Patents by Inventor Cheon Heo

Cheon Heo 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: 20230222953
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for compensating for a luminance deviation. A difference in pixel value of the image capturing device between a first pixel and a second pixel in the screen and a difference in gray scale level between first and second gray scale levels are derived from a captured image at the first gray scale level and a captured image at the second gray scale level which include pixel values of the image capturing device. A pixel value for the second pixel is calculated from the captured image at the first gray scale level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Geon Ho Park, Won Yeol Lee, Cheon Heo
  • Patent number: 11636797
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for compensating for a luminance deviation. A difference in pixel value of the image capturing device between a first pixel and a second pixel in the screen and a difference in gray scale level between first and second gray scale levels are derived from a captured image at the first gray scale level and a captured image at the second gray scale level which include pixel values of the image capturing device. A pixel value for the second pixel is calculated from the captured image at the first gray scale level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Geon Ho Park, Won Yeol Lee, Cheon Heo
  • Publication number: 20220059002
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for compensating for a luminance deviation. A difference in pixel value of the image capturing device between a first pixel and a second pixel in the screen and a difference in gray scale level between first and second gray scale levels are derived from a captured image at the first gray scale level and a captured image at the second gray scale level which include pixel values of the image capturing device. A pixel value for the second pixel is calculated from the captured image at the first gray scale level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Geon Ho Park, Won Yeol Lee, Cheon Heo
  • Patent number: 10720112
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and device for dimming the backlight of an LCD. A number of pixels at each grayscale level of an input image is determined. The determined number of pixels at each grayscale level is accumulated to generate an accumulated distribution of the number of pixel and the accumulated distribution is filtered. A threshold grayscale level at which the filtered accumulated distribution exceeds a threshold value is determined. A scaling factor is determined based on the threshold grayscale level. The grayscale level of pixels of the input image having a grayscale level lower than or equal to the threshold grayscale level are up-scaled based on the scaling factor, the grayscale value of pixels of the input image having a grayscale level greater than the threshold grayscale level are set to have a predetermined clipping grayscale level, and the LCD backlight is dimmed based on the scaling factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyungjoon Kwon, Cheon Heo
  • Patent number: 10366673
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and an image processing method thereof. In an embodiment, the display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels formed of red, green, blue, and white sub pixels, and an image processing unit for converting a three-color input image supplied to the red, green, blue, and white sub pixels into four-color image data and outputting an output image by applying a final gain calculated using a frame gain, a pixel gain, and a block gain of the pixels. The display device also includes a timing controller for outputting the output image from the image processing unit to the display panel. The block gain may be calculated using scaled versions of luminance values determined by converting a luminance of the three-color input image and position information of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheon Heo, KyungJoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 10297186
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and an image processing method thereof. The display device according an embodiment includes a display panel including pixels formed of red, green, blue, and white sub pixels, an image processing unit that converts a three-color input image supplied to the red, green, blue, and white sub pixels into four-color image data, calculates a color contrast ratio using a luminance weight and a hue weight by scaling luminance and hue values of the input image, and outputs an output image by considering the color contrast ratio, and a timing controller which aligns and outputs the output image from the image processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheon Heo, KyungJoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 10269276
    Abstract: Provided are a timing controller and a display device including the same. The timing controller in one embodiment includes a bit selecting unit, an error calculating unit, and a dithering unit. The bit selecting unit is configured to fix an m bit data value of n+m bit input image data for a plurality of subpixels as a fixed data value, where n and m are integers. The error calculating unit is configured to calculate an error between the fixed data value fixed by the bit selecting unit and the m bit data value of the input image data before fixed by the bit selecting unit. The dithering unit is configured to generate n bit output image data dithered to correct the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: KyungJoon Kwon, SeongGyun Kim, Cheon Heo, ByeongHyeon Na
  • Patent number: 10002591
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device and an image rendering method thereof in consideration of a saturation of a text image that improves the legibility of the text image by, for example, adjusting a sub-pixel rendering application ratio and a direct rendering application ratio for pixel data using a weight in proportion to a saturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheon Heo, Seungyong Lee
  • Patent number: 9990878
    Abstract: A data clipping method using red, green, blue and white data, and a display device using the same are disclosed. Red (R), Green (G), Blue (B), and White (W) data are modulated by multiplying clipped data of an input image by a gain, a luminance increment is created based on the result of subtracting the clipped data from the modulated RGB data, and the luminance increment is added to the W data to be written to a W sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheon Heo, Kyungjoon Kwon
  • Publication number: 20180151153
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and an image processing method thereof. In an embodiment, the display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels formed of red, green, blue, and white sub pixels, and an image processing unit for converting a three-color input image supplied to the red, green, blue, and white sub pixels into four-color image data and outputting an output image by applying a final gain calculated using a frame gain, a pixel gain, and a block gain of the pixels. The display device also includes a timing controller for outputting the output image from the image processing unit to the display panel. The block gain may be calculated using scaled versions of luminance values determined by converting a luminance of the three-color input image and position information of the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Cheon Heo, KyungJoon Kwon
  • Publication number: 20180151104
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and an image processing method thereof. The display device according an embodiment includes a display panel including pixels formed of red, green, blue, and white sub pixels, an image processing unit that converts a three-color input image supplied to the red, green, blue, and white sub pixels into four-color image data, calculates a color contrast ratio using a luminance weight and a hue weight by scaling luminance and hue values of the input image, and outputs an output image by considering the color contrast ratio, and a timing controller which aligns and outputs the output image from the image processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Cheon HEO, KyungJoon KWON
  • Publication number: 20180061290
    Abstract: Provided are a timing controller and a display device including the same. The timing controller in one embodiment includes a bit selecting unit, an error calculating unit, and a dithering unit. The bit selecting unit is configured to fix an m bit data value of n+m bit input image data for a plurality of subpixels as a fixed data value, where n and m are integers. The error calculating unit is configured to calculate an error between the fixed data value fixed by the bit selecting unit and the m bit data value of the input image data before fixed by the bit selecting unit. The dithering unit is configured to generate n bit output image data dithered to correct the error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: KyungJoon KWON, SeongGyun KIM, Cheon HEO, ByeongHyeon NA
  • Publication number: 20170098432
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device and an image rendering method thereof in consideration of a saturation of a text image that improves the legibility of the text image by, for example, adjusting a sub-pixel rendering application ratio and a direct rendering application ratio for pixel data using a weight in proportion to a saturation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Cheon HEO, Seungyong LEE
  • Publication number: 20160140924
    Abstract: A data clipping method and a display device using the same are disclosed. RGBW data is modulated by multiplying clipped data of an input image by a gain, a luminance increment is created based on the result of subtracting the clipped data from the modulated RGB data, and the luminance increment is added to the W data to be written to a W sub-pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Cheon HEO, Kyungjoon Kwon
  • Publication number: 20160133205
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and device for dimming the backlight of an LCD. A number of pixels at each grayscale level of an input image is determined. The determined number of pixels at each grayscale level is accumulated to generate an accumulated distribution of the number of pixel and the accumulated distribution is filtered. A threshold grayscale level at which the filtered accumulated distribution exceeds a threshold value is determined. A scaling factor is determined based on the threshold grayscale level. The grayscale level of pixels of the input image having a grayscale level lower than or equal to the threshold grayscale level are up-scaled based on the scaling factor, the grayscale value of pixels of the input image having a grayscale level greater than the threshold grayscale level are set to have a predetermined clipping grayscale level, and the LCD backlight is dimmed based on the scaling factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Kyungjoon Kwon, Cheon Heo