Patents Represented by Attorney NSIP Law
  • Patent number: 8351314
    Abstract: Provided are an optical disc having a plurality of recording layers, and a method and apparatus for recording data thereon. The optical disc has a plurality of recording layers, each recording layer including: a data area; a connecting area; and a remaining area. The data, connecting, and remaining areas are respectively disposed in a direction from an inner circumference of the optical disc to an outer circumference. An outer boundary of each of the data areas is determined according to an amount of data to be recorded. Locations of the connecting areas and the remaining areas are determined by a recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to the determination of the outer boundary of each of the data areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-geun Lee, Wook-yeon Hwang
  • Patent number: 8352580
    Abstract: A server for a mobile web service and a method for providing a web service are provided. The wired server stores an IP address of at least one mobile web server. When a request for access to a mobile web server is received, the wired server delivers the access request to the mobile web server or provides a service in place of the mobile web server, using a URL included in the access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-won Lee, Joon-sung Hong
  • Patent number: 8344562
    Abstract: A fan motor apparatus for a vacuum cleaner is provided. The fan motor apparatus may include a fan motor, an outer casing surrounding at least a part of the fan motor, wherein the outer casing includes a discharge portion having a discharge port; and, a noise-absorbent member is supported by the discharge port such that the port is closed, wherein the noise-absorbent member changes its shape to form a leakage space when internal exhaust pressure of the fan motor exceeds a predetermined degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tak-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 8339975
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for controlling interference. The apparatus may receive interference information about at least one subchannel which is allocated to at least one node in an OFDMA system. The apparatus may create an interference list using the interference information. The apparatus may report the interference list to a radio network controller (RNC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mohamed Rashad Salem, Abdulkareem Adinoiyi, Mahmudur Rahman, Halim Yanikomeroglu, David Falconer, Young-Doo Kim
  • Patent number: 8339370
    Abstract: A display device and method of sensing an input point using magnetic fluid, the display device including: a touch panel part to receive a user input through a touch at an input point and to calculate a coordinate value of the input point; an electromagnet arrangement part comprising a plurality of electromagnets to generate a magnetic force on one or more electromagnets in a portion corresponding to the coordinate value; and a magnetic fluid part to obtain magnetism at the portion corresponding to the coordinate vale and to project in accordance with the generated magnetic force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Jin Yun, Sang-Bae Lee, Geun-Sik Lim
  • Patent number: 8340836
    Abstract: A method for receiving at least one of advisory information and vehicle control information in a vehicle-mounted system, comprising: receiving at least one of advisory information and vehicle control information from a transmitting unit using a receiving unit; determining whether the at least one of the advisory information and the vehicle control information is directed to the receiving unit; and if the at least one of the advisory information and the vehicle control information is directed to the receiving unit, outputting the at least one of the advisory information and the vehicle control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lance G. Taylor
  • Patent number: 8341526
    Abstract: A method of reproducing one interactive graphics stream among one or more interactive graphics streams from an information storage medium, via a reproduction apparatus providing a visual display of interactive graphics, including obtaining attribute information in a player status register in the reproducing apparatus, and reading and reproducing one of the interactive graphics streams corresponding to the obtained attribute information among one or more interactive graphics streams from the information storage medium, the one interactive graphics stream being used to control reproduction of audio-visual data and being reproduced with the audio-visual data. With the method, text information written in a variety of languages and data shared by those languages are multiplexed and stored in one menu stream such that data is not redundantly stored and less storage space is wasted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-wook Park, Seong-jin Moon
  • Patent number: 8340246
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus and method for reducing X-ray scattering are provided. The X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray source, a collimator, a detector, and a controller. The X-ray source emits X-rays, the collimator collimates the X-rays into an X-ray beam, and the detector may include a two-dimensional array of pixels. The controller controls the collimator such that the X-ray beam scans a subject while moving over time. In addition, the controller operates the detector to only operate pixels at an exposure area of the detector where the X-ray beam arrives without scattering such that photocharges generated due to the X-ray exposure can be accumulated and stored in the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Goo Kang, Seong-Deok Lee, Young-Hun Sung, Jong-Ha Lee, Sung-Su Kim, Seok-Min Han
  • Patent number: 8341293
    Abstract: A peer-to-peer (P2P) network system and a method of operating the P2P network system based on region are provided. If an edge peer storing a resource information list of a super peer migrates to a different super peer and is registered and connected with the different super peer, the edge peer transfers the resource information list to the different super peer to share the resource information list. Resources may be searched based on a region information list into which resource information lists of adjacent super peers are integrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Jae-min Ahn, Ji-yon Han, Jeonghwa Song, Uram H. Yoon, Keon-il Jeong, Eo-hyung Lee, Kyung-lang Park, Shin-dug Kim
  • Patent number: 8334620
    Abstract: A load impedance decision device, a wireless power transmission device, and a wireless power transmission method are provided. At least one of a distance and an angle between two resonators may be measured. A load impedance may be determined based on at least one of the measured distance and the measured angle. When the distance between the two resonators changes, a high power transfer efficiency may be maintained without using a separate matching circuit. Where the load impedance is determined, a test power may be transmitted. Depending on a power transfer efficiency of the test power, the load impedance may be controlled and power may be wirelessly transmitted from the source resonator to the target resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Seok Park, Sang Wook Kwon, Young-tack Hong
  • Patent number: 8335511
    Abstract: An ad-hoc network and routing method that takes account of mobility are provided. The ad-hoc network includes at least one node, which calculates a probability that a neighbor node is present in a transmission range of the node, generates a message containing the calculated probability, and transmits the message to the neighbor node. The at least one node may also update the message with a lower probability of the calculated probability and a probability contained in the message, and transmit the updated message to the neighbor node. The node may also determine as a route a path along which a message is transmitted from the message containing the highest probability among probabilities contained in messages that are received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Shubhranshu Singh, Yong-sung Roh, Jae-hoon Kim, Kyung-lim Kang, Young-gon Choi, Jung-ho Kim, Brian L. Mark
  • Patent number: 8335207
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for tracking link mobility between two mobile nodes. Each node estimates a link mobility state of a link between itself and each of its neighbor nodes, accumulates successively the link mobility states, estimates link mobility parameters using the successively estimated link mobility states, and predicts a link availability probability using the link mobility parameters. The link mobility tracking can be applied to various routing protocols so as to implement mobility aware routing which enhance the routing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Shubhranshu Singh, Brian Mark, Vamit Suri, Yong-Sung Roh, Young-Gon Choi
  • Patent number: 8335505
    Abstract: A mobile station and method for neighbor discovery are provided. The mobile station comprises a mapping table storing a connection identifier (CID) prefix and a neighbor identifier, a controller generating a CID with respect to a message that will be transmitted by referring to the mapping table, and a message transmitter transmitting, by using the CID, the message to a base station connected to the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youn-Hee Han, Jin-Hyeock Choi, Hee-Jin Jang
  • Patent number: 8336041
    Abstract: A compiler allocates an unroll_group_number conferred based on a sequence in which a loop body is replicated by loop unrolling to each loop body during loop unrolling based on the optimized number of loop unrolling. The allocated unroll_group_number is added to each instruction included in each loop body. A priority of an instruction is adjusted based on the allocated unroll_group_number during instruction scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byung-chang Cha
  • Patent number: 8332685
    Abstract: A method of determining whether a defect exists on an information storage medium is provided along with a recording/reproducing apparatus using the same. Such a method comprises: seeking a defect entry whose state information indicates that a defect block or a replacement block has been re-initialized without certification from a defect list for managing an information storage medium and including state information of the defect block and state information of the replacement block, wherein the medium includes a spare area for recording the replacement block to replace the defect block occurring in a user data area on the medium; and certifying the defect block or the replacement block registered in the sought defect entry. As a result, defect information can be effectively rearranged for quick re-initialization without certification in order to improve the performance of a drive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-hee Hwang, Jung-wan Ko, Hyo-lin Sung
  • Patent number: 8331762
    Abstract: An information storage medium storing subtitle text-based information, and a method and apparatus utilizing same, process a subtitle. The information storage medium includes: dialog information which contains script text information of the subtitle and information specifying an output type of the script text; and presentation information which contains style information used to convert the script text into a bitmap format through rendering. With this structure, the amount of data required for a subtitle and the amount of data that should be processed when a subtitle is output may be greatly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Man-Seok Kang, Seong-Jin Moon, Kil-soo Jung, Sung-wook Park, Hyun-kwon Chung
  • Patent number: 8331295
    Abstract: A base station and a mobile station for processing wireless communication with each other, and a method for controlling the same are provided. The method for controlling a base station which performs radio communication with a mobile station includes starting radio communication via at least one arbitrary mobile station and a predetermined cellular channel; receiving Channel Quality Indication (CQI) information from the mobile station; determining whether a radio communication anomaly occurs between a specific mobile station from among the at least one arbitrary mobile station and the base station by using the received CQI information; and when determining that the radio communication anomaly occurs with the specific mobile station, controlling to interrupt the radio communication via the predetermined cellular channel and perform radio communication via the specific mobile station and either a shared channel or an open channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Ho Choi, Kyung Hun Jang, Young Soo Kim, Tae In Hyon, In Sun Lee, Hyo Sun Hwang
  • Patent number: 8331489
    Abstract: A method of generating a codebook for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is provided. The codebook generation method includes: assigning a single-polarized precoding matrix to diagonal blocks among a plurality of blocks arranged in a block diagonal format in which a number of diagonal blocks corresponds to a number of polarization directions of transmitting antennas; and assigning a zero matrix to remaining blocks excluding the diagonal blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bruno Clerckx, Yongxing Zhou, Goo Chul Chung
  • Patent number: RE43865
    Abstract: A dehumidifying element includes a super absorbing polymer (SAP), and a hygroscopic base, thereby maintaining hygroscopic characteristics regardless of aging and a high humidity absorbing rate and needing a smaller amount of energy for regeneration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Stephan Faust, Guido Falk, Dae-Young Lee
  • Patent number: D673992
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Chan Kwon, Jun-Won Bae, Jae-Hwa Moon