Patents by Inventor Kyung-Hoon Kim

Kyung-Hoon Kim 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).

  • Outdoor unit of air conditioner and control device for the outdoor unit
    Patent number: 10006646
    Abstract: An outdoor unit of an air conditioner is provided. The outdoor unit may include a compressor for compressing a refrigerant; a condenser for condensing the refrigerant discharged from the compressor; a control device for containing electronic parts to control the outdoor unit; and a cooling unit in contact with a heat generating part of the electronic parts to cool the heat generating part, wherein the cooling unit comprises a first heat radiation member installed to be in contact with the heat generating part; a refrigerant pipe extending through the first heat radiation member and enabling a refrigerant to flow through the refrigerant pipe; and a second heat radiation member coupled with the first heat radiation member for heat transfer and installed to be in contact with air flowing into the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Hoon Kim, Kyo Seung Kim, Tae Il Kim, Ji-Ho Baek, Youn Sang Jang, Sun-Muk Choi, Seung Kwan Choi, Sung Goo Kim
  • SOUND SIGNAL-BASED LOCAL INTERACTIVE PLATFORM SYSTEM AND LOCAL INTERACTIVE SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD USING SAME
    Publication number: 20180159910
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a technology for providing a place/time-based local interactive service, which provides multi-formatted content information to a user moving while carrying a smart terminal having a dedicated application installed therein. In particular, when moving into a place where a specific wired/wireless AP is installed, a user who carries a smart terminal with a dedicated application activated therein can receive multi-formatted content information previously mapped with the place using a place/time, without a separate manipulation of the smart terminal. According to the present invention, time periods during which the user carrying the smart terminal stays at the place where the specific wired/wireless AP is installed are accumulated and managed using time coins, and the user is then given a benefit according to the accumulated time periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Jae-Joon Choi, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Ju-No Yoon, Hyun-Min Lee
  • Display device and method of inspecting the same
    Patent number: 9947253
    Abstract: There are provided a display device capable of detecting a defect of a scan driver. The display device includes pixels positioned in regions demarcated by scan lines and data lines, a scan driver including a plurality of stages connected to the scan lines, an inspection unit connected to the stages to detect whether the stages are defective, and including first transistors turned on when a control signal is supplied, and a timing controller supplying the control signal, wherein the timing controller detects a position of a defective stage by reducing a period during which the control signal is supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se Hyoung Cho, Dong Woo Kim, Kyung Hoon Kim, Il Gon Kim, Kang Moon Jo
  • Display device
    Patent number: 9888582
    Abstract: A display device including a flexible substrate that includes a display part to display an image; a driving integrated chip (IC) that supplies a driving voltage to the display part; a flexible printed circuit (FPC) attached to an outer side portion of the substrate; and a printed circuit board (PCB) attached to the FPC, the PCB transferring the driving voltage to the driving IC through the FPC, wherein the FPC includes attachment parts at ends thereof, the attachment parts of the FPC being attached to pad parts at the outer side portion of the substrate and to pad parts of the PCB, and the attachment parts include slits therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Moon Jo, Se Hyoung Cho, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Dong Woo Kim, Il Gon Kim
  • Clock data recovery circuit, integrated circuit including the same, and clock data recovery method
    Patent number: 9887831
    Abstract: A clock data recovery circuit may include: a phase comparison unit suitable for comparing input data with a phase of a multi-phase clock, and for generating an up/down signal corresponding to the comparison result; a filtering unit suitable for counting the up/down signal based on an upper threshold value and a lower threshold value, for setting, when an overflow occurs, the lower threshold value to an initial value for the count of the up/down signal, or when a underflow occurs, the upper threshold value to the initial value for the count of the up/down signal, and for generating a control code corresponding to one of the underflow and the overflow; and a phase rotating unit suitable for adjusting the phase of the multi-phase clock in response to the control code outputted from the filtering unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Woo-Yeol Shin, Myeong-Jae Park, Kyu-Young Kim, Han-Kyu Chi, Sung-Eun Lee, Kyung-Hoon Kim
  • Periodic signal generation circuit and semiconductor system including the same
    Patent number: 9887691
    Abstract: A semiconductor system may include a first semiconductor device configured to output a command and receive data. The semiconductor system may include a second semiconductor device configured to generate a period signal, the period signals periodically toggled in response to the command, output the data in response to the period signal, and discharge the charges of an internal node if the period signal is not toggled during a predetermined section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Myeong Jae Park, Kyung Hoon Kim, Woo Yeol Shin, Han Kyu Chi
  • Sound signal-based local interactive platform system and local interactive service providing method using same
    Patent number: 9876832
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a technology for providing a place/time-based local interactive service, which provides multi-formatted content information to a user moving while carrying a smart terminal having a dedicated application installed therein. In particular, when moving into a place were a specific wired/wireless AP is installed, a user who carries a smart terminal with a dedicated application activated therein can receive multi-formatted content information previously mapped with the place using a place/time, without a separate manipulation of the smart terminal. According to the present invention, time periods during which the user carrying the smart terminal stays at the place where the specific wired/wireless AP is installed are accumulated and managed using time coins, and the user is then given a benefit according to the accumulated time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: IPOPCORN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jae-Joon Choi, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Ju-No Yoon, Hyun-Min Lee
  • Transmission circuit, and semiconductor apparatus and system using the same
    Patent number: 9865318
    Abstract: A transmission circuit may be provided. The transmission circuit may include a strobe control circuit and an output driver. The strobe control circuit may generate strobe driving signals based on information and a clock signal. The output driver may generate a strobe signal by driving a signal transmission line. The transmission circuit may drive the signal transmission line to a specified level for a predetermined time after transmission of the strobe signal is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Kyung Hoon Kim, Sun Ki Cho
  • Air conditioner and method for controlling the same
    Patent number: 9835346
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an air conditioner. The air conditioner includes a compressor; a sensor for measuring the compressors state configured to detect compressor state information that includes at least one of a pressure value and a saturation temperature of the compressor; and a controller configured to control air flow on the side of an indoor unit by comparing the compressor state information measured from the sensor and a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Hoon Kim, Se-Won Kim, Byoung Guk Lim, Il Yong Cho
  • TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20170345474
    Abstract: A transmission circuit may be provided. The transmission circuit may include a strobe control circuit and an output driver. The strobe control circuit may generate strobe driving signals based on information and a clock signal. The output driver may generate a strobe signal by driving a signal transmission line. The transmission circuit may drive the signal transmission line to a specified level for a predetermined time after transmission of the strobe signal is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Kyung Hoon KIM, Sun Ki CHO
  • DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170345373
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixel circuits and a gate driver including a plurality of stages configured to output a gate signal to a plurality of gate lines, respectively, to provide the gate signal to the pixel circuits. Each of the stages is divided into a plurality of sub-blocks. At least one of the pixel circuits is located between two adjacent sub-blocks of the sub-blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Jang-Mi KANG, Kyung-Hoon KIM
  • PIXEL UNIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE PIXEL UNIT
    Publication number: 20170345371
    Abstract: A pixel unit includes a first organic light emitting diode for a front-side emission, a second organic light emitting diode for a back-side (both-sides) emission, and a pixel circuit configured to driver the first and second organic light emitting diodes. The pixel unit PU may include a pixel circuit, a first organic light emitting diode and a second organic light emitting diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Ho-Seok SON, Jin-Koo CHUNG, Jang-Mi KANG, Kyung-Hoon KIM, Kyung-Ho KIM, Kwan-Ho KIM
  • Gate driver and display apparatus having the same
    Patent number: 9830875
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display apparatus includes a plurality of data lines, a data driver, a plurality of gate lines, gate drivers, wherein the gate drivers includes first gate drivers connected to one end of a first group of the plurality of gate lines and second drivers connected to the other end of a second group of the plurality of gate lines, compensation circuits for compensating a rising time and falling time of gate signals outputted from the gate drivers, wherein the compensation circuits includes first compensation circuits connected to the other end of the first group of the plurality of gate lines and second compensation circuits connected to one end of the second group of the plurality of gate lines; and a plurality of pixels are respectively disposed on areas between the gate drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se Hyoung Cho, Dongwoo Kim, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Ilgon Kim, Meehye Jung
  • Integrated circuit
    Patent number: 9793901
    Abstract: An integrated circuit may include: a phase detector suitable for generating a delay control signal by comparing the phases of first and second clock signals to first and second target positions, a variable delay unit suitable for shifting the first and second clock signals to the first and second target positions, respectively, in response to the delay control signal, and a position controller suitable for varying the first and second target positions according to an operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Kyu Chi, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Myeong-Jae Park, Taek-Sang Song, Tae-Wook Kang
  • PERIODIC SIGNAL GENERATION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20170294899
    Abstract: A semiconductor system may include a first semiconductor device configured to output a command and receive data. The semiconductor system may include a second semiconductor device configured to generate a period signal, the period signals periodically toggled in response to the command, output the data in response to the period signal, and discharge the charges of an internal node if the period signal is not toggled during a predetermined section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Myeong Jae PARK, Kyung Hoon KIM, Woo Yeol SHIN, Han Kyu CHI
  • Gate driving circuit and display apparatus including the same
    Patent number: 9786243
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes a plurality of stages for providing gate signals, wherein a k-th stage (k is a natural number greater than 3) includes a first output transistor including a control electrode connected to a first node, an input electrode for receiving a clock signal, and an output electrode for outputting a k-th gate signal, a second output transistor including a control electrode connected to the first node, an input electrode for receiving the clock signal, and an output electrode for outputting a k-th carry signal, a pull-down unit connected to a discharge node to pull down the output electrode of the first output transistor in response to a signal of the discharge node, and a discharge unit configured to output a (k?1)-th carry signal output from a (k?1)-th stage to the discharge node in response to a (k+1)-th carry signal output from a (k+1)-th stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sehyoung Cho, Kyung-hoon Kim, Dongwoo Kim, Ilgon Kim, Kangmoon Jo
  • Delay circuit
    Patent number: 9787296
    Abstract: A delay circuit includes: a plurality of delay units that are serially coupled with each other in a form of loop and sequentially delay an input signal of the delay circuit; an input control unit that selects a delay unit to receive the input signal of the delay circuit among the plurality of the delay units; and an output control unit that controls an output signal of a predetermined delay unit among the plurality of the delay units to be outputted as an output signal of the delay circuit, when the output signal of the predetermined delay unit is enabled N times, where N is an integer equal to or greater than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Sung-Eun Lee, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Myeong-Jae Park, Woo-Yeol Shin, Han-Kyu Chi, Yong-Ju Kim
  • Display device including gate driver including repetition units of stages
    Patent number: 9774846
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of gate lines; and a gate driver including a plurality of stages which transmits a gate voltage to the gate lines, where first to fourth clock signals and first to fourth inverted clock signals having phases opposite to phases of the first to fourth clock signals, respectively, are sequentially input to each repetition unit of the stages, where each repetition unit is defined by eight consecutive stages, a carry signal output by a j-th stage is transmitted to a (j+4)th stage, and a carry signal output by the (j+4)th stage is transmitted to the j-th stage, where j is a natural number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Hoon Kim, Il Gon Kim
  • Organic light-emitting diode display
    Patent number: 9773858
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a plurality of data lines formed in a display area and a plurality of data pad portions formed in a non-display area and including a plurality of data pads and a plurality of dummy pads formed outside of the data pads. The display also includes a plurality of data fan-out portions electrically connected to the data pads and the data lines, and including a plurality of diagonal portions diagonally formed with respect to the data lines. The display also includes a plurality of voltage applying lines electrically connected to the dummy pads and insulated from the data fan-out portions, wherein at least one of the voltage applying lines intersects one or more of the diagonal portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se Hyoung Cho, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Gyung Soon Park, Min Jae Jeong, Il Gon Kim, Mee Hye Jung
  • Phase detection circuit
    Patent number: 9774319
    Abstract: A phase detection circuit includes a sampling signal generation circuit configured to generate a plurality of sampling signals in response to a plurality of phase change clocks having different phases and data; a charging voltage generation circuit configured to compare the plurality of sampling signals, and change a voltage level of one charging voltage between a first charging voltage and a second charging voltage; and a comparison circuit configured to compare voltage levels of the first and second charging voltages, and generate a result signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Myeong Jae Park, Kyung Hoon Kim, Kyu Young Kim, Woo Yeol Shin