Patents Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20250149085
    Abstract: A device with a neural network includes: a synaptic memory cell comprising a resistive memory element, which is disposed along an output line and which has either one of a first resistance value and a second resistance value, and configured to generate a column signal based on the resistive memory element and an input signal in response to the input signal being received through an input line; a reference memory cell comprising a reference memory element, which is disposed along a reference line and which has the second resistance value different from the first resistance value, and configured to generate a reference signal based on the reference memory element and the input signal; and an output circuit configured to generate an output signal for the output line from the column signal and the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Hoon CHUN, Jiho SONG, Yoonmyung LEE, Jua LEE
  • Publication number: 20250147920
    Abstract: A multi-core processor according to some example embodiments may be a multi-core processor including a plurality of cores, and may include a first core that receives a task migration instruction, and transmits metadata including branch prediction data obtained during execution of a migration subject task determined as a subject of the task migration instruction among a plurality of tasks, to an external memory, and a second core that receives a task execution instruction, and reads the metadata from the external memory on the basis of the task execution instruction, and executes the migration subject task using the metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moongyung KIM, Euiyeon WON, Donghyeon HAM, Youngsik EOM, Ara CHO
  • Publication number: 20250149942
    Abstract: A motor may include a shaft, a stator and a rotor. The rotor may include a plurality of magnets, a casing and a rotor core. The rotor core may include a plurality of first core layers and a plurality of second core layers. The first core layer may include a base part through which the shaft passes, a plurality of core parts spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction of the base part, and a plurality of bridge parts configured so that each of the plurality of bridge parts extends from a corresponding core part of the plurality of core parts toward the base part, and is bent toward the corresponding core part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Woong HWANG
  • Publication number: 20250151293
    Abstract: A high bandwidth memory includes a base die and a memory stack on the base die. The memory stack includes a plurality of memory dies. The memory stack includes a first memory die closest to the base die among the plurality of memory dies and having a first width in a horizontal direction, and a second memory die on the first memory die and having a second width in the horizontal direction, the first width is smaller than the second width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeehyun JUNG, Hansung RYU, Jongbeom PARK
  • Publication number: 20250146876
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a bolometer pixel and a bolometer array. The bolometer pixel includes: a substrate; an absorber configured to absorb incoming light in a predetermined wavelength range and having a central absorbent body that floats above the substrate by supports; and a reflector having a reflective layer provided on the substrate to reflect light incident on the substrate, and a pattern layer provided on the reflective layer to have lens power to concentrate the incident light onto the central absorbent body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won Taek SEO, Anton SOFRONOV, Se Yoon KIM, Byong Gwon SONG, Jang Woo YOU, Du Hyun LEE
  • Publication number: 20250148748
    Abstract: Provided are a method and electronic device for interactive image segmentation. The method includes receiving one or more user inputs for segmenting at least one object from among a plurality of objects in an image. The method includes generating a unified guidance map indicates the at least one object to be segmented based on the one or more user inputs. The method includes generating a complex supervision image based on the unified guidance map. The method includes segmenting the at least one object from the image by passing the image, the complex supervision image and the unified guidance map through an adaptive Neural Network (NN) model. The method includes storing the at least one segmented object from the image. Further, the method include configuring the parameters of an adaptive Neural Network based on color complexity analysis, edge complexity analysis and geometry complexity analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Samsung electronics Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Praful MATHUR, Shashi Kumar Parwani, Darshana Venkatesh Murthy, Roopa Kotiganahally Sheshadri, Aman Sharma, Veerendra K Shetty, Sunmin Park
  • Publication number: 20250149084
    Abstract: Provided are a memory device for implementing a multi-level memory and a method of implementing a multi-level memory by using the memory device. The memory device includes first and second electrodes apart from each other, a self-selecting memory layer between the first and second electrodes having an ovonic threshold switching characteristic, including a chalcogenide-based material, and configured to have a threshold voltage varying depending on a polarity of and strength of a voltage applied thereto, and a resistive memory layer between the second electrode and the self-selecting memory layer and having a resistance characteristic varying depending on a voltage applied thereto. The memory device is configured to implement multi-level resistance states by changing at least one of a pulse polarity, a number of pulses, pulse height, and a pulse width of a voltage applied between the first and second electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changseung LEE, Minwoo CHOI, Bonwon KOO, Hajun SUNG, Kiyeon YANG
  • Publication number: 20250150923
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) supporting a first radio access technology (RAT) network and a second RAT network, the UE includes processing circuitry configured to monitor whether a position of the UE has changed from a first position to obtain a monitoring result, a network connected to the UE switching from the first RAT network to the second RAT network based on the UE moving to the first position, and perform a re-connection operation to the first RAT network based on the monitoring result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yangsoo KWON, Jonggun MOON, Seungjin CHOI, Yoojin CHOI, Jinho KIM, Woongjae HAN
  • Publication number: 20250145444
    Abstract: A water purifier may include a water tank divided into a first water tank in which water is storable and a second water tank in which water is storable; a water temperature regulator positioned between the first water tank and the second water tank so as to contact water stored in the first water tank and water stored in the second water tank, and configured to change a temperature of the water stored in the first water tank and a temperature of the water stored in the second water tank; a first water outlet valve configured to output the water stored in the first water tank; and a second water outlet valve configured to output the water stored in the second water tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seokuk KIM, Junggeun LEE, Seonjeong LEE, Doyun JANG, Bumseup KIM
  • Publication number: 20250147177
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting an object may include: a transmitter configured to emit a frequency-modulated ultrasonic signal toward the object; a receiver configured to receive an echo signal from the object in response to the frequency-modulated ultrasonic signal being reflected from the object; a mixer configured to mix the frequency-modulated ultrasonic signal with the echo signal to output a mixer signal; and one or more processors configured to estimate a distance from the apparatus to the object based on the mixer signal, and detect a characteristic of the object based on the estimated distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Yun PARK, Byung Hoon KO, Seung Woo NOH, Jin Woo CHOI, Seung Tae KHANG
  • Publication number: 20250144521
    Abstract: A display device including: a display; a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions to: control the display to display a first image based on receiving the first image, the first image including a first sub-image on a first information area of the first image; control the display to display a second image, different from the first image, based on receiving the second image; determine a plurality of candidate areas of the second image, based on a first aspect ratio of the first image, a second aspect ratio of the second image, and location information of the first information area; determine priorities of the plurality of candidate areas based on the location information of the first information area and the second aspect ratio; and identify, based on the priorities, a second information area corresponding to the first information area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungchang JANG, Yongwoo Shin
  • Publication number: 20250149077
    Abstract: An input/output interface circuit includes a common receiving driver configured to receive a differential clock signal and output a first clock signal corresponding to the differential clock signal and a pair of sub-channels connected to the common receiving driver. Each sub-channel of the pair of sub-channels may be configured to receive the first clock signal and a chip select signal, output a second clock signal through a logical AND operation of the first clock signal and the chip select signal, and output a single clock signal, among the second clock signal and one or more divided clock signals. The single clock signal is used to sample a command address signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungwoo Yoon, Jaemin Choi, ChangSik Yoo, Ki-Heung Kim, Hoseok Seol, Youngdo Um, Hyongryol Hwang
  • Publication number: 20250148957
    Abstract: A display device including: a display; and at least one processor connected to the display and configured to control the display device, where the at least one processor is configured to: identify an input image as a plurality of areas, identify a type of each of the plurality of areas by identifying at least one of the plurality of areas as a focus area and by identifying other areas of the plurality of areas as a background area, obtain a global tone mapping curve (TMC) for the input image based on a pixel level reduction amount corresponding to a target power consumption reduction amount, allocate a power consumption reduction amount to each of the plurality of areas based on the type of each of the plurality of areas, obtain a local tone mapping curve for each of the plurality of areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jonghwan KIM, Seonseok KIM, Guiwon SEO, Chun ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20250150628
    Abstract: Provided is an image decoding method including: obtaining, from a bitstream, a syntax element regarding multiple transform selection (MTS) with respect to a current coding unit or a current transform unit included in the current coding unit; determining a horizontal transform kernel or a vertical transform kernel with respect to the current transform unit based on the obtained syntax element; obtaining a residual signal by performing inverse transformation on the current transform unit, based on the determined horizontal transform kernel or vertical transform kernel with respect to the current transform unit; and generating a reconstruction block including the current coding unit or the current transform unit based on the residual signal with respect to the current transform unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiho CHOI, Minsoo PARK, Minwoo PARK, Woongil CHOI, Yinji PIAO, Seungsoo JEONG, Narae CHOI, Anish TAMSE
  • Publication number: 20250150563
    Abstract: Provided is a method of operating an assessment device which communicates with an image sensor and includes an input buffer and a processor, the method including receiving, by the input buffer, raw image data from the image sensor that is configured to capture a test chart, generating, by the processor, conversion image data based on color domain transformation of the raw image data, generating, by the processor, estimation image data by estimating a non-distorted image based on the conversion image data, and assessing, by the processor, color distortion of the image sensor based on the estimation image data and the conversion image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jungmin Lee, Seunghyeok June, Jiyun Bang, Sungsu Kim, Joon-Seo Yim
  • Publication number: 20250150640
    Abstract: There is provide an image encoding method including transforming an image block into a first latent representation based on an invertible neural network, transforming the first latent representation into a second latent representation based on a non-invertible neural network, estimating a probability distribution of the first latent representation, and performing entropy encoding on the first latent representation based on the probability distribution by using an entropy encoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Eon KIM, Won Hee Lee, Jun Hyuk Kim, Jeong Won Kim, Young Hun Sung, Won Seop Song, Jung Yeop Yang, Do Kwan Oh, Sung Ho Jun, Woo Suk Choi, Jong Seong Choi
  • Publication number: 20250147690
    Abstract: An operating method of a storage device includes fetching, from an external host device, write command and write data, based on a 0-th fetch rate, storing the write data in a write cache region of a buffer memory device of the storage device, performing write cache processing with respect to the write cache region, based on a 0-th cache processing rate, the performing write cache processing including storing, in a nonvolatile memory device of the storage device, the write data of the write cache region, detecting a write cache level of the write cache region, and controlling the 0-th cache processing rate, based on the write cache level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-suk MOON, Bokyoung KIM, Hee Hyun NAM, Jinwoo SONG, Hyewon JEONG
  • Publication number: 20250150562
    Abstract: An electronic device configured to project an image on a screen whose curvature is variable, may include: a projector; at least one processor; a communication interface configured to communicate with the screen; and memory storing images and instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: obtain a curvature value of the screen based on context information related to the screen; transmit a control signal through the communication interface to the screen for bending the screen based on the curvature value; correct an image of the images stored in the memory based on the curvature value; and control the projector to project the corrected image on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Kisung LEE, Kibum SEONG, Bonseuk GOO, Youngtae KIM, Byungseok SOH, Youngchol LEE, Weonhee LEE, Yongseok JANG
  • Publication number: 20250150725
    Abstract: A thermal imaging sensor may include: a pixel array in which pixels with microbolometers are arranged in an M×N matrix, where M and N are integers greater than or equal to 2; a row controller configured to output a row control signal through one or more row control signal lines to select and control a predetermined row from among multiple rows; switches connected to the one or more row control signal lines and disposed at each pixel; and a plurality of column integrators configured to read a current signal from the pixel array obtained through a pixel output line and convert it into a voltage signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Ho KONG, Jin Myoung Kim, Se Yoon Kim, Du Hyun Lee
  • Publication number: 20250151629
    Abstract: A magnetoresistive random access memory device may include a wiring structure on a substrate, an etch stop layer on the wiring structure, an interlayer insulation layer on the etch stop layer, a plurality of contact structures penetrating the interlayer insulation layer and the etch stop layer to contact the wiring structure, each of the plurality of contact structures including a first portion having a sidewall facing the interlayer insulation layer and a second portion having a sidewall facing the etch stop layer, and a plurality of magnetic tunnel junction structures on the plurality of contact structures and connected to corresponding ones of the plurality of contact structures, respectively, wherein a first width of the first portion in a first horizontal direction is greater than a second width of the second portion in the first horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyungjong JEONG