Patents by Inventor Youngwoo JO
Youngwoo JO 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).
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Publication number: 20240120927Abstract: A phase-locked loop device and its operating method are provided. The phase-locked loop device includes a voltage controlled oscillator configured to generate an output clock signal, a divider configured to divide the output clock signal into first and second phase division signals having a constant phase difference, a sampling phase frequency detector configured to sample a sampling voltage based on the first phase division signal and output any one of the sampling voltage, a first supply voltage, and a second supply voltage based on the second phase division signal, a transconductance circuit configured to output a conversion current based on a hold voltage, and a loop filter configured to generate a voltage control signal based on the conversion current and output the voltage control signal to the voltage controlled oscillator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jusung LEE, Wonsik YU, Youngwoo JO, Wooseok KIM
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Patent number: 11868564Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch controller, a touch sensing system, and a touch display device. Among data communication periods between the touch controller and a touch driving circuit, during the data communication period included in a period in which a system clock signal is not output, a level of a communication control signal is changed a plurality of times, thereby allowing the touch driving circuit to recognize an address start time point. Therefore, it is possible to reduce power consumption of the touch sensing system by reducing a period in which the system clock signal is output and to improve the efficiency of data communication of the touch sensing system by enabling normal data communication in a period in which the system clock signal is not output.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sojung Jung, Youngwoo Jo
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Publication number: 20230229251Abstract: The present embodiments may provide a touch display device including: a display panel in which a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of touch electrodes are disposed; a gate-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of gate lines; a data-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of data lines; and a touch-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of touch electrodes while the plurality of data lines and the plurality of gate lines are driven. In this touch display device, while a touch-driving signal swings with a predetermined amplitude, a data signal and a gate signal may also swing with the predetermined amplitude. According to the present embodiments, it is possible to enable high-speed image display and high-speed touch sensing, to perform a display operation and a touch operation simultaneously, and to display an image normally without any image change.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: HongJu Lee, HyeongWon Kang, Youngwoo Jo
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Publication number: 20230168773Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch controller, a touch sensing system, and a touch display device. Among data communication periods between the touch controller and a touch driving circuit, during the data communication period included in a period in which a system clock signal is not output, a level of a communication control signal is changed a plurality of times, thereby allowing the touch driving circuit to recognize an address start time point. Therefore, it is possible to reduce power consumption of the touch sensing system by reducing a period in which the system clock signal is output and to improve the efficiency of data communication of the touch sensing system by enabling normal data communication in a period in which the system clock signal is not output.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Sojung Jung, Youngwoo Jo
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Patent number: 11650691Abstract: A touch driving circuit and a touch display device are disclosed. A plurality of channel switches for driving touch electrodes disposed in areas disposed symmetrically to each other may be simultaneously turned on to perform touch sensing in a state in which a plurality of touch lines electrically connected to the plurality of channel switches are short-circuited to each other. Accordingly, touch sensing may be performed using touch data in which a load deviation due to the touch lines according to areas in which the touch electrodes are disposed is reduced, thereby improving the performance of the touch sensing.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sojung Jung, Youngwoo Jo
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Patent number: 11620010Abstract: The present embodiments may provide a touch display device including: a display panel in which a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of touch electrodes are disposed; a gate-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of gate lines; a data-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of data lines; and a touch-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of touch electrodes while the plurality of data lines and the plurality of gate lines are driven. In this touch display device, while a touch-driving signal swings with a predetermined amplitude, a data signal and a gate signal may also swing with the predetermined amplitude. According to the present embodiments, it is possible to enable high-speed image display and high-speed touch sensing, to perform a display operation and a touch operation simultaneously, and to display an image normally without any image change.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: HongJu Lee, HyeongWon Kang, Youngwoo Jo
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Patent number: 11614827Abstract: Discussed is a touch display device, including a display panel on which a touch screen panel including a plurality of touch electrodes is embedded, and a touch control unit configured to generate a pen detection signal corresponding to a pen driving signal of a stylus from a touch sensing signal transmitted from the display panel, and generate a touch driving signal synchronized with the pen driving signal of the stylus by using the pen detection signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: HongJu Lee, Youngwoo Jo, HyunWoo Jang
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Patent number: 11526247Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device, a touch circuit and a touch driving method thereof, and more particularly, a touch display device, a touch circuit and a touch driving method thereof enable to reduce effectively a ghost phenomenon in touch electrode groups by dividing a plurality of touch electrodes into a plurality of touch electrode groups with same patterns. The touch display device may include a display panel including a touch electrode group in which a plurality of long touch electrodes with long length and a plurality of short touch electrodes with short length in a first direction are alternately arranged in a second direction; and a touch circuit sequentially performing a self-capacitance sensing operation and a mutual-capacitance sensing operation for the touch electrode group.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: HoonBae Kim, HyunWoo Jang, KiYong Kim, JaeKyu Park, Youngwoo Jo, SunChul Kim, SunYeop Kim, Seongkyu Kang
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Patent number: 11360620Abstract: A touch display device includes: a touch panel including N touch electrodes; a sensor sensing unit block including M sensor sensing units and to sense two or more touch electrodes among the N touch electrodes; a front multiplexer to select two or more touch electrodes from among the N touch electrodes and connect the selected touch electrodes to the sensor sensing unit block. The front multiplexer is configured to select M touch electrodes, which are disposed in a sensing active region corresponding to a first sensing period, from among the N touch electrodes, and to match and connect the M touch electrodes to the M sensor sensing units, wherein M is greater than or equal to 2, and N is greater than M. The M sensor sensing units are configured to simultaneously sense the M touch electrodes disposed in the sensing active region during the first sensing period.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: KiYong Kim, HyeongWon Kang, Youngwoo Jo, HongJu Lee
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Patent number: 11307698Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to touch display devices, driving circuits, and driving methods, and more specifically, to a touch display device, a driving circuit, and a driving method for enabling the functionality of a micro control unit to be minimized and power consumption to be reduced by allowing one or more combined integrated circuits to generate a touch sensing control signal and provide the generated signal to a plurality of combined integrated circuits. Further, according to embodiments of the present disclosure, touch display devices, driving circuits, and driving methods are provided for enabling power consumption of a touch power integrated circuit to be reduced by using a touch sensing control signal generated by one or more combined integrated circuits as a load-free driving signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youngwoo Jo, HyeongWon Kang
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Publication number: 20220057909Abstract: Discussed is a touch display device, including a display panel on which a touch screen panel including a plurality of touch electrodes is embedded, and a touch control unit configured to generate a pen detection signal corresponding to a pen driving signal of a stylus from a touch sensing signal transmitted from the display panel, and generate a touch driving signal synchronized with the pen driving signal of the stylus by using the pen detection signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: HongJu LEE, Youngwoo JO, HyunWoo JANG
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Publication number: 20220027012Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device, a touch circuit and a touch driving method thereof, and more particularly, a touch display device, a touch circuit and a touch driving method thereof enable to reduce effectively a ghost phenomenon in touch electrode groups by dividing a plurality of touch electrodes into a plurality of touch electrode groups with same patterns. The touch display device may include a display panel including a touch electrode group in which a plurality of long touch electrodes with long length and a plurality of short touch electrodes with short length in a first direction are alternately arranged in a second direction; and a touch circuit sequentially performing a self-capacitance sensing operation and a mutual-capacitance sensing operation for the touch electrode group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: HoonBae KIM, HyunWoo JANG, KiYong KIM, JaeKyu PARK, Youngwoo JO, SunChul KIM, SunYeop KIM, Seongkyu KANG
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Patent number: 11194419Abstract: A touch sensor display device and an interface method thereof are provided. The touch sensor display device comprises a display panel in which a touch panel, gate lines, data lines, sensing lines, and subpixels are disposed; a gate driver circuit drives the gate lines; a data driver circuit drives the data lines; a touchscreen driver circuit drives the sensing lines, and includes a sleep module which controls switching to a sleep mode, and a wake-up module which performs a wake-up function to cancel and return to a normal state, and transmitting a sleep mode signal pattern or a wake-up signal pattern to the micro control unit; and a micro control unit determining whether a touch is detected, by the touchscreen driver circuit. Accordingly, power consumption is reduced in the display device. A mode change is performed by a driver circuit to enable rapid mode changes while reducing power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: JuneGun Chung, Youngwoo Jo
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Patent number: 11163398Abstract: Provided are a touch display device and a touch driving method thereof. Touch electrodes are grouped into a touch sensing block and non-touch blocks. The touch electrodes in the touch sensing block and the touch electrodes in the non-touch blocks are sensed at different sensing ratios. Power consumption is efficiently managed and sensitivity in touch sensing is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: HyunWoo Jang, JuneGun Chung, Youngwoo Jo, HongJu Lee
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Publication number: 20210318771Abstract: The present embodiments may provide a touch display device including: a display panel in which a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of touch electrodes are disposed; a gate-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of gate lines; a data-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of data lines; and a touch-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of touch electrodes while the plurality of data lines and the plurality of gate lines are driven. In this touch display device, while a touch-driving signal swings with a predetermined amplitude, a data signal and a gate signal may also swing with the predetermined amplitude. According to the present embodiments, it is possible to enable high-speed image display and high-speed touch sensing, to perform a display operation and a touch operation simultaneously, and to display an image normally without any image change.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: HongJu Lee, HyeongWon Kang, Youngwoo Jo
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Patent number: 11068094Abstract: The present embodiments may provide a touch display device including: a display panel in which a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of touch electrodes are disposed; a gate-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of gate lines; a data-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of data lines; and a touch-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of touch electrodes while the plurality of data lines and the plurality of gate lines are driven. In this touch display device, while a touch-driving signal swings with a predetermined amplitude, a data signal and a gate signal may also swing with the predetermined amplitude. According to the present embodiments, it is possible to enable high-speed image display and high-speed touch sensing, to perform a display operation and a touch operation simultaneously, and to display an image normally without any image change.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: HongJu Lee, HyeongWon Kang, Youngwoo Jo
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Publication number: 20210200413Abstract: Provided are a touch display device and a touch driving method thereof. Touch electrodes are grouped into a touch sensing block and non-touch blocks. The touch electrodes in the touch sensing block and the touch electrodes in the non-touch blocks are sensed at different sensing ratios. Power consumption is efficiently managed and sensitivity in touch sensing is maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: HyunWoo JANG, JuneGun CHUNG, Youngwoo JO, HongJu LEE
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Publication number: 20210191555Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to touch display devices, driving circuits, and driving methods, and more specifically, to a touch display device, a driving circuit, and a driving method for enabling the functionality of a micro control unit to be minimized and power consumption to be reduced by allowing one or more combined integrated circuits to generate a touch sensing control signal and provide the generated signal to a plurality of combined integrated circuits. Further, according to embodiments of the present disclosure, touch display devices, driving circuits, and driving methods are provided for enabling power consumption of a touch power integrated circuit to be reduced by using a touch sensing control signal generated by one or more combined integrated circuits as a load-free driving signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Youngwoo JO, HyeongWon KANG
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Patent number: 11036331Abstract: A touch display device accurately distinguishes a touch input performed using a finger and a touch input performed using a pen, such as a stylus, significantly reduce a touch sensing time, simultaneously perform a display operation and a touch sensing operation, and operate in a power saving manner. Touch sensing does not restrict an image display time of a display panel. Touch inputs are sensed without degradation in touch performance, which would otherwise be caused by parasitic capacitance occurring in electrodes within the display panel, such as data lines or gate lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: HoonBae Kim, SunYeop Kim, SungHoon Lee, SeungMok Shin, SungChul Kim, Youngwoo Jo, Seongkyu Kang, HongJu Lee
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Patent number: 10955951Abstract: A touch display device, a common driving circuit, and a driving method are discussed. The touch display device can include a common driving circuit configured to drive a plurality of common electrodes used for display driving and touch driving, wherein the common driving circuit can include a common signal stabilization amplifier configured to control the average of a first input signal and a second input signal, which are respectively received from a first common electrode and a second common electrode, to correspond to a reference common signal and to output a first control input signal and a second control input signal; and a differential amplifier configured to output a differential sensing signal that is proportional to the difference between the first control input signal and the second control input signal. Accordingly, the impact of display driving and touch driving on each other when simultaneously performing the display driving and the touch driving can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: HongJu Lee, HyeongWon Kang, Youngwoo Jo