Patents by Inventor Joo-Hyung Lee

Joo-Hyung Lee 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: 20140210737
    Abstract: A mobile device including a first display, a second display, a foldable coupling portion for coupling the first display to the second display, an angle sensing unit for sensing a folding angle between the first display and the second display, a direction-of-sight sensing unit for sensing a direction of sight of a user, and a controller for determining whether to use a touch input sensed by either the first display or the second display based on the sensed folding angle and the sensed direction of sight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee-Chul Hwang, Joo-Hyung Lee, Eun-Gyeong Choe
  • Publication number: 20140198028
    Abstract: A display panel driver including a moving image determining part, a sensing part and a dithering part. The moving image determining part determines whether an input image data represents a moving image or a static image. The sensing part senses a movement of a display apparatus or a user of the display apparatus. The dithering part performs a dithering operation to the input image data when the input image data represents the moving image or when at least one of the display apparatus and the user moves when the input image data represents the static image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo-Hyung Lee, Hee-Chul Hwang
  • Patent number: 8773603
    Abstract: An LCD with an integrated touch screen panel includes a first substrate having a plurality of pixels formed thereon, wherein each pixel of the plurality of pixels is provided with a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode. A second substrate faces the first substrate and has a plurality of common electrodes formed inside thereof. The plurality of common electrodes is arranged in a first direction to correspond to the plurality of pixels. A plurality of sensing electrodes is outside of the second substrate and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. A liquid crystal layer is between the first and the second substrates. A common electrode driver sequentially supplies a driving signal to the common electrodes and supplies a compensation signal having a phase opposite to the driving signal to the common electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Woo Park, Hideo Yoshimura, Joo-Hyung Lee, Sang-Jin Pak, Cheol-Min Kim
  • Patent number: 8749505
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a display unit including a timing controller for receiving a vertical synchronizing signal and a horizontal synchronizing signal to display an image, a touch sensing unit including driving electrodes, a control signal generator for generating a control signal from the vertical synchronizing signal and the horizontal synchronizing signal, and a touch controller for supplying a driving signal to the touch sensing unit in response to the control signal from the control signal generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Kwon Ha, Joo-Hyung Lee, Jin-Woo Park, Sang-Jin Pak, Ji-Gong Lee, Hideo Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20140152705
    Abstract: A pixel array and an organic light emitting display device including the same, can display an image with uniform luminance by compensating for a variation in threshold voltage/mobility of a driving transistor for each pixel and compensating for a change in efficiency due to degradation of an organic light emitting diode. A first pixel among the pixel array includes an organic light emitting diode; a pixel circuit positioned among an anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode, a first scan line and a first data line through which a data signal is supplied to the first pixel, and controlling current flowing in the organic light emitting diode; and a switching element controlling the coupling between a second data line through which a data signal is supplied to a second pixel of the plurality of pixels and the anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oh-Jo Kwon, Joo-Hyung Lee, Won-Tae Choi
  • Patent number: 8743063
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display with an integrated touch screen panel is disclosed. According to some aspects, conductive patterns or conducting patterns provided to the LCD are used as driving electrodes of the touch screen panel. A driving electrode of the touch screen panel may be formed on one surface of a polarizing plate or window attached to the LCD so as to be positioned close to a contact point, thereby improving touch sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Kyu Lee, Jin-Woo Park, Dong-Hoon Lee, Chul-Ho Kim, Chi-Woo Kim, Joo-Hyung Lee, Soo-Guy Rho, Sang-Jin Pak
  • Patent number: 8736518
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate and pixels defined on the substrate, where each of the pixels is a hexagon having a first side, a second side, a third side, a fourth side, a fifth side and a sixth side, and the sum of the length of the first side and the length of the fourth side is greater than half the sum of the lengths of the second, third, fifth and sixth sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Woong Park, Geun-Young Jeong, Ji-Yeon Yang, Won-Woo Jang, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 8736556
    Abstract: A method of driving a display device having a plurality of pixels, a plurality of sensing units, and a plurality of sense data lines to which the plurality of sensing units are connected, includes: reading sense signals from the sense data lines; determining whether or not the display has been touched and the number of touches, generating X-axis and Y-axis position data based on the sense signals, and determining, when the quantity of touches is plural, whether a plurality of touches are sequentially generated, and the touch position of each.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Woung Park, Hyung-Guel Kim, Kee-Han Uh, Joo-Hyung Lee, Man-Seung Cho, Young-Ok Cha
  • Patent number: 8730198
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a plurality of sensing units formed in row and column directions in the display panel, each of the sensing units generating a first sense data signal based on a contact on the display panel, a sense signal processor generating second sense data signals based on the first sense data signals, and a contact determiner generating first deviation data based on the second sense data signal of a predetermined frame and the second sense data of a sample frame group, in the second sense data signals with respect to a predetermined sensing unit of the second sense data signals in a plurality of frames, generating second deviation data based on the first deviation data of a predetermined sensing unit and the first deviation data of a sample sensing unit, in the first deviation data of a predetermined frame, and determining whether a contact occurs and a contact position based on the second deviation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Woung Park, Young-Ok Cha, Kee-Han Uh, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Publication number: 20140118426
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels; a degradation compensator for using a temperature weight value for a reference temperature, a luminance weight value for a reference luminance, and a material weight value for a reference material, for calculating a reference using time when a degradation rate of the pixels is changed to a reference degradation rate of a reference degradation curve, and for generating a control variable according to the reference using time; and a power supply for controlling a voltage difference between a first power source voltage for supplying a driving current to the pixels and a second power source voltage according to the control variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung-Ki CHUN, Hak-Sun KIM, Yong-Seok CHOI, Joo-Hyung LEE, Jong-Woong PARK, Bo-Young AN, Chang-Ho HYUN
  • Patent number: 8711078
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes: a liquid crystal panel, a timing controller which receives previous image data and current image data, corrects or does not correct the current image data according to a reference bit of conversion image data generated using the previous image data, and outputs a display image signal to the liquid crystal panel, and a data driver which receives the display image signal and applies a data voltage corresponding to the display image signal to the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo-Hyung Lee, Sang-Jin Pak, Young-Ok Cha
  • Patent number: 8692818
    Abstract: A driving device for a display and a display using same, and a driving method of the display are provided. The display includes a display panel on which an image is displayed, and at least one optical sensor (photodetector) to detect the intensity of ambient (external) light incident upon the display panel. An external-brightness detector outputs an external-brightness signal based on the intensity of external (ambient) light and a backlight brightness controller changes the brightness of the image displayed (or backlight) on the display panel according to the external-brightness signal. The driving device may be implemented on an integrated circuit adapted to be connected to external-light photodetectors of type 1 or of type 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se-Byung Chae, Bo-Young An, Joo-Hyung Lee, Soon-Dong Kim, Ho-Suk Maeng, Seung-Bin Moon
  • Publication number: 20140085170
    Abstract: A method of operating an organic light emitting display device including a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel and a white sub-pixel, wherein a first gamma voltage for the red, green and blue sub-pixels and a second gamma voltage for the white pixel are adjusted such that a sum of maximum luminances of the red, green and blue sub-pixels is substantially equal to a luminance of a white color displayed by the organic light emitting display device. With respect to a white portion of input data, a ratio of first data of the red, green and blue sub-pixels to second data of the white sub-pixel is adjusted based on a first accumulated driving amount of the red, green and blue sub-pixels and a second accumulated driving amount of the white sub-pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-Woong PARK, Won-Woo JANG, Joo-Hyung LEE
  • Patent number: 8670108
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high resolution time-of-flight distance measurement device based on a femtosecond laser, including a femtosecond laser light source, a polarization beam splitter, a balanced optical cross-correlator in which second harmonic pulses are generated using reference light and measurement light, wherein the second harmonic pulse that was primarily generated is incident on a first photodetector and the second harmonic pulse that was secondarily generated is incident on a second photodetector, so that a difference in intensity of the second harmonic pulses is output, thus resolving the time interval of the pulse laser, a controller for controlling the repetition rate of the femtosecond laser, and a converter for measuring the repetition rate of the femtosecond laser controlled so that the pulses uniformly overlap by means of the controller, using a frequency counter traceable to a time/frequency standard, so that a measured value is converted into distance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Seung Woo Kim, Joo Hyung Lee, Young Jin Kim
  • Publication number: 20140063078
    Abstract: A method of controlling a dimming operation is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes determining the brightness of an input image frame based on input image data, determining an input dimming value based on the brightness of the input image frame, selectively performing the dimming operation is based on a comparison of an absolute value of a difference between the input dimming value and a current output dimming value against a predetermined threshold value, where a value generated by adjusting the current output dimming value by a predetermined adjustment value is output as a next output dimming value when performing the dimming operation, and the input dimming value is output as the next output dimming value when not performing the dimming operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Yong-Seok Choi, Byung-Ki Chun, Jong-Woong Park, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Publication number: 20140028700
    Abstract: A device for mapping a color gamut includes a color gamut determinator and a color gamut mapper. The color gamut determinator determines an output color gamut using a gain value corresponding to information of a first color gamut, information of a second color gamut and a control condition. The color gamut mapper converts the color gamut of an input image data into the output color gamut. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a device and method for mapping a color gamut, which can determine an optimal color gamut corresponding to a change in control condition, and accordingly improve color accuracy and color reproducibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Woong Park, Yong-Seok Choi, Won-Woo Jang, Byung-Ki Chun, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Publication number: 20140022149
    Abstract: There are disclosed a DC-DC converter and an organic light emitting display including the same. The DC-DC converter includes a first voltage generator that has an inductor and a plurality of transistors, and converts an input voltage into a first voltage and outputs the first voltage to a first output terminal. The DC-DC converter also includes a controller that controls driving of the first voltage generator by supplying a first driving pulse to each transistor of the first voltage generator. In the DC-DC converter, the amplitude of the first driving pulse is adjustable. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a DC-DC converter and an organic light emitting display including the same, which can achieve high power conversion efficiency by change a driving pulse used in a DC-DC converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oh-Jo Kwon, Hak-Sun Kim, Joo-Hyung Lee, Won-Tae Choi, Bo-Yeon Kim
  • Publication number: 20130342585
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and image processing method are disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes an image input unit receiving input image data to obtain grayscale values of a display image, a modeling unit calculating a luminance change ratio for each grayscale value according to a change of an on-pixel ratio and a final luminance reflected by the luminance change ratio, a grayscale re-mapping unit determining a compensation grayscale value for compensating a luminance change ratio according to the on-pixel ratio of the input image data to display a target luminance corresponding to a predetermined grayscale value included in grayscale information of the input image data in the on-pixel ratio condition of the input image data, and an image output unit outputting an output image data compensating the input image data by the compensation grayscale value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung-Ki Chun, Yong-Seok Choi, Joo-Hyung Lee, Jong-Woong Park, Jeong-Eun Kim
  • Publication number: 20130335439
    Abstract: A color gamut conversion system comprising a color gamut conversion function generator, a color gamut converter, and a scaler is disclosed. In some embodiments, the color gamut conversion function generator is configured to generate a color gamut conversion function for determining an intermediate color gamut located in a color space between a predetermined color gamut corresponding to a display panel of a display device and a standard color gamut, the color gamut converter is configured to receive input data supplied from an external image source and convert a color coordinate of the input data according to the generated color gamut conversion function and the scaler configured is to scale a value of the data converted by the color gamut converter, generate the value as output data, and transfer the output data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Geun-Young Jeong, Won-Woo Jang, Jong-Woong Park, Ji-Yeon Yang, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: D698379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joo-Hyung Lee