Patents by Inventor Sung Woo Lee

Sung Woo Lee 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: 9495924
    Abstract: A three dimensional image display includes a display panel and a liquid crystal lens positioned on the top of the display panel. The liquid crystal lens comprises a lower substrate, an upper substrate, a lens, and an electrode voltage applying IC. The lower substrate includes a first electrode. The upper substrate includes a second electrode. The upper substrate faces the lower substrate. The lens liquid crystal layer is positioned between the lower substrate and the upper substrate. The electrode voltage applying IC is configured to form a plurality of zones on the first electrode of the lower substrate by sequentially applying first voltage and second voltage to the first electrode. The first voltage includes an overshoot voltage level. The second voltage has an inverted polarity of the first voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Woo Lee, Kang-Min Kim, Jeong Min Sung, Hyung Woo Yim, Hyeon Yong Jang, Jin Hwan Kim, Seung Jun Jeong
  • Publication number: 20160315539
    Abstract: In a DC/DC converter, a driving method thereof, and a power supply using the same, the DC/DC converter includes a plurality of power switches connected as a serial string between an input terminal and a ground terminal, a first capacitor connected to at least two power switches of the serial string in parallel, an inductor connected between an intermediate node of the serial string and an output terminal, a second capacitor connected between the output terminal and the ground terminal, and a plurality of drivers configured to generate a switching control signal for each of the plurality of power switches. A voltage having no correlation with a voltage of the input terminal is supplied to a power terminal of each of the plurality of drivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Kwang-chan Lee, Sung-woo Lee, Sang-hee Kang, Jung-wook Heo
  • Patent number: 9472148
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including gate lines extending on a substrate; data lines crossing the gate lines to define a plurality of pixels; a thin film transistor in each pixel; and a liquid crystal capacitor in each pixel region, an electrode of the liquid crystal capacitor is connected to the thin film transistor, wherein the thin film transistors of a (2a?1)th pixel and a (2a)th pixel in a (2b)th pixel column share a (2a)th gate line, and the thin film transistors in a (2a)th pixel and a (2a+1)th pixel in a (2b+1)th pixel column share a (2b+1)th gate line, and wherein each of a and b is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Su-Hong Cho, Sang-Bum Ko, Jun-Yeob Lee, Soo-Ho Kim, Moon-Chul Kim, Sung-Woo Lee, Hyun-Jik Bae
  • Patent number: 9470926
    Abstract: A liquid crystal lens module includes: a first substrate that includes a plurality of lens electrodes and a plurality of bus lines; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The plurality of bus lines include at least two bus lines having different widths, and the plurality of lens electrodes include first electrodes and second electrodes that are electrically insulated from each other A widest bus line of the at least two bus lines is connected to a widest lens electrode of the plurality of lens electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang-Min Kim, Jeong Min Sung, Sung-Woo Lee, Hyung Woo Yim, Seung Jun Jeong
  • Patent number: 9417456
    Abstract: A three dimensional (3D) display device and manufacturing method for the same are provided. The 3D display device includes a 3D display module; a back light module disposed behind the 3D display module; and a main frame. The back light module is installed inside of a rear side of the main frame, and the 3D display module is installed inside of a front side of the main frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Park, Il Joo Kim, Sung Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 9387823
    Abstract: A pedestrian air-bag for a vehicle may include a housing coupled to a lower end surface of a windshield side of a hood of the vehicle and having a cut line formed at an upper portion of a rear surface in the housing, and a hinge part formed at a lower portion, wherein the cut line and the hinge part forms an air-bag door, an air-bag module embedded in the housing, and a thermal damage preventing cover spaced apart from a lower portion of the housing, wherein the thermal damage preventing cover covers a lower surface and a front surface of the housing, and includes a rear end portion supporting the hinge part of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jae Ho Choi, Jae Haeng Yoo, Sung Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 9390684
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image and including gate lines, data lines, and pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines, a data driver configured to drive the data lines, a gate driver configured to drive the gate lines, a lens panel configured to refract light of the image displayed by the display panel, a lens driver configured to drive the lens panel, a lens controller configured to control the lens driver, and a timing controller configured to control the data driver, the gate driver, and the lens driver in response to an image signal and a control signal. The lens controller and the timing controller are mounted on the same control board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Woo Lee, Il-Joo Kim, Jae-Hyun Park, Dong-Ki Lee, Jeesu Park
  • Publication number: 20160185316
    Abstract: An airbag module for protecting an occupant of a vehicle seat. The module includes an inflatable airbag and an inflator. The airbag is stored in the vehicle seat prior to deployment and includes inboard and outboard inflatable chambers separated by a gap at a forward portion of the airbag. The airbag is configured to deploy into a position along side of the vehicle seat and the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: TK Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Pongdet Paul Wipasuramonton, Jonathan Richard Kibat, Sung Woo Lee, Alex Little
  • Publication number: 20160173007
    Abstract: A control method and system of an electrical vacuum pump is provide to resolve generation of peak current when a motor of the electrical vacuum pump initially starts and implement a soft start. The electrical vacuum pump generates vacuum by suctioning air by rotating a pump with a motor. The control method includes starting the motor by supplying a power supply to the motor to switch on the electrical vacuum pump and sensing current applied to the motor using a current sensing circuit. In addition, the method includes determining a target value of motor input voltage set as a value according to the sensed applied current while starting the motor until the sensed applied current reaches a predetermined current and adjusted the motor input voltage applied to the motor to correspond to the target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Min Jae Kang, Sung Woo Lee, Hoon Choi
  • Publication number: 20160086492
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for calculating a reference route of a moving object. The apparatus for calculating a reference route of a moving object includes a region divider configured to divide a region including an origin and a destination of the moving object into a plurality of cells; a data mapper configured to map position data of the moving object to the plurality of cells; a main cell selector configured to select one or more main cells from among the plurality of cells according to number of pieces of the position data that are mapped to the respective plurality of cells; and a reference route calculator configured to form the reference route of the moving object by sequentially connecting the origin, the one or more main cells, and the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungil KIM, Sung Woo LEE, Inhyok CHA
  • Publication number: 20160081922
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oral pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating dry eye syndrome, which comprises rebamipide or a prodrug thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as an active ingredient. The compounds can treat dry eye syndrome via oral route, and can be thus employed safely and conveniently compared to conventional eye drops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Eui Hwan CHO, Sung Ju CHOI, Sung Woo LEE, Hee Jong SHIN, Jong Bae YOON, Ki Seok PARK, Ho Tae NAM
  • Publication number: 20160078967
    Abstract: A power loss test apparatus for a non-volatile memory device includes a test-board including at least one socket into which at least one test target non-volatile memory device is inserted, a micro controller that determines whether to supply power to the test target non-volatile memory device based on current consumption information or operating state information of the test target non-volatile memory device, and a tester that performs a power loss test for the test target non-volatile memory device based on whether the power is supplied to the test target non-volatile memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: Elixir Flash Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-woo Lee
  • Publication number: 20160063434
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for detecting an abnormality early. An apparatus for detecting the abnormality early includes a similar case selector configured to select similar cases associated with a monitored target from among previous case data, a data collector configured to collect status information of the monitored target, an abnormality detector configured to generate a baseline for detecting the abnormality of the monitored target from case data classified as normal among the previous case data and compare the baseline with the collected status information to detect whether the monitored target has the abnormality, and a predictor configured to, when it is detected that the monitored target has the abnormality, compare each of the selected similar cases with the collected status information to select an optimum similar case associated with the monitored target among the similar cases, and to predict a future situation development of the monitored target based on the optimum similar case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungil KIM, Yongro PARK, Gowun JEONG, Yoonheok KIM, Sung Woo LEE, Jewoun RYU
  • Publication number: 20160054631
    Abstract: A variable transparency glass and an apparatus for adjusting a transparency variable glass are provided. The transparency variable glass includes a first transparent plate that has a first electrode part formed on an inner surface thereof and a second transparent plate that has a second electrode part formed on an inner surface thereof. In addition, a variable transmission layer is disposed between the first transparent plate and the second transparent plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Sung Woo Lee, Hoon Choi, Min Jae Kang
  • Publication number: 20160050326
    Abstract: Provided is a system for providing a cloud service for display, the system including: an image forming apparatus configured to generate scan data including scanning a document and assign a display device to which the scan data is to be transmitted through a chat room; a cloud configured to receive the scan data from the image forming apparatus and transmit the scan data to the display device; and the display device, wherein the display device is configured to display the scan data received from the cloud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Sung-woo Lee, Mu-hy Yoon, Hwan-joon Choi, Ki-young Hwang, Adam Just, Dario Traverso, Nehal Dantwala, Vishal Parihar
  • Publication number: 20150312562
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a display panel that displays an image and a switching panel operated in a two-dimensional mode or three-dimensional mode such that the image is perceived as a two-dimensional mode or three-dimensional image on the display panel. The switching panel includes a plurality of unit devices. Each of the unit devices includes a first zone disposed at one side of a center axis of the unit device and a second zone disposed at the other side of the center axis. Each of the first zone and the second zone includes a plurality of electrodes, respectively. The plurality of electrodes do not overlap the center axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Kang-Min KIM, Jeongmin SUNG, Sung Woo LEE, SEUNG JUN JEONG, JINHWAN KIM, HYEONYONG JANG
  • Patent number: 9158899
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal apparatus with a DRM decoding function and a DRM decoding method in a terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus with a DRM decoding function comprises a native unit which is provided with a local file memory for storing DRM media content data and an application program for driving a media device player using an operating system; and a DRM decoding unit which reads the DRM media content data from the local file memory using a URL path for web server, when it is required from the application program to reproduce the DRM media content data, and decodes the read DRM media content data, and provides the decoded DRM media content data to the media device player. Therefore, it is possible to reproduce the DRM media content data in the terminal apparatus without the exclusive DRM decoding module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: INKA ENTWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Sung Min Ahn, Jung Geun Park, Jin Seon Hong, Woon Sang An, Sung Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 9142076
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a medium storage box. The medium storage box according to one aspect comprises: a medium depositing and withdrawing unit through which medium is deposited or withdrawn; a temporary medium stacker for temporarily stacking the medium deposited through the medium depositing and withdrawing unit; a medium storage unit for storing medium for withdrawal; a printing apparatus for printing one of the deposited medium and the medium for withdrawal; and a reversal unit for reversing the deposited medium when it is necessary to reverse the deposited medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: LG CNS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung-Woo Lee
  • Publication number: 20150219910
    Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a display panel configured to display an image; and a liquid crystal lens panel operated in one of a 2D mode or a 3D mode for the image of the display panel to be recognized as a 2D image or a 3D image. The liquid crystal lens panel includes a lower substrate and an upper substrate facing each other, a lower lens electrode formed on a lower substrate, an upper lens electrode formed on the upper substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate. When the liquid crystal lens panel is converted from the 2D mode to the 3D mode, the voltage applied to the upper lens electrode of the liquid crystal lens is applied while being increased in stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: HYEON YONG JANG, KANG-MIN KIM, JEONG MIN SUNG, SUNG WOO LEE, HYUNG WOO YIM
  • Publication number: 20150177528
    Abstract: A three dimensional (3D) display device and manufacturing method for the same are provided. The 3D display device includes a 3D display module; a back light module disposed behind the 3D display module; and a main frame. The back light module is installed inside of a rear side of the main frame, and the 3D display module is installed inside of a front side of the main frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicants: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hyun PARK, Il Joo KIM, Sung Woo LEE