Patents Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11979996
    Abstract: A memory device and an electronic device is provided. The memory device may include a memory module including a module board and a memory connector located on one side of the module board, a first enclosure placed above the memory module and a second enclosure placed below the memory module, wherein the first enclosure includes a first main cover which covers upper faces of the module board and the memory connector, at least one clamping hole which penetrates the main cover at a position overlapping the memory connector, an inter-device fastening pillar protruding downward from a lower face of the first main cover, and a coupling hole which is located inside the inter-device fastening pillar on a plane and penetrates the inter-device fastening pillar and the main cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuf Cinar, Jae Hong Park, Han Hong Lee, Seon Gyun Baek, Won-Gi Hong
  • Patent number: 11974834
    Abstract: An apparatus for estimating bio-information may include: a processor configured to measure a current time interval between a plurality of element waveforms of the pulse wave signal, determine whether a current measurement posture of the user corresponds to a reference posture based on the current time interval of the plurality of element waveforms, and estimate the bio-information based on a determination of whether the current measurement posture corresponds to the reference posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ui Kun Kwon, Chang Soon Park, Seung Keun Yoon, Dae Geun Jang
  • Patent number: 11977312
    Abstract: Provided is an optical modulator including a substrate, and a plurality of meta units provided on the substrate and spaced apart from each other, wherein at least one of the plurality of meta units includes a metal layer provided on the substrate, a dielectric layer provided an upper surface and side surfaces of the metal layer, and an antenna provided on an upper surface of the dielectric layer, the antenna including phase change material, wherein a refractive index of the phase change material changes based on a voltage applied to the metal layer to modulate incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Junghyun Park, Mark L. Brongersma, Yifei Wang
  • Patent number: 11975971
    Abstract: A graphene manufacturing apparatus includes a reaction chamber a substrate supporter configured to structurally support a substrate inside the reaction chamber; a plasma generator configured to generate a plasma inside the reaction chamber; a first gas supply configured to supply an inert gas into the reaction chamber at a first height from an upper surface of the substrate supporter in a height direction of the reaction chamber; a second gas supply configured to supply a carbon source into the reaction chamber at a second height from the upper surface of the substrate supporter in the height direction of the reaction chamber; and a third gas supply configured to supply a reducing gas into the reaction chamber, wherein the first to third gas supply units are disposed at different heights at a third height from the upper surface of the substrate supporter in the height direction of the reaction chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Kyung-Eun Byun, Hyeonjin Shin, Eunkyu Lee, Changseok Lee
  • Patent number: 11977329
    Abstract: A photosensitive composition including a quantum dot dispersion, a reactive compound having at least two thiol groups, a photopolymerizable monomer having a carbon-carbon double bond, and a photoinitiator, wherein the quantum dot dispersion includes a carboxylic acid group-containing polymer and a quantum dot dispersed in the carboxylic acid group containing polymer, and wherein the carboxylic acid group-containing polymer includes a copolymer of a monomer combination including a first monomer having a carboxylic acid group and a carbon-carbon double bond and a second monomer having a carbon-carbon double bond and a hydrophobic moiety and not having a carboxylic acid group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG SDI CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Shang Hyeun Park, Hojeong Paek, Eun Joo Jang, Shin Ae Jun
  • Patent number: 11979853
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a method performed by a relay user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprising: receiving, from a base station (BS), a paging configuration including at least one of a number of total paging frame, a number of paging occasion for a paging frame, an offset for paging frame, a first DRX cycle of a remote UE, or paging search space; transmitting, to a remote UE, the paging configuration; receiving, from the remote UE, information related the remote UE including at least one of identity of the remote UE, paging identity of the remote UE or a second DRX cycle of the remote UE; identifying a paging occasion of the remote UE based on the information related the remote UE and the paging configuration; and monitoring the paging occasion of the remote UE for receiving a paging message for the remote UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Hyunjeong Kang
  • Patent number: 11977338
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes selecting a diffraction based focus (DBF) mark that is unaffected by a pattern of a lower layer; manufacturing a mask including a mark pattern for forming the DBF mark; forming the DBF mark in a cell region of a wafer by using the mask; measuring the DBF mark and monitoring defocus; correcting the defocus on the basis of a result of the monitoring; and forming a pattern in the cell region of the wafer, after correcting the defocus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jieun Park, Youngmin Seo, Inbeom Yim
  • Patent number: 11976855
    Abstract: A heat exchanger and an air conditioner including the same. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat transfer tubes formed in a flat shape and configured to allow a refrigerant to flow in a vertical direction therein. The heat transfer tube includes a gas refrigerant region including one end connected to a refrigerant inlet port and another end disposed above the refrigerant inlet port; a two-phase refrigerant region including one end connected to the other end of the gas refrigerant region and another end disposed below a refrigerant outlet port; and a liquid refrigerant region including one end connected to the other end of the two-phase refrigerant region and another end connected to the refrigerant outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunyoung Kim, Yo Agata, Kentaro Imagawa, Tadahiro Nakagawa, Takeshi Takahara
  • Patent number: 11977418
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an electronic device including a flexible display having an expandable display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chungha Kim, Sungkwon Kim, Sangmin Hyun, Geunyong Park
  • Patent number: 11976918
    Abstract: A structured light projectors includes an illuminator configured to emit illumination light, a pattern mask configured to project structured light by partially transmitting the illumination light, and a lens configured to project the structured light, wherein the pattern mask includes a first lens distortion compensation region including a plurality of opaque first light shielding patterns having a first pattern width, respectively, and a second lens distortion compensation region surrounding the first lens distortion compensation region, the second lens distortion compensation region including a plurality of opaque second light shielding patterns having a second pattern width, respectively, wherein the second pattern width is less than the first pattern width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Namseop Kwon, Jangwoo You, Minkyung Lee, Byunghoon Na, Seunghoon Han
  • Patent number: 11977699
    Abstract: Provided is a method of identifying a touch type of a user touch input with respect to an electronic device, the method including: obtaining touch data from a touch input received from a user; determining a touch recognition model set consisting of touch recognition models to be used to identify a touch type of the touch input of the user from among a plurality of touch recognition models corresponding to a plurality of partial time periods included in a time in which the touch input is maintained; obtaining touch type probability values with respect to the touch input of the user by applying the touch data to the touch recognition models included in the touch recognition model set; and identifying a touch type of the touch input, based on the obtained touch type probability values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinyoung Hwang, Dongchan Kim, Dongnam Byun
  • Patent number: 11977419
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed, including: a first housing, a second housing, a folding housing that pivotably connects the first housing and second housing, a flexible display spanning the first, second and folding housings, a printed circuit board (PCB), a first camera module at least partly visible through a surface of the second housing, a first magnet disposed in the first housing, a second magnet disposed in the second housing, and a hall sensor disposed on the PCB, the hall sensor configured to detect magnetic flux caused by motion of the first and/or second magnet in folding and unfolding of the electronic device so as facilitate determination of a configuration state of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngjae Kim, Woosung Chun, Changkwan Yang, Kwanghee Ryu, Hyunju Hong
  • Patent number: 11977735
    Abstract: An operating method of a storage device includes detecting whether a reclaim event has occurred on a source memory area including a plurality of memory areas, setting a reclaim priority value to each of the plurality of memory areas, and performing a reclaim operation on the source memory area according to the reclaim priority value of each of the plurality of memory areas. The reclaim operation moves data stored in the source memory area to a destination memory area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sangsoo Cha
  • Patent number: 11977485
    Abstract: A method of cache management includes: acquiring attributes of at least one file currently opened; extracting a first attribute subset related to a predetermined analysis target from among the attributes of the at least one file; determining region numbers of corresponding universal flash storage (UFS) device storage regions to be cached, based on the first attribute subset; and caching data of the corresponding UFS device storage regions to be cached into a cache memory, based on the region numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhonggang Chen
  • Patent number: 11977743
    Abstract: A storage unit is disclosed. The storage unit may include storage for a component codeword. The component codeword may be stored in a block in the storage. The block may also store a block codeword. An interface may receive a read request for a chunk of data from a host and may send the chunk of data to the host. A circuit may read the component codeword from the block in the storage. An error correcting code (ECC) decoder may determine the chunk of data based at least in part on the component codeword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zongwang Li, Jing Yang, Marie Mai Nguyen, Mehran Elyasi, Rekha Pitchumani
  • Patent number: 11977931
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. An electronic device includes at least one antenna module, a first communication circuit configured to provide first communication via the at least one antenna module, a plurality of temperature sensor, at least one processor operationally connected to the first communication circuit and the plurality of temperature sensors, and a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunjin Noh, Sungyong Bang, Jonglin Lee, Jongwoo Kim, Hakryoul Kim, Mooyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11977746
    Abstract: A data backup method of a storage device which includes a storage controller, a buffer memory, and a plurality of nonvolatile memory devices, the method including: detecting a power-off event of an external power provided to the storage device; deactivating a host interface of the storage controller in response to the detection of the power-off event; moving data stored in the buffer memory to a static random access memory (SRAM) in the storage controller; blocking or deactivating a power of the buffer memory; setting an interleaving mode of the plurality of nonvolatile memory devices to a minimum power mode; and programming the data moved to the SRAM to at least one of the plurality of nonvolatile memory devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Changsik Kwon
  • Patent number: 11977447
    Abstract: A storage device with improved security performance is provided. The storage device comprises a first non-volatile memory storing a firmware image, a second non-volatile memory storing an emergency image, and a storage controller controlling the first and second non-volatile memories, wherein the storage controller checks an integrity of the firmware image received from the first non-volatile memory, loads and executes the emergency image from the second non-volatile memory when the integrity check of the firmware image fails, receives a recover image from an external device based on the emergency image, and provides the recover image to the first non-volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myung-Sik Choi, Yun-Ho Youm, Jae Sung Yoo
  • Patent number: 11977981
    Abstract: A device and method of operating the device for automatically creating photos or videos of a certain moment are provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of image frames sequentially captured through a camera for a preset time interval; detecting at least one image frame among the plurality of image frames in which a main object corresponding to a preset main object or an action of the main object corresponding to a preset action is recognized; determining a type of composition of the at least one image frame; cropping a region including the main object from the at least one image frame based on placement of objects in the at least one image frame and the determined type of composition; and creating the photo using the cropped region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gunill Lee, Jiwon Jeong, Taehyuk Kwon, Deokho Kim, Byeongwook Yoo, Wonwoo Lee, Jaewoong Lee, Sunghoon Yim
  • Patent number: D1026028
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seunghyuck Heo, Ahreum Han