The Samsung Group of Seoul, South Korea, is a corporate conglomerate that is responsible for the manufacture of a wide array of consumer electronic devices and home appliances, along with other technologies. In recent months, this corporation has experienced turbulent times in the courtroom against one of its great rivals, Apple Inc. A recent Samsung lawsuit seeking $100 million in claims from Apple was thrown out by South Korea’s Seoul Central District Court a few weeks ago. The company was further hurt by the loss of a patent lawsuit within the South Korean courts that would have banned Apple products from Samsung’s home country.
Since so many will be no doubt opening gifts from both Apple and Samsung on Wednesday morning, in advance of Christmas we decided to focus both sides of this global legal battle in our Companies We Follow series. Last week we profiled Apple and their recent focus on maps and navigation. Today, we’re focusing on Samsung by taking an in-depth look at that corporation’s recent published patent applications and issued patents coming from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. As always, we’ve scrounged up an intriguing group of innovations coming from a global leader in research and development.
The featured patent application today focuses on a developed system of interacting with a mobile device that has been pursued by many device manufacturers recently. This system is capable of receiving vocal inputs from a user and converting that speech into a digital command that can be processed by the device. Other patent applications that we’ve noticed include a couple of improvements to image applications available for mobile devices, including a method of creating a 3D representation of a photo gallery.
We’ve also included a group of recently issued patents that protect some other interesting mobile device technology developments. Today, we’ve picked three patents that involve improvements to mobile device connectivity, including one patent protecting a method for wi-fi providers to block unauthorized users who are within range. Also, we turned up a patent that describes a novel system of paying for public transit fare through a mobile device.
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