Lg Electronics Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Samsung Displayco., Ltd.

Mingyu Kim

Suckchel Yang

Joonkui Ahn

Dongyoun Seo

Seunghee Han

Hanbyul Seo

Munhyeon Kim

Kijun Kim

Dae Won Lee

Hyunwoo Lee

Daewon Ha

Byounghoon Kim

Youngseob Choi

Woohyun Baek

Seyun Kim

Hakseong Kim

Hoi Sik Moon

Dongwook Roh

Hoisik Moon

Hyungwoo Yim

Seon-Bae Kim

Youngsup Kwon

Hee Joon Kim

Juneyoung Lee

Jinwon Jang

Doyoung Choi

Yeonho Park

Byungkyou Min

Youngchai Jung

Sangcheol Park

Sanghyun Lee

Jinwan An

Seungho Park

Jaeho Choi

Byungchul Kim

Kang-Ill Seo

Seungwoo Lee

Hoi-Sik Moon

Jinyoung Park

Taegon Im

Seonghun Kim

Songyi Han

Kwangtaek Woo

Ara Cho

Jae-Seok Choi

Ahron Yang

Gyushik An

Jeongwoon Lee

Wonhyoung Kang

Jintaek Hong

Donghoon Noh

Jae Seob Chung

Hoseong Jeon

Mooserk Park

Jeahwan Go

Seungwan Kim

Jieun Yeon

Heejoon Kim

Hyoungsun Ji

Sihun Jang

Kiseok Kim

Jaemin Oh

Byul Namkoong

An electronic device according to an embodiment may comprise a camera, a display, a memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to, when the instructions are executed, cause the electronic device to receive a first input for enabling a designated setting. The at least one processor may be configured to, when the instructions are executed, cause the electronic device to, in response to the input, recognize, from a screen being displayed through the display, a first area occupied by a first external object and a second area occupied by a second external object, based on an image being obtained via the camera.

Electronic device and method for controlling display of at least one external object among one or more external objects

An inspection system for inspecting a display device including pixels includes a camera for capturing the display device and providing a sensing image signal and an inspection device for receiving the sensing image signal and outputting a compensation signal for compensating for luminance of a defective pixel. The inspection device includes an image detector outputting a sensing input signal corresponding to the sensing image signal, a defect coordinate detector detecting the defective pixel based on the sensing input signal and outputting defect coordinates indicating a position of the defective pixel, an image analyzer analyzing consistency of the defect coordinates based on the sensing image signal and the sensing input signal and outputting final coordinates, and a defect compensation calculator outputting a compensation signal for adjusting luminance of compensation pixels adjacent to the defective pixel from among the pixels based on the final coordinates.

Inspection system for inspecting display device, display device for compensating for defective pixel and defective pixel compensation method

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first sacrificial and first active layer on a substrate; forming a first mask pattern on a portion of the substrate; etching the first sacrificial and first active layer partially using the first mask pattern to expose a portion of a top surface of the substrate; forming a semiconductor layer on the exposed top surface of the substrate; forming sacrificial layers and active layers on the first active and semiconductor layer, the active layers including an uppermost second active layer; forming a second mask pattern on a portion of the second active layer; forming a trench using the second mask pattern, the trench defining a first and second active pattern; and removing the sacrificial layers to form a first and second channel patterns on the first and second active patterns, respectively, wherein the first active pattern includes the semiconductor layer.

Methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device using a mask

A semiconductor device includes an active pattern on a substrate, a plurality of source/drain patterns in a first direction on the active pattern, a first channel structure between a pair of source/drain patterns, a second channel structure between another pair of source/drain patterns, a first gate electrode extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a second gate electrode intersecting the second channel structure and extending in the second direction. The first gate electrode includes a first portion between a bottom surface of the first channel structure and a top surface of the active pattern, and the second gate electrode includes a first portion between a bottom surface of the second channel structure and the top surface of the active pattern. A thickness of the first portion of the second gate electrode is greater than a thickness of the first portion of the first gate electrode.

Semiconductor device

The present disclosure refers to apparatuses and methods for initializing electronic devices. An electronic device according to various embodiments includes a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the memory. The processor is configured to record, in the memory, software binaries received from an external device during a download mode. The processor is further configured to, when the download mode has ended, perform booting in a normal mode using a bootloader based on a determination indicating that a predetermined software binary is present among the software binaries recorded in the memory, and perform booting in a recovery mode using the bootloader based on the determination indicating that the predetermined software binary is absent from among the software binaries recorded in the memory.

Electronic device and method for initializing electronic device

An air conditioning device includes an air purifier, a sensor, a communicator, and a processor. The sensor is configured to measure an air pollution level. The communicator comprises circuitry and configured to communicate with a server. The processor is configured to activate the sensor in a state where the air purifier is not driven, in response to receiving a first signal requesting an air pollution level state information from the server based on a location of a mobile terminal, transmit a second signal indicating that the air conditioning device needs to be driven to the server based on the air pollution level measured by the sensor, and drive the air purifier in response to a driving instruction received from the server.

Air conditioning device and control method thereof

A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device may include an active pattern on a substrate, source/drain patterns on the active pattern, a fence spacer on side surfaces of each of the source/drain patterns, a channel pattern interposed between the source/drain patterns, a gate electrode crossing the channel pattern and extending in a first direction, and a gate spacer on a side surface of the gate electrode. A first thickness of an upper portion of the fence spacer in the first direction may be greater than a second thickness of the gate spacer in a second direction crossing the first direction.

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

A semiconductor device may include a pull-down transistor and a pull-up transistor disposed on a substrate. Each of the pull-down transistor and the pull-up transistor may include an active pattern disposed on the substrate; two source/drain patterns disposed on the active pattern; a channel pattern interposed between the two source/drain patterns, the channel pattern including semiconductor patterns that are disposed in a noncontiguous stack, such that a semiconductor pattern does not contact an adjacent semiconductor pattern; and a gate electrode crossing the channel pattern in a first direction. There may be more or less semiconductor patterns of the pull-down transistor as compared to semiconductor patterns of the pull-up transistor.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate with an active region being provided with a channel pattern, a device isolation layer including a first part defining the active region and a second part surrounding a first portion of the channel pattern, an upper epitaxial pattern disposed on an upper surface of the channel pattern, a gate electrode surrounding a second portion of the channel pattern and extending in a first direction, a gate spacer on the gate electrode, an interlayer dielectric layer on the gate spacer, and an air gap between a bottom surface of the gate electrode and the second part of the device isolation layer. At least a portion of the air gap vertically overlaps the gate electrode. The second portion of the channel pattern is higher than the first portion of the channel pattern.

A test apparatus includes a mura detection filter for detecting a mura area based on a detected image signal and outputting position information of the mura area and a filtered image signal, an image enhancement processor for performing deblurring on the filtered image signal based on the position information and outputting a deblurred image signal, a mura corrector for generating first compensation data for the mura area based on the deblurred image signal, a sampling corrector for generating second compensation data for a non-mura area based on the detected image signal, and a compensator for outputting compensation data based on the first compensation data and the second compensation data.

Apparatus for testing display device and display device for performing mura compensation and mura compensation method

Provided is a spot detection device including an imager configured to capture a display panel displaying a first image of a first grayscale and a second image of a second grayscale different from the first grayscale and generate image data, and a spot detector configured to receive the image data from the imager in order to detect a spot. The image data includes first image data obtained by capturing the first image, second image data obtained by capturing the second image, and a plurality of third image data obtained by capturing portions of the first image.

Spot detection device, spot detection method, and display device

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller, a gate driver and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixels. The pixels are connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The driving controller determines a compensating value of a present data signal based on a previous data signal and the present data signal which are applied to a same data line of the data lines. The gate driver outputs a gate signal to the gate line. The data driver generates a data voltage based on the present data signal and the compensating value and outputs the data voltage to the same data line.

Display apparatus and method of driving display panel using the same

An electronic device includes a housing including a front plate and a back plate opposite the front plate, a touchscreen display exposed through a portion of the front plate and including an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a fingerprint sensor interposed between the display and the back plate and overlapping the display when viewed above the front plate, and a processor operatively connected with the display and the fingerprint sensor.

Electronic device for compensating color of display

A driving controller includes a first compensator and a second compensator. The first compensator is configured to generate first compensation data based on input image data. The second compensator is configured to generate second compensation data based on present frame data of the input image data, previous frame data of the input image data, present frame data of the first compensation data and previous frame data of the first compensation data.

Driving controller, display apparatus having the same and method of driving display panel using the same

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Mingyu Kim