Patents by Inventor Young Min Park

Young Min Park 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: 9995962
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image using a light and a backlight unit generating the light, providing the light to the display panel and including a plurality of light source units generating the light and a plurality of light source substrates arranged in a first direction and disposed on the plurality of light source substrates where the plurality of light source substrates have a zigzag shape, and the plurality of light source units are disposed at predetermined areas of bending portions of the zigzag shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-min Park, Sangwon Lee, Younghye Son, Jiwon Lee
  • Patent number: 9983344
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a backlight unit which is disposed below the display panel, provides light to the display panel, and includes a light guide member including a light emission surface, a reflection surface, and a plurality of side surfaces which connect the light emission surface to the reflection surface, where the plurality of side surfaces includes a first side surface which receives light and a second side surface facing the first side surface in a first direction, a light source which provides the light to the first side surface, an optical path adjustment member disposed on the light guide member and including a flat portion, a plurality of protruding portions protruding from the flat portion in a direction of the light guide member, and a light blocking layer disposed on the plurality of protruding portions, and a prism sheet disposed on the flat portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-young Song, Eunju Nam, Young-min Park
  • Patent number: 9927570
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display having a display panel including first and second display regions that are different from each other, a light source supplying light to the display panel, and a light guide plate having an area which is divided into a first region corresponding to the first display region and a second region corresponding to the second display region, the light guide plate allowing light incident from the light source to progress toward, wherein each of the first and second regions includes a light incident surface through which the light is incident, a light emitting surface through which the light successively incident from the light incident surface emits, and a rear surface opposed to the light emitting surface. The light emitting surface of the first region includes a plurality of first optical patterns refracting the light emitted by the light source to prevent light leakage from the first region onto the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Min Park, Sangwon Lee, Younghye Son
  • Publication number: 20180048230
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a load device and a power management integrated circuit. The power management integrated circuit is configured to calculate a load power value and provide the load power value to the load device in response to a request from the load device. The power management integrated circuit includes a plurality of regulators and a controller. Each of the plurality of regulators includes a current meter for measuring a load current value to be provided to the load device, and the controller is configured to calculate the load power value by using the load current value measured by the current meter and a load voltage value provided from each of the plurality of regulators to the load device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: YOUNG MIN PARK, YOUNG HOON LEE, YUS KO, HWA YEAL YU, MIN HO CHOI
  • Patent number: 9880339
    Abstract: A display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel disposed to be spaced apart from the first display panel, a first light guide plate which is under the first display panel and provides light thereto, a second light guide plate which is under the second display panel and provides light thereto, a light source unit which is commonly disposed under the first and second light guide plates and generates and provides the light to the first and second light guide plates, and a reflective member which is disposed on the light source unit and is commonly disposed on the first and second light guide plates, the reflective member defining a first curved surface which reflects the light to the first light guide plate and a second curved surface which reflects the light to the second light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-min Park, Luly Lee, Eunju Nam, Min-young Song
  • Patent number: 9823508
    Abstract: A display device including a bottom chassis including a bent portion, a light module including a light source on the bent portion, a curved surface display panel on the bottom chassis and on the light module, and a reflector between the curved surface display panel and the bottom chassis, wherein a height between end portions of the bent portion and bottom chassis is greater than a height between central portions of the bent portion and bottom chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eui Jeong Kang, Myung Seok Kwon, So Jeong Na, Young Min Park, Jung Hyun Yang
  • Publication number: 20170322361
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, a bottom member including a bottom part facing the display area, a side part extending from the bottom part toward the display panel, and a support part extending from the side part to face a portion of the display area and the non-display area, a plurality of light sources on the bottom part to the display light, and a light guide member between the support part of the bottom member and the display panel to guide the light incident from the plurality of light sources toward the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Young-min PARK, Kwang-wook CHOI, Eunju NAM, Min-young SONG
  • Publication number: 20170322366
    Abstract: An optical member includes: a light guide part having a first refractive index, where a first area and a second area are sequentially defined on an upper surface of the light guide part in a first direction from a side surface of the light guide part; and a first pattern part disposed on the upper surface of the light guide part, having a second refractive index smaller than a first refractive index of the light guide part, where the first pattern part reflects a portion of light incident from the light guide part. A first area ratio of an overlapping portion of the first pattern part with the first area to the first area is greater than a second area ratio of an overlapping portion of the first pattern part with the second area to the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Young-Min PARK, Yongkyu KANG, Eunju NAM, Min-Young SONG
  • Patent number: 9810476
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a refrigerator of which door is opened without interference by a structure positioned next to a side of the refrigerator. Since a main body and the door of the refrigerator are provided with hinge units, while the door is opening, the hinge units rotate in a direction in which the door rotates while protruding, and thus the structure positioned next to the side of the refrigerator is not positioned in a radius of rotation of the door, and the door may rotate without interference. In addition, hinge covers which move in conjunction with the movement of the hinge units are provided at one sides of the hinge units. When the hinge units protrude due to the opening of the door, since protrusions of the hinge units are provided not to be exposed by one ends of the hinge covers sliding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Soo Kim, Jong-Hyub Lee, Seo Jin Park, Young Min Park
  • Patent number: 9810833
    Abstract: A display device includes a curved display panel and a backlight unit. The backlight unit includes a light guide film and a light source unit. The light guide film defines: a light emission part thereof facing the display panel, a folding part thereof extending from the light emission part to be folded in a folded state of the light guide film, and a light incident part thereof extending from the folding part to face the display panel with the light emission part therebetween, The light incident part is extended at a first end thereof from the folding part and defines a light incident surface of the light guide film at a second end of the light incident part opposite to the first end thereof. The light source unit is overlapped with the light emission part and face the light incident surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Luly Lee, Sojeong La, Young-min Park, Donghyeon Lee, Jaesang Lee
  • Patent number: 9807360
    Abstract: A method of displaying information on a terminal, the method including: receiving a message from another terminal during reproduction of content; assigning a part of a screen of the terminal for displaying information related to the message based on a priority order of the message; and displaying the information related to the message on the assigned part of the screen during the reproduction of the content which is being displayed on the rest of the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-min Park, Keum-yong Oh, Jun-eok Ahn, Da-na Jung
  • Patent number: 9798186
    Abstract: A backlight unit according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes a driving substrate and a plurality of first clusters and a plurality of second clusters arranged in rows and columns on the driving substrate, wherein the first clusters and the second clusters are alternately arranged in each row on the driving substrate, wherein at least one of the first clusters and at least one of the second clusters are repeatedly disposed in each column on the driving substrate, wherein each of the first clusters and each of the second clusters includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), the first and second clusters having structures inverted to each other, wherein each of LEDs that are most adjacent to a row directional edge of the driving substrate, among the LEDs of the first and second clusters, is connected in parallel to a resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiwon Lee, Sangwon Lee, Young-Min Park
  • Publication number: 20170257106
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus which comprises: a time-to-digital converter (TDC) to receive a reference clock and a feedback clock, wherein the TDC is to generate a digital output code representing a time difference between the reference clock and the feedback clock; a circuitry to apply a digital code to an output of the TDC; and a node to receive the digital output code from the TDC and the digital code from the circuitry, wherein the circuitry is to monitor the digital output code and to control the TDC according to at least the monitored digital output code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Young Min Park, Mark Elzinga
  • Patent number: 9754522
    Abstract: A display device includes a curvature-variable display panel including a plurality of pixels; a controller configured to correct and output an image signal supplied from the outside according to a radius of curvature of the display panel; a data driver configured to supply a data signal corresponding to the corrected image signal to a data line connected to the pixel; and a scan driver configured to supply a scan signal synchronized with the data signal to a scan line connected to the pixel. The controller may include a curvature detector configured to detect the radius of curvature of the display panel and a lookup table generator configured to generate a correction lookup table according to the radius of curvature of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Min Park, Sang Ho Hwang, Ju Hee Song
  • Publication number: 20170242183
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a backlight unit which is disposed below the display panel, provides light to the display panel, and includes a light guide member including a light emission surface, a reflection surface, and a plurality of side surfaces which connect the light emission surface to the reflection surface, where the plurality of side surfaces includes a first side surface which receives light and a second side surface facing the first side surface in a first direction, a light source which provides the light to the first side surface, an optical path adjustment member disposed on the light guide member and including a flat portion, a plurality of protruding portions protruding from the flat portion in a direction of the light guide member, and a light blocking layer disposed on the plurality of protruding portions, and a prism sheet disposed on the flat portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Min-young SONG, Eunju NAM, Young-min PARK
  • Patent number: 9740042
    Abstract: A lens for a backlight of a display device, includes a lower surface, a groove portion defined recessed from the lower surface and comprising a curved surface; and an upper surface comprising an outer edge and a center, in a plan view, of which a distance from the lower surface decreases in a direction from the outer edge to the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Eun Nam, Young-Min Park, Seok Hyun Nam
  • Patent number: 9733423
    Abstract: A backlight assembly includes a light source, a circuit board on which the light source is disposed, a light guide plate in which light emitted from the light source is incident on one surface and the incident light is emitted to another surface, a bottom chassis configured to accommodate the light guide plate, and a fixing frame coupled to the bottom chassis and configured to fix the circuit board. The fixing frame includes a first fixing frame on which the circuit board is disposed and a second fixing frame separably coupled to the first fixing frame and disposed on a bottom surface of the bottom chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Chae, Young Min Park, Myoung Seok Son
  • Patent number: D807413
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-Soo Kim, Seok-Woo Kim, Young-Min Park, Cheol-Woong Seo, Ki-Sang Yoon, Se-Lim Yoon, Sang-Hyun Lee, Sun-Min Lee, Seon-Ju Lee, Jun-Kyo Lee
  • Patent number: D816736
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-Soo Kim, Seok-Woo Kim, Young-Min Park, Cheol-Woong Seo, Ki-Sang Yoon, Se-Lim Yoon, Sang-Hyun Lee, Sun-Min Lee, Seon-Ju Lee, Jun-Kyo Lee
  • Patent number: D821113
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-Soo Kim, Seok-Woo Kim, Young-Min Park, Cheol-Woong Seo, Ki-Sang Yoon, Se-Lim Yoon, Sang-Hyun Lee, Sun-Min Lee, Seon-Ju Lee, Jun-Kyo Lee