Patents Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co.
  • Publication number: 20240171426
    Abstract: A communication device, including a receiver configured to receive a signal from a transmitter, the signal including a plurality of data symbols; and at least one processor configured to: obtain a channel estimate and an estimated carrier frequency offset based on a result of an interference detection indicating whether interference is detected in the plurality of data symbols, obtain a data symbol of the plurality of data symbols, obtain a compensated data symbol corresponding to the data symbol based on the estimated carrier frequency offset, obtain an equalized compensated data symbol by performing channel equalization on the compensated data symbol based on the channel estimate, and demodulate and decode the equalized compensated data symbol to obtain decoded data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ziming He
  • Publication number: 20240167212
    Abstract: A clothes treating system including a first clothes treating apparatus including a circuitry module to control the first clothes treating apparatus, the circuitry module including a circuitry case, a connection circuit board mounted inside the circuitry case, and a control panel to cover the circuitry module. The connection circuit board is configured to be connectable by wire to a second clothes treating apparatus positioned at one side of the first clothes treating apparatus. The circuitry module is configured to control the first clothes treating apparatus and the second clothes treating apparatus when the second clothes treating apparatus is connected to the first clothes treating apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyounyoung LEE, Hyemin CHA, Dongyun HAN
  • Publication number: 20240167755
    Abstract: The disclosed refrigerator includes a compartment defined by a partition wall, a door configured to open and close the compartment, a sealing member on the door so that, when the compartment is closed by the door, the sealing member is between the compartment and the door and seals an inside of the compartment, an elastic member on the door or the compartment so that, when the compartment is closed by the door, the elastic member is between the compartment and the door and is further outside than the sealing member, and a heat transfer member in contact with the elastic member and configured so that, when the compartment is closed by the door, the heat transfer member transfers heat of outside air to the partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Ryota AOKI, Hitoshi TAKASE, Tomohiko MATSUNO, Makoto SHIBUYA
  • Publication number: 20240172447
    Abstract: Provided is a three-dimensional (3D) ferroelectric memory device. The 3D ferroelectric memory device includes a substrate, a plurality of insulating layers stacked on the substrate, a plurality of gate electrodes between the plurality of insulating layers, a plurality of gate insulating layers in contact with the plurality of gate electrodes, a plurality of intermediate electrodes in contact with the plurality of gate insulating layers, a ferroelectric layer in contact with the plurality of intermediate electrodes and the plurality of insulating layers, and a channel layer in contact with the ferroelectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunggeol NAM, Jinseong HEO, Hyunjae LEE, Dukhyun CHOE
  • Publication number: 20240168059
    Abstract: A probe card is provided. The probe card includes: a main circuit board defining an opening; a fixed core provided on a bottom surface of the main circuit board; a movable core provided adjacent the fixed core and configured to move through the opening along a vertical direction; and a driver provided on an upper surface of the main circuit board and configured to control the movable core to move along the vertical direction. The driver includes a driving source provided on an installation portion of the main circuit board, and a power transmission member connected to the driving source and including a roller configured to contact the movable core, and the driver is configured to move the movable core to control whether the fixed core or the movable core is electrically connected to a product, according to a type of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Top Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyubeom KIM, Junoh Choi, Duhyun Hwang, Dongdae Kim, Youngil Kim, Jaehan Cho
  • Publication number: 20240167213
    Abstract: A clothes treating system including a first clothes treating apparatus including a first housing; a second clothes treating apparatus including a second housing; an integrated user interface device mounted on the first housing and configured to control the first clothes treating apparatus and the second clothes treating apparatus; and a separate user interface device mounted on the second housing and configured to control the second clothes treating apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junho KIM, Hyounyoung LEE
  • Publication number: 20240168131
    Abstract: An optical device and a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) device each including a heater combined temperature sensor are disclosed. The optical device including the heater combined temperature sensor may include a heater, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to measure a voltage of the heater, a memory storing a measurement value, and a micro-controller configured to estimate a temperature of the heater based on relationship between the measurement value and the temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woosung KIM, Hyunil BYUN, Dongjae SHIN, Changbum LEE, Changgyun SHIN, Tatsuhiro OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20240167746
    Abstract: A refrigerator including a body; a water supply device including a water supply pipe at least partially inserted into the body, and a water supply valve to open and close the water supply pipe; an ice making device including an ice making tray defining an ice making space, the ice making tray being movable so that water from the water supply pipe is accommodatable in the ice making space when the ice making tray is positioned to make ice, and a driving device to move the ice making tray; and a control unit configured to, based on a user input to execute a function of removing foreign substances contained in water from the water supply pipe, control the driving device to move the ice making tray so water is prevented from being accommodated in the ice making space, and control the water supply valve to open the water supply pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ganghyun KIM, Sookang KIM, Kyungtae KO
  • Publication number: 20240167710
    Abstract: A ventilation system including a ventilator; and an outdoor unit, wherein the ventilator includes a housing including a first intake, a second intake, a first outlet and a second outlet, a plurality of dampers to change flow paths of air flowing through the housing, first and second air blowers, a heat exchanger in the housing, and a processor to control the dampers and first and second air blowers to form a first flow path in which outside air flows through the heat exchanger, or form a second flow path in which room air flows through the heat exchanger, to thereby form a flow path in the ventilator, while air flows through the flow path, control the outdoor unit to form frost on the heat exchanger, and control the outdoor unit to stop operating based on a preset frosting termination condition so that the frost melts to clean the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donggyu LEE, Kyunghoon KIM, Sunggoo KIM, Seonuk NA, Hyeongjoon SEO, Jaehyoung SIM, Eomji JANG
  • Publication number: 20240168372
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for estimating a resist image (RI) are disclosed. The method includes obtaining an aerial image (AI) and a first RI from a mask image (MI), obtaining a second RI from the AI, and obtaining a third RI based on the first RI and the second RI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deokyoung KANG, Youngchul KWAK, Serim RYOU, Seong-Jin PARK, Seon Min RHEE, Jaewon YANG, Eunju KIM, Hyeok LEE
  • Publication number: 20240168693
    Abstract: A multi-display device is configured to display an image, and the multi-display device includes display modules sequentially connected according to a prescribed connection configuration. Each of the display modules may include a signal input unit for acquiring an image signal and control information and a partial image selection unit for obtaining, from the control information, information about the connection configuration of the display modules, wherein each display module selects a partial image corresponding to the display module, from the image signal by referring to a first lookup table based on the information about the connection configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sejun KIM, Kibo KIM, Jinsub KIM
  • Publication number: 20240167806
    Abstract: Provided is a pupil image measuring device including a light source configured to generate and output a light, a stage on which a measurement target is loaded, an optical system configured to transmit the light output from the light source, to the measurement target, a detector configured to detect a light reflected from the measurement target, and a spatial light distribution controller configured to adjust an intensity or amount of the light output from the light source or the reflected light, for each space of a plurality of spaces of the spatial light distribution controller, wherein the spatial light distribution controller is disposed on a pupil plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungwoo LEE, Jinwoo AHN, Taejoong KIM, Myungjun LEE
  • Publication number: 20240168669
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory device is provided. The non-volatile memory device includes: sub-blocks provided on a substrate. The sub-blocks include: a first sub-block connected to a first word line group including a first number of word lines; and a second sub-block connected to a second word line group including a second number of word lines. The first sub-block includes: at least one first memory cell storing M-bit data; and second memory cells each storing N-bit data. The second sub-block includes: at least one third memory cell storing K-bit data; and fourth memory cells each storing L-bit data. M, N, K, and L are positive integers, N is greater than M, and L is greater than K. The first number and the second number are different, and the at least one first memory cell and the at least one third memory cell include different numbers of memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Chu OH, Beomkyu SHIN
  • Publication number: 20240169138
    Abstract: A method of designing a layout of a semiconductor device includes receiving an input layout of the device, scoring the input layout, determining whether to rearrange at least one device of the semiconductor device based on the scoring, and generating an output layout based on a rearrangement. The scoring includes calculating a first area occupied by one or more devices included in the semiconductor device in the input layout, calculating a second area of a manufacturing process based on a design rule for the one or more devices and the first area, calculating a void area of the input layout based on the first area and the second area, and calculating a score of the input layout based on the void area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunghoon KIM, Kiwon KIM
  • Publication number: 20240169727
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method includes generating respective final feature vectors of a plurality of frames of time-series data, while sequentially processing the plurality of frames by using a neural network comprising a plurality of layers, determining a class of the time-series data based on at least one final feature vector of the respective final feature vectors, generating a reference feature vector based on the at least one final feature vector, calculating a similarity score between the reference feature vector and a feature vector of at least one second frame, wherein the second frame includes a non-final feature frame where the final feature vector is not generated, and determining the at least one second frame to be the frame corresponding to the class, based on a result of comparing the similarity score and a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Bohyung HAN, Jong Hyeon SEON
  • Publication number: 20240169732
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for step discovery and localization in an instructional video. In some embodiments, the method includes extracting, from the instructional video using a transformer model, a plurality of step slots corresponding to a plurality of procedure steps depicted in the instructional video, matching, using an order-aware sequence-to-sequence alignment model, a plurality of video segments of the instructional video to the plurality of step slots, generating a temporally-ordered plurality of video segments from the plurality of video segments, receiving a user query requesting a procedure step, selecting, from the plurality of video segments of the instructional video, a corresponding video segment corresponding to the requested procedure step, and providing, in response to the user query, the corresponding video segment and the matching textual step description of the corresponding video segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikita DVORNIK, Isma Hadji, Ran Zhang, Konstantinos Derpanis, Richard Wildes, Animesh Garg, Allan Douglas Jepson
  • Publication number: 20240168604
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for processing an image are provided. The apparatus includes: one or more processors; memory storing instructions configured to, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: detect objects in the image; determine region of interest (ROI) scores of the respective detected objects; determine whether to display icons for the respective objects based on the respective ROI scores; display an image processing user interface including at least a portion of the image and the icons; and receive an input selecting an icon from among the icons displayed with the user interface, and in response perform image processing based on the selected icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeongseok SON, Seungin PARK, Byung In YOO, Solae LEE
  • Publication number: 20240168674
    Abstract: A throttling method for a storage device is provided. The throttling method includes: receiving a write command from a host; identifying, using a first machine learning model, a throttling delay time; transmitting a completion message to the host according to the throttling delay time; collecting weights of the first machine learning model and performance information of the storage device corresponding to the weights; learning the weights and the performance information to generate an objective function indicating a relationship between the weights and the performance information using a second machine learning model of a weight learning device; selecting a weight corresponding to a maximum performance using the objective function; and updating the first machine learning model with the weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kibeen JUNG, Han Kyoo LEE, Byeonghui KIM, Hyunkyo OH, Sungmin JANG
  • Publication number: 20240170445
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor package, the method including: providing a first semiconductor die on a stage; bonding a second semiconductor die to the first semiconductor die to each other; applying heat to a surface of the second semiconductor die, which is opposite to a bonding interface of the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die; and measuring a temperature change on the surface of the second semiconductor die to which the heat is applied to inspect a state of the bonding interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juno Kim, Minwoo Rhee, Ilyoung Han, Juhyung Lee, Kyeongbin Lim
  • Publication number: 20240168675
    Abstract: Disclosed is a storage apparatus for data integrity. The storage apparatus includes a hash value table configured to store information on a secured area in a main memory of a host communicating through a compute express link (CXL) interface and a hash value corresponding to the secured area, and a monitoring controller configured to read sensitive data stored in the secured area from the main memory through the CXL interface based on the information on the secured area, calculate a hash value of the sensitive data, compare the hash value of the sensitive data with the hash value corresponding to the secured area to determine whether the sensitive data is falsified, and recover the falsified sensitive data in response to determining that the sensitive data is falsified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jisoo KIM, Younsung CHU