Patents by Inventor Sang Moo Choi

Sang Moo Choi 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: 8610700
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes a pixel circuit that compensates for variations of the threshold voltage of a driving transistor. The organic light emitting display includes a scan driver, a data driver, a power source unit, and a plurality of pixels. If a pixel is assumed to be positioned in an ith (i is a natural number) horizontal line, that pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a first transistor coupled between a power source line and the OLED, a second transistor having a gate electrode coupled to an ith scan line for supplying the data signal to the first transistor, a third transistor coupled between the OLED and the first transistor and having a gate electrode coupled to an ith emission control line, and a storage capacitor coupled between the gate electrode of the first transistor and an anode electrode of the OLED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Moo Choi
  • Patent number: 8587578
    Abstract: There are provided a pixel capable of displaying images with a desired luminance and an organic light emitting display device using the same. In one embodiment, a pixel includes: an organic light emitting diode, a first transistor for controlling an amount of current flowing from a first power source to a second power source via the organic light emitting diode, a second transistor coupled between a first electrode of the first transistor and a data line and configured to be turned on when a current scan signal is supplied a current scan line a third transistor coupled between a gate electrode of the first transistor and a second electrode of the first transistor, a first capacitor coupled between the first power source and the first electrode of the first transistor, and a second capacitor coupled between the gate electrode of the first transistor and the first power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Moo Choi
  • Patent number: 8587499
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display including a plurality of pixel areas and a transparent area interposed between the plurality of pixel areas, the display includes a substrate member, thin film transistors and capacitor elements on the substrate member, the thin film transistor and the capacitor elements overlapping with the pixel areas, a gate line, a data line, and a common power supply line on the substrate member, the gate line, the data line, and the common power supply line overlapping with the pixel areas and the transparent area, and being connected to corresponding ones of the thin film transistors and/or the capacitor elements, and pixel electrodes on the substrate member, the pixel electrodes overlapping with all of the thin film transistors and capacitor elements, and with respective portions of the gate line, the data line, and the common power supply line that overlap with the pixel areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Goo Kang, Sang-Moo Choi, Mu-Hyun Kim, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8581811
    Abstract: The organic light emitting display device according to the present invention includes a scan driver for supplying a scan signal to scan lines during a frame time-divided into a plurality of subframes, a data driver coupled to output lines for supplying data signals on each of the output lines, data distributors coupled to the output lines for distributing the data signals to data lines, concurrently, in synchronization with the scan signal, and pixels located at crossing regions of the data lines and the scan lines. Each of the data distributors includes a sampling latch for distributing the data signals to different channels and for storing the data signals, and a holding latch coupled to the sampling latch for supplying the data signals of the channels to the data lines concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wang-Jo Lee, Sang-Moo Choi
  • Patent number: 8558222
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display includes: a substrate main body having a plurality of pixel regions, each including an opaque region and a transparent region; and organic light emitting diodes, thin film transistors, and conductive lines that are formed in the opaque region of the substrate main body. The transparent region includes a transparent square space that has an area that is at least 15% of the entire area of the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyu-Hwan Hwang, Seok-Gyu Yoon, Jae-Heung Ha, Young-Woo Song, Jong-Hyuk Lee, Chaun-Gi Choi, Sang-Moo Choi, Keum-Nam Kim, Gun-Shik Kim
  • Patent number: 8552934
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display and a driving method thereof that reduces false contour noise and the occurrence of a stripe pattern generated in a digital driving manner. The organic light emitting display includes a scan driver for supplying a scan signal to scan lines, a data driver for supplying a data signal to data lines, and pixels coupled to the scan lines and the data lines. Each of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode. The organic light emitting diodes of the pixels coupled to a scan line are alternately positioned in a first horizontal line and a second horizontal line adjacent to the first horizontal line, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wang-Jo Lee, Sang-Moo Choi
  • Patent number: 8542165
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes a scan driver configured to supply scan signals to scan lines and to supply emission control signals to emission control lines, a data driver configured to supply data signals and an initialization voltage to data lines, and pixels positioned at crossing regions of the scan lines and the data lines, each of the pixels comprising an organic light emitting diode (OLED) and a first transistor for controlling an amount of current supplied from a first power source and having a second electrode coupled to the first power source and a first electrode coupled to the OLED, wherein a gate electrode of the first transistor of a first pixel from among the pixels positioned on an ith (ā€œiā€ is a positive integer) horizontal line is coupled to a corresponding one of the data lines via a second pixel from among the pixels positioned on an (i?1)th horizontal line in a period where the initialization voltage is supplied to the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Moo Choi
  • Patent number: 8541841
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and semiconductor device manufacturing methods. The semiconductor device manufacturing methods may form a memory cell having a silicon on insulator (SOI) structure only in one or more localized regions of a bulk semiconductor substrate by use selective etching. Accordingly, a different bias voltage may be applied to a peripheral device than to a memory cell having the SOI structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-joo Kim, Sang-moo Choi, Tae-hee Lee, Yoon-dong Park
  • Patent number: 8531358
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device compensates for a variation of the threshold voltage of a driving transistor. A scan driver and a data driver drive a plurality of pixels. A pixel of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode, four transistors, and two capacitors. A first transistor controls a current to the organic light emitting diode. Second and third transistors are coupled between a data line from the data driver and a gate electrode of the first transistor. A fourth transistor is coupled between a reference power supply and the gate electrode of the first transistor. The two capacitors are coupled between the organic light emitting diode and respective electrodes of the third transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Moo Choi, Chul-Kyu Kang, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8519913
    Abstract: A pixel includes: an organic light emitting diode including an anode electrode and a cathode electrode, where the cathode electrode is connected with a second power supply; a first transistor including a gate electrode, where the first transistor is connected between a first power supply and the organic light emitting diode, where the first transistor is configured to control an amount of current flowing from the first power supply through the organic light emitting diode to the second power supply; a second transistor connected between the gate electrode of the first transistor and the anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode; a third transistor connected between the first transistor and the first power supply; and a storage capacitor connected between the gate electrode of the first transistor and a data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Moo Choi
  • Publication number: 20130161717
    Abstract: A three-dimensional non-volatile memory device that may increase erase operation efficiency during an erase operation using Gate-Induced Drain Leakage (GIDL) current and a method for fabricating the three-dimensional non-volatile memory device. The non-volatile memory device includes a channel structure formed over a substrate including a plurality of inter-layer dielectric layers and a plurality of channel layers that are alternately stacked, and a first selection gate and a second selection gate that are disposed on a first side and a second side of the channel structure, wherein the first selection gate and the second selection gate contact sidewalls of the multiple channel layers, respectively, wherein a work function of a material forming the first selection gate is different from a work function of a material forming the second selection gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Sang-Moo CHOI, Byung-Soo Park, Sang-Hyun Oh, Han-Soo Joo
  • Patent number: 8446344
    Abstract: A pixel of an organic light emitting display device and an organic light emitting display device using the same. The pixel is configured to compensate for the deterioration of organic light emitting diodes. The pixel includes an organic light emitting diode; a pixel circuit including a drive transistor for controlling an amount of electric current that flows from a first power source to a second power source via an organic light emitting diode; and a compensation unit between a gate electrode and a first electrode of the drive transistor for controlling a voltage of the gate electrode of the drive transistor to correspond to the deterioration of the organic light emitting diode. The compensation unit includes a transistor and a capacitor coupled in series between the gate electrode and the first electrode of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Moo Choi
  • Publication number: 20130100741
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3-D) nonvolatile memory device includes vertical channel layers protruded from a substrate, interlayer insulating layers and memory cells, which are alternately stacked along the vertical channel layers, and select transistors including planar channel layers, each contacted with at least one of the vertical channel layers and being parallel to the substrate, and gate insulating layers formed over the planar channel layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Sang Moo CHOI, In Hey LEE
  • Patent number: 8415872
    Abstract: An OLED display device includes a substrate; an organic light emitting element having a first electrode formed on the substrate, an organic emission layer disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the organic emission layer; a common power bus line disposed between the organic light emitting element and an edge of the substrate on the substrate and electrically connected with the first electrode; a driving power bus line neighboring the common power bus line on the substrate, disposed between the organic light emitting element and the edge of the substrate, and electrically connected with the second electrode extended from a portion corresponding to the organic emission layer; and a connection wire made of the same material as the second electrode on the common power bus line, separated from the second electrode, and electrically connected with the common power bus line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Moo Choi, Chul-Kyu Kang, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8405579
    Abstract: A data driver and a light emitting diode display device including the circuit that cause a pixel current through the light emitting diode to be independent of the threshold voltage of a transistor driving the light emitting diode. The data driver includes a voltage digital-analog converter for generating a data voltage and a current digital-analog converter for generating a sensing current, both corresponding to input data, and a voltage control block for receiving the pixel current that corresponds to the data voltage and is fed back from the pixel to the voltage control block changing the amount of current charging a capacitor in the voltage control block and controlling the data voltage supplied to the pixel. Controlling and adjusting the data voltage helps uniformity in the display brightness regardless of non-uniformity of transistors in each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Moo Choi, Hong Kwon Kim, Oh Kyong Kwon
  • Patent number: 8385122
    Abstract: Provided are a non-volatile memory devices having a stacked structure, and a memory card and a system including the same. A non-volatile memory device may include a substrate. A stacked NAND cell array may have at least one NAND set and each NAND set may include a plurality of NAND strings vertically stacked on the substrate. At least one signal line may be arranged on the substrate so as to be commonly coupled with the at least one NAND set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-joo Kim, Yoon-dong Park, Jung-hun Sung, Yong-koo Kyoung, Sang-moo Choi, Tae-hee Lee
  • Patent number: 8368618
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display (OLED) device capable of compensating for threshold voltage of a driving transistor in which this OLED device uses a scan driver to sequentially supply scan signals to scan lines. A data driver supplies data signals to data lines when the scan signals are supplied with pixels positioned at the intersections of the scan lines and the data lines. A common circuit unit formed in every horizontal line, receiving one or more external power sources required in driving the pixels and transferring the received external power to pixels positioned in the same horizontal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Moo Choi
  • Patent number: 8354984
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display and a driving method thereof, in which an image is displayed with uniform brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Moo Choi
  • Publication number: 20130002632
    Abstract: A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) having a cathode electrode coupled to a second power source, a first transistor having a first electrode coupled to a first power source, the first transistor being configured to control a magnitude of a current supplied from the first power source to the second power source via the OLED in accordance with a data signal, and a plurality of second transistors serially coupled between a gate electrode of the first transistor and a power source line, the second transistors being configured to be turned on when a second scan signal is supplied to a second scan line, wherein a common node between the second transistors is electrically coupled to the first electrode or a second electrode of the first transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventor: Sang-Moo Choi
  • Patent number: 8345039
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device capable of driving transistor threshold voltage compensation, including: pixels positioned in the intersections of scan lines and data lines, wherein each pixel comprises: a first transistor and a fourth transistor, connected at a common node, disposed between an anode of an OLED and a first power supply; a cathode of the OLED connected to a second power supply; a second transistor connected between a gate of the first transistor and a data line, and turned on when a scan signal is supplied to a scan line; a third transistor connected between the common node and the data line, and turned on when a scan signal is supplied to the scan line; a first capacitor connected between the gate of the first transistor and the anode of the OLED; and a second capacitor connected between the anode of the OLED and a predetermined voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Moo Choi, Hun-Jung Lee, Su-Young Kim, Dong-Wook Choi