Patents by Inventor Keum-Nam Kim

Keum-Nam Kim 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: 8786587
    Abstract: A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) having a cathode electrode coupled to a second power source, a first transistor for controlling an amount of current that flows from a first power source to the second power source via the OLED corresponding to a data signal, a second transistor coupled between a data line and a gate electrode of the first transistor, a third transistor coupled between the gate electrode of the first transistor and a reference power source, a fourth transistor coupled between the third transistor and the reference power source, a fifth transistor coupled between an anode electrode of the OLED and an initial power source, a first capacitor coupled between the anode electrode of the OLED and a node between the third transistor and the fourth transistor, and a second capacitor coupled between the node and the gate electrode of the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chul-Kyu Kang, Yu-Lian Choi, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8749537
    Abstract: A photo sensor that is capable of generating a photo sensing signal corresponding only to ambient light by comprehending changes in electrical current depending on the change of temperature and compensating for the electrical current according the change of temperature and a flat panel display device using the photo sensor, and the photo sensor including a photo sensing unit generating a first current corresponding to an ambient light and a second current corresponding to an ambient temperature; a temperature compensating unit including a dark diode generating a third current having a same magnitude as the second current, corresponding to the ambient temperature due to block of light to be incident; and a buffer unit outputting a light sensing signal corresponding to current having the same magnitude as the first current by subtracting the third current generated in the temperature compensating unit from the second current generated in the photo sensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Youb Kim, Matsueda Yojiro, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8736523
    Abstract: Pixel circuits and an organic electroluminescent display including the same are provided. The pixel circuit includes: an organic light emitting diode; a fifth transistor coupled to a third scan line, a reference power source, and a first node; a first capacitor coupled between the first node and a second node; a second capacitor coupled between the first node and the organic light emitting diode; a fourth transistor coupled to a second scan line, a data line, and the first node; a sixth transistor coupled to a first scan line, a first power source, and the second node; a second transistor coupled to the second scan line, the second node, and a third node; a third transistor coupled to an emission control line, the first power source, and the third node; and a first transistor coupled to the second node, the third node, and the organic light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Yong Chung, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Publication number: 20140117860
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus including a plurality of unit pixels, each including a plurality of sub-pixels; a first line branched in a first direction from a common line as many as the number of sub-pixels in each of the unit pixels so as to connect sub-pixels emitting light of the same color in neighboring unit pixels to each other; a second line extending in a second direction that crosses the first direction and connected to the sub-pixels; and a third line adjacent to the second line, extending in the second direction, and including a hole formed on a portion where the first line and the third line cross each other, and connected to the sub-pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Na-Young KIM, Ki-Nyeng KANG, Keum-Nam KIM
  • Publication number: 20140097420
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display includes: a pixel region; and a peripheral region surrounding the pixel region, the peripheral region including: a gate common voltage line; an interlayer insulating film that covers the gate common voltage line and has a common voltage contact hole exposing part of the gate common voltage line; a data common voltage line that is formed on the interlayer insulating film and comes in contact with the gate common voltage line via the common voltage contact hole; barrier ribs that cover the data common voltage line and have common voltage openings exposing part of the data common voltage line; and a peripheral common electrode that is formed on the barrier ribs and comes in contact with the data common voltage line via the common voltage openings, wherein the barrier ribs are formed at positions corresponding to the boundaries with the common voltage contact hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventors: Hae-Yeon LEE, Jin-Gon OH, Jung-Bae KIM, Jong-Hyun CHOI, Keum-Nam KIM
  • Publication number: 20140077173
    Abstract: A thin film transistor includes a substrate, a gate electrode on the substrate, an active layer spaced from the gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode spaced from the gate electrode and coupled to the active layer, a gate wiring at a same layer as the gate electrode and coupled to the gate electrode, and first conductive members electrically coupled to, and overlapping, the gate wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Bae Kim, Yong-Sung Park, Wang-Jo Lee, Hae-Yeon Lee, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8665254
    Abstract: A pixel circuit of a display panel, a method of driving the pixel circuit, and an organic light emitting display device including the display panel. All of a plurality of transistors included in the pixel circuit are NMOS transistors, and the pixel circuit configured to compensate for a voltage change at a source electrode of a driving transistor during light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Yong Chung, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8659513
    Abstract: A pixel capable of displaying images with substantially uniform luminance and an organic light emitting display device using the same are provided. An organic light emitting display device is driven in a frame divided into a reset period, a compensation period and an emission period. The organic light emitting display device includes pixels coupled to scan lines and data lines. First and second control lines are commonly coupled to the pixels. A control line driver supplies first and second control signals to the respective first and second control lines. A scan driver concurrently supplies a scan signal to the scan lines during a time in the reset and compensation periods. A data driver supplies a reset voltage to the data lines during the time in the reset and compensation periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Moo Choi, Chul-Kyu Kang, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Publication number: 20140049455
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display including a substrate, a scan line transferring a scan signal, a compensation control line transferring a compensation control signal, an operation control line applying an operation control signal, a data line and a driving voltage line transferring a data signal and a driving voltage, respectively, a switching thin film transistor (TFT) connected to the scan line and the data line, a compensation TFT and an initialization TFT connected to the compensation control line, an operation control TFT connected to the operation control line and the switching TFT, a driving TFT connected to the driving voltage line, an organic light emitting diode connected to a drain electrode of the driving TFT, and a hold capacitor connected between a source electrode of the operation control TFT and a gate electrode of the initialization TFT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Yong-Jae Kim, Hae-Yeon Lee, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8654041
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a scan driver for sequentially supplying a scan signal through scan lines; a data driver for supplying an initial power through data lines during a first period of a time period when the scan signal is supplied through a corresponding scan line of the scan lines, and for supplying data signals to the data lines during a second period of the time period when the scan signal is supplied through the corresponding scan line, the second period following the first period; and pixels at crossing regions of the scan lines and the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chul-Kyu Kang, Sang-Moo Choi, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8643631
    Abstract: There is provided a method of driving an organic light emitting display so that the organic light emitting display may be driven at a low driving frequency. The organic light emitting display includes pixels coupled to odd and even scan lines. The organic light emitting display is driven during frames. Each of the frames includes first, second, third, and fourth frame periods. The method includes: sequentially supplying scan signals to the odd scan lines in the first and third frame periods; and sequentially supplying scan signals to the even scan lines in the second and fourth frame periods. The pixels are in a non-emission state in the first and third frame periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Moo Choi, Keum-Nam Kim, Kyung-Hoon Chung
  • Patent number: 8624806
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display using the pixel circuit is provided. The pixel circuit includes: an OLED; a third N-channel metal-oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor coupled to a data line and a first scan line and configured to apply a data signal to a first node; a storage capacitor having one terminal coupled to the first node and the other terminal coupled to a second node; a fourth NMOS transistor coupled between a first power and the second node and configured to apply a voltage of the first power to the second node; a first NMOS transistor having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode coupled to the second node; and a second NMOS transistor coupled between the second node and the first electrode of the first NMOS transistor and configured to diode-connect the first NMOS transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Yong Chung, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Publication number: 20140002423
    Abstract: A driving circuit includes: an input terminal; an output terminal; a first transistor having a source electrode coupled to the input terminal, a drain electrode coupled to the output terminal, and a gate electrode; a second transistor having a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode respectively coupled to the source electrode, the drain electrode, and the gate electrode of the first transistor; a first capacitor having a first electrode coupled to the input terminal and a second electrode coupled to the output terminal; and a second capacitor coupled in parallel with the first capacitor and having a first electrode coupled to the first electrode of the first capacitor and a second electrode that is floated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JUNG-MI CHOI, BO-YONG CHUNG, KEUM-NAM KIM
  • Patent number: 8587499
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display including a plurality of pixel areas and a transparent area interposed between the plurality of pixel areas, the display includes a substrate member, thin film transistors and capacitor elements on the substrate member, the thin film transistor and the capacitor elements overlapping with the pixel areas, a gate line, a data line, and a common power supply line on the substrate member, the gate line, the data line, and the common power supply line overlapping with the pixel areas and the transparent area, and being connected to corresponding ones of the thin film transistors and/or the capacitor elements, and pixel electrodes on the substrate member, the pixel electrodes overlapping with all of the thin film transistors and capacitor elements, and with respective portions of the gate line, the data line, and the common power supply line that overlap with the pixel areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Goo Kang, Sang-Moo Choi, Mu-Hyun Kim, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Publication number: 20130299790
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a thin film transistor including an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, an organic light-emitting device including a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, an intermediate layer including a light-emitting layer, and an opposed electrode, and a first wiring and a second wiring arranged in different layers on a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Ki-Nyeng KANG, Na-Young KIM, Keum-Nam KIM, Beohm-Rock CHOI, Soo-Beom JO, Kie-Hyun NAM, Young-Min KIM
  • Patent number: 8575628
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display having first pixel power source lines receiving a pixel driving voltage from first power supply sources and second pixel power source lines arranged between the first pixel power source lines and receiving a pixel driving voltage from second power supply sources, the light emitting diode of each of a plurality of pixels included in an image display unit is divided into two, and the divided light emitting diodes are coupled to the different pixel power source lines so that brightness non-uniformity of the image display unit caused by the IR drops of the pixel power source lines is reduced or prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung-Soo Kim, Soon-Sung Ahn, Do-Ik Kim, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8569762
    Abstract: A transparent organic light-emitting display device has an improved transmittance and a reduced voltage drop in an opposite electrode. The organic light-emitting display device includes: a first substrate having a transmitting region and a plurality of pixel regions separated from each other by the transmitting region interposed between the pixel regions; a plurality of pixel electrodes being located at the pixel regions, respectively; an opposite electrode facing the pixel electrodes and being at the transmitting region and the pixel regions; a second substrate facing the opposite electrode and being bonded to the first substrate; a first conductive unit being between the second substrate and the opposite electrode, opposite ends of the first conductive unit contacting the second substrate and the opposite electrode, respectively; and a second conductive unit facing the first conductive unit and contacting the opposite electrode that is between the first conductive unit and the second conductive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Heung Ha, Kyu-Hwan Hwang, Seok-Gyu Yoon, Young-Woo Song, Jong-Hyuk Lee, Keum-Nam Kim, Young-In Hwang
  • Patent number: 8558222
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display includes: a substrate main body having a plurality of pixel regions, each including an opaque region and a transparent region; and organic light emitting diodes, thin film transistors, and conductive lines that are formed in the opaque region of the substrate main body. The transparent region includes a transparent square space that has an area that is at least 15% of the entire area of the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyu-Hwan Hwang, Seok-Gyu Yoon, Jae-Heung Ha, Young-Woo Song, Jong-Hyuk Lee, Chaun-Gi Choi, Sang-Moo Choi, Keum-Nam Kim, Gun-Shik Kim
  • Patent number: 8531358
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device compensates for a variation of the threshold voltage of a driving transistor. A scan driver and a data driver drive a plurality of pixels. A pixel of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode, four transistors, and two capacitors. A first transistor controls a current to the organic light emitting diode. Second and third transistors are coupled between a data line from the data driver and a gate electrode of the first transistor. A fourth transistor is coupled between a reference power supply and the gate electrode of the first transistor. The two capacitors are coupled between the organic light emitting diode and respective electrodes of the third transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Moo Choi, Chul-Kyu Kang, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8519917
    Abstract: A method of driving an organic light emitting display, includes extracting information on deterioration of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) and information on a threshold voltage and mobility of a driving transistor included in each of the pixels to store the information in a memory unit during a non-display period, converting input data into corrected data using the information items stored in the memory unit, and supplying data signals corresponding to the corrected data to data lines, wherein, extracting the information, includes storing the information on the deterioration of the OLED and the information on the threshold voltage and mobility of the driving transistor in a non-volatile memory, and storing the information in a volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Hyung Ryu, Keum-Nam Kim