Patents Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11031956
    Abstract: A method for storing data within a memory device includes receiving data to be stored. The received data is encoded. The encoded data is stored within the memory device. Encoding the received data includes encoding the data into two or more sub-codewords. Each of the two or more sub-codewords includes a plurality of outer codewords. Two or more of the plurality of outer codewords are grouped to form a larger codeword that is larger than each of the plurality of outer codewords and the larger codeword is constructed to correct errors and/or erasures that are not correctable by the plurality of outer codewords, individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Amit Berman, Ariel Doubchak, Avner Dor
  • Patent number: 11031424
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a photoelectric conversion layer including a plurality of first photoelectric conversion elements and a plurality of second photoelectric conversion elements adjacent to the first photoelectric conversion elements. A light shield layer shields the second photoelectric conversion elements and has respective openings therein that provide light transmission to respective ones of the first photoelectric conversion elements. The image sensor further includes an array of micro-lenses on the photoelectric conversion layer, each of the micro-lenses overlapping at least one of the first photoelectric conversion elements and at least one of the second photoelectric conversion elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Ki Lee, Bumsuk Kim, Jonghoon Park, Junsung Park
  • Publication number: 20210165747
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory system is disclosed. The nonvolatile memory system includes a host device and a storage device connected to the host device through a physical cable including a power line and a data line. The storage device includes: a nonvolatile memory; a link controller configured to temporarily deactivate the data line while supplying power from the host device through the power line; and a memory controller including a user verification circuit configured to authenticate a user of the storage device and change a state of the memory controller according to a verification result, a relink trigger circuit configured to control the link controller based on the state change of the memory controller, and a data processing circuit configured to encrypt and decrypt data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwasoo Lee, Mingon Shin, Seungjae Lee, Myeongjong Ju
  • Publication number: 20210168430
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communication interface; a display; an internal speaker; and a processor configured to control the internal speaker to generate a first audio signal and control the communication interface to transmit a signal to control an external audio device to generate a second audio signal that is synchronized with the first audio signal. The processor is configured to: obtain a first processing time regarding the first audio signal and a second processing time regarding the second audio signal; and control the internal speaker and the communication interface based on the first processing time and the second processing time so that a difference between a first output timing of the first audio signal and a second output timing of the second audio signal is less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hanki Kim, Haekwang Park, Woojung Lee, Youngsuk Song, Junhyuk Im
  • Publication number: 20210165269
    Abstract: A display device according to the present disclosure comprises: a display panel comprising a color filter layer consisting of a plurality of color filters arranged in a matrix form and black matrices disposed between the plurality of color filters; a backlight configured to supply light to the display panel; and a light-collecting layer disposed on the display panel, wherein the light-collecting layer comprises a tunnel member having a plurality of vertical spaces respectively corresponding to the plurality of color filters, and a prism-layer in which first prisms having a first direction and second prisms having a second direction intersecting the first direction are alternately arranged, and disposed on the tunnel member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Jeongshan NA
  • Publication number: 20210165987
    Abstract: Provided are a combined fingerprint recognition touch sensor, an electronic apparatus including the same, and a fingerprint enrollment method to which the same is applied. The combined fingerprint recognition touch sensor includes parallel transmission lines extending in a touch sensing region, and a plurality of parallel reception lines extending in the touch sensing region to intersect the transmission lines. A signal transmitter includes a plurality of transmission groups so as to apply driving signals to the transmission lines. A storage is configured to store an enrolled fingerprint image to be compared with an enrolled fingerprint for fingerprint authentication. In the fingerprint enrollment mode, a fingerprint image of a finger is obtained through one touch operation by applying driving signals to transmission lines belonging to two or more transmission groups and reading a fingerprint image of a sensing zone including an initial touch region and a surrounding region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinmyoung KIM, Huijin LEE, Minchul YU
  • Publication number: 20210166304
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a processor configured to obtain first upscaling information of an input image using an artificial intelligence (AI) model that is trained to obtain upscaling information of an image. The processor is also configured to downscale the input image based on the obtained first upscaling information, and obtain an output image by upscaling the downscaled image based on an output resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donghyun KIM, Jisu LEE, Youngsu MOON, Seungho PARK, Taegyoung AHN, Younghoon JEONG
  • Publication number: 20210166717
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of transmitting and receiving a speech signal. The method of transmitting a speech signal includes extracting low frequency feature information from an input speech signal by using a first feature extracting network; and transmitting a speech signal corresponding to the low frequency feature information to a receiving end. The method of receiving a speech signal includes receiving a first speech signal transmitted by a transmitting end; extracting low frequency feature information from the first speech signal and recovering high frequency feature information based on the low frequency feature information, by using a second feature extracting network; and outputting a second speech signal including the low frequency feature information and the high frequency feature information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang WEN, Lizhong WANG, Anxi YI, Chao MIN, Liangxi YAO
  • Publication number: 20210166768
    Abstract: A memory device including at least one dummy word line over a substrate; a plurality of word lines over the dummy word line; and a plurality of vertical holes extending through the at least one dummy word line and the plurality of word lines in a direction perpendicular to the substrate and classified into channel holes and dummy holes, each of the channel holes being connected to a bit line. The method including performing an erase operation on dummy cells formed as the dummy word line and the dummy holes; verifying the erase operation; and performing a program operation on at least one of the dummy cells such that the at least one dummy cell has a higher threshold voltage than main cells formed as the dummy word line and the channel holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yo-han LEE
  • Publication number: 20210167727
    Abstract: A voltage-controlled oscillator includes a first transistor, a second transistor, an inductive impedance element, a first variable capacitive impedance element, and a second variable capacitive impedance element. The first transistor has a source coupled to a first power source, a drain coupled to a first node, and a gate coupled to a second node. The second transistor has a source coupled to the first power source, a drain coupled to the second node, and a gate coupled to the first node. The inductive impedance element has a first terminal coupled to the first node and a second terminal coupled to the second node. The first variable capacitive impedance element has a first terminal coupled to the first node and a second terminal coupled to a third node. The second variable capacitive impedance element has a first terminal coupled to the second node and a second terminal coupled to the third node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Yoshimasu, Kouki Tanji, Tsuyoshi Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20210165047
    Abstract: A method with battery state estimation may include: generating a plurality of electrochemical-thermal (ECT) models corresponding to modeling conditions based on an arbitrary parameter of an ECT model configured to perform modeling of a battery; determining a target parameter of the ECT model based on an error between an actual state of the battery and a model-derived state of the battery obtained by a parallel operation of the plurality of ECT models; and estimating a state of the battery based on the target parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeonghyun PARK, Kaeweon YOU, Jinho KIM
  • Publication number: 20210167054
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor package including a first semiconductor chip on a substrate, a second semiconductor chip on the substrate and laterally spaced apart from the first semiconductor chip, a dummy chip on the first semiconductor chip, and a dielectric layer between the first semiconductor chip and the dummy chip. A top surface of the first semiconductor chip may be lower than a top surface of the second semiconductor chip. The dielectric layer may include an inorganic dielectric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Younglyong KIM
  • Publication number: 20210164723
    Abstract: A refrigerator including a main body forming a storage compartment, and a door configured to open and close the storage compartment. The door includes a door body rotatably coupled to the main body and including an insulator therein, a panel body positioned in a front of the door body, a first trim disposed at a first edge of the panel body and configured to be coupled to the door body while being rotated with respect to the door body, and a second trim disposed at a second edge opposite to the first edge of the panel body and configured to be coupled to the door body when the first trim is coupled to the door body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chomin LEE, Yang-Yeol GU, Dongyeong KIM, Byoungmok KIM, Yonghan KIM, Taecheol PARK, Yongman SEO, Jinyoung SONG, Yountae SHIN, Byungkwan YANG
  • Publication number: 20210166470
    Abstract: An apparatus for representing a three-dimensional (3D) object, the apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to transmit a two-dimensional (2D) image to an external device, based on the 2D image being transmitted, receive, from the external device, mapping function parameters that are obtained using a first neural network, set a mapping function of a second neural network, based on the received mapping function parameters, and based on 3D samples, obtain the 3D object corresponding to the 2D image, using the second neural network of which the mapping function is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eric Mitchell, Selim Engin, Volkan Isler, Daniel Lee
  • Publication number: 20210166089
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for controlling the electronic device are provided. The method for controlling the electronic device includes, based on an occurrence of an event for outputting information being determined, obtaining data for determining a context corresponding to the electronic device, inputting the obtained data to a first model trained by an artificial intelligence algorithm and obtaining information about a person located in a vicinity of the electronic device, inputting the obtained information about the person and information about the event to a second model trained by an artificial intelligence algorithm and obtaining output information corresponding to the event, and providing the obtained output information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sojung YUN, Yehoon KIM, Chanwon SEO
  • Publication number: 20210167760
    Abstract: A relaxation oscillator and a method of controlling the relaxation oscillator are disclosed. The relaxation oscillator includes a reference voltage generating circuit configured to generate a reference voltage based on a transistor-based resistor, a variable voltage generating circuit configured to generate a variable voltage based on the reference voltage and a control switch, a threshold voltage generating circuit configured to generate a threshold voltage using a switched-capacitor resistor circuit, and a switch control circuit configured to output a control signal to control the control switch based on the variable voltage and the threshold voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hankyu LEE
  • Publication number: 20210166045
    Abstract: A method with liveness testing may include: acquiring an infrared (IR) image including an object, and a depth image including the object; generating a first preprocessed IR image by performing first edge enhancement preprocessing on the IR image; generating a preprocessed depth image by performing second edge enhancement preprocessing on the depth image; and determining whether the object is a genuine object based on the first preprocessed IR image and the preprocessed depth image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngjun KWAK, Byung In YOO, Yong-Il LEE, Yunhao ZHANG, Huxing SUN
  • Patent number: D921627
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gye-Jin Jun
  • Patent number: D921646
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minwook Na, Chawon Seo
  • Patent number: D921867
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deok-Sang Yun, Jae-Ho Jang, Dah-We Park, Gi-Hoon Ko