Patents by Inventor Ki-Hyun Pyun
Ki-Hyun Pyun 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).
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Patent number: 11694623Abstract: A display device may include a display unit, a signal controller, and a sensing unit. The display unit may include pixels. The signal controller may select a first pixel set from the pixel according to ages of the pixels determined based on an image signal. The sensing unit may be electrically connected to each of the display unit and the signal controller and may sense deterioration information of one or more pixels included in the first pixel set for a vertical blank period in which the display unit displays no image.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
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Patent number: 11657780Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel part partitioned into blocks; a scale factor provider which calculates a first load value of input image data for the pixel part, calculates a second load value of the input image data for each block, and generates a scale factor based on the first and second load values; and a timing controller which generates image data by scaling gray values of the input image data based on the scale factor. The scale factor provider generates a first scale factor for commonly controlling the gray values for the blocks based on the first load value, when the first load value is greater than or equal to a reference load value, and generates a second scale factor for controlling gray value for each block based on the first and second load values, when the first load value is less than the reference load value.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Mi Lee, Eun Jin Choi
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Patent number: 11657767Abstract: Provided are a display device and a driving method thereof. The display device includes: a display panel for displaying an image, based on data signals supplied from data lines; a load controller for determining a scale factor for controlling a target luminance of the image displayed in the display panel, based on a load of first image data input from the outside; and a data driver for outputting data signals to the data lines, corresponding to the first image data corrected using the scale factor. The data driver includes a plurality of data driver chips coupled to at least one data line among the data lines. The load controller determines the scale factor, based on at least one of a total load of the first image data and local loads with respect to the respective data driver chips.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Sung In Kang, Kyun Ho Kim
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Patent number: 11645972Abstract: A display device may include first pixels configured to emit light in a first color, second pixels configured to emit light in a second color different from the first color, a data driver configured to supply first reference voltages to data lines coupled to the first pixels, and a sensing circuit configured to receive first sensing voltages from sensing lines coupled to the first pixels, wherein the data driver supplies second reference voltages different from the first reference voltages to data lines coupled to the second pixels, and the sensing circuit receives second sensing voltages from sensing lines coupled to the second pixels.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Hoon Kwak
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Patent number: 11645974Abstract: A display device includes a pixel unit including pixels, a timing controller configured to generate image data based on input image data, a data driver configured to generate a data signal corresponding to the image data and supply the data signal to the pixels, a power supply configured to supply a power voltage to the pixel unit, and a power controller configured to calculate a load value and a peak grayscale value based on the input image data, and to generate a power control signal to change a voltage level of the power voltage based on the load value and the peak grayscale value.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Mi Lee, Eun Jin Choi
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Publication number: 20230126165Abstract: A clock data recovery circuit includes the following elements: a phase detector for outputting a phase adjustment signal by comparing a clock signal of a first node and an input signal; a charge pump for adjusting a charge amount of a second node according to the phase adjustment signal; a first switch including one end coupled to the second node and including another end coupled to a third node; a second switch including one end which receives a bias voltage and including another end coupled to the third node; a capacitor including a first electrode coupled to the third node; third switches; and voltage control oscillators including control terminals coupled to the third node and including output terminals coupled to the first node through the third switches.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Min Young PARK, Jong Min SHIM
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Patent number: 11636798Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel unit including pixels connected to data lines and scan lines, and signal output lines, where at least one signal output line of the signal output lines is connected to each of the scan lines through a contact point; a data driver disposed at one side of the pixel unit to drive the data lines; a scan driver disposed at the one side of the pixel unit together with the data driver to drive the scan lines; and a timing controller controlling the data driver and the scan driver. The data driver includes: output buffers outputting data signals to the data lines, respectively; and a slew rate controller adjusting a slew rate of the data signals by controlling a bias value supplied to the output buffers in units of pixel rows based on positions of the pixels and a change in the data signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Min Young Park, Eun Jin Choi
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Patent number: 11622447Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a first flexible printed circuit board attached to the display panel and electrically connected thereto; a first printed circuit board attached to the first flexible printed circuit board and electrically connected thereto; a data driver which applies a data voltage to the plurality of pixels, receives a voltage flowing to the plurality of pixels and generates mobility sensing information based on the voltage flowing to the plurality of pixels; and a timing controller which detects a first misalignment between the first printed circuit board and the first flexible printed circuit board, and a second misalignment between the display panel and the first flexible printed circuit board, based on the mobility sensing information.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Myoung Seop Song
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Publication number: 20230101159Abstract: A display device including: a display area including pixels connected to data lines and scan lines, the display area including a plurality of signal output lines connected to each of the scan lines through a contact; a data driver including a first data driving circuit at a side of the display area; a scan driver disposed at the side of the display area; and a timing controller, wherein the first data driving circuit includes: output buffers which respectively output data signals to first to k-th data lines (k is an integer greater than 2) of the data lines; and an output delay controller which transmits the data signals to the output buffers through first to k-th transmission lines, and controls delay times of the data signals output to the first to k-th transmission lines based on position information of a pixel row to which the data signals are supplied.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Jang Mi LEE, Eun Jin CHOI
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Patent number: 11615730Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a controller configured to determine a peak luminance based on a target luminance and a black duty ratio that is a ratio of a black insertion period to a sum of an image display period and the black insertion period, to determine gray-luminance information representing a plurality of luminances respectively corresponding to a plurality of gray levels based on the peak luminance and a target gamma value, and to generate gray-voltage information representing a plurality of voltage levels respectively corresponding to the plurality of gray levels based on a target white color coordinate and the gray-luminance information, a gray voltage generator configured to generate a plurality of gray voltages having the plurality of voltage levels based on the gray-voltage information, and a data driver configured to provide the plurality of gray voltages corresponding to output image data as data voltages to the plurality of pixels in the image displayType: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
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Patent number: 11610552Abstract: A display device of the present invention includes a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels connected to data lines and scan lines; a data driver disposed on one side of the pixel unit to drive the data lines; a scan driver disposed on the one side of the pixel unit together with the data driver to drive the scan lines; and a controller which controls an output timing of a data signal in units of pixel columns and units of pixel rows based on a load of a scan signal supplied to the scan lines and a load of the data signal supplied to the data lines.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Young Soo Sohn, Ki Hyun Pyun, Jae Hyoung Park, Kwan Young Oh, Seung Young Choi
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Publication number: 20230084383Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including scan lines, first signal lines connected to the scan lines in a first pixel block, second signal lines connected to the scan lines in a second pixel block, third signal lines connected to the scan lines in a third pixel block; a first scan driver supplying a first output signal to the first signal lines based on a first sub-clock signal; a second scan driver supplying a second output signal to the second signal lines based on a second sub-clock signal; a third scan driver supplying a third output signal to the third signal lines based on and a third sub-clock signal; and a timing controller. Changes in pulse widths of the first to third output signals are different in one frame period.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: KI HYUN PYUN, Jang Hoon Kwak, Won Jin Seo
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Publication number: 20230052687Abstract: A display device comprises a display area including a plurality of pixels, a peak driving determination part determining peak driving based on an input image signal, a normal driving compensation part including a first luminance lookup table having a first luminance as a peak luminance, a peak driving compensation part including a second luminance lookup table having a second luminance higher than the first luminance as a peak luminance, a compensation adjusting part that generates a peak driving gamma curve by smoothing a first and second luminance gamma curves corresponding to the first and second luminance lookup tables and generates a peak driving lookup table according to the peak driving gamma curve, and a signal controller generating an image data signal by applying one normal driving lookup table to a portion of the display area and applying the peak driving lookup table to an other portion of the display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Eun Jin CHOI
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Patent number: 11539501Abstract: A clock data recovery circuit includes the following elements: a phase detector for outputting a phase adjustment signal by comparing a clock signal of a first node and an input signal; a charge pump for adjusting a charge amount of a second node according to the phase adjustment signal; a first switch including one end coupled to the second node and including another end coupled to a third node; a second switch including one end which receives a bias voltage and including another end coupled to the third node; a capacitor including a first electrode coupled to the third node; third switches; and voltage control oscillators including control terminals coupled to the third node and including output terminals coupled to the first node through the third switches.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Min Young Park, Jong Min Shim
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Patent number: 11538384Abstract: A display device including: a display area including pixels connected to data lines and scan lines, the display area including a plurality of signal output lines connected to each of the scan lines through a contact; a data driver including a first data driving circuit at a side of the display area; a scan driver disposed at the side of the display area; and a timing controller, wherein the first data driving circuit includes: output buffers which respectively output data signals to first to k-th data lines (k is an integer greater than 2) of the data lines; and an output delay controller which transmits the data signals to the output buffers through first to k-th transmission lines, and controls delay times of the data signals output to the first to k-th transmission lines based on position information of a pixel row to which the data signals are supplied.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Mi Lee, Eun Jin Choi
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Patent number: 11514849Abstract: A display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed, and the display device includes a first pixel connected to a first data line, a first scan line, and a first power source line, emitting light in a first period, and not emitting light in a second period following the first period; a second pixel connected to a second data line, the first scan line, and the first power source line, not emitting light in the first period, and emitting light in the second period; a current sensor sensing a current flowing through the first power source line in the first period to provide a first sensing current value, and sensing the current flowing through the first power source line in the second period to provide a second sensing current value; and a memory storing a first block target current value corresponding to the first sensing current value and a second block target current value corresponding to the second sensing current value.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Myoung Seop Song, Myung Ho Lee
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Patent number: 11514860Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including scan lines, first signal lines connected to the scan lines in a first pixel block, second signal lines connected to the scan lines in a second pixel block, third signal lines connected to the scan lines in a third pixel block; a first scan driver supplying a first output signal to the first signal lines based on a first sub-clock signal; a second scan driver supplying a second output signal to the second signal lines based on a second sub-clock signal; a third scan driver supplying a third output signal to the third signal lines based on and a third sub-clock signal; and a timing controller. Changes in pulse widths of the first to third output signals are different in one frame period.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Hoon Kwak, Won Jin Seo
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Publication number: 20220375413Abstract: A display device includes a sensor, a timing controller, and a data driver. The sensor senses characteristic values of an element included in a pixel of the display device using input initialization and data voltages in a sensing period of one frame period. The timing controller calculates compensation data voltage using the characteristic values, and calculate adjusted initialization and data voltages in the sensing period by using the compensation data voltage. The data driver output the adjusted initialization and data voltages to the pixel during the sensing period in response to a control signal output from the timing controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Jung Eon An
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Publication number: 20220366831Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels grouped into blocks divided into block rows extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction, wherein each block includes two or more pixels connected to a first power source line, and each pixel is assigned with a grayscale value in a range of grayscale values that is divided into a plurality of grayscale sections; and a first power source voltage adjuster selecting a reference block row, and determining a magnitude of a first power source voltage supplied to the first power source line based on a number of blocks in the reference block row having a grayscale section that is same as a maximum grayscale section of the reference block row. The maximum grayscale section corresponds to a grayscale section that includes a largest grayscale value having a grayscale value ratio greater than a minimum ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Won Jin SEO, Eun Jin CHOI
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Patent number: 11488562Abstract: A display device comprises a display area including a plurality of pixels, a peak driving determination part determining peak driving based on an input image signal, a normal driving compensation part including a first luminance lookup table having a first luminance as a peak luminance, a peak driving compensation part including a second luminance lookup table having a second luminance higher than the first luminance as a peak luminance, a compensation adjusting part that generates a peak driving gamma curve by smoothing a first and second luminance gamma curves corresponding to the first and second luminance lookup tables and generates a peak driving lookup table according to the peak driving gamma curve, and a signal controller generating an image data signal by applying one normal driving lookup table to a portion of the display area and applying the peak driving lookup table to an other portion of the display area.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Eun Jin Choi