Patents by Inventor Bo-Geun Kim

Bo-Geun Kim has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9817434
    Abstract: A memory system including a controller that generates a processor clock, and a plurality of memory devices each including an internal clock generator that generates an internal clock in synchronization with the processor clock, and a memory that performs a peak current generation operation in synchronization with the internal clock, wherein at least two of the memory devices generate their respective internal clocks at different times such that the corresponding peak current generation operations are performed at different times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Geun Kim, Kye-Hyun Kyung, Jae-Yong Jeong, Seung-Hun Choi, Seok-Cheon Kwon, Chul-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9570170
    Abstract: A memory device includes a memory cell array having multiple memory cells arranged respectively in regions where first signal lines cross second signal lines. The memory device further includes a decoder having multiple line selection switch units connected respectively to the of first signal lines. Each of the multiple line selection switch units applies a bias voltage to a first signal line corresponding to each of the multiple line selection switch units in response selectively to a first switching signal and a second switching signal, voltage levels of which are different from each other in activated states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-Weon Yoon, Hyun-Kook Park, Yeong-Taek Lee, Bo-Geun Kim, Yong-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9536605
    Abstract: Provided are a resistive memory device including a plurality of memory cells, and a method of operating the resistive memory device. The resistive memory device includes a sensing circuit connected to a first signal line, to which a memory cell is connected, the sensing circuit sensing data stored in the memory cell based on a first reference current; and a reference time generator for generating a reference time signal that determines a time point when a result of the sensing is to be output, based on the first reference current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Kook Park, Yeong-Taek Lee, Dae-Seok Byeon, Bo-Geun Kim
  • Patent number: 9414391
    Abstract: A method for servicing a call with a door phone includes: requesting, by a server on a network supporting interworking between the door phone and a vehicle telematics terminal, vehicle information from the vehicle telematics terminal due to a service request from a smart terminal in a home in response to an action of the door phone; receiving, at the server, the vehicle information from the vehicle telematics terminal; and providing, by the server, a call connection between the door phone and the vehicle telematics terminal based on whether or not a vehicle is being driven, as determined by the received vehicle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Bo Geun Kim
  • Patent number: 9406394
    Abstract: A method of programming a flash memory device comprises programming selected memory cells, performing a verification operation to determine whether the selected memory cells have reached a target program state, and determining a start point of the verification operation based on a programming characteristic associated with a detection of a pass bit during programming of an initial program state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Yong Yoon, Ki Tae Park, Moo Sung Kim, Bo Geun Kim, Hyun Jun Yoon
  • Patent number: 9384840
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method generating a compensated operating voltage, such as a read voltage, in a non-volatile memory device, and a related non-volatile memory device. The operating voltage is compensated in response to one or more memory cell conditions such as temperature variation, programmed data state or physical location of a selected memory cell, page information for selected memory cell, or the location of a selected word line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon Hee Choi, Ki Tae Park, Bo Geun Kim
  • Patent number: 9355733
    Abstract: A memory system performs a first sensing operation to sense whether multi-level cells assume an on-cell state or an off-cell state in response to a first read voltage applied to a selected word line. It then supplies a pre-charge voltage to bit lines corresponding to multi-level cells that have been sensed as assuming the off-cell state in response to the first read voltage, and it performs a second sensing operation with the supplied pre-charge voltage to sense whether each of the multi-level cells that have been sensed as assuming the off-cell state assumes an on-cell state or an off-cell state in response to a second read voltage applied to the selected word line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Young Kim, Ki Tae Park, Bo Geun Kim
  • Publication number: 20160148683
    Abstract: A memory device includes a memory cell array having multiple memory cells arranged respectively in regions where first signal lines cross second signal lines. The memory device further includes a decoder having multiple line selection switch units connected respectively to the of first signal lines. Each of the multiple line selection switch units applies a bias voltage to a first signal line corresponding to each of the multiple line selection switch units in response selectively to a first switching signal and a second switching signal, voltage levels of which are different from each other in activated states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: CHI-WEON YOON, HYUN-KOOK PARK, YEONG-TAEK LEE, BO-GEUN KIM, YONG-KYU LEE
  • Patent number: 9351095
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus for connecting with a head unit of a vehicle comprises a communicator configured to perform communication with the head unit equipped in the vehicle and a vehicle center server. A storage is configured to download an application from the vehicle center server and store it. A controller is configured to check information of the head unit by executing the application and execute a user interface corresponding to the checked information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Chan Seok Park, Hyang Jin Kim, Bo Geun Kim
  • Publication number: 20160143022
    Abstract: A method for servicing a call with a door phone includes: requesting, by a server on a network supporting interworking between the door phone and a vehicle telematics terminal, vehicle information from the vehicle telematics terminal due to a service request from a smart terminal in a home in response to an action of the door phone; receiving, at the server, the vehicle information from the vehicle telematics terminal; and providing, by the server, a call connection between the door phone and the vehicle telematics terminal based on whether or not a vehicle is being driven, as determined by the received vehicle information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventor: Bo Geun Kim
  • Publication number: 20160125939
    Abstract: Provided are a resistive memory device including a plurality of memory cells, and a method of operating the resistive memory device. The resistive memory device includes a sensing circuit connected to a first signal line, to which a memory cell is connected, the sensing circuit sensing data stored in the memory cell based on a first reference current; and a reference time generator for generating a reference time signal that determines a time point when a result of the sensing is to be output, based on the first reference current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: HYUN-KOOK PARK, YEONG-TAEK LEE, DAE-SEOK BYEON, BO-GEUN KIM
  • Publication number: 20160116939
    Abstract: A memory system including a controller that generates a processor clock, and a plurality of memory devices each including an internal clock generator that generates an internal clock in synchronization with the processor clock, and a memory that performs a peak current generation operation in synchronization with the internal clock, wherein at least two of the memory devices generate their respective internal clocks at different times such that the corresponding peak current generation operations are performed at different times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: BO-GEUN KIM, KYE-HYUN KYUNG, JAE-YONG JEONG, SEUNG-HUN CHOI, SEOK-CHEON KWON, CHUL-HO LEE
  • Patent number: 9269429
    Abstract: A resistive memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality vertically stacked layers having one layer designated as an interference-free layer and another layer designated as an access prohibited layer, wherein the interference-free layer and the access prohibited layer share a connection with at least one signal line and access operations directed to memory cells the access prohibited layer are prohibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Kook Park, Dae-Seok Byeon, Yeong-Taek Lee, Bo-Geun Kim, Yong-Kyu Lee, Hyo-Jin Kwon
  • Patent number: 9261940
    Abstract: A memory system includes a controller that generates a processor clock, and a plurality of memory devices each including an internal clock generator that generates an internal clock in synchronization with the processor clock, and a memory that performs a peak current generation operation in synchronization with the internal clock, wherein at least two of the memory devices generate their respective internal clocks at different times such that the corresponding peak current generation operations are performed at different times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-geun Kim, Kye-hyun Kyung, Jae-yong Jeong, Seung-hun Choi, Seok-cheon Kwon, Chul-ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20160019951
    Abstract: A resistive memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality vertically stacked layers having one layer designated as an interference-free layer and another layer designated as an access prohibited layer, wherein the interference-free layer and the access prohibited layer share a connection with at least one signal line and access operations directed to memory cells the access prohibited layer are prohibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: HYUN-KOOK PARK, DAE-SEOK BYEON, YEONG-TAEK LEE, BO-GEUN KIM, YONG-KYU LEE, HYO-JIN KWON
  • Patent number: 9208874
    Abstract: A method is provided for driving a nonvolatile memory device. The method includes selecting first write drivers based on a predetermined current, performing a first program operation on resistive memory cells corresponding to the first write drivers, verifying whether the resistive memory cells have passed or failed in the first program operation and sorting information regarding failed bit memory cells that failed in the first program operation, selecting second write drivers based on the sorted failed bit memory cell information, and performing a second program operation on resistive memory cells corresponding to the second write drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Kyu Lee, Bo-Geun Kim
  • Patent number: 9177660
    Abstract: A method of operating a memory device includes changing a first read voltage, which determines a first voltage state or a second voltage state, to a voltage within a first range and determining the voltage as a first select read voltage, and changing a second read voltage, which is used to determine whether the data stored in the memory cells is a third different voltage state or a fourth different voltage state, to a voltage within a second different range and determining the voltage as a second select read voltage. The first voltage state overlaps the second voltage. The third voltage state overlaps the fourth voltage state. A difference between a voltage at an intersection of the third and fourth voltage states and the second read voltage is greater than a difference between a voltage at an intersection of the first and second voltage states and the first read voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Jun Yoon, Jae-Yong Jeong, Myung-Hoon Choi, Bo-Geun Kim, Ki-Tae Park
  • Patent number: 9147483
    Abstract: A memory device useable with a memory system includes a voltage generator to a plurality of first candidate voltages and a plurality of second candidate voltages, and an X decoder to sequentially apply each of the plurality of first candidate voltages and each of the plurality of second candidate voltages to one or more cells of a memory cell array, and then to apply one of the plurality of first candidate voltages and one of the plurality of second candidate voltages as a first read voltage and a second voltage, respectively, to read data from the cells of the memory cell array according to a characteristic of the cells of the memory cell array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Jun Yoon, Jae-Yong Jeong, Myoung-Hoon Choi, Bo-Geun Kim, Ki-Tae Park
  • Patent number: 9142294
    Abstract: A writing method for a resistive nonvolatile memory device includes writing data to a resistive nonvolatile memory cell using an up/down write pulse signal when the data is first data type, and writing data to the resistive nonvolatile memory cell using only one of an up write pulse signal and a down write pulse signal when the data is second data type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Kyu Lee, Bo-Geun Kim
  • Publication number: 20150262700
    Abstract: A method of programming a flash memory device comprises programming selected memory cells, performing a verification operation to determine whether the selected memory cells have reached a target program state, and determining a start point of the verification operation based on a programming characteristic associated with a detection of a pass bit during programming of an initial program state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: SANG YONG YOON, KI TAE PARK, MOO SUNG KIM, BO GEUN KIM, HYUN JUN YOON