Patents by Inventor Jong-Woong Park

Jong-Woong Park 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: 10206597
    Abstract: A nerve probe array has a connector made of a flexible material; and a plurality of probes coupled to the connector, each of the plurality of probe having an electrode formed at a body thereof. The plurality of probes are arranged with intervals in a length direction of the connector, and the connector surrounds an outer circumference of a nerve, and the plurality of probes pierce the outer circumference of the nerve and are inserted into the nerve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Jinseok Kim, Jong Woong Park, Jinwoo Jeong, Inchan Youn, Ockchul Kim, Sang Rok Oh, Keehoon Kim, Jun Uk Chu
  • Patent number: 10163389
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device, and a display controller configured to provide image data to the OLED display device. The display controller calculates stress data for the OLED display device by accumulating the image data, and determines a compensation factor for the OLED display device based on the stress data. The OLED display device receives the image data and the compensation factor from the display controller, converts the image data into compensated image data based on the compensation factor, and displays an image based on the compensated image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Ho-Suk Maeng, Jong-Woong Park
  • Patent number: 10102797
    Abstract: An image sticking controller includes a gamma conversion unit configured to gamma-convert gray scale values respectively corresponding to a plurality of pixels, and to output the gamma-converted gray scale values as gamma conversion values, a data accumulation unit configured to accumulate the gamma conversion values into an accumulation data, the accumulation data including a minimum accumulation value, a maximum difference value indicating a difference between the minimum accumulation value and a maximum accumulation value, and difference values indicating respective differences between the minimum accumulation value and an accumulation value of each of the pixels, an image sticking analysis unit configured to output an image sticking decrease control signal when the maximum difference value is greater than a reference value, and a data conversion unit configured to convert the gray scale values in response to the image sticking decrease control signal, such that image sticking is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-Woong Park, Won-Woo Jang, Yong-Seok Choi, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 10078981
    Abstract: A controller for a display device includes an adjuster and a compensator. The adjuster adjusts at least one parameter of a modeling equation based on a measured current of a pixel. The modeling equation including the at least one adjusted parameter is indicative of a real time degree of degradation of the pixel. The compensator compensates for image data corresponding to emission of light from the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gun-Hee Chung, Chang-Kyu Seol, Jun-Jin Kong, Jong-Woong Park, Hong-Rak Son, Hyun-Seuk Yoo, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Publication number: 20180221653
    Abstract: A probe insertion device for a neural probe structure with a plurality of probes to simultaneously insert the plurality of probes into a nerve includes a nerve holder to fix the nerve surrounding an outer circumference of the nerve, and a probe holder positioned outside in a radial direction of the nerve holder to fixedly support the probes surrounding a circumference of the nerve holder. The probe holder includes a plurality of sections (“probe holder sections”) arranged radially with respect to the nerve holder and moveable in a radial direction of the nerve holder, and the plurality of probe holder sections simultaneously moves the plurality of probes toward the nerve holder having fixed the nerve, so that the plurality of probes is simultaneously inserted into the nerve in a radial shape when viewed in a lengthwise direction of the nerve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jinseok KIM, Jong Woong Park, Hyungdal Park, Wonsuk Choi, Ockchul Kim, Woo Hyun Jung, Sunyoung Jung
  • Patent number: 10043438
    Abstract: A display device includes a controller configured to: generate compensation data by accumulating image data; and generate the image data by reflecting the compensation data to input data received from an external source; and a display unit comprising a plurality of pixels configured to display an image according to the image data, wherein the controller generates the image data while pixel shifting the compensation data by a predetermined pixel movement amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jong Woong Park
  • Publication number: 20180200533
    Abstract: A medical wound healing accelerator is disclosed. The medical wound healing accelerator according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a body attachably/detachably provided on a fixing pin, of an external fixator for fractures, inserted into a bone through a skin; a plurality of light source units arranged at one lateral surface of the body so as to emit, at the skin, light providing a beneficial effect to a wound; and a controller electrically connected to the light source units so as to control operations of the light source units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jong Woong PARK, Tae Jin SONG
  • Publication number: 20180174520
    Abstract: A display device driven in one of a first mode and a second mode includes a first pixel area which includes first pixels, a second pixel area which includes the second pixels, a first boundary area which is included in the second pixel area and to be positioned between boundary portions of the first pixel area and the second pixel area, and a luminance controller which controls first boundary data corresponding to the first boundary area so that luminance of the first boundary area is gradually changed corresponding to a first data signal applied to the first pixels and the second pixels when the display device is driven in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Jong Woong PARK, Ho Suk MAENG, Weon Jun CHOE
  • Patent number: 9966036
    Abstract: A plurality of data signals to be supplied to a first pixel and a second pixel formed by a first sub-pixel, two second sub-pixels, and two third sub-pixels on the display panel are rendered. Input data corresponding to a first sampling window with respect to the second sub-pixel of the first pixel among the input data applied to the stripe pattern is used to render a second data signal supplied to the second sub-pixel through filtering sampled input data for a color of the second sub-pixel. The first data signal to be supplied to the first sub-pixel is rendered through filtering of the input data of a second window unit for a color of the first sub-pixel with respect to the first sub-pixel of the first pixel among the sampled input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Geun-Young Jeong, Jong-Woong Park, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Publication number: 20180122283
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the display panel having an active region in which an image is displayed and an inactive region adjacent to the active region, an image processor setting image data of the inactive region to dummy data, and performing a rendering operation for a boundary pixel of the plurality of pixels based on the dummy data to generate output image data, the boundary pixel located in the active region and adjacent to the inactive region, and a panel driver providing a driving signal to the display panel to display the image corresponding to the output image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: JEONGEUN KIM, JONG-WOONG PARK
  • Patent number: 9947265
    Abstract: A method for driving an electroluminescent display device includes grouping pixels in a display panel into a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Accumulated block stress values are provided based on input image data. Each accumulated block stress value represents a degree of degeneration of the pixels in each pixel block. Corrected stress values are provided by correcting each accumulated block stress value based on the accumulated block stress values of the adjacent pixel blocks. Input image data is corrected based on the corrected stress values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Woong Park, Jae-Shin Kim
  • Patent number: 9940872
    Abstract: A degradation compensating device includes an accumulator configured to accumulate stress data every pixel block, a memory configured to receive the stress data from the accumulator, and to load accumulated data from an external flash memory when a display device power is turned on, the accumulated data being a total sum of the stress data, a compensation factor calculator configured to determine a target compensation factor based on the accumulated data to compensate image data, and to apply an initial compensation factor to the target compensation factor during a wake-up period after loading the accumulated data is completed, the initial compensation factor being changed gradually during the wake-up period, and a data compensator configured to generate image compensation data based on the target compensation factor, and to generate initial image data based on a wake-up factor that is an adjusted target compensation factor based on the initial compensation factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Jae-Shin Kim, Ho-Suk Maeng, Jong-Woong Park
  • Patent number: 9928773
    Abstract: A degradation compensation apparatus including: a calculator provided with gray data regarding a plurality of consecutive frames, the calculator calculating and outputting a frame degradation amount of a current frame, which indicates a degree of degradation of the current frame; a memory accumulating and storing the frame degradation amount of the current frame and outputting a cumulative degradation amount, which is an accumulated degree of degradation of frames up to the current frame; and a data corrector correcting the gray data for a subsequent frame based on the cumulative degradation amount. Each of the plurality of consecutive frames includes first and second blocks each having a plurality of pixels, and the frame degradation amount is calculated based on one of the pixels included in the first block and one of the pixels included in the second block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Shin Kim, Jun Han Ko, Jong Woong Park, Gun Hee Chung
  • Patent number: 9842412
    Abstract: A rendering method includes performing a binary representation of input data by using input data of target subpixels of an RGB stripe structure, such that the binary representation defines binary data, calculating the binary data via a line detection mask to detect a target line made of the target subpixels, rendering adaptation data of a plurality of adaptation subpixels included in an adaptation line corresponding to the target line, and controlling the adaptation data of a plurality of white subpixels corresponding to the target line among a plurality of adaptation subpixels to generate output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jong-Woong Park
  • Patent number: 9773455
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a plurality of pixels in a display area; a data driver configured to supply a data signal to the pixels; and a data converter configured to output a correction image data utilized in generation of the data signal, and the data converter is configured to generate a stress data corresponding to an input image data, to accumulate and store at least a portion of the stress data in a compressed state, and to generate the correction image data obtained by correcting the input image data according to the accumulated stress data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gun-Hee Chung, Hyun-Seuk Yoo, Jun-Jin Kong, Hong-Rak Son, Madhusudan Singh, Jong-Woong Park, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 9697765
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display and a method for driving the organic light emitting display. The organic light emitting display includes a display unit, a data accumulator, and a data compensator. The display unit is configured to be driven by image data. The data accumulator is configured to compress and accumulate first data corresponding to a first portion of the image data for driving a first region of the display unit, identify a second region of the display unit from the first region by analyzing the accumulated first data, and compress and accumulate second data corresponding to a second portion of the image data for driving the second region with a compression ratio based on a size of the second region. The data compensator is configured to compensate the image data based on the accumulated first and second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gun-Hee Chung, Hyun-Seuk Yoo, Jong-Woong Park, Joo-Hyung Lee, Chang-Kyu Seol, Jun-Jin Kong, Hong-Rak Son
  • Publication number: 20170162109
    Abstract: A degradation compensating device includes an accumulator configured to accumulate stress data every pixel block, a memory configured to receive the stress data from the accumulator, and to load accumulated data from an external flash memory when a display device power is turned on, the accumulated data being a total sum of the stress data, a compensation factor calculator configured to determine a target compensation factor based on the accumulated data to compensate image data, and to apply an initial compensation factor to the target compensation factor during a wake-up period after loading the accumulated data is completed, the initial compensation factor being changed gradually during the wake-up period, and a data compensator configured to generate image compensation data based on the target compensation factor, and to generate initial image data based on a wake-up factor that is an adjusted target compensation factor based on the initial compensation factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Jae-Shin Kim, Ho-Suk Maeng, Jong-Woong Park
  • Publication number: 20170162103
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device, and a display controller configured to provide image data to the OLED display device. The display controller calculates stress data for the OLED display device by accumulating the image data, and determines a compensation factor for the OLED display device based on the stress data. The OLED display device receives the image data and the compensation factor from the display controller, converts the image data into compensated image data based on the compensation factor, and displays an image based on the compensated image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Ho-Suk Maeng, Jong-Woong Park
  • Publication number: 20170154569
    Abstract: A display device includes a controller configured to: generate compensation data by accumulating image data; and generate the image data by reflecting the compensation data to input data received from an external source; and a display unit comprising a plurality of pixels configured to display an image according to the image data, wherein the controller generates the image data while pixel shifting the compensation data by a predetermined pixel movement amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventor: Jong Woong Park
  • Patent number: 9626915
    Abstract: A display device has a plurality of pixels, some of which have different sub-pixel arrangements. A first pixel includes only three sub-pixels to emit red, green, and white light, respectively. A second pixel neighbors the first pixel and includes only three sub-pixels to emit blue, green, and white light, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Woong Park, Won-Woo Jang