Patents by Inventor On Kim

On 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: 10185724
    Abstract: A method of sorting a media content is provided. The method includes receiving at least one search word, extracting at least one media content based on the received search word, identifying a user's selection for the extracted media content, generating a group, and including the at least one media content in the group based on the identified user's selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 10186600
    Abstract: A method for fabricating an electronic device is provided to include: forming a hard mask pattern over a substrate to expose a gate formation region; forming a gate trench by etching the substrate using the hard mask pattern; forming a gate insulating layer over an inner wall of the gate trench; forming a gate electrode filling a lower portion of the gate trench in which the gate insulating layer is formed; forming an insulating material covering a resultant structure in which the gate electrode is formed; forming a gate protective layer having a top surface lower than a bottom surface of the hard mask pattern; removing the hard mask pattern; recessing the substrate so that a top surface of the substrate is lower than the top surface of the gate protective layer; and forming a conductive pattern filling a space formed by the recessing of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Sang-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 10187170
    Abstract: Disclosed is a data transmission method in a mobile communication system. The data transmission method through a code sequence in a mobile communication system includes grouping input data streams into a plurality of blocks consisting of at least one bit so as to map each block to a corresponding signature sequence, multiplying a signature sequence stream, to which the plurality of blocks are mapped, by a specific code sequence, and transmitting the signature sequence stream multiplied by the specific code sequence to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: EVOLVED WIRELESS LLC
    Inventors: Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Seung Hee Han, Hyun Hwa Park, Dong Cheol Kim, Hyun Woo Lee, Min Seok Noh
  • Patent number: 10183843
    Abstract: The present invention relates to step roller monitoring and maintenance personnel monitoring of a passenger conveyor, and belongs to the field of passenger conveyor technologies. In the monitoring system and monitoring method of the present invention, an imaging sensor and/or a depth sensing sensor is used to sense the step roller/maintenance personnel of the passenger conveyor to acquire data frames, and the data frames are analyzed and processed to monitor whether the movement or position of the step roller/activity or position of the maintenance personnel is in a normal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: ZhaoXia Hu, JianGuo Li, Alois Senger, Hui Fang, Zhen Jia, Jianwei Zhao, Qiang Li, Anna Su, Alan Matthew Finn, Wei Ge, Yanying Chen, LongWen Wang, DuEon Kim
  • Patent number: 10186367
    Abstract: An electronic component includes a body having a bottom surface provided as a mounting surface, a top surface opposing the bottom surface, first and second side surfaces opposing each other in a width direction, and third and fourth end surfaces opposing each other in a length direction, a conductor part disposed therein, first and second external electrodes spaced apart from each other on the bottom surface of the body and connected to the conductor part, and a first insulating coating layer on the top surface of the body and a second insulating coating layer on the bottom surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Wook Lee, Jae Yeol Choi, Sung Kwon Oh, Min Sung Choi, Ji Hea Kim
  • Patent number: 10186011
    Abstract: One embodiment provides for a compute apparatus to perform machine learning operations, the compute apparatus comprising a decode unit to decode a single instruction into a decoded instruction, the decoded instruction to cause the compute apparatus to perform a complex machine learning compute operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Eriko Nurvitadhi, Balaji Vembu, Nicolas C. Galoppo Von Borries, Rajkishore Barik, Tsung-Han Lin, Kamal Sinha, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Jeremy Bottleson, Farshad Akhbari, Altug Koker, Narayan Srinivasa, Dukhwan Kim, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Justin E. Gottschlich, Feng Chen, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao
  • Patent number: 10185431
    Abstract: A touch sensor integrated display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The touch sensor integrated display device includes a display panel, each pixel of a pixel array including an OLED and a driving TFT applying a source-drain current to the OLED, the pixel array being divided into touch blocks, each touch block including pixels and a sensing target pixel line coupled to a subset of the pixels, and a panel drive circuit configured to, in a touch sensing period, supply a scan control signal and a sensing control signal to the sensing target pixel line corresponding to a touch block, set a gate-source voltage of the driving TFT coupled to the sensing target pixel line to turn on the driving TFT, and output a sensing value by sensing a change in the source-drain current of the driving TFT caused by a touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taegung Kim, Jongmin Lee, Jinhan Yoon
  • Patent number: 10186444
    Abstract: A gas flow is described to reduce condensation with a substrate processing chuck. In one example, a workpiece holder in the chamber having a puck to carry the workpiece for fabrication processes, a top plate thermally coupled to the puck, a cooling plate fastened to and thermally coupled to the top plate, the cooling plate having a cooling channel to carry a heat transfer fluid to transfer heat from the cooling plate, a base plate fastened to the cooling plate opposite the puck, and a dry gas inlet of the base plate to supply a dry gas under pressure to a space between the base plate and the cooling plate to drive ambient air from between the base plate and the cooling plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Hun Sang Kim, Michael D. Willwerth
  • Patent number: 10185484
    Abstract: A mobile terminal displaying a first information of a first application on a first window, reducing a size of the first window and outputting a second window including a list of one or more applications in response to a first input. Further, the second window does not overlap with the first window and is positioned at a region where at least part of the first window has been output before the size of the first window is reduced. In response to a second input selecting a second application from the list, displaying a second information of the second application on the second window while the first information is still displayed on the first window. The list disappears from the second window when the second information is displayed on the second window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Inyong Hwang, Hyundong Kim
  • Patent number: 10186191
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate, a display unit on the substrate and including a display region including a first display region having a plurality of first pixel circuits configured to drive a plurality of first light-emitting devices, and a second display region having a plurality of second pixel circuits configured to drive a plurality of second light-emitting devices, a plurality of scan lines crossing the display region in a first direction, and a plurality of data lines crossing the display region in a second direction, wherein resolutions of the first and second display regions are different, wherein a total number of the first light-emitting devices driven by one of the first pixel circuits is different from a total number of the second light-emitting devices driven by one of the second pixel circuits, and wherein the display unit and the substrate define at least one through portion in the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kinyeng Kang, Jonghyun Choi, Sunkwang Kim, Suyeon Sim, Joosun Yoon
  • Patent number: 10186426
    Abstract: Methods are provided for integrating atomic layer etch and atomic layer deposition by performing both processes in the same chamber or reactor. Methods involve sequentially alternating between atomic layer etch and atomic layer deposition processes to prevent feature degradation during etch, improve selectivity, and encapsulate sensitive layers of a semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Keren Jacobs Kanarik, Jeffrey Marks, Harmeet Singh, Samantha Tan, Alexander Kabansky, Wenbing Yang, Taeseung Kim, Dennis M. Hausmann, Thorsten Lill
  • Patent number: 10185862
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensor device and a method of making a fingerprint sensor device. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide various fingerprint sensor devices, and methods of manufacturing thereof, that comprise a substrate comprising a dielectric layer and a wiring pattern embedded in and exposed from the dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Amkor Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Mo Kim, Chang Hun Kim, Jung Hwa Kim, Se Man Oh
  • Patent number: 10186302
    Abstract: A semiconductor system includes a controller. The controller is configured to have a write buffer that stores first write data outputted from a host before the first write data is written into a memory circuit. The controller is configured to write the first write data stored in the write buffer into the memory circuit under a first condition and configured to double-write the first write data stored in the write buffer into the memory circuit under a second condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Soojin Kim, Sangwon Lee
  • Patent number: 10186551
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes lower electrodes positioned below a surface of a substrate, the substrate including crystalline Si, a plurality of strap regions positioned above the lower electrodes and below sets of pillars of Si, the pillars rising above the substrate, the sets of pillars being aligned in a first direction along a plane perpendicular to a film thickness direction, and the strap regions extending above a surface of the substrate, silicide junctions positioned between each of the strap regions and a corresponding lower electrode positioned therebelow, upper electrodes positioned above each of the pillars, gate dielectric layers positioned on sides of the pillars to a height greater than a lower edge of the upper electrodes, and gate layers positioned on sides of the gate dielectric layers in a second direction along the plane and perpendicular to the first direction that transverse a plurality of sets of pillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Spin Transfer Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kuk-Hwan Kim, Dafna Beery, Gian Sharma, Amitay Levi, Andrew J. Walker
  • Patent number: 10187643
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for coding/decoding an image. The method for decoding the image comprises the steps of: deriving a scale factor of a current block, depending on whether the current block is a conversion skip block; and scaling the current block on the basis of the scale factor, wherein the scale factor of the current block is derived on the basis of the position of a conversion coefficient inside the current block, and wherein the conversion skip block is the current block to which conversion is not applied and is specified on the basis of information indicating whether to apply reconversion to the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignees: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hui Yong Kim, Sung Chang Chang Lim, Jin Ho Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim, Gwang Hoon Park, Kyung Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 10185676
    Abstract: A direct memory access (DMA) controller is provided. The DMA controller includes a processor interface configured to directly receive information representing a first operation sent by a processor to a buffer, and transmit data corresponding to the first operation stored in the buffer to the processor core or record data corresponding to the first operation in the buffer, and a buffer group connected to the processor interface, and including a plurality of buffers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-seok Kwon, Suk-jin Kim, Do-hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 10187237
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for broadcast signal frame using layered division multiplexing are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling, type information of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) and time interleaver information shared by the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae-Young Lee, Sung-Ik Park, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Heung-Mook Kim
  • Patent number: 10187901
    Abstract: A method for supporting a device to device (D2D) communication in a base station of a mobile communication system according to one embodiment of the present specification comprises the steps of: determining one or more device groups including one or more devices among a plurality of devices; determining radio resources for measuring channels for the determined device groups; and transmitting, to the devices included in the respective groups, information on the radio resources for measuring the channels corresponding to the groups. According to the embodiment of the present specification, complexity of measuring a channel state in the D2D communication is reduced, and many more devices can measure the channel state using limited radio resources and can transmit and receive data. The present disclosure relates to re-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunghoon Park, Hyunseok Ryu, Youngbin Chang, Chiwoo Lim, Kyungkyu Kim, Sangkyu Baek, Sungjin Lee
  • Patent number: 10186062
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an interface unit configured to provide, to a terminal, an interface supporting one or more modes, and display, on the interface, an image including a contour of a region of interest. The apparatus further includes a contour modification unit configured to modify the contour based on a mode selected by a user from the one or more modes, and an operation performed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ye-Hoon Kim, Kyoung-Gu Woo
  • Patent number: D838758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangwook Kymm, Hongyoul Choi, Jaekwang Bahn, Sangjun Koo, Hana Kim