Patents by Inventor Min Seok BAE

Min Seok BAE 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).

  • Publication number: 20240112630
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including, a driving transistor configured to generate driving current, a light emitting element configured to emit light based on the driving current and an initialization transistor configured to apply an initialization voltage to an output electrode of the driving transistor, a sensing driver configured to generate sensing data by receiving the driving current of the pixels through initialization transistors and a driving controller configured to generate accumulated image data by accumulating input image data for frames and to compensate for the input image data based on the accumulated image data and the sensing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: MIN-SEOK BAE, CHANGBIN IM, BYUNG KI CHUN
  • Patent number: 11922876
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device, which includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and one of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting device connected to a first reference node and that emits light, a driving transistor connected between a power supply line receiving a power supply voltage and the first reference node, a scan transistor connected between a data line receiving a data signal and the driving transistor and that receives a scan signal, a first capacitor connected between the first reference node and a second reference node, a shared transistor connected between the first reference node and the second reference node and that receives a shared control signal, and the first capacitor and the shared transistor are connected in series between the first reference node and the second reference node, and a control electrode of the driving transistor is connected to the second reference node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min-Seok Bae
  • Patent number: 11869437
    Abstract: A display device including pixels connected to a data line and a sensing line; a data driver supplying one of an image data signal and a sensing data signal to the data line; a sensing unit supplying an initialization voltage to at least one of the pixels through the sensing line and obtaining a sensing current value from at least one of the pixels through the sensing line; and a compensator generating compensation image data according to a sensing pixel current value among the sensing current value using an artificial neural network model learned to output reference image data corresponding to at least one reference sensing current value among the sensing current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Ik Lee, Joon Chul Goh, Min Seok Bae
  • Publication number: 20240005862
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device, which includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and one of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting device connected to a first reference node and that emits light, a driving transistor connected between a power supply line receiving a power supply voltage and the first reference node, a scan transistor connected between a data line receiving a data signal and the driving transistor and that receives a scan signal, a first capacitor connected between the first reference node and a second reference node, a shared transistor connected between the first reference node and the second reference node and that receives a shared control signal, and the first capacitor and the shared transistor are connected in series between the first reference node and the second reference node, and a control electrode of the driving transistor is connected to the second reference node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventor: MIN-SEOK BAE
  • Publication number: 20230215354
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device, which includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and one of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting device connected to a first reference node and that emits light, a driving transistor connected between a power supply line receiving a power supply voltage and the first reference node, a scan transistor connected between a data line receiving a data signal and the driving transistor and that receives a scan signal, a first capacitor connected between the first reference node and a second reference node, a shared transistor connected between the first reference node and the second reference node and that receives a shared control signal, and the first capacitor and the shared transistor are connected in series between the first reference node and the second reference node, and a control electrode of the driving transistor is connected to the second reference node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventor: MIN-SEOK BAE
  • Publication number: 20230196973
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including pixels, a data driver configured to apply a data voltage to each of the pixels, to apply a first reference voltage to the pixels in a first period of a first sensing period to generate first sensing data corresponding to a first driving current flowing through a driving transistor of each of the pixels, and to apply a second reference voltage to the pixels in a second period of the first sensing period to generate second sensing data corresponding to a second driving current flowing through the driving transistor of each of the pixels, and a driving controller configured to receive the first sensing data and the second sensing data from the data driver to compensate input image data based on the first sensing data and the second sensing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: MIN-SEOK BAE
  • Publication number: 20230129039
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel and a sensing channel connected to the pixel through a sensing line. The pixel includes: a first transistor including a gate electrode connected to a first node, a first electrode connected to a first power line, and a second electrode connected to a second node; a second transistor including a gate electrode connected to a first scan line, a first electrode connected to a data line, and a second electrode connected to the first node; a third transistor including a gate electrode connected to a second scan line, a first electrode connected to the second node, and a second electrode connected to a third node; and a fourth transistor including a first electrode connected to the first power line and a second electrode connected to the third node. The sensing line is connected to the third node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Tae Hyeong AN, Min Seok BAE, Jun Woo SON, Sang Ik LEE
  • Publication number: 20230112481
    Abstract: A display device including pixels connected to a data line and a sensing line; a data driver supplying one of an image data signal and a sensing data signal to the data line; a sensing unit supplying an initialization voltage to at least one of the pixels through the sensing line and obtaining a sensing current value from at least one of the pixels through the sensing line; and a compensator generating compensation image data according to a sensing pixel current value among the sensing current value using an artificial neural network model learned to output reference image data corresponding to at least one reference sensing current value among the sensing current value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Sang Ik LEE, Joon Chul Goh, Min Seok Bae
  • Publication number: 20230043940
    Abstract: A display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The display device includes a display panel that includes a first display area in which a plurality of first pixels are disposed and a second display area in which a plurality of second pixels are disposed; and at least one sensor overlapping the second display area and not overlapping the first display area of the display panel, wherein the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels are connected to a scan line providing a scan signal and a data line providing a data signal, and wherein the plurality of first pixels are not connected to a sensing control line providing a sensing control signal that senses an anode voltage of a light emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Min Seok BAE, Bong Hyun YOU, Hui NAM
  • Patent number: 11475848
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first compensator, a second compensator and a display panel including pixels. The first compensator generates a first compensation coefficient based on sensing data of a pixel of the pixels for a first grayscale value, generates a second compensation coefficient based on camera imaging data for a second grayscale value greater than the first grayscale value and compensates image data based on the first compensation coefficient and the second compensation coefficient. The second compensator compensates the image data by modeling sensing data of entire grayscale range based on sensing data of the pixel for a third grayscale value and a fourth grayscale value. The display panel displays an image based on the image data compensated by the first compensator and the second compensator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min-Seok Bae
  • Patent number: 11373593
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of pixels and a compensating data generator configured to sense a sensing driving current of the pixel in an Nth frame and a target driving current of the pixel in an (N+M)th frame, and to calculate an over driving data that allows the sensing driving current to be the same with the target driving current by changing a data voltage of the Nth frame when a sensing image having a first grayscale in a (N?1)th frame and having a second grayscale in the Nth frame and the (N+M)th frame, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunghoon Bang, Min-Seok Bae, Wooseok Han
  • Publication number: 20220059037
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first compensator, a second compensator and a display panel including pixels. The first compensator generates a first compensation coefficient based on sensing data of a pixel of the pixels for a first grayscale value, generates a second compensation coefficient based on camera imaging data for a second grayscale value greater than the first grayscale value and compensates image data based on the first compensation coefficient and the second compensation coefficient. The second compensator compensates the image data by modeling sensing data of entire grayscale range based on sensing data of the pixel for a third grayscale value and a fourth grayscale value. The display panel displays an image based on the image data compensated by the first compensator and the second compensator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventor: MIN-SEOK BAE
  • Patent number: 11030945
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a pixel including a first pixel transistor of which a gate electrode is connected to a first node, a back-gate electrode is connected to a back-gate line, a first electrode is connected to a second node, and a second electrode is connected to a third node, a back-gate voltage determiner for converging a variable back-gate voltage to a first level when the display device displays a moving image, and for converging the variable back-gate voltage to a second level when the display device displays a still image, and a back-gate stage for applying the variable back-gate voltage to the back-gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min Seok Bae
  • Patent number: 10950184
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels each having: a first transistor having a first electrode, second electrode, and gate electrode; a second transistor having a first electrode connected to a data line, a second electrode connected to the first electrode of the first transistor, and a gate electrode connected to a first scan line; a third transistor having a first electrode connected to the second electrode of the first transistor, a second electrode connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor, and a gate electrode connected to the first scan line; and a fourth transistor having a first electrode connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor, a second electrode connected to an initialization voltage line, and a gate electrode connected to a second scan line. A first scan signal is applied in each frame period of a first driving mode and a second driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min Seok Bae
  • Patent number: 10847092
    Abstract: In a method of operating an organic light emitting display device including a plurality of pixels, an initialization voltage is applied to the plurality of pixels to store the initialization voltage in the plurality of pixels in a first period of an initial period. Driving transistors of the plurality of pixels are concurrently turned on based on the stored initialization voltage in a second period of the initial period, and a plurality of data voltages are sequentially applied to the plurality of pixels on a row-by-row basis to store the plurality of data voltages in the plurality of pixels in a data write period. The plurality of pixels concurrently emit light based on the plurality of data voltages in an emission period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Seok Bae, Dong Won Lee
  • Publication number: 20200312230
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a pixel including a first pixel transistor of which a gate electrode is connected to a first node, a back-gate electrode is connected to a back-gate line, a first electrode is connected to a second node, and a second electrode is connected to a third node, a back-gate voltage determiner for converging a variable back-gate voltage to a first level when the display device displays a moving image, and for converging the variable back-gate voltage to a second level when the display device displays a still image, and a back-gate stage for applying the variable back-gate voltage to the back-gate line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Min Seok BAE
  • Publication number: 20200051509
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels each having: a first transistor having a first electrode, second electrode, and gate electrode; a second transistor having a first electrode connected to a data line, a second electrode connected to the first electrode of the first transistor, and a gate electrode connected to a first scan line; a third transistor having a first electrode connected to the second electrode of the first transistor, a second electrode connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor, and a gate electrode connected to the first scan line; and a fourth transistor having a first electrode connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor, a second electrode connected to an initialization voltage line, and a gate electrode connected to a second scan line. A first scan signal is applied in each frame period of a first driving mode and a second driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventor: Min Seok BAE
  • Publication number: 20190164494
    Abstract: In a method of operating an organic light emitting display device including a plurality of pixels, an initialization voltage is applied to the plurality of pixels to store the initialization voltage in the plurality of pixels in a first period of an initial period. Driving transistors of the plurality of pixels are concurrently turned on based on the stored initialization voltage in a second period of the initial period, and a plurality of data voltages are sequentially applied to the plurality of pixels on a row-by-row basis to store the plurality of data voltages in the plurality of pixels in a data write period. The plurality of pixels concurrently emit light based on the plurality of data voltages in an emission period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Min-Seok BAE, Dong Won LEE
  • Publication number: 20190139490
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of pixels and a compensating data generator configured to sense a sensing driving current of the pixel in an Nth frame and a target driving current of the pixel in an (N+M)th frame, and to calculate an over driving data that allows the sensing driving current to be the same with the target driving current by changing a data voltage of the Nth frame when a sensing image having a first grayscale in a (N?1)th frame and having a second grayscale in the Nth frame and the (N+M)th frame, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Sunghoon BANG, Min-Seok BAE, Wooseok HAN
  • Patent number: 10134341
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel unit including pixels, each including an OLED; a scan driver configured to supply scan signals to scan lines connected to the pixels; a data driver configured to supply data signals to data lines connected to the pixels; a control line driver configured to supply control signals to control lines connected to the pixels; a sensing unit configured to receive sensing voltages from the data lines during a sensing period; a switching unit configured to selectively connect the data lines to the data driver and to the sensing unit, and to perform current sensing of the OLEDs of the pixels to which the control signals are supplied from among the plurality of pixels; and a timing controller configured to control the control line driver to supply the control signals to one or more of the control lines according to externally input first data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min Seok Bae