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).

  • Patent number: 11257412
    Abstract: 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 display
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
  • Publication number: 20220051624
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device. The display device includes a gain provider for gradually decreasing a gain value from a first time when a first period elapses from a time at which an enable signal is generated, and a plurality of pixels for receiving data voltages determined by the gain value and the input grayscale values. The gain provider determines a length of the first period according to a first load value based on the input grayscale values at the time at which the enable signal is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Hee Sook PARK
  • Patent number: 11244600
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Myoung Seop Song, Myung Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11244596
    Abstract: A display device includes: a gain provider configured to set a time point elapsed by a set period from a time point at which a first region of an input image is detected as a still region, as a set time, and to gradually decrease a gain value from the set time; and a grayscale converter configured to generate an output image by applying the gain value to the first region and a second region including a peripheral region of the first region among the input image, wherein the gain provider is configured to set the set period differently according to size of grayscale values in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Sook Park, Ki Hyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11222576
    Abstract: A display device and a method for driving the same are described. The display device includes a plurality of pixels, a driving characteristic compensator for sensing driving characteristics of the pixels, generating first power source voltage information according to a change in the driving characteristics, and updating an RGB gamma look up table, a memory for storing the first power source voltage information and the RGB gamma look-up table, a power source manager for generating a first power source voltage based on the first power source voltage information, and a gamma controller for generating reference gamma voltages by dividing the first power source voltage supplied from the power source manager based on the RGB gamma look-up table. Therefore, power consumption of the display device may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Eun Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 11189234
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Sung In Kang, Kyun Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 11189226
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device. The display device includes a gain provider for gradually decreasing a gain value from a first time when a first period elapses from a time at which an enable signal is generated, and a plurality of pixels for receiving data voltages determined by the gain value and the input grayscale values. The gain provider determines a length of the first period according to a first load value based on the input grayscale values at the time at which the enable signal is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
  • Publication number: 20210359688
    Abstract: A clock data recovery circuit includes a phase-locked loop circuit generating a multi-phase clock signal based on input data, the phase-locked loop circuit including a multi-rate phase detector being operable at an initial rate among a plurality of rates in an initial period; a lock detector generating a lock-enable signal by detecting a lock state of the phase-locked loop circuit; a dead zone calibration circuit determining an operational rate corresponding to a data rate of the input data among the plurality of rates in response to the lock-enable signal; and a digital block controlling the multi-rate phase detector to operate at the operational rate, and generating a calibration-enable signal. The dead zone calibration circuit determines whether the multi-phase clock signal is locked within a dead zone in response to the calibration-enable signal, and changes a phase of the multi-phase clock signal based on the multi-phase clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Hee SooK PARK
  • Publication number: 20210350764
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Eun Jin CHOI
  • Publication number: 20210327338
    Abstract: A display device includes: a gain provider configured to set a time point elapsed by a set period from a time point at which a first region of an input image is detected as a still region, as a set time, and to gradually decrease a gain value from the set time; and a grayscale converter configured to generate an output image by applying the gain value to the first region and a second region including a peripheral region of the first region among the input image, wherein the gain provider is configured to set the set period differently according to size of grayscale values in the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Hee Sook PARK, Ki Hyun PYUN
  • Publication number: 20210319739
    Abstract: 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 display
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Hee Sook PARK
  • Patent number: 11145239
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including gate lines, data lines, and pixels; a gate driver that provides gate signals to the pixels through the gate lines; a data driver that provides data signals to the pixels through the data lines; and a timing controller that obtains pre-charging gray scale values based on gray scale values of the pixels. The gate driver simultaneously supplies the gate signals to the gate lines in a first period, and sequentially supplies the gate signals to the gate lines in a second period. The data driver supplies data signals corresponding to the pre-charging gray scale values to the data lines in the first period, and supplies data signals corresponding to the gray scale values of the pixels to the data lines in the second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Hoon Kwak
  • Publication number: 20210304701
    Abstract: Provided herein may be a display device. The display device may include a display panel including a plurality of unit blocks disposed in a display area, the plurality of unit blocks including a first area displaying a logo or a banner, a second area having largest load value and a third area disposed between the first area and the second area, a display panel driver configured to generate data voltages based on input image data, and a zonal compensator configured to receive the input image data, to calculate load values of the input image data for the plurality of unit blocks, respectively, and to control luminance of each of the first area and the third area based on a location difference between the first area and the second area and a load value difference between the first area and the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Eun Jin CHOI, Won Jin SEO, Ki Hyun PYUN
  • Patent number: 11132949
    Abstract: A compensation method of a display device includes: sensing a first luminance of the display device when a first pattern is displayed on the display device; calculating a luminance prediction value corresponding to a second pattern to be displayed on the display device based on the first luminance, where the second pattern is different from the first pattern; sensing a second luminance of the display device when the second pattern is displayed on the display device; adjusting a current flowing in a first power line of the display device until the second luminance reaches the luminance prediction value; and storing compensation data corresponding to an adjusted current in a lookup table when the second luminance reaches the luminance prediction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyun Ho Kim, Jung Taek Kim, Jae Woo Ryu, Joon Suk Baik, Yong Jin Shin, Uk Jae Jang, Ki Hyun Pyun, Sang Su Han
  • Publication number: 20210295767
    Abstract: A display device includes a display divided into a plurality of blocks including pixels, a timing controller for calculating a frame load for an image frame of input image data, and for generating image data by scaling grayscale values of the input image data using a scale factor, a data driver for generating a data signal corresponding to the image data, and for supplying the data signal to the pixels, a current sensor for sensing a global current flowing in a first power source line connected to the pixels, and a scale factor provider for correcting a unit target current determined using a reference block among the blocks based on a deviation in light emitting characteristics between the blocks, for calculating a target current using the frame load and a corrected unit target current, and for comparing the target current with the global current to calculate the scale factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Won Jin Seo, Eun Jin Choi, Ki Hyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11127345
    Abstract: A display device includes a display divided into a plurality of blocks including pixels, a timing controller for calculating a frame load for an image frame of input image data, and for generating image data by scaling grayscale values of the input image data using a scale factor, a data driver for generating a data signal corresponding to the image data, and for supplying the data signal to the pixels, a current sensor for sensing a global current flowing in a first power source line connected to the pixels, and a scale factor provider for correcting a unit target current determined using a reference block among the blocks based on a deviation in light emitting characteristics between the blocks, for calculating a target current using the frame load and a corrected unit target current, and for comparing the target current with the global current to calculate the scale factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Jin Seo, Eun Jin Choi, Ki Hyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11127358
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a display driver, and a timing controller. The data driver may apply a first data voltage set and subsequently a second data voltage set to the display panel during a screen saver operation of the display device. The first data voltage set may cause the display panel to display a first illuminated area. The second data voltage set may cause the display panel to display a second illuminated area. The timing controller may supply image data to the data driver for the second data voltage set to cause the second illuminated area to have a luminance level. The timing controller may determine a value for controlling the luminance level based on a distance between a position of the first illuminated area and a position of the second illuminated area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Inventors: Hee Sook Park, Ki Hyun Pyun
  • Publication number: 20210281263
    Abstract: An interface system including: a receiver; a transmitter configured to transmit a signal including a common mode voltage to the receiver through transmission lines; and a plurality of bias circuits configured to adjust the common mode voltage of the signal, wherein the bias circuits are configured to receive a bias control bit to generate a biased common mode voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Won Jin SEO, Eun Jin CHOI
  • Patent number: 11107419
    Abstract: A display device may extract an edge of a data signal based on the data signal and phase conversion clock signals, extract a phase of the data signal based on the edge, and generate a clock phase calibration signal based on the phase of the data signal. The display device may calibrate a phase of a clock signal using the clock phase calibration signal that has a phase corresponding to the phase of the clock signal, thereby improving transmission characteristic of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Hoon Kwak, Min Young Park
  • Publication number: 20210264843
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Won Jin SEO, Eun Jin CHOI