Patents by Inventor Jai-Hyun Koh

Jai-Hyun Koh 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: 20170061847
    Abstract: An image processing circuit includes a mapper configured to convert an image signal into an intermediate data signal, and a renderer configured to convert the intermediate data signal into a data signal, wherein the renderer includes a memory configured to store the intermediate data signal and a flag signal, and a rendering circuit configured to output a data signal corresponding to a current line in response to a next intermediate data signal corresponding to a next line, to output a current intermediate data signal corresponding to the current line from the memory, and to output a previous flag signal corresponding to a previous line from the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Heendol KIM, Jai-hyun KOH, Seokyun SON, Kuk-hwan AHN
  • Publication number: 20160372076
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, first color pixels, and second color pixels. A first color pixel arranged in an f-th column between an f-th data line and an (f+1)th data line is connected to one of the f-th data line and the (f+1)th data line. A first color pixel arranged in a g-th column between a g-th data line and a (g+1)th data line is connected to one of a (g?1)th data line and a (g+2)th data line. First color pixels in a first color pixel diagonal group receive data voltages having a same polarity. Second color pixels in a second color pixel diagonal group receive data voltages having a same polarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Jai-hyun KOH, Jin-kyu PARK, Seokyun SON, Kuk-hwan AHN, Joon-chul GOH, Bonghyun YOU
  • Patent number: 9514687
    Abstract: A method of displaying an image on a display panel including pixels arranged in an m-by-n matrix (m and n being natural numbers), including measuring a complexity of image data based on an entropy or a most significant bit, the image data including a plurality of unit data corresponding to the pixels; and adjusting the amount of light supplied by a backlight unit according to the measured complexity of the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jai-Hyun Koh, Kyungsu Lee
  • Patent number: 9495916
    Abstract: A method of displaying a three-dimensional stereoscopic image includes generating a plurality of left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color data using a left-eye or right-eye data frame, calculating a plurality of left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color dimming levels using the left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color data, sequentially outputting a plurality of left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color data frames, corrected based on the left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color dimming levels, to a display panel, and sequentially providing a plurality of left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color lights, generated from a light source part based on the left-eye or right-eye virtual primary color dimming levels, to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heen-Dol Kim, Bong-Hyun You, Jai-Hyun Koh, Kuk-Hwan Ahn
  • Publication number: 20160247460
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel in which a plurality of pixel units are disposed, a backlight providing light to the display panel, and a data processing circuit receiving image signals and providing the image signals to the plurality of pixel units. The data processing circuit sets a luminance level of the backlight to a value corresponding to a color gamut boundary of the image signals adjacent to a saturation region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Heendol Kim, Jai-hyun Koh, Hyunkyu Namkung, Seokyun Son, Kuk-hwan Ahn, Iksoo Lee
  • Publication number: 20160246136
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The pixels include pixels arranged in a k-th column between a k-th data line and a (k+1)th data line. The pixels arranged in the k-th column are arranged in a plurality of groups, and each of the groups includes 2i first pixels connected to the k-th data line and 2i second pixels connected to the (k+1)th data line. Successive ones of the pixels in each group are connected to the k-th data line and the (k+1)th data line in alternating manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Namjae LIM, Hyunkyu NAMKUNG, Jai-hyun KOH, Iksoo LEE
  • Publication number: 20160232859
    Abstract: A display apparatus comprises a display panel including a plurality of color sub-pixels which are arranged as a plurality of sub-pixel columns and a plurality of sub-pixel rows, a first pixel column and a second pixel column which include a plurality of sub-pixel columns, a luminance controller configured to correct color grayscale data of at least one color sub-pixel included in at least one of the first and second pixel columns by 1-grayscale based on a luminance difference between the first and second pixel columns, and a data driver configured to convert the color grayscale data of the color sub-pixel to a data voltage and to provide the display panel with the data voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Won-Sik OH, Cheol-Woo PARK, Jai-Hyun KOH, Kuk-Hwan AHN
  • Publication number: 20160232862
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a plurality of gate lines configured to receive gate signals and extending in a first direction, a plurality of data lines configured to receive data voltages and extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction, a plurality of pixels connected to the gate lines and data lines, and a plurality of inversion lines configured to receive inversion voltages having polarities opposite to those of the data voltages and extending in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Kwan KIM, Jai-Hyun KOH, Sungjae PARK
  • Publication number: 20160232829
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus including a display panel, a timing controller, a gate driver, and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of sub-pixels. Two pixels among the pixels include five sub-pixels and temporally share a third sub-pixel among the five sub-pixels. The timing controller includes a filter that is set based on a region having the same area as four sub-pixels. The timing controller generates RGBW data having red, green, blue, and white data based on input data, and applies the filter to the RGBW data to generate output data corresponding to each of the sub-pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Kuk-Hwan AHN, Hyunkyu NAMKUNG, Heendol KIM, Seokyun SON, Jai-hyun KOH, Iksoo LEE
  • Publication number: 20160225335
    Abstract: A data driver for a display includes: a polarity signal generator outputting polarity control signals for setting polarity patterns of data voltages such that pixels have the same polarity inversion pattern for every 2h number of pixels (where h is a natural number) in each pixel row defined by pixels that are arranged on the same row and have the same polarity inversion pattern for every 2k number of pixel rows (where k is a natural number) in a column direction; and a data voltage generator determining polarities of the data voltages in response to the polarity control signal to provide the determined polarities of the data voltages to the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Jinpil KIM, Jai-Hyun KOH, Ik Soo LEE
  • Publication number: 20160189641
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel including gate lines, data lines, and pixels, a gate driver, a data driver, and a timing controller. The pixels include first and second pixels. The first and second pixels are arranged in pixel rows adjacent to each other, arranged in different pixel columns, connected to the same gate line, display the same color, and receive data voltages having different polarities from each other. The image data include first pixel data displayed in the first pixels and second pixel data displayed in the second pixels. When the first pixel data have a first grayscale value and the second pixel data have a second grayscale value different from the first grayscale value, the timing controller modulates the first and second pixel data to allow the first and second pixel data to have a grayscale value between the first and second grayscale values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Seokyun SON, Kuk-Hwan AHN, BongHyun YOU, Jai-Hyun KOH, Sungjae PARK, Dong-Won PARK, Iksoo LEE, Seokha HONG
  • Publication number: 20160171944
    Abstract: A display device according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of gate lines extending in a row direction, a plurality of data lines intersecting with the gate lines, the data lines extending in a column direction, a plurality of pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines, and a data driving unit configured to output a plurality of data voltages to the pixels, wherein the data driving unit outputs the data voltages based on a first column inversion scheme and a second column inversion scheme to respective data lines along the column direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Hyunkyu NAMKUNG, Seokyun SON, Jai-Hyun KOH, Heendol KIM, Kuk-Hwan AHN
  • Publication number: 20160155400
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The pixels displaying first, second, third, and fourth colors are repeatedly arranged in the second direction. A k-th gate line connected to at least one of first pixels displaying the first color among the pixels arranged in an i-th row is electrically connected to a (k+j)th gate line connected to at least one of second pixels displaying the first color among pixels arranged in one row of (i+1)th, (i+2)th, and (i+3)th rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Hyunkyu NAMKUNG, Kuk-Hwan AHN, Jai-Hyun KOH, Heendol KIM, Seokyun SON, Ik Soo LEE
  • Publication number: 20160125784
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a first pixel configured to include first and second sub-pixels and a second pixel configured to include third and fourth sub-pixels. A timing controller generates pixel data including first and second pixel data respectively corresponding to the first and second pixels and representable in a second matrix space, from pixel signals including first and second pixel signals representable in a first matrix space to respectively correspond to the first and second pixels. The timing controller generates the second pixel data on the basis of the first pixel signal adjacent to the second pixel signal which correspond to each second pixel data in the column direction in the first matrix space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Seokyun SON, Jai-hyun KOH, Kuk-hwan AHN, Iksoo LEE
  • Publication number: 20160116807
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines crossing the first direction and having polarities of data voltages consecutively repeated every four data lines, and pixels which each comprise three sub-pixels. One of the three sub-pixels has a width in the first direction different from a width in the first direction of another sub-pixel of the three sub-pixels. Each of the three sub-pixels is connected to a corresponding gate line and a corresponding data line. The polarities of the data voltages applied to a first data line and a third data line are opposite and the polarities of the data voltages applied to a second data line and a fourth data line are opposite. The pixels arranged between two adjacent data lines among the plurality of data lines are alternately connected to the two adjacent data lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Namjae LIM, Jai-Hyun KOH, Sungjae PARK, Ik Soo LEE
  • Patent number: 9318075
    Abstract: An image driving method includes receiving basic image data including a first set of primary colors. The basic image data is transformed into output image data including a second set of primary colors. Luminance values of the second set of primary colors of the output image data is reduced to compensate the luminance values of the second set of primary colors of the output image data when a luminance value of the first set of primary color of the basic image data is saturated. Image distortion is thereby minimized or prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heen-Dol Kim, Jai-Hyun Koh, Ik-Soo Lee, Jin-Pil Kim
  • Publication number: 20160086552
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes data lines, gate lines, a first pixel unit, a second pixel unit, and a data driver circuit. The data lines extend in a first direction. The gate lines extend in a second direction crossing the first direction. The first pixel unit includes red, green and blue sub pixels. Each of the red, green and blue sub pixels has a short side of the first direction and a long side of the second direction. The second pixel unit includes the red, green and white sub pixels. Each of the red, green and white sub pixels has a short side of the first direction and a long side of the second direction. The data driver circuit outputs a plurality of data voltages to the data lines. Each of the data voltages has a polarity according to an inversion mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: HYUN-KYU NAMKUNG, Jai-Hyun Koh, Sung-Jae Park, Nam-Jae Lim, Ik-Soo Lee
  • Publication number: 20160071473
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The pixels include pixels arranged in a k-th row and pixels arranged in a (k+1)th row disposed adjacent to the pixels arranged in the k-th row in the second direction. An (i+1)th gate line is disposed between the pixels in the k-th row and the pixels in the (k+1)th row. A first pixel arranged in a g-th column among the pixels arranged in the k-th row and a second pixel arranged in the g-th column among the pixels arranged in the (k+1)th row are connected to a j-th data line. The pixels arranged in the k-th row are alternately connected to an i-th gate line and the (i+1)th gate line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Kuk-Hwan AHN, Seokyun SON, Jai-Hyun KOH, Geunjeong PARK, Dong-Won PARK, Donghwa SHIN, Won Sik OH, Ik Soo LEE, Sang-Uk LIM, Seokha HONG
  • Publication number: 20160055784
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel, the method including analyzing input image data, determining a driving method of the display panel as one of a progressive driving method and an interlace driving method, and rearranging the input image data according to the determined one of the progressive driving method and the interlace driving method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Jai-Hyun Koh, Heen-Dol Kim, Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Ik-Soo Lee
  • Publication number: 20160042711
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus including: a display panel including a plurality of pixels each for displaying an image corresponding to a data signal; and a timing controller configured to receive an image signals and to convert the image signal into the data signal to be supplied to the display panel, wherein the timing controller is further configured to convert the image signal into an intermediate data signal and to generate the data signal, which corresponds to a k-th pixel, on a basis of intermediate data signals corresponding to a (k?1)-th pixel, the k-th pixel and a (k+1)-th pixel of the plurality of pixels, wherein the data signal corresponding to a first pixel of the plurality of pixels includes first and second color signals and the data signal corresponding to a second pixel of the plurality of pixels includes third and fourth color signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Heendol Kim, Jai-Hyun Koh, Jinpil Kim, Seokyun Son, Ik Soo Lee