Patents by Inventor Soon-Dong Kim

Soon-Dong Kim 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: 11942043
    Abstract: Provided is a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changnoh Yoon, Soon-Dong Kim, Sangan Kwon, Seungjae Lee, Junheyung Jung
  • Patent number: 11928998
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first partial panel region and a second partial panel region, and a panel driver which drives the display panel. The panel driver determines a first driving frequency for the first partial panel region and a second driving frequency for the second partial panel region. In a case where the first driving frequency and the second driving frequency are different from each other, the panel driver sets a boundary portion including a boundary between the first partial panel region and the second partial panel region, and determines a third driving frequency for the boundary portion to be between the first driving frequency and the second driving frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim, Hui Nam, Eun Sil Yun, Changnoh Yoon
  • Patent number: 11929020
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a power supply unit, a voltage adjustment signal provider, and a data adjustment signal provider. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. The power supply unit is configured to provide a first initialization voltage and a second initialization voltage to the display panel. The voltage adjustment signal provider is configured to provide an adjustment signal to the power supply unit for applying an adjustment voltage to the second initialization voltage when the second display area is driven at a frequency lower than at least one of a predetermined frequency and a driving frequency of the first area. The data adjustment signal provider is configured to provide a data adjustment signal for adjusting gray levels of some pixels included in the first display area when the adjustment voltage is applied to the second initialization voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changnoh Yoon, Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11908380
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first pixel connected to a first initialization scan line and a first compensation scan line and a second pixel connected to a second initialization scan line and a second compensation scan line, a scan driving circuit which provides a first initialization scan signal to the first initialization scan line and the second initialization scan line in common and provides a first compensation scan signal and a second compensation scan signal to the first compensation scan line and the second compensation scan line, and a driving controller which controls the scan driving circuit. A delay time from a time point at which the first initialization scan signal transitions from an active level to an inactive level to a time point at which the first compensation scan signal transitions from the inactive level to the active level is less than one horizontal period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim, Jin-Wook Yang, Changnoh Yoon
  • Patent number: 11887538
    Abstract: A light emission driving circuit includes a driving circuit configured to output a light emission driving signal to a first output terminal and output a switching signal to a first node in response to clock signals and a first carry signal, and a first masking circuit configured to output a second carry signal to a second output terminal in response to a masking clock signal, the light emission driving signal, and the first switching signal. The masking clock signal is a signal which is maintained at a first level during a normal mode and periodically changes during a low power mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seongheon Cho, Joon-Chul Goh, Soon-Dong Kim, Bonghyun You
  • Patent number: 11887539
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a pixel to display an image based on input image data, a driving controller which determines a driving frequency of a first display area of the display panel to be a first driving frequency and determines a driving frequency of a second display area of the display panel to be a second driving frequency less than the first driving frequency when the first display area displays a moving image and the second display area of the display panel displays a still image, and an emission driver which outputs a moving image emission signal corresponding to the first driving frequency and a still image emission signal corresponding to the second driving frequency to the display panel. A width of a non-emission period of the still image emission signal is greater than a width of a non-emission period of the moving image emission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon-Dong Kim, Sangan Kwon, Taehoon Kim, Hui Nam, Junheyung Jung
  • Patent number: 11869445
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a data driver, a scan driver, and a driving controller. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area, which operate at different frequencies from each other in a multi-frequency mode. The driving controller controls the data driver and the scan driver. The driving controller generates boundary compensation data by compensating for boundary image signals, which are input to correspond to a boundary area of the first display area in the multi-frequency mode and drives the data driver based on a compensation image signal including the boundary compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changnoh Yoon, Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim, Eun Sil Yun
  • Patent number: 11869400
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed that comprises a display panel. The display panel includes a display region that includes a first display area and a second display area. A data driver is configured to provide a data voltage to the display region. A gate driver is configured to provide a compensation gate signal and an initialization gate signal to the display region. The gate driver includes a first stage and a second stage. A driving controller is configured to control the gate driver and the data driver. The driving controller is configured to determine a first driving frequency for the first display area and a second driving frequency for the second display area. The second stage is configured to provide the compensation gate signal having a pulse duration shorter than a pulse duration of the compensation gate signal provided to the display region by the first stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim, Eun Sil Yun, Changnoh Yoon
  • Publication number: 20240005846
    Abstract: A display panel of a display device is divided into a first display region and a second display region. The second display region includes a boundary region adjacent to the first display region and a non-boundary region opposite to the first display region with respect to the boundary region. The driving controller outputs the voltage control signal, such that the first voltage in a first high voltage level and the second voltage in a first low voltage level are generated when the first display region is driven. The driving controller outputs the voltage control signal, such that the first voltage in a second high voltage level lower than the first high voltage level and the second voltage in a second low voltage level higher than the first low voltage level are generated, when the non-boundary region of the second display region is driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: TAEHOON KIM, SEON YOUNG CHOI, SANGAN KWON, SOON-DONG KIM, JIN-WOOK YANG, CHANGNOH YOON
  • Publication number: 20240005868
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a voltage generator providing an anode initialization voltage to the pixels. The display panel is divided into a first display area operating at a first operating frequency and a second display area operating at a second operating frequency. While pixels, which correspond to the first display area, from among the plurality of pixels are driven, the anode initialization voltage has a first voltage level. While pixels in the second display area from among the plurality of pixels are driven, the anode initialization voltage has a second voltage level different from the first voltage level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: SOON-DONG KIM, TAEHOON KIM, JIN-WOOK YANG, EUN SIL YUN, CHANGNOH YOON
  • Publication number: 20240005851
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of scan lines; a scan driving circuit, which drives the plurality of scan lines in synchronization with a clock signal; and a driving controller, which outputs the clock signal. While an operating mode is a multi-frequency mode, the driving controller comparts the display panel into a first display area and a second display area. A hold frame of the multi-frequency mode includes a first section during which the first display area is driven, and a second section during which the second display area is driven. The driving controller outputs the clock signal of a normal power mode during the first section and outputs the clock signal of a low-power mode during the second section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: SOON-DONG KIM, SANGAN KWON, TAEHOON KIM, JIN-WOOK YANG
  • Patent number: 11862096
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a voltage generator providing an anode initialization voltage to the pixels. The display panel is divided into a first display area operating at a first operating frequency and a second display area operating at a second operating frequency. While pixels, which correspond to the first display area, from among the plurality of pixels are driven, the anode initialization voltage has a first voltage level. While pixels in the second display area from among the plurality of pixels are driven, the anode initialization voltage has a second voltage level different from the first voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim, Jin-Wook Yang, Eun Sil Yun, Changnoh Yoon
  • Patent number: 11862073
    Abstract: A display device includes a driving controller which outputs the output image signal corresponding to the input image signal when the first display area is driven, outputs the output image signal corresponding to a first bias signal when the boundary area is driven, and outputs the output image signal corresponding to a second bias signal different from the first bias signal when the non-boundary area is driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changnoh Yoon, Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20230419882
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel including a pixel circuit and a light emitting element, a plurality of scan lines connected to the pixel circuit, an emission control line connected to the pixel circuit, and a data line connected to the pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a first capacitor connected to a first node and a second node opposite to the first node, a first circuit portion that includes a first transistor connected between the data line and the first node and a second transistor connected between the first transistor and the first node, and a second circuit portion connected to the second node and the light emitting element. Before the light emitting element emits light, a reference voltage is provided to a third node between the first transistor and the second transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: JAEKEUN LIM, BON-SEOG GU, SANGAN KWON, SOON-DONG KIM, JINYOUNG ROH, HAE-KWAN SEO
  • Patent number: 11854470
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a data driver, a scan driver, and a light emitting driver. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. The display panel displays a first image on the first display area and the second display area in a first mode, and displays a second image on the first display area in a second mode. The light emitting driver activates emission control signals applied to the first display area and the second display area in the first mode. The light emitting driver activates emission control signals applied to the second display area during a first partial frame in the second mode, and maintains the emission control signals applied to the second display area in a deactivation state during a plurality of second partial frames in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taehoon Kim, Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Hui Nam, Eun Sil Yun, Changnoh Yoon
  • Patent number: 11854496
    Abstract: The display device includes a display panel in which a first display area and a second display area adjacent to the first display area are defined, a data driving circuit which drives the plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit which drives the plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller which receives an image signal and a control signal, and controls the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit based on an operation mode, where the driving controller includes a luminance deviation compensation unit which compensates for luminance deviation of the first display area and the second display area when the operation mode is a multi-frequency mode in which the first display area is driven at a first frequency and the second display area is driven at a second frequency different from the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon-Dong Kim, Sangan Kwon, Changnoh Yoon, Seungjae Lee
  • Patent number: 11842690
    Abstract: Provided is a scan driver of a display device, and the scan driver includes a driving circuit and a masking circuit. The driving circuit includes a control circuit, a first output circuit, and a second output circuit. The control circuit outputs a first control signal and a second control signal. The first output circuit is connected to a first output terminal which outputs a first scan signal and a first voltage terminal and operates in response to a first control signal. The second output circuit is connected to a first output terminal and a second voltage terminal and operates in response to a second control signal. The masking circuit outputs a second scan signal to a second output terminal in response to the first control signal and the second control signal and is connected to an input terminal to which a masking signal is supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taehoon Kim, Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Hui Nam, Bonghyun You, Changnoh Yoon, Jaekeun Lim
  • Publication number: 20230395017
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a data driver, a scan driver, and a light emitting driver. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. The display panel displays a first image on the first display area and the second display area in a first mode, and displays a second image on the first display area in a second mode. The light emitting driver activates emission control signals applied to the first display area and the second display area in the first mode. The light emitting driver activates emission control signals applied to the second display area during a first partial frame in the second mode, and maintains the emission control signals applied to the second display area in a deactivation state during a plurality of second partial frames in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: TAEHOON KIM, SANGAN KWON, SOON-DONG KIM, HUI NAM, EUN SIL YUN, CHANGNOH YOON
  • Patent number: 11798463
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of scan lines; a scan driving circuit, which drives the plurality of scan lines in synchronization with a clock signal; and a driving controller, which outputs the clock signal. While an operating mode is a multi-frequency mode, the driving controller comparts the display panel into a first display area and a second display area. A hold frame of the multi-frequency mode includes a first section during which the first display area is driven, and a second section during which the second display area is driven. The driving controller outputs the clock signal of a normal power mode during the first section and outputs the clock signal of a low-power mode during the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon-Dong Kim, Sangan Kwon, Taehoon Kim, Jin-Wook Yang
  • Patent number: 11790858
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device includes a display panel that includes a first display region and a second display region, a data driving circuit configured to drive a plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit configured to drive a plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller configured to control the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit so as to operate the first display region and the second display region at different frequencies when an operation mode is a multi-frequency mode, wherein the driving controller changes the operation mode to a normal mode when a difference between an image signal of a current frame of the first display region and an image signal of a previous frame of the first display region is equal to or greater than a reference value during the multi-frequency mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim, Hui Nam, Junhee Moon, Eun Sil Yun, Changnoh Yoon