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).

  • Patent number: 11961478
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display device including the same according to an embodiment. A display panel according to the embodiment includes: a display area in which a plurality of first pixels are arranged at a first pixels per inch (PPI); and a sensing area in which a plurality of second pixels are arranged at a second PPI that is lower than the first PPI, wherein the first pixels of the display area and the second pixels of the sensing area are arranged adjacent to each other at a boundary between the display area and the sensing area, the second pixel includes red, green, and blue sub-pixels, and at least one of the red and green sub-pixels of the second pixel is arranged closest to the first pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Sung Kang, Hee Jung Hong, Seong Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 11961223
    Abstract: An apparatus for predicting performance of a wheel in a vehicle: includes a learning device that generates a latent space for a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) wheel images based on a convolutional autoencoder (CAE), extracts a predetermined number of the plurality of 2D wheel images from the latent space, and learns a dataset having the plurality of 2D wheel images and performance values corresponding to the plurality of 2D wheel images; and a controller that predicts performance for the plurality of 2D wheel images based on a performance prediction model obtained by the learning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, SOOKMYUNG WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jong Ho Park, Chang Gon Kim, Chul Woo Jung, Sang Min Lee, Min Kyoo Kang, Ji Un Lee, Kwang Hyeon Hwang, Nam Woo Kang, So Young Yoo, Seong Sin Kim, Sung Hee Lee
  • Publication number: 20240097450
    Abstract: An energy storage system includes an energy storage device that stores energy generated from a new and renewable energy power plant, a power management device that monitors a total amount of power produced by at least one new and renewable energy power plant in a plurality of regions, determines an operation mode of the energy storage device based on a result of monitoring a reference capacity of an integrated line through which power of the plurality of regions is transmitted and a result of monitoring the total power amount, and controls a power capacity flowing through the integrated line according to the operation mode, and a power conversion device that receives a command corresponding to the operation mode from the power management device and controls an operation of the energy storage device according to the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hyun Jae KANG, Seung Sig NAM, Tay Seek LEE, Seong Ho YUN, Hee Se HONG
  • Publication number: 20240085469
    Abstract: A transmitting and receiving circuit may include a first CMOS inverter configured to receive a first power supply signal and a first input signal. The transmitting and receiving circuit may include a first calculation amplifier including a non-inverted input terminal connected to an output terminal of the first CMOS inverter, and a first resistor connected between the output terminal of the first calculation amplifier and a first node. The output terminal of the first calculation amplifier and an inverted input terminal of the first calculation amplifier may be connected to each other. A first output signal may have a level smaller than that of the first input signal and may be output to the first node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Seong Kwan LEE, Min Ho KANG, Hyung-Sun RYU, Cheol Min PARK, Jun Yeon WON, Jae Moo CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240079879
    Abstract: An energy storage system includes an energy storage device that stores energy generated from a new and renewable energy power plant, a power management device that monitors an amount of power of the new and renewable energy power plant, determines an operation mode of the energy storage device based on a result of monitoring a reference capacity of a line connected to the new and renewable energy plant and the amount of power, and controls a power capacity flowing through the line according to the operation mode, and a power conversion device that receives a command corresponding to the operation mode from the power management device and controls an operation of the energy storage device according to the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Hyun Jae KANG, Seung Sig NAM, Tay Seek LEE, Seong Ho YUN, Hee Se HONG
  • 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