Patents by Inventor Minhoe Kim

Minhoe 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).

  • Publication number: 20250125174
    Abstract: A cooling station includes: a lower plate; an upper plate spaced apart from the lower plate; a support structure having ends installed on the lower plate and the upper plate, respectively; and a seating member installed on the support structure for a wafer to be seated on the seating member, wherein the seating member has an inclined portion, wherein the wafer is seated on the inclined portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Haechul KIM, Wonjun CHA, Hyeondong SONG, Hoyeon JANG, Minho KIM
  • Publication number: 20250103686
    Abstract: A method for a deobfuscation apparatus that deobfuscates a malicious program obfuscated using an obfuscation technique, and the deobfuscation method comprises executing the malicious program to identify and extract memory information containing a trampoline code used in the obfuscation technique, executing the trampoline code based on the memory information to classify a type of obfuscation technique of the malicious program, and deobfuscating the malicious program according to the classified obfuscation technique and generating a deobfuscation program. According to the constitution, the techniques for obfuscating OEP and IAT can be deobfuscated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Haehyun CHO, Jeonghyun YI, Minho KIM, Gwangyeol LEE
  • Patent number: 12260539
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of measuring pattern uniformity, and a method of manufacturing a mask by using the measurement method are provided. The measurement apparatus includes a light source configured to generate and output light, a stage configured to support a measurement target, an optical system configured to transfer the light, output from the light source, to the measurement target supported on the stage, and a first detector configured to detect light reflected and diffracted by the measurement target, or diffracted by passing through the measurement target, wherein the first detector is configured to detect a pupil image of a pupil plane and to measure pattern uniformity of an array area of the measurement target on the basis of intensity of at least one of zero-order light and 1st-order light of the pupil image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minho Kim, Hakseung Han, Jiyoung Kim, Jinback Park
  • Publication number: 20250094578
    Abstract: A method of detecting malicious behavior in a malicious behavior detection apparatus that detects malicious behavior by analyzing the code of a program, comprises generating a first control flow graph (CFG) by performing dynamic analysis on the program, generating a second CFG by extracting a code block that is likely to be executed by a conditional branch instruction included in the program, and comparing the first CFG and the second CFG to detect hidden code included in the program, and detecting a malicious behavior of the program by determining whether the detected hidden code is a malicious code. According to the constitutions, the time it takes to discover and respond to new types of malicious code can be shorten by extracting hidden code related to the malicious behavior and detecting malicious behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Haehyun CHO, Jeonghyun YI, Minho KIM, Gwangyeol LEE
  • Patent number: 12253953
    Abstract: A storage device is provided. The storage device includes: a first non-volatile memory including a plurality of cell strings storing a plurality of logical address values and a plurality of physical address values; a second non-volatile memory including a plurality of memory cells corresponding to the plurality of physical address values; and a storage controller configured to read a first physical address value from the first non-volatile memory based on a first logical address value, and control a read operation on the second non-volatile memory based on the first physical address value. A first cell string among the plurality of cell strings includes: a plurality of first memory cells storing the first logical address value and respectively connected to word lines in a first group; and at least one second memory cell storing the first physical address value and connected to at least one word line in a second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Minho Kim
  • Publication number: 20250080779
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicatively couple with a wireless network, a memory storing one or more instructions, and one or more processors communicatively coupled with the communication interface and the memory, and configured to control the electronic apparatus. The one or more processors are further configured to execute the one or more instructions to identify a frame refresh rate of a variable refresh rate (VRR) video signal, acquire a compressed video stream corresponding to the VRR video signal by inserting information of the frame refresh rate into at least one of a tail area or a header area of a video stream, and transmit, to an external device through the wireless network, the compressed video stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Bumkwi CHOI, Wooseok KANG, Doohyun kim, Minho KIM, Kiwon YOO, Kumran Jl
  • Publication number: 20250080782
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus may include: an input/output interface configured to receive digital image content that is not compressed; a communication device configured to transmit and receive data wirelessly; at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to obtain packet data corresponding to the digital image content and control the communication device to transmit the packet data. The at least one processor may be further configured to execute the instructions to: separate video information, audio information, and meta information in the digital image content; perform encoding in preset units of blocks using the video information in preset units of lines among the video information to obtain encoded video information; packetize each of the encoded video information, the audio information, and the meta information to obtain the packet data; and control the communication device to wireless transmit the packet data to a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minho KIM, Wooseok KANG, Doohyun KIM, Kiwon YOO, Kumran JI, Bumkwi CHOI
  • Publication number: 20250077433
    Abstract: Memory systems and methods for operating the same. A memory system comprises a first memory, a second memory having an operating speed different from that of the first memory, a storage unit configured to store an instruction, a prefetcher configured to update prefetcher data in response to occurrence of cache hits and a processor configured to execute the instruction stored in the storage unit. When the instruction is executed, the processor is configured to generate prefetcher friendly data by filtering the prefetcher data, set a prefetcher friendly bit in a first pointer area corresponding to the first memory and a second pointer area corresponding to the second memory based on the prefetcher friendly data, and determine whether data of the first pointer area and the second pointer area are migrated, in consideration of a reference bit and the prefetcher friendly bit of the first and second pointer areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Daehoon Kim, Hyungwon Park, Jin Jung, Minho Kim, Jin In So, Jong-Geon Lee, Hwanjun Lee, Minwoo Jang, Yeaji Jung
  • Publication number: 20250080800
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication interface connected with a wireless network, a memory storing at least one instruction, and at least one processor that is connected with the communication interface and the memory and controls the electronic device. The at least one processor is configured to, by executing the at least one instruction, transmit a content to an external device in real time through the communication interface, and based on receiving transmission delay information from the external device, identify skip levels for each of a plurality of frames included in the content based on the received transmission delay information and characteristics of the content, encode the content based on the identified skip levels for each of the plurality of frames, and transmit the skip level information for each of the plurality of frames and the encoded content to the external device through the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wooseok KANG, Doohyun KIM, Minho KIM, Kiwon YOO, Kumran JI, Bumkwi CHOI
  • Publication number: 20250051639
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor nanoparticle, the semiconductor nanoparticle manufactured therefrom, and an electronic device including the semiconductor nanoparticle. The method of manufacturing the semiconductor nanoparticle includes combining a first semiconductor nanocrystal that includes silver, a Group 13 element, and a chalcogen element, with a gallium precursor, a sulfur precursor, and a silver compound in a medium including an organic solvent; and heating the medium to a reaction temperature to obtain a crude solution including the semiconductor nanoparticles. The semiconductor nanoparticle includes silver, indium, gallium, and sulfur, and the size is greater than or equal to about 2 nm and less than or equal to about 50 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Seungrim YANG, Minho KIM, Deuk Kyu MOON, Nayoun WON, Sue In CHAE, Tae-Gon KIM, Jun Ho LEE
  • Publication number: 20250045201
    Abstract: A method includes generating mapping information in which, for each frame of plural frames stored in a storage component, one or more logical addresses is assigned to the frame and providing a batch read request to the storage component, to read all of the one or more logical addresses assigned to the frame by referring the mapping information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sanghwa JIN, Dongouk MOON, Minho KIM, Sooyoung JI
  • Patent number: 12195657
    Abstract: A color conversion panel that includes a color conversion layer including one or more color conversion regions, and optionally, a partition wall defining the regions of the color conversion layer, and a display device including the same. The color conversion region includes a first region corresponding to a first pixel, and the first region includes a first composite including a matrix and a plurality of luminescent nanostructures dispersed in the matrix. The luminescent nanostructures include a first semiconductor nanocrystal including a Group III-V compound and a second semiconductor nanocrystal including a zinc chalcogenide. The Group III-V compound includes indium, phosphorus, and optionally, zinc or gallium, or zinc and gallium, and the zinc chalcogenide includes zinc, selenium, and sulfur. The luminescent nanostructures do not include cadmium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jooyeon Ahn, Taekhoon Kim, Deuk Kyu Moon, Jongmin Lee, Mi Hye Lim, Shin Ae Jun, Minho Kim, Yebin Jung
  • Patent number: 12165734
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell region and a peripheral circuit region disposed below the memory cell region. The peripheral circuits include a page buffer, a row decoder, and other peripheral circuits, wherein the page buffer is included in a page buffer block disposed on a lower surface of the first semiconductor substrate to be distinguished from other circuits included in the peripheral circuit region in a first direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the first semiconductor substrate, is connected to the memory cell region through a connection portion penetrating through the first semiconductor substrate, and includes a plurality of vertical transistors each defined by a source region, a channel region, and a drain region stacked in sequence in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minho Kim, Hyunmook Choi
  • Publication number: 20240405014
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to semiconductor devices. An example semiconductor device includes a first well region and a second well region isolated from each other by a first device isolation film; an NPN transistor provided by a first collector region formed in the first well region and including first conductivity-type impurities, and a first emitter region formed in the second well region and including the first conductivity-type impurities; a PNP transistor provided by a second emitter region formed in the first well region and including second conductivity-type impurities different from the first conductivity-type, and a second collector region formed in the second well region and including the second conductivity-type impurities; and an NMOS transistor including a source region and a drain region formed in the second well region and including the first conductivity-type impurities, and a gate structure disposed between the source region and the drain region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Jongkyu Song, Jin Heo, Minho Kim, Jooyoung Song, Eunsuk Lee, Chanhee Jeon
  • Publication number: 20240406298
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic device. An electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes: a display defining a first surface of the electronic device, a housing defining a second surface of the electronic device spaced apart from the first surface, and a camera assembly at least partially disposed between the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Changi PARK, Jeongho KANG, Namwoo KIM, Minho KIM, Hyunchul HONG, Byoungjun KIM, Jaeuk AHN, Yeonggyu YOON, Junyoung CHOI, Byounguk YOON
  • Publication number: 20240405995
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes memory storing instructions, a camera, a communication circuit, and a processor. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to obtain an image including a body portion of a user through the camera based on execution of a software application, obtain a plurality of feature values for the body portion identified based on the image, generate a first value hashed based on first feature values representing at least one part of the body portion from among the plurality of feature values, generate a second value hashed based on second feature values representing at least another part of the body portion from among the plurality of feature values, and transmit, through the communication circuit, the first value and the second value to an external electronic device providing the software application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Inmyung CHOI, Minho KIM, Moonsoo CHANG, Minsoo SHIN, Sohyeon JEON, Byoungil CHOI
  • Patent number: 12153515
    Abstract: A storage device includes a memory device that stores data, a storage controller that stores a data stream including plural frames in the memory device based on a write request from a host, and a scaler that generates a mapping table in which, for each frame, one or more logical addresses assigned to the frame is mapped to a frame number assigned to the frame. For each frame included in the data stream, the scaler performs an operation of obtaining the one or more logical addresses assigned to the frame by referring to the mapping table and providing a batch read request to the storage controller to read all the one or more logical addresses assigned to the frame. The storage controller controls the memory device to perform a read operation on a memory area corresponding to the one or more logical addresses based on the batch read request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sanghwa Jin, Dongouk Moon, Minho Kim, Sooyoung Ji
  • Patent number: 12154520
    Abstract: An electronic device configured to configure brightness of a display by using an illuminance sensor is provided. The electronic device includes acquiring a second front-surface sensing value smaller than a first front-surface sensing value through a first illuminance sensor while the brightness is a first brightness, comparing the second front-surface sensing value with a first rear-surface sensing value detected through a second illuminance sensor, determining, when the second front-surface sensing value is greater than the first rear-surface sensing value, whether a touch input is detected through a designated region of the display, maintaining the brightness at the first brightness when the touch input is detected, and when the touch input is not detected, adjusting the brightness of the display to a value lower than that of the first brightness, based on a first LUT stored in a memory, or maintaining the brightness of the display at the first brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongheon Shin, Taejin Park, Donghwy Kim, Jiyong Kim, Heekeun Park, Minwoo Lee, Hoondo Heo, Minho Kim, Hyojong Kim
  • Publication number: 20240377669
    Abstract: A display device may include a display panel; a frame which is positioned behind the display panel, and to which the display panel is coupled; a plurality of substrates positioned between the display panel and the frame, and coupled to the frame; a plurality of light sources positioned on the plurality of substrates; and an extension board which includes a driver chip, which extends in a direction intersecting the plurality of substrates, and to which the plurality of substrates are coupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moongu JUNG, Minho KIM, Seunghwan SHIM, Byungwoo LEE
  • Patent number: 12132416
    Abstract: A frequency generator for generating a working frequency for a transmission signal of a rail contact of an axle counter includes a series resonant circuit having a transmitter coil unit of the rail contact and a capacitor. The frequency generator has an inverter, the output of which is connected to the capacitor. The inverter is configured to generate an oscillating voltage and to feed the generated oscillating voltage to the transmitter coil unit of the rail contact via the capacitor. A current transformer synchronizes the output voltage of the inverter to the current in the series resonant circuit. A start-up circuit electrically connected to the inverter is configured to trigger the inverter and to be electrically connected to an input power supply. The frequency generator is a robust and effective circuit for generation of magnetic fields where manufacturing effort and expensive components can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: GTS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Minho Kim, Rainer Klemm