Samsung Electronics Patents

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a Korean electronics manufacturer and a part of the Samsung Group. Samsung Electronics manufactures and sells consumer electronics, including cell phones, televisions, tablets, digital cameras, computers, home appliances and home theater and audio components.

Samsung Electronics Patents by Type
  • Patent number: 11963590
    Abstract: A ring-type wearable device is disclosed. The disclosed ring-type wearable device comprises: an outer ring member; an inner ring member separably inserted into the outer ring member; a sensor unit disposed in the outer ring member; and a control unit disposed in the outer ring member so as to be electrically connected to the sensor unit, wherein the sensor unit can maintain constant sensitivity in correspondence to the thickness of the inner ring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-hong Min, Jea-hyuck Lee, Seong-wook Jo, Shin-hee Cho, Su-ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11967315
    Abstract: A method includes performing, using at least one processor, feature extraction of input audio data to identify extracted features associated with the input audio data. The method also includes detecting, using the at least one processor, a language associated with the input audio data by processing the extracted features using a plurality of language models, where each language model is associated with a different language. The method further includes directing, using the at least one processor, the input audio data to one of a plurality of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models based on the language associated with the input audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vijendra R. Apsingekar, Pu Song, Mohammad M. Moazzami, Asif Ali
  • Patent number: 11963647
    Abstract: A robot cleaner is provided. The robot cleaner according to the disclosure includes a driver including a drive motor configured to cause the robot cleaner to move, a memory storing information on a pollution map for the degree of pollution for each location in a map corresponding to a place in which the robot cleaner is located and information on locations of a plurality of objects on the map, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: identify a pollution source among the plurality of objects based on information on the locations of the plurality of objects and the pollution map, and control the driver to move the robot cleaner based on the location of the identified pollution source on the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Namki Lee, Changseok Oh, Seunghwan Lee, Chuljoo Kim, Yongheon Shin
  • Patent number: 11967318
    Abstract: The present subject matter at least describes a method and a system (300, 1200) of performing speech-recognition in an electronic device having an embedded speech recognizer. The method comprises receiving an input-audio comprising speech at a device. In real-time, at-least one speech-recognition module is selected within at least one of the device and a server for recognition of at least a portion of the received speech based on a criteria defined in terms of a) past-performance of speech-recognition modules within the device and server; b) an orator of speech; and c) a quality of service associated with at least one of the device and a networking environment thereof. Based upon the selection of the server, output of the selected speech-recognition modules within the device are selected for processing by corresponding speech-recognition modules of the server. An uttered-speech is determined within the input-audio based on output of the selected speech-recognition modules of the device or the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jithendra Vepa, Periyasamy Paramasivam, Ramya Viswanathan, Rajesh Krishna Selvaraj Krishnan
  • Patent number: 11967670
    Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel and a second pixel adjacent to each other in a first direction, first voltage wires disposed in the first pixel and the second pixel in a second direction, a second wire disposed along a boundary between the first pixel and the second pixel in the second direction, first electrodes disposed between the first voltage wires and the second wire in the first pixel an the second pixel, a second electrode disposed between and spaced apart from the first electrodes in the first pixel and the second pixel, and light-emitting elements disposed at each of the first pixel and the second pixel and disposed on the first electrodes and the second electrode, wherein the first voltage wires, the first electrodes, and the light-emitting elements are symmetric with respect to the second wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: An Na Ryu, Sung Hoon Kim, Sang Ho Park
  • Patent number: 11967325
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device capable of efficiently performing speech recognition and natural language understanding and a method for controlling thereof. The electronic device includes: a microphone; a non-volatile memory configured to store virtual assistant model data comprising data that is classified according to a plurality of domains and data that is commonly used for the plurality of domains; a volatile memory; and a processor configured to: based on receiving, through the microphone, a trigger input to perform speech recognition for a user speech, initiate loading the virtual assistant model data from the non-volatile memory into the volatile memory, load, into the volatile memory, first data from among the data classified according to the plurality of domains and, while loading the first data into the volatile memory, load at least a part of the data commonly used for the plurality of domains into the volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Saebom Jang, Hyeonmok Ko, Kyenghun Lee, Kunal Sharma, Raghavendra Hanumantasetty Ramasetty
  • Patent number: 11968585
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a method for supporting self-configuration and self-optimization in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixiang Xu, Xiaoning Ma, Hong Wang, Weiwei Wang
  • Patent number: 11967367
    Abstract: Disclosed is a nonvolatile memory device which includes a memory cell array, a row decoder circuit that selects one wordline as a target of a program operation, a page buffer circuit that stores data to be written in memory cells connected with the selected wordline in the program operation, and a pass/fail check circuit that determines a pass or a fail of the program operation. In the program operation, the pass/fail check circuit detects a first program speed of first memory cells and a second program speed of second memory cells, and determines a program fail based on the first program speed and the second program speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyu-Ha Park, Jeongyeol Kim, Nari Lee, Daehan Kim
  • Patent number: 11968630
    Abstract: A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a housing, a slider unit having an inlet portion configured to retract into the housing, a flexible display, a first antenna, a wireless communication, a state detection sensor, a first grip sensor, a processor, and a memory, processor performs recognizing that the state of the slider unit is changed from first to second state, correcting a capacitance value calculated using the first grip sensor as a correction value using an offset value corresponding to the second state, and a power back-off that lowers the power of a RF signal to be output from the wireless communication circuit to the first antenna using a power back-off value corresponding to the second state when the correction value is equal to or greater than a threshold value corresponding to the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonho Lee, Hojin Jung, Hyunggwang Kang, Myunghoon Kwak, Hyunju Hong
  • Patent number: 11967262
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a controller, and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The controller is configured to: receive input image data for the display panel; divide the display panel into a plurality of first pixel blocks each having a first size; divide the display panel into a plurality of second pixel blocks each having a second size different from the first size; generate, based on the input image data, a first stress map for the plurality of first pixel blocks and a second stress map for the plurality of second pixel blocks; and generate output image data by compensating the input image data based on the first stress map and the second stress map. The data driver is configured to provide data voltages to the plurality of pixels based on the output image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Hyeonmin Kim, Yongseok Choi
  • Patent number: 11968645
    Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The t disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for determining paging occasions (PO).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11968887
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a hole transport region disposed on the first electrode, an emission layer disposed on the hole transport region, an electron transport region disposed on the emission layer, and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport region, wherein the hole transport region includes a diamine compound represented by Formula 1, thereby showing high emission efficiency:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takao Sakuma
  • Patent number: 11968648
    Abstract: An operating method of a terminal configured to perform vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in a wireless communication system, including signaling a maximum physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) receiving capability to a base station; and receiving a wireless signal transmitted from the base station based on the maximum PSFCH receiving capability, wherein the maximum PSFCH receiving capability is a maximum number of PSFCHs receivable during one time transmission interval (TTI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongin Choi, Yangsoo Kwon, Joonsung Kim, Jinwoo Oh
  • Patent number: 11967284
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a display panel driver. The display panel includes a pixel having a switching element of a first type and a switching element of a second type different from the first type. The display panel driver drives the display panel. In a first mode, the display panel driver drives the switching element of the first type and the switching element of the second type with a high driving frequency. In a second mode, the display panel driver drives the switching element of the first type with the high driving frequency and the switching element of the second type with low driving frequency which is lower than the high driving frequency. In a third mode, the display panel driver drives the switching element of the first type and the switching element of the second type with the low driving frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyo-Jin Lee, Sehyuk Park
  • Patent number: 11968708
    Abstract: A method and apparatus in a wireless communication system supporting a semi-static shared spectrum channel access is provided. The method and apparatus comprises: receiving system information carried by downlink channels; identifying a duration of idle period, a fixed frame period, a number of observation slots, and an index; determining a first phase based on a first time period between a starting instance of the idle period and an ending instance of the at least one observation slot, a second phase based on a second time period between the ending instance of the at least one observation slot and an ending instance of the idle period, and a third phase based on a third time period between the ending instance of the idle period and an ending instance of the fixed frame period; and identifying the downlink channels as an idle state in the at least one observation slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingzhe Li, Hongbo Si, Qiongjie Lin
  • Patent number: 11968032
    Abstract: A system and method for accommodating reduced capability user equipment in a mobile network. The method may include a method for accommodating bandwidth-limited UEs in the initial access process, employing an extended System Information Block #1, or employing, for bandwidth-limited UEs, a separate Synchronization Signal Block, a separate initial Control Resource Set, and a separate Radio Resource Control System Information Block #1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Hu, Jung Hyun Bae, Jungmin Park, Hsien-Ping Lin
  • Patent number: 11968713
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a signal transmission/reception method, user equipment, and network equipment, the method including: determining, by a user equipment, an available random access occasion and a timing advance (TA) value; performing listen before talk (LBT) before a TA of the first available random access occasion; transmitting, if the LBT is successful, the random access preamble on the random access occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qi Xiong, Yi Wang, Chen Qian, Bin Yu
  • Patent number: 11968289
    Abstract: A clock data recovery circuit includes the following elements: a phase detector for outputting a phase adjustment signal by comparing a clock signal of a first node and an input signal; a charge pump for adjusting a charge amount of a second node according to the phase adjustment signal; a first switch including one end coupled to the second node and including another end coupled to a third node; a second switch including one end which receives a bias voltage and including another end coupled to the third node; a capacitor including a first electrode coupled to the third node; third switches; and voltage control oscillators including control terminals coupled to the third node and including output terminals coupled to the first node through the third switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Min Young Park, Jong Min Shim
  • Patent number: 11968521
    Abstract: An audio apparatus includes a signal receiver configured to receive a left-channel signal and a right-channel signal of a stereo audio signal; at least one filter configured to block a signal in a band exceeding a predetermined frequency based on the frequency bands of each of the received left-channel signal and right-channel signal; and a controller configured to generate a center-channel signal of the stereo audio signal based on the left-channel signal and the right-channel signal passing through the filter, to calculate a signal level sensitivity between the left-channel signal and the right-channel signal passing through the filter, to determine a similarity between the left-channel signal and the right-channel signal based on the calculated signal level sensitivity, and to control the generated center-channel signal to be output in response to the determined similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Seok Wey, Min Kim, Tae Woo Kim, Young Jo Seo, Sang-Il Choi
  • Patent number: 11968150
    Abstract: An operation method of an electronic device includes determining whether a first communication module based on a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second communication module based on a second RAT operate in a connected state; determining whether a combination of a first band used by the first communication module and a second band used by the second communication module is a combination causing interference; and if the combination of the first band and the second band is a combination causing interference, transmitting a signal requesting to change one of the first band or the second band. The interference is caused by at least one transmission signal of the first RAT or at least one other signal derived from the at least one transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yongjun An, Soon Park, Kyuhyuck Kwak, Janghyun Nam, Jonghun Yoo, Taeyun Lee, Haekwon Lee, Hyoseok Na
  • Patent number: 11968569
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a connection reestablishment method, including: receiving a reestablishment message from a second node, the reestablishment message including information related to a configuration of the second node; performing a configuration based on the received reestablishment message; and transmitting a reestablishment complete message to the second node. The present disclosure also provides a context acquisition method, an interface management method, a UE context management method, a UE context acquisition method, a method for triggering UE to reestablish a connection, and various nodes and computer-readable medium that perform the above methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiwei Wang, Hong Wang, Lixiang Xu
  • Patent number: 11968823
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a memory cell region where a plurality of active regions are defined; a word line having a stack structure of a lower word line layer and an upper word line layer and extending over the plurality of active regions in a first horizontal direction, and a buried insulation layer on the word line; a bit line structure arranged on the plurality of active regions, extending in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, and having a bit line; and a word line contact plug electrically connected to the lower word line layer by penetrating the buried insulation layer and the upper word line layer and having a plug extension in an upper portion of the word line contact plug, the plug extension having a greater horizontal width than a lower portion of the word line contact plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyejin Seong, Dongsoo Woo, Wonchul Lee
  • Patent number: 11968573
    Abstract: A handover method, performed by a source base station in a wireless communication system, includes: receiving an indicator indicating a start of packet duplication transmission of a user plane function (UPF); and transmitting at least one redundant packet to a target base station, based on the indicator indicating the start of the packet duplication transmission of the UPF, wherein the packet duplication transmission includes transmitting, to the target base station, a packet that is identical to a packet transmitted by the UPF to the source base station, wherein the redundant packet includes a packet that was received from the UPF before the start of the packet duplication transmission but is not transmitted to a User Equipment (UE) and stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea University Research And Business Foundation
    Inventors: Kisuk Kweon, Haneul Ko, Sangheon Pack, Jaewook Lee, Joonwoo Kim, Yujin Tae
  • Patent number: 11968848
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a first light sensor layer including light sensing cells configured to sense first light of an incident light and generate electrical signals based on the sensed first light, and a color filter array layer disposed on the first light sensor layer, and including color filters respectively facing the light sensing cells. The image sensor further includes a second light sensor layer disposed on the color filter array layer, and configured to sense second light of the incident light and generate an electrical signal based on the sensed second light. Each of the color filters includes a nanostructure including a first material having a first refractive index, and a second material having a second refractive index greater than the first refractive index, the first material and the second material being alternately disposed with a period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Seunghoon Han, Kwanghee Lee, Yongwan Jin, Yongsung Kim, Changgyun Shin, Jeongyub Lee, Amir Arbabi, Andrei Faraon, Yu Horie
  • Patent number: 11968884
    Abstract: An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1A: wherein, in Formula 1A, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jungin Lee, Kyuyoung Hwang, Soyeon Kim, Aram Jeon, Hyeonho Choi, Hyun Koo, Sangdong Kim, Yoonhyun Kwak, Ohyun Kwon, Byoungki Choi
  • Patent number: 11968867
    Abstract: A display device includes a through portion passing through a display layer. The display includes a plurality of scan lines above the substrate and extending in a first direction, a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction, and a plurality of pixels connected to the scan lines and data lines. The data lines include a first data line and a second data line disconnected by the through portion, and a third data line spaced apart from the through portion along the first direction. The first data line is electrically connected with the third data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunkwang Kim, Kinyeng Kang, Jonghyun Choi, Suyeon Sim
  • Patent number: 11968439
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a housing; at least one camera disposed inside the housing; at least one door unit disposed between the housing and a lens of the at least one camera and a driving unit configured to slide the door unit such that the lens of the at least one camera can open/close, wherein the driving unit can comprise a linear actuator moving linearly according to an application of voltage. Other embodiments in addition to the various embodiments of the present invention are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunje Cho, Kichul Namgung, Yoobong Chun, Sunggeun Joo
  • Patent number: 11967308
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including processor and memory operatively connected to the processor and storing language model. The electronic device may enter data into the language model, generate an embedding vector in the input embedding layer, add position information to the embedding vector in the positional encoding layer, branch the embedding vector based on domain information, normalize the branched embedding vectors, enter the normalized embedding vectors into the multi-head attention layer, enter output data of the multi-head attention layer into the first layer, normalize pieces of output data of the first layer, enter the normalized pieces of output data of the first layer into the feed-forward layer, enter output data of the feed-forward layer into the second layer and normalize pieces of output data of the second layer, and enter the normalized pieces of output data of the second layer into the linearization layer and the softmax layer to obtain result data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taewoo Lee, Taegyoon Kang, Hogyeong Kim, Minjoong Lee, Seokyeong Jung, Jiseung Jeong
  • Patent number: 11968488
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments may include: a housing, an acoustic hole formed in a first direction of the housing, an instrument installed in the housing in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a mic, and a mic holder including a body installed in the housing, a seat formed in the body part to receive the mic, a first opening formed in one surface of the body and connected to the seat, a second opening formed in another surface of the body, and a third opening formed in the body and connected to the acoustic hole. As the second opening of the mic holder is closed by an instrument of the electronic device closely attached to the other surface of the body part, an acoustic channel in which a sound introduced into the third opening is delivered to a mic hole of the mic may be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwanghyun Kim, Kyueun Park, Brian Han
  • Patent number: 11968896
    Abstract: Provided are a light-emitting device including a condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1 and an electronic apparatus including the light-emitting device, where Formula 1 is the same as described in the present specification. The light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, an interlayer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and emission layer including at least one of the condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junha Park, Seokhwan Hwang, Sunyoung Pak, Jangyeol Baek, Munki Sim, Hyoyoung Lee, Minjung Jung
  • Patent number: 11968775
    Abstract: An embodiment of a printed circuit board includes a first insulating layer, a metal layer disposed above the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer disposed above the metal layer, and signal lines disposed above the second insulating layer, the signal lines extending in a first direction and having line widths in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The metal layer has open areas overlapping the signal lines in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions. In another embodiment, the open areas are replaced with metal meshes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeon Sun Na, Min Soo Choi
  • Patent number: 11968903
    Abstract: Provided are a piezoelectric element for a speaker and a method of manufacturing the same. The piezoelectric element for a speaker includes a plurality of piezoelectric ceramic layers stacked on one another in a thickness direction, and a plurality of electrodes provided to be connected to middle portions of sides of the plurality of piezoelectric ceramic layers along external walls of the plurality of stacked piezoelectric ceramic layers, wherein middle portions of some sides from among a plurality of sides of each of the plurality of piezoelectric ceramic layers are etched, and wherein the plurality of piezoelectric ceramic layers are stacked on one another in the thickness direction not to overlap non-etched sides from among the plurality of sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jisun Kim, Taeyoung Kim, Joungkook Seo, Sanghoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11968824
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a bit line structure, first and second capping patterns, first and second contact plug structures, and a capacitor. The bit line structure extends on a cell region and a dummy region. The first capping pattern is adjacent the bit line structure on the cell region. The second capping pattern is adjacent the bit line structure on the dummy region. The first contact plug structure is adjacent the bit line structure and the first capping pattern on the cell region, and includes a lower contact plug and a first upper contact plug sequentially stacked. The second contact plug structure is adjacent the bit line structure and the second capping pattern on the dummy region, and includes a dummy lower contact plug and a second upper contact plug sequentially stacked. The capacitor contacts an upper surface of the first contact plug structure on the cell region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngjun Kim, Seokhyun Kim, Jinhyung Park, Hoju Song, Hyeran Lee, Sungwoo Kim, Bongsoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11968616
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for discovering and selecting a network that provides connectivity for transmitting user subscription data is provided. A user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver and at least one processor configured to identify preconfigured first information comprising a first list, the first list comprising at least one identifier (ID) of at least one network group providing an initial access to a non-public network (NPN), receive, from at least one base station via the transceiver, second information comprising at least one second list, the at least one second list comprising at least one ID of at least one network group which is supported by the at least one base station and provides an initial access to the NPN, and select a network to be initially accessed from a network group corresponding to at least one ID included in the first list and the at least one second list, based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kisuk Kweon, Sangsoo Jeong, Sangjun Moon, Jungshin Park, Youngkyo Baek
  • Patent number: 11968835
    Abstract: A vertical type semiconductor device includes a substrate that has a plurality of trenches, a support pattern that fills the plurality of trenches and protrudes from a top surface of the substrate, a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate that fills a space between the support patterns, a stacked structure disposed on the support pattern and the semiconductor layer that includes a plurality of insulation layers and a plurality of first conducive patterns that are alternately and repeatedly stacked, and a plurality of channel structures that penetrate through the structure and the semiconductor layer and that extend into the support pattern. Each channel structure includes a channel layer. At least a portion of the channel layer makes contact with the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-Taek Jung, Joong-Shik Shin, Byung-Kwan You
  • Patent number: 11968627
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a front surface and a rear surface, a display, a communication circuit, at least one processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to receive a signal from outside of the electronic device using the communication circuit, in response to receiving the signal, display a user interface on an elongated region that extends along at least one edge region of the display, and display at least one content corresponding to the signal, while displaying the user interface or after displaying the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Moo Lee, Seung Min Choi, Gyu Chual Kim, Ji Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 11968836
    Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory devices are provided. A 3D semiconductor memory device includes an electrode structure on a substrate. The electrode structure includes gate electrodes stacked on the substrate. The gate electrodes include electrode pad regions. The 3D semiconductor memory device includes a dummy vertical structure penetrating one of the electrode pad regions. The dummy vertical structure includes a dummy vertical semiconductor pattern and a contact pattern extending from a portion of the dummy vertical semiconductor pattern toward the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Younghwan Son, Jeehoon Han
  • Patent number: 11968649
    Abstract: Disclosed are: a communication technique for merging, with IOT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety-related services, and the like) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A method of a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to the present invention, comprising: receiving system information including a V2X parameter; receiving a data packet based on the V2X parameter; and updating a state variable on the data packet when the data packet is related to a new service, wherein a sequence number included in the state variable is updated based on a sequence number of a data packet received for the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungri Jin, Sangyeob Jung, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11968854
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display module having flexibility, a glass window disposed on the display module, a protective film including an adhesive layer detachably attached on the glass window, and a protecting layer disposed on the adhesive layer, a cover covering an edge of the glass window and configured to receive the display module, and a protective pattern including an edge adhesive layer attached on an edge of an upper surface of the glass window, and an edge protective layer disposed on the edge adhesive layer, in which an adhesion between the glass window and the edge adhesive layer of the protective pattern is greater than an adhesion between the glass window and the adhesive layer of the protective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaiku Shin, Dongjin Park, Dongwoo Seo, Sung Chul Choi
  • Patent number: 11968659
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of scheduling for a UE. The method includes dividing M UEs into N groups, wherein a distance metric between each UE in a group and the center of the group does not exceed a first predetermined threshold, where M and N are positive integers; pairing the N groups, wherein a distance metric between centers of the two paired groups is greater than a second predetermined threshold; and in a case where there is a group paired with a group to which a first UE for which scheduling is to be performed belongs, scheduling transmissions in different directions respectively for the first UE and the second UE from the paired group on the same time-frequency resource. The present disclosure also provides a signal transmission method, a base station, a UE and a computer readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuang Zhang, Di Su, Peng Lin, Chen Qian, Bin Yu
  • Patent number: 11968876
    Abstract: A display device includes a base substrate including a first sub-pixel area, a second sub-pixel area, and a third sub-pixel area, first to third thin film transistors on the base substrate and including first to third active patterns, respectively, first to third pixel electrodes electrically connected to the first to third thin film transistors, respectively and in the first to third sub-pixel areas, respectively, a blue light emitting layer on the first to third pixel electrodes and configured to emit a blue light, a first color conversion pattern in the first sub-pixel area on the blue light emitting layer, a second color conversion pattern in the second sub-pixel area on the blue light emitting layer, and a red color filter layer between the blue light emitting layer and the first to third active patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyungjin Jeon, Joon-seok Park, Kwang-suk Kim, Taesang Kim, Yeon-keon Moon, Geunchul Park, Jun-hyung Lim
  • Patent number: 11968690
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided in a wireless communication system. Mini slot length information indicating mini slot length in a number of symbols is received from a base station via higher layer signaling. Downlink control information (DCI) including a number of mini slots for a hybrid automatic repeat and request (HARQ) feedback transmission is received from the base station. A mini slot for the HARQ feedback transmission is identified based on the mini slot length information and the number of mini slots for the HARQ feedback transmission. The HARQ feedback information is transmitted to the base station on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) based on the identified mini slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Taehyoung Kim, Jeongho Yeo, Youngbum Kim, Seunghoon Choi, Heedon Gha, Taehan Bae
  • Patent number: 11968880
    Abstract: A display apparatus may include a first plurality of pixels, a substrate, a first signal line, and a load matching device. The substrate may include a first opening, a first non-display area, and a main display area. The first non-displaying area may at least partially surround the first opening. The main display area may support the first plurality of pixels. The first signal line may be electrically connected to the first plurality of pixels, may overlap the main display area, and may overlap the first non-display area. The load matching device may overlap the first non-display area and may provide a first electrical load to the first signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Lyong Bok, Sunho Kim
  • Patent number: 11968693
    Abstract: A communication technique for convergence between an IoT technology and a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) system, and a system thereof is provided. The method includes intelligence services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, and the like.) On the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonghwan Kim, Seijoon Shim, Jongho Oh, Kilsik Ha
  • Patent number: 11967597
    Abstract: An electronic device, including an array substrate, a pad portion disposed on the array substrate, and an integrated circuit disposed on the pad portion and comprising a bump portion. The pad portion includes a first sub-pad unit including a first pad having an inclined shape and a second sub-pad unit including a second pad having an inclined shape. The first pad and the second pad are symmetrically arranged with respect to an imaginary line that divides the pad portion. The pad portion is electrically connected with the bump portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dae Geun Lee
  • Patent number: 11968562
    Abstract: NAS signaling between a UE and a server is enhanced by performing one of: sending a registration complete message to the server using existing NAS signaling and without starting a release timer in response to receiving an RC_ID deletion IE in a registration accept message; and not sending the registration complete message to the server in response to receiving the RC_ID deletion IE in the registration accept message. A registration procedure is reinstated based on a stored RC_ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Prasad Basavaraj Dandra, Shrinithi Andal Tensingh, Umasankar Ceendhralu Baskar, Vijay Ganesh Surisetty, Chetan Ramesh Ganig, Lalith Kumar
  • Patent number: 11968888
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an organic light-emitting device including: a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, m light-emitting units stacked between the first electrode and the second electrode and including at least one emission layer; and m?1 charge generating layers, each located between two neighboring light-emitting units of the m light-emitting units and including an n-type charge generating layer and a p-type charge generation layer, wherein m is an integer of 2 or more, at least one of the m?1 p-type charge generation layers includes a first doping layer and a second doping layer, the first doping layer includes a first organic material and a first inorganic material, the second doping layer includes a second organic material and a second inorganic material, and the first inorganic material and the second inorganic material are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaeweon Hur, Seulong Kim, Hyeongpil Kim, Sungsoo Bae, Dongchan Lee
  • Patent number: 11968599
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT), and may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. To do so, a method and apparatus are provided for transmitting groupcast/broadcast/multicast data and control information in the downlink and uplink. The method and apparatus include features for transmitting to a user equipment (UE), configuration information for multicast and broadcast services (MBS), encoding a first bit sequence for the MBS based on a channel coding, identifying a transport block size (TBS) for limited buffer rate matching (LBRM) based on the configuration information, performing the LBRM to the encoded first bit sequence based on the identified TBS, and transmitting to the UE, a second bit sequence identified based on the LBRM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongho Yeo, Seho Myung, Youngbum Kim, Sungjin Park, Hyunseok Ryu
  • Patent number: 11968890
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device having low-driving voltage, improved efficiency, and long lifespan includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; a first layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first layer including a first compound; a second layer between the first layer and the second electrode, the second layer including a second compound; and a third layer between the second layer and the second electrode, the third layer including a third compound; wherein the first compound does not include a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group comprising *?N—*? as a ring forming moiety, and wherein the first compound, the second compound, and the third compound each independently include at least one group selected from groups represented by Formulae A to C:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seulong Kim, Younsun Kim, Dongwoo Shin, Jungsub Lee, Naoyuki Ito, Jino Lim
  • Patent number: 11968749
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method and an electronic device for installing a subscriber profile. The method includes obtaining network operator-related information. The method also includes identifying whether download of an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile is allowed based on the network operator-related information. The method further includes downloading the eSIM profile when download of the eSIM profile is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daesoo Park, Jinwoo Lee, Yongbeom Kwon