Patents by Inventor Sun-Il Chang

Sun-Il Chang 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: 12512030
    Abstract: Rendering images on an active area of an OLED includes rendering images on the active area of the display panel with a plurality of different frame rates. For a plurality of the different frame rates having a frame rate that matches or is above a threshold frame rate, an image refresh operation is performed once per frame period and a self-refresh operation is not performed during the frame period. When rendering images on the active area, for at least one of the different frame rates having a frame rate that is lower than the threshold frame rate, an image refresh operation is performed once per frame period and a self-refresh operation is performed at least once during the frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Sang Young Youn, Chang Ju Kang, Sun-il Chang
  • Patent number: 12505776
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dual color management for a multi-pixel density display. In one aspect, the method includes obtaining an image to be shown on a display, where the display includes both a first area that has a first pixel density and a second area that has a second pixel density that is less than the first pixel density, determining that a pixel with an initial value in the image will be displayed in the first area of the display, in response to determining that a pixel with the initial value in the image will be displayed in the first area of the display, determining a remapped value for the pixel in the image based on the initial value and a lookup table for the first area, and providing the remapped value for output on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hyunchul Kim, Wonjae Choi, Sun-il Chang
  • Patent number: 12437727
    Abstract: PWM-frame rate misalignment is mitigated through implementation of a discrete variable refresh rate (VRR) scheme. A target frame rate is limited to a frame rate selected from only those frame rates that facilitate alignment of each frame period to a specified edge of a PWM cycle of a brightness control signal of a display panel. This alignment results in each frame period at the selected frame rate starting at a same point in a corresponding PWM cycle and ending at a same point in a corresponding PWM cycle to help ensure a constant effective duty cycle across each successive frame period, which in turn mitigates perception of flicker that otherwise would arise. Further, the discrete VRR scheme can employ a compensation mode for compensating for the delay in rendering or otherwise obtaining a frame for display so as to maintain a consistent duty cycle in the brightness control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sang Young Youn, Sun-il Chang, Wonjae Choi, Sangmoo Choi
  • Patent number: 12364131
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of subpixel emissive areas of a first color, a second color, and a third color arranged in an array having a plurality of rows and columns. Rows of the array include subpixel emissive areas arranged in a repeating pattern of a first color subpixel emissive area, a second color subpixel emissive area, a third color subpixel emissive area, and a second color subpixel emissive area. Alternating columns of the array include subpixel emissive areas: (a) arranged in a repeating pattern of a subpixel emissive area of the first color and a subpixel emissive areas of the third color, and (b) including only subpixel emissive areas of the second color. The display device further includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of column lines, and a plurality of electronic subpixel circuits arranged in the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Sun-il Chang
  • Patent number: 12333995
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide various apparatuses and techniques to efficiently mitigate front-of-screen (FoS) artifacts that may occur due to voltage fluctuations due to alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC) mechanisms that may occur in a variety of pixel types. In one embodiment, emission profile awareness circuitry may be implemented to mitigate for FoS artifacts due to DC mechanisms. Two-dimensional (2D) digital compensation circuitry may address the DC portion of the voltage fluctuations by accounting for an emission profile applied to content displayed on an electronic display. In some embodiments, the 2D digital compensation circuitry may compensate for the AC portion of the voltage fluctuations by duplicating the AC voltage fluctuations via voltage error subtraction circuitry and voltage error accumulation circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunwoo Nho, Jie Won Ryu, Patrick R Cruce, Yao Shi, Nicolas Le Dortz, Wei Xiong, Hyunsoo Kim, Wei H Yao, Sun-Il Chang, Kingsuk Brahma, Ionut A Mirel, Mahesh B Chappalli, Ruicong Chen
  • Publication number: 20250140155
    Abstract: Rendering images on an active area of an OLED includes rendering images on the active area of the display panel with a plurality of different frame rates. For a plurality of the different frame rates having a frame rate that matches or is above a threshold frame rate, an image refresh operation is performed once per frame period and a self-refresh operation is not performed during the frame period. When rendering images on the active area, for at least one of the different frame rates having a frame rate that is lower than the threshold frame rate, an image refresh operation is performed once per frame period and a self-refresh operation is performed at least once during the frame period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Sang Young Youn, Chang Ju Kang, Sun-il Chang
  • Publication number: 20250087170
    Abstract: A display device includes subpixels of a first, second, and third colors, scan lines, and column lines. The subpixels are arranged in an array of rows and columns, with each subpixel in a column being electrically connected to a same column line. Each subpixels in a column is configured for receiving electronic scan signals that control a light output from an emissive element of the subpixel from a scan line and from the column line connected to the subpixel. One or more line drivers provide the electronic scan signals, during a time period for rendering a frame, to subpixels in a first set of columns first to subpixels of the first color and then to the subpixels of the third color and to subpixels in a second set of columns first to subpixels of the third color and then to the subpixels of the first color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Sun-il Chang
  • Publication number: 20250069541
    Abstract: An electronic display device designed to a method and device that corrects for distorted luminance and colors due to data-to-scan coupling in a flat-panel display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jongyup Lim, Jie Won Ryu, Nicolas Le Dortz, Hyunwoo Nho, Sun-Il Chang, Patrick R. Cruce
  • Patent number: 12223876
    Abstract: Rendering images on an active area of an OLED includes rendering images on the active area of the display panel with a plurality of different frame rates. For a plurality of the different frame rates having a frame rate that matches or is above a threshold frame rate, an image refresh operation is performed once per frame period and a self-refresh operation is not performed during the frame period. When rendering images on the active area, for at least one of the different frame rates having a frame rate that is lower than the threshold frame rate, an image refresh operation is performed once per frame period and a self-refresh operation is performed at least once during the frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Sang Young Youn, Chang Ju Kang, Sun-Il Chang
  • Patent number: 12217698
    Abstract: A display device includes subpixels of a first, second, and third colors, scan lines, and column lines. The subpixels are arranged in an array of rows and columns, with each subpixel in a column being electrically connected to a same column line. Each subpixels in a column is configured for receiving electronic scan signals that control a light output from an emissive element of the subpixel from a scan line and from the column line connected to the subpixel. One or more line drivers provide the electronic scan signals, during a time period for rendering a frame, to subpixels in a first set of columns first to subpixels of the first color and then to the subpixels of the third color and to subpixels in a second set of columns first to subpixels of the third color and then to the subpixels of the first color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Sun-il Chang
  • Patent number: 12211435
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display having a gate-on-array (GOA) that generates gate signals in response to an activation signal, pixels that activate in response to a combination of the gate signals and data signals indicative of image data, and sensing circuitry. The sensing circuitry may measure a characteristic response of a gate signal a characteristic response of one or more pixels, or both and compare the characteristic responses to baselines. The electronic device may also include compensation circuitry that applies a compensation to the activation signal and/or to the image data based on the comparisons between the characteristic responses and the baselines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sun-Il Chang, Kwang Soon Park, Hao-Lin Chiu, Jie Won Ryu, Hyunsoo Kim, Hyunwoo Nho, Wei Xiong, Patrick R Cruce
  • Patent number: 12148367
    Abstract: A burn-in compensation method and a computing device configured for burn-in compensation is disclosed. The burn-in compensation can minimize or eliminate a burn-in of an OLED display having areas with different pixel densities. Each area of the OLED display may be divided into zones that include one or more pixels and a burn-in factor may be computed for the zones. A limiting burn-in factor may be determined from a limiting zone that exhibits the highest burn-in. Other zones with burn-in factors that area significantly different from the limiting burn-in factor can be adjusted so that the pixels in the adjusted zones can be driven to radiate similar light at a power similar to the liming zone. The burn-in compensation may be performed for each area and a transition region may be created between areas to minimize light artifacts after burn-in compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hyunchul Kim, Sun-il Chang, Wonjae Choi
  • Publication number: 20240355254
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dual color management for a multi-pixel density display. In one aspect, the method includes obtaining an image to be shown on a display, where the display includes both a first area that has a first pixel density and a second area that has a second pixel density that is less than the first pixel density, determining that a pixel with an initial value in the image will be displayed in the first area of the display, in response to determining that a pixel with the initial value in the image will be displayed in the first area of the display, determining a remapped value for the pixel in the image based on the initial value and a lookup table for the first area, and providing the remapped value for output on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Hyunchul Kim, Wonjae Choi, Sun-il Chang
  • Publication number: 20240331611
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide various apparatuses and techniques to efficiently mitigate front-of-screen (FoS) artifacts that may occur due to voltage fluctuations due to alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC) mechanisms that may occur in a variety of pixel types. In one embodiment, emission profile awareness circuitry may be implemented to mitigate for FoS artifacts due to DC mechanisms. Two-dimensional (2D) digital compensation circuitry may address the DC portion of the voltage fluctuations by accounting for an emission profile applied to content displayed on an electronic display. In some embodiments, the 2D digital compensation circuitry may compensate for the AC portion of the voltage fluctuations by duplicating the AC voltage fluctuations via voltage error subtraction circuitry and voltage error accumulation circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Hyunwoo Nho, Jie Won Ryu, Patrick R. Cruce, Yao Shi, Nicolas Le Dortz, Wei Xiong, Hyunsoo Kim, Wei H. Yao, Sun-Il Chang, Kingsuk Brahma, Ionut A. Mirel, Mahesh B. Chappalli, Ruicong Chen
  • Publication number: 20240265884
    Abstract: PWM-frame rate misalignment is mitigated through implementation of a discrete variable refresh rate (VRR) scheme. A target frame rate is limited to a frame rate selected from only those frame rates that facilitate alignment of each frame period to a specified edge of a PWM cycle of a brightness control signal of a display panel. This alignment results in each frame period at the selected frame rate starting at a same point in a corresponding PWM cycle and ending at a same point in a corresponding PWM cycle to help ensure a constant effective duty cycle across each successive frame period, which in turn mitigates perception of flicker that otherwise would arise. Further, the discrete VRR scheme can employ a compensation mode for compensating for the delay in rendering or otherwise obtaining a frame for display so as to maintain a consistent duty cycle in the brightness control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Sang Young Youn, Sun-il Chang, Wonjae Choi, Sangmoo Choi
  • Patent number: 12051353
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dual color management for a multi-pixel density display. In one aspect, the method includes obtaining an image to be shown on a display, where the display includes both a first area that has a first pixel density and a second area that has a second pixel density that is less than the first pixel density, determining that a pixel with an initial value in the image will be displayed in the first area of the display (120), in response to determining that a pixel with the initial value in the image will be displayed in the first area of the display, determining a remapped value for the pixel in the image based on the initial value and a lookup table for the first area (130), and providing the remapped value for output on the display (150).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hyunchul Kim, Wonjae Choi, Sun-il Chang
  • Patent number: 12039133
    Abstract: A computing device can receive a first measured touch value, the first measured touch value indicating first touch input at a first location near a camera included in the computing device, receive a second measured touch value, the second measured touch value indicating second touch input at a second location farther from the camera than the first location, a density of touch sensors in the second location being greater than a density of touch sensors in the first location, generate a first compensated touch value based on the first measured touch value and a first scaling value, generate a second compensated touch value based on the second measured touch value and a second scaling value, the second scaling value being less than the first scaling value, and process the first touch input and the second touch input based on the first compensated touch value and the second compensated touch value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Young Seok Oh, Sun-il Chang
  • Patent number: 12039954
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for gamma lookup table compression based on dimensionality reduction. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a selection of a particular display condition for a display panel from among different display conditions for the display panel, selecting, based on the selection of the particular display condition, a set of weights for a set of basis functions from among different sets of weights that correspond to the different display conditions for the display panel, determining a gamma lookup table for the particular display condition for the display panel based on the set of weights that were selected and the set of basis functions, and remapping an image to be output on the display panel based on the gamma lookup table for the particular display condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hyunchul Kim, Sun-il Chang, Wonjae Choi
  • Patent number: 12020411
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for remapping for mixed dynamic range content. In one aspect, a method for remapping for mixed dynamic range content, the method includes obtaining an image to be displayed that includes both first dynamic range content and second dynamic range content, determining that the image includes first dynamic range content at a first pixel, determining a first remapped value for the first pixel based on a lookup table for first dynamic range content and an initial value for the first pixel, providing the first remapped value for the first pixel for display, determining that the image includes second dynamic range content at a second pixel, determining a second remapped value for the second pixel based on a second initial value for the second pixel, and providing the second remapped value for the second pixel for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hyunchul Kim, Wonjae Choi, Sang Young Youn, Sun-il Chang
  • Patent number: 11994920
    Abstract: A device includes: an array of light emitting elements extending in a first plane, each light emitting element being arranged to emit light; an array of pixel driver elements extending in a second plane beneath the array of pixels, in which each pixel driver element is configured to drive a corresponding light emitting element of the array of light emitting elements; a hole positioned within the array of light emitting elements and the array of pixel driver elements, in which the hole extends from the first plane through the second plane, a first multiple of light emitting elements from the array of light emitting elements in a first region adjacent the hole are arranged to provide a first resolution, and a second multiple of light emitting elements from the array of elements in a second region away from the hole are arranged to provide a second resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sun-il Chang, Sangmoo Choi