Patents Assigned to Ajou University
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Publication number: 20100233791Abstract: Provided are a cell chip and a system thereof that are capable of detecting optimal conditions for stem cell differentiation by mechanical stimuli. The cell chip for cell differentiation experimentation includes a plurality of cell chambers for storing cells and culture media, cell and culture medium injection ports for transferring the cells and culture media to corresponding cell chambers, fine passages for moving the cells and the culture media injected into the cell and culture medium injection ports to the cell chambers, pneumatic injection ports for injecting pneumatic pressures applied to the cell chambers, and apertures having circular films for transferring the pneumatic pressures injected through the pneumatic injection ports to corresponding cell chambers. Here, at least two of the apertures may have different areas to vary the magnitude of pneumatic pressure applied to corresponding cell chambers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2008Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation FoundationInventors: Woo Young Sim, Sang Sik Yang
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Publication number: 20100057850Abstract: A method and apparatus for a mobile community service are provided. In a method of operating a creator terminal for a mobile community service, the method includes creating a community for a community service by selecting at least one of a plurality of community types provided by a community server, downloading a task for the created at least one community service from the community server, and installing the downloaded task for the community service. Accordingly, a mobile community service can be provided to support various community activities occurring in everyday life on a real-time basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation FoundationInventors: Jae-Hwan KIM, Su-Hyung HA, An-Na KIM, Young-Ho RHEE, Jung-Tae LEE
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Publication number: 20100002725Abstract: In a method for using resources in a communication system, a communication region is divided into inter-sector boundary regions, sector central regions, and a sector common region, and predetermined resources are allocated to the divided regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2008Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation FoundationInventors: Seong-Keun Oh, Min Lee
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Patent number: 7572109Abstract: According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are provided of thermopneumatic capillary micropumps and manufacturing methods thereof. In one exemplary embodiment, a thermopneumatic capillary micropump generally includes a lower substrate having a pump-entrance for injecting fluids and a pump-exit for exhausting the fluids. The micropump also includes one or more micro-heaters for generating heat and electrodes for applying voltage to the micro-heaters. One or more air chambers substantially cover the micro-heaters. A pump chamber unit, which is capable of being filled up with the fluids, is coupled to the air chambers, the pump-entrance, and the pump-exit. An airing channel is coupled to the air chambers for helping maintain the pressure of the air in the air chambers at about the same level. An oxide layer is deposited on an upper substrate of the micropump. The upper and lower substrates are thermopneumatically coupled to each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2007Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation FoundationInventor: Sang Sik Yang
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Patent number: 7539457Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for communicating with seven or more terminals in a Bluetooth system of a Wireless Personal Area Network (W-PAN). In the method and apparatus, a sniff mode allowing slaves to be in a sleep state for a Sniff Interval Time (SIT) is converted into an active mode for a service such that a master can efficiently communicate with seven or more slaves using conventional seven Active Member Addresses (AM_ADDR).Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2004Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Ajou University Industry Corporation FoundationInventors: Jae Sung Lim, Soon Jin Choi, Eui Hyeok Kwon
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Publication number: 20080313262Abstract: The present invention provides a community computing method and system comprising a step of community formation forming a community by defining a goal, policies, members, operations among the members, an operation situation of the community and an idle situation of the community, a step of community standby both waiting for an operation starting timing and organizing an actual community member, after the step of community formation, a step of community activation both being self activated and starting an operation, when the community operation situation is ready while the community monitors a context information, after the step of community standby, a step of community deactivation both temporarily stopping an operation for itself and waiting for a next community operation, when the community satisfies the goal of the community, or a situation to deactivate comes in, after the step of community activation; and, a step of community termination terminating all operations for itself in case the community does noType: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2007Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicant: Ajou University Industry Cooperation FoundationInventors: Weduke Cho, Hyeonsook Kim, Soondong Kim, Yunju Shim, Dongsoon Choi
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Publication number: 20080275946Abstract: Disclosed is a smart scheduler reflecting change of situation. The smart scheduler reflecting change of situation includes an interface unit and an alarm time decision unit. The interface unit both sends and receives contextual information to/from an external service-providing source. The alarm time decision unit reflects the contextual information that is received and updated from the external service-providing source, so that it may decide a final alarm time for performing a fixed schedule, even if any situation change occurs. The smart scheduler has the advantage that the determined schedule may be performed in the time in which a user designates, by differently setting up the alarm time according to the situation changes, whatever situation change brings about.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2006Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: Ajou University Industry Cooperation FoundationInventors: We Duke Cho, Gil Huh, Seong Hun Yoo, Hui Jeong Park
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Patent number: 7434260Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting malicious code patterns in consideration of control and data flows. In the method of the present invention, a malicious code pattern is detected by determining whether values of tokens (variables or constants) included in two sentences to be examined will be identical to each other during execution of the sentences, and the determination on whether the values of the tokens will be identical to each other during the execution is made through classification into four cases: a case where both tokens in two sentences are constants, a case where one of tokens of two sentences is a constant and the other token is a variable, a case where both tokens of two sentences are variables and have the same name and range, and a case where both tokens of two sentences are variables but do not have the same name and range.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2004Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Ajou University Industry Cooperation FoundationInventors: Man-Pyo Hong, Sung-Wook Lee, Si-Haeng Cho
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Publication number: 20080241115Abstract: Mesenchymal stem cells expressing a suicide gene show excellent and highly selective anticancer effects against cancer tissues through the selective conversion of a prodrug of an anticancer agent to the anticancer agent at around the cancer. Also disclosed herein are a pharmaceutical composition for treating a cancer comprising the mesenchymal stem cell; a kit for treating a cancer comprising an expression vector comprising the suicide gene, the mesenchymal stem cell and the prodrug; and a method for treating a cancer patient, which comprises successively administering the mesenchymal stem cell and the prodrug to the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2006Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation FoundationInventors: Hae-Young Suh, Da-Young Chang, Sung-Soo Kim, Seung-Wan Yoo, Young-Don Lee
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Publication number: 20080225975Abstract: A space-time code used for a transmitter to transmit a plurality of data symbols to a receiver in a MIMO system, the space-time code including a code word matrix for transmitting an amount of data symbols corresponding to a product of the number of transmit antennas and a spatial multiplexing rate during one block period, wherein a row index indicates combined signals transmitted through different transmit antennas and a column index indicates time slots that correspond to the number of transmit antennas, and wherein the number of data symbols allocated to each transmit antenna in a code block corresponds to the spatial multiplexing rate, and the data symbols are combined by different combining coefficients for each transmit antenna at every time slot, and simultaneously transmitted through different transmit antennas, and each transmit antenna transmits a different set of data symbols at every time slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2005Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicants: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Ajou University Industry Cooperation FoundationInventors: Seung-Joon Lee, Choong-Il Yeh, Dong-Seung Kwon, Seung-Ku Hwang, Hyoung-Soo Lim, In-Kyeong Choi, Jong-Ee Oh, Kwang-Jae Lim, Seong-Rag Kim, Young-Seog Song, Yu-Ro Lee, Seong-Keun Oh, Moon-Ii Lee
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Patent number: 7409718Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of analyzing and decrypting encrypted malicious scripts. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of classifying a malicious script encryption method into a case where a decryption function exists in malicious scripts and is an independent function that is not dependent on external codes such as run time library, a case where a decryption function exists and is a dependent function that is dependent on external codes, and a case where a decryption function does not exist; and if the decryption function exists in malicious scripts and is the independent function that is not dependent on the external codes, extracting a call expression and a function definition for the independent function, executing or emulating the extracted call expression and function definition for the independent function, and obtaining a decrypted script by putting a result value based on the execution or emulation into an original script at which an original call expression is located.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: Ajou University Industry Cooperation FoundationInventors: Man-Pyo Hong, Sung-Wook Lee, Si-Haeng Cho
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Patent number: 7381819Abstract: Provided are a composition for the treatment or prevention of an endometrial cancer including a nuclear acid molecule inducing RNA interference against human syndecan-1 gene expression and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and a method of treating or preventing an endometrial cancer including administering the composition to an individual.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2005Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Ajou University Industry Cooperation FoundationInventors: Churl Ki Min, Dong Soon Choi
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Patent number: 7333036Abstract: The present invention relates to the computing method and Huffman computing circuits for improving the correctness and efficiency of the nonlinear inverse quantization when the MPEG-2 AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) or MPEG-4 AAC algorithm which is used as an audio compression algorithm in multi-channel high-quality audio systems is implemented on programmable processors. In accordance with the present invention, while the architecture of the existing digital signal processor is reused, the performance can be improved by means of the addition of Huffman decoder and bit processing architecture. Accordingly, to design and change the programmable processor can be facilitated.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2006Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignees: Pulsus Technologies, Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation FoundationInventors: Jong Hoon Oh, Myung Hoon Sunwoo, Jong Ha Moon
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Patent number: 7263204Abstract: A blind watermarking method by grouping codewords for VQ-quantized images is disclosed. Especially there is provided a watermark insertion method in which a codebook is divided into three groups satisfying specific standards and a codeword is allocated based on the group to which the corresponding codeword belongs to insert watermark information, and a watermark extraction method for extracting the watermark inserted by the watermark insertion method. According to the present invention, watermark information can be uniformly inserted into an input vector space and the original image is not needed for extracting the watermark information.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2003Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Ajou University Industry Cooperation FoundationInventors: Hyoung Do Kim, Byeong Hee Roh
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Patent number: 7215288Abstract: A small broadband monopole antenna including a shorted patch and a probe with a strip line that are electromagnetically coupled with each other. The probe with a strip line has a length of about ?/4, where ? is a wavelength. The strip line may be one of a spiral type, a folded type and a helix type. A resonance frequency of the antenna can be adjusted by varying the inductance and the capacitance of the resonance circuits. In addition, a double-band antenna or a single-band antenna having a broad bandwidth can be designed in accordance with application purpose of the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Ajou University Industry Cooperation FoundationInventors: Ikmo Park, Jong-Ho Jung, Young-Min Moon, Seong-Soo Lee, Young-Il Kim
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Patent number: 7167732Abstract: A method for enhanced power saving on DCF based wireless networks is disclosed. The method divides a beacon transmitting section in an Announcement Traffic Indication Message (hereinafter, referred to as “ATIM”) window period defined by IEEE standard 802.11 according as there is a data packet to be sent or not and allows a terminal that has received the beacon to go to a doze state immediately according to beacon reception timing, thereby preventing unnecessary power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2003Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: AJOU University Industry Cooperation FoundationInventors: Jong Mu Choi, Jai Hoon Kim, Young Bae Ko
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Patent number: 7164723Abstract: An FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) processor is disclosed which is a core block of an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) or DMT (Discrete Multi-tone) MODEM. The FFT processor simultaneously performs sequential input and output by applying an in-place algorithm for a mixed-radix multi-bank memory, thereby realizing continuous processing with only a 2N-word memory having 4 banks. The FFT processor minimizes its complexity while satisfying a high-speed calculation requirement.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2003Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., AJOU University Industry Cooperation FoundationInventor: Myung-Hoon Sunwoo
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Publication number: 20060264396Abstract: Provided are a composition for the treatment or prevention of an endometrial cancer including a nuclear acid molecule inducing RNA interference against human syndecan-1 gene expression and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and a method of treating or preventing an endometrial cancer including administering the composition to an individual.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2005Publication date: November 23, 2006Applicant: Ajou University Industry Cooperation FoundationInventors: Churl Min, Dong Choi
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Publication number: 20060099190Abstract: This inventive discloses a method for transdifferentiating mesenchymal stem cells into neuronal cells, which comprises increasing the level of a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor in the mesenchymal stem cells, said cells being useful in cell therapy or gene therapy for treating brain neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer disease, Hungtington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cerebral paralysis and brain ischemia; and spine disfunction caused by a traumatic injury.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2003Publication date: May 11, 2006Applicant: Ajou University Industry Cooperation FoundationInventors: Hae-Young Suh, Sung-Soo Kim, Ji-Won Kim, Young-Don Lee, Seung-Cheol Ahn
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Publication number: 20050131976Abstract: A fast Fourier transform (FFT) operating apparatus and a method thereof operate the FFT corresponding to a kernel function unit of DMT (Discrete Multitone) and OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) modems to transmit a data with high speed in a programmable processor capable of processing a high speed telecommunication algorithm in real-time by adopting advantages of the on-demand semiconductor based system and the programmable processor and applying to various standards by securing the design flexibility of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2003Publication date: June 16, 2005Applicants: Ajou University, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Myung-Hoon Sunwoo