Patents by Inventor Woong Seo

Woong Seo 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: 10515432
    Abstract: A method of managing graphics data in a graphics processing device may include: receiving a first draw call having a first identifier, generating a first lookup table having the first identifier mapped in association with a first handle value by allocating the first handle value to the first identifier, generating a second lookup table having the first handle value mapped in association with a first graphics state setting value by allocating the first handle value to the first graphics state setting value, wherein the first graphics state setting value corresponds to the first identifier, and performing at least one graphics pipeline operation to process the first draw call by using the first graphics state setting value obtained from the second lookup table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woong Seo, Santosh George Abraham
  • Patent number: 10453880
    Abstract: A semiconductor element includes a semiconductor region (11) of a first conductivity type, a buried charge-generation region (16) of a second conductivity type, buried in an upper portion of the semiconductor region (11) to implement a photodiode (D1) together with the semiconductor region (11) to generate charges, a charge-readout region (15) of the second conductivity type, provided in the semiconductor region (11) to accumulate the charges transferred from the buried charge-generation region (16), and a reset-performing region (12) of the second conductivity type, provided in the semiconductor region (11), a variable voltage is applied to the reset-performing region (12) to change the height of a potential barrier generated in the semiconductor region (11) sandwiched between the charge-readout region (15) and the reset-performing region (12) to exhaust the charges accumulated in the charge-readout region (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: National University Corporation Shizuoka University
    Inventors: Shoji Kawahito, Min-Woong Seo
  • Patent number: 10436500
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a refrigerator having dividers movable in the left-right direction to efficiently use the internal space of a container and enabling a tray or a shelf used in the fridge room to be used in the freezer room as well by preventing the gap between the dividers from narrowing to a certain distance or less to put the tray on the dividers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeon Jin Jo, Byeong Soo Kim, Cheol Woong Seo, Hyun-Il Lee, Sang Woon Jeon, June Hyuck Choi
  • Patent number: 10401982
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including at least one receiving hole exposed to an outside, a magnet disposed inside the housing and adjacent to the at least one receiving hole, an input module configured to be insertable into the at least one receiving hole and including a ferrite core configured to block or redirect part of a magnetic field generated from the magnet, a sensor unit disposed inside the housing and configured to sense the magnetic field generated from the magnet, and a controller configured to sense whether the input module is inserted into the at least one receiving hole by a signal according to a strength of the magnetic field sensed by the sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Bo-Woong Seo, Min-Soo Kim, Jin-Wan An, Ji-Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 10388033
    Abstract: A texture processor includes: a texture cache configured to store textures; a controller configured to determine a texture address corresponding to a requested texture among the stored textures and read a texture corresponding to the texture address from the texture cache; a format converter configured to convert a format of the read texture into another format, based on a degree of texture precision required by a graphics processing unit (GPU); and a texture filter configured to perform texture filtering using the read texture having its format converted into the another format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeongon Cho, Seok Kang, Soojung Ryu, Jeongae Park, Woong Seo, Sangheon Lee
  • Publication number: 20190206915
    Abstract: In a photoelectric-conversion element having a large light receiving region for a high-speed transfer, and a solid-state image sensor including the photoelectric-conversion element, the photoelectric-conversion element includes first to eighth charge read-out regions, which are provided at positions symmetric with respect to a center position of a light receiving region and first to eighth field-control electrodes, which are arranged on both sides of charge-transport paths extending from the center position of the light receiving region to the first to eighth charge read-out regions, respectively, and change depletion potentials of the charge-transport paths and the octuple charge-transfer channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: National University Corporation Shizuoka University
    Inventors: Shoji KAWAHITO, Min-Woong SEO, Keita YASUTOMI, Yuya SHIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190197760
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit (GPU), configured to perform tile-based rendering using prefetched graphics data, includes a tiler configured to perform binning on a current frame and obtain a first binning bitstream of a first tile among a plurality of tiles of the current frame, a binning correlator configured to determine whether the first tile and a second tile of a previous frame are similar to each other by using the first binning bitstream and a second binning bitstream of the second tile, where the second tile has a same tile ID as the first tile, a prefetcher configured to prefetch second graphics data used to render the second tile by using the tile ID, when it is determined that the first tile and the second tile are similar to each other, and at least one processor configured to render the current frame using the prefetched second graphics data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Yeon-Gon Cho, Woong Seo
  • Publication number: 20190155601
    Abstract: A swizzle pattern generator is provided to reduce an overhead due to execution of a swizzle instruction in vector processing. The swizzle pattern generator is configured to provide swizzle patterns with respect to data sets of at least one vector register or vector processing unit. The swizzle pattern generator may be reconfigurable to generate various swizzle patterns for different vector operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moo-Kyoung CHUNG, Woong SEO, Ho-Young KIM, Soo-Jung RYU, Dong-Hoon YOO, Jin-Seok LEE, Yeon-Gon CHO, Chang-Moo KIM, Seung-Hun JIN
  • Publication number: 20190120545
    Abstract: A refrigerator having improved space utilization includes a main body, a storage room formed inside of the main body, a center frame provided at the center of the storage room to be spaced apart from both side walls of the storage room and having a guide elongated in a front-rear direction of the storage room and a plurality of shelves detachably coupled to the guide so as to be movable along the guide, the plurality of shelves including a first shelf and a second shelf positioned under the first shelf while the second shelf moving along the same guide as the first shelf in an inverted state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: June Hyuck CHOI, Byeong Soo KIM, Cheol Woong SEO, Hyun-Il LEE, Sang Woon JEON, Yeon Jin JO
  • Patent number: 10255182
    Abstract: A method of managing a cache includes storing first data of an upper level cache in a lower level cache, predicting a reuse distance level of second data having a same signature as the first data based on access information about the first data, and storing the second data in one of the lower level cache and a main memory based on the predicted reuse distance level of the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Namhyung Kim, Junwhan Ahn, Kiyoung Choi, Woong Seo
  • Patent number: 10257076
    Abstract: Provided is a multi network and method to transmit packets. The multi network includes a mesh network, a tree network, and a network interface connected to the mesh network and the tree network and configured to transmit, through the mesh network and the tree network, a packet generated by a processing unit, of a processing system having plural processing units, at a starting point to a destination point for another processing unit of the processing system and configured to selectively inject the packet into one of the mesh network and the tree network to transmit the packet to the other processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sungju Han, Jinho Lee, Kiyoung Choi, Woong Seo
  • Patent number: 10241922
    Abstract: Provided is a processor including a plurality of devices. The processor includes a source processing device configured to identify data to request from another device, and a destination processing device configured to, in response to a request for the identified data from the source processing device using credit-based flow control, transmit the identified data to the source processing device using the credit-based flow control. The source processing device includes a credit buffer used for the credit-based flow control, the credit buffer being allocable to include a cache region configured to cache the transmitted identified data received by the source processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Woong Seo
  • Patent number: 10181176
    Abstract: A texture cache architecture includes a first texture cache to store compressed texel data and a second texture cache to store decompressed texel data. A controller schedules accesses to access texel data from the first or second texture cache. The second texture cache permits decompressed texel data to be reused for more than one texel access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Santosh Abraham, Karthik Ramani, Woong Seo, Kwontaek Kwon, Jeongae Park
  • Patent number: 10174993
    Abstract: A refrigerator having improved space utilization includes a main body, a storage room formed inside of the main body, a center frame provided at the center of the storage room to be spaced apart from both side walls of the storage room and having a guide elongated in a front-rear direction of the storage room and a plurality of shelves detachably coupled to the guide so as to be movable along the guide, the plurality of shelves including a first shelf and a second shelf positioned under the first shelf while the second shelf moving along the same guide as the first shelf in an inverted state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: June Hyuck Choi, Byeong Soo Kim, Cheol Woong Seo, Hyun-Il Lee, Sang Woon Jeon, Yeon Jin Jo
  • Patent number: 10169839
    Abstract: A method of executing a graphics pipeline includes calculating, while executing the graphics pipeline on a current frame, a resource for processing properties of an object included in a following frame, determining, based on a result of the calculating, whether to perform a pre-process for the object included in the following frame, performing the pre-processing, when the pre-process is determined to be performed, comprising transforming the properties of the object that are to be processed in a graphics pipeline for the following frame, and executing, when the pre-process is to be performed, the graphics pipeline for the following frame by using the transformed properties of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changmoo Kim, Yeongon Cho, Soojung Ryu, Woong Seo
  • Patent number: 10120833
    Abstract: Embodiments include a processor capable of supporting multi-mode and corresponding methods. The processor includes front end units, a number of processing elements more than a number of the front end units; and a controller configured to determine if thread divergence occurs due to conditional branching. If there is thread divergence, the processor may set control information to control processing elements using currently activated front end units. If there is not, the processor may set control information to control processing elements using a currently activated front end unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woong Seo, Yeon-Gon Cho, Soo-Jung Ryu
  • Publication number: 20180269242
    Abstract: A semiconductor element includes a semiconductor region (11) of a first conductivity type, a buried charge-generation region (16) of a second conductivity type, buried in an upper portion of the semiconductor region (11) to implement a photodiode (D1) together with the semiconductor region (11) to generate charges, a charge-readout region (15) of the second conductivity type, provided in the semiconductor region (11) to accumulate the charges transferred from the buried charge-generation region (16), and a reset-performing region (12) of the second conductivity type, provided in the semiconductor region (11), a variable voltage is applied to the reset-performing region (12) to change the height of a potential barrier generated in the semiconductor region (11) sandwiched between the charge-readout region (15) and the reset-performing region (12) to exhaust the charges accumulated in the charge-readout region (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: National University Corporation Shizuoka University
    Inventors: Shoji KAWAHITO, Min-Woong SEO
  • Patent number: D832312
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-Soo Kim, Seok-Woo Kim, Young-Min Park, Cheol-Woong Seo, Ki-Sang Yoon, Se-Lim Yoon, Sang-Hyun Lee, Sun-Min Lee, Seon-Ju Lee, Jun-Kyo Lee
  • Patent number: D850497
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-Soo Kim, Seok-Woo Kim, Young-Min Park, Cheol-Woong Seo, Ki-Sang Yoon, Se-Lim Yoon, Sang-Hyun Lee, Sun-Min Lee, Seon-Ju Lee, Jun-Kyo Lee
  • Patent number: D850498
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-Soo Kim, Seok-Woo Kim, Young-Min Park, Cheol-Woong Seo, Ki-Sang Yoon, Se-Lim Yoon, Sang-Hyun Lee, Sun-Min Lee, Seon-Ju Lee, Jun-Kyo Lee