Patents by Inventor Kuk-Hwan AHN
Kuk-Hwan AHN 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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Publication number: 20230260465Abstract: A display device includes a display panel with a first display area having a first light transmittance and a second display area having a second light transmittance higher than the first light transmittance. The display device also includes a driving controller which divides an image signal into a first image signal corresponding to a first pixel unit in the first display area and a second image signal corresponding to a second pixel unit and a non-pixel unit adjacent to the second pixel unit. The display controller calculates the second image signal with a preset kernel matrix, and outputs a data signal corresponding to the second pixel unit in the second display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: DEOKHWA WOO, JEONKYOO KIM, KUK-HWAN AHN, MYUNGWOO LEE, BITNA LEE, MANSEUNG CHO
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Patent number: 11682335Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a memory, a dithering processor, and a panel driver. The display panel includes a display surface, and the memory stores dither patterns with respect to at least one spot area included in the display surface. The dithering processor selects a dither pattern among the dither patterns in a predetermined time unit and outputs a compensation image signal corresponding to the dither pattern. The panel driver outputs a data signal corresponding to the spot area based on the compensation image signal. Each of the dither patterns includes a first grayscale area having a first grayscale value higher than a first target grayscale value of the spot area and a second grayscale area having a second grayscale value lower than the first target grayscale value.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Youngwook Yoo, Jungyu Lee, Hyunjun Lim, Byung Ki Chun
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Patent number: 11670243Abstract: A display device includes a display panel with a first display area having a first light transmittance and a second display area having a second light transmittance higher than the first light transmittance. The display device also includes a driving controller which divides an image signal into a first image signal corresponding to a first pixel unit in the first display area and a second image signal corresponding to a second pixel unit and a non-pixel unit adjacent to the second pixel unit. The display controller calculates the second image signal with a preset kernel matrix, and outputs a data signal corresponding to the second pixel unit in the second display area.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Deokhwa Woo, Jeonkyoo Kim, Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Myungwoo Lee, Bitna Lee, Manseung Cho
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Patent number: 11651738Abstract: An nth (where n is a natural number) stage is included in a scan driver of a display. The nth stage includes: a first input circuit for controlling a voltage of a first node in response to a carry signal of a previous stage; a second input circuit for controlling the voltage of the first node in response to a carry signal of a next stage; a first control circuit for controlling a voltage of an output terminal in response to the carry signal of the next stage; an output circuit for outputting an nth scan signal and an nth carry signal in response to the voltage of the first node and a voltage of a second node; and a leakage control circuit for supplying a control voltage to the first input circuit and the second input circuit in response to one of the nth scan signal and the nth carry signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Kuk Hwan Ahn, Seok Ha Hong
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Patent number: 11443502Abstract: An object detection post-processing device of a display device, includes: an input to receive position information of an object that is detected from input image data for the display device in a current frame; a position information storage device to accumulatively store the position information of a plurality of previous frames; an accumulated position calculator to generate accumulated position information according to the position information of the current frame and the position information of the plurality of previous frames; and a position information determiner to determine final position information according to the accumulated position information, and to output the final position information.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Gyu Lee, Hyeon Min Kim, Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Young Wook Yoo, Hyun Jun Lim, Byung Ki Chun
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Patent number: 11386643Abstract: A driving controller includes a logo detector. The logo detector includes a histogram extractor which receives input image data and extracts a first histogram from logo area data of the input image data, a first histogram regenerator electrically connected to the histogram extractor and configured to receive the first histogram from the histogram extractor to generate a second histogram based on the first histogram and a logo map determiner electrically connected to the histogram extractor and the first histogram regenerator, and configure to select one of the first histogram and the second histogram to generate a first logo map. The driving controller is configured to compensate the logo area data of the input image data using the first logo map.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Young Wook Yoo, Jungyu Lee, Hyunjun Lim
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Publication number: 20220157258Abstract: A display device includes a display panel with a first display area having a first light transmittance and a second display area having a second light transmittance higher than the first light transmittance. The display device also includes a driving controller which divides an image signal into a first image signal corresponding to a first pixel unit in the first display area and a second image signal corresponding to a second pixel unit and a non-pixel unit adjacent to the second pixel unit. The display controller calculates the second image signal with a preset kernel matrix, and outputs a data signal corresponding to the second pixel unit in the second display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Deokhwa Woo, Jeonkyoo Kim, Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Myungwoo Lee, Bitna Lee, Manseung Cho
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Patent number: 11183107Abstract: A display device including: a first pixel region including first pixels connected to a data line and first scan lines; a second pixel region in contact with the first pixel region at a first boundary and including second pixels connected to the data line and second scan lines; and a third pixel region in contact with the second pixel region at a second boundary and including third pixels connected to the data line and third scan lines, wherein the display device is configured to scale an image displayed in the second pixel region one or more times based on the second pixel region maintaining a folded state.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Seung Jae Lee, Hae Kwan Seo, Chang Noh Yoon, Soon Dong Kim, Ji Hye Kim, Jun Gyu Lee, Jun Heyung Jung, Young Wook Yoo, Kuk Hwan Ahn, Hyun Jun Lim
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Publication number: 20210335270Abstract: An nth (where n is a natural number) stage is included in a scan driver of a display. The nth stage includes: a first input circuit for controlling a voltage of a first node in response to a carry signal of a previous stage; a second input circuit for controlling the voltage of the first node in response to a carry signal of a next stage; a first control circuit for controlling a voltage of an output terminal in response to the carry signal of the next stage; an output circuit for outputting an nth scan signal and an nth carry signal in response to the voltage of the first node and a voltage of a second node; and a leakage control circuit for supplying a control voltage to the first input circuit and the second input circuit in response to one of the nth scan signal and the nth carry signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Kuk Hwan Ahn, Seok Ha Hong
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Patent number: 11127335Abstract: A driving controller of a display device includes a driving frequency controller for receiving an image signal, determining a driving frequency based on the image signal, and outputting a masking enable signal corresponding to the driving frequency, and an image processor for converting the image signal into a data signal and outputting the data signal, wherein the image processor sequentially converts, based on the masking enable signal being at an active level, a part of bits of the image signal into the data signal corresponding to a plurality of dither patterns.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Inventors: Kuk-Hwan Ahn, HongSoo Kim, Junheyung Jung, Youngwook Yoo, Jungyu Lee, Hyunjun Lim, Byung Ki Chun
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Patent number: 11056058Abstract: An nth (where n is a natural number) stage is included in a scan driver of a display. The nth stage includes: a first input circuit for controlling a voltage of a first node in response to a carry signal of a previous stage; a second input circuit for controlling the voltage of the first node in response to a carry signal of a next stage; a first control circuit for controlling a voltage of an output terminal in response to the carry signal of the next stage; an output circuit for outputting an nth scan signal and an nth carry signal in response to the voltage of the first node and a voltage of a second node; and a leakage control circuit for supplying a control voltage to the first input circuit and the second input circuit in response to one of the nth scan signal and the nth carry signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Kuk Hwan Ahn, Seok Ha Hong
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Publication number: 20210193017Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a memory, a dithering processor, and a panel driver. The display panel includes a display surface, and the memory stores dither patterns with respect to at least one spot area included in the display surface. The dithering processor selects a dither pattern among the dither patterns in a predetermined time unit and outputs a compensation image signal corresponding to the dither pattern. The panel driver outputs a data signal corresponding to the spot area based on the compensation image signal. Each of the dither patterns includes a first grayscale area having a first grayscale value higher than a first target grayscale value of the spot area and a second grayscale area having a second grayscale value lower than the first target grayscale value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Kuk-Hwan AHN, YOUNGWOOK YOO, Jungyu LEE, Hyunjun LIM, BYUNG KI CHUN
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Publication number: 20210118354Abstract: A driving controller of a display device includes a driving frequency controller for receiving an image signal, determining a driving frequency based on the image signal, and outputting a masking enable signal corresponding to the driving frequency, and an image processor for converting the image signal into a data signal and outputting the data signal, wherein the image processor sequentially converts, based on the masking enable signal being at an active level, a part of bits of the image signal into the data signal corresponding to a plurality of dither patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Kuk-Hwan AHN, HongSoo KIM, Junheyung JUNG, Youngwook YOO, Jungyu LEE, Hyunjun LIM, Byung Ki CHUN
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Publication number: 20210103765Abstract: A driving controller includes a logo detector. The logo detector includes a histogram extractor which receives input image data and extracts a first histogram from logo area data of the input image data, a first histogram regenerator electrically connected to the histogram extractor and configured to receive the first histogram from the histogram extractor to generate a second histogram based on the first histogram and a logo map determiner electrically connected to the histogram extractor and the first histogram regenerator, and configure to select one of the first histogram and the second histogram to generate a first logo map. The driving controller is configured to compensate the logo area data of the input image data using the first logo map.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Byung Ki CHUN, Kuk-Hwan AHN, Young Wook YOO, Jungyu LEE, Hyunjun LIM
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Publication number: 20210103751Abstract: An object detection post-processing device of a display device, includes: an input to receive position information of an object that is detected from input image data for the display device in a current frame; a position information storage device to accumulatively store the position information of a plurality of previous frames; an accumulated position calculator to generate accumulated position information according to the position information of the current frame and the position information of the plurality of previous frames; and a position information determiner to determine final position information according to the accumulated position information, and to output the final position information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Jun Gyu LEE, Hyeon Min KIM, Kuk-Hwan AHN, Young Wook YOO, Hyun Jun LIM, Byung Ki CHUN
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Patent number: 10930211Abstract: A luminance control circuit of a display device includes a target luminance gain calculator calculating a target luminance gain based on an average luminance of a first image signal when the first image signal is determined to be a still image, an output luminance gain calculator calculating an output luminance gain based on a previous output luminance gain of a previous frame and the target luminance gain of a present frame, and a luminance scaler outputting a second image signal obtained by changing a luminance of the first image signal based on the output luminance gain.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jai-hyun Koh, Jaehoon Lee, Heendol Kim, Kuk-hwan Ahn, Soo-yeon Lee, Moonshik Kang
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Publication number: 20210027700Abstract: A display device including: a first pixel region including first pixels connected to a data line and first scan lines; a second pixel region in contact with the first pixel region at a first boundary and including second pixels connected to the data line and second scan lines; and a third pixel region in contact with the second pixel region at a second boundary and including third pixels connected to the data line and third scan lines, wherein the display device is configured to scale an image displayed in the second pixel region one or more times based on the second pixel region maintaining a folded state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Byung Ki CHUN, Seung Jae LEE, Hae Kwan SEO, Chang Noh YOON, Soon Dong KIM, Ji Hye KIM, Jun Gyu LEE, Jun Heyung JUNG, Young Wook YOO, Kuk Hwan AHN, Hyun Jun LIM
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Patent number: 10789872Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus including a display panel, a timing controller, a gate driver, and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of sub-pixels. Two pixels among the pixels include five sub-pixels and temporally share a third sub-pixel among the five sub-pixels. The timing controller includes a filter that is set based on a region having the same area as four sub-pixels. The timing controller generates RGBW data having red, green, blue, and white data based on input data, and applies the filter to the RGBW data to generate output data corresponding to each of the sub-pixels.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Hyunkyu Namkung, Heendol Kim, Seokyun Son, Jai-hyun Koh, Iksoo Lee
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Publication number: 20200066211Abstract: An nth (where n is a natural number) stage is included in a scan driver of a display. The nth stage includes: a first input circuit for controlling a voltage of a first node in response to a carry signal of a previous stage; a second input circuit for controlling the voltage of the first node in response to a carry signal of a next stage; a first control circuit for controlling a voltage of an output terminal in response to the carry signal of the next stage; an output circuit for outputting an nth scan signal and an nth carry signal in response to the voltage of the first node and a voltage of a second node; and a leakage control circuit for supplying a control voltage to the first input circuit and the second input circuit in response to one of the nth scan signal and the nth carry signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Jae Hoon LEE, Kuk Hwan AHN, Seok Ha HONG
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Patent number: 10573258Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and divided into a plurality of regions, a data driver generating a plurality of reference gamma voltages based on a gamma control signal and including a data driving integrated circuit applying a data signal generated using the plurality of reference gamma voltages to a corresponding pixel among the plurality of pixels, a memory storing a plurality of gamma voltage data corresponding to a plurality of gamma curves of each of the plurality of regions, and a signal controller determining characteristics of a plurality of images divided and displayed in the plurality of regions using an input image signal, selecting the gamma curves corresponding to the plurality of regions according to the characteristics, and reading gamma voltage data corresponding to the selected gamma curve from the memory to generate the gamma control signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Myeong Su Kim, Jae Ho Choi, Sil Yi Bang, Kuk-Hwan Ahn, Kwan-Young Oh, Sang Su Han