Patents by Inventor Hyo Jin Lee

Hyo Jin Lee 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: 11610537
    Abstract: Provided is a display device comprising a pixel unit including first pixel rows connected to first scan lines and second pixel rows alternating with the first pixel rows and connected to second scan lines, a scan driver including first scan stages connected to the first scan lines and second scan stages connected to the second scan lines, and an emission driver including emission stages in which each of emission lines is connected to two or more pixel rows. Accordingly, the display device is capable of changing a display frequency and maintaining the same cycle in which luminance decreases when the display frequency is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventors: Jae Keun Lim, Hong Soo Kim, Jin Young Roh, Se Hyuk Park, Woo Mi Bae, Hyo Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11587514
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device and a driving method thereof, and the display device includes a demultiplexer connected to a first data line and transferring a data signal from the first data line to a plurality of second data lines during a data writing period of one frame, a compensator calculating an on-pixel ratio (OPR) using input data in the one frame and generating compensation data corresponding to a calculated OPR, and a data driver supplying the data signal to the first data line using the input data during the data writing period, and supplying a compensation data signal to the first data line using the compensation data in a blank period of the one frame, and the demultiplexer supplies the compensation data signal from the first data line to a second data line during the blank period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventors: Jin Young Roh, Hong Soo Kim, Se Hyuk Park, Hyo Jin Lee, Jae Keun Lim
  • Publication number: 20230005409
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image based on an input image data, a data driver outputting a data voltage to a data line, and a driving controller determining a driving frequency of the display panel based on the input image data. The driving controller includes a flicker value storage configured to store flicker values for grayscale values corresponding to the input image data, a voltage drop determiner configured to adjust a flicker value of the flicker values based on a voltage drop of the display panel, a still image determiner configured to determine whether the input image data is a still image or a video image, and a driving frequency determiner configured to determine the driving frequency of the display panel using the flicker value based on the input image data being the still image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Suk Hun LEE, Sangan KWON, Hong Soo KIM, Jin Young ROH, Sehyuk PARK, Hyo Jin LEE
  • Patent number: 11545067
    Abstract: A display apparatus including: a display panel configured to display an image based on input image data; a data driver configured to output a data voltage to the display panel; and a driving controller configured to determine a driving frequency of the display panel based on flicker values for grayscale values of the input image data and output a driving frequency signal representing the driving frequency of the display panel to a host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyo Jin Lee, Jae Keun Lim, Hong Soo Kim, Jinyoung Roh, Sehyuk Park
  • Patent number: 11538421
    Abstract: A display device includes display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a data driver configured to generate data voltages based on output image data, and to provide the data voltages to the plurality of pixels; and a controller configured to receive input image data and input frequency information from a host processor, and to provide the output image data to the data driver, wherein the controller includes an adaptive refresh block configured to: determine a target frequency by analyzing the input image data; determine a masking ratio based on an input frequency represented by the input frequency information and the target frequency; and selectively output the input image data as the output image data by performing a masking operation on the input image data with the masking ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongsoo Kim, Sehyuk Park, Hyo Jin Lee, Sangan Kwon, Jinyoung Roh, Sukhun Lee, Jun Heyung Jung
  • Patent number: 11527204
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a first gate driver, a second gate driver, a third gate driver, and a data driver. The display apparatus is operable in a low frequency driving mode, and the low frequency driving mode includes a writing frame and a holding frame. At least one of gate power voltages used to generate a first gate signal, a second gate signal, and an emission signal has a first voltage level in the writing frame of the low frequency driving mode and a second voltage level in the holding frame of the low frequency driving mode. The data voltage is applied to the pixel in the writing frame of the low frequency driving mode. The data voltage applied to the pixel in the writing frame of the low frequency driving mode is maintained in the holding frame of the low frequency driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventors: Se Hyuk Park, Hong Soo Kim, Jin Young Roh, Hyo Jin Lee, Jae Keun Lim
  • Patent number: 11521531
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a panel driver including N registers, where N is an integer greater than 1. The panel driver is configured to divide the display panel into N first detection regions, to perform a first still image detection operation on each of the N first detection regions by using the N registers, to divide the display panel into N second detection regions different from the N first detection regions by using a result of the first still image detection operation, and to perform a second still image detection operation on each of the N second detection regions by using the N registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Soo Kim, Jin Young Roh, Se Hyuk Park, Hyo Jin Lee, Jae Keun Lim, Jun Heyung Jung
  • Patent number: 11521546
    Abstract: A display device comprises pixels, an emission control driver, a scan driver, and a timing controller for selecting whether the display device is to operate in a first display mode in which the display device is driven at a first frequency or a second display mode in which the display device is driven at a second frequency lower than the first frequency based on input image data. The first display mode comprises first frame periods, and the second display mode comprises second frame periods having at least two sub-frames having a period equal to the first frame period. A total time required to supply the scan signals to the scan lines in one first frame period of the first frame periods and a total time required to supply the scan signals to the scan lines in one second frame period of the second frame periods are substantially same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventors: Se Hyuk Park, Hong Soo Kim, Jin Young Roh, Hyo Jin Lee, Jae Keun Lim
  • Publication number: 20220383809
    Abstract: A pixel of an organic light emitting diode display device includes a capacitor, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, a seventh transistor, an eighth transistor, a ninth transistor and an organic light emitting diode. The third transistor includes first and second sub-transistors which are coupled to each other in series between a drain of the first transistor and a gate node, and a fourth transistor includes third and fourth sub-transistors which are coupled to each other in series between a line of an initialization voltage and the gate node. The eighth transistor applies a reference voltage to a first node between the first and second sub-transistors in response to an emission signal, and a ninth transistor applies the reference voltage to a second node between the third and fourth sub-transistors in response to the emission signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Sehyuk PARK, Jae Keun LIM, Hong Soo KIM, Jin Young ROH, Hyo Jin LEE
  • Publication number: 20220371127
    Abstract: Discussed is an electrode manufacturing method, in which laser ablation is performed prior to cutting an electrode sheet so that a processing speed of cutting the electrode sheet by using laser is increased, and an electrode forming device for performing same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Myoung Jin KO, Dong Hyeuk PARK, Su Ho JEON, Hyo Jin LEE, Sung Jun JO, Gil Woo KIM
  • Publication number: 20220375380
    Abstract: A display system and a driving method for a display system that includes an application processor configured to supply a mode control signal corresponding to a plurality of driving modes and input image data corresponding thereto; and a display module that includes pixels configured to display an image and configured to control any one of a plurality of gamma values and power source voltages supplied to the pixels in response to the plurality of driving modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Se Hyuk PARK, Hong Soo KIM, Jin Young ROH, Hae Kwan SEO, Jin Wook YANG, Hyo Jin LEE, Jae Keun LIM
  • Patent number: 11488537
    Abstract: A display device includes first dots connected to first scan lines, second dots connected to second scan lines and alternately disposed with the first dots in a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction, a scan driver including first stages respectively connected to the first scan lines and second stages respectively connected to the second scan lines, and a data driver connected to the first dots and the second dots through data lines. The first stages are connected to first clock lines, the second stages are connected to second clock lines, first stages except a first start stage are respectively connected to corresponding first scan lines of corresponding previous first stages, and second stages except a second start stage are respectively connected to corresponding second scan lines of corresponding previous second stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se Hyuk Park, Hong Soo Kim, Jin Young Roh, Bong Hyun You, Hyo Jin Lee, Jae Keun Lim
  • Patent number: 11482157
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a pixel unit in which each of pixel rows extends in a first direction, odd numbered pixel rows and even numbered pixel rows are alternately disposed in a second direction, and pixels included in the pixel rows are designated as dots having two or more units, a gray difference calculator that calculates difference between representative grays of dots adjacent in the second direction among dots of a p-th pair of the pixel rows, an edge detector that increases an edge dot number when a first condition in which the difference between the representative grays is larger than a first threshold value is satisfied, and a first pattern detector that increases an edge number when the edge dot number is larger than a second threshold value, and that generates a first pattern detection signal when the edge number is larger than a third threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventors: Jae Keun Lim, Hong Soo Kim, Jin Young Roh, Se Hyuk Park, Hyo Jin Lee
  • Publication number: 20220328013
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device and a driving method thereof, and the display device includes a demultiplexer connected to a first data line and transferring a data signal from the first data line to a plurality of second data lines during a data writing period of one frame, a compensator calculating an on-pixel ratio (OPR) using input data in the one frame and generating compensation data corresponding to a calculated OPR, and a data driver supplying the data signal to the first data line using the input data during the data writing period, and supplying a compensation data signal to the first data line using the compensation data in a blank period of the one frame, and the demultiplexer supplies the compensation data signal from the first data line to a second data line during the blank period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Jin Young ROH, Hong Soo KIM, Se Hyuk PARK, Hyo Jin LEE, Jae Keun LIM
  • Publication number: 20220319409
    Abstract: A display device comprises pixels, an emission control driver, a scan driver, and a timing controller for selecting whether the display device is to operate in a first display mode in which the display device is driven at a first frequency or a second display mode in which the display device is driven at a second frequency lower than the first frequency based on input image data. The first display mode comprises first frame periods, and the second display mode comprises second frame periods having at least two sub-frames having a period equal to the first frame period. A total time required to supply the scan signals to the scan lines in one first frame period of the first frame periods and a total time required to supply the scan signals to the scan lines in one second frame period of the second frame periods are substantially same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Se Hyuk PARK, Hong Soo KIM, Jin Young ROH, Hyo Jin LEE, Jae Keun LIM
  • Publication number: 20220319435
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device that controls output of a scan signal, conversion of image data, and output of a data signal in response to partial scan driving. The display device includes a display panel driven in one of a first mode and a second mode, a scan driver sequentially supplying a scan signal for writing data in the first mode, a controller generating image data in which input image data is rearranged based on the first mode or the second mode, and a data driver converting the image data into data signals and supplying the data signals to output channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Se Hyuk PARK, Hong Soo KIM, Jin Young ROH, Hyo Jin LEE, Jae Keun LIM
  • Patent number: 11462145
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image based on an input image data, a data driver outputting a data voltage to a data line, and a driving controller determining a driving frequency of the display panel based on the input image data. The driving controller includes a flicker value storage configured to store flicker values for grayscale values corresponding to the input image data, a voltage drop determiner configured to adjust a flicker value of the flicker values based on a voltage drop of the display panel, a still image determiner configured to determine whether the input image data is a still image or a video image, and a driving frequency determiner configured to determine the driving frequency of the display panel using the flicker value based on the input image data being the still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventors: Suk Hun Lee, Sangan Kwon, Hong Soo Kim, Jin Young Roh, Sehyuk Park, Hyo Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11462170
    Abstract: A scan driver includes: a plurality of first stages configured to sequentially output a plurality of intermediate scan signals based on a scan start signal; a plurality of masking transistors respectively connected to a plurality of output terminals of the plurality of first stages, and configured to selectively transfer the plurality of intermediate scan signals in response to a masking signal, respectively; and a plurality of second stages including a plurality of input terminals respectively connected to the plurality of masking transistors, and configured to selectively output a plurality of scan signals based on the plurality of intermediate scan signals selectively transferred by the plurality of masking transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Keun Lim, Jin Young Roh, Sehyuk Park, Hyo Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11462172
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel part including a plurality of pixels; a first scan driver to provide a first scan signal to each of the pixels; and an initialization controller to control the first scan driver. Each of the pixels includes a pixel circuit including a plurality of transistors, and a light emitting element connected to the pixel circuit, an anode of the light emitting element is to be initialized to a first initialization voltage in response to the first scan signal having a gate-on level, and the initialization controller is to determine whether to provide the first scan signal having the gate-on level to each of the pixels for each frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se Hyuk Park, Ji Youn Kim, Hong Soo Kim, Jin Young Roh, Hyo Jin Lee, Jae Keun Lim
  • Patent number: 11462169
    Abstract: A pixel of a display device includes a capacitor; a light emitting diode; and first, second, third, and fourth transistors. The display device has a normal frequency mode and a low frequency mode. Two electrodes of the capacitor are respectively connected to a first voltage source and a gate node. A gate electrode of the first transistor is connected to the gate node. In a hold period in the low frequency mode, both the second and third transistors receive a scan signal, the third transistor diode-connects the first transistor, the fourth transistor receives an initialization signal and transfers an initialization voltage to the gate node, the scan signal is at a first off voltage level, and the initialization signal is at a second off voltage level unequal to the first off voltage level. The cathode of the light emitting diode is connected to a second voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventors: Hyo Jin Lee, Sangan Kwon, Jin Young Roh, Sehyuk Park