Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jongchul Choi

Byounguk Yoon

Minwoo Yoo

Heecheul Moon

Gidae Kim

Changryong Heo

Minsung Lee

Hyoseok Na

Bonkon Koo

Jungsik Park

Wonjun Lee

Kwonho Son

Jungjin Kim

Minsu Jung

Yongseok Lee

Dongil Son

Jooho Seo

Sunghyup Lee

Jungwon Lee

Yongsang Yun

Chihyun Cho

Sangmin Kim

Yeonggyu Yoon

Jinyoung Park

Joongyeon Cho

Daehyeong Park

Jinhoo Lee

Wonkyu Sung

Taeho Kim

Sungmin Kim

Jinwoo Park

Sangmin Lee

Jaebong Chun

Seungnyun Kim

Jinhyun Park

Seungjoon Lee

Donghun Kim

Seunghoon Lee

Jungwoo Choi

Jungeun Lee

Sungho Lee

Youngmin Kang

Junwon Lee

Moonchul Shin

Sungjin Lee

Kyusub Kwak

Jeonggeun Yun

Myongjo Choi

Kyookeun Lee

Hongsik Park

Sangyoup Seok

Moohyun Baek

Daeyoung Noh

Youngmo Jeong

Heeseok Jung

Inkuk Yun

Iksu Jung

Chongo Yoon

Sungho Cho

Soohyun Seo

Woongeun Kwak

Hangyu Hwang

Seonghoon Kim

Donghyeon Kim

Seungwhee Choi

Youngsoo Chun

Dohun Cha

Jaeho Kang

Jonghwan Choi

Sangin Baek

Gisoo Lim

Yonghwa Han

Taekyung Lee

Soonwoong Yang

Gavril Nikolaevich Vostrikov

Seunghui Sunwoo

Byunghun Cho

Cheolho Cheong

Mikhail Vyacheslavovich Popov

Seunghyun Hwang

Changmin Lee

Wooseung Han

Jongkeun Kim

Suman Lee

Yonghan Kim

Bumhee Bae

Chongkun Cho

Wonhee Choi

Gyeongtae Kim

Youngkyu Kim

SungJin Lee

Soohyun Lee

Jaewoo Ko

Sukjin Yun

Soohyung Kim

Seungtaek Oh

Hyungjin Park

Sungkwang Yang

Yoojin Kim

Provided are an electronic device and method for reconstructing an image from a coded image. The electronic device may acquire a coded image, based on light in which a phase is modulated by a first phase mask including noise or a second phase mask not including the noise, and acquire a reconstructed image by inputting the coded image to an artificial intelligence model trained to reconstruct an image. The noise may be an error that occurred according to a process of a phase mask.

Electronic device for reconstructing image and operating method thereof

A head mounted display (HMD) apparatus may include: a display; an optical lens adjacent to a first side of the display; at least one light source configured to emit light; and at least one eye-tracking sensor adjacent to a second side of the display and configured to obtain gaze information about a user by receiving reflected light that is the light emitted from the at least one light source and reflected off eyes of the user. The display may include a second display region corresponding to a position of the at least one eye-tracking sensor, and a first display region other than the second display region. A number of pixels per unit area of the first display region may be greater than a number of pixels per unit area of the second display region.

Head mounted display apparatus including eye-tracking sensor and operating method thereof

The disclosure relates to augmented reality devices based on a curved waveguide. An augmented reality device is provided. The augmented reality device includes a projection system to project an undistorted image, an input optical compensator located on the path of light rays out-coupled from the projection system, a curved waveguide comprising an input diffractive optical element and an output diffractive optical element. The output diffractive optical element performs the function of an output optical compensator that converts the light beams of a distorted image at the output of the waveguide into parallel light beams to output an undistorted image. Augmented reality glasses comprising an augmented reality device are also proposed. There is provided the ability to project a virtual image without aberrations, distortions and doubling of the image.

Augmented reality device based on curved waveguide, method therefor, augmented reality glasses based on said device

An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device can comprise: a housing forming at least a part of the exterior of the electronic device; a rear cover forming the rear surface of the electronic device; a display module loaded on the housing, the display module comprising a bracket including a rotary driving unit and a rear surface, a slide guide arranged on the bracket so as to be movable with respect to the rotary driving unit, and a flexible display arranged to encompass a part of an upper surface of the slide guide, the rotary driving unit, and the rear surface of the bracket; and a battery arranged inside the housing and arranged between the rear cover and a region of the flexible display encompassing the rear surface of the bracket.

Electronic device comprising flexible display

Provided is an electronic device including an optical engine including a projection lens configured to project light of a virtual image, a waveguide including an input grating on which the light of the virtual image is incident, an actuator configured to adjust a position of the projection lens relative to an optical axis of the projection lens, a light sensor configured to detect light passing through the input grating, a memory configured to store one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions to obtain a degree of parallelism of the light detected by the light sensor, obtain, based on the degree of parallelism of the light, a position adjustment value of the projection lens to detect light, and control the actuator to adjust a distance between the projection lens and the waveguide based on the position adjustment value.

Electronic device and operating method thereof

The disclosure relates to augmented reality devices, and more particularly, to augmented reality glasses and methods for operating the same. An augmented reality display device is provided. The augmented reality display device includes a projection system, an optical compensator positioned after the projection system, and a flexible waveguide. The flexible waveguide can change its curvature and comprises an input diffraction grating and an output diffraction grating. The optical compensator is configured to introduce pre-distortion to the image and optically zoom the image received from the projection system, the pre-distortion in the image and optical zoom of the image being opposite to those introduced by the flexible waveguide to the undistorted image in accordance with chosen radius of the flexible waveguide. Flexible diffraction grating distorts the pre-distorted image. The output diffraction grating outputs undistorted image to a user's eyes.

Augmented reality device based on waveguide with variable curvature, method for operating the augmented reality device, augmented reality glasses, optical compensator

An augmented reality (AR) device including a variable focus lens of which a focal length may be changed by adjusting refractive power and adjusting the position of a focus adjustment region of the variable focus lens according to a direction of the user's view. The AR device may obtain an eye vector indicating a direction of the user's view using an eye tracker, adjust a refractive power of a first focus adjustment region of a first variable focus lens to change a focal length for displaying a virtual image, and complementarily adjust a refractive power of a second focus adjustment lens with respect to the adjusted refractive power of the first focus adjustment region.

Augmented reality device for adjusting focus region according to direction of user's view and operating method of the same

An example electronic device may include a first camera including a first camera barrel accommodating a first lens assembly; a second camera including a second camera barrel accommodating a second lens assembly; a cover housing arranged to substantially cover the first camera and the second camera and including a first opening corresponding to the first camera barrel of the first camera and a second opening corresponding to the second camera barrel of the second camera; a camera window including a first transparent region formed in a portion thereof corresponding to the first opening and a second transparent region formed in a portion thereof corresponding to the second opening; a first decoration part disposed at the inner circumference of the first opening of the cover housing and having an inclination formed at the inner circumferential portion thereof; and a second decoration part disposed at the inner circumference of the second opening of the cover housing and having an inclination formed at the inner circumferential portion thereof, wherein the first transparent region and the second transparent region of the camera window may have the same diameter, and the first decoration part and the second decoration part may have the same diameter.

Camera structure and electronic device comprising camera structure

A waveguide and an augmented reality (AR) device employing the waveguide are disclosed. The waveguide includes a waveguide body, an input-coupling element inputting a light into the waveguide body, a reflective element disposed at one side of the waveguide body and again inputting a light that is not input into the waveguide body or is transmitted through the waveguide body into the waveguide body, and an output-coupling element outputting a light propagating inside the waveguide body to an outside.

Waveguide and augmented reality device employing the same

An example flexible display includes a panel layer and a cover layer disposed on one surface of the panel layer. The cover layer includes a first portion and a second portion that extends from the first portion in a first direction. The first portion includes a first base portion having a first thickness and a first connecting portion that extends from the first base portion and has a gradually decreasing thickness. The second portion includes a second base portion that is connected with the first connecting portion and that has a second thickness smaller than the first thickness and a reinforcing portion that protrudes from an edge of the second base portion that faces in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The reinforcing portion includes an edge portion that protrudes from a partial region of the second base portion to have a third thickness and a second connecting portion that extends from the edge portion toward the second base portion and has a gradually decreasing thickness.

Flexible display and electronic device including the same

An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a first and second housing movable relative to each other. The second housing supports a flexible display which may be at least partially exposed to an exterior, and at least partially stowed within the first housing based on the movement of the housings. A processor implements the method including detecting movement of the housings such that a visible display area of the display is changed, detecting whether the resizing meets a predetermined condition, and if resizing does not meet the predetermined condition, executing image processing on a portion of the resized visible display area.

Electronic device including flexible display and method for controlling same

A head-mounted display includes: a camera configured to obtain an image by capturing a scene; at least one display configured to display the image obtained by the camera; and a lens comprising a plurality of lens elements arranged between an eye of a user and the at least one display. The lens includes an aperture stop area configured to be at least a portion of an area for facing the eye of the user. The aperture stop area includes a plurality of sub-stop areas corresponding to a plurality of gaze directions by eye rotation, respectively. The modulation values of the lens at sub-fields of 0 degrees of sub-stop areas, from the plurality of sub-stop areas, corresponding to gaze directions of 0, 10, and 20 degrees are greater than 0.7. The modulation values of the lens are measured at a spatial frequency between 15 to 20 cycles/mm.

Lens based on human visual system, video see-through apparatus employing the lens, and method of designing the lens

An electronic device may include: a housing forming at least a portion of the exterior of the electronic device; a first printed circuit board (PCB) disposed in a first region formed by the housing; a second printed circuit board disposed in a second region formed by the housing; a first antenna module disposed in a third region formed by the housing and adjacent to at least a portion of the exterior; a bracket which fixes the first antenna module to the housing; a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) which electrically connects the first printed circuit board to the first antenna module; and at least one coaxial cable which electrically connects the first printed circuit board to the second printed circuit board, wherein the at least one coaxial cable may be disposed so as to be stacked with the first antenna module with respect to the direction perpendicular to the rear surface of the electronic device and may be fixed to the bracket. Other various embodiments are possible.

Electronic device comprising antenna module and coaxial cable

An electronic device according to an embodiment may include at least one display, a main frame to which the at least one display is mounted, a first support frame which is connected to the main frame through a first connector and includes a first antenna, a second support frame which is connected to the main frame through a second connector and includes a second antenna, at least one processor, and at least one sensor. The at least one processor may perform, when the at least one sensor detects that the electronic device is unfolded, wireless communication using the first antenna and the second antenna, and, when the at least one sensor detects that the electronic device is folded, may turn off the first antenna and/or the second antenna, connect first antenna and/or the second antenna to a ground, or shift a resonance frequency of first antenna and/or the second antenna.

Method for improving antenna performance in electronic device comprising a plurality of antennas and device thereof

An electronic device according to various embodiments disclosed herein may include a first housing, a second housing, and a hinge that foldably connect the first housing and the second housing, wherein the hinge may include a hinge bracket, a first arm coupled to the first housing, and a multi-link structure including a plurality of rotation shafts and a plurality of links connecting the plurality of rotation shafts and configured to rotatably connect the hinge bracket and the first arm to each other. Various other embodiments may be possible.

Hinge apparatus and electronic device including the same

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Jongchul Choi