Patents by Inventor Hoi-Sik Moon

Hoi-Sik Moon 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: 7764351
    Abstract: A method for improving a misalignment of a printed circuit board and a liquid crystal display device with the printed circuit board are disclosed. A printed circuit board having a substrate and PCB lands formed at a portion of the substrate in the horizontal direction is provided and a tape carrier package having TCP leads corresponding to the PCB lands is also provided. The intervals among the PCB lands are amended by the thermal expansion amount of the substrate. After the printed circuit board and the tape carrier package are aligned, the printed circuit board and the tape carrier package are connected to each other by the thermo-compression bonding process. The misalignment due to the thermo-compression bonding process can be improved, decreasing the processing failures and increasing the productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hoi-Sik Moon
  • Publication number: 20100128028
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of driving a display panel, which includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, a first pixel column electrically connected to an N-th gate line and a second pixel column electrically connected to an (N+1)-th gate line adjacent to the N-th gate line (wherein N is a natural number). In the method, compensation data of the first pixel for compensating for a kickback deviation between the first and second pixel columns is generated using first data and second data corresponding to the first and second pixel columns, respectively. The compensation data of the first pixel column and the second data of the second pixel column are converted to data voltages of an analog type to output the data voltages to the data lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Hoon LEE, Chang-Soo LEE, Hoi-Sik MOON, Young-Su HAN
  • Publication number: 20090267890
    Abstract: In a method of local dimming a light source, which includes driving a light source including a plurality of light-emitting blocks by individually driving the light-emitting blocks, the dimming level of each light-emitting block is determined. In the method, the luminance of a first light-emitting area may be adjusted according to a size of the first light-emitting area corresponding to a display area in which an image having a maximum luminance is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se-ki PARK, Gi-Cherl KIM, Dong-Min YEO, Hoi-Sik MOON, Si-Joon SONG, Ho-Sik SHIN
  • Publication number: 20090267926
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes light source blocks driven as follows in displaying at least one frame (possibly every frame). An image to be displayed includes image pixels. Each light source block corresponds to an image pixels block which is a block of image pixels to be displayed directly opposite to the light source block. For each image pixels block, a block mean value and a block maximum value are determined. A parameter is determined which corresponds to a total luminance of the frame. For each image pixels block, a block representative value is determined which corresponds to the parameter, the block representative value being within a range between the block mean value and the block maximum value inclusive. During the frame, each light source block is driven to provide a luminance which is an increasing function of the corresponding block representative value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Jun SEO, Dong-Min YEO, Gi-Cherl KIM, Se-Ki PARK, Hoi-Sik MOON
  • Publication number: 20090256865
    Abstract: A method for generating data for driving a display panel is provided in which first compensation data of (N+k) bits, corresponding to grayscale data of N bits, is generated, wherein values of N and k are natural numbers. A first gamma curve is applied to the first compensation data of (N+k) bits. Second compensation data of (N+k) bits, corresponding to the grayscale data of N bits, is generated. A second gamma curve is applied to the second compensation data of (N+k) bits. The first compensation data or the second compensation data are selectively output and converted into analog data signals. The analog data signals are output to a data line. Accordingly, the first compensation data and second compensation data includes a multidomain structure which improves display quality. A data driving circuit and a display device including the data driving circuit for performing the method are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bong-Ju JUN, Bong-Im PARK, Hoi-Sik MOON, Jae-Won JEONG, Yong-Jun CHOI
  • Publication number: 20090225105
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a timing controller and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of unit pixels respectively including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The timing controller includes a first compensation unit which receives grayscale data corresponding to the unit pixels and generates first compensation data of the grayscale data using offset values of first sample compensation data sampled from a first gamma curve. The data driver includes a second compensation unit which generates second compensation data of the grayscale data using second sample compensation data sampled from a second gamma curve and the first compensation data. Accordingly, the first and second compensation data comprise color compensation data, which improve image quality. A method for driving the display panel of the display apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong-Im Park, Hoi-Sik Moon, Bong-Ju Jun, Jae-Won Jeong, Yong-Jun Choi
  • Publication number: 20090179906
    Abstract: A display device which includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels and displaying images. Each pixel includes a data line, first and second gate lines, a first sub-pixel connected to the first gate line and the data line, and a second sub-pixel connected to the same data line and the second gate line, and a display driving unit receives an image signal, converts the image signal into a first sub image signal and a second sub image signal, supplies the first sub data voltage to the first sub-pixel through the data line and then supplies the second sub data voltage to the second sub-pixel through the same data line. The first sub data voltage corresponding to the first sub image signal, and the second sub data voltage corresponding to the second sub image signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hoi-Sik Moon
  • Patent number: 7417612
    Abstract: A gamma voltage generator for a liquid crystal display (LCD) capable of removing residual images by compensating a gamma voltage is presented. The gamma voltage generation apparatus adjusts the common voltage by the kickback voltage for the intermediate gray level, and tunes the gamma voltages other than the intermediate gray level gamma voltage. The adjustment of the gamma voltages other than the intermediate gray level gamma voltage is achieved in such a manner that the difference between the intermediate gray level kickback voltage and the kickback voltage at one of the gray levels other than the intermediate gray level is equal to half of the difference between the sum of the two inverted gamma voltages representing the intermediate gray level gamma voltages and the sum of the two inverted gamma voltages corresponding to the selected gray level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Su Lee, Byoung-Jun Lee, Jun-Pyo Lee, Young-Gil Kim, Hoi-Sik Moon
  • Publication number: 20080001936
    Abstract: A signal processing device and method of manufacturing the same include a converting unit converting first, second, and third image data into first sub first image data, first sub second image data, and first sub third image data having gray levels higher than the gray levels of first, second, and third image data, respectively, and second sub first image data, second sub second image data, and second sub third image data having gray levels lower than the gray levels of the first, second, and third image data, respectively, a first correcting unit which compares the first sub image data, corrects the first sub second image data according to the comparison result, and outputs corrected first sub second image data, and a second correcting unit which compares the second sub image data, corrects the second sub second image data according to the comparison result, and outputs corrected second sub second image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Hoi-sik MOON
  • Publication number: 20070211006
    Abstract: A gamma voltage generator for a liquid crystal display (LCD) capable of removing residual images by compensating a gamma voltage is presented. The gamma voltage generation apparatus adjusts the common voltage by the kickback voltage for the intermediate gray level, and tunes the gamma voltages other than the intermediate gray level gamma voltage. The adjustment of the gamma voltages other than the intermediate gray level gamma voltage is achieved in such a manner that the difference between the intermediate gray level kickback voltage and the kickback voltage at one of the gray levels other than the intermediate gray level is equal to half of the difference between the sum of the two inverted gamma voltages representing the intermediate gray level gamma voltages and the sum of the two inverted gamma voltages corresponding to the selected gray level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Inventors: Hyun-Su Lee, Byoung-Jun Lee, Jun-Pyo Lee, Young-Gil Kim, Hoi-Sik Moon
  • Publication number: 20070188430
    Abstract: A first resistor string provides a plurality of first polarity gamma-reference-voltages. A second resistor string provides a plurality of second polarity gamma-reference-voltages. A first main-thermal compensation section exhibits a resistance value that increases with an increase of temperature. A second main-thermal compensation section has a resistance value that is decreases with an increase of temperature. Thus, gamma-reference-voltages corresponding to white gradation are decreased and gamma-reference-voltages corresponding to black gradation are maintained, so that a deviation of kickback voltage corresponding to the white gradation is decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventor: Hoi-Sik Moon
  • Patent number: 7193595
    Abstract: A gamma voltage generator of a liquid crystal display (LCD) capable of removing residual images by compensating a gamma voltage. The gamma voltage generation apparatus adjusts the common voltage by the kickback voltage for the intermediate gray level, and tunes the gamma voltages other than the intermediate gray level gamma voltage. The adjustment of the gamma voltages other than the intermediate gray level gamma voltage is achieved in such a manner that the difference between the intermediate gray level kickback voltage and the kickback voltage at one of the gray levels other than the intermediate gray level is equal to half of the difference between the sum of the two inverted gamma voltages representing the intermediate gray level gamma voltages and the sum of the two inverted gamma voltages corresponding to the selected gray level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Pyo Lee, Young-Gil Kim, Hoi-Sik Moon, Hyun-Su Lee, Byoung-Jun Lee
  • Publication number: 20050078076
    Abstract: A scan driver employs an impulse-type display so as to display a moving picture. A display panel includes a plurality of pixels having a first switching elements and a second switching element that is coupled to one of clear lines and one of data lines. A data driver provides a picture signal to the data lines. A scan driver provides a first control signal to the scan lines so that the pixel may be charged with the picture signal, and provides a second control signal to the clear lines so that the picture signal charged in the pixel may be discharged via the second switching element. Accordingly, display characteristics of a moving picture of a display device having the scan driver may be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Sang-Soo Kim, Seung-Hwan Moon, Jheen-Hyeok Park, Hoi-Sik Moon
  • Publication number: 20040169629
    Abstract: A gamma voltage generator of a liquid crystal display (LCD) capable of removing residual images by compensating a gamma voltage. The gamma voltage generation apparatus adjusts the common voltage by the kickback voltage for the intermediate gray level, and tunes the gamma voltages other than the intermediate gray level gamma voltage. The adjustment of the gamma voltages other than the intermediate gray level gamma voltage is achieved in such a manner that the difference between the intermediate gray level kickback voltage and the kickback voltage at one of the gray levels other than the intermediate gray level is equal to half of the difference between the sum of the two inverted gamma voltages representing the intermediate gray level gamma voltages and the sum of the two inverted gamma voltages corresponding to the selected gray level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Jun-Pyo Lee, Young-Gil Kim, Hoi-Sik Moon, Hyun-Su Lee, Byoung-Jun Lee
  • Publication number: 20020097366
    Abstract: A method for improving a misalignment of a printed circuit board and a liquid crystal display device with the printed circuit board are disclosed. A printed circuit board having a substrate and PCB lands formed at a portion of the substrate in the horizontal direction is provided and a tape carrier package having TCP leads corresponding to the PCB lands is also provided. The intervals among the PCB lands are amended by the thermal expansion amount of the substrate. After the printed circuit board and the tape carrier package are aligned, the printed circuit board and the tape carrier package are connected to each other by the thermo-compression bonding process. The misalignment due to the thermo-compression bonding process can be improved, decreasing the processing failures and increasing the productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Hoi-Sik Moon
  • Patent number: 6310592
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display having a dual bank data driver structure and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display includes an LCD panel including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of adjacent data line groups having an even number of data lines disposed on the LCD panel intersecting the gate lines, and a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and each having a switching element connected to the gate lines and the data lines; a gate driver successively applying gate ON voltage to the gate lines to turn on the switching elements; and first and second data drivers provided on opposing sides of the LCD panel and to which the data line groups are alternately connected, the first and second data drivers applying grey voltage corresponding to color signals to the data lines via output terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoi-Sik Moon, Dong-Won Park