Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Pankaj Agarwal

Tae-Hoon Kim

Sung-jin Choi

Tae-hoon Kim

Joon-hyun Yang

Ji-su Jung

Parichay Kapoor

Sang-hoon Lee

Won-hee Choe

Myoung-jun Lee

Apoorv Kansal

Youn-Hee Kim

Jin-sung Kim

Youn-ho Choi

Chang-Yeong Kim

Hyunsik Kim

Won-Sub Kim

Sun-hwa Kim

Kyoung-geun Lee

Ho-Chul Shin

Hyung-sun Lee

Jinseok Lee

Ji-Su Jung

Hwakyung Kim

Rakie Kim

Kang-hyun Yi

Sung-Jin Choi

Sunho Moon

Wonjin Kim

Jin-Hyo Kim

Won-hee Choi

Keongho Lee

Jisu Oh

Seung-Beom Lee

Nikunj Saunshi

Dong-Gi Jang

Kwangchoon Kim

Hyunghoon Kim

Mehul Kumar

Subin Jo

Sameer Kumar Agrawal

Vishnuvardhan Vinjam

Heung-ryong Oh

Changhun Yu

Minwook Ahn

Kyoungsoo Cho

A portable device and a method for controlling brightness thereof are provided. The portable device includes a display, a sensor and a controller. The display provides a display region that is displayed with a first brightness. The sensor senses a surrounding brightness of the portable device. The controller controls the display to display a partial region corresponding to a User Interaction (UI) element in the display region with a second brightness based on the sensed surrounding brightness.

Portable device and method for controlling brightness of the same

A method for controlling an electronic device includes activating a display unit of an electronic device, following the activation of the display unit, displaying a lock screen containing image content prestored in the electronic device, receiving the input of a user command for selecting information about the displayed image content, and, following the input of the user command, storing, in connection with the image content selected according to the user command, information about the image content, while continuously displaying the lock screen.

Electronic device and method for controlling same

A user terminal device includes a touch screen including a main display area and an auxiliary display area including a curved portion extending from the main display area, and a processor configured to, in response to an input for moving an icon displayed on the main display area to the auxiliary display area, control the touch screen to display the icon on the auxiliary display area.

User terminal device and displaying method thereof

The present disclosure relates to system resource management in a variety of situations. The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for reducing memory requirements and improving processing speed when an electronic device performs padding for a particular arithmetic operation on data. To achieve the above objective, a method for operating an electronic device according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: reading a first portion of data from a first memory; determining a first padding address based on the address of a byte belonging to a boundary region of the data among a plurality of bytes included in the first portion; writing values of the plurality of bytes and a value corresponding to the first padding address to a second memory; and reading a second portion of the data from the first memory.

Method and apparatus for system resource management

The present disclosure relates generally to technologies for sensor networks, machine-to-machine (M2M), machine-type communication (MTC), and Internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be used in intelligent services (smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, or connected car, health-care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.), or the like, without limitation. According to the present disclosure, a method for locking a device comprises displaying a screen requesting selection of an image category for a lock screen when an input corresponding to a lock request through a display unit supporting a touch input is detected; displaying a screen requesting setting a password for unlocking when an input corresponding to the selection of the image category is detected; and selecting images supporting the password setting among images included in the selected image category into a group when an input corresponding to the password setting is detected, and locking the touch input to the display unit by displaying one of the selected images.

Method for locking and unlocking touchscreen-equipped mobile device and mobile device

A portable device providing notice information and a method for providing the notice information thereof are provided. The portable device includes a display configured to be divided into areas respectively corresponding to types of notice information, and a controller configured to sense an event corresponding to the notice information, and control the display to activate pixels included in an area corresponding to a type of the notice information, and inactivate pixels included in an area not corresponding to the type of the notice information, among the areas, in response to the controller sensing the event.

Portable device and method for providing notice information thereof

Portable smart toy

Electronic device

A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel; and a backlight unit which provides the display panel with backlight. The backlight unit includes: a converter which converts a voltage of a received power and outputs an output power, a plurality of light source modules which receives the output power from the converter, and a control unit which determines powering conditions to operate the plurality of the light source modules in a specific state for each of the plurality of light source modules, and controls the converter sequentially based on the determined powering conditions.

Display apparatus and backlight unit

A high voltage power supply is provided. The high voltage power supply includes a soft-start circuit unit which outputs a natural voltage that decreases exponentially as time elapses and converts the natural voltage into a forced voltage having a predetermined scale if an enable signal is applied, a controller which compares the natural voltage output from the soft-start circuit unit with a reference voltage and outputs a control signal, and a converting unit which delays outputting a final voltage during a first predetermined time period and outputs the final voltage, which gradually increases as time elapses according to the control signal.

High voltage power supply having a soft-start circuit

A backlight apparatus and a display apparatus are provided. The backlight apparatus includes N first switch units to switch a plurality of currents flowing in respective N light emitting element arrays according to an input brightness control signal, N second switch units to switch a plurality of currents flowing in respective N capacitors according to the input brightness control signal, and a reference current generation unit to generate and output a reference current based on the input brightness control signal. An inverter unit adjusts a total current supplied to all of the light emitting element arrays in total to be equal to the reference current if the total current is different from the reference current.

Backlight apparatus and display apparatus including the same

A backlight unit and a display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a power supply unit which outputs a first voltage; a light emitting unit which includes a first end connected to the power supply unit, and a second end, the first end receiving the first voltage from the power supply unit; and a compensation unit which includes a first end connected to the second end of the light emitting unit, and which compensates a deviation between the first voltage and a rated voltage of the light emitting unit.

Backlight unit and display apparatus

A high voltage power supply is provided. The high voltage power supply includes an inverter which converts a DC voltage input to the high voltage power supply into a first AC voltage, a transformer including an input winding unit and a plurality of output winding units, wherein the input winding unit receives the first AC voltage from the inverter and the plurality of output winding units generates and outputs a second AC voltage, and a voltage multiplier unit which boosts the second AC voltage output by the transformer and outputs a boosted voltage, and the voltage multiplier unit includes a plurality of voltage multipliers which are connected to each other in series and the plurality of voltage multipliers may be connected to the plurality of output winding units respectively.

High voltage power supply

A display apparatus includes a display panel, a light source unit including a plurality of light sources that irradiate the display panel with light, a first control signal generating unit that inverts and forward rectifies a scan signal for scanning of the light source unit, a second control signal generating unit that inverts and backward rectifies an overdrive signal for overcurrent emission of the light source unit and has its output port coupled to an output port of the first control signal generating unit, and an inverter that supplies current to the light source unit based on a control signal output from the output port of the first control signal generating unit and the output port of the second control signal generating unit.

Display apparatus and control method thereof

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Pankaj Agarwal