Patents by Inventor Won-Kyu Lee

Won-Kyu 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).

  • Publication number: 20160079338
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display includes: a substrate including a first and a second gate electrode formed over a first and a second region, respectively, a first and a second gate insulator formed on the first and the second gate electrode, respectively, a first and a second semiconductor layer formed on the first and the second gate insulator, respectively, the first semiconductor layer including a first channel region, the second semiconductor layer including a second channel region, an interlayer insulator formed over the substrate and over at least part of the first and second semiconductor layers, a first and a second etching stop layer formed over the first and second channel regions, respectively, and surrounded by the interlayer insulator, and a first and a second source electrode and a first and a second drain electrode contacting the first and the second semiconductor layer, respectively, through the interlayer insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Kyu-Sik Cho, Won-Kyu Lee, Tae-Hoon Yang, Byoung-Kwon Choo, Sang-Ho Moon, Bo-Kyung Choi, Yong-Hwan Park, Joon-Hoo Choi, Min-Chul Shin, Yun-Gyu Lee
  • Publication number: 20160035814
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device includes a switching transistor and a driving transistor. A semiconductor layer is commonly used by the switching and driving transistors. The portion of semiconductor layer corresponding to the driving transistor is curved. A gate insulating layer is located between a channel region and gate electrode of the switching transistor, and between the channel region and the gate electrode of the driving transistor. The gate insulating layer has substantially a same plane shape as the switching gate electrode and the driving gate electrode. An edge of the gate insulating layer and an edge of the switching and driving gate electrodes at least partially overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Guang Hai JIN, Won Kyu LEE
  • Patent number: 9236010
    Abstract: An array test method of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display substrate is provided. The OLED display substrate includes a plurality of pixel circuits. Each pixel circuit includes an anode, a first transistor for transmitting a data signal that controls an amount of light emission of an OLED according to a scan signal, a driving transistor for receiving the data signal, generating a driving current corresponding to the data signal, and transmitting the driving current to the OLED, and a second transistor for diode-connecting a gate electrode and a drain electrode of the driving transistor. The array test method includes: injecting electrons or holes that generate an initialization voltage into the anode by turning on the second transistor; radiating electron beams at the anode; and determining whether or not the driving transistor performs normal operation from an amount of secondary electrons emitted from the anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Beom Choi, Won-Kyu Lee, Jae-Hwan Oh, Young-Jin Chang, Seong-Hyun Jin
  • Patent number: 9219244
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus basically comprises a thin film transistor, an organic light-emitting device and a pad electrode, and provides an improved adhesive force between a pad portion and an electrode and a stable signal supply. A method of manufacturing the organic light-emitting display apparatus comprises mask processes for forming on a curve layer of a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode and a first pad electrode, a gate electrode and a second pad electrode, contact holes and an interlayer insulating layer, source and drain electrodes and a third pad electrode, and a pixel define layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Won-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9209050
    Abstract: A laser crystallization system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the laser crystallization system includes i) a mother substrate including first, second, and third display regions sequentially arranged in a first direction and ii) a stage for supporting the mother substrate and moving in the first direction and in a second direction. The system also includes i) a first laser irradiation unit for irradiating a first laser beam having a width greater than or identical to a width of a side of one of the display regions in the first direction and ii) a second laser irradiation unit spaced apart from the first laser irradiation unit and irradiating a second laser beam having a width greater than or identical to the width of the side in the first direction. Furthermore, the first and second laser beams may correspond to widths of sides of the first and third display regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hwan Oh, Jae-Beom Choi, Won-Kyu Lee, Young-Jin Chang, Seong-Hyun Jin
  • Patent number: 9184417
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) on the substrate and including an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; an organic light emitting device including a pixel electrode that contacts at least one of the source electrode or the drain electrode of the TFT, an interlayer including a light emitting layer, and a counter electrode facing the pixel electrode, the pixel electrode, the interlayer, and the counter electrode being stacked; and a cathode contact part including a first contact layer and a second contact layer, the first contact layer being at a same layer as the active layer and being doped with ion impurities, the second contact layer including a same material as the source electrode and the drain electrode and coupling the first contact layer and the counter electrode to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hwan Oh, Won-Kyu Lee, Young-Jin Chang, Seong-Hyun Jin, Jae-Beom Choi
  • Patent number: 9159866
    Abstract: A photo sensor, a method of manufacturing the photo sensor, and a display apparatus, the photo sensor including a substrate; a light receiving unit on the substrate, the light receiving unit including an amorphous semiconductor material; a first adjacent unit and a second adjacent unit formed as one body with the light receiving unit, the first adjacent unit and the second adjacent unit being separated from each other by the light receiving unit; a first photo sensor electrode electrically connected to the first adjacent unit; and a second photo sensor electrode electrically connected to the second adjacent unit, wherein at least one of the first adjacent unit and the second adjacent unit includes a crystalline semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-Kyu Lee, Jae-Hwan Oh, Seong-Hyun Jin, Young-Jin Chang, Jae-Beom Choi
  • Publication number: 20150270327
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate; a gate wire on the substrate; an interlayer insulating layer covering the gate wire; a data wire on the interlayer insulating layer; a passivation layer on the data wire and the interlayer insulating layer and having a protection opening; a pixel electrode on a first wiring portion of the data wire exposed through the protection opening and the interlayer insulating layer; a pixel definition layer on the passivation layer and having a pixel opening exposing the pixel electrode; an organic emission layer covering the pixel electrode; and a common electrode covering the organic emission layer and the pixel definition layer, wherein the pixel electrode contacting the first wiring portion of the data wire and the interlayer insulating layer has protrusions and depressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Jae Hwan Oh, Hwa Jin Noh, Se Hun Park, Won Kyu Lee, Young-Jin Chang
  • Patent number: 9128957
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus of filtering geographical data. The method may include selecting a map region to be retrieved, receiving a retrieval object and a retrieval condition, outputting a trapezoidal interface, verifying a threshold corresponding to a height of the trapezoidal interface for each position of the map region, filtering the retrieval object satisfying the threshold or more or less in each position of the map region to extract the filtered object, and displaying the filtered object on the map region to output the displayed object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., SNU R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Myoung Su Cho, Jin Wook Seo, Yeong Gil Shin, Won Kyu Lee, Dong Kyun Jeong, Ho Kyung Kim
  • Patent number: 9070904
    Abstract: An OLED display includes a first polysilicon layer pattern on a substrate having a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, and a first capacitor electrode, a gate insulating layer pattern, a second polysilicon layer pattern including a first active layer, a second active layer, and a capacitor polycrystalline dummy layer, a third amorphous silicon layer pattern including first source and drain resistant contact layers on a predetermined region of the first active layer, second source and drain resistant contact layers on a predetermined region of the second active layer, and a capacitor amorphous dummy layer on the capacitor polycrystalline dummy layer, and a data metal layer pattern including first source/drain electrodes, second source/drain electrodes, and a second capacitor electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyu-Sik Cho, Joon-Hoo Choi, Byoung-Kwon Choo, Min-Chul Shin, Tae-Hoon Yang, Won-Kyu Lee, Yun-Gyu Lee, Bo-Kyung Choi, Yong-Hwan Park, Sang-Ho Moon
  • Patent number: 9035215
    Abstract: A laser irradiation apparatus for irradiating a laser beam to a semiconductor layer including a plurality of pixel areas, the apparatus includes a laser generator generating the laser beam, and an optical switching unit time-dividing the laser beam generated from the laser generator and transmitting a plurality of time-divided laser beams to a plurality of optical systems. The apparatus includes a first optical system of the plurality of optical systems that receives a first time-divided laser beam and irradiates a first laser slit beam along a first irradiation direction, and a second optical system of the plurality of optical systems that receives a second time-divided laser beam and irradiates a second laser slit beam along a second irradiation direction that is parallel with the first irradiation direction. The first laser slit beam and the second laser slit beam crystallize partial areas at a same location in the respective pixel areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-Kyu Lee, Jae-Beom Choi, Jae-Hwan Oh, Young-Jin Chang, Seong-Hyun Jin
  • Patent number: 9013094
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus including sub pixels, each of the sub pixels including: first and second electrodes, the second electrode extending over the first electrode; and an intermediate layer disposed between the first and second electrodes, the intermediate layer including an emission layer, wherein a first portion of the first electrode, the second electrode, and the intermediate layer extends within a weak resonance region, the weak resonance region being configured to induce a first resonance of light generated by the emission layer between the first and second electrodes, and a second portion of the first electrode, the second electrode, and the intermediate layer extends within a strong resonance region, the strong resonance region being configured to induce a second resonance of light generated by the emission layer between the first and second electrodes, the second resonance being stronger than the first resonance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeoung-Jin Chang, Jae-Hwan Oh, Seong-Hyun Jin, Won-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9012915
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a buffer layer that is on a substrate and includes nanoparticles including nickel (Ni), a pixel electrode on the buffer layer, an organic emission layer on the pixel electrode, and an opposite electrode on the organic emission layer. A method of manufacturing the organic light-emitting display apparatus is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hwan Oh, Yeoung-Jin Chang, Seong-Hyun Jin, Won-Kyu Lee, Jae-Beom Choi
  • Patent number: 8980663
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-Kyu Lee, Kyu-Sik Cho, Tae-Hoon Yang, Byoung-Kwon Choo, Sang-Ho Moon, Bo-Kyung Choi, Yong-Hwan Park, Joon-Hoo Choi, Min-Chul Shin, Yun-Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 8963153
    Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) and an organic light emitting display device having the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a TFT includes a gate electrode formed on a substrate. A gate insulating layer is formed on the substrate having the gate electrode. An active layer is formed on the gate insulating layer. A source electrode is formed over the active layer. A drain electrode is formed to substantially surround at least three surfaces of the source electrode on the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung-Kwon Choo, Kyu-Sik Cho, Won-Kyu Lee, Yong-Hwan Park, Sang-Ho Moon, Tae-Hoon Yang, Joon-Hoo Choi, Min-Chul Shin, Bo-Kyung Choi, Yun-Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 8927991
    Abstract: An OLED display includes a first polysilicon layer pattern on a substrate having a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, and a first capacitor electrode, a gate insulating layer pattern, a second polysilicon layer pattern including a first active layer, a second active layer, and a capacitor polycrystalline dummy layer, a third amorphous silicon layer pattern including first source and drain resistant contact layers on a predetermined region of the first active layer, second source and drain resistant contact layers on a predetermined region of the second active layer, and a capacitor amorphous dummy layer on the capacitor polycrystalline dummy layer, and a data metal layer pattern including first source/drain electrodes, second source/drain electrodes, and a second capacitor electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyu-Sik Cho, Joon-Hoo Choi, Byoung-Kwon Choo, Min-Chul Shin, Tae-Hoon Yang, Won-Kyu Lee, Yun-Gyu Lee, Bo-Kyung Choi, Yong-Hwan Park, Sang-Ho Moon
  • Patent number: 8928550
    Abstract: A driver chip for controlling a high-resolution display panel is presented. The driver chip is not much larger than a conventional driver chip that is currently used for lower resolution display panels. The driver chip applies data signals to the data lines of the display panel and gate control signals to a gate driver that is formed in the peripheral region of the display panel. The gate driver, which may be made of amorphous silicon TFTs, generates gate signals in response to the gate control signals from the driver chip and applies the gate signals to gate lines. Since the driver chip of the invention controls more gate lines and data lines than a conventional chip of about the same size, the driver chip may be easily adapted for display devices having multiple panels. Where multiple panels are used, the panels may be scanned simultaneously or sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Bae Jung, Won-Kyu Lee, Jin Jeon, Ji-Suk Lim, Min-Kyung Jung, Eung-Sang Lee, Won-Seok Ma
  • Patent number: 8927997
    Abstract: A substrate includes a thin film transistor (TFT) which includes an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; a first insulating layer disposed between the active layer and the gate electrode; a second insulating layer disposed between the gate electrode and the source and drain electrodes; a third insulating layer disposed on the second insulating layer, and including a first region for opening the second insulating layer and a second region for opening one of the source and drain electrodes, the first region and the second region being integrally connected; and a first electrode connected to one of the source and drain electrodes, and disposed so as to cover the first region and the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-Kyu Lee, Young-Jin Chang, Seong-Hyun Jin
  • Patent number: 8901550
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes an active layer of a thin film transistor (TFT), a gate electrode including a transparent conductive material or a metal that on the active layer, a first insulating layer on the substrate, source and drain electrodes electrically connected to the active layer, a second insulating layer between the gate electrode and the source and drain electrodes, a first conductive layer of a transparent conductive material on the first insulating layer, a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer being a metal, a third conductive layer on the second conductive layer, the third conductive layer being made of a same material as the source and drain electrodes, and being connected to the first conductive layer; and a protection layer that includes a transparent conductive oxide, the protection layer being on the third conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se-Hun Park, Won-Kyu Lee, Yeoung-Jin Chang, Jae-Hwan Oh, Seong-Hyun Jin, Jae-Beom Choi
  • Publication number: 20140346457
    Abstract: Provided are an organic light-emitting display apparatus having superior light efficiency and ease of manufacture, as well as a method of manufacturing the same. The organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on a pixel region of the substrate; a first insulating layer that is interposed between the substrate and the pixel electrode and that has a first discontinuous region extending along at least a portion of an edge of the pixel electrode; an intermediate layer that is disposed on the pixel electrode and that includes an emission layer; and an opposite electrode that covers the intermediate layer and at least a portion of the first discontinuous region, so that a shortest distance to the substrate in at least a portion of the first discontinuous region is shorter than a shortest distance between the pixel electrode and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hwan OH, Yeoung-Jin CHANG, Seong-Hyun JIN, Se-Hun PARK, Won-Kyu LEE, Jae-Beom CHOI