Patents by Inventor Min-Seok SHIN

Min-Seok SHIN 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: 10218930
    Abstract: A read-out method of an image sensing device includes: firstly counting a reset signal of a pixel signal based on a first analog gain during a first period of a unit row period; storing a result of the first counting as a previous counting result; secondly counting the reset signal based on a second analog gain; thirdly counting a data signal of the pixel signal based on the second analog gain during a second period following the first period in the unit row period; storing a first counting signal corresponding to results of the second counting and the third counting; fourthly counting the data signal based on the first analog gain during a third period following the second period in the unit row period; and storing a second counting signal corresponding to the previous counting result and a result of the fourth counting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Seok Shin, Jung-Eun Song
  • Patent number: 10057525
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes a read-out control block suitable for generating a selection address signal and one or more address clock signals based on a source address signal, and a judge clock signal having a higher frequency than a source clock signal; and a read-out block suitable for reading out a plurality of pixel signals in response to the selection address signal, the address clock signals and the judge clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Min-Seok Shin
  • Publication number: 20180227520
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes pixel groups, each pixel group including two or more neighboring pixels and grouped into a same pattern; and a timing generator controlling the pixel groups based on one or more row units, wherein readout orders of first and second pixel groups arranged in different rows among the pixel groups are controlled differently, wherein the first pixel group reads out two or more pixel signals based on two or more first transmission control signals, wherein the second pixel group reads out two or more pixel signals based on two or more second transmission control signals, wherein the timing generator generates the first transmission control signals in a first order during one or more first row readout times, wherein the timing generator generates the second transmission control signals in a second order, which is different from the first order, during one or more second row readout times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: Min-Seok SHIN
  • Patent number: 9967495
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group including two or more neighboring pixels, and a controller suitable for controlling the pixel groups on a basis of a frame unit, wherein a readout order of the pixels in each of the pixel groups is different between present and next frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Min-Seok Shin
  • Patent number: 9831891
    Abstract: A counter includes a sampling unit suitable for sampling a logic state of a least significant bit (LSB) during a counting hold section, the counting hold section is present between first and second ramp sections; and a toggling control unit suitable for, in response to a clock and a sampling signal outputted from the sampling unit, generating the LSB according to a first voltage level of a counting target signal during a second part of the first ramp section and generating the LSB according to a second voltage level of the counting target signal during a first part of the second ramp section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Min-Seok Shin
  • Patent number: 9787930
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged at each cross point of rows and columns, wherein the pixel array comprises a plurality of pixel blocks, each including N pixels, N being a natural number equal to or greater than 2, wherein the pixel blocks sequentially output a plurality of pixel signals having pixel information on the same color N times during one or more single row times; a plurality of column lines suitable for sequentially transferring the plurality of pixel signals from the pixel blocks, each column line being shared by two adjacent columns and coupled to at least one of the pixel blocks; a plurality of averaging blocks suitable for grouping the pixel signals to overlap each other, into a plurality of pixel signal groups, and averaging the pixel signal groups to output a plurality of averaged pixel signals, wherein the number of the averaging blocks is smaller than the number of the column lines; and a plurality of conversion blocks suitable for con
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Min-Seok Shin
  • Patent number: 9781372
    Abstract: A driver includes a first level shifting unit generating a second signal swinging in a second threshold range in response to a first signal swinging in a first threshold range, a second level shifting unit generating a third signal swinging in a third threshold range in response to the second signal, a first pull-up driving unit driving an output terminal with a first high-voltage in response to the second signal, a first pull-down driving unit driving the output terminal with a first low voltage in response to the third signal, a second pull-down driving unit driving the output terminal with a second low voltage higher than the first low voltage in response to the fourth signal, and a first path coupling unit coupling the second pull-down driving unit with the output terminal in response to the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Seok Shin, Young-Chul Sohn
  • Publication number: 20170272673
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged at each cross point of rows and columns, wherein the pixel array comprises a plurality of pixel blocks, each including N pixels, N being a natural number equal to or greater than 2, wherein the pixel blocks sequentially output a plurality of pixel signals having pixel information on the same color N times during one or more single row times; a plurality of column lines suitable for sequentially transferring the plurality of pixel signals from the pixel blocks, each column line being shared by two adjacent columns and coupled to at least one of the pixel blocks; a plurality of averaging blocks suitable for grouping the pixel signals to overlap each other, into a plurality of pixel signal groups, and averaging the pixel signal groups to output a plurality of averaged pixel signals, wherein the number of the averaging blocks is smaller than the number of the column lines; and a plurality of conversion blocks suitable for con
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventor: Min-Seok SHIN
  • Publication number: 20170223294
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group including two or more neighboring pixels, and a controller suitable for controlling the pixel groups on a basis of a frame unit, wherein a readout order of the pixels in each of the pixel groups is different between present and next frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventor: Min-Seok SHIN
  • Patent number: 9628726
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes: a pixel unit including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel corresponding to a single color; a row control block suitable for controlling exposure times of the first and second sub-pixels differently from one another during an exposure time section, and controlling a first sub-pixel signal and a second sub-pixel signal to be outputted from the first and second sub-pixels during a single row line unit time during a read time section; and an image process block suitable for generating three or more image data which have different exposure times based on the first and second sub-pixel signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Min-Seok Shin
  • Publication number: 20170006206
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes a readout circuit suitable for sequentially generating a plurality of image signals corresponding to each pixel signal, based on a ramp clock and a count clock; and a clock generation circuit suitable for generating the ramp clock and the count clock having different frequency relationships depending upon generation periods of the image signals, based on a gain code signal corresponding to an analog gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Jung-Eun SONG, Jin-Seon KIM, Min-Seok SHIN, Si-Wook YOO
  • Publication number: 20160366357
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes a pixel suitable for outputting a pixel signal through a read-out line during a read-out section and a precharge block suitable for precharging the read-out line to a voltage level corresponding to an initial voltage level of the pixel signal during a row non-selection section adjacent to the read-out section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventor: Min-Seok SHIN
  • Publication number: 20160366358
    Abstract: A read-out method of an image sensing device includes: firstly counting a reset signal of a pixel signal based on a first analog gain during a first period of a unit row period; storing a result of the first counting as a previous counting result; secondly counting the reset signal based on a second analog gain; thirdly counting a data signal of the pixel signal based on the second analog gain during a second period following the first period in the unit row period; storing a first counting signal corresponding to results of the second counting and the third counting; fourthly counting the data signal based on the first analog gain during a third period following the second period in the unit row period; and storing a second counting signal corresponding to the previous counting result and a result of the fourth counting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Min-Seok SHIN, Jung-Eun SONG
  • Publication number: 20160360135
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes a read-out control block suitable for generating a selection address signal and one or more address clock signals based on a source address signal, and a judge clock signal having a higher frequency than a source clock signal; and a read-out block suitable for reading out a plurality of pixel signals in response to the selection address signal, the address clock signals and the judge clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Min-Seok SHIN
  • Patent number: 9516246
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in row and column directions; a row control portion suitable for controlling a part of a plurality of rows included in the pixel array by an unit of two or more sequential rows so that pixel signals are simultaneously outputted from the pixel array through the sequential rows; a first readout circuit portion suitable for sequentially reading out a part of the pixel signals in row sequence order; a second readout circuit portion suitable for sequentially reading out the rest of the pixel signals in row sequence order; and a storage portion suitable for storing on row by row basis the read out signals sequentially read out in row sequence order from the first and second readout circuit portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Seok Shin, Young-Chul Sohn
  • Patent number: 9516247
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes a unit pixel including one or more first sub-pixels of a white color and a plurality of second sub-pixels of a color other than the white color in a matrix, a row control block suitable for controlling the first and second sub-pixels to output sequentially first and second pixel signals during one row unit time, and an image process block suitable for processing the first and second pixel signal's.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Seok Shin, Young-Chul Sohn
  • Publication number: 20160353033
    Abstract: A differential circuit includes a differential selection block suitable for generating differential selection signals corresponding to differential input signals in response to an enable signal and a differential loading block suitable for loading differential output signals corresponding to the differential input signals on differential lines in response to the differential selection signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventor: Min-Seok SHIN
  • Publication number: 20150326242
    Abstract: A counter includes a sampling unit suitable for sampling a logic state of a least significant bit (LSB) during a counting hold section, the counting hold section is present between first and second ramp sections; and a toggling control unit suitable for, in response to a clock and a sampling signal outputted from the sampling unit, generating the LSB according to a first voltage level of a counting target signal during a second part of the first ramp section and generating the LSB according to a second voltage level of the counting target signal during a first part of the second ramp section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventor: Min-Seok SHIN
  • Publication number: 20150326836
    Abstract: An image sensing device includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in row and column directions; a row control portion suitable for controlling a part of a plurality of rows included in the pixel array by an unit of two or more sequential rows so that pixel signals are simultaneously outputted from the pixel array through the sequential rows; a first readout circuit portion suitable for sequentially reading out a part of the pixel signals in row sequence order; a second readout circuit portion suitable for sequentially reading out the rest of the pixel signals in row sequence order; and a storage portion suitable for storing on row by row basis the read out signals sequentially read out in row sequence order from the first and second readout circuit portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Min-Seok SHIN, Young-Chul SOHN
  • Patent number: 9184753
    Abstract: A double data rate (DDR) counter includes a first control block suitable for toggling a counter clock according to a count mode signal and a previous state value of a sampling block; a second control block suitable for determining whether to toggle a clock signal inputted to a counting block corresponding to an (LSB+1) bit or higher; a third control block suitable for determining an enable period of the counting block; the sampling block suitable for sampling a state of the clock signal and outputting an LSB value, when an input signal transits; and the counting block suitable for performing counting according to output signals of the second and third control blocks and outputting a counter output signal having the (LSB+1) bit or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sk Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Min-Seok Shin