Patents Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co.
  • Method for controlling and an electronic device thereof
    Patent number: 9784797
    Abstract: Various embodiments of this disclosure provide a power source management method and apparatus of an electronic device. The power source management apparatus of the electronic device includes a memory for storing a battery consumption pattern by situation and a battery charging pattern by situation. A controller is configured to collect at least one of situation information or information for life pattern judgment. The controller is also configured to predict a situation of the electronic device or a life pattern using the collection information and judge a chargeability of a battery. The situation is related with at least one or more of a location and a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sun-Young Min
  • Enhanced distortion signaling for MMT assets and ISOBMFF with improved MMT QoS descriptor having multiple QoE operating points
    Patent number: 9788078
    Abstract: A method for providing media content in a computer network includes storing the media content, where the media content includes a segment having a group of frames. The method also includes determining a transmission rate for traffic to a client device. The method further includes selecting a subset of frames to drop from the group of frames based on (i) the transmission rate and (ii) a frame difference distortion (FDIFF) metric of each frame in the subset of frames. The method also includes shaping the segment by dropping the selected subset of frames from the group of frames, where the shaped segment has a lower bitrate than the segment. In addition, the method includes transmitting the shaped segment to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhu Li, Imed Bouazizi, Kyungmo Park
  • Method for reducing current consumption and electronic device thereof
    Patent number: 9788275
    Abstract: A method of and device for reducing current consumption is provided. The method includes providing, by a first processor to a second processor, information indicating a state of a display of the electronic device or a display of an external electronic device configured to communicate with the electronic device; receiving, by the second processor, data external to the electronic device; and determining, by the second processor, whether to transmit the data or a result of processing the data to the first processor based on at least a part of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Min-Sung Eo, Myung-Reun Hyun, Byeong-Woo Kim
  • System, method, and apparatus for compensating for ionospheric delay in a multi constellation single radio frequency path GNSS receiver
    Patent number: 9784846
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for compensating for ionospheric delay in multi constellation Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs). In one method, a single Radio Frequency (RF) path receiver receives a first signal at a first frequency from a first satellite in a first GNSS constellation, receives a second signal at a second frequency from a second satellite in a second GNSS constellation, and calculates the ionospheric delay using the received first signal and the received second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Phanikrishna Sagiraju, William Nolte
  • Transmitting apparatus and mapping method thereof
    Patent number: 9787422
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se-ho Myung, Belkacem Mouhouche, Daniel Ansorregui Lobete, Kyung-joong Kim, Hong-sil Jeong
  • Method for controlling rotation of screen and terminal and touch system supporting the same
    Patent number: 9785202
    Abstract: A method for controlling rotation of a screen according to a user request regardless of an orientation state of the terminal is provided. The terminal for supporting screen rotation control, includes a sensor unit including a sensor for confirming a horizontal state of the terminal and a sensor for collecting angular velocity information of the terminal, a controller for confirming the horizontal state of the terminal based on sensing information of the sensor unit, and for confirming a rotated state or a rotation change state of the terminal in a corresponding horizontal state when the terminal is arranged in the horizontal state, and a display unit for outputting a screen having a different output direction according to the rotated state or the rotation change state of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seokin Shin, Choongkwon Lim
  • Electronic device with exterior metal frame antenna
    Patent number: 9787809
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a housing; a printed circuit board disposed within the housing; a communication circuit disposed on the printed circuit board; at least one exterior metal frame forming at least a part of the housing, and is electrically connected with the communication circuit; a first electric path that electrically connecting the at least one exterior metal frame and the printed circuit board with each other; a support structure including a metal region and a non-metal region, and supporting the printed circuit board and/or the at least one exterior metal frame; and a second electric path disposed between the printed circuit board and the metal region of the support structure and is electrically connected with the first electric path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Woo-Young Jeong
  • Video encoding method and device and decoding method and device
    Patent number: 9788013
    Abstract: A video encoding method, a video encoding apparatus, a video decoding method, and a video decoding apparatus are provided. The video encoding method includes producing a fast transform matrix based on a transform matrix which is used for frequency transformation on a block which has a predetermined size; producing a transformed block by transforming the block having the predetermined size by using the fast transform matrix; and performing scaling with respect to the transformed block in order to correct a difference between the transform matrix used for the frequency transformation and the fast transform matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoon-Mi Hong, Woo-Jin Han, Min-Su Cheon, Jianle Chen
  • Power gate switching system
    Patent number: 9786685
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a virtual power line extended in a first direction; an n-well extended in the first direction, wherein the virtual power line and the n-well are disposed in a row; a first power gate switch cell disposed in the n-well; a second power gate switch cell disposed in the n-well, wherein the first and second power gate switch cells are first type cells; and a third power gate switch cell disposed in the n-well between the first and second power gate switch cells, wherein the third power gate switch cell is a second type cell different from the first type cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hoijin Lee
  • Oven, door assembly applied to the same, and method for controlling the oven
    Patent number: 9784457
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a transparent display panel; and an optical switching element arranged on the transparent display panel and configured to be switched into any of transmissive state, non-transmissive state, and reflective state, wherein the optical switching element includes a non-transmission layer formed to contact the transparent display panel and switched into transmissive state or non-transmissive state, and a reflection layer formed on one side of the non-transmission layer and switched into transmissive state or reflective state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Jin Oh, Dong Ho Lee, Hye Rin Kim, Sang Hyun Yeo
  • Apparatus and method for providing incoming and outgoing call information in a mobile communication terminal
    Patent number: 9787811
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for providing information. Phone numbers are stored in an address book in a memory of the terminal. Call history information for a phone number together with a first option for editing of information associated with the phone number are displayed on a display of the terminal, if the phone number is in the address book.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jeong-Sik Cho, Young-Jip Kim, Young-Seop Han, Jun-Young Choe, Kyung-Shin Lee, Tae-Soo Lee
  • Tap embedded data receiver and data transmission system having the same
    Patent number: 9787505
    Abstract: A data receiver includes a plurality of samplers, each of the samplers amplifies a difference between a first reference voltage and an input voltage and amplifies a difference between a second reference voltage and the input voltage. Operational paths of the samplers are differently controlled according to a level of second data corresponding to the second reference voltage, and first data corresponding to the first reference voltage is past data preceding current data and the second data is past data preceding the first data in the sampler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Wook Lim, Sung-Won Choi
  • File playback method and apparatus
    Patent number: 9788040
    Abstract: A method for playing multimedia data in an electronic device includes A method for playing multimedia data in an electronic device, the method comprising: receiving a request for transmitting a file including multimedia data to a second device; identifying sample playback data that is a portion of multimedia data; transmitting the identified sample playback data; and transmitting the multimedia data of the file to the second device after transmitting the sample playback data. An electronic device includes a radio frequency unit configured to transmit or receive a signal, and a processor configured to receive a sample playback data that is a part of the multimedia data of a file via the radio frequency unit, and play the received sample playback data of the multimedia data while receiving the file from the external device. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haedong Lee, Eunyeung Lee
  • Method of displaying content and electronic device for processing the same
    Patent number: 9785232
    Abstract: A method in an electronic device comprises when a display unit is deformed, determining a display area visible to a user, and displaying content on the confirmed display area. An apparatus for displaying content on an electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to detect that a flexible display unit is bended, recognize at least a part of a user's body, determine which display area is visible to the user based on the user position; and move at least part of content on the visible display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon-Hyun Cha, Myung-Su Kang, Jung-Woo Lee, Jae-Wan Cho, Sun-Min Hwang
  • Method and apparatus for recording and playing user voice in mobile terminal by synchronizing with text
    Patent number: 9786267
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for recording and playing a user voice in a mobile terminal are provided. The method for recording and storing a user voice in a mobile terminal includes entering a page by executing an electronic book, identifying whether a user voice record file related to the page exists, generating a user voice record file related to the page by recording a text included in the page to a user voice if the user voice record file does not exist, and playing by synchronizing the user voice stored in the user voice record file with the text if the user voice record file exists. Accordingly, a user voice can be recorded corresponding to a text of a page when recording a specific record of an electronic book, and the text corresponding to the user voice being played can be highlighted by synchronizing the user voice and the text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jieun Mok, Byeonghoon Kwak
  • Emergency notification system and server
    Patent number: 9787818
    Abstract: An emergency notification system and server are provided. The emergency notification system includes a wearable device that senses biosignals of a user wearing the wearable device and captures environment data; and a mobile device that periodically receives at least one of the biosignals and the environment data from the wearable device, determines a distance between the mobile device and the wearable device, periodically transmits the at least one of the biosignals and the environment data to a server, requests the wearable device to provide the at least one of the biosignals and the environment data, and transmits the received at least one of the biosignals and the environment data to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-Hyoun Kwon, Em-Hwan Kim, Jun-Ho Lee, Jung-Su Kim, Jang-Won Lee, Jae-Hun Choe
  • Method and apparatus for processing multimedia content on a graphic cloud
    Patent number: 9787746
    Abstract: A method and system process multimedia content on a graphic cloud. The method includes determining a multimedia instance, determining a load balance associated with the multimedia instance, selecting a graphic card from a plurality of graphic cards for processing the multimedia instance, activating a plurality of ports associated with the graphic card for rendering the multimedia stream to a plurality of multimedia devices and transmitting the multimedia stream to the user. The system includes a multimedia device, a communication interface for establishing communication, a memory that stores instructions and a processor responsive to the instructions to determine a multimedia instance, determine a load balance, select a graphic card, activate a plurality of ports, and transmit the multimedia stream to the multimedia device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Amar Srivastava, Hemanshu Srivastava
  • Image sensor and apparatus and method of acquiring image by using image sensor
    Patent number: 9787953
    Abstract: An image sensor, and an apparatus and method of acquiring an image by using the image sensor are provided. The image sensor includes a color filter having an array of a plurality of types of color filter elements, where each of the color filter elements transmits visible light in a certain wavelength band and blocks visible light outside the certain wavelength band; a photoelectric conversion cell array that detects light that has been transmitted through the color filter; and a modulator, disposed on the photoelectric conversion cell array, which changes a rate of light transmitted to the photoelectric conversion cell array based on an applied voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunghyun Nam, Yunhee Kim, Sookyoung Roh, Hongkyu Park, Seokho Yun
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D799505
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changhoon Park, Yongjin So, Wonhee Lee
  • Vacuum cleaner
    Patent number: D799769
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwan-Dong Lee, Young-Jin Kim, Yeon-Young Nam