Patents by Inventor Kyong-Tae Park

Kyong-Tae Park 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: 9852686
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a display panel including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The display device also includes a plurality of active pixels formed in the display area extending in first and second directions as a matrix, a plurality of dummy pixels formed in the non-display area and extending in the second direction, a repair test line and one or more active pixel test lines formed in the non-display area and extending in the first direction, a plurality of scan lines electrically connected to the active pixels and the dummy pixels and extending in the first direction, a plurality of data lines electrically connected to the active pixels and extending in the second direction, and at least one dummy data line electrically connected to the dummy pixels and extending in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Yoon So, Tae Gon Kim, Kyong tae Park, Sung Ho Cho, Yu Hyun Cho
  • Publication number: 20170330348
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an image sensor including a pixel array, and an image processor electrically connected with the image sensor. The image processor is configured to acquire a first image of a subject generated based on a first group of optical paths and to acquire a second image of the subject generated based on a second group of optical paths, the second group of optical paths having a phase difference with the first group of optical paths from the pixel array, to normalize pixel values included in the first image and pixel values included in the second image in units of a pixel, and to verify a light source of light reflected by the subject or a light source of light produced from the subject, based on a parameter associated with changes in the normalized pixel values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Jae Hyoung PARK, Jeong Won LEE, Kyong Tae PARK, Hyeon Ji NAM
  • Publication number: 20170316737
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a display panel having a display region and a peripheral region, an OLED at the display region and including an end connected to a first voltage, a pixel circuit at the display region, a repair pixel circuit at the peripheral region, a repair line for connecting the repair pixel circuit to the OLED, and a switching circuit configured to apply a second voltage to the repair line during a power-up of the OLED display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventor: Kyong-Tae Park
  • Patent number: 9792856
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a display area and a non-display area. The display area includes display pixels at crossing areas of data lines, scan lines, and emission control lines. The non-display area includes auxiliary pixels at crossing positions of auxiliary data lines, scan lines, and emission control lines. The display device also includes a scan driver to supply scan signals to the scan lines, a first data driver to supply data voltages to the data lines, a second data driver to supply an auxiliary data voltage to the auxiliary data line, and a demultiplexer between the data lines and the first data driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyong-Tae Park, Dong-Yoon So, Sung-Ho Cho, Yu-Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 9779668
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device including data lines, an auxiliary data line, and a compensation data line, a display area including display pixels connected to the data lines, a nondisplay area including auxiliary pixels connected to the auxiliary data line, and compensation pixels connected to the compensation data line, and auxiliary lines connected to the auxiliary pixels and the compensation pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyong-Tae Park, Tae-Gon Kim, Dong-Yoon So, Sung-Ho Cho
  • Publication number: 20170269398
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, one line on the substrate, the one line extending from a peripheral region through a display region, pixels on the display region, the pixels being connected to the one line, an outer line on the peripheral region, the outer line being connected to the one line during a short circuit test process that detects a position of a short circuit defect, an electrostatic protection resistor on the peripheral region, the electrostatic protection resistor being connected to the outer line, a pad on the peripheral region, the pad being connected to the outer line through the electrostatic protection resistor, a short circuit test signal being applied to the pad during the short circuit test process, and a bypass line connecting a node between the pad and the electrostatic protection resistor to the outer line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventor: Kyong-Tae PARK
  • Patent number: 9767732
    Abstract: A display device includes dummy pixels adjacent to active pixels, and a controller to control pixel driving circuits in the active pixels and dummy driving circuits in the dummy pixels. The dummy driving circuit includes a pumping capacitor, and first and second transistors to connect an initialization voltage terminal to a dummy anode terminal. The first transistor includes a control electrode connected to a first input signal terminal, a source terminal connected to the dummy anode terminal, a drain terminal connected to a source terminal via a first node. The pumping capacitor connects the first node and a first power source voltage terminal. The second transistor includes a control electrode connected to a second input signal terminal, a source terminal connected to the drain terminal of the first transistor, and a drain terminal connected to a second power source voltage terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyong Tae Park, Mi Jin Yoon, Yu Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 9754532
    Abstract: A pixel repair circuit and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display having the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the pixel repair circuit includes an emission controller configured to control the emission current and a repair line initialization unit configured to initialize the repair line. The pixel repair circuit further includes a current mirror unit configured to provide a mirror current of the emission current to the repair line initialization unit, wherein the current mirror unit is connected between a power supply voltage and the emission controller. The pixel repair circuit also includes a first emission switch configured to control an electrical connection between the emission controller and the current mirror unit based on an emission control signal and a second emission switch configured to control an electrical connection between the emission controller and the repair line based on the emission control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyong-Tae Park, Tae-Gon Kim, Dong-Yoon So, Sung-Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 9734786
    Abstract: A source drive integrated circuit includes a source driving circuit, output buffers, and voltage protection circuits. The source driving circuit generates data voltages according to a source timing control signal and digital video data. The output buffers output the data voltages from the source driving circuit to output terminals. The voltage protection circuits are connected between the output buffers and the output terminals. A voltage supplied to at least one of the voltage protection circuits is different from a voltage supplied to remaining ones of the voltage protection circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyong-Tae Park, Seong-Yeun Kang, Jung-Hoon Kim, Tae-Gon Kim, Dong-Yoon So
  • Patent number: 9691325
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels and a compensation power supply line. The pixels are located at intersections of data lines and gate lines. The compensation power supply line is separated from the data lines. Each of the pixels includes an in-pixel circuit and at least one out-pixel circuit. The in-pixel circuit includes a first transistor, to be controlled based on a data voltage from a corresponding one of the data lines, and a storage capacitor connecting the first transistor and a first node. The at least one out-pixel circuit receives a compensation voltage from the compensation power supply line and provides the compensation voltage to the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyong Tae Park, Ji Yong Park
  • Patent number: 9679508
    Abstract: A display panel includes scan lines, data lines, organic light emitting diodes, pixel circuits configured to supply drive currents, and electrically coupled to the scan lines and the data lines, repair pixel circuits configured to generate repair drive currents when there is a malfunctioning pixel circuit, repair lines, and repair data lines, wherein a corresponding repair pixel circuit corresponds to the malfunctioning pixel circuit, and is configured to generate the repair drive current based on a repair data voltage from a corresponding repair data line, wherein the repair drive current is configured to be supplied to a corresponding organic light emitting diode that corresponds to the malfunctioning pixel circuit through a corresponding repair line that corresponds to the malfunctioning pixel circuit, and wherein a portion of the repair data lines that extends in the first direction is longer than a portion that does not extend in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyong Tae Park, Tae Gon Kim
  • Publication number: 20170148142
    Abstract: An image photographing apparatus is provided, which includes a camera which photographs an image, a processor which is configured to control the camera to acquire a plurality of first images based on a first shutter timing and to acquire a second image based on a second shutter timing, wherein the processor is further configured to generate a brightness map of the second image using the acquired first images, and to generate a post-processed image of the second image using the generated brightness map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventor: Kyong-tae PARK
  • Publication number: 20170131526
    Abstract: A reflection type imaging apparatus includes a deflector that reflects light incident from an outside; a reflecting mirror that reflects the light reflected by the deflector in a direction parallel to a direction in which the light is incident on the deflector; an image sensor that is disposed below the reflecting mirror and arranged perpendicular to the direction in which the light is incident on the deflector, wherein the light reflected by the reflecting mirror is focused on the image sensor; and a stray light blocking member disposed at one side of the image sensor facing the deflector, the stray light blocking member configured to block stray light rays from the deflector from being directly incident on the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Kyong-tae PARK, Jong-chul CHOI
  • Publication number: 20170124954
    Abstract: A pixel of an organic light emitting diode display device includes a scan transistor configured to connect a data line to a first node in response to a scan signal, a storage capacitor connected between the first node and a first power supply voltage, a compensation capacitor connected between the first node and a second node, a driving transistor having a gate connected to the second node, a source connected to the first power supply voltage, and a drain connected to a third node, a compensation transistor configured to connect the second node to the third node in response to a compensation control signal, an organic light emitting diode connected between the third node and a second power supply voltage, and an initialization transistor configured to transfer an initialization voltage in response to an initialization control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Kyong-Tae Park, Kyu-Sik Cho, Jin-A Lee
  • Publication number: 20170111589
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of performing a zooming function without increasing a thickness of the image pickup apparatus, and obtaining depth information at the same time by using lens elements having different diameters, is provided. The image pickup apparatus includes lens elements, and image pickup regions respectively disposed in correspondence to the lens elements. At least two of the lens elements have different diameters. At least two of the image pickup regions have different sizes. A smallest image pickup region among the image pickup regions having a smallest size among sizes of the image pickup regions is disposed with respect to a lens element among the lens elements having a largest diameter. A largest image pickup region among the image pickup regions having a largest size among sizes of the image pickup regions is disposed with respect to a lens element among the lens elements having a smallest diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyong-tae PARK
  • Patent number: 9601049
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device including a display panel including a plurality of scan lines, first through (M)th data lines crossing the scan lines, and a plurality of pixels, where M is an integer greater than 1, a scan driver configured to provide scan signals to the pixels through the plurality of scan lines, a data driver configured to provide data signals to the pixels through the first through (M)th data lines, and a porch data generator configured to generate porch data based on an average value of at least a portion of frame data, and to provide the porch data to the data driver, wherein the data driver is configured to generate the data signals based on the porch data during a porch period, and to generate the data signals based on the frame data during an active period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyong-Tae Park, Jin-Yup Kim, Eun-Kyung Yang
  • Patent number: 9571705
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of performing a zooming function without increasing a thickness of the image pickup apparatus, and obtaining depth information at the same time by using lens elements having different diameters, is provided. The image pickup apparatus includes lens elements, and image pickup regions respectively disposed in correspondence to the lens elements. At least two of the lens elements have different diameters. At least two of the image pickup regions have different sizes. A smallest image pickup region among the image pickup regions having a smallest size among sizes of the image pickup regions is disposed with respect to a lens element among the lens elements having a largest diameter. A largest image pickup region among the image pickup regions having a largest size among sizes of the image pickup regions is disposed with respect to a lens element among the lens elements having a smallest diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyong-tae Park
  • Patent number: 9536472
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device having a repair line connected to an organic light emitting element of a bad pixel. A first capacitor stores a voltage corresponding to a data voltage of the bad pixel, and a driving transistor outputs a current corresponding to the voltage stored in the first capacitor to an output terminal. A first transistor is connected between the output terminal of the driving transistor and the repair line, and is turned on or turned off in response to a first signal. A second transistor is connected between the repair line and a node, and is configured to be turned on or turned off in response to a second signal. A third transistor is connected between a node and a first voltage line for supplying a first voltage, and is turned on or turned off in response to a third signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyong Tae Park, Yu-Hyun Cho
  • Publication number: 20160379535
    Abstract: A display panel includes scan lines, data lines, organic light emitting diodes, pixel circuits configured to supply drive currents, and electrically coupled to the scan lines and the data lines, repair pixel circuits configured to generate repair drive currents when there is a malfunctioning pixel circuit, repair lines, and repair data lines, wherein a corresponding repair pixel circuit corresponds to the malfunctioning pixel circuit, and is configured to generate the repair drive current based on a repair data voltage from a corresponding repair data line, wherein the repair drive current is configured to be supplied to a corresponding organic light emitting diode that corresponds to the malfunctioning pixel circuit through a corresponding repair line that corresponds to the malfunctioning pixel circuit, and wherein a portion of the repair data lines that extends in the first direction is longer than a portion that does not extend in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Kyong Tae Park, Tae Gon Kim
  • Publication number: 20160372029
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels at respective crossing regions of data lines and scan lines, a plurality of repair lines in parallel with the scan lines, one or more dummy pixels coupled to a respective one of the repair lines, one or more dummy data lines that are respectively coupled to the one or more of the dummy pixels, and that overlap the data lines, and a test line coupled between a first test pad and the dummy pixels, wherein one of the dummy pixels at an ith (i is a natural number) horizontal line includes a dummy pixel circuit between a kth (k is a natural number) dummy data line of the dummy data lines and an ith repair line of the repair lines, and a coupling unit coupled between the ith repair line and the test line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Kyong Tae Park, Dong Hoon Jeong, Yu Hyun Cho