Patents Assigned to THE CO., LTD.
  • Support module and robot having the same
    Patent number: 9452797
    Abstract: A support module includes a first rigid body, a space formation body connected to the first rigid body and forming an enclosed space, and a plurality of hard particles located within the enclosed space. When at least a predetermined pressure is applied to the support module such that a volume of the enclosed space is decreased to a predetermined value, the plurality of hard particles and space formation body form a second rigid body. Such a support module may improve the stability of a walking robot, the grip of a gripping structure, or the stability of a load-bearing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joo Hyung Kim, Kyung Shik Roh, Kee Hong Seo
  • Apparatus and method for controlling portable terminal
    Patent number: 9454223
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for controlling a portable terminal. The apparatus includes a contact sensing unit which senses an area of an external surface of the portable terminal contacted by a user as the user holds the portable terminal, a recognizing unit which recognizes a function mode of the portable terminal based on information about the contacted area sensed by the contact sensing unit, and a control unit which changes the portable terminal to a function mode recognized by the recognizing unit. Since a function mode of the portable terminal is controlled according to the way a user holds the portable terminal, convenience of changing a function mode of the portable terminal is provided through a single manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-hyun Shim, Kee-eung Kim, Hyun-jin Kim, Joon-ah Park, Ho-yeal Lee, Hyun-jeong Lee, Wook Chang, Seung-nyang Chung, Sung-jung Cho
  • Storage medium storing image processing program for implementing controlled image display according to input coordinate, and information processing device
    Patent number: 9454834
    Abstract: When a user touches a first input point P1 with a touch pen or the like, touch position data indicating a coordinate of this first input point P1 can be obtained. A first object (stamp) is arranged in accordance with the first input point P1. When the user moves the touch pen or the like to a second input point P2 while maintaining a touch state (slide operation), an orientation of the object is changed in real time such that an angle reference line thereof coincides with a calculated reference line L2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naonori Ohnishi
  • Member with flow passage and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 9453596
    Abstract: A member with flow passage includes: a base member; a plate-like member including two flat plate portions that are positioned at both widthwise ends and have main surfaces passing over one and the same plane, and a convex portion that is provided between the two flat plate portions and has a cross section shaped in a thickness direction so as to protrude with respect to the flat plate portions, and forming the flow passage; and a metal deposit layer that is formed by, while main surfaces of the flat plate portions opposite to a top of the convex portion are facing the base member, accelerating powder of metal or alloy together with a gas, and spraying and depositing the powder in a solid-phase state on a surface of the plate-like member at the top side of the convex portion and a surface of the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Yamauchi, Hidemitsu Hideshima, Satoshi Hirano
  • Method and apparatus for exchanging information between base station and terminal
    Patent number: 9455796
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of exchanging information on the number of layers which is supported commonly between the base station and the terminals in Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) environment is provided for performance enhancement. The communication method of a terminal in a wireless communication system according to the present disclosure includes receiving a reference signal and information on a number of layers supportable simultaneously from a base station, measuring a channel state value based on the reference signal and the number of layers, determining whether the measured channel state value fulfills a minimum required channel state value, and transmitting, when the measured channel state value fulfills the minimum required channel state value, a value determined based on the measured channel state value to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Younsun Kim, Sooyong Choi, Minchae Jung, Kyuho Hwang, Juho Lee, Hyojin Lee, Hyoungju Ji, Taehyoung Kim, Kyungsik Min, Junggyun Park
  • Communication terminal, communication control method, and program
    Patent number: 9456034
    Abstract: A communication terminal capable of seamless reproduction of stream data even when structure of an ALM tree changes during the reproduction of stream data includes a control unit which causes a reproduction unit to start reproduction of a stream data packet at a time point which is later than a predetermined time point by a total of all delay times corresponding to a communication path from the communication terminal to a leaf terminal. The delay times are obtained by an obtainment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Thilmee Malinda Baduge, Eiichi Muramoto
  • Methods and systems for denoising images
    Patent number: 9454807
    Abstract: Shrinkage function model associated training schemes are used to facilitate obtaining denoised patches, and more particularly, to removing noise from images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minjie Chen, Le Zhang, Haijun Niu, Fuhuei Lin
  • Amine-based compound and organic light emitting device including the same
    Patent number: 9455409
    Abstract: An amine-based compound and an organic light-emitting device including the amine-based compound are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Youn Lee, Yoon-Hyun Kwak, Bum-Woo Park, Sun-Young Lee, Jong-Won Choi, Wha-Il Choi, So-Yeon Kim
  • Electrode for fuel cell, and membrane-electrode assembly and fuel cell system including same
    Patent number: 9455449
    Abstract: An electrode for a fuel cell is disclosed. The electrode may include an electrode substrate with a conductive substrate, carbon particles, and a catalyst layer disposed on the electrode substrate. The electrode substrate may include a pore having an average diameter of about 20 ?m to about 40 ?m and porosity of about 30 volume % to about 80 volume % based on the total volume of the electrode substrate. A membrane-electrode assembly including the electrode and a fuel cell system including the membrane electrode assembly are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Il Han, Kah-Young Song, Hee-Tak Kim, Sung-Yong Cho, Tae-Yoon Kim, Myoung-Ki Min, Geun-Seok Chai
  • Spark plug
    Patent number: 9455553
    Abstract: A spark plug includes a metal shell formed with a mounting male thread portion and a radially outwardly protruding seat portion and a solid annular gasket disposed between the male thread portion and the seat portion. The gasket has a recessed portion formed with a depth in the direction of an axis such that the recessed portion has an opening at a front end surface of the gasket (18) located opposite to the seat portion. The front end surface of the gasket includes an inner peripheral front end surface region decreasing in thickness toward an inner periphery of the gasket and an outer peripheral front end surface region formed radially outside the inner peripheral front end surface region. The opening of the recessed portion is located radially inside an innermost periphery of the outer peripheral front end surface region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Shimamura, Jiro Kyuno
  • Exposure control device, imaging device, image display device, and exposure control method
    Patent number: 9456146
    Abstract: It includes a face detection unit that acquires an image from a camera and detects a person's face from the image, a region division unit that acquires an image from the camera and divides an imaging region of the image, a luminance calculation unit that calculates luminance of the person's face detected by the face detection unit and luminance of each divided region obtained by dividing by the region division unit, and a diaphragm adjustment information calculation unit that obtains the divided region having a difference between the luminance of the person's face and the luminance of the divided region which is larger than a predetermined value, calculates a region excluding the obtained divided region as a diaphragm adjustment region of an imaging unit, and outputs the obtained diaphragm adjustment region as diaphragm adjustment information to a diaphragm adjustment unit of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shin Yamada
  • Image sensor
    Patent number: 9456160
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image sensor. The disclosed image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels arranged in a matrix form having rows and columns, a binning sampling unit configured to output a binning sampling signal according to an average of signals from two or more unit pixels selected from among the unit pixels of each of the columns, and an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the binning sampling signal to a digital signal. The selected unit pixels have different exposure times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Sung Shim, Yong In Han
  • Thin film transistor array panel and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 9455276
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel includes: a substrate; a gate line and a common voltage line on the substrate and electrically separated from each other; a gate insulating layer on the gate line and the common voltage line; a first passivation layer on the gate insulating layer; a common electrode on the first passivation layer; a second passivation layer on the common electrode; and a pixel electrode and a connecting member on the second passivation layer and electrically separated from each other. A first contact hole and a second contact hole are defined in the first and second passivation layers. The pixel electrode and the drain electrode are connected to each other through the second contact hole. The connecting member and the common electrode are connected to each other through the first contact hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Jun Byeon, Seung Sok Son, Bo Sung Kim, Yeon Taek Jeong
  • Method of manufacturing of amorphous silicon thin film transistor liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 9454049
    Abstract: In an amorphous silicon thin film transistor-liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing the same, gate patterns including a gate line and a gate electrode are formed on an insulation substrate having a display region and a driving circuit region on which a plurality of shift resistors are formed. A gate insulating film, active layer patterns and data patterns including source/drain electrodes are formed successively on the substrate. A passivation layer on the substrate has a first contact hole exposing a drain electrode of the display region and second and third contact holes respectively exposing a gate electrode and source/drain electrode of a first transistor of each of the shift resistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dong-Gyu Kim
  • Active matrix driving display device and image displaying method using the same
    Patent number: 9454050
    Abstract: LCD device includes two substrates, a first and second color filters, two liquid crystal layers. The first color filters are formed on portions of the second substrate corresponding to border area The second color filters are formed on portions of the second substrate corresponding to the display area except the border area. A first liquid crystal layer between the first and the second substrate is comprised in border area, and a zero electric field is formed on the first liquid crystal layer so as to completely transmit light incident into the first liquid crystal layer therethrough. A borderline having various colors can be displayed by forming various patterns of color filters having various colors on portions of the second substrate corresponding to the border area under normally white mode, thereby producing picture frame effect while images are displayed on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Ho Yang, Dong-Ho Lee, Soong-Yong Joo
  • Lever type connector
    Patent number: 9455521
    Abstract: A lever type connector includes: a male housing having a box shape in which one side is open and a bottom surface for receiving a male terminal; a plate inserted into the male housing for covering the male terminal; a female housing for insertion into the male housing; and a lever rotatably coupled with the female housing, when the plate support member supports the plate so that the plate which protrudes from an inner side wall of the male housing to be inserted into the male housing is not inserted up to the bottom surface of the male housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Kum Co., LTD
    Inventors: Min Jae Bang, Sung Won Jeon, Sang Ho Bae, Doo Hee Baek
  • Acoustic filter with suppressed nonlinear characteristics
    Patent number: 9455685
    Abstract: An acoustic filter includes a signal input port, a ladder-type filter, a first branch ladder-type filter, a second branch ladder-type filter, and a signal output port. The first branch ladder-type filter and the second branch ladder-type filter are connected in parallel to each other. The signal input port is connected to the ladder-type filter. The ladder-type filter circuit is connected in series to the first branch ladder-type filter and the second branch ladder-type filter. The first branch ladder-type filter circuit and the second branch ladder-type filter are connected to the signal output port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Ai Yu, Duck Hwan Kim, Ho Soo Park, In Sang Song, Jea Shik Shin
  • Capacitor and method of fabricating the same
    Patent number: 9455090
    Abstract: Disclosed are a capacitor and a method of fabricating the same. The capacitor includes a first electrode; a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode while facing the first electrode; a driving member connected to the second electrode to move the second electrode relative to the first electrode; and an insulating connection member between the driving member and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Won Seo, Seung Hwa Kwon, Chil Young Ji, Yong Jun Ko, Hyun Kyu Park, Jeong Gi Seo
  • Semiconductor device and current control method that controls amount of current used for voltage generation based on connection state of external capacitor
    Patent number: 9454165
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device including: a current generation circuit that generates a current; a voltage generation circuit that, using the current generated by the current generation circuit, generates and outputs a predetermined voltage from a reference voltage, with an internal capacitor element that is connected to output of the voltage generation circuit, the internal capacitor element being provided within an integrated circuit on which the device itself is mounted; a storage section that stores a flag indicating a connection state between the output of the voltage generation circuit and an external capacitor element provided externally to the integrated circuit; and a controller that, based on the flag, controls a current amount of the current used by the voltage generation circuit to generate the predetermined voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kikuo Utsuno
  • Display screen or portion thereof with icon
    Patent number: D767627
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Myung Lee, Jin-Mi Choi, Jung-Yeob Oh