Patents by Inventor Hyun-Kyu Jeon

Hyun-Kyu Jeon 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: 20240124666
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor monomer having an E value of 2.0 or more calculated by Equation 1 is selected among polyimide raw materials. A polyimide includes a structural unit derived from the polyimide precursor monomer having the E value of 2.0 or more. Optical properties of a polyimide film formed from the polyimide can be improved, and the optical properties of a polyimide film can be predicted from the E value of the polyimide precursor monomer even before production of the polyimide film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Chang Q LEE, Hyo Shin KWAK, Cheol Min YUN, Seung Min JEON, Hyun Kyu CHO
  • Publication number: 20240038186
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display drive device and a method of driving the same. An image processor of a liquid crystal display device may generate second pixel data by applying a first gain, determined according to a brightness level of each LED element, to first pixel data of each subpixel, may calculate a second gain by using a differential value obtained by differentiating the brightness level of each LED element for a location of each subpixel, and a weight and a compensation coefficient determined according to the brightness level of each LED element, generate third pixel data by applying the second gain to the second pixel data, and output the third pixel data. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Do Hoon LEE, Hyun Kyu JEON, Ji Won LEE, Chan Yung KIM
  • Patent number: 11887549
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a color gamut mapping method and a color gamut mapping device. A color gamut mapping method may include converting, by a color space converter, first three-color signals into a first luminance component and a pair of first chrominance components and outputting the first luminance component and the pair of first chrominance components, controlling, by a saturation controller, a saturation of the first chrominance component for each control area using a saturation gain of the saturation controller and outputting a second chrominance component, controlling, by a hue controller, a hue of the second chrominance component for each control area and outputting a third chrominance component, interpolating, by an overall controller, a set value of a luminance gain using grayscale differences between the first three-color signals, outputting a second luminance component by controlling first luminance component using the interpolated luminance gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu Jeon, Ji Won Lee, Ji Hong Yuk, Chang Young Bae, Seul Gi Lee
  • Publication number: 20240029668
    Abstract: An embodiment enables natural and smooth change in the brightness of a backlight unit and is able to reduce flicker by changing a dimming value between frames through a mixed function including a plurality of functions having different characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu JEON, Ji Won LEE, Jung Eun BAEK, Xin CUI, Do Hoon LEE
  • Patent number: 11830447
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display drive device and a method of driving the same. An image processor of a liquid crystal display device may generate second pixel data by applying a first gain, determined according to a brightness level of each LED element, to first pixel data of each subpixel, may calculate a second gain by using a differential value obtained by differentiating the brightness level of each LED element for a location of each subpixel, and a weight and a compensation coefficient determined according to the brightness level of each LED element, generate third pixel data by applying the second gain to the second pixel data, and output the third pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Hoon Lee, Hyun Kyu Jeon, Ji Won Lee, Chan Yung Kim
  • Patent number: 11810523
    Abstract: An embodiment enables natural and smooth change in the brightness of a backlight unit and is able to reduce flicker by changing a dimming value between frames through a mixed function including a plurality of functions having different characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu Jeon, Ji Won Lee, Jung Eun Baek, Xin Cui, Do Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11749215
    Abstract: A display driving device for improving the definition of an image according to one aspect of the present invention includes a brightness calculator for calculating first brightness data corresponding to a first resolution and second brightness data corresponding to a second resolution less than the first resolution using input image data, an offset calculator for calculating an offset on the basis of the first brightness data and the second brightness data, an input image converter for converting the input image data into input image data to which the calculated offset has been applied, a first data output unit for generating output image data for a first panel using the converted input image data and outputting the generated output image data, and a second data output unit for generating output brightness data for a second panel using the second brightness data and outputting the generated output brightness data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Hoon Lee, Jung Eun Baek, Chan Yung Kim, Hyun Kyu Jeon, Ji Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11721264
    Abstract: A display driving device configured to drive a plurality of display panels includes an external illuminance calculation unit configured to calculate external illuminance using measured illuminance input from an illuminance measurement device, and accumulate and store the external illuminance according to a time zone, a weight determination unit configured to determine a weight according to the calculated external illuminance, an image processing unit configured to apply the weight to first output data to generate second output data, and a target panel determination unit configured to determine target panels that are display panels for displaying an image, among the plurality of display panels, using the second output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Hoon Lee, Ji Won Lee, Hyun Kyu Jeon
  • Publication number: 20230206860
    Abstract: A display driving apparatus includes a source driving circuit supplying a first source signal to a first display area to display a first image and supply a second source signal to a second display area to sense characteristics of a pixels of the second display area when a display panel operates in a hybrid mode, the second display area being in a turn-off state during the hybrid mode, a gate driving circuit supplying a gate pulse to first gate lines of the first display area and supply the gate pulse to target gate lines of the second display area, a timing controller transferring first image data for the first image and sensing data for sensing to the source driving circuit and compensate for second image data for a second image which is to be displayed after the first image, based on a target compensation value obtained from a sensing result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Do Hoon LEE, Hyun Kyu Jeon, Ji Won Lee, Jung Eun Baek, Jae Chan Cho
  • Publication number: 20230188916
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technique for selectively reproducing multiple sounds for respective areas of a display through image analysis for each display area. A technique, for individually controlling multiple audio devices by analyzing an image to extract regions of the image and classifying sound types through data learning, can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Do Hoon LEE, Hyun Kyu JEON, Ji Won LEE, Jae Chan CHO
  • Patent number: 11670256
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a color gamut mapping device that allows a gamma characteristic for each color to be tuned to match a target gamma curve through color gamut mapping, a tuning method thereof, and an image processor including the same. The color gamut mapping device controls a hue and saturation of an image signal to match a target color gamut using a hue parameter assigned to each of a plurality of hue axes and a saturation parameter assigned to correspond to each of a plurality of saturation control areas of each hue axis, and the color gamut mapping device changes the saturation of the image signal by changing the saturation parameter which is assigned to each hue axis and corresponds to the uppermost saturation control area so that a gamma characteristic for each color of the image signal is changed to match a target gamma curve for each color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu Jeon, Ji Won Lee, Ji Hong Yuk, Chang Young Bae, Seul Gi Lee
  • Publication number: 20230134146
    Abstract: A display driving device configured to drive a plurality of display panels includes an external illuminance calculation unit configured to calculate external illuminance using measured illuminance input from an illuminance measurement device, and accumulate and store the external illuminance according to a time zone, a weight determination unit configured to determine a weight according to the calculated external illuminance, an image processing unit configured to apply the weight to first output data to generate second output data, and a target panel determination unit configured to determine target panels that are display panels for displaying an image, among the plurality of display panels, using the second output data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Do Hoon LEE, Ji Won LEE, Hyun Kyu JEON
  • Patent number: 11640800
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a color gamut mapping method and a color gamut mapping device that allow precise color gamut tuning to be efficiently performed, and a display device including the same. A color gamut mapping method according to an aspect includes converting, by a color space converter, a first color signal of an input image into a first luminance component and a pair of first chrominance components, controlling, by a saturation controller, a saturation of the first chrominance component for each control area using a saturation gain and outputting a second chrominance component, controlling, by a hue controller, a hue of the second chrominance component for each control area and outputting a third chrominance component, entirely controlling, by an overall controller, a saturation and a hue of the third chrominance component using overall saturation gains and overall hue gains and outputting a fourth chrominance component, and inversely converting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu Jeon, Ji Won Lee, Ji Hong Yuk, Chang Young Bae, Seul Gi Lee
  • Patent number: 11587525
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tuning method and apparatus for a color gamut mapping device, in which a tuning time is shortened by automatically setting and changing parameters of a register when tuning the color gamut mapping device. A tuning method of a color gamut mapping device according to an aspect includes an initial setting operation of setting, by a test device, initial parameters in a register of a color gamut mapping device, a measuring operation of measuring, by a measuring device, chromaticity for each of a plurality of color images which are supplied from the test device and displayed on a panel of a display device through the color gamut mapping device, an automatic tuning operation of changing, by the test device, saturation parameters and hue parameters of a plurality of hue axes of the color gamut mapping device by using a result measured from the measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu Jeon, Ji Won Lee, Ji Min Lee, Ji Hong Yuk, Chang Young Bae, Seul Gi Lee
  • Publication number: 20220189423
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display drive device and a method of driving the same. An image processor of a liquid crystal display device may generate second pixel data by applying a first gain, determined according to a brightness level of each LED element, to first pixel data of each subpixel, may calculate a second gain by using a differential value obtained by differentiating the brightness level of each LED element for a location of each subpixel, and a weight and a compensation coefficient determined according to the brightness level of each LED element, generate third pixel data by applying the second gain to the second pixel data, and output the third pixel data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Do Hoon LEE, Hyun Kyu JEON, Ji Won LEE, Chan Yung KIM
  • Publication number: 20220165233
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tuning method and apparatus for a color gamut mapping device, in which a tuning time is shortened by automatically setting and changing parameters of a register when tuning the color gamut mapping device. A tuning method of a color gamut mapping device according to an aspect includes an initial setting operation of setting, by a test device, initial parameters in a register of a color gamut mapping device, a measuring operation of measuring, by a measuring device, chromaticity for each of a plurality of color images which are supplied from the test device and displayed on a panel of a display device through the color gamut mapping device, an automatic tuning operation of changing, by the test device, saturation parameters and hue parameters of a plurality of hue axes of the color gamut mapping device by using a result measured from the measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu JEON, Ji Won Lee, Ji Min Lee, Ji Hong Yuk, Chang Young Bae, Seul Gi Lee
  • Publication number: 20220165232
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a color gamut mapping device that allows a gamma characteristic for each color to be tuned to match a target gamma curve through color gamut mapping, a tuning method thereof, and an image processor including the same. The color gamut mapping device controls a hue and saturation of an image signal to match a target color gamut using a hue parameter assigned to each of a plurality of hue axes and a saturation parameter assigned to correspond to each of a plurality of saturation control areas of each hue axis, and the color gamut mapping device changes the saturation of the image signal by changing the saturation parameter which is assigned to each hue axis and corresponds to the uppermost saturation control area so that a gamma characteristic for each color of the image signal is changed to match a target gamma curve for each color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu JEON, Ji Won LEE, Ji Hong YUK, Chang Young BAE, Seul Gi LEE
  • Patent number: 11335276
    Abstract: A display driving device, which adjusts a brightness of an image on the basis of an ambient illumination even without an increase in amount of power consumption, includes a controller determining a clipping ratio for clipping input image data by using an ambient illumination value when the ambient illumination value is input thereto, a gain calculator calculating a frame gain which is to be applied to the input image data, based on the clipping ratio, an input image clipping unit clipping the input image data by applying the frame gain in the input image data, and a gamma converter gamma-converting clipped input image data to generate output image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Ho Lee, Heung Lyeol Lee, Hyun Kyu Jeon
  • Publication number: 20220139336
    Abstract: In a case when a camera is disposed under a display panel, a bounded part between a camera area and a surrounding area may have a brightness difference due to a difference in pixel disposition density. The present disclosure allows minimizing such a boundary effect by compensating for greyscale values of pixels in the bounded part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu Jeon, Ji Won Lee, Ji Hong Yuk, Jun Hun Park, Xin Cui
  • Publication number: 20220139342
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a color gamut mapping method and a color gamut mapping device. A color gamut mapping method may include converting, by a color space converter, first three-color signals into a first luminance component and a pair of first chrominance components and outputting the first luminance component and the pair of first chrominance components, controlling, by a saturation controller, a saturation of the first chrominance component for each control area using a saturation gain of the saturation controller and outputting a second chrominance component, controlling, by a hue controller, a hue of the second chrominance component for each control area and outputting a third chrominance component, interpolating, by an overall controller, a set value of a luminance gain using grayscale differences between the first three-color signals, outputting a second luminance component by controlling first luminance component using the interpolated luminance gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu JEON, Ji Won Lee, Ji Hong Yuk, Chang Young Bae, Seul Gi Lee