Patents by Inventor Ranhee Chung
Ranhee Chung 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).
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Patent number: 11639806Abstract: Various embodiments of smart thermostats are presented herein. A smart thermostat can include a thermostat housing defining a rounded front aperture and having a sidewall. The smart thermostat can include a capacitive touch strip that senses a plurality of gestures. The smart thermostat can include an electronic display. The electronic display may be caused to display icons arranged in a graphical arc. The smart thermostat may include a reflective cover positioned such that the electronic display is viewed through the reflective cover.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ranhee Chung, Dongkyu Lee, Sung Kyun Bai, Maj Isabelle Olsson, Andrew William Goldenson, Justin Wodrich, William Dong, Sathya Kurcharlapati, Eyal Ron, Prathik Muppidi
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Publication number: 20220390134Abstract: Various embodiments of smart thermostats are presented herein. A smart thermostat can include a thermostat housing defining a rounded front aperture and having a sidewall. The smart thermostat can include a capacitive touch strip that senses a plurality of gestures. The smart thermostat can include an electronic display. The electronic display may be caused to display icons arranged in a graphical arc. The smart thermostat may include a reflective cover positioned such that the electronic display is viewed through the reflective cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Ranhee Chung, Dongkyu Lee, Sung Kyun Bai, Maj Isabelle Olsson, Andrew William Goldenson, Justin Wodrich, William Dong, Sathya Kurcharlapati, Eyal Ron, Prathik Muppidi
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Patent number: 11441805Abstract: Various embodiments of smart thermostats are presented herein. A smart thermostat can include a thermostat housing defining a rounded front aperture and having a sidewall. The smart thermostat can include a capacitive touch strip that senses a plurality of gestures. The smart thermostat can include an electronic display. The electronic display may be caused to display icons arranged in a graphical arc. The smart thermostat may include a reflective cover positioned such that the electronic display is viewed through the reflective cover.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ranhee Chung, Dongkyu Lee, Sung Kyun Bai, Maj Isabelle Olsson, Andrew William Goldenson, Justin Wodrich, William Dong, Sathya Kurcharlapati, Eyal Ron, Prathik Muppidi
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Patent number: 11422672Abstract: Managing updates can include receiving data items corresponding to available content for different applications, determining, using a processor, priorities associated with the data items, and creating updates for the data items using the priorities. The updates can be displayed in different ones of a plurality of views. Each view of the plurality of views is configured to display updates of a same priority.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeffrey S. Pierce, Mike Digman, Ranhee Chung
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Patent number: 11360252Abstract: Various embodiments of smart devices are determined herein. A smart device can include a housing and an electronic display. The smart device can further include a cover, housed by the housing, through which the electronic display is visible. The cover can include a glass layer, wherein the glass layer is the outermost layer of the cover that is adjacent an ambient environment of the smart home device. The cover can further include an optical coating layer, deposited directly onto a surface of the glass layer, that comprises a plurality of sublayers. The optical coating layer can include alternating non-metallic oxide layers having different refractive indexes. The sublayers can vary in thickness such that the optical coating layer reflects light from the ambient environment through the glass layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Leslie Greene, Ranhee Chung, Sung Kyun Bai, William Dong, Maj Isabelle Olsson, Liana Kong, Justin Wodrich, Prathik Muppidi, Dongkyu Lee
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Publication number: 20220066078Abstract: Various embodiments of smart devices are determined herein. A smart device can include a housing and an electronic display. The smart device can further include a cover, housed by the housing, through which the electronic display is visible. The cover can include a glass layer, wherein the glass layer is the outermost layer of the cover that is adjacent an ambient environment of the smart home device. The cover can further include an optical coating layer, deposited directly onto a surface of the glass layer, that comprises a plurality of sublayers. The optical coating layer can include alternating non-metallic oxide layers having different refractive indexes. The sublayers can vary in thickness such that the optical coating layer reflects light from the ambient environment through the glass layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Leslie Greene, Ranhee Chung, Sung Kyun Bai, William Dong, Maj Isabelle Olsson, Liana Kong, Justin Wodrich, Prathik Muppidi, Dongkyu Lee
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Publication number: 20220065480Abstract: Various embodiments of smart thermostats are presented herein. A smart thermostat can include a thermostat housing defining a rounded front aperture and having a sidewall. The smart thermostat can include a capacitive touch strip that senses a plurality of gestures. The smart thermostat can include an electronic display. The electronic display may be caused to display icons arranged in a graphical arc. The smart thermostat may include a reflective cover positioned such that the electronic display is viewed through the reflective cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Ranhee Chung, Dongkyu Lee, Sung Kyun Bai, Maj Isabelle Olsson, Andrew William Goldenson, Justin Wodrich, William Dong, Sathya Kurcharlapati, Eyal Ron, Prathik Muppidi
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Patent number: 11205305Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes presenting to a user, on a display of a head-worn client computing device, a three-dimensional video including images of a real-life scene that is remote from the user's physical environment. The method also includes presenting to the user, on the display of the head-worn client computing device, a graphical object including an image of the user's physical environment or a virtual graphical object.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Sajid Sadi, Sergio Perdices-Gonzalez, Rahul Budhiraja, Brian Dongwoo Lee, Ayesha Mudassir Khwaja, Pranav Mistry, Link Huang, Cathy Kim, Michael Noh, Ranhee Chung, Sangwoo Han, Jason Yeh, Junyeon Cho, Soichan Nget, Brian Harms, Yedan Qian, Ruokan He
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Patent number: 11132212Abstract: Providing assistance using a device can include determining, using a processor, an application that is currently executing and displayed by the device and determining, using the processor, information that accelerates user interaction with the application. The information can be displayed on the device as application-specific assistance.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTDInventors: Jeffrey S. Pierce, Ranhee Chung, Dane Mason
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Patent number: 10871882Abstract: A system and method include maintaining, by a computing device, a modifiable list of one or more actions available for activation by a user of the computing device, at least some of the actions executable by at least some applications operable on the computing device. A common access interface of the computing device presents a set of one or more representations corresponding to each of the available actions. A determination is made, by the computing device, that the user has provided via the common access interface an input with respect to a particular representation corresponding to a particular available action. In response to the input, the computing device instructs a corresponding application to execute the particular available action.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Praveen Jayakumar, Ranhee Chung, Ruokan He
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Patent number: 10860988Abstract: A plurality of data items can be managed using a processor. The plurality of data items can be contributed by a plurality of applications. The plurality of data items can include at least scheduled events, scheduled tasks and previous activities. Information corresponding to at least the scheduled events, scheduled tasks and previous activities can be presented. The plurality of data items can be managed based on knowledge and meaning of content of the plurality of data items.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeffrey S. Pierce, Sangwoo Han, Selene A. Mota Toledo, Mike Digman, Ranhee Chung
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Patent number: 10749986Abstract: Interacting with a computing device can include registering a plurality of commands from a plurality of applications, wherein the plurality of commands specify entity types that are accepted as parameters, determining a first entity having a first entity type, wherein the first entity is independent of the plurality of applications, and determining a selected command from the plurality of commands registered by the plurality of applications that accepts the first entity type as a parameter. The first entity and the selected command can be provided, using a processor, to a first application of the plurality of applications that supports the selected command for execution.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeffrey S. Pierce, Mike Digman, Ranhee Chung
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Patent number: 10579122Abstract: A detection can be made that a device is in a power charging state. Responsive to detecting that the device is in the power charging state, a current device use context associated with the power charging state can be determined. A user interface that corresponds to the current device use context associated with the power charging state can be selected. While the device is in the power charging state, the selected user interface can be presented.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeffrey S. Pierce, Ranhee Chung, Praveen Jayakumar
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Patent number: 10503361Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting user input linked to a portion of a graphical user interface associated with one or more applications. The method further includes rendering, in response to the detected user input, at least a portion of a transient graphical object that is made up of several portions. Each portion is associated with a different virtual space, and each portion contains content including at least: 1) information linked to a particular one of the one or more applications; and 2) one or more graphical control objects for initiating one or more actions linked to the particular application.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Jeffrey S. Pierce, Mike Digman, Ranhee Chung, Sokhav Nget, Sangwoo Han, Junyeon Cho
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Publication number: 20190354244Abstract: A system and method include maintaining, by a computing device, a modifiable list of one or more actions available for activation by a user of the computing device, at least some of the actions executable by at least some applications operable on the computing device. A common access interface of the computing device presents a set of one or more representations corresponding to each of the available actions. A determination is made, by the computing device, that the user has provided via the common access interface an input with respect to a particular representation corresponding to a particular available action. In response to the input, the computing device instructs a corresponding application to execute the particular available action.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2018Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Praveen Jayakumar, Ranhee Chung, Ruokan He
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Publication number: 20180253136Abstract: A detection can be made that a device is in a power charging state. Responsive to detecting that the device is in the power charging state, a current device use context associated with the power charging state can be determined. A user interface that corresponds to the current device use context associated with the power charging state can be selected. While the device is in the power charging state, the selected user interface can be presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2017Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Jeffrey S. Pierce, Ranhee Chung, Praveen Jayakumar
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Publication number: 20180225132Abstract: Providing assistance using a device can include determining, using a processor, an application that is currently executing and displayed by the device and determining, using the processor, information that accelerates user interaction with the application. The information can be displayed on the device as application-specific assistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Jeffrey S. Pierce, Ranhee Chung, Dane Mason
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Publication number: 20170293893Abstract: A plurality of data items can be managed using a processor. The plurality of data items can be contributed by a plurality of applications. The plurality of data items can include at least scheduled events, scheduled tasks and previous activities. Information corresponding to at least the scheduled events, scheduled tasks and previous activities can be presented. The plurality of data items can be managed based on knowledge and meaning of content of the plurality of data items.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2017Publication date: October 12, 2017Inventors: Jeffrey S. Pierce, Sangwoo Han, Selene A. Mota Toledo, Mike Digman, Ranhee Chung
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Publication number: 20170293414Abstract: Managing updates can include receiving data items corresponding to available content for different applications, determining, using a processor, priorities associated with the data items, and creating updates for the data items using the priorities. The updates can be displayed in different ones of a plurality of views. Each view of the plurality of views is configured to display updates of a same priority.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2017Publication date: October 12, 2017Inventors: Jeffrey S. Pierce, Mike Digman, Ranhee Chung
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Patent number: D986279Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Kenny Chui, Ranhee Chung, Celeste Prevost