Patents Assigned to Samsung Electronic Co, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20140149908
    Abstract: A method controls an electronic device. The method includes detecting a folder display event. The method also includes, in response to detecting the event, displaying a folder and simultaneously displaying a quick menu window including at least one application included in the folder on an area adjacent to the folder without any input with respect to the folder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yong-Joon Jeon
  • Publication number: 20140145719
    Abstract: A method of diagnosing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes forming a gradient magnetic field in a scanning space where a target object is positioned by generating a plurality of modified gradient pulses based on a reference gradient pulse and applying one of the plurality of modified gradient pulses to one of an x-axis coil, a y-axis coil, and a z-axis coil included in a gradient coil, applying a radio frequency (RF) pulse from an RF coil to the target object in the scanning space where the gradient magnetic field corresponding to each of the plurality of modified gradient pulses is formed, receiving a plurality of RF signals that are generated from the target object and correspond to the plurality of modified gradient pulses, and compensating an output of the gradient coil based on the plurality of received RF signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Man-woo LEE, Joon-soo KIM
  • Publication number: 20140149692
    Abstract: A memory controller and an operating method of a memory controller are provided. The operating method includes receiving a command issue from the external host; fetching a command corresponding to the command issue from a memory of the external host in response to the command issue; and controlling the external memory to perform the fetched command. The command is fetched immediately after the command issue is received independently from an execution of a previously fetched command. The memory controller includes a first interface which communicates with a host; and a second interface which communicates with the first interface and with an external memory and is recognized as storage by the host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eunchan KIM, Hojun SHIM
  • Publication number: 20140149910
    Abstract: A method of displaying information relating to medical image acquisition includes: identifying execution procedures for acquiring medical images of an object; generating a state display bar including buttons relating to the execution procedures; and displaying the state display bar on a screen. The buttons are arranged on the state display bar and one of the buttons corresponding to one of the execution procedures has a length that is different from lengths of all or some of other buttons corresponding to other execution procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ja-youn LEE, Na-ri KIM, Olivia LEE, Jong-kee LEE
  • Publication number: 20140149124
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to encoding or decoding an audio signal is provided. In the method and apparatus, a noise-floor level to use in encoding or decoding a high frequency signal is updated according to the degree of a voiced or unvoiced sound included in the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ki-hyun Choo, Eun-mi Oh, Ho-sang Sung, Jung-hoe Kim, Mi-young Kim
  • Publication number: 20140146095
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus and method. The display apparatus includes an image analyzer configured to generate information about an input image, an image classifier configured to classify the input image by using the information about the input image, and an image processor configured to generate a mapping function for outputting the input image by using the information about the input image and classification information regarding the input image, and to set a maximum brightness value of the input image to a maximum brightness value which is input to the mapping function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Hee PARK, Se-Hyeok PARK, Yong-Deok KIM, Jong-Man KIM, Jong-Ho KIM, Byung-Seok MIN, Jeong-hoon PARK, Min-Woo LEE, Ji-Young LEE, Jae-Hun CHO
  • Publication number: 20140149776
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus and a control method thereof includes an image forming unit to form images, a main control unit to control operations of the image forming unit; a switching unit to selectively supply an operating voltage to the main control unit according to a level of the voltage control, a power mode selecting unit to convert an on state or an off state according to a user's operation, a first voltage determining unit to determine a level of the control voltage according to the state of the power mode selecting unit, and a second voltage determining unit to determine the level of the control voltage in parallel with the first voltage determining unit, according to the control signal output from the main control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seog-ho SONG
  • Publication number: 20140144762
    Abstract: A key button apparatus is provided. The key button apparatus includes a housing having an opening, a moveable key button, a sealing member configured to seal the opening of the housing, deformed by movement of the key button, and molded of a plurality of elastic bodies made of different materials, and a switch disposed inside of the housing and pressed by deformation of the sealing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun-Mi CHEONG
  • Publication number: 20140146863
    Abstract: A method of operating a Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless communication system using beamforming includes receiving a reference signal over a plurality of downlink transmit (Tx) beams, measuring channel quality information of the received reference signal, and generating effective channel quality information by compensating for beamforming gain compensation information according to the channel quality information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Yun Seol, Tae-Young Kim, Hyun-Kyu Yu
  • Publication number: 20140144779
    Abstract: A capacitive deionization apparatus may include at least one pair of porous electrodes and a spacer structure disposed between the at least one pair of electrodes. The at least one pair of porous electrodes may include an electrode material having a surface area for the electrostatic adsorption of feed ions. The spacer structure may include an electrically-insulating material with an ion exchange group on the surface thereof. The spacer structure provides a path for flowing a fluid therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Seon JEONG, Hyun Seok KIM, Da Hye PARK, Dong Jin HAM, Hyo Rang KANG
  • Publication number: 20140146461
    Abstract: A secondary memory device includes: a substrate and a housing configured to accommodate at least a part of the substrate. The substrate has upper and lower opposed surfaces and includes a first region in which a first semiconductor device is mounted on the upper surface and a second region in which a second semiconductor device is mounted on the upper surface. The housing includes a first sub-housing covering the upper surface of the substrate at the first region and the first semiconductor device. The first sub-housing does not extend to cover the upper surface of the substrate at the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-young Choi, Joon-young Oh, Hee-youb Kang, Jung-hoon Kim, Won-hwa Lee, Jae-beom Byun, Jong-yun Yun
  • Publication number: 20140148007
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first side and a second side such that the first and second sides face each other, a through via plug penetrating the substrate, an insulating film liner, and an antipollution film. The insulating film liner is between the through via plug and the substrate and the insulating film liner has a recessed surface with respect to the second side. The antipollution film covers the second side and the antipollution film is on the recessed surface and between the through via plug and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hwang KIM, Sunpil YOUN, Sangwon KIM, Kwang-chul CHOI, Tae Hong MIN
  • Publication number: 20140145331
    Abstract: A multi-chip package may include a system on a chip (SOC) and a plurality of memory devices arranged in the same layer on the SOC. Accordingly, as the multi-chip package may not need to use a TSV, so that manufacturing cost of the multi-chip package is reduced. Moreover, a memory bandwidth between the SOC and the first and second memory devices may increase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: DOO-HEE HWANG, SANG-KIL LEE
  • Publication number: 20140146925
    Abstract: A communication apparatus with a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) channel, includes a minimum mean square error (MMSE) detector configured to estimate quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbols based on signals received through the MIMO channel. The apparatus further includes a QAM demodulator configured to demodulate the estimated QAM symbols, and estimate a first posterior probability of each of encoded bits of the estimated QAM symbols, and a first module configured to remove a first prior probability of each of the encoded bits from the first posterior probability to generate soft estimates of the encoded bits. The apparatus further includes a channel decoder configured to decode the encoded bits based on the soft estimates, and generate an improved posterior probability of each of the encoded bits, and a second module configured to generate a second prior probability of each of the encoded bits based on the improved posterior probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Andrey Leonidovich Rog, Alexei Olegovich Melnikov, Michael Vladimirovich Golikov, Vitaliy Borisovich Kreyndelin, Mikhail Germanovich Bakulin
  • Publication number: 20140149606
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods related to a server, a multimedia apparatus and a control method thereof, are provided. More particularly, the apparatuses and methods relate to a server, a multimedia apparatus and a control method thereof which synchronously plays multimedia contents through a plurality of multimedia apparatuses. A multimedia apparatus includes: a communicator configured to be connected to a server; and a controller configured to transmit to the server a request to start playing a multimedia content, receive synchronization information from the server that is necessary for synchronously playing the multimedia content. The synchronization information from the server is determined on the basis of the play start request, and synchronously plays the multimedia content based on the received synchronization information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang LIU, Chunhong SUN, Chunbo ZHU
  • Publication number: 20140149905
    Abstract: An electronic device and a page navigation method thereof for facilitating navigation among pages are provided. The method disclosure includes displaying a first page, detecting a touch gesture requesting navigation to a second page on a screen displaying the first page, displaying the second page overlapped with the first page upon detection of the touch gesture, changing a transparency of at least one of the first and second pages according to a distance between a current touch point and an initial touch point of the touch gesture, and displaying, when the touch gesture is released, one of the first and second pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungsoo WOO, Yongjoon JEON, Kwangweon PARK
  • Publication number: 20140146873
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying a tile size adaptively based on a size of a coding unit. An image processing apparatus may detect a size of a largest coding unit (LCU) used in encoding of a video from a header of a bitstream, may determine a tile size adaptively based on the detected size of the LCU, and may decode the bitstream in units of the LCU based on the determined tile size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Jo LEE, Do Hyung KIM, Joon Ho SONG, Shi Hwa LEE
  • Publication number: 20140148208
    Abstract: A method of reducing power consumption of a receiver includes identifying a plurality of sensors for transmitting a signal, generating data for controlling a transmission operation of the plurality of sensors, and transmitting the data to the plurality of sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jong Pal Kim
  • Publication number: 20140146834
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for dynamically changing upper bound on size of data packets. In one embodiment, a transmitting device determines a need to change existing negotiated maximum size for an active connection when size of data packets for an application is switched, a new application is mapped to the active connection or Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of broadband wireless network is changed. Then, the transmitting device sends a request message indicating a new negotiated maximum size for changing the existing negotiated maximum size to the receiving device. The receiving device sends a response message confirming change to the new negotiated maximum size to the transmitting device. Accordingly, the transmitting device and the receiving device uses the new negotiated maximum size for building data packets and decoding the received data packets respectively based on a predefined parameter (e.g., sequence number/action time) indicated in the request/response message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Young-Bin Chang
  • Publication number: 20140146776
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for allocating an uplink resource for a User Equipment (UE). The method includes receiving a downlink control channel and a downlink data channel corresponding to the downlink control channel from a base station; identifying a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH) resource index for the downlink data channel based on a first Control Channel Element (CCE) of the downlink control channel; and transmitting a PUCCH in an uplink subframe based on the identified PUCCH resource index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingyang Li, Xiaoqiang Li