Patents by Inventor Ho-Suk Maeng

Ho-Suk Maeng 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: 11211008
    Abstract: A display device driven in one of a first mode and a second mode includes a first pixel area which includes first pixels, a second pixel area which includes the second pixels, a first boundary area which is included in the second pixel area and to be positioned between boundary portions of the first pixel area and the second pixel area, and a luminance controller which controls first boundary data corresponding to the first boundary area so that luminance of the first boundary area is gradually changed corresponding to a first data signal applied to the first pixels and the second pixels when the display device is driven in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Woong Park, Ho Suk Maeng, Weon Jun Choe
  • Publication number: 20200243016
    Abstract: A display device driven in one of a first mode and a second mode includes a first pixel area which includes first pixels, a second pixel area which includes the second pixels, a first boundary area which is included in the second pixel area and to be positioned between boundary portions of the first pixel area and the second pixel area, and a luminance controller which controls first boundary data corresponding to the first boundary area so that luminance of the first boundary area is gradually changed corresponding to a first data signal applied to the first pixels and the second pixels when the display device is driven in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Jong Woong PARK, Ho Suk MAENG, Weon Jun CHOE
  • Patent number: 10665168
    Abstract: A display device driven in one of a first mode and a second mode includes a first pixel area which includes first pixels, a second pixel area which includes the second pixels, a first boundary area which is included in the second pixel area and to be positioned between boundary portions of the first pixel area and the second pixel area, and a luminance controller which controls first boundary data corresponding to the first boundary area so that luminance of the first boundary area is gradually changed corresponding to a first data signal applied to the first pixels and the second pixels when the display device is driven in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Woong Park, Ho Suk Maeng, Weon Jun Choe
  • Patent number: 10565958
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a current limiter and a brightness controller. The current limiter calculates compensating data based on an on-pixel ratio of an image signal and calculates a compensation brightness data of the image signal based on the compensating data. The compensating data decreases the driving current of the image signal. The brightness controller selects one of a plurality of gamma sets and one of a plurality of dimming values based on the compensation brightness data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Ji-Yun Son, Ho-Suk Maeng
  • Patent number: 10332432
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a timing controller, and a data driver. The display panel includes a central region and a peripheral region. The timing controller converts image data to converted data so that a maximum luminance of the peripheral region is less than a maximum luminance of the central region. The data driver generates a data signal based on the converted data and to provide the data signal to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Ji-Hye Shin, Komiya Naoaki, Ho-Suk Maeng
  • Patent number: 10168823
    Abstract: A data driving circuit according to an exemplary embodiment includes a controller configured to generate a storing control signal which controls a memory storing direction and a read control signal which controls a memory reading direction, the memory storing direction and the memory reading direction determined according to a rotation signal; a memory in which a sensing signal corresponding to a touch state of one or more touch sensors is configured to be stored in accordance with the storing control signal; and a rendering unit configured to read the sensing signal according to the memory reading direction of the read control signal and to combine a first image data signal with the sensing signal so as to generate a second image data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Young An, Ho Suk Maeng, Weon Jun Choe
  • Patent number: 10163389
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device, and a display controller configured to provide image data to the OLED display device. The display controller calculates stress data for the OLED display device by accumulating the image data, and determines a compensation factor for the OLED display device based on the stress data. The OLED display device receives the image data and the compensation factor from the display controller, converts the image data into compensated image data based on the compensation factor, and displays an image based on the compensated image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Ho-Suk Maeng, Jong-Woong Park
  • Patent number: 10110832
    Abstract: A system according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a first scaler configured to receive a plurality of touch events and down-scale the touch events to generate down-scaled touch events; a touch path logic unit configured to generate an output based on the down-scaled touch events; and a rendering logic unit configured to receive a video image, receive an output of the touch path logic unit, generate a display image by combining the video image with an overlay data according to the output of the touch path logic unit, and output the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Young An, Ho Suk Maeng, Weon Jun Choe
  • Publication number: 20180174520
    Abstract: A display device driven in one of a first mode and a second mode includes a first pixel area which includes first pixels, a second pixel area which includes the second pixels, a first boundary area which is included in the second pixel area and to be positioned between boundary portions of the first pixel area and the second pixel area, and a luminance controller which controls first boundary data corresponding to the first boundary area so that luminance of the first boundary area is gradually changed corresponding to a first data signal applied to the first pixels and the second pixels when the display device is driven in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Jong Woong PARK, Ho Suk MAENG, Weon Jun CHOE
  • Patent number: 9940872
    Abstract: A degradation compensating device includes an accumulator configured to accumulate stress data every pixel block, a memory configured to receive the stress data from the accumulator, and to load accumulated data from an external flash memory when a display device power is turned on, the accumulated data being a total sum of the stress data, a compensation factor calculator configured to determine a target compensation factor based on the accumulated data to compensate image data, and to apply an initial compensation factor to the target compensation factor during a wake-up period after loading the accumulated data is completed, the initial compensation factor being changed gradually during the wake-up period, and a data compensator configured to generate image compensation data based on the target compensation factor, and to generate initial image data based on a wake-up factor that is an adjusted target compensation factor based on the initial compensation factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Jae-Shin Kim, Ho-Suk Maeng, Jong-Woong Park
  • Patent number: 9934721
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting display device including: a display unit having a first display region and a second display region, and comprising a plurality of pixels; and a controller configured to calculate an OPR (On Pixel Ratio) of the plurality of pixels from video data input from an outside, and to generate corrected video data for decreasing driving current of the plurality of pixels based on the OPR, the OPR including a first OPR that corresponds to the first display region and a second OPR that corresponds to the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Young An, Ho Suk Maeng
  • Patent number: 9886909
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first display area and a second display area, a primary driver integrated circuit (IC) to receive first input image of the first display area, to determine a luminance correction factor based on a sum of a first On-Pixel-Ratio (OPR) of the first display area and a second OPR of the second display area, to output a first image data signal to which the first input image data is remapped using the luminance correction factor, a secondary driver IC to receive second input image data of the second display area, to calculate the second OPR, to provide the second OPR to the primary driver IC, and to output a second image data signal to which the second input image data is remapped using the luminance correction factor, and a scan driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Ji-Yun Son, Ho-Suk Maeng
  • Publication number: 20170270841
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a timing controller, and a data driver. The display panel includes a central region and a peripheral region. The timing controller converts image data to converted data so that a maximum luminance of the peripheral region is less than a maximum luminance of the central region. The data driver generates a data signal based on the converted data and to provide the data signal to the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Bo-Young AN, Ji-Hye SHIN, Komiya NAOAKI, Ho-Suk MAENG
  • Publication number: 20170162109
    Abstract: A degradation compensating device includes an accumulator configured to accumulate stress data every pixel block, a memory configured to receive the stress data from the accumulator, and to load accumulated data from an external flash memory when a display device power is turned on, the accumulated data being a total sum of the stress data, a compensation factor calculator configured to determine a target compensation factor based on the accumulated data to compensate image data, and to apply an initial compensation factor to the target compensation factor during a wake-up period after loading the accumulated data is completed, the initial compensation factor being changed gradually during the wake-up period, and a data compensator configured to generate image compensation data based on the target compensation factor, and to generate initial image data based on a wake-up factor that is an adjusted target compensation factor based on the initial compensation factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Jae-Shin Kim, Ho-Suk Maeng, Jong-Woong Park
  • Publication number: 20170162103
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device, and a display controller configured to provide image data to the OLED display device. The display controller calculates stress data for the OLED display device by accumulating the image data, and determines a compensation factor for the OLED display device based on the stress data. The OLED display device receives the image data and the compensation factor from the display controller, converts the image data into compensated image data based on the compensation factor, and displays an image based on the compensated image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Ho-Suk Maeng, Jong-Woong Park
  • Publication number: 20170039997
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a current limiter and a brightness controller. The current limiter calculates compensating data based on an on-pixel ratio of an image signal and calculates a compensation brightness data of the image signal based on the compensating data. The compensating data decreases the driving current of the image signal. The brightness controller selects one of a plurality of gamma sets and one of a plurality of dimming values based on the compensation brightness data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Bo-Young AN, Ji-Yun SON, Ho-Suk MAENG
  • Publication number: 20160232852
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first display area and a second display area, a primary driver integrated circuit (IC) to receive first input image of the first display area, to determine a luminance correction factor based on a sum of a first On-Pixel-Ratio (OPR) of the first display area and a second OPR of the second display area, to output a first image data signal to which the first input image data is remapped using the luminance correction factor, a secondary driver IC to receive second input image data of the second display area, to calculate the second OPR, to provide the second OPR to the primary driver IC, and to output a second image data signal to which the second input image data is remapped using the luminance correction factor, and a scan driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Bo-Young AN, Ji-Yun SON, Ho-Suk MAENG
  • Publication number: 20160209977
    Abstract: A data driving circuit according to an exemplary embodiment includes a controller configured to generate a storing control signal which controls a memory storing direction and a read control signal which controls a memory reading direction, the memory storing direction and the memory reading direction determined according to a rotation signal; a memory in which a sensing signal corresponding to a touch state of one or more touch sensors is configured to be stored in accordance with the storing control signal; and a rendering unit configured to read the sensing signal according to the memory reading direction of the read control signal and to combine a first image data signal with the sensing signal so as to generate a second image data signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Bo Young AN, Ho Suk MAENG, Weon Jun CHOE
  • Publication number: 20160179179
    Abstract: A power supply device includes a first power generator, a second power generator, and a power selector. The first power generator generates a first power voltage of a first voltage level in a first display mode and a second voltage level in a transition period between the first display mode and a second display mode. The second power generator generates a second voltage. The power selector selects a driving power to provide the first power voltage to a power supply line in the first display mode, the second power voltage to the power supply line in the second display mode, and the first power voltage and the second power voltage to the power supply line in the transition period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Bo-Young AN, Yun-Ki BAE, Ho-Suk MAENG, Young-Min BAE
  • Publication number: 20160139778
    Abstract: A system according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a first scaler configured to receive a plurality of touch events and down-scale the touch events to generate down-scaled touch events; a touch path logic unit configured to generate an output based on the down-scaled touch events; and a rendering logic unit configured to receive a video image, receive an output of the touch path logic unit, generate a display image by combining the video image with an overlay data according to the output of the touch path logic unit, and output the display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Bo Young AN, Ho Suk MAENG, Weon Jun CHOE