Samsung Electronics Patents Granted

Patents granted to Samsung Electronics by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11967549
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a redistribution substrate having first and second surfaces opposed to each other, and including an insulation member, a plurality of redistribution layers on different levels in the insulation member, and a redistribution via having a shape narrowing from the second surface toward the first surface in a first direction; a plurality of UBM layers, each including a UBM pad on the first surface of the redistribution substrate, and a UBM via having a shape narrowing in a second direction, opposite to the first direction; and at least one semiconductor chip on the second surface of the redistribution substrate, and having a plurality of contact pads electrically connected to the redistribution layer adjacent to the second surface among the plurality of redistribution layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Ho Park, Jong Youn Kim, Min Jun Bae
  • Patent number: 11968693
    Abstract: A communication technique for convergence between an IoT technology and a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) system, and a system thereof is provided. The method includes intelligence services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, and the like.) On the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonghwan Kim, Seijoon Shim, Jongho Oh, Kilsik Ha
  • Patent number: 11968149
    Abstract: Enhancing reception reliability for control information or data information includes receiving: a first configuration for a CORESET and a second configuration for a second CORESET; a first PDCCH, in the first CORESET or the second CORESET, including a first DCI format; and a first PDSCH, scheduled by the first DCI format, including a TB. The method further includes transmitting a first PUCCH including a first HARQ-ACK codebook and a second PUCCH including a second HARQ-ACK codebook. HARQ-ACK information, in response to receiving the TB, is included in: the first HARQ-ACK codebook when the first PDCCH is received in the first CORESET and the second HARQ-ACK codebook when the first PDCCH is received in the second CORESET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 11968627
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a front surface and a rear surface, a display, a communication circuit, at least one processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to receive a signal from outside of the electronic device using the communication circuit, in response to receiving the signal, display a user interface on an elongated region that extends along at least one edge region of the display, and display at least one content corresponding to the signal, while displaying the user interface or after displaying the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Moo Lee, Seung Min Choi, Gyu Chual Kim, Ji Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 11967670
    Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel and a second pixel adjacent to each other in a first direction, first voltage wires disposed in the first pixel and the second pixel in a second direction, a second wire disposed along a boundary between the first pixel and the second pixel in the second direction, first electrodes disposed between the first voltage wires and the second wire in the first pixel an the second pixel, a second electrode disposed between and spaced apart from the first electrodes in the first pixel and the second pixel, and light-emitting elements disposed at each of the first pixel and the second pixel and disposed on the first electrodes and the second electrode, wherein the first voltage wires, the first electrodes, and the light-emitting elements are symmetric with respect to the second wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: An Na Ryu, Sung Hoon Kim, Sang Ho Park
  • Patent number: 11968649
    Abstract: Disclosed are: a communication technique for merging, with IOT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety-related services, and the like) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A method of a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to the present invention, comprising: receiving system information including a V2X parameter; receiving a data packet based on the V2X parameter; and updating a state variable on the data packet when the data packet is related to a new service, wherein a sequence number included in the state variable is updated based on a sequence number of a data packet received for the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungri Jin, Sangyeob Jung, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11967962
    Abstract: A frequency-locked loop (FLL) logic circuit, including a validity signal generator configured to receive an external clock signal and determine whether a glitch occurs in the external clock signal; a clock divider configured to generate a reference frequency clock signal based on the external clock signal and a determination result of the validity signal generator; a synchronizer configured to synchronize a phase of an oscillator clock signal with a phase of the reference frequency clock signal; a clock counter configured to count a number of pulses of the oscillator clock signal during a reference time; and a code limiter configured to determine a range of a frequency selection value for calibrating an operating frequency of the oscillator clock signal based on the counted number of pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jusung Lee, Wooseok Kim, Wonsik Yu, Chanyoung Jeong
  • Patent number: 11968659
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of scheduling for a UE. The method includes dividing M UEs into N groups, wherein a distance metric between each UE in a group and the center of the group does not exceed a first predetermined threshold, where M and N are positive integers; pairing the N groups, wherein a distance metric between centers of the two paired groups is greater than a second predetermined threshold; and in a case where there is a group paired with a group to which a first UE for which scheduling is to be performed belongs, scheduling transmissions in different directions respectively for the first UE and the second UE from the paired group on the same time-frequency resource. The present disclosure also provides a signal transmission method, a base station, a UE and a computer readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuang Zhang, Di Su, Peng Lin, Chen Qian, Bin Yu
  • Patent number: 11966846
    Abstract: An encoding apparatus connected to a learning circuit processing learning of a deep neural network and configured to perform encoding for reconfiguring connection or disconnection of a plurality of edges in a layer of the deep neural network using an edge sequence generated based on a random number sequence and dropout information indicating a ratio between connected edges and disconnected edges of a plurality of edges included in a layer of the deep neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungho Kang, Hyungdal Kwon, Cheon Lee, Yunjae Lim
  • Patent number: 11968690
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided in a wireless communication system. Mini slot length information indicating mini slot length in a number of symbols is received from a base station via higher layer signaling. Downlink control information (DCI) including a number of mini slots for a hybrid automatic repeat and request (HARQ) feedback transmission is received from the base station. A mini slot for the HARQ feedback transmission is identified based on the mini slot length information and the number of mini slots for the HARQ feedback transmission. The HARQ feedback information is transmitted to the base station on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) based on the identified mini slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Taehyoung Kim, Jeongho Yeo, Youngbum Kim, Seunghoon Choi, Heedon Gha, Taehan Bae
  • Patent number: 11968155
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as, one or more of: a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care technologies, digital education technologies, smart retail technologies, and security and safety services. A method and apparatus for handling of multiple active bandwidth parts (BWPs) are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11967752
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a first antenna unit including at least one first patch antenna pattern, at least one first feed via, and at least one first dielectric layer, a second antenna unit including at least one second patch antenna pattern, at least one second feed via, and at least one second dielectric layer, a first connection portion, a first rigid substrate electrically connecting the first connection portion to the first antenna unit and having a first surface on which the first antenna unit is disposed, a base connection portion, a flexible substrate having a first surface on which the first connection portion is disposed and a second surface on which the base connection portion is disposed, and an IC electrically connected to the flexible substrate through the second surface of the flexible substrate or the first rigid substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Kyung Kang, Shin Haeng Heo, Hyung Ho Seo
  • Patent number: 11967952
    Abstract: An electronic system and an operation method thereof are disclosed. A method of an electronic system including a field programmable gate array (FPGA) includes: synthesizing, by processing circuitry, code of a high level language into code of a hardware description language; designing, by the processing circuitry, a circuit of an intellectual property (IP) block included in the field programmable gate array according to the code of the hardware description language; and generating, by the processing circuitry, a database containing reference assembly code corresponding to the code of the high level language and information about a circuit configuration of the intellectual property block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyungdal Kwon, Seungwook Lee, Youngnam Hwang
  • Patent number: 11968562
    Abstract: NAS signaling between a UE and a server is enhanced by performing one of: sending a registration complete message to the server using existing NAS signaling and without starting a release timer in response to receiving an RC_ID deletion IE in a registration accept message; and not sending the registration complete message to the server in response to receiving the RC_ID deletion IE in the registration accept message. A registration procedure is reinstated based on a stored RC_ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Prasad Basavaraj Dandra, Shrinithi Andal Tensingh, Umasankar Ceendhralu Baskar, Vijay Ganesh Surisetty, Chetan Ramesh Ganig, Lalith Kumar
  • Patent number: 11967000
    Abstract: A method for generating one or more emoticons for one or more users with respect to one or more fictional characters is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dimple Sharma, Dewesh Deo Singh, Sattdeepan Dutta
  • Patent number: 11968599
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT), and may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. To do so, a method and apparatus are provided for transmitting groupcast/broadcast/multicast data and control information in the downlink and uplink. The method and apparatus include features for transmitting to a user equipment (UE), configuration information for multicast and broadcast services (MBS), encoding a first bit sequence for the MBS based on a channel coding, identifying a transport block size (TBS) for limited buffer rate matching (LBRM) based on the configuration information, performing the LBRM to the encoded first bit sequence based on the identified TBS, and transmitting to the UE, a second bit sequence identified based on the LBRM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongho Yeo, Seho Myung, Youngbum Kim, Sungjin Park, Hyunseok Ryu
  • Patent number: 11967623
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising gate stack structures on a substrate, separation structures extending in a first direction on the substrate and separating the gate stack structures, and vertical structures penetrating the gate stack structures. Each gate stack structure includes cell dielectric layers and electrodes including upper electrodes, a barrier layer extending between the electrodes and the cell dielectric layers, a separation dielectric pattern extending in the first direction and penetrating the upper electrodes to separate each upper electrode into pieces that are spaced apart from each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and capping patterns between the separation dielectric pattern and the upper electrodes. The capping patterns are on sidewalls of each upper electrode and spaced apart from each other in a third direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate. Each capping pattern is on a sidewall of the barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunggil Kim, Jung-Hwan Kim, Gukhyon Yon
  • Patent number: 11968032
    Abstract: A system and method for accommodating reduced capability user equipment in a mobile network. The method may include a method for accommodating bandwidth-limited UEs in the initial access process, employing an extended System Information Block #1, or employing, for bandwidth-limited UEs, a separate Synchronization Signal Block, a separate initial Control Resource Set, and a separate Radio Resource Control System Information Block #1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Hu, Jung Hyun Bae, Jungmin Park, Hsien-Ping Lin
  • Patent number: 11967352
    Abstract: A memory device including: a memory cell array including memory cell rows; and a control logic circuit to perform a row, write, read, or pre-charge operation on the memory cell rows in response to an active, write, read, or pre-charge command, wherein the control logic circuit is further configured to: calculate a first count value by counting the active command and a second count value by counting the write command or the read command, with respect to a first memory cell row, during a row hammer monitor time frame; determine a type of row hammer of the first memory cell row based on a ratio of the first count value to the second count value; and adjust a pre-charge preparation time between an active operation and the pre-charge operation, by changing a pre-charge operation time point according to the determined type of row hammer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jungmin You, Wonhyung Song, Hoyoun Kim
  • Patent number: 11967751
    Abstract: An electronic device including a housing, a display, an antenna structure positioned inside the housing, and a wireless communication circuit connected to the antenna structure, is provided. The antenna structure includes a dipole antenna element interposed between s-patch elements not to overlap with s-patch elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seongjin Park, Dongyeon Kim, Hosaeng Kim, Sumin Yun, Myunghun Jeong, Jehun Jong, Jaehoon Jo
  • Patent number: 11967322
    Abstract: A server is provided. The server includes a communication circuitry, and at least one processor operatively connected with the communication circuitry. The at least one processor may be configured to, in response to traffic of a plurality of speeches to wake up a voice assistant feature, received within a preset period being a preset value or more, generate a plurality of clusters based on similarities between the plurality of speeches, and determine whether to respond to each of speeches included in each of the plurality of clusters based on similarities between the speeches included in each of the plurality of clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunok Kim, Sunbeom Kwon, Soonhee Jo, Kiwan Eom
  • Patent number: 11967502
    Abstract: Methods of forming a material layer according to some embodiments of the inventive concept may include a deposition cycle including providing an adsorption inhibitor on a substrate, purging an excess amount of the adsorption inhibitor, providing a metal precursor on the substrate, purging an excess amount of the metal precursor, and supplying a reactant to form a material layer on the substrate. The adsorption inhibitor may include a group 15 element or a group 16 element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Younsoo Kim, Jaewoon Kim, Haeryong Kim, Jinho Lee, Tsubasa Shiratori
  • Patent number: 11967267
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display panel, an optical sensor, a timing controller, a scan driver, a data driver, and an image controller. The timing controller controls an image refresh rate of the display panel based on a refresh rate control signal. Thus, the display device provides improved visibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., UNIST (Ulsan National Institute Of Science and Technology)
    Inventors: Hyo Sun Kim, Oh Sang Kwon, Seong Gyu Choe, Chang Yeong Han, Min Kyung Kim, You Ra Kim, Eun Jung Lee, Hyung Suk Hwang
  • Patent number: 11967754
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a display panel in which an active area and a peripheral area are defined and an antenna with at least a portion overlapping the active area. The antenna includes a first pattern portion having a first characteristic impedance and a first mesh structure, a second pattern portion, and a third pattern portion. The second pattern portion is disposed adjacent to the first pattern portion and has a second characteristic impedance different from the first characteristic impedance and a second mesh structure. The third pattern portion is disposed adjacent to the second pattern portion and has a third characteristic impedance different from the second characteristic impedance and a third mesh structure. The second characteristic impedance has a value between the first characteristic impedance and the third characteristic impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLGY)
    Inventors: Jae-Kyoung Kim, WonSang Park, Gangil Byun, Jinmyeong Heo
  • Patent number: 11967263
    Abstract: An instruction of an electronic device is provided. The instruction of the electronic device, when executed by a processor, causes a display panel to be operated using one of a first gamma set corresponding to a first operating frequency and a second gamma set corresponding to a second operating frequency, each of the first gamma set and the second gamma set comprises gamma voltage values for each luminance and gradation, the first gamma set and the second gamma set include the same gamma voltage value in a first gradation range of a first luminance so as to have the substantially same optical characteristic when the operating frequency changes, the first gamma set and the second gamma set include the same gamma voltage value in a second gradation range of a second luminance, and the first gradation range and the second gradation range are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minwoo Lee, Seungryeol Kim, Seoyoung Lee, Juseok Lee
  • Patent number: 11966529
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch detection device, a display device including the same, and a method for manufacturing the same capable of minimizing an area of an outer area of a touch detection area or making the area of the outer area zero by changing disposition positions of touch driving lines and touch detection lines. The touch detection device comprising touch driving lines and touch detection lines, a driving electrode and a detection electrode disposed on the touch driving lines and the touch detection lines to overlap the touch driving lines and the touch detection lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mae Um Cho
  • Patent number: 11967265
    Abstract: A display device includes a communication interface including a circuit, a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels comprising red (R), green (G), and blue (B) subpixels, a memory configured to store first luminance information and second luminance information, and a processor configured to acquire an output frame based on a plurality of subpixel values of pixels included in an input frame received via the communication interface, the first luminance information, and the second luminance information; and based on the acquired luminance values, control the display panel to output the output frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minhoon Lee, Byungkwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11966590
    Abstract: A persistent memory device is disclosed. The persistent memory device may include a cache coherent interconnect interface. The persistent memory device may include a volatile storage and a non-volatile storage. The volatile storage may include at least a first area and a second area. A backup power source may be configured to provide backup power selectively to the second area of the volatile storage. A controller may control the volatile storage and the non-volatile storage. The persistent memory device may use the backup power source while transferring a data from the second area of the volatile storage to the non-volatile storage based at least in part on a loss of a primary power for the persistent memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Seok Ki, Chanik Park, Sungwook Ryu
  • Patent number: 11967630
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device comprising a multi-channel active pattern on a substrate, a high dielectric constant insulating layer formed along the multi-channel active pattern on the multi-channel active pattern, wherein the high dielectric constant insulating layer comprises a metal, a silicon nitride layer formed along the high dielectric constant insulating layer on the high dielectric constant insulating layer and a gate electrode on the silicon nitride layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byoung Hoon Lee, Wan Don Kim, Jong Ho Park, Sang Jin Hyun
  • Patent number: 11968289
    Abstract: A clock data recovery circuit includes the following elements: a phase detector for outputting a phase adjustment signal by comparing a clock signal of a first node and an input signal; a charge pump for adjusting a charge amount of a second node according to the phase adjustment signal; a first switch including one end coupled to the second node and including another end coupled to a third node; a second switch including one end which receives a bias voltage and including another end coupled to the third node; a capacitor including a first electrode coupled to the third node; third switches; and voltage control oscillators including control terminals coupled to the third node and including output terminals coupled to the first node through the third switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Min Young Park, Jong Min Shim
  • Patent number: 11967276
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a first pixel, a second pixel adjacent to one side of the first pixel, and a third pixel adjacent to the other side of the first pixel; a first scan driver supplying a first signal to the first to third pixels through a first scan line; a second scan driver supplying a second scan signal to the second and third pixels through a second scan line when a first time elapses after the supply of the first scan signal is started; a data driver supplying a data voltage to a plurality of output lines; and a data divider selectively supplying the data voltage to data lines respectively coupled to the first to third pixels. Each of the second and third pixels includes a switching transistor controlled by the second scan signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young In Hwang, Elly Gil, Jin A Lee, Joo Hyeon Jo, Seong Baik Chu
  • Patent number: 11968150
    Abstract: An operation method of an electronic device includes determining whether a first communication module based on a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second communication module based on a second RAT operate in a connected state; determining whether a combination of a first band used by the first communication module and a second band used by the second communication module is a combination causing interference; and if the combination of the first band and the second band is a combination causing interference, transmitting a signal requesting to change one of the first band or the second band. The interference is caused by at least one transmission signal of the first RAT or at least one other signal derived from the at least one transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yongjun An, Soon Park, Kyuhyuck Kwak, Janghyun Nam, Jonghun Yoo, Taeyun Lee, Haekwon Lee, Hyoseok Na
  • Patent number: 11967277
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes: a light emitting element having one end connected to a first power line supplying a first power voltage; a driving transistor for controlling an amount of current flowing to a second power voltage via the light emitting element electrically connected to a first electrode the driving transistor; an initialization transistor connected between a second electrode of the driving transistor and an initialization power line supplying an initialization voltage, the initialization transistor having a gate electrode connected to a first scan line; a compensation transistor connected between the first power line and the first electrode of the driving transistor, the compensation transistor having a gate electrode connected to a second scan line; and a storage capacitor connected between a gate electrode of the driving transistor and the second electrode of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyung Hoon Chung
  • Patent number: 11967287
    Abstract: A column driver integrated circuit (IC) which drives a first group of pixel lines connected to a first group of pixels included in a display panel, and a second group of pixel lines connected to a second group of pixels included in the display panel, the column driver IC including: a master gray scale voltage generation circuit configured to divide a reference voltage to generate tap voltages, and to generate a first low-power mode gray scale voltage based on at least one of the tap voltages; and a first low-power mode amplifier configured to drive the first group of pixel lines based on the first low-power mode gray scale voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donghan Lee, Yong-Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 11966736
    Abstract: An interconnect device may include one or more hardware-implemented modules configured to: receive a command from a processing core; perform, based on the received command, an operation including either one or both of an accumulation of sets of data stored in a memory and an aggregation of results processed by the processing core; and provide a result of the performing of the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongha Park
  • Patent number: 11967737
    Abstract: A busbar for a battery module is provided. The battery module includes a plurality of aligned battery cells, and the busbar includes: a busbar body portion extending in an extension direction and a plurality of legs extending from the busbar body portion in a direction non-parallel to the extension direction of the busbar body portion. The busbar body portion have a length to connect cell terminals of a plurality of the battery cells of the battery module, and the legs are configured to electrically connect the busbar body portion and the cell terminals of the battery cells of the battery module to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Martin Weinberger, Martin Kraker, Matic Blaznik, Jörg Killmann
  • Patent number: 11967756
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a vehicle comprises a frame comprising at least one metal panel forming an exterior surface of the vehicle; an antenna disposed below the at least one metal panel in an interior of the vehicle; a printed circuit board (PCB) module electrically connected to the antenna; and at least one ground extender electrically connecting a ground of the PCB module to the metal panel, wherein the ground extender is configured to receive current from the PCB module, and provide the current from the PCB module to the metal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongsun Shin, Jinu Kim, Sangbong Sung, Jeseung Oh
  • Patent number: 11967124
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for classification using a neural network. A classification apparatus includes at least one processor and a memory. The memory is configured to store a classifier and a preprocessor including a defensive noise generator. The at least one processor generates defensive noise from an input image through the defensive noise generator in the preprocessor, generates a combined image by combining the input image and the defensive noise, and outputs a classification result by inputting the combined image to the classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Seong-Jin Park, Hyun Oh Song, Gaon An, Seungju Han
  • Patent number: 11967759
    Abstract: Disclosed is an antenna module including a first printed circuit board (PCB) including a first surface facing a first direction and a second surface facing a second direction opposite the first direction, a second PCB including a third surface facing the first direction spaced from the first PCB and a fourth surface facing the second direction spaced from the first surface, a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) disposed on the first surface, and a connection member comprising a conductive material connecting the first surface to the fourth surface. The at least one first conductive pattern is connected to the RFIC. The at least one third conductive pattern is connected to the RFIC via the connection member. The at least one first conductive pattern and the at least one third conductive pattern at least partially overlap with each other at least partly, when viewed from above the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon Park, Yeonwoo Kim, Haekwon Lee, Woosup Lee, Hyoseok Na
  • Patent number: 11967973
    Abstract: A processing circuit configured to: receive original data; partition the original data into a plurality of original q-bit words; assemble a data packet including N original q-bit words from the plurality of original q-bit words; identify a first encoder value and a second encoder value that are absent from the values of the N original q-bit words; encode the N original q-bit words based on a one-to-one mapping from q-bit original values to q-bit encoded values based on the first encoder value and the second encoder value to generate N encoded q-bit payload words, the N encoded q-bit payload words being free of words that are all-zeroes and free of words that are all-ones; generate a key representing the first encoder value and the second encoder value; and transmit the key and the N encoded q-bit payload words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aliazam Abbasfar
  • Patent number: 11966259
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a foldable housing including a first housing structure and a second housing structure that are foldably connected with each other and that form a recess together and a flexible display located in the recess. The flexible display includes a first part located in the first area of the recess and having a first gap from the first portion of the second housing structure in the unfolded state, the first part including a first peripheral portion facing the first portion of the second housing structure and a second part located in the second area of the recess and having a second gap from the second portion of the second housing structure, the second part including a second peripheral portion facing the second portion of the second housing structure, in which the second gap is smaller than the first gap in the unfolded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gidae Kim, Jungjin Kim, Jongyoon Kim, Moohyun Baek, Chungkeun Yoo, Youngsik Choi, Minsung Lee
  • Patent number: 11967466
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer, and a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode disposed to be alternately stacked with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; a first external electrode including a first electrode layer, a first conductive layer, and a first metal layer; a second external electrode including a second electrode layer, a second conductive layer, and a second metal layer; and a protective layer disposed on the ceramic body, the first electrode layer, and the second electrode layer, wherein a sum of through areas of the through portions disposed on the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer among the protective layers may be 50% or more of a sum of surface areas of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Young Jeong, Ga Young An
  • Patent number: 11964457
    Abstract: Disclosed is a release film including a first release film on a supporter in which a first hole is defined, and a second release film below the supporter, wherein, when viewed in a plan view, a first cut region is defined by a first part of the second release film, the first part overlapping the first hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoseung Kang, Minseop Kim, Hosung Nam, Munsik Ham
  • Patent number: 11968823
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a memory cell region where a plurality of active regions are defined; a word line having a stack structure of a lower word line layer and an upper word line layer and extending over the plurality of active regions in a first horizontal direction, and a buried insulation layer on the word line; a bit line structure arranged on the plurality of active regions, extending in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, and having a bit line; and a word line contact plug electrically connected to the lower word line layer by penetrating the buried insulation layer and the upper word line layer and having a plug extension in an upper portion of the word line contact plug, the plug extension having a greater horizontal width than a lower portion of the word line contact plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyejin Seong, Dongsoo Woo, Wonchul Lee
  • Patent number: 11967590
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including pixels, a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from each other, light emitting elements disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, an insulation layer disposed on the light emitting elements, a first bank overlapping the first electrode and the second electrode, a first area overlapping the first bank, and a second area excluding the first area, wherein the insulation layer includes an opening exposing the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Kim, Jong Chan Lee
  • Patent number: 11965951
    Abstract: A method of operating a first target device for transmitting and receiving data through an ultra-wideband (UWB) channel in a wireless communication system includes receiving a ranging initiation message from an electronic device, transmitting, to the electronic device, a ranging response message in response to receiving the ranging initiation message, receiving, from the electronic device, a measurement report message comprising measured time information measured by the electronic device, based on a plurality of ranging response messages of a plurality of target devices, wherein the plurality of target devices includes the first target device and a second target device, determining time information of the first target device for determining a distance to the electronic device, based on the measurement report message, and determining the distance to the electronic device based on the time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kangjin Yoon, Mingyu Lee
  • Patent number: D1023924
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeonghan Song, Eunha Choi
  • Patent number: D1024043
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junghyun Choi, Bosoon Kang, Byoungjin Kim, Taeho Kim, Junyong Song, Woohyeok Jeong
  • Patent number: D1024050
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seo Lee
  • Patent number: D1024106
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minkyung Cho, Yumi Ko