Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Cha & Reiter
  • Patent number: 8246178
    Abstract: A focus control device for a beam projector allows the focus of a lens assembly to be finely and easily controlled. The focus control device includes: a control member rotatably mounted on the beam projector for controlling the focus of a lens assembly; a rotary eccentric member provided in the control member, the rotary eccentric member having a control axis eccentric to the rotary axis of the control member, and being rotated while depicting an elliptical trace in response to the rotation of the control member; a focus guide member provided in the rotary eccentric member, the focus guide member allowing the lens assembly to be moved rectilinearly in the direction of an optical axis in response to the rotation of the control member; and an actuating member provided in the lens assembly and coupled to the focus guide member, the actuating member moving the lens assembly in the direction of the optical axis in response to the movement of the focus guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myeong-Ho Jeon, Moon-Chul Shin, Kang-Hoon Choi, Hyon-Myong Song, Jin-Hee Cho, Kyung-Han Kim, Hyun-Jun Jang
  • Patent number: 8244266
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer product for scheduling in a cellular system using a wired RS is disclosed. In one aspect, a BS collects CQIs of all MSs within a cell, calculates a transmittable data amount for each of the MSs according to the CQI, selects an MS having a highest PF metric, and allocates resources to the selected MS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-University Cooperation Foundation, Sogang University
    Inventors: Ki-Uk Song, Seong-Taek Hwang, Won-Jin Sung, Jin-Woo Choe, Gwy-Un Jin, Seong-Min Kim
  • Patent number: 8243051
    Abstract: A ring-shaped wireless input device for providing an indication of a scroll direction includes a housing having a ring shape, a wheel rotatably installed on the housing, a first sensor unit, that has first and second sections alternatively disposed along a circumference of the wheel and rotated along with the wheel, and a wireless communication unit which is fixedly disposed in the housing, and includes a second sensor unit arranged with the first sensor unit, the communication unit sending a scroll signal indicating an arranged state of the first sensor with regard to the second sensor to the host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Denis Gorodetskiy, Kwang-Pyo Choi, Han-Sang Kim, Yun-Je Oh, Young-Hun Joo
  • Patent number: 8243430
    Abstract: A cradling device of a portable electronic apparatus, which includes a first housing, and a second housing which is slid from the first housing and then is cradled with a slant on the first housing. The second housing can rotate relative to the first housing. The cradling device includes a first member provided in the first housing; a slidable second member capable of sliding, which is provided in the second housing and faces the first member; and at least one cradling module provided in the first housing and the first member, which rotates the first member together with the second member on a rotation axis and cradles the second housing after sliding movement of the slidable second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Ho Ahn, Young-In Cho
  • Patent number: 8244173
    Abstract: A radio frequency repeater is provided. A donor antenna transmits a signal to and receives a signal from a base station. A service antenna transmits a signal to and receives a signal from a mobile station. A repeater filters and amplifies a signal between the two antennas. A polarization variation unit variably selects a polarization direction of at least one of the donor antenna and the service antenna in response to a detection signal of an isolation detector for detecting isolation between the two antennas. The isolation between the donor antenna and the service antenna can be sufficiently ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: KMW Inc.
    Inventor: Young-Chan Moon
  • Patent number: 8244742
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, apparatus, and system for data transmission based on a DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) network that classifies contents files which are stored in a DMS according to a support of the DLNA network to make a contents list. Support is provided to convert a file attribute of a selected file into a file attribute which can be applied to the DLNA network to generate, in case a user selects a non-supported file which is not applied to the DLNA network. The invention outputs the selected file to a display unit, captures the outputted image to convert into a file which can be applied to the DLNA network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Shik Yoon, Yun Je Oh, Joon Oo Kim, Won Sang Kwon, Chul Seung Kim
  • Patent number: 8238986
    Abstract: Provided are a tilt-type sliding module for a mobile phone and a terminal holder using the tilt-type sliding module, which enable a display unit of the mobile phone to perform a planar sliding motion and at the same time, to perform a tilt motion for inclining upwardly, thereby providing optimal convenience according to a user's purpose. The tilt-type sliding module allows a stable tilt motion of the display unit of the mobile phone by means of: a control bracket for controlling a rotation motion of a tilt rotation portion formed on each of both ends of a frame and a rotation motion and a lock motion of the tilt rotation portion by being fixedly coupled to an intermediate member of the mobile phone; a stopper shaft; and a spring ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Satec co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-Jun Lee, Sang-Wha Park, Jeong-Min Park, Han-Gyu Hwang, Sung-Ho Ahn
  • Patent number: 8237706
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for simplifying 3-Dimensional (3D) mesh data are disclosed. The method includes measuring discrete curvature at each point of received 3D mesh data, calculating an error based on distance-curvature error metrics including the discrete curvature, first sorting a low curvature one of the calculated error values in a heap in ascending order, selecting a minimum error among the calculated errors, determining if the minimum error is less than a threshold, contracting an edge if the selected minimum error is greater than the threshold, and recalculating an error of a surface neighboring to a surface on which the contracted edge belongs and re-sorting the calculated error values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suh-Ho Lee, Soo-Kyun Kim, Joo-Kwang Kim, Tae-Kyun Kim
  • Patent number: 8238619
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of extracting ridge and valley lines from three-dimensional point data, the method including the steps of: receiving undefined point data obtained from a three-dimensional scanning system; estimating a normal vector by principal component analysis so as to calculate a normal vector with regard to each received point; and on the basis of such information, creating a moving least squares (MLS) surface of points approximation with regard to each received point. Then, Delaunay edge is created by a Voronoi diagram with regard to each point from the created MLS surface of points; and ridge (or valley) points are extracted by measuring zero-crossing on each Delaunay edge. Ridges and valleys as lines are created by connecting the extracted ridge points in a principal curvature direction. The extraction of ridge and valley lines is used as a pre-processing step for creating three-dimensional points into mesh data, and is advantageous for identifying general model features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Soo-Kyun Kim
  • Patent number: 8238937
    Abstract: A location sensing system and method for a mobile communication system is provided for maintaining location sensing service with the support of mobile nodes when there is an insufficient number of anchor nodes for reference points. A location sensing method for a mobile communication system includes discovering, at a source mobile node, anchor nodes in a vicinity; discovering, when a number of discovered anchor nodes is less than a predetermined number of reference nodes required for location sensing, neighboring mobile nodes; selecting at least one of neighboring mobile nodes as a reference mobile node; and computing a location of the source mobile node in cooperation with the predetermined number of reference nodes including the discovered anchor nodes and the reference mobile node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do Young Ha, Joon Oo Kim, Yun Je Oh, Joong Soo Ma, Myoung Hwan Seo, Sung Chang Choi, Myoung In Ji
  • Patent number: 8238288
    Abstract: A duplicate detection method is disclosed for reducing redundant traffic in an ad hoc network. The duplicate detection method of the present invention includes receiving a first packet having a content identifier and a subcontent identifier, storing the content identifier and the subcontent identifier of the first packet, receiving a second packet, extracting a content identifier from the second packet, determining whether the content identifiers of the first and second packets are identical, extracting, when the content identifiers are identical, a subcontent identifier from the second packet, determining whether the subcontent identifiers of the first and second packets are identical, determining, when the subcontent identifiers of the first and second packets are identical, the second packet is a duplicate of the first packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung Hwan Ahn
  • Patent number: 8237613
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for calculating a current position of a portable terminal not supporting a function of obtaining position information, such as a Global Positioning System (GPS) function, by receiving position information from neighbor terminals of the portable terminal are disclosed. The apparatus includes a controller for calculating the current position of the portable terminal from received position information from neighbor terminals and processing the received position to determine the current position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang-Ho Sohn
  • Patent number: 8238970
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile communication terminal having an aromatic function and a terminal charger for the same. The terminal charger for charging a mobile terminal having an absorbent material disposed therein includes a charger body having a mounting space formed at one part thereof and in which the terminal is mounted; and an aromatic supply part installed in the charger body for supplying an aromatic agent into the absorbent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ja-Won Seo, Young-Kwon Yoon, Yong-Gu Lee
  • Patent number: 8238299
    Abstract: A method for scheduling in a cellular system using a relay station (RS) through an inter-antenna cooperative transmission technology based on pre-cooperation information according to each channel in a cellular system using a cable RS in order to increase the throughput of the entire system. The steps include classifying all mobile stations (MSs) in a corresponding cell based into Cooperative Transmission (CT) MSs for cooperative transmission and Single Transmission (ST) MSs for to each channel; mapping channel-by-channel channel capacities of the CT MSs and ST MSs classified according to each channel, selecting a channel with a highest priority, and receiving a request message from a corresponding MS according to whether the capacity of the selected channel satisfies preset CT criteria and selecting an MS having a metric value of a highest priority according to a corresponding scheduling algorithm, from among multiple requesting MSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
    Inventors: Jae-Hoon Lee, Seong-Taek Hwang, Won-Jin Sung, Byoung-Seok Lee, Ki-Suk Sung, In-Hong Shong, Jin-Woo Choe, Yu rim Jee, legal representative
  • Patent number: 8234232
    Abstract: A word-spacing correction system and method are provided to automatically recognize and correct errors in the spacing of word inputs in an electronic device with relatively low computing power. In a learning process, probability information about each feature is created from a corpus of correct words, and then error correction rules are created by applying the probability information to a corpus of incorrect words from which all spaces between words of the corpus of correct words are removed. In an applying process, word-spacing in a user's input sentence is corrected by applying the probability information and the error correction rules to the user's input sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Knu-Industry Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Hee Jun Song, Young Hee Park, Hyun Sik Shim, Jong Gyu Ham, Hark Soo Kim, Jong Hwan Kim, Yeong Kil Song
  • Patent number: 8233463
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for constructing a virtual backbone in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The method including the steps of setting a ‘Dominator’ status for a gateway or a sink node within the WSN, setting a ‘CoveredByDominator’ status for each neighbor node positioned in the transmission range of a node for which the ‘Dominator’ status is set, and setting a ‘NULL’ status for each of the other nodes, transmitting a beacon frame by periods from each node to neighbor nodes thereof within the WSN, receiving, by each node in the ‘CoveredByDominator’ status, the beacon frame from neighbor nodes thereof in the ‘NULL’ status, computing a time duration of a defer timer, and enabling the defer timer to operate by the computed time duration; and changing, to the ‘Dominator’ status, a status of a node whose defer timer expires earliest among the nodes all having the ‘CoveredByDominator’ status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun-Mo Yang
  • Patent number: 8234247
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a content management system and method of content management on a portable device. The content management system of the present invention includes a storage unit which stores at least one content file, a content list manager which creates a content list of contents files satisfying at least one monitoring condition and manages the content list on the basis of events occurring in the storage unit, and a monitoring unit which monitors the events occurring in the storage unit and transmits information on the events to the content list manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Chul Shin, Young Kyu Bae, Chul Seung Kim, Yun Je Oh, Joon Oo Kim
  • Patent number: 8232800
    Abstract: Disclosed are a high-order generalized series parallel imaging method for acquiring high spatio-temporal resolution functional magnetic resonance images and a sampling method. The higher-order generalized series parallel imaging method for acquiring high spatio-temporal resolution functional magnetic resonance images includes: performing sampling of an input image in k-space; applying a high-order generalized series (HGS) reconstruction procedure to data acquired as the sampling result to acquire a first reconstructed image; and applying a parallel magnetic resonance reconstruction procedure to the first reconstructed image to acquire a second reconstructed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: HyunWook Park, SungDae Yun
  • Patent number: 8228999
    Abstract: An apparatus for reproduction of an image frame in an image receiving system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a demultiplexer for restoring a received signal to a decodable bitstream and generating start information of each image frame of the bitstream, and an image decoder for decoding the bitstream restored by the demultiplexer, thereby generating a reproducible I frame or P frame, which is an image frame; an image reproduction time uniformity processing module for buffering each image frame output from the image decoder, and then outputting the buffered I frame or P frame while delaying the I frame or P frame based on the start information of each image frame provided by the demultiplexer according to a preset delay time. The present delay time has been preset to be greater than a processing time period required for decoding of an I frame and to be less than a time interval between image frames in the image bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-O Park, Kwang-Pyo Choi, Young-Hun Joo
  • Patent number: 8228414
    Abstract: A real-size preview system in a terminal having a digital camera function and a control method thereof are provided. The real-size preview system includes a display unit for displaying an image provided through a camera module to a user and an image processor for designating a first display area in the display unit and displaying an image, designating a second display area in the display unit and changing an image size of a region of an image previewed through the first display area to a different size to be displayed. The system enables a user to confirm the real size of a photographed object to enhance image readability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Uk Cho