Patents by Inventor Seong Ho Kang

Seong Ho Kang 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: 20240204143
    Abstract: A light emitting display device includes a plurality of sub-pixels each including an emission area and a non-emission area, an anode including a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode at each of the plurality of sub-pixels, to overlap with the emission area and a portion of the non-emission area, a plurality of protrusion patterns inside an edge line of the second transparent electrode between the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode, and a bank to expose the emission area and a first area of the non-emission area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Choul YU, Jeong Oh KIM, Myung Jae YOO, Geum Young LEE, Seong Ho KANG
  • Publication number: 20240185770
    Abstract: A display device capable of preventing arching due to deflection of plasma and static electricity by including an outer discharge line, an inner discharge line, a discharge link, and a static electricity discharge circuit electrically connected with the inner discharge line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JeongOh KIM, MyungJae YOO, Geumyoung LEE, Seong Ho KANG, Jaechoul YU
  • Publication number: 20230200146
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The organic light emitting diode display device includes: a substrate having first and second subpixels, each of the first and second subpixels having an emission area; a thin film transistor in each of the first and second subpixels; a first anode connected to the thin film transistor and having a first area; and a second anode having a second area greater than the first area, wherein the second anode is disposed on the first anode to cover the first anode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong-Oh KIM, Myung-Jae YOO, Geum-Young LEE, Seong-Ho KANG
  • Publication number: 20230189562
    Abstract: A display apparatus can include at least one light-emitting device on a device substrate, an encapsulating element on the device substrate and covering the light-emitting device, an encapsulation substrate on the encapsulating element and including a metal, and a surface particle layer surrounding at least a portion of the encapsulation substrate. The surface particle layer can include metal particles dispersed at a surface of the encapsulation substrate. The surface particle layer can have a thermal conductivity that is higher than a thermal conductivity of the encapsulation substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Geum Young LEE, Jeong Oh KIM, Myung Jae YOO, Seong Ho KANG
  • Publication number: 20160088201
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a camera module. The camera module includes: a lens barrel with a built-in lens collecting external images; a housing that has a receiving space in which the lens barrel is received; a driving part that is configured to include a magnet and a coil and provides a first driving force that drives the lens barrel upward and a second driving force that drives the lens barrel downward by an electromagnetic force that is generated from the magnet and the coil; a guide ball that is provided between the lens barrel and the housing and guides the motion of the lens barrel; and a position detection part that senses the position of the lens barrel, wherein the driving part drives the lens barrel upward and downward so that a preload part that provides preload returning the lens barrel to its initial position is not required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Ho KANG, Myung Jin LEE, Jae Ho BAIK
  • Publication number: 20140028904
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a camera module. The camera module includes: a lens barrel with a built-in lens collecting external images; a housing that has a receiving space in which the lens barrel is received; a driving part that is configured to include a magnet and a coil and provides a first driving force that drives the lens barrel upward and a second driving force that drives the lens barrel downward by an electromagnetic force that is generated from the magnet and the coil; a guide ball that is provided between the lens barrel and the housing and guides the motion of the lens barrel; and a position detection part that senses the position of the lens barrel, wherein the driving part drives the lens barrel upward and downward so that a preload part that provides preload returning the lens barrel to its initial position is not required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Ho KANG, Myung Jin LEE, Jae Ho BAIK
  • Patent number: 8611734
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image photographing device having a function for compensating hand vibration. The image photographing device having a function for compensating hand vibration includes: an optical unit; a magnet combined with an outer peripheral surface of the optical unit; a housing inserted with the optical unit and the magnet and having coils disposed at a position corresponding to the magnet; suspension wires arranged at four corners of the optical unit, having the upper end portions and the lower end portions each combined with the optical unit and the housing to support the optical unit in a state floated from the bottom surface of the housing, and having a predetermined bending part formed at any point; a flexible printed circuit board surrounding the outer peripheral surface of the housing and applying current to the coils; and a substrate having the image sensor mounted on the top surface thereof and combined with the lower portion of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo Cheol Lim, Jung Seok Lee, Byung Woo Kang, Sang Min On, Young Bok Yoon, Seong Ho Kang
  • Patent number: 8471784
    Abstract: This invention relates to a driving apparatus of a plasma display panel that is capable of being operated stable, regardless of temperature. A driving apparatus of a plasma display panel according to the present invention includes a panel having a scanning electrode for receiving a scanning pulse in an address period and an address electrode for receiving a date pulse synchronized with the scanning pulse in the address period; and a pulse width controller for changing the width of the scanning pulse when the panel is driven at a low temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Soo Seok Sim, Won Tae Kim, Bon Cheol Koo, Seong Ho Kang
  • Patent number: 8179342
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for driving a PDP for widening a driving margin and improving contrast. The method for driving a PDP includes a first step of forming wall charges in cells with a set-up discharge using a set-up signal in a first sub-field and erasing the wall charges with a set-down discharge using a first set-down signal to initialize the cells, and a second step of erasing the wall charges with a set-down discharge generated using a second set-down signal different from the first set-down signal in a second sub-field, to initialize the cells. The method and apparatus for driving a PDP uniformly initialize sub-fields to widen the driving margin of PDP and remove a set-up discharge in at least one sub-field to improve the contrast of PDP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hee Jae Kim, Chang Young Kwon, Jeong Pil Choi, Seong Ho Kang
  • Publication number: 20120106936
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image photographing device having a function for compensating hand vibration. The image photographing device having a function for compensating hand vibration includes: an optical unit; a magnet combined with an outer peripheral surface of the optical unit; a housing inserted with the optical unit and the magnet and having coils disposed at a position corresponding to the magnet; suspension wires arranged at four corners of the optical unit, having the upper end portions and the lower end portions each combined with the optical unit and the housing to support the optical unit in a state floated from the bottom surface of the housing, and having a predetermined bending part formed at any point; a flexible printed circuit board surrounding the outer peripheral surface of the housing and applying current to the coils; and a substrate having the image sensor mounted on the top surface thereof and combined with the lower portion of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo Cheol Lim, Jung Seok Lee, Byung Woo Kang, Sang Min On, Young Bok Yoon, Seong Ho Kang
  • Patent number: 8141622
    Abstract: A console air conditioner includes an evaporator, a heater, a face vent, a floor vent, and a vent door for controlling the opening degrees of the face vent and the floor vent and is installed in the console space between front seats of a vehicle. Both sides of the air mixing zone where a cool air passageway meets a warm air passageway in the console air conditioner are connected to a pillar duct extending toward the middle pillar of the vehicle. A temperature control door controls the opening degrees of a cool air passageway and a warm air passageway of the air conditioner case and is installed such that rotational trace of the temperature control door is overlapped with a pillar vent area that is defined between the pillar ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Halla Climate Control Corp.
    Inventors: Seong-Ho Kang, Yong Eun Seo, Sang-Chul Byon, Yong Sang Kim
  • Patent number: 8066440
    Abstract: A camera module is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the camera module includes a lens barrel, which supports a lens and in which the lens allows a ray of light to be incident at an imaging part, a driver, which moves the lens barrel along an optical axis, a body, which houses the lens barrel, and a buffering part, which is interposed between the lens barrel and the body when the lens barrel collides with the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Ho Baik, Chul-Yeub Han, Myung-Jin Lee, Seong-Ho Kang
  • Patent number: 8044886
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and, more particularly, to a method of driving a plasma display panel. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a plurality of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes formed on an upper substrate, and a plurality of address electrodes formed on a lower substrate, and a driver for supplying driving signals to the plurality of electrodes. The plurality of scan electrodes are divided into first and second groups and then supplied with scan signals, and scan bias voltages supplied to the first and second groups in at least any one period of an address period are different from each other. In at least one of a plurality of subfields constituting one frame, a width of a first sustain signal of a plurality of sustain signals supplied during a sustain period is larger than a width of each of the remaining sustain signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yoon Chang Choi, Dong Soo Lee, Byoung Gun Kim, Seong Ho Kang, Kyung Ryeol Shim
  • Patent number: 8044887
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of driving a plasma display panel and a plasma display apparatus employing the same. In the plasma display apparatus, a plurality of scan electrodes formed in a plasma display panel are divided into first and second groups and then supplied with scan signals. When a scan bias voltage supplied in a first subfield of first and second subfields is higher than that supplied in a second subfield of the first and second subfields, a lowest voltage of a reset signal supplied in the second subfield is higher than that supplied in the first subfield. In accordance with the plasma display apparatus of the present invention, the lowest voltage of the reset signal is controlled according to the scan bias voltage in dividing the plurality of scan electrodes into two or more groups and driving them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yoon Chang Choi, Won Jae Kim, Hyung Jae Kim, Seong Ho Kang, Kyung Ryeol Shim
  • Publication number: 20110236008
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a camera module. The camera module includes: a lens barrel with a built-in lens collecting external images; a housing that has a receiving space in which the lens barrel is received; a driving part that is configured to include a magnet and a coil and provides a first driving force that drives the lens barrel upward and a second driving force that drives the lens barrel downward by an electromagnetic force that is generated from the magnet and the coil; a guide ball that is provided between the lens barrel and the housing and guides the motion of the lens barrel; and a position detection part that senses the position of the lens barrel, wherein the driving part drives the lens barrel upward and downward so that a preload part that provides preload returning the lens barrel to its initial position is not required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Ho KANG, Myung Jin LEE, Jae Ho BAIK
  • Patent number: 8014091
    Abstract: A camera module according to an aspect of the invention may include: a housing; a fixed unit fixed to the inside of the housing; a lens barrel provided in the housing and having at least one lens; and a moving unit moved and supported by the fixed unit by a predetermined magnetic force, and moving the lens barrel along an optical axis, such that driving accuracy and reliability can be increased when performing auto focus or zoom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Ho Kang, Jae Ho Baik
  • Patent number: 7978421
    Abstract: Disclosed is a camera module with a hinge spring which can stably support a lens barrel which is driven in a vertical direction for automatic focusing and which is made of lightweight resin, the camera module including a cylindrical lens barrel with lenses disposed therein for collecting images of external objects, a housing encasing the lens barrel in a manner such that the lens barrel vertically moves in an optical axis direction of the lenses, an automatic focusing actuator installed in the housing to cause linear motion of the lens barrel in the optical axis direction, and a ring-shaped hinge spring extrusion-molded using resin having elasticity to support an upper portion of the lens barrel and guide the linear motion of the lens barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electro Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang Young Im, Jun Asaga, Seong Ho Kang, Oh Byoung Kwon, Young Bok Yoon
  • Patent number: 7952539
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a driving apparatus for supplying a driving signal to a plasma display panel, and a plasma display apparatus employing the same. A reset signal supplied during a reset period of a first subfield of a plurality of subfields includes a first rising period where a voltage rises up to a first voltage, and a first sustain period where the first voltage is sustained. A reset signal supplied during a reset period of a second subfield includes a second rising period where a voltage rises up to a second voltage lower than the first voltage, and a second sustain period where the second voltage is sustained. The second voltage is higher than a sustain voltage. In accordance with the present invention, if it is sought to reset discharge cells of a PDP in a reset period, a signal whose voltage gradually rises up to a voltage higher than the sustain voltage is applied to a scan electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeong Pil Choi, Seong Ho Kang
  • Patent number: 7911417
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for expressing a gray level with a decimal value in a plasma display panel that is capable of enhancing a picture quality. In the method and apparatus, a sustaining pulse is applied only to any one electrode of a sustaining electrode pair to thereby express a gray level with a decimal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Seong Ho Kang
  • Patent number: 7911422
    Abstract: A plasma display driving method and apparatus for stabilizing an initialization upon selective erasing in a case of simultaneously performing a selective writing and a selective erasing is disclosed. In the method and apparatus, at least one selective writing sub-field for selecting on-cells using a writing discharge is arranged within a portion of one frame period, and at least one selective erasing sub-field for selecting off-cells from the on-cells using an erase discharge is arranged within the remaining interval of one frame period other than a time period arranged with the selective writing sub-field. A normal sustaining pulse is applied to the selected on-cells to sustain a discharge of the on-cells, and an initialization pulse having at least one of a pulse width and a voltage level set to be larger than the normal sustaining pulse is applied prior to said selective erasing sub-fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Jin Yoon, Seong Ho Kang