Patents Assigned to Samsung Electronic Co, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11449199
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a layout generation system for generating dynamic User Interface (UI) layout for an electronic device. The method includes identifying one or more operations related to at least one UI element based on a current state of a display screen of the electronic device, calculating a saliency score and an aesthetic score for each of a plurality of grids determined on the display screen, based on the calculated saliency score and the calculated aesthetic score, identifying a plurality of candidate regions, identifying an optimal region from the plurality of candidate regions based on a user interaction score and generating the dynamic UI layout by performing the one or more operations related to the at least one UI element in the optimal region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Parameswaranath Vadackupurath Mani, Mahender Rampelli, Mohamed Akram Ulla Shariff, Shankar Natarajan, Sreevatsa Dwaraka Bhamidipati, Sujay Srinivasa Murthy
  • Patent number: 11450684
    Abstract: A memory device includes a lower structure and a plurality of upper structures stacked on the lower structure. The lower structure includes a peripheral circuit, and an upper bonding pad disposed on a top surface of the lower structure. Each of the plurality of upper structures includes a bit line, a through via, and a lower bonding pad disposed on a bottom surface of the upper structures and connected to the through via. Each of upper structures, other than an uppermost upper structure, further includes an upper bonding pad disposed on a top surface thereof and connected to the through via. The bit line includes a gap separating a first portion of the bit line from a second portion thereof in the horizontal direction, and the through via overlaps the gap of the bit line in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woosung Yang, Byungjin Lee, Bumkyu Kang, Joonsung Lim
  • Patent number: 11451871
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication interface for communicating with an external device, an input interface for receiving a user input, a memory storing at least one bookmark information about bookmarked contents, an output interface including at least one of a display and a speaker, and a processor electrically connected with the communication interface, the input interface, the memory, and the output interface. In addition, various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Min Kim, Song Ah Choi
  • Patent number: 11449430
    Abstract: Provided is a method of data storage, the method including receiving a write request including a user key, determining the user key exists in a cache, generating or updating metadata corresponding to the user key, writing data corresponding to the write request to a storage device, converting the metadata to a device format corresponding to the storage device, and storing the metadata on the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heekwon Park, Ho bin Lee, Ilgu Hong, Yang Seok Ki
  • Patent number: 11451243
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication scheme and a system thereof for converging IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4G system. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, services related to a smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security, and safety) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. A decoding method includes: performing decoding through an inner code; detecting an error through an outer code; determining a re-encoding method; and performing re-encoding. A method for processing a signal includes decoding a first layer signal to determine first LDPC information bits, encoding the first LDPC information bits and a first parity bits to determine second parity bits; identifying a part of the first LDPC information bits, and decoding a second layer signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seho Myung, Min Jang, Yangsoo Kwon, Hoondong Noh
  • Patent number: 11450230
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a user interface; a wireless communication circuit configured to communicate with an external electronic device; a processor; and a memory electrically connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: identify a user input to start a meditation program via the user interface; start the meditation program in response to the identified user input; receive data related to a stress level of a user measured by the external electronic device during execution of the meditation program from the external electronic device via the wireless communication circuit; and display visual information on the user interface, wherein the visual information visually indicates a stress level change of the user resulting from the execution of the meditation program, based on at least a portion of the received data. In addition, various embodiments identified herein are realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinmook Lim, Seunggu Kang, Hyogil Kim, Haebahremahram Suh, Kumhwa Baek
  • Patent number: 11449178
    Abstract: A meta projector includes an edge emitting device configured to emit light through a side surface thereof, a meta-structure layer spaced apart from the upper surface of the edge emitting device that includes a plurality of nanostructures having a sub-wavelength shape dimension smaller than a wavelength of the light emitted from the edge emitting device, and a path changing member configured to change a path of the light emitted from the edge emitting device so as to direct the path toward the meta-structure layer. The meta projector may thus be configured to emit a light pattern of structured light, based on directing the light emitted from the edge emitting device through the meta-structure layer, while having a relatively compact device size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seunghoon Han, Byunghoon Na, Jangwoo You
  • Patent number: 11452140
    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 random access method, including: acquiring configuration information, transmitting a first message including a preamble and an uplink shared channel according to the configuration information, and receiving a second message including contention resolution information from a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen Qian, Bin Yu, Qi Xiong, Feifei Sun, Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 11450055
    Abstract: A method for of playing an animation image, the method including: obtaining a plurality of images; displaying a first image of the plurality of images; detecting a first event as a trigger to play the animation image for a first object of the first image; and playing the animation image for the first object using the plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pavan Sudheendra, Sarvesh, Yogesh Manav, Adappa M Gourannavar, Rahul Varna, Sumanta Baruah
  • Patent number: 11451267
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique converging a 5G communication system with IoT technology to support a higher data transmission rate in a beyond-4G system. The present disclosure, based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology, can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail industry, and security and safety-related services). Disclosed in the present invention are a transreceiving method and an apparatus to which beam diversity is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungju Kim, Daehyun Kim, Taekyoung Kim, Eungkuk Nam, Joosung Park, Wonjun Hwang
  • Patent number: 11451728
    Abstract: An organic photoelectric film on a substrate may perform photoelectric conversion of incident light. Pixel electrodes are arranged in a matrix form in an X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction between the substrate and the organic photoelectric film. A driving circuit may read pixel information from each pixel electrode of a pixel electrode line including a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in the X-axis direction, and applies an on-voltage or an off-voltage to each pixel electrode 40 of the pixel electrode line. The driving circuit may scan a photoelectric conversion ON region to which the on-voltage is applied in the ?Y-axis direction in synchronization with a timing of scanning a read line to which the pixel information is read in the ?Y-axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Okazaki, Mineki Taoka
  • Patent number: 11449968
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, using at least one processor of an electronic device, multiple video frames of a video stream and multiple depth frames corresponding to the multiple video frames. The method also includes generating, using the at least one processor, multiple blur kernel maps based on the multiple depth frames. The method further includes reducing, using the at least one processor, depth errors in each of the multiple blur kernel maps. The method also includes performing, using the at least one processor, temporal smoothing on the multiple blur kernel maps to suppress temporal artifacts between different ones of the multiple blur kernel maps. In addition, the method includes generating, using the at least one processor, blur effects in the video stream using the multiple blur kernel maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaimo Lin, Chenchi Luo, Yingmao Li, Youngjun Yoo
  • Patent number: 11451270
    Abstract: An end-to-end digital beamforming system includes a transmitter configured to transmit data and a receive configured to receive the data. Each of the transmitter and receiver includes a transceiver configured to communicate via a wired or wireless communication medium. Each of the transmitter and receiver also includes a processor and a base-tile antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna tiles. Each of the antenna tiles includes a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) and an antenna-array-in-package comprising a plurality of antenna elements. The antenna tiles are disposed a different rotations such that a first antenna tile is disposed to transmit a first signal at a first polarization and a second antenna tile is disposed to transmit a second signal at a second polarization. Additionally, each of the antenna tiles transmits a part of a bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shadi Abu-Surra, Won Suk Choi, Gang Xu
  • Patent number: 11449631
    Abstract: An electronic device, system, and method are disclosed. The electronic device operates within a system of multiple devices. The electronic device, in response to the request of the information owner requesting the provision of personal information to the information requester, requests the authentication server to verify the validity of the information owner's request and the validity of the information requester's identity. If the verification is successful, the electronic device obtains the personal information corresponding to the request and provides it directly to the information requester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gawon Lee, Daehaeng Cho, Eunyoung Kwon, Taeckki Lee
  • Patent number: 11451645
    Abstract: A method of data storage includes determining a latency distance from a primary node to each of two or more replica nodes, choosing a preferred replica node of the two or more replica nodes based on the determined latency distances, and write-caching data into the preferred replica node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhengyu Yang, Jiayin Wang, Thomas David Evans
  • Patent number: 11449733
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a neural network training device for recognizing a class of an object included in an image based on an artificial intelligence (AI) system and an application thereof, the neural network training method including: acquiring, by using a first learning network model trained based on source training images respectively included in at least one class, feature information of a query image included in a class different from the at least one class; obtaining a generated image from the feature information of the query image by using a second learning network model acquiring feature information of the obtained generated image by using the first learning network model; and updating weights of layers respectively included in the first and second learning network models, based on a difference between the feature information of the query image and the feature information of the generated image and on a difference between the query image and the generated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jun-mo Kim, Byung-ju Kim, Joo-chang Kim, Ye-gang Lee, Min-seok Park, Ju-seung Yun, Jae-young Lee, Dong-gyu Joo
  • Patent number: 11449319
    Abstract: An operating method of a terminal, in which a smart secure platform (SSP) is embedded, in a wireless communication system, includes obtaining an activation code, detecting an SSP activation code delimiter in the activation code, detecting an SSP activation code in the activation code by using the SSP activation code delimiter, and downloading at least one of a bundle or an applet by using the SSP activation code, wherein the SSP activation code delimiter is used to separate the SSP activation code from an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) activation code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonghoe Koo, Kangjin Yoon, Duckey Lee, Hyewon Lee
  • Patent number: D964336
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seo Lee, Seungchan Lee, Sangchulmatt Lee, Hoon Han, Yunjeong Ji, Seonkeun Park, Duyeong Choi
  • Patent number: D964354
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Keun Son, Ji Young Lee, Hyok Su Choi, Da Wi Lee
  • Patent number: D964421
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyosang Bang