Patents Assigned to CO
  • Publication number: 20240419050
    Abstract: A phase modulation device includes an upper reflective layer onto which incident light is incident; a lower reflective layer provided on a lower portion of the upper reflective layer; an active layer provided between the upper reflective layer and the lower reflective layer; a first electrode connected to an upper surface of the active layer; and a second electrode connected to a lower surface of the active layer, wherein the lower reflective layer may include a first distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) layer including at least one first low refractive material layer and at least one first high refractive material layer that are alternately stacked, and the at least one first low refractive material layer has a first refractive index and the at least one first high refractive material layer has a second refractive index that is greater than the first refractive index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junghyun PARK, Sunil KIM, Minkyung LEE, Byunggil JEONG
  • Publication number: 20240421307
    Abstract: A negative electrode plate comprising a substrate, which comprises a current collector and negative electrode active material bonded on the current collector; first lithium bands arranged on a front surface of the substrate; second lithium bands arranged on a back surface of the substrate; the first lithium bands and the second lithium bands are mutually staggered; adjacent ones of the first lithium bands are spaced apart and adjacent ones of the second lithium bands are spaced apart, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SVOLT ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai YANG, Jing LIU, Shuaibin LOU, Hongxin YANG
  • Publication number: 20240416824
    Abstract: A light distribution controlling device determines a light distribution pattern having a dimmed portion to overlap a dimming target present in a region ahead of a vehicle. The light distribution controlling device performs, by using a structuring element of a predetermined shape, a dilation process on a luminous point included in an image capturing the region ahead to generate a dilated region, and determines the dimmed portion based on the dilated region. The light distribution controlling device varies at least one of a size of the structuring element or a position of a pixel of interest in the structuring element in accordance with at least one of a vehicle speed or a rate of turn of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi KIHARA
  • Publication number: 20240416895
    Abstract: A parking assistance method according to the present disclosure is a method for performing automated traveling of a vehicle based on teacher traveling by a user. The method includes: causing a memory to store information on a travel path in teacher traveling; controlling the vehicle based on the stored travel path; detecting an obstacle during controlling the vehicle; determining whether an avoiding path for avoiding the obstacle is able to be generated; and notifying, when the avoiding path is not able to be generated, a communication terminal of the user not to be able to generate the avoiding path. Furthermore, the controlling is executed based on an instruction for automated traveling from the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuma IIDA, Shota AKAURA
  • Patent number: 12169979
    Abstract: A fingerprint-on-display collection method and an electronic device are provided. In the method, a first interface and a screen brightness related parameter are obtained, where the screen brightness related parameter is a parameter that affects screen brightness in the electronic device, and the first interface is an interface displayed on a screen when fingerprint collection is performed; first exposure time is calculated based on the first interface and the screen brightness related parameter; and fingerprint collection is performed based on the first exposure time to obtain a first fingerprint image. This application can improve an adjustment speed of exposure time, thereby improving a speed at which the electronic device collects a correctly exposed fingerprint image, and improving user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Weiqiang Gao
  • Patent number: 12169604
    Abstract: To prevent drawing by pen input from stopping due to a failure in receiving an uplink signal, an active pen according to the present disclosure includes a processing circuit that transmits, at a second timing decided based on a first timing of a first uplink signal received from a sensor controller, a position signal and a data signal from a pen-tip electrode and receives a second uplink signal, and a wireless communication circuit that wirelessly communicates with the sensor controller. The processing circuit determines whether the second uplink signal has been received at the second timing, and in a case of determining that the second uplink signal has not been received, the processing circuit transmits at least part of the data signal via the wireless communication circuit while transmitting the position signal from the pen-tip electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Haruhiko Hisano, Sadao Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12169916
    Abstract: An inpainting method includes obtaining an image including an object having a delicate shape and identifying a target region within the image, where the target region is adjacent to the object. The method also includes using a first mask to separate the image into a number of semantic categories and aggregating neighboring contexts for the target region based on the semantic categories. The method further includes restoring, based on the aggregated contexts, textures in the target region without affecting the delicate shape of the object. In addition, the method includes displaying a refined image including the restored textures in the target region and the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenbo Li, Hongxia Jin
  • Patent number: 12170289
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel component including scan lines, data lines, and pixels electrically connected to the scan lines and the data lines, and defining pixel columns and pixel rows, a data driver disposed on a side of the pixel component, and a scan driver disposed on the side of the pixel component. The pixel component includes sub-scan lines, and dummy lines. Each scan line may be electrically connected to the sub-scan lines by contacts. The contacts are divided into contact groups having a same arrangement. The pixel component is divided into pixel blocks corresponding to the contact groups. Each pixel block includes first and second area divided by contact group. The first area is closer to the scan driver than the second area. The pixel component further includes supplementary power lines spaced apart from the respective sub-scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Yeong Park, Kyung Bae Kim, Jong Woong Chang
  • Patent number: 12170335
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a semiconductor device and methods for forming the same. The semiconductor device includes nanostructures on a substrate and a source/drain region in contact with the nanostructures. The source/drain region includes epitaxial end caps, where each epitaxial end cap is formed at an end portion of a nanostructure of the nanostructures. The source/drain region also includes an epitaxial body in contact with the epitaxial end caps and an epitaxial top cap formed on the epitaxial body. The semiconductor device further includes gate structure formed on the nanostructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shahaji B. More
  • Patent number: 12169749
    Abstract: An RFID module is disposed at a position where the RFID module is electromagnetically coupled to the conductor. An RFIC receives power induced by receiving an electromagnetic wave for power reception to output a transmission signal. A power reception coupling unit is electromagnetically coupled to the conductor to receive power. A transmission coupling unit is electromagnetically coupled to the conductor to output a transmission signal to the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Ueki
  • Patent number: 12169606
    Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an electronic device includes: a housing; a touch circuit including a plurality of TX electrodes, and a plurality of RX electrodes arranged to cross over the plurality of TX electrode; a flexible display which includes the touch circuit, and which can be withdrawn from the inner space of the housing; a touch controller; and a processor operatively connected to the touch circuit, the flexible display and the touch controller, wherein the touch controller applies a driving signal by using the plurality of TX electrodes of the touch circuit, acquires the driving signal by using the plurality of RX electrodes, confirms a capacitance value on the basis of the acquired driving signal, and confirms information about a folded area of the flexible display on the basis of the capacitance value, and the processor can set an activation area for an unfolded area of the flexible display on the basis of the folded area of the flexible display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngho Cho, Dahee Lim, Mooyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 12169572
    Abstract: A learning with errors (LWE) instance management method according to an embodiment may include obtaining, from one or more user devices among a plurality of user devices, one or more learning with errors (LWE) instances and one or more extended LWE instances including reuse tags associated with the LWE instances, storing the one or more extended LWE instances, receiving, from a first device among the plurality of user devices, a request for an LWE instance produced by a second device among the plurality of user devices, and identifying, based on a reuse tag included in each of the one or more extended LWE instances, a target extended LWE instance including an LWE instance produced by the second device among the one or more extended LWE instances, and providing the LWE instance included in the target extended LWE instance to the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joohee Lee, Eunkyung Kim, Kyu Young Choi
  • Patent number: 12170564
    Abstract: Disclosed are beam training methods and devices. A beam training method includes: a transmitting end determining a first mapping relationship between BPL identifiers, CRIs, and transmitting beams; the transmitting end configuring a first reference signal resource for a receiving end, and transmitting configuration information of the first reference signal resource to the receiving end, the configuration information including a first BPL identifier; the transmitting end determining a first transmitting beam; the transmitting end transmitting a reference signal to the receiving end, by using the first transmitting beam within the first reference signal resource, so that the receiving end receives the reference signal on the first reference signal resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shanzhi Chen, Shaohui Sun, Qiubin Gao
  • Patent number: 12170365
    Abstract: A lithium-ion rechargeable battery negative electrode active material and a preparation method thereof, a lithium-ion rechargeable battery negative electrode plate, and a lithium-ion rechargeable battery are disclosed. The negative electrode active material includes a carbon core and a coating layer formed on a surface of the carbon core, a material of the coating layer includes amorphous carbon and a doping element, and the doping element includes element nitrogen. The lithium-ion rechargeable battery negative electrode active material has the carbon core, and the coating layer that includes the doping element and the amorphous carbon is provided on the surface of the carbon core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jiahua Liang, Shengan Xia, Fengchao Xie
  • Patent number: 12168912
    Abstract: The present invention provides a downhole hydraulic directional control valve, comprising a valve body assembly having a shell, an outer tube being provided in the shell, a middle joint connecting the outer tube and an upper cylinder, an outer cylinder connected to the upper cylinder, and a double-way joint being provided with an oil inlet hole, and connecting top ends of the outer cylinder and an inner cylinder; a valve core assembly having an upper valve core, and a lower valve core being positioned at bottom end of the upper valve core and further positioned in a lower cylinder at bottom end of the middle joint; and, a plunger assembly having a first plunger part positioned in the inner cylinder and a second plunger part at bottom end of the first plunger part. By using this valve, the operation efficiency is improved, and the reliability of the equipment is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SHANDONG WEIMA PUMPS MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Bing Guan, Baozhong Ma, Sifeng Bi, Meng Liu, Xuejiang Li, Chao Gao, Xingbao Teng
  • Patent number: 12169701
    Abstract: A multiplier circuit includes a first circuit comprising a first transistor, a second transistor, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. It further includes a second circuit comprising a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a third capacitor, and a fourth capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hajime Kimura, Takahiro Fukutome
  • Patent number: 12168494
    Abstract: A conveyance seat includes a saddle-type seat on which an occupant sits to straddle and a seat height adjustment unit which is attached below the seat and is able to adjust a height position of the seat. The seat height adjustment unit includes a rotation link which rotates together with the seat with respect to a chassis to adjust a height position of the seat, an upper link support member that is provided between the seat and the rotation link and is used so that an upper end portion of the rotation link is attached thereto, a lower link support member that is provided between the rotation link and the chassis and is used so that a lower end portion of the rotation link is attached thereto, and a flexible cover member that covers the rotation link from the outside in a front to back direction of the seat and a width direction of the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12170878
    Abstract: An unmanned moving body includes a directional speaker that outputs sound in an orientation direction and a processor that obtains one or more instances of sensing data. The processor: determines whether or not a second target is present in a vicinity of a first target in accordance with at least one of the one or more instances of sensing data; calculates a positional relationship between the first target and the second target when it is determined that the second target is present; and determines a first position of the unmanned moving body in accordance with the positional relationship and causes the unmanned moving body to move to the first position, the first position being a position that places the first target and the second target within a range over which the sound from the directional speaker reaches at at least a predetermined quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Kuhara, Stephen William John, Kazunobu Konishi, Katsuhiko Asai, Kazuo Inoue
  • Patent number: 12170281
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first active pattern extended in a first direction on a substrate; a second active pattern extended in the first direction and spaced apart from the first active pattern in a second direction on the substrate; a field insulating layer between the first active pattern and the second active pattern on the substrate; a first gate electrode on the first active pattern; a second gate electrode on the second active pattern; and a gate isolation structure separating the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode from each other on the field insulating layer, wherein a width of the gate isolation structure in the second direction varies in a downward direction from the upper isolation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun Ki Min, Na Rae Oh
  • Patent number: 12170246
    Abstract: A semiconductor process system etches thin films on semiconductor wafers. The semiconductor process system includes a machine learning based analysis model. The analysis model dynamically selects process conditions for an etching process by receiving static process conditions and target thin-film data. The analysis model identifies dynamic process conditions data that, together with the static process conditions data, result in predicted remaining thin-film data that matches the target thin-film data. The process system then uses the static and dynamic process conditions data for the next etching process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chung-Liang Cheng