Samsung Electronics Patents Granted
Patents granted to Samsung Electronics by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9911612Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a semiconductor substrate is prepared. Boron-containing ions are generated by reacting a borane-based compound and a halogen-containing source with each other. The borane-based compound includes boron having a mass number of 11 (11B). The boron-containing ions are implanted into the semiconductor substrate to form an impurity region.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Choong-Yeol Kim, Myung-Beom Park, Han-Gyul Ko, Hwi-Hyeon Oh, Hye-Young Jin
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Patent number: 9911750Abstract: Semiconductor memory devices may include a semiconductor substrate, a first stack disposed on the semiconductor substrate and a second stack disposed on the first stack. The first stack may include a plurality of first word lines with a plurality of first line pads stacked in a stair form, and the second stack may include a plurality of second word lines with a plurality of second line pads stacked in a stair form. The second stack may be shifted on the first stack such that sides of the plurality of first word line pads are exposed.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jaegoo Lee
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Patent number: 9911947Abstract: A battery cell for an electronic device, and an electronic device, the battery cell including an electrode assembly; an outer case accommodating the electrode assembly, the outer case including first and second outer cases that contact each other along edges thereof, wherein the first and second outer cases include a body portion that includes a space for accommodating the electrode assembly therein, and a wing portion on at least a part of an outer circumference of the body portion, the wing portion including at least one through-hole therein; an insulating film is folded along a length direction of the wing portion to surround the wing portion, the insulating film including a hole at a position overlying the at least one through-hole of the wing portion; and a plate-shaped ring-type insulating member around a circumference of the at least one through-hole.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventor: Sung-Ho Hong
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Patent number: 9912065Abstract: A dipole antenna module and an electronic apparatus include an antenna element, a power feeder formed at an end of the antenna element and connected to a circuit board to process an antenna signal through a cable, and a ground part to ground a ground of the cable such that the ground part keeps a preset gap from the antenna element and is grounded to a conductor of the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tae-young Kim, Chee-hwan Yang, In-young Lee, Sang-hoon Choi
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Patent number: 9912010Abstract: An electrolytic solution for a lithium battery includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent; a disultone-based compound represented by Formula 1, and a non-polar unsaturated group-containing cyclic carbonate-based compound: wherein, in Formula 1, A1 to A4 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C5 alkylene group, a carbonyl group, or a sulfinyl; n1 to n4 are each independently an integer 1 to 3, and when n1 to n4 are each independently two or greater, a respective plurality of any of A1s to A4s are identical to or different from each other. When the lithium battery includes the electrolyte solution, room-temperature and high-temperature lifespan characteristics of the lithium battery may improve.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Siyoung Cha, Myungheui Woo, Seonghun Jeong, Woocheol Shin
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Patent number: 9910212Abstract: A display device includes a light source which emits a light and a display panel which displays an image using the light. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate, a plurality of pixels disposed between the first and second substrates, and a light guide layer disposed between the first substrate and the pixels. The light guide layer includes light tunnels which receive the light from the light source and a refractive layer which covers the light tunnels.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Taeeun Kim, Jinse Kim, Yisoo Won, Donghun Lee
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Patent number: 9912840Abstract: Disclosed are an image sampling apparatus and method. The image sampling apparatus includes a probe angular velocity detector configured to detect an angular velocity of a probe representing a change in an angle of the probe at a surface of an object, an image segmenter configured to receive the angular velocity and an image captured by the probe, and to segment the image into sub-regions based on the angular velocity, and a differential sampler configured to sample the sub-regions with a different sampling rate based on a position of a sub-region.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyoung Min Park, Kyoung Gu Woo, Jung Hoe Kim, Baek Hwan Cho
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Patent number: 9912180Abstract: A charge device for controlling an abnormal charge request is provided. The charge device includes a controller that interrupts a charge path, when power is applied and that determines whether a charge request is an abnormal charge request through a detour charge path and that controls to maintain interruption of the charge path, if the charge request is an abnormal charge request. The controller may be further configured to interrupt the detour charge path, in response to determining that the charge request is a normal charge request; connect the charge path; and supply a charge current to the charge path.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Se-Won Oh, Won-Bae Jung
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Patent number: 9912457Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: allocating, by a base station, a resource for transmitting data modulated by a hybrid frequency shift keying (FSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) (FQAM) scheme in which a QAM scheme and a FSK scheme are combined; transmitting, by the base station, a sequence modulated by the FQAM scheme, to a mobile station, via an interference measurement channel; transmitting, by the base station, a reference signal for measuring channel quality information (CQI) to the mobile station; receiving, by the base station, CQI estimated based on an interference characteristic of the interference measurement channel, from the mobile station, and performing scheduling of the mobile station based on the received CQI; and transmitting, by the base station, the data modulated by the FQAM scheme to the mobile station.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Su-Ryong Jeong, Jeong-Ho Park, Jae-Won Kim, Min Sagong, Hyun-Kyu Yu, Sung-Nam Hong
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Patent number: 9912491Abstract: A system and method for displaying document content using Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is provided. A media server provides meta information corresponding to the document content to a control point if a user request for displaying the document content is received, the control point provides the meta information of the document content to a media renderer that can display the requested document content together with an operation performance command for displaying the requested document content, and the media renderer receives the document content from the media server and renders the document content in accordance with the operation performance command to display the document content on a screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Ji-Hyeok Kim, Won-Sang Kwon, Tae-Hwan Hwang, Ki-Chul Park, Yoon-Suk Choi
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Patent number: 9910507Abstract: An image display apparatus that automatically adjust a pointing direction of a remote controller to almost match with a position of a pointer on a screen, and a pointing method performed by the image display apparatus are provided. The image display apparatus includes a reference angle detector configured to detect a reference angle formed by the pointing direction of the remote controller with respect to a reference direction set for a display; a remote control direction detector configured to detect a remote control direction which is a direction in which the remote controller is viewed, from a reference point set on the display; and a standard direction adjuster configured to adjust a standard direction set in the remote controller so that the standard direction reaches the reference point on the display as viewed from the remote controller, based on the reference angle and the remote control direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiaki Okuno, Kousuke Hirasawa, Edwardo Arata Yamamoto Murakami, Sang-on Choi
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Patent number: 9910919Abstract: A content processing device is provided. The content processing device includes a receiver configured to receive a content, an audio processor configured to extract an audio signal by decoding audio data included in the content, a processor configured to determine a characteristic section in the audio signal based on a ratio of music information of the audio signal, and detect a segment corresponding to the characteristic section in the audio signal; and a communicator configured to transmit the segment to a music recognition server, and a size of the segment is determined variably within a threshold range.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jang-ho Jin, Young-jun Ryu, Myung-suk Song
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Patent number: 9912447Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing reverse transmission resources of a user terminal in a mobile communication system. When receiving a plurality of grants, the method and apparatus sum resources allocated by the grants, distribute the summed resources to logical channels, map the resources distributed by the logical channels and the logical channels to MAC PDUs according to the data sizes of the MAC PDUs, and allocate the resources distributed by the mapped logical channels.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Soeng Hun Kim
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Patent number: 9913093Abstract: An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) for supporting a higher data rate than a 4G communication system is provided. The apparatus includes a transceiver and a processor operatively coupled with the transceiver. The processor is configured to broadcast a request signal for positioning the UE, receive response signals corresponding to the request signal from a plurality of UEs, based on received signal timings of the response signals and timing advance (TA) values of the plurality of UEs, select one of at least one UE set which is classified based on a distance from the UE, select three UEs from the selected set based on the TA values such that a triangular area comprising the three UEs as vertices covers the UE, and generate position information of the UE based on distances between the three UEs and the UE.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Research & Business Foundation SUNGYUNKWAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Wonjun Hwang, Hyung-Jin Choi, Kyunghoon Lee, Hyunseok Ryu, Dong Hun Lee, Min Jang, Han Jun Kim
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Patent number: 9910322Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate positioned parallel to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. A black matrix disposed on one of the first substrate and the second substrate and configured to define a pixel region. A lower pixel electrode on the first substrate corresponding to the pixel region. An upper insulating layer disposed on the lower pixel electrode and having at least one groove. An upper pixel electrode disposed on the upper insulating layer and receiving a data signal from a thin film transistor, the data signal applied from a data line.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Swaehyun Kim, Jehyeong Park, Kyungbae Kim, Changil Tae, Kipyo Hong
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Patent number: 9912311Abstract: Provided is a reconfigurable amplifier. The reconfigurable amplifier includes a gain circuit including a gain path configured to amplify an input signal, and a feed forward circuit including a feed forward path configured to receive the input signal and perform feed forward compensation on the input signal, and a first control circuit configured to perform the feed forward compensation in a first mode by activating the feed forward path, and deactivate the feed forward path in a second mode different from the first mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: So-Young Kang, Thomas Byung-Hak Cho, Hee-Seon Shin, Su-Seob Ahn, Jong-Mi Lee, Min-Gyu Jo
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Patent number: 9911369Abstract: A rollable display device is provided. The rollable display device includes: a flexible screen display which is rolled or unrolled on both sides; at least one pair of rollable driving units where each side of the flexible screen display is rolled into or unrolled from one of the pair of rollable driving units; a link driving unit for supporting the rollable driving units to move the sides of the flexible screen display and to roll or unroll the flexible screen display; and a controller for controlling operations of the rollable driving units and the link driving unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jinwook Kim, Sangmin Hyun
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Patent number: 9911926Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer. The organic layer includes a first compound represented by one of Formulae 1-1 to 1-3 below and a second compound represented by Formula 2 below: where A1 to A5, B1 to B5, D1 to D5, R1 to R5, R12, R13, R41 to R44, L11, L2, L3, and ba to bi are as defined in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sehun Kim, Mikyung Kim, Kwanhee Lee, Hyein Jeong, Changwoong Chu
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Patent number: 9911230Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling a virtual monitor in an augmented reality display system are provided. The method for controlling a virtual monitor in an augmented reality display system, including a camera for photographing an image for determining a location of the virtual monitor and for photographing an image of a user's finger, and a graphic device including window images, includes parallel-processing the image for determining a location of the virtual monitor and the window images and mapping the window images to a set location to create the virtual monitor, extracting a finger tip from the image of the user's finger, stencil-buffering an image of the finger tip not to render the image of the finger in the virtual monitor, determining whether the finger tip collides with the stencil-buffered virtual monitor, and controlling an operation of the virtual monitor according to the determination of the finger tip collision.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2011Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kwang Ha Jeon
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Patent number: 9910248Abstract: A lens module may include a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having negative refractive power, and a sixth lens having negative refractive power and having one or more inflection points formed on an image-side surface thereof. An overall focal length of the lens module f and a focal length of the first lens f1 may satisfy the following Conditional Expression: 1.0<f1/f<2.0??[Conditional Expression].Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Il Yong Park, Yong Joo Jo, Ju Hwa Son, Jin Hwa Jung, Jae Hyun Baik, Ho Sik You, Phil Ho Jung, Kyu Min Chae
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Patent number: 9910275Abstract: Various devices, arrangements and methods for managing communications using a head mounted display device are described. In one aspect, tracking data is generated at least in part by one or more sensors in a head mounted display (HMD) device. The tracking data indicates one or more facial movements of a user wearing the HMD device. A patch image is obtained based on the tracking data. The patch image is merged with a facial image. Various embodiments relate to the HMD device and other methods for generating and using the patch and facial images.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Simon J. Gibbs, Anthony S. Liot, Yu Song, Yoshiya Hirase
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Patent number: 9911938Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a quantum dot, a core may be formed using (utilizing) at least one cation precursor and at least one anion precursor. The core may be reacted with a shell forming precursor and a ligand forming precursor for more than one hour to form a shell enclosing the core and a ligand. A nanoparticle including the core, the shell and the ligand may be washed.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Industry-Academia Cooperation Foundation, Hongik UniversityInventors: Hee-Joo Ko, Hee-Sun Yang, Ki-Heon Lee, Jeong-Hoon Lee, Chang-Ho Lee
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Patent number: 9911231Abstract: A method and computing device for providing Augmented Reality (AR) is provided. The method of providing AR includes detecting at least one physical object from a real scene obtained through a camera of a computing device, rendering at least one virtual object at a desired position of the detected at least one physical object on the real scene provided on a display, enabling communication through a command for interaction between the rendered at least one virtual object, and enabling the at least one virtual object to perform an action in response to command communication between the at least one virtual object.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Muthukumar Subramanian, Pankaj Mishra
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Patent number: 9911387Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel in which a plurality of pixel units are disposed, a backlight providing light to the display panel, and a data processing circuit receiving image signals and providing the image signals to the plurality of pixel units. The data processing circuit sets a luminance level of the backlight to a value corresponding to a color gamut boundary of the image signals adjacent to a saturation region.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Heendol Kim, Jai-hyun Koh, Hyunkyu Namkung, Seokyun Son, Kuk-hwan Ahn, Iksoo Lee
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Patent number: 9910330Abstract: In a display panel, a thin film transistor is connected to a gate line and a data line, and includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor pattern, a source electrode and a drain electrode. An organic pattern makes contact with a side surface of the data line and a side surface of the thin film transistor, and the organic pattern overlaps pixel areas of the display panel. A first passivation layer is on the data line, the thin film transistor and the organic pattern. A common electrode is on the first passivation layer, and the common electrode overlaps the pixel areas. A second passivation layer covers the common electrode. A pixel electrode is on the second passivation layer, the pixel electrode overlaps the common electrode, and the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the drain electrode through a first contact hole and the data line through a second contact hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chul-Won Park, Hoon Kang, Koichi Sugitani, Jin-Ho Ju
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Patent number: 9907528Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus may include an image acquirer configured to acquire a plurality of X-ray images of an object in different energy bands; and an image processor configured to perform scattering correction on the plurality of X-ray images to remove X-ray scattering from the plurality of X-ray images, perform material separation on the plurality of X-ray images on which the scattering correction has been performed to acquire material information of at least one material included in the object, and repeatedly perform the scattering correction and the material separation depending on whether a predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae Mock Yi, Dong-Goo Kang, Young Hun Sung, Jae Hak Lee, Ji Young Choi, Seok Min Han
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Patent number: 9911976Abstract: The present invention relates to a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery, a conductive composition for a secondary battery, a negative electrode material including the same, a negative electrode structure and secondary battery including the same, and a method for manufacturing the same. The present invention includes: a silicon particle; and an amorphous surface layer formed on the surface of the silicon particle. According to the present invention, the negative electrode structure is formed of a composite of a silicon particle and carbon or lithium ion, the oxygen contents of the solid electrolyte and silicon particles are low, and thus aggregation of silicon particles is inhibited. Therefore, in the event of using the negative electrode structure in a negative electrode, a power storage device such as a lithium secondary battery may have high energy density, high output density, and a longer charging/discharging life cycle.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTDInventors: Soichiro Kawakami, Ju Myeung Lee, Hyun Ju Jung, Dong Gyu Chang
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Patent number: 9908990Abstract: An organic layer composition, an organic layer, and a method of forming patterns, the composition including a polymer that includes a substituted or unsubstituted fluorene structure, an additive represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a solvent:Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventors: Sun-Hae Kang, Youn-Hee Nam, Min-Soo Kim, Dominea Rathwell, You-Jung Park, Hyun-Ji Song, Sun young Yang
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Patent number: 9913267Abstract: In legacy systems such as 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) releases 8 to 10, the control channel is transmitted using the first few Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a subframe. The limited control channel capacity will impact the system performance in future releases as more and more User Equipments (UEs) will be scheduled in a subframe with technologies such as MulitUser-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) and Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission being enhanced or introduced. A new Enhanced Control CHannel (E-CCH) is necessary to be designed, which will use the resource in the Physical Downlink Shared CHannel (PDSCH) in the legacy systems. The E-CCH will support UE-specific DeModulation Reference Signal (DMRS) based transmission and receiving. However, the configuration of DMRS for E-CCH is necessary to be known to UE in prior. This invention discloses multiple methods in which DMRS is configured for E-CCHs and respective eNB and UE behaviors.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Younsun Kim, Cheng Shan, Kiil Kim, Hyojin Lee
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Patent number: 9911384Abstract: A scan driver of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a plurality of sequentially-connected stages each connected to a plurality of pixels through a plurality of first-scan lines and a plurality of second-scan lines. Each stage of the sequentially-connected stages includes a common driver and a sub-driver unit. The common driver is configured to concurrently provide a common first-scan signal to the first-scan lines of the stage in response to at least a first initialization signal and a second initialization signal. The sub-driver unit is configured to serially provide second-scan signals to the second-scan lines of the stage in response to a plurality of output enable signals, the first-scan signal, and one of the first initialization signal and the second initialization signal. An order of the serial providing of the second-scan signals to the second-scan lines is dynamically configurable based on the output enable signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Dispaly Co., Ltd.Inventor: Su-Hyeong Park
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Patent number: 9910937Abstract: A method of generating data representing a structure of a room on a device, the method including: outputting an audio signal at a first position in the room; acquiring a first reflection signal of the audio signal at the first position; outputting the audio signal at a second position in the room; acquiring a second reflection signal of the audio signal at the second position; estimating distance information about the room by using the acquired first and second reflection signals; acquiring at least one angle information about the room; and generating a floor plan illustrating the structure of the room using the estimated distance information and the acquired angle information.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayush Patwari, Gaurav Mishra, Rupika Srivastava, Aloknath De, Deepraj Patkar
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Patent number: 9912870Abstract: An image transmitting method and a photographing apparatus using the same are provided. According to the image transmitting method, a face included in an image is recognized and contents to be transmitted or a transmission destination is determined using a recognized face. Accordingly, a user may transmit a photographed image to another person easily using the photographing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2010Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Seung-dong Yu, Woo-yong Chang, Se-jun Park, Min-jeong Moon
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Patent number: 9912880Abstract: Methods and apparatuses of operating an electronic device are provided. A display unit of the electronic device displays an image as a preview. A control unit of the electronic device differentiates a reference object and a target object in the image. The control unit determines a reference color of the reference object and a background color of the target object. The control unit adjusts the background color of the target object so as to correspond to the reference color of the reference object. The control unit sets the background color of the target object.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Jangseok Seo, Taegun Park
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Patent number: 9912597Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling traffic of a Radio Access Network (RAN) in a wireless communication system. The method includes acquiring at least one of subscription class information of a User Equipment (UE) user and type information of an application or content; determining whether a congestion situation has occurred in the RAN; and controlling traffic for the UE based on the acquired information, if the congestion situation has occurred in the RAN.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang-Soo Jeong, Song-Yean Cho, Han-Na Lim, Beom-Sik Bae, Young-Kyo Baek, Sung-Hwan Won
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Patent number: 9911688Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip substrate with a chip region and a scribe lane region, center and boundary pads respectively provided on the chip and scribe lane regions, a lower insulating structure provided on the chip region and the scribe lane region, a first conductive pattern including a contact portion, a conductive line portion, and a bonding pad portion, and an upper insulating structure defining first and second openings formed on the bonding pad portion and the boundary pad. The lower insulating structure includes a plurality of lower insulating layers, which are sequentially stacked on the substrate, and each of which is a silicon-containing inorganic layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyo-Seon Choi, Seungmo Kang, Sang-ki Kim, Yooncheol Bang
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Patent number: 9910607Abstract: In one embodiment, the method includes determining whether a selection transistor of a currently programmed memory string in the memory has deteriorated, and copying data in the currently programmed memory string to a different memory string of the memory if the determining determines the selection transistor has deteriorated.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sangyong Yoon, Jinman Han
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Patent number: 9912981Abstract: A broadcast receiver includes a mode determination unit to determine a current operation mode among a plurality of operation modes, a communication interface to transmit the determined current operation mode to a mobile device through interactive communication, and to receive a control command from the mobile device, and a controller to provide a service of the determined current operation mode according to the control command received from the mobile device. Accordingly, a user controls the broadcast receiver through the mobile device according to the operation mode so that user's convenience is improved.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang-kwon Lee, Hyok-sung Choi, Sung-joo Kim, Ho-joong Kim, Lyun-sik Hyun, Se-jun Han, Hee-seok Yu
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Patent number: 9913222Abstract: Disclosed is a method for uplink power control in a communication system that includes determining a power control offset for controlling power for traffic to be transmitted by a subscriber station, according to whether a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) is applied to the traffic, and transmitting the power control offset to the subscriber station.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Jin-Kwan Jung, Hee-Kwun Cho, In-Seok Hwang, Dong-Oh Hwang
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Patent number: 9912951Abstract: Provided are encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses for a video by selectively determining and using a scan mode. The video encoding method includes: generating transformation coefficients by performing transformation based on a transformation unit to encode an image; determining a scan mode, from among a plurality of scan modes, indicating a scanning direction of the generated transformation coefficients, based on characteristics of the transformation coefficients; and determining and outputting an encoding order of the generated transformation coefficients based on the scanning direction of the determined scan mode.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Vadim Seregin, Jianle Chen
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Patent number: 9911322Abstract: An electronic apparatus, control method thereof, remote control apparatus that controls the electronic apparatus, and control method thereof. The remote control apparatus includes a communication unit which communicates with the electronic apparatus; a user input unit which receives a user button selection indicating an input button; a sensing unit which senses movement of the remote control apparatus; and a control unit which controls the communication unit to transmit information about the user button selection to perform a function corresponding to the input button if the remote control apparatus is in a button input mode, and to transmit information about the movement of the remote control apparatus to the electronic apparatus to control the electronic apparatus by the movement if the remote control apparatus is in a motion recognition mode. Accordingly, controlling a game or a multimedia content is easier, and the user is provided with a new and interesting experience.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Eun-seok Choi, Ho-june Yoo, Sang-on Choi, Byung-seok Soh
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Patent number: 9910685Abstract: A mobile application development system includes a developer portal that receives an application from a developer and provides a routing library to the developer to augment the application. An offline analysis system analyzes the application to (i) determine a set of activities that a handler within the application is programmed to resume in response to respective resumption requests from a host operating system and (ii) determine parameters for each of the activities. The offline analysis system generates a set of links that each corresponds to a respective one of the activities. The routing library, installed as part of the augmented application onto a user device, receives a link, from the user device's operating system, that identifies a first activity. The routing library includes instructions for generating a first resumption request based on parameters corresponding to the first activity and transmitting the first resumption request to the augmented application's handler.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kalyan Desineni, Matan Levi, Moshe Krush, Danny Tsechansky
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Patent number: 9911659Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor devices may include gate electrodes on a substrate. A longitudinal direction of each of the gate electrodes may extend in a first direction, and ones of the gate electrodes may be arranged in the first direction. The semiconductor devices may also include first and second gate spacers extending in the first direction and on respective sidewalls of the ones of the gate electrodes. The first and second gate spacers may be spaced apart from each other in a second direction that is different from the first direction. The semiconductor devices may further include gate separation patterns, and ones of the gate separation patterns may be between two among the ones of the gate electrodes adjacent to each other in the first direction and between the first and second gate spacers.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chul Woong Lee, Hanseung Kwak, Youngmook Oh
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Patent number: 9911851Abstract: Integrated circuit devices having a cavity and methods of manufacturing the integrated circuit devices are provided. The integrated circuit devices may include a pair of spacers, which define a recess. The integrated circuit device may also include a lower conductive pattern in the recess and an upper conductive pattern on the lower conductive pattern. The upper conductive pattern may have an etch selectivity with respect to the lower conductive pattern and may expose an upper surface of the lower conductive pattern adjacent a sidewall of the upper conductive pattern. An inner sidewall of one of the pair of spacers, the upper surface of the lower conductive pattern and the sidewall of the upper conductive pattern may define a space and a capping pattern may be formed on the upper conductive pattern to seal a top portion of the space, such that a cavity is disposed under the capping pattern.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kang-Ill Seo, Jin-Wook Lee
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Patent number: 9911002Abstract: Provided is a user device including: a storage configured to store data; and a controller configured to recognize a person included in an image captured by the user device or received by the user device from an external source, and change a part of the image corresponding to the recognized person to be unrecognizable in response to a degree of closeness between the recognized person and a user of the user device being lower than a predetermined level based on the data stored in the storage.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-chul Shim, Hyun-jee Kim, Jae-young Huh
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Patent number: 9910324Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first insulating substrate. A pixel electrode is formed on a top surface of the first insulating substrate. The pixel electrode has a first opening pattern at each pixel area. The pixel electrode is substantially rectangular in shape with first and second long sides, and first and second short sides. The pixel electrode is divided into an upper region defined by the first and second long sides and first short side, and a lower region defined by the first and second long sides and second short side. A common electrode is formed on a bottom surface of a second insulating substrate, and has a second opening pattern at each pixel area. The first and second opening patterns each have a plurality of openings, the openings of the first opening pattern and the second opening pattern being alternately arranged parallel to each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jang-Kun Song, Jae-Jin Ryu
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Patent number: D812027Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Arthur Debaigue, Yves Behar, Qin Li, Alex Farrow
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Patent number: D812097Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2017Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiu Seo, Jinseon Jang, Hoik Hwang
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Patent number: D812127Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yong Seo, Minki Ham, Jinsoo Kim
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Patent number: D812330Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yeonsu Kim, Yoonjong Kang
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Patent number: D812332Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sanghun Yoon, Kyoungmin Lee, Cheolyeon Jo, Seokwoo Kim