change of a pixel. In some embodiments, the characteristic change of a transistor may be determined based on a sensing signal received from a dummy pixel. Accordingly, a display device may generate a compensation signal based on an actual characteristic change of the transistor in the pixel. The compensation signal may be used by the display device to compensate for pixel characteristic changes that occur over time. For instance, a display device may use such compensation signals to correct input signals (e.g., to generate a corrected output signal) to be applied to one or more pixels of a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: JAEHOON LEE, DAE-SEOP KIM, CHEOLMIN KIM, BYUNG KI CHUN
  • Publication number: 20230115199
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a controller, and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The controller is configured to: receive input image data for the display panel; divide the display panel into a plurality of first pixel blocks each having a first size; divide the display panel into a plurality of second pixel blocks each having a second size different from the first size; generate, based on the input image data, a first stress map for the plurality of first pixel blocks and a second stress map for the plurality of second pixel blocks; and generate output image data by compensating the input image data based on the first stress map and the second stress map. The data driver is configured to provide data voltages to the plurality of pixels based on the output image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: BYUNG KI CHUN, HYEONMIN KIM, YONGSEOK CHOI
  • Patent number: 11594164
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including first and second display areas adjacent to each other; and first and second data drivers configured to drive the first and second display areas, respectively, wherein the first data driver includes: a first afterimage detector configured to receive an input image and to detect a first afterimage area including an afterimage of the first display area from the input image; a first comparator configured to compare an afterimage detection result of the first display area with an afterimage detection result of the second display area received from the second data driver; and a first coordinate corrector configured to correct coordinates of the first afterimage area in response to the afterimage detection result of the first display area and the afterimage detection result of the second display area satisfying a preset reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Jun Lim, Hyeon Min Kim, Young Wook Yoo, Jun Gyu Lee, Byung Ki Chun
  • Patent number: 11568774
    Abstract: There is provided a method of displaying an image on a display device, the method including moving an image displayed at an image display region of the display device, and reducing a first region and enlarging a second region, the first and second regions included in the image, wherein the image has a smaller size than the image display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Jin Woo Noh, Jun Gyu Lee
  • Publication number: 20230005417
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, a data driving circuit for driving the plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit for driving the plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller for receiving a control signal and an image signal and controlling the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit such that an image is displayed on the display panel. The driving controller identifies a first region and a second region of an image to be displayed on the display panel based on the image signal and provides the data driving circuit with an image data signal obtained by compensating for the image signal to be provided to pixels adjacent to the second region among pixels corresponding to the first region as a compensation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: DONG WON LEE, Byung Ki Chun, Joon-Chul Goh, Bonghyun You
  • Patent number: 11545060
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels; a first pixel unit comprising a first portion of the plurality of pixels; a second pixel unit comprising a second portion of the plurality of pixels; and a data driver configured to supply a data voltage to the first pixel unit and the second pixel unit, wherein the data driver is configured to generate a data voltage to be supplied to the first pixel unit based on different gamma voltages even when the same grayscale is expressed according to a driving method, and the second pixel unit is configured to be driven or not driven according to the driving method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon Dong Kim, Joon Chul Goh, Bong Hyun You, Byung Ki Chun, Seong Heon Cho
  • Patent number: 11514843
    Abstract: A display device includes: pixels arranged in a display area; a timing controller which generates image data of each frame based on an input image signal of the each frame, the timing controller including a logo controller which detects a logo image and a logo area including the logo image from the input image signal of the each frame to control luminance of the logo image; and a data driver which generates a data signal based on the image data and supplies the data signal to the pixels. The logo controller generates a first logo map based on an input image signal of a previous frame, generates a second logo map based on an input image signal of a current frame, and determines a similarity between the first logo map and the second logo map to selectively change luminance of a logo image of a next frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeon Min Kim, Hyun Jun Lim, Young Wook Yoo, Jun Gyu Lee, Byung Ki Chun
  • Patent number: 11508288
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels; an image converter which generates a second image by correcting grayscales of a logo among a first image for the pixels; and a data driver which provides data voltages corresponding to the second image to the pixels. The image converter generates first accumulated data by accumulating first map data corresponding to a logo area larger than the logo among the first image during a plurality of frame periods, generates second accumulated data by scaling the first accumulated data every refresh cycle, generates third accumulated data by initializing values smaller than a first threshold value among the second accumulated data to be a background value, and specifies pixels corresponding to the logo based on second map data corresponding to the third accumulated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Hyeon Min Kim, Young Wook Yoo, Jun Gyu Lee, Hyun Jun Lim