Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Young-jun Yun

Myoung-hoon Jung

Sang-Wook Kim

Chang-seung Lee

David Seo

Jung-woo Kim

Seong-jun Park

Jung Woo Kim

Yung-hee Yvette Lee

Young-hee Lee

Byong-gwon Song

Deuk-seok Chung

Joon-won Bae

The touch sensing apparatus includes a driving unit and a touch sensing unit, a scan region selecting unit, and a control unit. The driving unit and the touch sensing unit arranged at a touch panel are electrically connected to driving electrodes and sensing electrodes, respectively. The scan region selecting unit controls the driving unit and determines a narrowed scan region including a touched location by dividing a touch region of the touch panel into a plurality of scan regions, scanning each of the scan regions, and selecting a scan region including the touched location at least for once. The control unit controls the scan region selecting unit and the driving unit and determines the narrowed scan region including the touched location and sense the touched location by inputting signals in a time-division manner to a plurality of scan lines included in the narrowed scan region.

Touch sensing apparatus including driving electrodes and sensing electrodes provided by single layer and method for sensing touch and touch screen apparatus using the same

A photonic crystal structure includes a nano structure layer including a plurality of nano particles of various sizes, and a photonic crystal layer on the nano structure layer. The plurality of nano particles are spaced apart from each other. The photonic crystal layer has a non-planar surface, and is configured to reflect light of a particular wavelength.

Photonic crystal structure, method of manufacturing the photonic crystal structure, reflective color filter, and display apparatus employing the photonic crystal structure

A display device includes a display panel including at least one electrode, and a panel driving unit configured to drive the display panel. The display device further includes a power storage unit configured to store received power, and a switching unit configured to electrically connect the at least one electrode to one of the panel driving unit and the power storage unit.

Display devices, wireless charging system including display devices, and methods of operating the display devices

An electrowetting display device includes an electrowetting pixel cell and a driving circuit. The electrowetting pixel cell including a polar liquid and a non-polar liquid disposed between a common electrode and a pixel electrode, the pixel electrode configured to receive a fixed voltage and the common electrode configured to receive a variable voltage that varies according to an image signal. The driving circuit configured to control an operation of the electrowetting pixel cell by, providing an image signal to the electrowetting pixel cell at a display interval where the electrowetting pixel cell displays an image, and providing a reset voltage to the electrowetting pixel cell at a reset interval. An absolute value of a difference between the voltage applied to the pixel electrode and the reset voltage is greater than that of a difference between the voltage applied to the pixel electrode and the voltage applied to the common electrode.

Electrowetting display device having improved aperture ratio and method of driving the same

An electrowetting display apparatus includes an electrowetting pixel configured to display an image. The electrowetting pixel includes a polar liquid and a nonpolar liquid arranged between a common electrode and a pixel electrode; and a driving circuit configured to control operations of the electrowetting pixel. The driving circuit includes a memory circuit configured to store an image to be displayed by the electrowetting pixel. The driving circuit is further configured to periodically provide a reset signal to the electrowetting pixel while the electrowetting pixel is displaying the image and provide an image stored in the memory circuit to the electrowetting pixel after the electrowetting pixel cell resets.

Electrowetting display apparatus having low power consumption and method of driving the same

An inverter device including a tunable diode device and a diode device that includes a control terminal connected to an input terminal of the inverter device, an anode terminal connected to a high-level voltage terminal, and a cathode terminal connected to an output terminal of the inverter device, wherein the diode device is configured to turn on or off according to a voltage applied to the control terminal.

Inverter device, NAND device, NOR device, and logic device including the same

A touch sensor using a graphene diode and/or a touch panel including the touch sensor. The touch sensor includes a first sensing electrode configured to sense a touch; a first output line configured to transmit an electrical signal; and a first diode device including a first control terminal connected to the first sensing electrode, a first anode terminal connected to a voltage application unit, and a first cathode terminal connected to the first output line.

Touch sensor and touch panel including the same

A touch screen apparatus including: a touch sensing unit; a memory configured to store sensing information transmitted from the touch sensing unit; and a display unit associated with the memory, the display unit configured to receive and display the sensing information stored in the memory.

Touch screen apparatus

A graphene switching device includes a first electrode and an insulating layer in first and second regions of the semiconductor substrate, respectively, a plurality of metal particles on a surface of the semiconductor substrate between the first and second regions, a graphene layer on the plurality of metal particles and extending on the insulating layer, a second electrode on the graphene layer in the second region and configured to face the insulating layer, a gate insulating layer configured to cover the graphene layer, and a gate electrode on the gate insulating layer. The semiconductor substrate forms an energy barrier between the graphene layer and the first electrode.

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