Patents by Inventor Gun-hee Kim

Gun-hee 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: 20250255061
    Abstract: A transparent display device includes a substrate, a main light emitting diode, a main transmission region, a sub-light emitting diode, a sub-transmission region, and a driving circuit. The substrate includes a main display area and a peripheral area adjacent to the main display area. The main light emitting diode is disposed in the main display area. The main transmission region is disposed in the main display area and adjacent to the main light emitting diode. The sub-light emitting diode is disposed in the peripheral area. The sub-transmission region is disposed in the peripheral area and adjacent to the sub-light emitting diode. The driving circuit is disposed in the peripheral area and overlaps, in a plan view, the sub-light emitting diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoo Min KO, Gun Hee KIM, Hye Won KIM, Sun Hee LEE, Joo Hee JEON
  • Publication number: 20250185482
    Abstract: A display device includes a display area which includes a first display area including a plurality of first pixels and a second display area including at least one second pixel and at least one light-transmitting portion, a peripheral area disposed around the display area, a data line including a first portion and a second portion spaced apart from each other in a predetermined direction with the light-transmitting portion therebetween, and a conductive pattern disposed at a different conductive layer from the data line. The conductive pattern includes a first pattern portion including a bypass portion that bypasses a periphery of the second display area in a plan view and disposed in the first display area, and the first pattern portion includes a first end electrically connected to the first portion of the data line and a second end electrically connected to the second portion of the data line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Sun Ho KIM, Gun Hee KIM, Dong Hwan SHIM, Tae Hoon YANG, Sun Hee LEE
  • Publication number: 20250182705
    Abstract: A display device includes light emitting pixels that emit light, photosensors each controlling a sensed current according to an incident light, and a read-out circuit that senses the sensed current of each of the photosensors and converts the sensed current into digital sensed data. In a sensing mode including a first frame period and a second frame period, the light emitting pixels include first sensing pixels that emit the light during the first frame period and second sensing pixels that do not emit the light during the first frame period, the photosensors include first photosensors and second photosensors, and a first distance between any one of the first sensing pixels and a first photosensor adjacent to the first sensing pixel among the first photosensors is greater than a second distance between the first sensing pixel and a second photosensor adjacent to the first sensing pixel among the second photosensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Bo Kwang SONG, Tae Kyung AHN, Gun Hee KIM, Dae Young LEE
  • Publication number: 20250148823
    Abstract: In a method of controlling a display device, the display device including a display panel in which a display area is defined and including a plurality of pixels and a plurality of sensors, and an input sensing layer on the display panel and sensing an external input, the method includes allowing a first pixel of a first sensing area to emit a light, sensing first biometric information, matching the first biometric information with stored first authentication information, allowing a second pixel of a second sensing area to emit a light, sensing second d biometric information, matching the second biometric information with stored second authentication information, and driving the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: BYUNG HAN YOO, DAE-YOUNG LEE, GUN HEE KIM, SUNGCHUL KIM, YONGJO KIM
  • Publication number: 20250140192
    Abstract: A display device includes: a base layer; a display element layer on the base layer, and including a light emitting element, a light detection element, and a photovoltaic element adjacent to one another; a light shielding layer on the display element layer, and having a plurality of opening parts; and a color filter layer on the display element layer, and covering the plurality of opening parts. The light detection element and the photovoltaic element are located at the same layer as each other, the light detection element is to detect an external input based on incident light from the outside, and the photovoltaic element is to generate electrical energy based on the incident light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: KWANG SOO BAE, GUN HEE KIM, HYOENG-KI KIM, DAE-YOUNG LEE, SUN HEE LEE, SANGHWAN CHO
  • Patent number: 12288526
    Abstract: An electronic device including a display panel, a scan driving circuit, and a data driving circuit. The display panel includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels. The scan driving circuit is configured to apply a scan signal to the scan lines. The data driving circuit is configured to apply a data signal to the data lines. The scan lines extend in a first direction. The scan driving circuit and the data driving circuit are arranged in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunho Kim, Gun Hee Kim, Taehoon Yang, Sun Hee Lee, Sungjin Hong
  • Patent number: 12262603
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate having a first display area and a second display area. A first pixel circuit portion is disposed on the substrate. A first emitting diode includes a first pixel electrode connected to the first pixel circuit portion. A second pixel circuit portion is disposed on a second display area of the substrate. An extension wire is connected to the second pixel circuit portion. A second emitting diode includes a second pixel electrode connected to the extension wire, and a driving circuit portion is connected to the first pixel circuit portion and the second pixel circuit portion, and overlaps the second emitting diode. The extension wire is disposed in a different layer from the second pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun Ho Kim, Ju Chan Park, Yoo Min Ko, Gun Hee Kim, Tae Hoon Yang, Sun Hee Lee, Ja Eun Lee
  • Patent number: 12256609
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a main area and a sensor area. Sensor devices overlap the sensor area of the display panel in a thickness direction of the display panel. The display panel includes first subpixels, which are disposed in the sensor area, and second subpixels, which are disposed in the main area. The number of transistors of each of the first subpixels is different from the number of transistors of each of the second subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Chan Lee, Gun Hee Kim, Sung Jin Hong, Yoo Min Ko
  • Patent number: 12233464
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a nickel nanopowder, the method capable of preventing coagulation between particles and, accordingly, providing a nickel nanopowder having a small average particle size and a low coagulation rate. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method of producing a nickel nanopowder includes providing a nickel salt and a shell-forming material; nucleating and growing nickel core particles from the nickel salt; forming a shell layer on surfaces of the nickel core particles using the shell-forming material; and removing the shell layer to form the nickel nanopowder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Seung Min Yang, Geon Dae Moon, Young Kyu Jeong, Ohyung Kwon, Gun Hee Kim, Kyung Hoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20250048879
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a base layer, a circuit layer above the base layer, and an element layer above the circuit layer, and including a light-emitting element including a first pixel electrode electrically connected to the circuit layer, a light-emitting layer above the first pixel electrode, and a second pixel electrode above the light-emitting layer, and a light-receiving element adjacent to the light-emitting element, and including a first sensing electrode electrically connected to the circuit layer, a photoelectric conversion layer above the first sensing electrode, and a second sensing electrode above the photoelectric conversion layer and having a thickness that is different than a thickness of the second pixel electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Soo Yeong HONG, HYANG-A PARK, GUN HEE KIM, KWANG SOO BAE, BOKWANG SONG
  • Patent number: 12219858
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a first region including a transmissive part configured to transmit light provided from the outside and a second region not including the transmissive part; and a sensor overlapping with the transmissive part, and configured to obtain electrical information based on information provided from the outside, wherein the display panel includes: a thin film transistor layer including a plurality of transistors; a pixel defining layer defining an emission region of a plurality of pixels; and a light blocking layer on the pixel defining layer, and defining the transmissive part, and wherein the pixel defining layer in the first region covers at least a portion of the thin film transistor layer such that light provided through the transmissive part is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun Ho Kim, Sun Hee Lee, Gun Hee Kim, Dong Hwan Shim, Yoo Min Ko, Chea Eun Kim
  • Patent number: 12219835
    Abstract: A display device includes a display area which includes a first display area including a plurality of first pixels and a second display area including at least one second pixel and at least one light-transmitting portion, a peripheral area disposed around the display area, a data line including a first portion and a second portion spaced apart from each other in a predetermined direction with the light-transmitting portion therebetween, and a conductive pattern disposed at a different conductive layer from the data line. The conductive pattern includes a first pattern portion including a bypass portion that bypasses a periphery of the second display area in a plan view and disposed in the first display area, and the first pattern portion includes a first end electrically connected to the first portion of the data line and a second end electrically connected to the second portion of the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun Ho Kim, Gun Hee Kim, Dong Hwan Shim, Tae Hoon Yang, Sun Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 12217707
    Abstract: A display device includes light emitting pixels that emit light, photosensors each controlling a sensed current according to an incident light, and a read-out circuit that senses the sensed current of each of the photosensors and converts the sensed current into digital sensed data. In a sensing mode including a first frame period and a second frame period, the light emitting pixels include first sensing pixels that emit the light during the first frame period and second sensing pixels that do not emit the light during the first frame period, the photosensors include first photosensors and second photosensors, and a first distance between any one of the first sensing pixels and a first photosensor adjacent to the first sensing pixel among the first photosensors is greater than a second distance between the first sensing pixel and a second photosensor adjacent to the first sensing pixel among the second photosensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Kwang Song, Tae Kyung Ahn, Gun Hee Kim, Dae Young Lee
  • Publication number: 20250040343
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including an antireflection layer on a light emitting element layer which includes a first pixel defining layer in which an opening defining a light emitting area of a first pixel is defined, and a second pixel defining layer in which an opening defining a light emitting area of a second pixel is defined. The antireflection layer includes first and second light blocking layers respectively overlapping the first and second pixel defining layers, and includes a first gap defined by a length of a predetermined direction from an edge of the opening to an edge of an opening of the first light blocking layer, and a second gap defined by a length from an edge of the opening to an edge of an opening of the second light blocking layer in the predetermined direction. The first gap is less than the second gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Sun Ho KIM, Sun Hee LEE, Gun Hee KIM, Tae Hoon YANG, Seung Chan LEE, Joo Hee JEON
  • Patent number: 12213357
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a display area and a non-display area. The display panel includes a pixel disposed in the display area and including a light emitting element and a pixel driving circuit electrically connected with the light emitting element, a sensor disposed in the display area and including a photo sensing element and a sensor driving circuit electrically connected with the photo sensing element, a data line electrically connected with the pixel and extended along a first direction, a scan line electrically connected with the pixel and extended along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a readout line including a first readout portion in the display area. The first readout portion is electrically connected with the sensor and extended along the second direction in the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeonsik Kim, Gun Hee Kim, Sangwoo Kim, Taekyung Ahn, Dae-Young Lee
  • Patent number: 12207516
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes: a display panel having a first display area and a second display area, the first and second display areas having different light transmittances from each other in a unit area, wherein the display panel includes a plurality of organic light-emitting diodes disposed in the first display area and the second display area, wherein a first organic light-emitting diode disposed in the first display area and a second organic light-emitting diode disposed in the second display area each include at least one light emitter, and the number of the light emitter included in the second organic light-emitting diode is greater than the number of the light emitter included in the first organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Eok Jang, Seung Chan Lee, Sun Ho Kim, Dong Hwan Shim, Sun Hee Lee, Gun Hee Kim, Tae Hoon Yang
  • Publication number: 20250017061
    Abstract: According to embodiments, a light emitting display device includes a substrate, a first anode and a second anode positioned on the substrate, a plurality of conductive layers, at least one semiconductor layer, and a plurality of insulating layers positioned between the substrate and the first anode and between the substrate and the second anode, wherein the plurality of conductive layers includes a capacitor triple layer, a first overlapping wiring, and a second overlapping wiring, the first overlapping wiring and the second overlapping wiring overlap at least partially on a plane, at least a portion of the first anode overlaps the capacitor triple layer on a plane, and a first portion of the second anode overlaps the first overlapping wiring and the second overlapping wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: HYUNGKEUN PARK, SEOKHYUN LIM, Gun Hee KIM, Joo Hee JEON, Sun Young JUNG, MIYEON CHO
  • Publication number: 20250017044
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; and a transistor on the substrate. The transistor includes: a semiconductor layer; a gate electrode overlapping with the semiconductor layer; a first gate contact overlapping layer overlapping with a channel region, and in contact with the gate electrode, the channel region being a region where the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer are overlapped with each other; and a semiconductor contact overlapping layer overlapping with the channel region, and in contact with the semiconductor layer. The first gate contact overlapping layer and the semiconductor contact overlapping layer are spaced apart from each other by a gap within the channel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Gun Hee KIM, Sang Ho PARK, Joo Hee JEON, Young-Cheol JEONG
  • Patent number: 12183283
    Abstract: A display device includes: a base layer; a display element layer on the base layer, and including a light emitting element, a light detection element, and a photovoltaic element adjacent to one another; a light shielding layer on the display element layer, and having a plurality of opening parts; and a color filter layer on the display element layer, and covering the plurality of opening parts. The light detection element and the photovoltaic element are located at the same layer as each other, the light detection element is to detect an external input based on incident light from the outside, and the photovoltaic element is to generate electrical energy based on the incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang Soo Bae, Gun Hee Kim, Hyoeng-Ki Kim, Dae-Young Lee, Sun Hee Lee, Sanghwan Cho
  • Patent number: 12178078
    Abstract: A pixel includes a first capacitor connected between first and second nodes, a second capacitor connected between a first voltage line and the first node, a light emitting diode including a first electrode and a second electrode connected with a second voltage line, a first transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode connected with the second node, a second transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode which receives a scan signal, a third transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode which receives a first compensation scan signal, a fourth transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode which receives a second compensation scan signal, and a fifth transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode which receives a first light emitting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juhoon Kang, Jin-Wook Yang, Joohee Jeon, Sunmi Kang, Gun Hee Kim, Hyungkeun Park, Seokhyun Lim, Sunyoung Jung