Patents Assigned to CO
  • Patent number: 9983850
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept include a shared hardware integer/floating point divider and square root logic unit, which combines floating point division, floating point square root operations, and/or integer division into one shared hardware design. The shared hardware logic unit can share, for example, a sparse random access memory (sparse RAM) in place of a full partial remainder divisor (PD) table, one or more on-the-fly (OTF) state machines, and/or a data path for integer division, floating point division, and square root operations. The normalization of subnormal numbers and the normalization of signed and unsigned integers can be handled with shared hardware. The division operations and the square root operations can be of the same radix. Early out exceptions and special cases can be automatically handled. Both improved latency and less die area can be achieved in accordance with embodiments of the inventive concept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bonnie Sexton
  • Patent number: 9983436
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of display technology, and particularly relates to a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module comprises a reflecting layer and a diffuser plate arranged opposite to each other, wherein a light source is arranged between the reflecting layer and the diffuser plate, a light-exiting surface of the light source faces the reflecting layer, and light emitted from the light source is reflected by the reflecting layer to reach the diffuser plate and exits from the diffuser plate after being diffused therein. By inversely arranging an LED light source or other light sources between the diffuser plate and the reflecting layer in the backlight module, a thickness of the whole backlight module can be smaller under a condition of fixed light mixing distance, the emergent light from the backlight module is more uniform, and the cost is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., K-TRONICS (SUZHOU) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhi Yin
  • Patent number: 9983445
    Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal lens panel that includes a lower substrate, a upper substrate that faces the lower substrate, a lower lens electrode disposed on the lower substrate, an upper lens electrode disposed on the upper substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a spacer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, and an opening formed at a portion of the upper lens electrode which corresponds to the spacer, where the opening of the upper lens electrode and the spacer partially overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Seung Seo, Seung Jun Jeong, Jung-Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 9983473
    Abstract: A photomask and method for fabricating an integrated circuit is provided. A design layout is provided, wherein the design layout has a plurality of main features. A plurality of assistant features are added in an assistant region of the design layout to form a first layout, wherein the assistant region has no main feature and a width of the assistant region is larger than five times of a width of the main feature. A plurality of optical proximity correction (OPC) features are added on the first layout to form a second layout. And a photomask is formed according to the second layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Yu Lin, Yi-Jie Chen, Feng-Yuan Chiu, Ying-Chou Cheng, Kuei-Liang Lu, Ya-Hui Chang, Ru-Gun Liu, Tsai-Sheng Gau
  • Patent number: 9983494
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor having an overcoat layer and a cleaning unit that includes a cleaning blade, a tip of which contacts with the electrophotographic photoreceptor, wherein the toner contains a toner particle which contains a binder resin containing a crystalline polyester resin, a colorant and a release agent, and an external additive, and the toner satisfies the following Expression: 2?tan ?P1?2.5, wherein tan ?P1 represents a maximum value of a mechanical loss tangent existing in a range where a complex elastic modulus is from 1×106 Pa to 1×108 Pa, which is measured at an angular frequency of 6.28 rad/sec and a strain amount of 0.3%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Fukuda, Masataka Kuribayashi, Naoki Ota, Takafumi Koide, Katsuyuki Kitajima, Yasuhisa Morooka
  • Patent number: 9984808
    Abstract: An electronic component includes a substantially helix-shaped inductor including inductive conductor layers on insulator layers including a first inductive conductor layer and a second inductive conductor layer adjacent to the first inductive conductor layer on the upper layer side. Each of the first and second inductive conductor layers has a contact portion and a linear portion. The contact portion is, when viewed in the laminating direction, overlapped by an inductive conductor layer adjacent thereto on the lower or upper layer side. The linear portion is not overlapped by inductive conductor layers adjacent thereto on the lower and upper layer sides. The lower surface of the linear portion of the second inductive conductor layer is positioned higher than that of the first inductive conductor layer, and is positioned lower than the upper surface of the linear portion of the first inductive conductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiromi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 9986532
    Abstract: Various examples of the present invention relate to an electronic device group paging method and an electronic device thereof, and an electronic device operating method can comprise the steps of: converting, in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, the electronic device from an idle state into a wakeup state when it is time to check group paging; analyzing, in the wakeup state, the validity of a group paging message received through machine type communication (MTC); and performing a specific function according to the group paging message if the group paging message is valid. In addition, the various examples of the present invention also include the aforementioned example and other examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sung-Jun Lee, Hye-Jeong Kim, Jeong-Don Kang, Ji-Eun Jung
  • Patent number: 9982092
    Abstract: The efficient production of poly(tetramethylene ether) diacetate [PTMEA] or other diesters, from tetrahydrofuran [THF] is obtained utilizing an acid-based catalyst that is based on a morphologically reconfigured and Bronsted acidity enhanced halloysite derived from a preparation method of using naturally occurring halloysites. More specifically, the method relates to morphological modification of the internal pore structure of halloysites via supercritical carbon dioxide treatment directly applied onto the raw halloysite minerals, that yields highly synergistic and reproducible results of elimination of inaccessible and detrimental extra-small pores. PTMEA is readily converted to poly(tetramethylene ether) glycol (PTMEG) by a transesterification reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: KOREA PTG CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hyung Ju Kim, Hwan Bock Lee, Jung Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 9982864
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus including: multiple LEDs; and a lens unit that is placed correspondingly to the respective LEDs, wherein the lens unit includes a transmission lens, a first total-reflection lens, and a second total-reflection lens, wherein an incidence surface and an emission surface of the transmission lens, as well as incidence surfaces, emission surfaces and total-reflection surfaces of the first total-reflection lens and the second total-reflection lens are two-axis anamorphic aspherical surfaces, a microlens array is formed on at least one of the incidence surface and the emission surface of the transmission lens, a microlens array is formed on at least one of the emission surfaces, the total-reflection surfaces and the incidence surfaces of the first total-reflection lens and the second total-reflection lens, and the microlens arrays each have a structure in which microlenses are periodically arrayed, and are arrayed along the vertical and horizontal directions of the illumination apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Shohroh Mochida, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Tomoyuki Ogata
  • Patent number: 9984281
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit that images a video; a display unit that displays the imaged video on a screen; a face-position acquirer that acquires a position of a face included in the video on the screen; an operation receiver that receives a touch operation on the screen; and a make-up-image composer that composes a make-up image with a part of the face in the video. The make-up-image composer changes a composition state of the make-up image on condition that a swipe operation is performed in a direction oriented to the position of the face. The image processing apparatus further includes a stylus detector that detects a portion of a predetermined marker color as a stylus from the video when the portion of the predetermined marker color is included in the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroto Tomita, Tsuyoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9980554
    Abstract: A locking structure for a replaceable toothbrush includes a locking plate and a brush head. An end portion of the locking plate includes elastic locking hooks, and the elastic locking hooks are arranged on the supporting platform. The brush head is replaceably installed on the supporting platform, and the brush head includes a brush head base and brush bristles. The brush head base includes a substrate and a surrounding plate extended from an edge of the substrate toward one side thereof, and the surrounding plate includes a locking slot for the elastic locking hook to lock thereon. The brush bristles are disposed on the substrate and extended away from the surrounding plate. Accordingly, the release of the locking and retrieval for disengagement of the brush head base are facilitated and the brush head base is firmly installed on the supporting platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SUBAYU INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shih-Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 9983343
    Abstract: A decorative lighting apparatus includes: a light source; an elongated outer lens; and a housing, wherein: the outer lens includes: a surface protrusion having a surface that is the light emitting surface and both sides; a back protrusion having a back and both sides; a first connection part, one end thereof in a short-side direction being connected to one side of the protrusions; and a second connection part, one end thereof in a short-side direction being connected to the other side of the protrusion; the housing is fixedly attached to the other end in the short-side direction of each of the first and second connection parts; the light source is arranged to be opposite to one section of the back protrusion; and a width of both sides of the surface protrusion is greater than a width of a surface of the surface protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Tanaka, Yuki Kuramitsu, Shinichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 9986537
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a downlink data in a wireless communications system supporting cooperation between transmission points and a method therefor. A method for transmitting a downlink data in a wireless communications system includes the steps of: transmitting the information on resources management collection including the CSI-RS information for measuring the terminal received bower to a terminal; receiving a report of the received power measurement of the CSI-RS corresponding to the resources management collection from the terminal; determining the measurement collection including the CSI-RS information for the terminal to infer a channel based on the received power measurement report; and transmitting the resources mapped with data to the terminal based on the measurement collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyojin Lee, Younsun Kim, Youngbum Kim, Joonyoung Cho, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 9984307
    Abstract: An object is to ensure clear and easy quantification of the textures such as metallic texture and shiny texture of pearl pigment and to rationalize comparison inspection between an inspection object and a reference object. A coloring inspection apparatus 1 includes a camera 2 that is configured to have three spectral sensitivities (S1(?), S2(?), S3(?)) linearly and equivalently converted to a CIE XYZ color matching function, an arithmetic processing unit 3 that is configured to obtain and compute coloring data by conversion of an image which has three spectral sensitivities and is obtained by the camera 2 into tristimulus values X, Y and Z in a CIE XYZ color system, and lighting units 6 that are configured to illuminate an automobile 5 as an example of measuring object. The coloring inspection apparatus 1 computes a color distribution consistency index that represents a ratio of overlap of two xyz chromaticity histogram distributions of an inspection object Q and a reference object R, so as to inspect color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: PAPALAB CO, LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Kato
  • Patent number: 9980948
    Abstract: Disclosed is a compound which is useful as an AMPK activator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SHIONOGI & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuusuke Tamura, Yu Hinata, Eiichi Kojima, Hiroki Ozasa
  • Patent number: D818998
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Young Lee, Kihong Kim, Sungjin Ann
  • Patent number: D819014
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SPIGEN KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dae-Young Kim
  • Patent number: D819025
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shady Shim
  • Patent number: D819029
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Jin Seo, Taeyeon Won
  • Patent number: D819110
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: eYs3D Microelectronics, Co.
    Inventor: Chi-Hua Chang