Patents by Inventor Jie Won Ryu

Jie Won Ryu 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: 10950182
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods that may reduce a reduction in visual artifacts related to hysteresis of a light emitting diode (LED) electronic display. In one example, an electronic device may include a controller. The controller is may provide a signal to a pixel of a display of the electronic device while at least a portion of the display is turned off. The signal may include a first current and a second current. The first current may be designed to increase an ambient temperature corresponding to the pixel. The second current may be generated as part of an active panel conditioning operation. By applying the first current and the second current, hysteresis settling times from the pixel may improve, therefore improving speeds of sensing and compensation operations of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Junhua Tan, Kingsuk Brahma, Jie Won Ryu, Shengkui Gao, Shiping Shen, Majid Gharghi, Hyunwoo Nho, Injae Hwang, Kavinaath Murugan, Sun-Il Chang, Chin-Wei Lin, Hyunsoo Kim, Rui Zhang, Jesse Aaron Richmond, Yun Wang, Hung Sheng Lin, Alex H. Pai, Chaohao Wang, Wei H. Yao
  • Patent number: 10943541
    Abstract: Current-voltage shift determination circuitry of a processing core complex coupled to the electronic display determines total current-voltage shift values at a pixel. The current-voltage shift determination circuitry then determines temperature-based current-voltage shift values at the pixel. The current-voltage shift determination circuitry extracts the temperature-based current-voltage shift values from the total current-voltage shift values to determine age-based voltage degradation values. Display compensation circuitry of the processing core complex adjusts display of image data by the pixel based on the age-based voltage degradation values. In this manner, voltage degradation due to pixel aging may be determined separately from current-voltage shift due to temperature, and, as such, be more accurately compensated for, resulting in better display of image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Junhua Tan, Hsin-Ying Chiu, Sun-Il Chang, Yunhui Hou, Jie Won Ryu, Hyunwoo Nho, Weichuan Yao, Shiping Shen, Injae Hwang, Hyunsoo Kim, Myungjoon Choi, Shengkui Gao, Chaohao Wang, Kingsuk Brahma, Jesse Aaron Richmond, Myung-Je Cho, Changki Min, Wei H. Yao
  • Publication number: 20210056930
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display having multiple display pixels. The display pixels may illuminate at a target luminance based at least in part on a first analog voltage signal. The electronic device may also include an electrical bus configured to generate multiple analog voltage signals including the first analog voltage signal, which is output on an output of the electrical bus. The electrical bus may include a digital to analog converter to generate at least some of the analog voltage signals and multiple output buffers to buffer the analog voltage signals. The outputs may be buffered by an output buffer of the output buffers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Jaeyoung Kang, Jesse Aaron Richmond, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Hopil Bae, John T. Wetherell, Kingsuk Brahma, Yuichi Okuda, Shingo Hatanaka, Baris Cagdaser, Myungjoon Choi, Jie Won Ryu, Hyunwoo Nho, Yafei Bi, Wei H. Yao, Henry C. Jen, Derek Keith Shaeffer
  • Publication number: 20210049962
    Abstract: An apparatus receives current image frame data and data relating to at least one previous image frame for an electronic display. One or more parameters related to hysteresis of transistors in the electronic display are sensed. A correlation device, such as a look-up table, receives the sensed parameter or parameters and the data relating to one or more image frames, and uses this information, at least in part, to output an appropriate compensation signal for the current image frame data. The compensated current image frame data may then be supplied to the electronic display to reduce or eliminate the effects of hysteresis on the displayed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Chaohao Wang, Chih-Wei Yeh, Chin-Wei Lin, Hung Sheng Lin, Hyunwoo Nho, Injae Hwang, Jie Won Ryu, Junhua Tan, Paolo Sacchetto, Rui Zhang, Shengkui Gao, Sun-Il Chang, Wei H. Yao, Howard H. Tang
  • Publication number: 20210012712
    Abstract: A display may include an array of organic light-emitting diode display pixels having transistors characterized by threshold voltages subject to transistor variations. Compensation circuitry may be used to sense a current from selected display pixels. A display pixel may include a drive transistor, a gate setting transistor for driving a reference voltage onto the gate terminal of the drive transistor, a data loading and current sensing transistor for connecting the drive transistor to a data/current-sensing line, a light-emitting diode, an emission control transistor coupled between the drive transistor and the diode, and an anode resetting transistor for selectively resetting the anode terminal of the diode. During in-frame current sensing operations, the emission control transistor may be turned off to decouple the drive transistor from the diode, thereby blocking off any residue current and lateral leakage current that may be present at the diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Fan Gui, Hung Sheng Lin, Hyunwoo Nho, Jie Won Ryu, Junhua Tan, Kingsuk Brahma, Majid Gharghi, Mohammad Reza Esmaeili Rad, Shinya Ono, Yun Wang, Zino Lee
  • Patent number: 10878747
    Abstract: Methods and systems for compensating a display of an electronic device using internal sensing and external compensation. The external compensation uses a generated compensation map that then is used to compensate for variations that occur outside of display circuitry. The internal sensing compensation is used to compensate for internally sensed parameters (e.g., aging) of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shengkui Gao, Chaohao Wang, Hung Sheng Lin, Hyunsoo Kim, Hyunwoo Nho, Injae Hwang, Jesse Aaron Richmond, Jie Won Ryu, Junhua Tan, Kingsuk Brahma, Myung-Je Cho, Myungjoon Choi, Shiping Shen, Sun-Il Chang, Wei H. Yao, Yi Qiao
  • Publication number: 20200388225
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presently disclosed that compensate for temperature-based parasitic capacitance variation of a pixel of a display by causing a driver transistor of the pixel to enter an ohmic or linear region. A lookup table is generated based on temperatures at the pixel, diode voltages, and target diode currents or luminances at a diode of the pixel. A correction voltage is determined based on a target diode current or luminance, a temperature at the pixel, and the lookup table. A data voltage is applied corresponding to the target diode current or luminance and the correction voltage to the driver transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Kim, Injae Hwang, Jesun Kim, Jesse A. Richmond, Junhua Tan, Jie Won Ryu, Hyunwoo Nho, Kingsuk Brahma, Chaohao Wang, Shiping Shen, Myungjoon Choi, Myung-Je Cho, Rebecca Park, Sun-Il Chang
  • Publication number: 20200365082
    Abstract: A current-voltage (IV) relationship of a pixel having a diode is initially determined. A first voltage is determined that does not cause the diode to emit light, and a first current across the diode is sensed by applying the first voltage. A predetermined current is determined based on the first voltage and the IV relationship. A ratio is determined based on the first current, a target current, and the predetermined current. A ratio voltage is determined by applying the ratio to a predetermined target voltage. If the first current is less than the predetermined current, then the ratio voltage is applied to supply a target current to the diode. If the first current is greater than the predetermined current, then a second voltage is determined by averaging the first test voltage and the ratio voltage, and the second voltage is applied to supply the target current to the diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Injae Hwang, Jesun Kim, Hyunwoo Nho, Jie Won Ryu, Hyunsoo Kim, Junhua Tan, Myungjoon Choi, Rebecca Park, Shiping Shen, Sun-Il Chang, Shengkui Gao, Kingsuk Brahma, Jesse Aaron Richmond, Changki Min, Yifan Zhang, Jiye Lee, Chaohao Wang
  • Patent number: 10839753
    Abstract: A display may have rows and columns of pixels. Gate lines may be used to supply gate signals to rows of the pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data signals to columns of the pixels. The data lines may include alternating even and odd data lines. Data lines may be organized in pairs each of which includes one of the odd data lines and an adjacent one of the even data lines. Demultiplexer circuitry may be configured dynamically during data loading and pixel sensing operations. During data loading, data from display driver circuitry may be supplied, alternately to odd pairs of the data lines and even pairs of the data lines. During sensing, the demultiplexer circuitry may couple a pair of the even data lines to sensing circuitry in the display driver circuitry and then may couple a pair of the odd data lines to the sensing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Majid Gharghi, Mohammad Reza Esmaeili Rad, Yun Wang, Jie Won Ryu, Kingsuk Brahma, Shingo Hatanaka, Shinya Ono, Ting-Kuo Chang
  • Patent number: 10825385
    Abstract: An apparatus receives current image frame data and data relating to at least one previous image frame for an electronic display. One or more parameters related to hysteresis of transistors in the electronic display are sensed. A correlation device, such as a look-up table, receives the sensed parameter or parameters and the data relating to one or more image frames, and uses this information, at least in part, to output an appropriate compensation signal for the current image frame data. The compensated current image frame data may then be supplied to the electronic display to reduce or eliminate the effects of hysteresis on the displayed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chaohao Wang, Chih-Wei Yeh, Chin-Wei Lin, Hung Sheng Lin, Hyunwoo Nho, Injae Hwang, Jie Won Ryu, Junhua Tan, Paolo Sacchetto, Rui Zhang, Shengkui Gao, Sun-Il Chang, Wei H. Yao, Howard H. Tang
  • Publication number: 20200335046
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing and/or operating an electronic device, which includes a display pixel that emits light to facilitate displaying an image during an emission period and a data driver coupled to the display pixel via a data line. The data driver generates a data line voltage signal based on image data that indicates target luminance of the display pixel in the image and supplies the data line voltage signal to the data line during a non-emission period preceding the emission period to facilitate writing the image to the display pixel. Additionally, the data driver supplies an intermediate voltage greater than a ground voltage to the data line during the emission period in which the image is displayed to facilitate reducing luminance variation in the image resulting from a leakage current flowing between an internal node of the display pixel and the data line during the emission period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Jie Won Ryu, Myungjoon Choi, Hyunsoo Kim, Hyunwoo Nho, Chin-Wei Lin, Shiping Shen, Kingsuk Brahma, Chaohao Wang, Shinya Ono, Alex H. Pai, Hassan Edrees
  • Publication number: 20200335040
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display having multiple regions of pixels. Each pixel includes a diode that emits light based on an amount of current through the diode and a transistor that controls the amount of current flowing through the diode. The electronic device includes driver-integrated circuitry that reduces hysteresis in a first transistor of a first pixel of a region of pixels, settles a threshold voltage of the first transistor, applies a test voltage to the first transistor, and senses a current across the first transistor. The electronic device includes processing circuitry that determines a predetermined voltage based on the current and a predetermined current-voltage relationship determined at an initial temperature, determines a voltage difference between the test voltage and the predetermined voltage, and applies the predetermined voltage and the voltage difference to a second transistor of a second pixel of the region of pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Hyunwoo Nho, Myungjoon Choi, Hyunsoo Kim, Mohammad Ali Jangda, Jie Won Ryu, Shiping Shen, Kingsuk Brahma, Chaohao Wang, Wei H. Yao, Alex H. Pai
  • Publication number: 20200302853
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device that includes a display that has a plurality of scan lines. The display also includes a first data line that has a first number of pixels. The first data line forms a first number of crossovers with the plurality of scan lines. Additionally, the display includes a second data line that has a second number of pixels that is different than the first number of pixels. The second data line forms a second number of crossovers with the plurality of scan lines that is equal to the first number of crossovers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Chin-Wei Lin, Jie Won Ryu
  • Publication number: 20200302856
    Abstract: A system includes an electronic display panel that has a plurality of pixels configured to depict frames of image data. The electronic display also includes display driver circuitry configured to, for a first frame of image data representing first image content, modify a gate-to-source voltage of a transistor of a first pixel of the plurality of pixels to a content-dependent first gate-to-source voltage. Additionally, after modifying the gate-to-source voltage to the first gate-to-source voltage, the display driver circuitry is configured to program the first pixel by modifying the gate-to-source voltage to a gate-to-source programming voltage that differs from the first gate-to-source voltage and is based on image data associated with the pixel from the first frame of the image data. Furthermore, the display driver circuitry is configured to cause the plurality of pixels to emit light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Xin Lin, Yun Wang, Chin-Wei Lin, Majid Gharghi, Fan Gui, Chen-Ming Chen, Jie Won Ryu, Hyunwoo Nho, Alex H. Pai, Kingsuk Brahma, Junhua Tan, Szu Heng Tseng
  • Patent number: 10777106
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display having a number of pixels, source driving circuitry that drives data to the pixels, and data lines that communicatively couple the source driving circuitry with the pixels. The electronic device also includes quality monitoring and calibration circuitry that identifies degradation in the source driving circuitry, one or more of the data lines, or both. The electronic device may be controlled based at least in part upon identification of the degradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hung Sheng Lin, Jie Won Ryu, Kingsuk Brahma, Hyunwoo Nho, Baris Cagdaser, Junhua Tan, Sun-Il Chang, Luigi Panseri, Injae Hwang, Jesse A. Richmond, Toshiaki Sawada, Hyuck-Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 10755618
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for differential sensing (DS), difference-differential sensing (DDS), correlated double sampling (CDS), correlated-correlated double sampling (CDS-CDS) and/or programmable capacitor matching to reduce display panel sensing noise. An electronic device may include one or more processors that generate image data according to sensing operations. The one or more processors may reference a sensing pattern as part of sensing operations. Applying test sensing signals based on the sensing pattern may help reduce error associated with sensing operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hung Sheng Lin, Shengkui Gao, Hyunwoo Nho, Chin-Wei Lin, Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Jie Won Ryu, Kingsuk Brahma, Junhua Tan, Sun-Il Chang, Shinya Ono, Jesse Aaron Richmond, Yafei Bi, Derek K. Shaeffer, Myungjoon Choi, Shiping Shen
  • Patent number: 10715168
    Abstract: A display device may include rows of pixels that displays image data on a display, data lines coupled to the rows of pixels, and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that outputs a ramp voltage signal including a data voltage to be depicted on a first pixel of the rows of pixels. The display device may also include a capacitor that receives the ramp voltage signal via the DAC and a circuit that sends a control signal to a circuit component that causes the DAC to couple to the capacitor via one of the data lines for a duration of time that comprises a first time when the ramp voltage signal is below the data voltage and a second time when the ramp voltage signal is approximately equal to the data voltage. The capacitor is coupled to the DAC when the ramp voltage signal is greater than zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Adjiwibawa, David W. Lum, Wonjae Choi, Hynwoo Nho, Hopil Bae, Injae Hwang, Bryce T. Bradford, Jie Won Ryu, Hung Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20200166644
    Abstract: A method for operating an electronic display includes receiving, using a controller, sensor data related to operational parameters of the electronic display based at least in part on illuminating a sense pixel of at least one row of pixels of the electronic display, wherein a first set of pixels below the at least one row of pixels renders a portion of a first image frame and a second set of pixels above the at least one row of pixels renders a portion of a second image frame. The method also includes adjusting, using the controller, image display on the electronic display based at least in part on the sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Hung Sheng Lin, Hyunwoo Nho, Jie Won Ryu, Junhua Tan, Sun-Il Chang
  • Patent number: 10642083
    Abstract: Electronic devices and methods for compensating for temperature-dependent fluctuations in a display include receiving a temperature index may be received from a sensor and/or calculations that indicates a temperature of the system, a pixel, a panel, a grid of a panel, or a combination thereof. The temperature is used to predict a voltage change across an emissive element (VHILO), such as an organic light emitting diode (OLED). This predicted voltage change is then compensated for before emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Injae Hwang, Rui Zhang, Hung Sheng Lin, Hyunsoo Kim, Hyunwoo Nho, Jesse A. Richmond, Jie Won Ryu, Junhua Tan, Kingsuk Brahma, Shengkui Gao, Shiping Shen, Sun-Il Chang
  • Patent number: 10643511
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible display such as an organic light-emitting diode display. A strain sensing resistor may be formed on a bent tail portion of the flexible display to gather strain measurements. Resistance measurement circuitry in a display driver integrated circuit may make resistance measurements on the strain sensing resistor and a temperature compensation resistor to measure strain. A crack detection line may be formed from an elongated pair of traces that are coupled at their ends to form a loop. The crack detection line may run along a peripheral edge of the flexible display. Crack detection circuitry may monitor the resistance of the crack detection line to detect cracks. The crack detection circuitry may include switches that adjust the length of the crack detection line and thereby allow resistances to be measured for different segments of the line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Zhang, Mohammad Hajirostam, Hung Sheng Lin, Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Sang Y. Youn, Zhen Zhang, Prashant Mandlik, Sun-Il Chang, Jie Won Ryu, Shengkui Gao, Hyunwoo Nho, Wei H. Yao, Yafei Bi, Yun Wang