Patents by Inventor Yong-Ju Kim

Yong-Ju 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: 10475522
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory system may include a nonvolatile memory device, a delegate page attacker, and a health status analyzer. The nonvolatile memory device may include at least one memory block including a plurality of storage pages and a delegate page. The delegate page attacker may be configured to attack a bit of the delegate page at the same corresponding location as a bit of the storage page in which an error occurs. The health status analyzer may be configured to perform write and read operations for the delegate page and analyzes error information occurred in the write and read operations to determine whether the nonvolatile memory device is in a failure status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Yong Ju Kim, Do Sun Hong
  • Patent number: 10445005
    Abstract: A memory system includes a wear-leveling module detecting a hot memory block among a plurality of memory blocks based on the number of times write operations are performed on each of the memory blocks, and moving data from the hot memory block to a spare memory block, a counting unit counting the number of data movement from the hot memory block to the spare memory block, on each of memory regions formed by grouping the plurality of memory blocks, and output data movement counts, a first detection unit selecting one from the plurality of memory regions based on the data movement count, and detecting a cold memory block among memory blocks included in the selected memory region, and a management unit moving data from the cold memory block to the hot memory block, and managing the cold memory block as the spare memory block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Do-Sun Hong, Yong-Ju Kim, Dong-Gun Kim
  • Patent number: 10438655
    Abstract: An address distribution apparatus includes an address distributor. The address distributor distributes addresses of a plurality of memory cells in a memory device to prevent at least two successive write operations from being applied to at least two adjacent memory cells sharing any one of a plurality of word lines or any one of a plurality of bit lines among the plurality of memory cells. The at least two write operations are performed in response to write requests outputted from a host, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Jung Hyun Kwon, Yong Ju Kim, Do Sun Hong
  • Publication number: 20190295611
    Abstract: A semiconductor device may be provided. The semiconductor device may be configured to shift storage positions of data and error information on the data to store the data into shifted storage positions based on the address signals having a certain combination being inputted a predetermined number of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Gu JO, Donggun KIM, Yong Ju KIM, Do-Sun HONG
  • Patent number: 10394465
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first memory chip including a plurality of first memory regions; a temporary memory chip including a plurality of temporary memory regions; and a control chip suitable for accessing a first access target memory region among the plurality of first memory regions or a first temporary memory region among the plurality of temporary memory regions based on first access information and first temperature readout information corresponding to the plurality of first memory regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Young-Ook Song, Yong-Kee Kwon, Yong-Ju Kim
  • Patent number: 10360950
    Abstract: A semiconductor device may be provided. The semiconductor device may be configured to shift storage positions of data and error information on the data to store the data into shifted storage positions based on the address signals having a certain combination being inputted a predetermined number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Gu Jo, Donggun Kim, Yong Ju Kim, Do-Sun Hong
  • Patent number: 10360157
    Abstract: A memory system includes a memory device including a memory block, the memory block including a plurality of memory cell groups, an address translator that maps a logical address of a data to a physical address of the memory block, and a controller configured to divide the plurality of memory cell groups into a plurality of first memory cell groups and at least one second memory cell group, and control the address translator so that the address translator maps a logical address of a data to a physical address of the first memory cell groups of the memory block and not in the at least one second memory cell group and switches the at least one second memory cell group with a selected first memory cell group among the plurality of the first memory cell groups when a predetermined period of time elapses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Dong-Gun Kim, Yong-Ju Kim, Sang-Gu Jo, Do-Sun Hong
  • Patent number: 10346301
    Abstract: A memory system includes: a memory device; and a memory controller suitable for controlling the memory device, and the memory device includes: a plurality of normal memory cells; a plurality of redundant memory cells; and a soft repair circuit suitable for replacing a portion of normal memory cells among the plurality of the normal memory cells with the plurality of the redundant memory cells, and the memory controller controls the soft repair circuit to repair the portion of the normal memory cells among the plurality of the normal memory cells with the plurality of the redundant memory cells, commands the memory device to write a secure data in the plurality of the redundant memory cells, and controls the soft repair circuit to recover the repairing of the portion of the normal memory cells with the plurality of the redundant memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Sang-Gu Jo, Yong-Ju Kim
  • Patent number: 10339080
    Abstract: A system includes a central processing unit (CPU); main and auxiliary storage devices coupled to a plurality of memory ports; a memory bus suitable for coupling the CPU and the plurality of memory ports; and a memory controller suitable for, when the CPU calls data stored in the auxiliary storage device, controlling the called data to be transferred from the auxiliary storage device to the main storage device and stored in the main storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Hyung-Gyun Yang, Yong-Ju Kim, Yong-Kee Kwon, Hong-Sik Kim
  • Publication number: 20190171561
    Abstract: A memory apparatus and a method of wear-leveling of a memory apparatus may be provided. The memory apparatus may include a memory having a plurality of storage blocks and a plurality of free blocks. The memory apparatus may include a memory controller configured for performing a first global wear-leveling to move data of a first storage block, which is a hot block among the storage blocks, to a first free block among the free blocks. The memory apparatus may include a memory controller configured for remapping a result of a logic operation of a logical page address of each of the pages in the first storage block and a first security refresh key to a physical page address of each of the pages in the first free block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Donggun KIM, Yong Ju KIM, Do Sun HONG
  • Patent number: 10310972
    Abstract: A memory apparatus and a method of wear-leveling of a memory apparatus may be provided. The memory apparatus may include a memory having a plurality of storage blocks and a plurality of free blocks. The memory apparatus may include a memory controller configured for performing a first global wear-leveling to move data of a first storage block, which is a hot block among the storage blocks, to a first free block among the free blocks. The memory apparatus may include a memory controller configured for remapping a result of a logic operation of a logical page address of each of the pages in the first storage block and a first security refresh key to a physical page address of each of the pages in the first free block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Yong Ju Kim, Do Sun Hong
  • Publication number: 20190163570
    Abstract: A memory system includes a plurality of memory chips suitable for storing data and an error correction code thereof, an error correction circuit suitable for detecting and correcting error bits of data, which are read from the plurality of memory chips, based on an error correction code of the read data, an address storage circuit suitable for storing addresses of first data, among the read data, the first data having a number of detected error bits greater than or equal to a first number, and a failed chip detection circuit suitable for, when the number of the stored addresses is greater than or equal to a second number, detecting a failed memory chip where a chip-kill occurs by writing test data in the plurality of memory chips and reading back the written test data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Yong-Ju KIM, Do-Sun HONG, Dong-Gun KIM
  • Publication number: 20190152066
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a spherical movable device and a gesture recognition method thereof. The spherical movable device has a drive body and a sphere loosely coupled with each other so that a contact region of the drive body where the drive body makes contact with the sphere may not make contact with the sphere depending on a movement, or a non-contact region of the drive body where the drive body does not make contact with the sphere may make contact with the sphere depending on a movement. Thus, since gestures of the spherical movable device may be recognized on the basis of abundant and reliable movement status information, various gestures may be recognized with high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Hee Man PARK, Sang Kyun NOH, Yong Ju KIM
  • Publication number: 20190146674
    Abstract: A resistance variable memory apparatus may include a memory circuit configured to include a plurality of blocks, each including a plurality of memory cells. The resistance variable memory apparatus may include a disturbance preventing circuit configured to be driven based on a counting signal corresponding to the number of write accesses for each of the plurality of blocks, a write command, and an address signal and to allow scrubbing to be performed on a memory cell having a preset scrubbing condition when the counting signal satisfied with the scrubbing condition is output based on the scribing condition according to a physical position of the memory cell in the block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Do-Sun HONG, Donggun KIM, Yong Ju KIM, Sang Gu JO
  • Patent number: 10261860
    Abstract: A semiconductor system includes a host and a media controller. The host may generate first host parities from first host data based on an error check matrix. The media controller may include a first input/output (I/O) circuit and a second I/O circuit. The media controller may generate first media data and first media parities based on the first host data and the first host parities. The first I/O circuit may generate, based on the error check matrix, first internal data by correcting errors in the first host data using the first host parities. The second I/O circuit may generate the first media data and the first media parities from the first internal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Sungeun Lee, Jung Hyun Kwon, Yong Ju Kim, Jae Sun Lee, Jingzhe Xu
  • Patent number: 10256823
    Abstract: A clock generation circuit includes a clock generation unit suitable for generating a first clock, a first inversion clock having an opposite phase to the first clock, a second clock having a different phase from the first clock, and a second inversion clock having an opposite phase to the second clock; and a reset control unit suitable for comparing the phases of the first and second clocks, and controlling the clock generation unit to disable for a time and then enable the second clock and the second inversion clock when the second clock leads the first clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Hae-Rang Choi, Yong-Ju Kim, Dae-Han Kwon, Shin-Deok Kang
  • Patent number: 10223255
    Abstract: A memory apparatus and a method of wear-leveling of a memory apparatus may be provided. The memory apparatus may include a memory having a plurality of storage blocks and a plurality of free blocks. The memory apparatus may include a memory controller configured for performing a first global wear-leveling to move data of a first storage block, which is a hot block among the storage blocks, to a first free block among the free blocks. The memory apparatus may include a memory controller configured for remapping a result of a logic operation of a logical page address of each of the pages in the first storage block and a first security refresh key to a physical page address of each of the pages in the first free block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Yong Ju Kim, Do Sun Hong
  • Patent number: 10198184
    Abstract: A resistance variable memory apparatus may include a memory circuit configured to include a plurality of blocks, each including a plurality of memory cells. The resistance variable memory apparatus may include a disturbance preventing circuit configured to be driven based on a counting signal corresponding to the number of write access for each of the plurality of blocks, a write command, and an address signal and to allow scrubbing to be performed on a memory cell having a preset scrubbing condition when the counting signal satisfied with the scrubbing condition is output based on the scribing condition according to a physical position of the memory cell in the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Do-Sun Hong, Donggun Kim, Yong Ju Kim, Sang Gu Jo
  • Patent number: 10171274
    Abstract: A data transmission and reception system may include: a data transmission apparatus configured to generate N Tx signals having discrete levels using N binary data, and output the N Tx signals to N single-ended signal lines, respectively, where N is a natural number equal to or larger than 2; and a data reception apparatus configured to receive the N Tx signals transmitted in parallel through the single-ended signal lines, and restore the N binary data by comparing the received N Tx signals to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: SK HYNIX INC., POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Hong June Park, Soo Min Lee, Yong Ju Kim, Hae Kang Jung
  • Publication number: 20180358972
    Abstract: A clock generation circuit includes a clock generation unit suitable for generating a first clock, a first inversion clock having an opposite phase to the first clock, a second clock having a different phase from the first clock, and a second inversion clock having an opposite phase to the second clock; and a reset control unit suitable for comparing the phases of the first and second clocks, and controlling the clock generation unit to disable for a time and then enable the second clock and the second inversion clock when the second clock leads the first clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Hae-Rang CHOI, Yong-Ju KIM, Dae-Han KWON, Shin-Deok KANG