Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Parks & Associates
  • Patent number: 8284975
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal includes a receiver converting an audio signal outputted from the mobile communication terminal into an audible sound; a coupler dividing the audio signal outputted from the receiver into first and second audio signals which are different in phase from each other; an audio signal amplifier amplifying the second audio signal outputted from the coupler according to a predetermined amplification gain; a receiver port to which the receiver is detachably connected and which includes a first output port transmitting the first audio signal outputted from the coupler to the receiver and a second output port transmitting the second audio signal amplified by the audio signal amplifier to the receiver; and a controller controlling the mobile communication terminal and the amplification gain of the audio signal amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Pantech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Han-il Kim
  • Patent number: 8284763
    Abstract: A voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) gateway includes a foreign exchange office (FXO), a foreign exchange station (FXS), and a VoIP processor. A controller of the VoIP gateway sets the VoIP gateway to either a TANDEM (trunk and ENM (ear and mouth)) mode or a standalone mode. In the TANDEM mode, the VoIP gateway transmits an incoming call from the VoIP processor to the FXO and an outgoing call from the FXS to the VoIP processor. In the standalone mode, the VoIP gateway transmits the incoming call from the VoIP processor to the FXS and the outgoing call from the FXS to the VoIP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae-Hyun Lee, Jung-Gi Kim
  • Patent number: 8283219
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light-emitting display device (OLED) and method of manufacturing the same. The OLED comprises a substrate and a thin film transistor, with source/drain electrodes, located at a predetermined area on the substrate. A passivation layer is located on the source/drain electrodes with a via hole exposing one of the source/drain electrodes. A first pixel electrode is located at the bottom of the via hole, electrically coupled to the exposed source/drain electrode, and extending onto the side wall of the via hole and the passivation layer. A planarization pattern fills the via hole in which the first pixel electrode is located and exposes the portion of the first pixel electrode on the passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mu-Hyun Kim, Sang-Il Park, Iee-Gon Kim
  • Patent number: 8283682
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a substrate, and at least one serial array having a plurality of light emitting cells connected in series on the substrate. Each of the light emitting cells comprises a lower semiconductor layer, an upper semiconductor layer, an active layer interposed between the lower and upper semiconductor layers, a lower electrode formed on the lower semiconductor layer exposed at a first corner of the substrate, an upper electrode layer formed on the upper semiconductor layer, and an upper electrode pad formed on the upper electrode layer exposed at a second corner of the substrate. The upper electrode pad and the lower electrode are respectively disposed at the corners diagonally opposite to each other, and are symmetric with respect to those of adjacent another of the light emitting cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Seoul Opto Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeo Jin Yoon, Jong Kyu Kim, Jun Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 8281814
    Abstract: A water supply valve cartridge in which a flow rate control rotary disk has a reduced size, so that surface friction between the flow rate control rotary disk and a flow rate control fixed disk is minimized, thus improving manipulation efficiency of the water supply valve while opening or closing the valve, and which does not sensitively respond to flatness allowance due to the reduced size of the rotary disk, thus executing stable opening and closing operation. The flow rate control fixed disk (140) has water discharge holes (142). The flow rate control rotary disk (150) has a diameter to cover only the area around the water discharge holes (142), with a pair of flow rate control grooves (151) formed on the rotary disk (150) to open only the water discharge holes (142) during rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Inventor: Jong Koo Kim
  • Patent number: 8285325
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and a computer readable record media storing instructions for executing the same method for interfacing among a hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous terminal to a core network in a next generation mobile telecommunications system. The hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous radio network determines the operating type of the core network when the core network has a connection thereto, and sends the determined core network operating type information and information related to the core network to the hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous terminal, thereby allowing the synchronous or asynchronous terminal to smoothly perform a data interfacing operation with the core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Pantech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hong Park, Woon-Hee Hwang, Yeon-Sang Koo, Chong-Won Lee, Shin-Hyun Yang, Jeong-Hwa Ye
  • Patent number: 8284243
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes a display panel and an image conversion sheet. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit has a zigzag shape that extends in a first direction. The image conversion sheet includes a plurality of lens units. Each lens unit extends in the first direction and is disposed in a second direction different from the first direction. A plurality of the lens units is disposed in parallel with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Hoon Lee, Kyoung-Ju Shin, Hae-Young Yun, Sung-Woon Kim, Lu Jian Gang
  • Patent number: 8283668
    Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate and crystallized using a metal catalyst, a gate insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor layer, a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer, an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the gate electrode, and source and drain electrodes disposed on the interlayer insulating layer and electrically connected to source and drain regions of the semiconductor layer through contact holes exposing predetermined regions of the source and drain regions of the semiconductor layer formed within the gate insulating layer and the interlayer insulating layer. A metal silicide including a metal that is different from the metal catalyst is present within a region of the semiconductor layer under the contact hole from the surface of the semiconductor layer to a predetermined depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byoung-Keon Park
  • Patent number: 8278818
    Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The device includes a substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on the substrate; a pixel defining layer disposed on the pixel electrodes and having an opening part exposing a predetermined part of each of the pixel electrodes; and at least one barrier layer comprised in and/or on the pixel defining layer. In this device, the pixel defining layer includes at least one barrier layer in order to reduce the amount of outgas from the pixel defining layer and prevent degradation of an emission portion due to the outgas. Also, the pixel defining layer is formed to a sufficiently small thickness to facilitate a subsequent process using a laser induced thermal imaging (LITI) process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Yong Jeong, Tae-Wook Kang, Chang-Soo Kim, Yu-Sung Cho
  • Patent number: 8279234
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gamma data generation method of a display device. In the method, gamma data including red gamma data, green gamma data, and blue gamma data is determined. A target luminance and a target color coordinate of a first reference gray are determined. Then, an image is displayed on a display device based on red, green, and blue input image signals for a first reference gray, and a first luminance and a first color coordinate from the image are measured. Then, it is determined whether a coordinate difference between the first color coordinate and the target color coordinate and a luminance difference between the first luminance and the target luminance are in an allowable error range or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyong-Tae Park, Hyo-Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 8279702
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes an individual-chip-designating-code setting block configured to generate a plurality of sets of individual-chip-designating-codes which have different code values or in which at least two sets of individual-chip-designating-codes have the same code value, in response to a plurality of chip fuse signals; a control block configured to generate a plurality of enable control signals in response to the plurality of chip fuse signals and most significant bits of the plurality of sets of individual-chip-designating-codes; and an individual chip activation block configured to compare individual-chip-designating-codes of the plurality of sets of individual-chip-designating-codes excluding the most significant bits, with chip selection addresses in response to the plurality of enable control signals, and enable one of a plurality of individual-chip-activation-signals depending upon a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Bum Ko, Sang Jin Byeon
  • Patent number: 8279333
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a camera door opening/shutting apparatus for a portable communication device. The apparatus includes a camera door disposed at a main body to expose or cover a camera lens included in the main body according to a sliding movement of the camera door, and a door sliding part disposed between the main body and the camera door to slidably couple the camera door with the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byung-Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 8278967
    Abstract: A data driving impedance auto-calibration circuit includes: a detection block configured to calibrate a characteristic voltage generated by detecting an operation characteristic variation of an element, according to a code signal, and generate a calibrated characteristic voltage; a comparison block configured to compare the calibrated characteristic voltage with a reference voltage and output a comparison result signal; and a code calibration block configured to calibrate the code signal according to the comparison result signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Won Kyung Chung
  • Patent number: 8281320
    Abstract: Disclosed is an event alerting system and method using dynamic local grouping for 1:N event alerting. The event alerting method for an event alerting server to transmit an event message to clients connected on a network includes a) receiving an event alerting request from clients having generated events, or generating an event by the event alerting server, b) grouping the clients according to areas with reference to a transmission distance to the respective clients according to a client list by the event alerting server, c) transmitting a client list of the grouped areas and an alerting data packet to a plurality of master clients selected by the grouping process, and d) transmitting a client list and an alerting data packet to a master client from the master client of an upper group up to the last layer established by performing the grouping process again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: Sung-Wone Choi
  • Patent number: 8281284
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of editing text using a web-based text editor. The method comprises opening a document using a web-based text editor; receiving a first user input for selecting a block of text in the document; in reply to the first user input, inserting, into a source code of the document, a first temporary node before the selected block and a second temporary node after the selected block; receiving a second user input for applying an attribute to the selected block; and in reply to the second user input, adding an attribute node between the first and second temporary nodes of the source code so as to apply the attribute to at least part of the block of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: Gun-Pyo Na
  • Patent number: 8278722
    Abstract: A flat panel display device is disclosed that may include a light-emitting layer portion including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic light-emitting layer between the first and second electrodes; at least two thin film transistors for controlling the light-emitting layer portion; a scanning signal line for supplying a scanning signal to the thin film transistor; a data signal line for supplying a data signal to the thin film transistor; a light emitting region having a common power supply line for supplying current to the light-emitting layer portion; and a peripheral common power supply line having at least one curved portion and connected to the common power supply line on a panel of a non-light emitting region except the light emitting region, wherein the common power supply line has a reduced wiring width while maintaining a constant wiring resistance to thereby reduce the total size of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Wook Kang, Choong-Youl Im
  • Patent number: 8278985
    Abstract: A synchronization circuit includes a first loop circuit configured to set an initial delay time by using first initial delay information and generate a first delay signal by changing a delay time of a first input signal, a second loop circuit configured to set the initial delay time by using second initial delay information and generate a second delay signal by changing a delay time of a second input signal, a duty cycle correction unit configured to correct a duty cycle of the first delay signal by using the second delay signal, and an initial delay monitoring circuit configured to generate the first initial delay information and the second initial delay information in response to an internal delay signal of the first loop circuit and the first input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Dong Suk Shin
  • Patent number: 8280762
    Abstract: An integrated advertising management method and system with respect to an advertising campaign including a plurality of advertising domains is provided. The integrated advertising management method includes the steps of: generating an advertiser identification associated with an advertiser; in response to a request from the advertiser, setting up an advertisement management component associated with the advertiser identification; and allowing the advertiser to manage the plurality of advertisements included in the advertising campaign by using the advertisement management component such that the advertiser can set up and update at least one of a plurality of conditions for the plurality of advertisements included in the advertising campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: NHN Business Platform Corporation
    Inventors: Ki Ho Song, Byounghak Kim, Minuk Kim
  • Patent number: 8280447
    Abstract: A mobile terminal having a rear keypad is provided. The mobile terminal includes: a main body having a front surface and a rear surface opposite to the front surface; a touch screen disposed at the front surface of the main body; and a key input device having a keypad disposed at the rear surface of the main body and extendable outwards to sides of the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyuk-Sung Kwon, Hong-Bae Kim, Jong-Cheon Wee, Sang-Hyuck Jung
  • Patent number: 8279210
    Abstract: In a display apparatus and a method of driving the display apparatus, data voltages, which correspond to image data, are supplied to data lines to drive a plurality of pixels arranged in pixel areas defined by a plurality of gate lines and data lines, and gate signals are sequentially supplied to gate lines. The gate signals are maintained at a level of gate on voltage such that the data voltages of the data lines are supplied to corresponding pixels during a scan period, and alternately have a first voltage level and a second voltage level in synchronization with a common voltage during a non-scan period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Jin Im, Moon-Chul Park, Sang-Jae Yeo