Patents by Inventor Kook-Chul Moon

Kook-Chul Moon 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: 8570454
    Abstract: A display device with a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region, the display device comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate comprises: a first insulating substrate; a gate and data line formed on the first insulating substrate; a pixel thin film transistor formed on the display region and electrically connected to the gate line; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the pixel thin film transistor; a gate driver formed on the non-display region and connected to the gate line; and a direct current (DC)/DC converter formed on the non-display region and having a capacitance part. The capacitance part includes: a first capacitance part with a first electrode, a first dielectric layer, and a second electrode; and a second capacitance part with the second electrode, a second dielectric layer, and a third electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-hoon Kim, Keun-woo Park, Kook-chul Moon, Pil-mo Choi, Chul-ho Kim, Ho-suk Maeng, Sang-hoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20120319124
    Abstract: A display device with a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region, the display device comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate comprises: a first insulating substrate; a gate line formed on the first insulating substrate; a pixel thin film transistor formed on the display region and electrically connected to the gate line; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the pixel thin film transistor; a gate driver formed on the non-display region and connected to the gate line; and a direct current (DC)/DC converter formed on the non-display region and having a capacitance part. The capacitance part includes: a first capacitance part with a first electrode, a first dielectric layer, and a second electrode; and a second capacitance part with the second electrode, a second dielectric layer, and a third electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-hoon KIM, Keun-woo PARK, Kook-chul MOON, Pil-mo CHOI, Chul-ho KIM, Ho-suk MAENG, Sang-hoon LEE
  • Patent number: 8223307
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region, the liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate which faces the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer which is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate comprising: a first insulating substrate; gate and data lines which are formed on the first insulating substrate and intersecting each other; a pixel thin film transistor formed on the display region and electrically connected to the gate and data lines; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the pixel thin film transistor; a gate driver formed on the non-display region and connected to the gate line to drive the gate line; and a direct current (DC)/DC converter formed on the non-display region and comprises a converter thin film transistor and a capacitance part; the capacitance part includes: a first capacitance part which comprises a first electrode, a first
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-hoon Kim, Keun-woo Park, Kook-chul Moon, Pil-mo Choi, Chul-ho Kim, Ho-suk Maeng, Sang-hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 8085379
    Abstract: Provided are a circuit board and a display device having the circuit board. The circuit board includes a first surface opposite to a second surface and a first and a second wire disposed on the first surface. The circuit board is attached substantially to one side of the display panel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Hoon Lee, Keun-Woo Park, Pil-Mo Choi, Ung-Sik Kim, Kook-Chul Moon
  • Patent number: 8040314
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display having a plurality of pixels and blocks of shift registers that are connected to one another for temporarily storing data signals and from which the data signal outputs are sequentially applied to drive the pixels. Each of the shift registers receives a shift start signal and at least one of first and second clock signals, of which phases are opposite to each other, and a high period of the shift start signal corresponds to two cycles of the respective clock signals so that each pixel is pre-charged from the data signal from previous block of registers before receiving the data signal for the current block thereby preventing a boundary between blocks from being visually recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Hoon Lee, Kook-Chul Moon, Chul-Ho Kim, Ung-Sik Kim, Pil-Mo Choi, Seock-Cheon Song, Ho-Suk Maeng, Keun-Woo Park
  • Patent number: 7995171
    Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) substrate that is capable of providing a wide viewing angle and high contrast ratio without a decrease is aperture ratio is presented. The TFT substrate may be, for example, used with a patterned vertical alignment (PVA) mode LCD. The TFT substrate includes gate lines and data lines extending in non-parallel directions and a pixel electrode formed in a pixel region. The pixel region has two transmission regions separated from each other by a reflection region, and at least one of the gate lines is formed in the reflection region. A storage capacitor may also be formed in the reflection region. This configuration avoids the use of a bridge region between the two transmission regions that is responsible for aperture ratio decrease in the conventional configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chul Ho Kim, Kook Chul Moon, Jae Hyun Kim, Ho Suk Maeng, Sang Hoon Lee, Kyung Hoon Kim, Keun Woo Park
  • Patent number: 7880849
    Abstract: A display panel includes gate lines formed on a substrate, storage electrode lines formed on the substrate and being parallel to the gate lines, data lines insulated from the gate lines and crossing the gate lines, a plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs) connected with the gate lines and the data lines, and pixel electrodes having a first sub-electrode connected with a TFT and a second sub-electrode formed at a side opposite the first sub-electrode with respect to a gate line, wherein the TFT and a storage electrode line are disposed between the first and second sub-electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chul-Ho Kim, Kook-Chul Moon, Pil-Mo Choi, Ho-Suk Maeng, Sang-Hoon Lee, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Keun-Woo Park
  • Patent number: 7876303
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for driving the data in a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel are presented. The method and apparatus prevent or reduce defects at the boundary between pixel blocks when the pixel blocks are sequentially driven on a block-by-block basis. The method includes applying data signals to a first data block, precharging a second data block that is adjacent to the first data block to a predetermined precharge voltage, and applying data signals to the second data block. The precharging prevents a large voltage difference at the boundary, thereby reducing defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kook Chul Moon, Jun Young Lee, Ung Sik Kim, Seock Cheon Song, Sang Hoon Lee, Keun Woo Park, Ho Suk Maeng, Sung Wook Kang, Pil Mo Choi
  • Patent number: 7821508
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for a display device includes a signal controller synthesizing first and second signals, respectively, having first and second signal levels to output a synthesized signal having third to fifth signal levels, a signal extracting unit extracting the first and second control signals from the synthesized signal, a gate driver generating gate signals based on the first control signal, and a data driver generating data signals based on the second control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keun-Woo Park, Pil-Mo Choi, Kook-Chul Moon, Ung-Sik Kim, Seock-Cheon Song, Ho-Suk Maeng, Sang-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 7759178
    Abstract: A thin film transistor substrate having a semiconductor layer including a low concentration region and a source region/drain region adjacent to the low concentration region at both sides of a channel region made of polysilicon; a gate insulating layer and a conductive layer on the substrate the conductive layer patterned to form a gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il-gon Kim, Tae-hyeong Park, Kook-chul Moon, Chul-ho Kim, Kyung-hoon Kim, Su-kyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 7683897
    Abstract: An amplifier includes a biasing section, first and second differential amplifying sections and an output section. The biasing section outputs first and second bias currents based on first and second power source voltages. The first differential amplifying section outputs a first amplified voltage based on the first bias current. The second differential amplifying section outputs a second amplified voltage based on the second bias current. The output section outputs the second power source voltage based on the first amplified voltage and the first power source voltage, and outputs the first power source voltage based on the second amplified voltage and the second power source voltage. Therefore, a variation of the threshold voltage is compensated to enhance display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kook-Chul Moon, Il-Gon Kim, Tae-Hyeong Park, Chul-Ho Kim, Cheol-Min Kim, Kee-Chan Park
  • Patent number: 7649398
    Abstract: A single input level shifter, which performs a stable level-shifting operation without increasing its area when used with a thin film transistor (“TFT”) having a variety of different characteristics, and includes an intermediate voltage signal providing unit for providing an intermediate voltage signal having a voltage between a supply voltage and an input signal voltage, an inverting unit for receiving the intermediate voltage signal and providing an inverted intermediate voltage signal, and a voltage signal comparing unit for comparing the intermediate voltage signal with the inverted intermediate voltage signal and providing the supply voltage or the ground voltage according to the comparison. A TFT liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device employs the single input level shifter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kee-chan Park, Il-gon Kim, Kook-chul Moon, Tae-hyeong Park, Chul-ho Kim, Cheol-min Kim
  • Patent number: 7612377
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel is provided. The array panel includes a storage capacitance that is substantially uniform, and allows for a relatively large capacitance in a relatively small area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kook-Chul Moon, Soong-Yong Joo, Il-Gon Kim, Tae-Hyeong Park
  • Publication number: 20090128545
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel that has a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines intersecting each other, a plurality of sensing lines that is formed in the display panel, a sensing driver that applies a sensing scan signal to the plurality of sensing lines and receives a predetermined electrical signal from the plurality of sensing lines corresponding to an external stimulus, and a demultiplexer that is provided between the sensing lines and the sensing driver and time-divides each sensing scan signal transmitted by the sensing driver to be sequentially applied to at least two sensing lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Seung-Kyu Lee, Shang-Min Yhee, Kook-Chul Moon, Teruo Katakura, Sang-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 7535467
    Abstract: An analog buffer, display device having the same and a method of driving the same are provided. The analog buffer applies an analog voltage to a load. The analog buffer includes a comparator and a transistor. The comparator is configured to compare an input voltage provided from an external device with the analog voltage applied to the load. The transistor is turned on to electrically charge the load when the analog voltage is lower than the input voltage or turned on to electrically discharge the load when the analog voltage is higher than the input voltage, and turned off when the analog voltage becomes substantially the same as the input voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheol-Min Kim, Hyun-Jae Kim, Il-Gon Kim, Kook-Chul Moon, Chul-Ho Kim, Kee-Chan Park, Su-Gyeong Lee, Tae-Hyeong Park, Jin-Young Choi, Hyun-Sook Shim, Oh-Kyong Kwon
  • Patent number: 7498841
    Abstract: A level shifter includes: a voltage dividing unit receiving a first voltage and an input voltage, and generating a middle voltage between the first voltage and the input voltage; first and second voltage compensating units connected to the voltage dividing unit and connected between the first voltage and a second voltage, for compensating a voltage variation of the voltage dividing unit; and an output unit receiving an output from the voltage dividing unit and generating an output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kook Chul Moon, Soong-Yong Joo, Ho-Suk Maeng, Seong-Il Park, Cheol-Min Kim, Tae-Hyeong Park, Il-Gon Kim, Chul-Ho Kim, Kee-Chan Park
  • Publication number: 20080211786
    Abstract: A display device, includes: a touch panel which outputs a predetermined enable signal corresponding to an external pressure; a display panel which includes a light detector responding to external light and generating a predetermined electrical signal representing the position of the light; and a panel driver which forms an image corresponding to the electrical signal on the display panel if the enable signal is input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Keun-woo PARK, Kook-chul Moon, Pil-mo Choi, Chul-ho Kim, Ho-suk Maeng, Sang-hoon Lee, Kyung-hoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20080198119
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a display panel having a data-storing unit including transistors integrated into the display panel. The data-storing transistors of the data-storing unit may be formed in the same film (layer) as the TFT pixel transistors on the display panel. Each of the plurality of transistors of the data-storing unit includes an input electrode connected to one of a first voltage or a second voltage depending upon a bit of stored data, and an output electrode commonly connected to a data output terminal of the data-storing unit. The data-storing unit further includes and a Serial-In, Parallel-Out shift register supplied with a reset and first and second clock signals and connected to the input electrodes of the transistors, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: Pil-Mo Choi, Kook-Chul Moon, Ho-Suk Maeng, Kwang-Sub Shin, Chul-Ho Kim, Sang-Hoon Lee, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Keun-Woo Park
  • Publication number: 20080198319
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region, the liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate which faces the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer which is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate comprising: a first insulating substrate; gate and data lines which are formed on the first insulating substrate and intersecting each other; a pixel thin film transistor formed on the display region and electrically connected to the gate and data lines; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the pixel thin film transistor; a gate driver formed on the non-display region and connected to the gate line to drive the gate line; and a direct current (DC)/DC converter formed on the non-display region and comprises a converter thin film transistor and a capacitance part; the capacitance part includes: a first capacitance part which comprises a first electrode, a first
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: Kyung-hoon Kim, Keun-woo Park, Kook-chul Moon, Pil-mo Choi, Chul-ho Kim, Ho-suk Maeng, Sang-hoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20080158131
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes associated pairs of amplifiers used in an output buffer of a data driver to implement dot inversion driving of the LCD. The data driver includes a first amplifier having an output terminal connected to a first data line and outputting a positive polarity voltage, a second amplifier having an output terminal connected to a second data line and outputting a negative polarity voltage, and a switching unit connected between the output terminals of the two amplifiers and the two data lines and operative in response to a switching signal to interchange the amplifier output signals respectively applied to the data lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Keun-Woo Park, Pil-Mo Choi, Ho-Suk Maeng, Kook-Chul Moon, Chul-Ho Kim, Sang-Hoon Lee, Kyung-Hoon Kim