Patents Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co.
  • Publication number: 20240420806
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system with physical property prediction inference and/or training is provided. A processor-implemented method includes predicting physical properties of a target material using a machine learning model provided an input that is based on a target feature vector, where the target feature vector corresponds to the target material, where the machine learning model is configured to predict the physical properties of the target material based on a multi-dimensional space that is dependent on feature vectors representing respective structures of materials and relation information between the materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Seokhwan HONG, Hogyeong KIM, Hoshik LEE, Kyunghyun CHO
  • Publication number: 20240421246
    Abstract: A structure includes a first material layer, a second material layer, and a dielectric masking layer having a thickness of 20 nm or less and containing pinholes having a width of 200 nm or less filled with the second material of second material layer located between the first material layer and the second material layer. A method of forming a LED includes forming a buffer layer over a support substrate, forming a dielectric masking layer having a thickness of 20 nm or less and containing pinholes having a width of 200 nm or less on the semiconductor buffer layer, forming a n-doped semiconductor material layer on the dielectric masking layer such that the n-doped semiconductor material of the n-doped semiconductor layer fills the pinholes and contacts the buffer layer, forming an active region over the n-doped semiconductor material layer, and forming a p-doped semiconductor material layer over the active region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Saket CHADDA, Zhen CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240420463
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory configured to store a trained neural network model and a processor configured to, by inputting an input image to the trained neural network model, obtain a quality score of the input image, a pixel quality score for each pixel included in the input image and a Region of Interest (ROI) score for the each pixel. The trained neural network obtains feature information for each pixel in the input image, a quality score of each pixel, and an ROI score for the each pixel. A computation module obtains an image quality score for the input image based on pixel quality score and the ROI score for the each pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Wookhyung KIM, Cheulhee HAHM, Namuk KIM, Anant BAIJAL, Jayoon KOO, IIhyun CHO
  • Publication number: 20240420609
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises: a display; a camera module; a sensor module including a first sensor, which is disposed on the rear part of the electronic device and operates on the basis of light, and a second sensor, which is disposed on the front part of the electronic device and operates on the basis of light; and a processor including a first processor and a second processor, wherein the processor can be configured to control the brightness of the display on the basis of data received from the first sensor and data received from the second sensor when the camera module is in an inactive state, and control the brightness of the display on the basis of data received from the second sensor, and not on the basis of data received from the first sensor, when the camera module is in an active state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinbae LEE, Kihong MIN, Heewoong YOON, Hyungpil KUM, Donghwan SEO, Hyeonchang SON, Kyeongmun JO
  • Publication number: 20240417911
    Abstract: A clothes treating apparatus includes a housing, a tub inside the housing, a drainage device configured to discharge water from the tub to an outside of the housing; a filter device configured to be disposed outside the housing and connected to the drainage device to receive water discharged by the drainage device and filter out foreign substances from the received water, the filter device including a coupler on a bottom of the filter device; and an installation device configured to mount the filter device to a surface, the installation device including a supporter, and the supporter including a supporter mounting portion, wherein the installation device is configured so that the supporter is seatable to the surface, and the supporter mounting portion is couplable to the coupler so that, while the supporter is seated to the surface and the supporter mounting portion is coupled to the coupler, the filter device is mounted to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaewan HONG, Dongpil SEO, Taehyun SUNG, Kanghyun LEE, Jaebok LEE, Youngjin CHO
  • Publication number: 20240420443
    Abstract: A system includes: an image sensor configured to acquire an image; an image processor configured to generate a quantized image based on the acquired image using a trained quantization filter; and an output interface configured to output the quantized image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangil JUNG, Dongwook LEE, Jinwoo SON, Changyong SON, Jaehyoung YOO, Seohyung LEE, Changin CHOI, Jaejoon HAN
  • Publication number: 20240419320
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided and includes a housing, a memory storing instructions, a display insertable into the housing or extractable out from the housing; and at least one processor, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: identify a touch input on a display region of the display exposed outside the housing; and based on identifying that a size of the display region changes while the touch input is maintained on the display region, display an object corresponding to a contact point of the touch input based on the size of the display region after the size changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hanseok PARK
  • Publication number: 20240419445
    Abstract: A memory device configured to perform in-memory processing includes a plurality of in-memory arithmetic units each configured to perform in-memory processing of a pipelined arithmetic operation, and a plurality of memory banks allocated to the in-memory arithmetic units such that a set of n memory banks is allocated to each of the in-memory operation units, each memory bank configured to perform an access operation of data requested from the in-memory arithmetic units while the pipelined arithmetic operation is performed. Each of the in-memory arithmetic units is configured to operate at a first operating frequency that is less than or equal to a product of n and a second operating frequency of each of the memory banks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuhwan RO, Shinhaeng KANG, Seongil O, Seungwoo SEO
  • Publication number: 20240422447
    Abstract: An image processing device is provided. The image processing device includes: a memory; a vision sensor; and at least one processor operatively connected to the memory and the vision sensor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: receive an event signal from a pixel array of the vision sensor, accumulate the event signal during a preset time and store, in the memory, the event signal as accumulated event data; perform a pixel correction on the stored accumulated event data; and compare the corrected accumulated event data with the event signal to extract valid event data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyu Beom IM, Keun Joo PARK, Jun Seok KIM, Jun Hyuk PARK, Bong Ki SON, Ji Won IM
  • Publication number: 20240420961
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first dielectric film on a front-side surface of a substrate that has the front-side surface and a back-side surface, doping a surface of the first dielectric film with impurities to form a doped dielectric film covering at least a portion of the first dielectric film, forming a second dielectric film on the doped dielectric film, and polishing the second dielectric film by a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) method. The doped dielectric film has a polishing rate less than a polishing rate of each of the first dielectric film and the second dielectric film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seunghoon CHOI, Seongsoo Kim, Hoyoung Kim, Yeongbong Park, Kiho Bae
  • Publication number: 20240422432
    Abstract: An image sensor, including a pixel array including a first unit pixel including first a plurality of photodiodes and a second unit pixel including a second plurality of diodes; a readout circuit configured to: obtain a reset signal from the first unit pixel and the second unit pixel, obtain a first single pixel signal from a first photodiode of the first unit pixel, and a second single pixel signal from a second photodiode of the second unit pixel, and obtain a first summed pixel signal from the first unit pixel, and a second summed pixel signal from the second unit pixel, wherein the first photodiode is disposed in position with respect to the first unit pixel which is different from a position of the second photodiode with respect to the second unit pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiyong KIM, Kwanghyun LEE, Jaejin JUNG, Wontak CHOI, Yeeun HA
  • Publication number: 20240422667
    Abstract: A method performed by at least one processor of a network device in communication with a plurality of base stations, the method including: receiving historical data collected by one or more base stations from the plurality of base stations, the historical data indicating one or more of a power consumption, handover data, and quality of service (QOS); generating, from the historical data, training data comprising a plurality of cell states and a corresponding random action for each cell state; and training one or more neural network estimators based on the training data, where the one or more neural network estimators comprise one or more of a power consumption estimator, a QoS estimator, and a handover prediction estimator, and where each base station from the plurality of base stations is associated with a respective cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junliang LUO, Yi Tian Xu, Di Wu, Xue Liu, Gregory Lewis Dudek
  • Publication number: 20240422964
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having a three-dimensional structure, the memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells repeatedly arranged in a first lateral direction, a second lateral direction, and a vertical direction, wherein the first lateral direction and the second lateral direction are perpendicular to each other, and the vertical direction is perpendicular to each of the first lateral direction and the second lateral direction, wherein each of the plurality of memory cells includes two transistors including at a least portions of two word lines passing through the memory cell in the vertical direction and at least portions of two bit lines respectively on both sides of the two word lines in the first lateral direction, each of the two bit line extending along the second lateral direction, and each of the plurality of memory cells does not include a capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyunghwan LEE, Wonsok LEE, Juho LEE, Daewon HA
  • Publication number: 20240420755
    Abstract: A memory device having a row decoder circuit architecture is provided. The memory device includes a peripheral circuit structure and a cell array structure provided on the peripheral circuit structure and vertically overlapping the peripheral circuit structure. The cell array structure may include a plurality of memory blocks including a plurality of vertical channel transistor structures and a plurality of capacitor structures respectively connected to the vertical channel transistor structures. The peripheral circuit structure includes a row decoder connected to a plurality of word lines of the plurality of memory blocks, and the row decoder includes a first circuit group commonly connected to the plurality of memory blocks and a second circuit group connected to each of the plurality of memory blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keonwoo PARK, Kyuchang KANG
  • Publication number: 20240422739
    Abstract: A method for handling a service connection in a wireless communication system, including detecting, by a User Equipment (UE), a Mobility Management (MM) service state of the UE is set to ATTEMPTING TO UPDATE, receiving, by the UE, a valid Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity (TMSI) in a TMSI reallocation procedure from a base station via a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection, changing, by the UE, the MM service state to a NORMAL SERVICE state in response to the receiving a valid TMSI and the detecting a MM service state, and sending, by the UE, a paging response message to the base station in response to the changing the MM service state and a paging indication message received from the base station to establish the service connection, the paging indication message including the valid TMSI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pavan Kumar DEVARAYANIGARI, Ramkumar Thirumalli SURESHSAH, Venkata Anil Kumar KARAMSETTI, Bharat Vinayak BHAT, Lalith KUMAR
  • Publication number: 20240422961
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of word lines extending in a first horizontal direction, a plurality of back gate lines extending in the first horizontal direction and alternately arranged with the plurality of word lines in a second horizontal direction different from the first horizontal direction, a plurality of channel layers extending in a vertical direction between a word line and a back gate line adjacent to each other among the plurality of word lines and the plurality of back gate lines, to correspond to columns in the first horizontal direction, a plurality of bit lines extending in the second horizontal direction on the plurality of word lines, the plurality of back gate lines, and the plurality of channel layers and electrically connected to the plurality of channel layers, and a plurality of memory structures electrically connected to the plurality of channel layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joongchan SHIN, Seokhan PARK, Kiseok LEE, Moonyoung JEONG, Jinwoo HAN
  • Publication number: 20240420363
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a floorplan of a three-dimensional (3D) structure of a scene; receiving one or more imaging scans of the scene; identifying a gravity direction for the one or more imaging scans; generating, based on the gravity direction, a boundary scan by filtering out one or more points in the one or more imaging scans having horizontal projections that deviate from other points in the one or more imaging scans by a predetermined amount; aligning the boundary scan with the floorplan; extracting one or more structural elements in the one or more imaging scans; and optimizing a three-term cost function comprising a geometric term, a floor term and, a walls term by correlating points in the one or more imaging scans corresponding to the structural elements to respective points in the floorplan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Anna Ilyinichna Sokolova, Alexander Georgievich Limonov, Filipp Alexandrovich Nikitin, Anton Sergeevich Konushin
  • Publication number: 20240421279
    Abstract: A method for repairing a display module on which light emitting diodes are arranged, includes: removing a defective light emitting diode from among the light emitting diodes from the display module; forming an elastic conductive pad on a panel electrode of the display module that is exposed as the defective light emitting diode is removed; transferring a new light emitting diode to the display module for electrical connection to the elastic conductive pad; covering the new light emitting diode and the elastic conductive pad with a protective layer; and curing the protective layer to maintain an elastic bond between the new light emitting diode and the elastic conductive pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Changjoon LEE, Kyungwoon Jang, Yangsoo Son, Jeongyun Kim, Sungyong Min, Daesuck Hwang
  • Publication number: 20240418544
    Abstract: An electronic device including a main body having an opening, a door configured to open and close at least a part of the opening of the main body, and a door sensor, provided relative to an open-side edge of the door, to detect a touch input by using a capacitive method. The door sensor includes a touch key configured to receive the touch input, a sensor substrate comprising a conductive land; a connection member including a sensing surface contacting the touch key, and a connection surface contacting the conductive land so that the touch key is electrically connected with the conductive land through the connection member. Surfaces of the connection member along a thickness direction including the sensing surface and the connection surface and surfaces of the connection member along a longitudinal direction are electrically conductive surfaces. Surfaces of the connection member along a width direction are electrically non-conductive surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Boeun JANG, Daesung KANG, Sooam KIM, Sangho PARK, Buyeong KWAK, Seunggu JI
  • Publication number: 20240419215
    Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a pixel electrode configured to supply power to a subpixel; a common electrode; an organic transparent substrate; a driving layer provided on the organic transparent substrate and electrically connected to the pixel electrode, the driving layer including a driving device configured to control power on-off of the subpixel; and a light emitting unit provided on the driving layer and including an inorganic material, the light emitting unit including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eunsung LEE, Kiho KONG, Junhee CHOI, Nakhyun KIM