Patents by Inventor Sung Jae Hwang

Sung Jae Hwang 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: 10175767
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for providing a user interface. The method includes when an input event occurs, acquiring information on postures or motions of a first device and a second device associated with the input event in a preset time interval including the time of occurrence of the input event, and determining a command to be carried out in response to the input event with reference to a relative relationship between the posture or motion of the first device and that of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: FUTUREPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Sung Jae Hwang
  • Publication number: 20180369847
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile fragrance discharge device. The mobile fragrance discharge device includes a body configured to be movable; a storage mounted to the body and configured to store a fragrance material; a discharge portion configured to connect to the storage and to discharge, to an outside of the body, at least a portion of the fragrance material supplied from the storage; a location detector configured to detect a location or a travel route of the body; and a controller configured to determine a discharge characteristic of the fragrance material based on location information or travel route information of the body and to control the discharge portion to discharge the fragrance material based on the determined discharge characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Jaeyeon Kihm, Sung Jae Hwang, Jung Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20180373272
    Abstract: Provided is a fragrance discharge device and control method thereof, the fragrance discharge device including a body configured to be wearable by a user; a storage provided to the body and configured to store a fragrance material; a discharge portion configured to discharge, to an outside of the body, the fragrance material supplied from the storage; and a controller configured to control the discharge portion to selectively discharge the fragrance material based on a result of detecting a motion of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Jaeyeon Kihm, Sung Jae Hwang, Jung Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20180018021
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a user interface. The method comprises acquiring information on a position where at least one of a first device and a second device contacts a body of a user, and upon the occurrence of a triggering event that causes haptic feedback in at least one of the first device and the second device, controlling properties of haptic feedback provided in at least one of the first device and the second device, with reference to the acquired information on the body contact position, information on a display state associated with the triggering event, and information on contents or functions associated with the triggering event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: FuturePlay Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Jae Hwang
  • Patent number: 9851815
    Abstract: Provided is a system for controlling a user terminal, comprising a sensing unit to sense a motion of an object in a shape of a rod that can be held between fingers of a user, and a control unit to generate a control command for controlling the user terminal based on a motion pattern of the object sensed by the sensing unit, wherein the motion is a spinning motion of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Sung Jae Hwang, Andrea Bianchi, Ian Oakley, Kwang Yun Wohn, Myung Wook Ahn
  • Publication number: 20170353986
    Abstract: A method for matching a plurality of devices includes determining, from a perspective of a first device, characteristic information on a motion of the first device, determining, from a perspective of a second device, second characteristic information distinct from the first characteristic information and related to the motion of the first device, and matching the first device and the second device based on the first characteristic information and the second characteristic information. The second characteristic information includes information on at least one of the motion of the first device captured by the second device, an input made to the second device associated with the motion of the first device, an operation performed on the second device associated with the motion of the first device, and a location change of the first device caused by the motion of the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: FuturePlay Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Jae HWANG
  • Publication number: 20170252652
    Abstract: Provided are a content providing method and a content providing apparatus. The content providing method may receive an input on time information about a time at which content is to be provided, may modify the content to prevent a playback time of the content from exceeding the time information, and may provide the modified content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Sun Hae KIM, Sung Jae HWANG
  • Patent number: 9753544
    Abstract: A Korean character input apparatus using a touch screen is provided. The apparatus includes an input window comprising a consonant input key, a “” vowel input key to the right of the consonant input key, and a “” vowel input key under the consonant input key, a character combining means by which, when one of the “” vowel input key and the “” vowel input key is touch-selected, a consonant corresponding to the consonant input key provided to the left of the “” vowel input key or provided above the “” vowel input key is selected as an initial consonant and is combined with a vowel, an output window for displaying the composed Korean character, and a controller for controlling a touch input on the input window and an output of the composed Korean character on the output window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-Jae Hwang
  • Patent number: 9753539
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a user interface. The method comprises acquiring information on a position where at least one of a first device and a second device contacts a body of a user, and upon the occurrence of a triggering event that causes haptic feedback in at least one of the first device and the second device, controlling properties of haptic feedback provided in at least one of the first device and the second device, with reference to the acquired information on the body contact position, information on a display state associated with the triggering event, and information on contents or functions associated with the triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Futureplay Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Jae Hwang
  • Patent number: 9696815
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a user interface, comprising the steps of: (a) acquiring information on postures or motions of a first device and a second device, and sensing an input event specified on the basis of a relative relationship between the posture or motion of the first device and that of the second device; and (b) in response to the occurrence of the input event, causing at least some of contents and functions provided on the first device to be provided on the second device, or causing at least some of contents and functions provided on the second device to be provided on the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Futureplay Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Jae Hwang
  • Publication number: 20170153804
    Abstract: A method of controlling a display device is provided, in which the method includes providing an entry mode to determine an entry into an adult mode or a child mode through a child indentifying interface including a visual object, recognizing a user input in response to the visual object, and providing the adult mode or the child mode based on a degree of similarity between the recognized user input and the visual object, wherein the child mode may be a mode providing a selecting interface to select at least one application and a time limit interface to terminate the application after executing, for a preset period of time, the application selected through the selecting interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: MINDQUAKE INC.
    Inventors: Sun Hae KIM, Sung Jae HWANG
  • Publication number: 20170150541
    Abstract: A method for matching a plurality of devices includes determining, from a perspective of a first device, characteristic information on a motion of the first device, determining, from a perspective of a second device, second characteristic information distinct from the first characteristic information and related to the motion of the first device, and matching the first device and the second device based on the first characteristic information and the second characteristic information. The second characteristic information includes information on at least one of the motion of the first device captured by the second device, an input made to the second device associated with the motion of the first device, an operation performed on the second device associated with the motion of the first device, and a location change of the first device caused by the motion of the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: FuturePlay Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Jae HWANG
  • Publication number: 20170078295
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for matching multiple devices, and a device and a server system for enabling the matching thereof. A matching method includes receiving first characteristic information on a biological state of a user from a first device, receiving second characteristic information associated with or generated according to the biological state of the user from a second device, and matching the first device with the second device on the basis of the first characteristic information and the second characteristic information. The user is granted a permission for the first device when the first device authenticates the user on the basis of identification information of the user, and the user is granted the same or equivalent permission for the second device when the first device is matched with the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: FuturePlay Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Jae HWANG
  • Patent number: 9578670
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for matching multiple devices, and a device and a server system for enabling the matching thereof. According to one aspect of the invention, provided is a matching method comprising: determining, from a perspective of a first device, characteristic information on a motion of the first device; determining, from a perspective of a second device, characteristic information on at least one of the motion of the first device, an input to the second device according to the motion of the first device, an operation on the second device according to the motion of the first device, and a location change of the first device caused by the motion of the first device; and matching the first device and the second device based on the characteristic information determined from the perspective of the first device and the characteristic information determined from the perspective of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: FuturePlay Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Jae Hwang
  • Publication number: 20170038849
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for providing a user interface. The method includes when an input event occurs, acquiring information on postures or motions of a first device and a second device associated with the input event in a preset time interval including the time of occurrence of the input event, and determining a command to be carried out in response to the input event with reference to a relative relationship between the posture or motion of the first device and that of the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: FuturePlay Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Jae Hwang
  • Patent number: 9521202
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for matching multiple devices, and a device and a server system for enabling the matching thereof. According to one aspect of the invention, provided is a matching method comprising the steps of: determining, from a perspective of a first device, characteristic information on a biological state of a user, and independently determining, from a perspective of a second device, characteristic information associated with or generated according to the biological state of the user; and matching the first device and the second device on the basis of the characteristic information determined from the perspective of the first device and the characteristic information determined from the perspective of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: FuturePlay Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Jae Hwang
  • Publication number: 20160306800
    Abstract: Provided are a reply recommendation apparatus using collected data, and a system and method for automatic text construction. The reply recommendation apparatus includes a data collecting unit collecting dialog pair data including parent text data corresponding to a query and child text data, a data pre-processing unit pre-processing the collected data pair data, a vectorizing unit matching the pre-processed data to particular points on the coordinate system having predefined axes, a clustering unit performing clustering using information on the matched particular points and merging all or some of texts included in one of clusters using a preset merging method, a ranking unit scoring the degree of appropriateness as a reply to the received message for each of the clusters using a first preset scoring method, and a recommended reply providing unit providing recommended replies sequentially represented by high score assigned when the ranking unit scores the degree of appropriateness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: FLUENTY KOREA INC.
    Inventors: Jeong Hoon SON, Kang Hak KIM, Sung Jae HWANG
  • Publication number: 20160282951
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising the steps of: acquiring first information on an action performed or a form made by a user and second information on the user's fingernails or toenails, wherein the second information is visual information; and determining the user's input by determining a first element of the user's input on the basis of the first information and determining a second element of the input on the basis of the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: FuturePlay Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Jae HWANG
  • Publication number: 20160162176
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a user interface, comprising the steps of: acquiring information on a trace of a user operation inputted to a device; and controlling a reference coordinate system applied to a user interface provided in the device, with reference to a relative relationship between a first direction specified by the trace of the user operation and a second direction specified by the reference coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventor: Sung Jae HWANG
  • Patent number: 9348456
    Abstract: An end device may include a touch screen; a touch screen manager configured to: determine a first area and a second area on the touch screen, and determine at least one of a display property or a touch sensing property of the first area to be different from that of the second area; and a processor configured to: display an image on the first area and the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Sung Jae Hwang