Patents by Inventor Hyun-Wook Cho

Hyun-Wook Cho 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: 20240143114
    Abstract: A driving circuit includes: a display driver to generate a horizontal synchronization signal and a vertical synchronization signal according to a first clock signal of a first oscillator; a sensor driver to generate a touch signal according to a second clock signal of a second oscillator; and a determination circuit to detect a cycle of at least one of the horizontal synchronization signal or the vertical synchronization signal according to the second clock signal, and output a detection signal when the cycle is out of a range. The determination circuit is a part of the display driver or the sensor driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Jun Young KO, Tae Hyeon YANG, Han Su CHO, Tae Joon KIM, Hyun Wook CHO, Jae Woo CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240134489
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display unit including an active area configured to display an image, a peripheral area adjacent to the active area, and an input sensing unit disposed on the display unit within the active area. The input sensing unit includes a first sensing electrode disposed in the active area and a second sensing electrode spaced apart from the first sensing electrode and disposed in the active area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Eunsol SEO, Hyun-Wook CHO, Jaewoo CHOI, Taejoon KIM
  • Publication number: 20240126396
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an electronic panel including a plurality of sensing groups spaced apart from each other, and an electronic module overlapping with the electronic panel in a plan view. Each of the sensing groups includes a first sensing electrode extending in a second direction, and second sensing electrodes spaced apart from each other in the second direction, located on the same layer as the first sensing electrode, and face the first sensing electrode in a first direction. An opening overlapping with the electronic module and penetrating a first sensing group of the sensing groups is defined in the electronic panel, and at least one selected from the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrodes of the first sensing group extends along an edge of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Joo-Hyeon JEONG, Taejoon KIM, Hyun-Wook CHO, Jaewoo CHOI
  • Patent number: 11942018
    Abstract: A display device is described including a display panel for displaying an image and an input sensing unit disposed on the display panel for sensing a user input. The input sensing unit includes: an electrode unit including first electrodes and second electrodes which intersect each other and a control unit for determining the proximity of an object or the shape of the object, based on capacitance change values of the first electrodes and the second electrodes. In a first mode the input sensing unit is driven using a self-capacitance method. The control unit may merge the capacitance change values, and determine the proximity of the object based on the merged value. In a second mode based on mutual capacitance, the control unit may determine the shape of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Choi, Tae Joon Kim, Eun Sol Seo, Hyun Wook Cho
  • Publication number: 20240078990
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyester sound absorption material having improved moldability and decreased weight and a method of manufacturing a molded product using the same, and more particularly to a polyester sound absorption material, which is capable of integrally molding a skin member and a sound absorption material using a felt including a polyester base fiber, a low-melting-point polyester adhesive fiber and a polyester hollow fiber, without the need to attach an additional sound absorption pad onto a skin member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Hong Mo Koo, Mi Jung Yun, Joon Yong Song, Hyun Dae Cho, Hyung Joon Youn, Jeong Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 11921961
    Abstract: A display device including a non-sensing area and a sensing area with a first sensing area and a second sensing area spaced apart from each other in a first direction, includes a light emitting element emitting light, and a sensor unit including a plurality of first sensor electrodes disposed in the first sensing area and extending in the first direction, a plurality of second sensor electrodes disposed in the second sensing area and extending in the first direction, a plurality of third sensor electrodes disposed in the first sensing area and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, a plurality of fourth sensor electrodes disposed in the second sensing area and extending in the second direction, and a connection pattern disposed in the non-sensing area. The connection pattern electrically connects the plurality of third sensor electrodes to the plurality of fourth sensor electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon Gyu Lee, Hyun Wook Cho
  • Publication number: 20240061527
    Abstract: A touch sensing module includes: first driving electrodes arranged in parallel; first sensing electrodes intersecting the first driving electrodes; second driving electrodes on a rear side of the first driving electrode with a touch insulating layer therebetween such that they are associated with the first driving electrodes, respectively; second sensing electrodes on a rear side of the first sensing electrodes with the touch insulating layer therebetween such that they are associated with the first sensing electrodes, respectively; driving switching circuits electrically connecting the second driving electrodes to the first driving electrodes, respectively, or to a low-level voltage source; and a touch driver circuit configured to supply touch driving signals to the first driving electrodes and to detect touch sensing signals through the first sensing electrodes to detect touch position coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Hyung Bae KIM, Jeon Min KANG, Hyun Wook CHO
  • Publication number: 20240053392
    Abstract: In a method for testing an electronic device, the method includes: providing an electronic device including a display layer and a sensor layer on the display layer and configured to operate at a touch drive frequency, the sensor layer including a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes insulatively intersecting the plurality of first electrodes; providing a test signal having a test frequency higher than the touch drive frequency to the plurality of first electrodes; measuring mutual capacitance with the plurality of first electrodes through the plurality of second electrodes; and determining whether or not the sensor layer is defective, based on the mutual capacitance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: EUNSOL SEO, HYUN-WOOK CHO, SANGKOOK KIM, TAEJOON KIM, EUNGKWAN LEE, JAEWOO CHOI
  • Patent number: 11893187
    Abstract: A display device including: a display panel configured to display an image in units of a frame; an input sensor disposed on the display panel, and configured to sense an external input; a panel driver configured to control driving of the display panel in response to a synchronization signal; and a sensor controller configured to control driving of the input sensor, wherein the sensor controller receives the synchronization signal from the panel driver and outputs a plurality of transmission signals to the input sensor, and the plurality of transmission signals are varyingly generated based on the synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinwoo Park, Taejoon Kim, Jungmok Park, Il Ho Lee, Wankee Jun, Hyun-Wook Cho
  • Patent number: 11886671
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes first touch cells disposed in a first touch sensing area, the first touch cells each including a first touch pattern and a first dummy pattern, and second touch cells disposed in a second touch sensing area, the second touch cells each including a second touch pattern and a second dummy pattern. An area of a first dummy pattern area in which the first dummy pattern is disposed is greater than an area of a second dummy pattern area in which the second dummy pattern is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung Bae Kim, Min Hong Kim, Sang Kook Kim, Tae Joon Kim, Jae Hyun Park, Ji Yeong Lee, Hyun Wook Cho
  • Publication number: 20240028173
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and an input sensing panel. The input sensing panel includes pluralities of first and second sensing electrodes and electrostatic induction patterns, each of which is connected to a sensing electrode from one of the pluralities of sensing electrodes and overlaps another sensing electrode from the other one of the pluralities of sensing electrodes. The input sensing panel includes a first area where deviations of mutual capacitances between the first and second sensing electrodes are small and a second area where the deviations are large. The electrostatic induction patterns include first electrostatic induction patterns disposed in the first area and second electrostatic induction patterns disposed in the second area, the second electrostatic induction patterns having a different area from the first electrostatic induction patterns, or the number of second electrostatic induction patterns being different from the number of first electrostatic induction patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: HYUNGBAE KIM, HYUN-WOOK CHO, SANGKOOK KIM, TAEJOON KIM, JAEHYUN PARK, JIYEONG LEE
  • Patent number: 11853520
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display unit including an active area configured to display an image, a peripheral area adjacent to the active area, and an input sensing unit disposed on the display unit within the active area. The input sensing unit includes a first sensing electrode disposed in the active area and a second sensing electrode spaced apart from the first sensing electrode and disposed in the active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eunsol Seo, Hyun-Wook Cho, Jaewoo Choi, Taejoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20230409140
    Abstract: A display device, includes: a display panel including an active region and a peripheral region which are adjacent to each other; and an input-sensing panel on the display panel, the input-sensing panel comprising a first region, a second region, and a third region, which are overlapped with the active region and are sequentially arranged, and a fourth region, which is overlapped with the peripheral region, wherein the input-sensing panel comprises: a sensing electrode in the first and second regions and includes a plurality of conductive lines; and a trace line in the third and fourth regions and connected to the sensing electrode, wherein a density per unit area of the conductive lines is higher in the second region than in the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: HYUN-WOOK CHO, YOUNGSIK KIM, SANGKOOK KIM, TAEJOON KIM
  • Patent number: 11842021
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an electronic panel including a plurality of sensing groups spaced apart from each other, and an electronic module overlapping with the electronic panel in a plan view. Each of the sensing groups includes a first sensing electrode extending in a second direction, and second sensing electrodes spaced apart from each other in the second direction, located on the same layer as the first sensing electrode, and face the first sensing electrode in a first direction. An opening overlapping with the electronic module and penetrating a first sensing group of the sensing groups is defined in the electronic panel, and at least one selected from the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrodes of the first sensing group extends along an edge of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo-Hyeon Jeong, Taejoon Kim, Hyun-Wook Cho, Jaewoo Choi
  • Publication number: 20230384877
    Abstract: An electronic device including: a display layer; and a sensor layer that includes: first electrodes in a sensing area and having different lengths; second electrodes in the sensing area; first cross electrodes in the sensing area; second cross electrodes in the sensing area and having different lengths; pads in a peripheral area; first lines extended from the first electrodes at a first side of the sensing area towards the pads; second lines extended from the second electrodes at a second side of the sensing area towards the pads; first cross lines extending from the first cross electrodes towards the pads; and second cross lines extending from the second cross electrodes towards the pads, the first lines being different from the second lines in number, and the first cross lines being different from the second cross lines in number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: JUNGMOK PARK, Tae Yong Eom, Hyun-Wook Cho, Dongjin Moon, Yeri Jeong
  • Publication number: 20230376141
    Abstract: An input sensing unit may include the following elements: a first sensing electrode including first sensors and a first connector coupling the first sensors; a second sensing electrode including second sensors and a second connector coupling the second sensors; a first sensing line including first sensing line parts and a third connector coupling the first sensing line parts; a second sensing line; and an insulating layer including a first insulating side and a second insulating side opposite the first insulating side. The first sensing line parts may overlap the first sensors and may be disposed on the first insulating side. The second sensing line may overlap the second sensors and may be disposed on the first insulating side. The first sensors may be disposed on the second insulating side. The second sensors may be disposed on the second insulating side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hyun Wook CHO, Tae Joon KIM, Eun Sol SEO, Eung Kwan LEE, Jae Woo CHOI
  • Patent number: 11803264
    Abstract: A display is provided. A display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate an active element layer disposed on the first substrate, and a sealing member coupling the first substrate and the second substrate, and a touch member disposed on the display panel and including a touch signal line and a touch antistatic line, wherein the touch antistatic line is disposed outside the touch signal line and at least partially overlaps the sealing member, and the touch antistatic line has light transmittance higher than light transmittance of the touch signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Wook Cho, Min Hong Kim, Tae Joon Kim, Jung Mok Park
  • Patent number: 11797142
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and an input sensing panel. The input sensing panel includes pluralities of first and second sensing electrodes and electrostatic induction patterns, each of which is connected to a sensing electrode from one of the pluralities of sensing electrodes and overlaps another sensing electrode from the other one of the pluralities of sensing electrodes. The input sensing panel includes a first area where deviations of mutual capacitances between the first and second sensing electrodes are small and a second area where the deviations are large. The electrostatic induction patterns include first electrostatic induction patterns disposed in the first area and second electrostatic induction patterns disposed in the second area, the second electrostatic induction patterns having a different area from the first electrostatic induction patterns, or the number of second electrostatic induction patterns being different from the number of first electrostatic induction patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyungbae Kim, Hyun-Wook Cho, Sangkook Kim, Taejoon Kim, Jaehyun Park, Jiyeong Lee
  • Patent number: 11789566
    Abstract: A display device including: pixels; a data driver configured to start outputting data voltages to at least some of the pixels at a first time during a horizontal period, and end outputting the data voltages at a second time during the horizontal period; sensors; and a sensor driver configured to change a logic level of a sensing signal of at least some of the sensors at a third time different from the first time and the second time during the horizontal period, wherein at least one of the first time, the second time, and the third time is changed according to a number of times a logic level of a vertical synchronization signal is changed while a logic level of a horizontal synchronization signal is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Wook Cho, Min Hong Kim, Jung Mok Park, Il Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11782550
    Abstract: An input sensing unit may include the following elements: a first sensing electrode including first sensors and a first connector coupling the first sensors; a second sensing electrode including second sensors and a second connector coupling the second sensors; a first sensing line including first sensing line parts and a third connector coupling the first sensing line parts; a second sensing line; and an insulating layer including a first insulating side and a second insulating side opposite the first insulating side. The first sensing line parts may overlap the first sensors and may be disposed on the first insulating side. The second sensing line may overlap the second sensors and may be disposed on the first insulating side. The first sensors may be disposed on the second insulating side. The second sensors may be disposed on the second insulating side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Wook Cho, Tae Joon Kim, Eun Sol Seo, Eung Kwan Lee, Jae Woo Choi