Patents Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12189430
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a first housing, a second housing, a flexible display including a first area and a second area, wherein the first area is exposed for view to the outside of the electronic device in a first state, and when the first state is switched to a second state according to movement of the second housing with respect to the first housing, at least a portion of the second area may be exposed for view to the outside of the electronic device together with the first area, and a processor. The processor may be configured to, in the first state, supply power related to driving of the flexible display to a first portion of the second area, the first portion being adjacent to the first area and not exposed for view to the outside through a front surface of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sukdong Kim, Myunghoon Kwak, Moonsun Kim, Junwoo Choi, Changryong Heo
  • Patent number: 12192525
    Abstract: A video signal processor is configured to: obtain at least one transform block for a residual signal of a current block from a video signal bitstream, wherein the transform block comprises a plurality of transform coefficients two-dimensionally arranged, determine, on the basis of length information of a first side of the transform block, a horizontal transform kernel for horizontal transformation of the transform block, regardless of a length of a second side of the transform block, which is orthogonal to the first side, determine, on the basis of length information of the second side, a vertical transform kernel for vertical transformation of the transform block, regardless of a length of the first side, obtain the residual signal of the current block by performing, on the transform block, inverse transformation using the horizontal transform kernel and the vertical transform kernel, and reconstruct the current block based on the residual signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaehong Jung, Juhyung Son, Dongcheol Kim, Geonjung Ko, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 12191029
    Abstract: A method is provided. The method includes identifying whether an amount of change in the pressure detected through an atmospheric pressure sensor is greater than or equal to a specified first threshold, in response to the amount of change in the pressure being greater than or equal to the first threshold, waking up a biometric sensor module including a plurality of electrodes in which some of the plurality of electrodes are disposed to come into contact with a body part of a user when the electronic device is worn, and others thereof are disposed to not come into contact with a body part of the user when the electronic device is worn, and identifying whether an interrupt signal, indicating that a state in which the plurality of electrodes are electrically connected is maintained for a specified first time or more, is received from the biometric sensor module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kihoon Kang, Taekeun Kim, Kihong Min, Sunghun Shin, Kihun Eom, Kyeongmun Jo
  • Patent number: 12192138
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) of a user equipment in a wireless communication system, including identifying an SRS transmission count based on an SRS periodicity, a number of SRS symbols, an SRS repetition factor, a system frame number, a number of slots per a frame for a subcarrier spacing, and a slot number within the frame for the subcarrier spacing, and transmitting, to a base station, the SRS based on the SRS transmission count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Cheol Kyu Shin, Jeong Ho Yeo, Young Woo Kwak, Hoon Dong Noh, Hyun Il Yoo
  • Patent number: 12191246
    Abstract: A chip-on-film package may include a film substrate including a chip region and an edge region, a semiconductor chip provided on the chip region and mounted on a top surface of the film substrate, the semiconductor chip including a chip pad adjacent to a bottom surface thereof, an input line and an output line provided on the edge region and disposed on the top surface of the film substrate, a connection terminal interposed between the film substrate and the semiconductor chip, and a redistribution pattern disposed between the semiconductor chip and the connection terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: KwanJai Lee, Jae-Min Jung, Jeong-Kyu Ha, Sang-Uk Han
  • Patent number: 12189971
    Abstract: Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for managing memory. The method can include: establishing a connection via an interface, between a host device and a storage device; and transferring data, via the interface, between first memory associated with the host device and second memory associated with the storage device by performing a data operation on the second memory by an application executed by the host, where the storage device includes a processing element that accelerates the data operation by performing at least one offload function on the data operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Oscar P. Pinto, Ramdas P. Kachare
  • Patent number: 12191576
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, an antenna structure disposed in an inner space of the housing and including a substrate having a first substrate surface and a second substrate surface facing a direction opposite the first substrate surface, and configured to have a first dielectric constant, a plurality of antenna elements disposed on the substrate at a designated interval and forming a directional beam in a direction toward which the first substrate surface faces, and at least one dielectric disposed on the first substrate surface and configured to have a second dielectric constant, and a wireless communication circuit disposed in the inner space and configured to at least one of transmit or receive a wireless signal in at least one frequency band through the plurality of antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehoon Jo, Hosaeng Kim, Seongjin Park, Sumin Yun, Woomin Jang, Jehun Jong
  • Patent number: 12186657
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and method of changing a display setting. According to an aspect of an exemplary embodiment, the method of changing a display setting in a display device includes operations of: storing a plurality of display settings corresponding to a plurality of game categories; determining a display setting to be used for displaying video data of a currently running game among the plurality of display settings; and changing an actual display setting of the display device according to a determined display setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeon-ji Lee, Dong-hyun Kim, Yu-hyeon Jun
  • Patent number: 12191881
    Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a first comparator configured to generate a first comparison signal on a basis of a first asynchronous clock signal generated from a sampling clock signal, and a second comparator configured to generate a second comparison signal on a basis of a second asynchronous clock signal generated by a first comparison operation completion signal. The ADC includes a first control logic configured to output a first control signal on a basis of the first comparison signal and a second control logic configured to output a second control signal on a basis of the second comparison signal. The ADC includes a first reference signal adjusting circuit configured to adjust a first reference signal on a basis of the first control signal and a second reference signal adjusting circuit configured to adjust a second reference signal on a basis of the second control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Yong Lim
  • Patent number: 12189830
    Abstract: An integrated circuit including: a plurality of physically unclonable function (PUF) cells each configured to generate a cell signal having a unique value; a selector configured to output a first signal obtained by not inverting a cell signal output by a PUF cell selected from the plurality of PUF cells and a second signal obtained by inverting the cell signal; and a key generator configured to generate a security key in response to the first signal or the second signal, wherein the selector includes a first conversion circuit configured to generate the first signal and a second conversion circuit having the same structure as the first conversion circuit and configured to generate the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bohdan Karpinskyy, Yong-ki Lee, Ji-eun Park, Kyoung-moon Ahn, Yun-hyeok Choi
  • Patent number: 12191974
    Abstract: A multi Transmission Reception Point (TRP) system is provided. The system includes a User Equipment (UE), a core network, a plurality of cells, and a Transmission Reception Point (TRP) controller (TRP-C). The core network is defined by a Centralized or Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN). The plurality of cells where each of which is connected to the UE. Each cell includes at least one TRP of a number of TRPs. The TRP-C is connected to the core network, or cloud network or virtual network and to at least one TRP of the number of TRPs in each cell of the plurality of cell. The TRP-C is configured to determine the number of TRPs required for each cell of the plurality of cells to serve the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Neha Sharma, Anshuman Nigam, Anand Madhavrao Baswade, Vikalp Mandawaria
  • Patent number: 12189536
    Abstract: A memory controller receives a write request and write data from a host, stores first entry information including a write buffer pointer indicating a location where the write data is temporarily stored in a write buffer and a first logical address corresponding to the write request in an entry buffer, stores an entry index generated based on the first entry information in a first storage space corresponding to the first logical address in a logical-to-physical (L2P) mapping information storage circuit, and updates the entry index stored in the first storage space to a physical address newly mapped to the first logical address as the write data is programmed in a memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyungbo Yang, Hyeonwu Kim, Dongik Jeon, Soonsuk Hwang
  • Patent number: 12189895
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a touch sensor disposed in the display and including a plurality of lines and a plurality of nodes formed by the plurality of lines, a memory storing instructions, and a processor. The instructions, when being executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to obtain a plurality of node values from each of the plurality of nodes, change the touch sensitivity of the touch sensor from a first touch sensitivity to a second touch sensitivity lower than the first touch sensitivity based on identifying a pattern by the plurality of node values, identify whether to recognize contact on the touch sensor as a touch input through the plurality of line values obtained from each of the plurality of lines based on identifying changes of the pattern by the plurality of node values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bongjun Ko, Sanghun Kwak, Dongnam Byun, Jongmin Wi, Hoondo Heo, Jinyoung Hwang
  • Patent number: 12192622
    Abstract: An electronic device may include: a first camera; a second camera; a memory; and at least one processor configured to: based on a request for execution of an application, obtain a query requesting information on a first specification of the first camera, based on obtaining the query, identify whether the first camera and the second camera have specifications that are different from each other, identify a capturing environment related to the electronic device, based on a result of the identification of whether the first camera and the second camera have specifications that are different from each other, based on a result of the identification of the capturing environment, obtain, from the memory, the information on the first specification of the first camera or information on a second specification of the second camera, the obtained information being related to the execution of the application, and execute the application by providing the obtained information on the first specification or the obtained informat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changhoon Kang, Kwangkyu Park, Sangheum Cho, Byounggeun Choi
  • Patent number: 12192766
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. It is possible to provide methods for enhancing security when a UE and a base station perform data communication in a next-generation mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim, Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 12191290
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a semiconductor chip on the package substrate, the semiconductor chip including a logic chip and a memory stack structure on the logic chip, a connector and a connector terminal below the package substrate, a molding layer that covers the semiconductor chip, the molding layer having a recess region on a top surface of the molding layer, a housing that covers the molding layer, and an air gap on the semiconductor chip, the air gap being defined by the housing and the recess region of the molding layer, and the molding layer separating the air gap from the memory stack structure of the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: In-Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 12192619
    Abstract: An electronic device and a controlling method of the electronic device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaeyeop Lee, Dongchan Kim, Jongmyeong Ban, Hyechan Bae, Dongnam Byun, Seongwo Oh, Haedong Yeo, Jinyoung Hwang
  • Patent number: 12189554
    Abstract: An adaptive interface storage device. In some embodiments, the adaptive interface storage device includes: a rear storage interface connector; an adaptable circuit connected to the rear storage interface connector; a first multiplexer, connected to the adaptable circuit; and a front storage interface connector, connected to the first multiplexer. The adaptive interface storage device may be configured to operate in a first state or in a second state. The adaptive interface storage device may be configured: in the first state, to present a device side storage interface according to a first storage protocol at the front storage interface connector, and in the second state, to present a device side storage interface according to a second storage protocol, different from the first storage protocol, at the front storage interface connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen G. Fischer, Sompong Paul Olarig
  • Patent number: 12189481
    Abstract: In a method of recovering a bootloader in a mobile electronic device, a bootloader recovery signal is transmitted from a bridge board to the mobile electronic device. The bridge board includes a first internal path and a second internal path. The mobile electronic device includes a third internal path and a fourth internal path. The bootloader recovery request signal is transmitted based on the first internal path and the third internal path. a boot mode of the mobile electronic device is changed based on the first internal path and the fourth internal path in response to receiving the bootloader recovery request signal. Bootloader recovery data is transmitted from a host device to the bridge board based on the changed boot mode. The bootloader recovery data is transmitted from the bridge board to the mobile electronic device based on the second internal path and the third internal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daeman Ko, Sanguk Park, Sunghyun Na, Wooseok Oh
  • Patent number: 12190763
    Abstract: An electronic device including a flexible display and a method of transitioning a first execution screen of a first application from one screen area of the flexible display to a second screen area are described. The first area may have a first screen ratio, whereas the second area may have a second screen ratio. The transition may be based on a folded/unfolded state of the electronic device. The transition may be triggered based on switching to/from a folded state. Several other screen areas may be used for additional transitions and provide visual effects to provide a seamless user experience through such transitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hanchul Jung, Sanghyuk Koh, Joseph Kim, Bonghak Choi