Patents by Inventor Dae-Gwang Jang
Dae-Gwang Jang 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).
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Publication number: 20250225908Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a data driver and a driving controller. The data driver is configured to output a data voltage to the display panel. The driving controller is configured to control the data driver. The driving controller is configured to generate a temperature prediction value according to a location in the display panel based on a grayscale value of input image data, a grayscale data voltage corresponding to the grayscale value, a grayscale data current corresponding to the grayscale value, a temperature efficiency which is varied according to a usage time of the display panel, a high power voltage setting value of the display panel and a low power voltage setting value of the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2024Publication date: July 10, 2025Inventors: DAE-GWANG JANG, KUK-HWAN AHN, SEUNGJAE LEE, SEONGHEON CHO
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Patent number: 12354542Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a display layer which includes an active area for displaying an image and a peripheral area disposed adjacent to the active area, pixels each of which includes a driving transistor and a light emitting element, a memory that stores a plurality of maps, a driving controller connected to the memory and including a control unit. The plurality of maps includes a first map, a second map, and a third map. The control unit includes a first current output unit that outputs the first current value corresponding to the data voltage based on the first map, a voltage output unit that outputs the voltage based on the second map, and a heat generation characteristic output unit that outputs the power based on the third map and outputs a heat generation characteristic for each location within the active area based on the power.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2023Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dae-Gwang Jang
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Patent number: 12340733Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel displaying an image; and a drive controller receiving an image signal, and driving the plurality of pixels, and including a heat emitting controller, wherein the heat emitting controller includes: an average region setter receiving the image signal, setting, to one pixel region, some pixels of the plurality of pixels, and extracting an average gray level, based on gray levels of the some pixels of the plurality of pixels to set an average region from the pixel region; a diffusion region setter substituting a diffusion region, which is set to have a temperature corresponding to the average gray level, into the average region; and a look-up table map generator generating a look-up table map by predicting, based on the diffusion region, heat emitted from an inner part of a display region of the display panel and varied depending on the image.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seongheon Cho, Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Seungjae Lee, Dae-Gwang Jang
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Publication number: 20250201173Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including pixels; a first driver supplying data voltages to A pixels using first image data; a second driver supplying data voltages to B pixels smaller than the A pixels using second image data; a third driver disposed adjacent to the second driver in a first direction, the third driver supplying data voltages corresponding pixels using third image data; a first controller calculating a first load ratio of the first driver using the first image data, and a second load ratio of the second driver using the second image data; and a second controller calculating a third load ratio of the third driver using the third image data. The first controller receives the third load ratio from the second controller, and generates a first temperature profile for the first driver and the second driver using the first, the second, and the third load ratios.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2024Publication date: June 19, 2025Inventors: Kuk Hwan AHN, Seung Jae LEE, Dae Gwang JANG, Seong Heon CHO
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Patent number: 12334007Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels coupled to data lines and sensing lines; a data driver configured to supply one of an image data signal and a sensing data signal to the data lines; a voltage supply configured to supply an initialization voltage to the pixels through the sensing lines; and a sensing circuit configured to receive a sensing value from at least one of the pixels through the sensing lines, and compare the sensing value with a sensing reference value to generate a sensing voltage control signal to control at least one of the sensing data signal or the initialization voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae Gon Im, Soo Yeon Kim, Jong Jae Lee, Dae Gwang Jang
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Publication number: 20250046226Abstract: A display apparatus includes a driving controller, a data driver and a display panel. The driving controller is configured to determine an average load of a unit area based on an average grayscale value of the unit area and a pixel area ratio of the unit area, to determine a temperature diffusion load of the unit area based on average loads, temperature diffusion ratios and weight ratios of adjacent unit areas adjacent to the unit area and to compensate input image data based on the average load of the unit area and the temperature diffusion load of the unit area to generate a compensated data signal. The data driver is configured to convert the compensated data signal into a data voltage. The display panel is configured to display an image based on the data voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Samsung Display Co., LTD.Inventors: SEONGHEON CHO, KUK-HWAN AHN, SEUNGJAE LEE, DAE-GWANG JANG
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Patent number: 12183766Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor pixel. The sensor pixel includes a first transistor coupled between a first power source and a first node, where the first transistor is turned on in response to a first control signal, a light-sensing element coupled between the first node and a second power source, where the light-sensing element generates photocharges in response to incident light, a storage capacitor coupled in parallel to the light-sensing element between the first node and the second power source, and an amplifier including a plurality of transistors coupled in series between the first power source and an output line, where the amplifier outputs a sensing signal corresponding to a voltage of the first node in response to a first driving signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Dae Gwang Jang
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Publication number: 20240377967Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including pixels, driving chips applying data voltages to the pixels through channels; and a timing controller determining the data voltages output from the channels by each of the driving chips based on input image data, determining a load ratio of each of the driving chips based on the data voltages, generating a current temperature profile of a first pixel row based on the load ratio of each of the driving chips, generating a current temperature profile of a second pixel row based on the load ratio of each of the driving chips, and generating a two-dimensional temperature profile based on the current temperature profiles of the first pixel row and the second pixel row.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: KUK-HWAN AHN, SEUNGJAE LEE, DAE-GWANG JANG, SEONGHEON CHO
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Patent number: 12125452Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 12, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dae-Gwang Jang, Byung Ki Chun
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Patent number: 12073778Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including pixels, driving chips applying data voltages to the pixels through channels; and a timing controller determining the data voltages output from the channels by each of the driving chips based on input image data, determining a load ratio of each of the driving chips based on the data voltages, generating a current temperature profile of a first pixel row based on the load ratio of each of the driving chips, generating a current temperature profile of a second pixel row based on the load ratio of each of the driving chips, and generating a two-dimensional temperature profile based on the current temperature profiles of the first pixel row and the second pixel row.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Seungjae Lee, Dae-Gwang Jang, Seongheon Cho
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Publication number: 20240265852Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel displaying an image; and a drive controller receiving an image signal, and driving the plurality of pixels, and including a heat emitting controller, wherein the heat emitting controller includes: an average region setter receiving the image signal, setting, to one pixel region, some pixels of the plurality of pixels, and extracting an average gray level, based on gray levels of the some pixels of the plurality of pixels to set an average region from the pixel region; a diffusion region setter substituting a diffusion region, which is set to have a temperature corresponding to the average gray level, into the average region; and a look-up table map generator generating a look-up table map by predicting, based on the diffusion region, heat emitted from an inner part of a display region of the display panel and varied depending on the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: August 8, 2024Inventors: SEONGHEON CHO, KUK-HWAN AHN, SEUNGJAE LEE, DAE-GWANG JANG
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Patent number: 12008948Abstract: A display device includes pixels; a sensing block generating first sensing data during a first sensing period, and generating second sensing data and third sensing data during a second sensing period; and a timing controller compensating first image data with second image data based on the first sensing data, the second sensing data, and the third sensing data. The sensing block generates the first sensing data corresponding to an initial channel voltage applied to each of sensing channels and at least one auxiliary sensing channel during the first sensing period, generates the second sensing data by sensing characteristic information of the pixels corresponding to an initialization voltage applied to the pixels during the second sensing period, and generates the third sensing data corresponding to a reference voltage applied to the at least one auxiliary sensing channel during the second sensing period.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Soo Yeon Kim, Tae Gon Im, Jong Jae Lee, Dae Gwang Jang
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Publication number: 20240169895Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including pixels, driving chips applying data voltages to the pixels through channels; and a timing controller determining the data voltages output from the channels by each of the driving chips based on input image data, determining a load ratio of each of the driving chips based on the data voltages, generating a current temperature profile of a first pixel row based on the load ratio of each of the driving chips, generating a current temperature profile of a second pixel row based on the load ratio of each of the driving chips, and generating a two-dimensional temperature profile based on the current temperature profiles of the first pixel row and the second pixel row.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: KUK-HWAN AHN, SEUNGJAE LEE, DAE-GWANG JANG, SEONGHEON CHO
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Publication number: 20240144877Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a display layer which includes an active area for displaying an image and a peripheral area disposed adjacent to the active area, pixels each of which includes a driving transistor and a light emitting element, a memory that stores a plurality of maps, a driving controller connected to the memory and including a control unit. The plurality of maps includes a first map, a second map, and a third map. The control unit includes a first current output unit that outputs the first current value corresponding to the data voltage based on the first map, a voltage output unit that outputs the voltage based on the second map, and a heat generation characteristic output unit that outputs the power based on the third map and outputs a heat generation characteristic for each location within the active area based on the power.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventor: DAE-GWANG JANG
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Patent number: 11967604Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor pixel. The sensor pixel includes a first transistor coupled between a first power source and a first node, where the first transistor is turned on in response to a first control signal, a light-sensing element coupled between the first node and a second power source, where the light-sensing element generates photocharges in response to incident light, a storage capacitor coupled in parallel to the light-sensing element between the first node and the second power source, and an amplifier including a plurality of transistors coupled in series between the first power source and an output line, where the amplifier outputs a sensing signal corresponding to a voltage of the first node in response to a first driving signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Dae Gwang Jang
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Publication number: 20240105134Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: DAE-GWANG JANG, Byung Ki Chun
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Patent number: 11929013Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment includes a pixel including a light emitting unit, a data driver that supplies a data voltage to the pixel, and a luminance corrector that corrects image data and generates compensation data corresponding to the data voltage. The light emitting unit includes at least one sub element group. The at least one sub element group includes light emitting elements. The luminance corrector extracts a deterioration value of the at least one sub element group and calculates a luminance value of the at least one sub element group according to a number of the light emitting elements included in the at least one sub element group.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dae Gwang Jang, Jun Pyo Lee, Won Sik Oh, Jong Jae Lee
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Publication number: 20240014247Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor pixel. The sensor pixel includes a first transistor coupled between a first power source and a first node, where the first transistor is turned on in response to a first control signal, a light-sensing element coupled between the first node and a second power source, where the light-sensing element generates photocharges in response to incident light, a storage capacitor coupled in parallel to the light-sensing element between the first node and the second power source, and an amplifier including a plurality of transistors coupled in series between the first power source and an output line, where the amplifier outputs a sensing signal corresponding to a voltage of the first node in response to a first driving signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventor: Dae Gwang JANG
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Patent number: 11847959Abstract: A display panel includes pixels connected to first and second data lines and a readout line. The data driver supplies data signals to the first and second data lines and supplies an initialization voltage to the readout line. Each of the pixels includes at least one light emitting element and a driving transistor. The driving transistor controls an amount of current based on a difference between a corresponding data signal among the data signals and an initialization voltage. In a sensing mode, the data driver supplies a test voltage to the first data line and a first off voltage to the second data line in a first period and supplies a second off voltage to the second data line in a second period after the first period. The second off voltage is different from the test voltage and the first off voltage.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dae Gwang Jang, Soo Yeon Kim
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Patent number: 11830417Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels; a data driver configured to supply a data voltage to the pixels through data lines based on a source output enable signal; and a reference voltage controller configured to supply a reference voltage to the pixels through reference voltage lines, wherein each of the pixels includes a light emitting element between a first power source line and a second power source line, and wherein the reference voltage controller is configured to compensate for the reference voltage based on the source output enable signal, and to supply a compensated reference voltage to an anode electrode of the light emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae Gon Im, Jong Jae Lee, Dae Gwang Jang