Patents Assigned to Foundation of Soongsil
  • Patent number: 10016668
    Abstract: A mobile terminal for displaying curling game information is provided. The mobile terminal includes a first screen configured to receive and display the curling game information, a second screen configured to display statistical information based on pre-stored statistical analysis information according to the curling game information which is input by a user, and a computing component coupled to both of the first screen and the second screen. When a first team and a second team are in a curling game, the pre-stored statistical analysis information include at least one of the followings delivery information as to which team delivers a first stone of each end of the curling game, score distribution information, delivery type information, performance information for each delivery, winning rate information for each team as to the each end of the curling game, and game record information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Soowon Lee, Sung Geon Park, Sang Kwon Sim, Dongxu Jin, Jang Yun Um
  • Patent number: 9981401
    Abstract: An apparatus for an electrochemical discharge machining process is provided. The apparatus includes a holder housing having, an inlet hole, an outlet hole, a first side, and a second side, and containing an electrolyte, a tool holder disposed at the first side, and a first electrode having a first end and a second end. The holder housing is configured to sealingly accommodate the electrolyte unless at least one of the inlet hole and the outlet hole is open. The first end is coupled to the tool holder and the second end passes through the second side. Since the apparatus is moved to a machining position of the work-piece by a worker, additional power for controlling the position thereof is not necessary. In addition, the apparatus is easy to carry and use because of its simple structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventor: Bohyun Kim
  • Patent number: 9958509
    Abstract: Provided herein is a charger having a battery diagnosis function. The charger is connected between an input power supply supplying an input voltage and a battery and charges the battery with the input voltage. The charger includes a full-bridge-circuit connected to the input power supply and comprising a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, and a fourth switch, a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding, wherein the primary winding is connected to the full-bridge-circuit to transform the input voltage received from the full-bridge-circuit and transmits the voltage to the secondary winding, and a rectifying circuit comprising a fifth switch and a sixth switch, connected between the secondary winding and the battery, and rectifying the voltage received from the transformer to charge the battery, or transmitting power in two directions for diagnosing a state-of-health of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Woojin Choi, Moonsik Choi
  • Patent number: 9875361
    Abstract: A method for providing a social network service includes: (a) setting an access threshold value for a content belonging to a content owner and a weight value for one or more communities of which the content owner is a member; (b) extracting a community of which a content requester is a member from among the communities of which the content owner is a member, when a request for the content is received from the content requester, and calculating an activity value of the content requester for the extracted community; (c) calculating a reputation value for the content requester by using one or more of a number of the extracted communities, a weight value set for the extracted communities, and the calculated activity value; and (d) providing the content requester with authorization to access the content according to a comparison result between the reputation value and the access threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: MyungSik Yoo, Wenji Quan
  • Patent number: 9793735
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a charger capable of diagnosing a lifespan of a battery when the battery is being charged, and a control method thereof. The charger includes a converter applying one of a perturbation voltage and a perturbation current to a battery, and a digital signal processor transmitting a perturbation signal in which an AC signal is added to a DC signal via the converter, measuring an output response of the battery, calculating an impedance spectrum according to the output response of the battery, calculating an impedance parameter by selecting an equivalent circuit according to the impedance spectrum, and estimating a lifespan of the battery by comparing the calculated impedance parameter of the battery with a predetermined impedance parameter of a reference battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventor: Woojin Choi
  • Patent number: 9793817
    Abstract: A multiple output converter is provided. The multiple output converter includes a power conversion circuit and a switching control unit. The power conversion circuit includes an input unit having at least one first switch, a transformer unit configured to convert a magnitude of power from the input unit, an output unit having a plurality of output terminals, which are configured to receive the power from the transformer unit, and a second switch unit having a plurality of second switches, wherein each of the plurality of second switches is installed in each of the plurality of output terminals, respectively, and is controlled in a time division multiple control manner. The switching control is configured to transmit a pulse width modulation signal to the at least one first switch and the plurality of second switches for controlling the at least one first switch and the plurality of second switches in the time division multiple control manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Woojin Choi, Long Tran Van
  • Patent number: 9786937
    Abstract: A power converter for a fuel cell is provided. The power converter includes a boost converter connected to the fuel cell and configured to control a load voltage at a predetermined magnitude in a normal operation mode and to induce an output response by applying a predetermined perturbation current to the fuel cell in a diagnosis mode, and a digital signal processor configured to extract an impedance parameter by detecting the output response of the fuel cell in the diagnosis mode, and predict a lifespan of the fuel cell according to the impedance parameter. The normal operation mode is configured to supply a voltage in response to a change of a load and the diagnosis mode is configured to predict the lifespan of the fuel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Woojin Choi, Tuan Nguyen Thanh
  • Patent number: 9763149
    Abstract: A method and a system for supporting mobility of a mobile terminal in a distributed mobile network based on a SDN are disclosed. A method of supporting a fast handover of a mobile terminal in a node-B (eNB) includes the steps of: receiving a handover initiation message from the mobile terminal, the handover initiation message including identification information and signal strength of a target eNB; determining whether or not for a fast handover trigger using the signal strength of the target eNB and movement history of the mobile terminal previously stored; and when it is determined as the fast handover trigger, transmitting a handover request message and a rule for the handover to the target eNB by using the identification information of the target eNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Young Han Kim, Kyoung Jae Sun
  • Patent number: 9756064
    Abstract: Provided are a harmful site collection device and method for determining a harmful site by analyzing a connection between harmful sites. The harmful site collection device includes a harmful site database configured to store a URL of a harmful site; a web page collection and extraction unit configured to collect a web page indicated by the URL of the harmful site and extract a linked URL; and a harmful site connection analysis unit configured to calculate a connection with other web pages referenced within a web page of the linked URL to determine whether the web page is a harmful site. Accordingly, the harmful site collection device can determine a harmful site more easily only with information regarding the URL linked to the web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventor: Sangjun Lee
  • Patent number: 9749352
    Abstract: Provided are a harmful site collection device and method for determining a harmful site by analyzing a connection between harmful sites. The harmful site collection device extracts a URL linked to a web page of a harmful site; checks a link circulation on the basis of link information on a web page of the URL linked to the harmful site to determine whether the web page of the URL linked to the harmful site is a harmful site; and, when a URL of a prestored non-harmful site is extracted while the link circulation is checked, stops checking the link circulation that includes the URL of the non-harmful site. Accordingly, the harmful site collection device can more easily determine a harmful site merely with information on a URL linked to a web page and can reduce the amount of computation using information on a URL of a prestored non-harmful site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Sangjun Lee, Junghoon Shin
  • Patent number: 9740657
    Abstract: A memory device for multiple processors capable of processing a plurality of memory access requests and a memory system having the same are provided. The memory device includes one command and control signal port configured to receive a command and control signal from a memory controller, one address port configured to receive an address signal from the memory controller, a data port configured to form a plurality of data channels being independently driven to simultaneously process a plurality of memory access requests of the memory controller, and a plurality of memory banks divided into a plurality of sub-banks to simultaneously perform operations according to the plurality of memory access requests when the plurality of memory access requests are sequentially transmitted through the command and control signal port and the address port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventor: Chanho Lee
  • Patent number: 9734145
    Abstract: Disclosed are a word comfort/discomfort index prediction apparatus and method therefore. The word comfort/discomfort index prediction apparatus includes: a calculation unit calculating emotional associations between the word and one or more respective comparative words, calculating emotional associations between at least one predefined reference word and the one or more respective comparative words, and calculating an emotional similarity between the word and each of the at least one reference word; and a prediction unit predicting the comfort/discomfort index of the word by using the at least one emotional similarity and a predefined comfort/discomfort index of the at least one reference word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Soowon Lee, Kangbok Lee
  • Patent number: 9699478
    Abstract: An inverse transform method and apparatus for a video codec are disclosed. The inverse transformer can include: a first inverse transform unit configured to perform an inverse transform operation on an even column portion of a 2n×2n block or an n×n block sharing inverse transform coefficients; and a second inverse transform unit configured to store coefficients according to a first input mode and a second input mode and configured to select coefficients according to input mode and multiply the selected coefficients with an input value to perform an inverse transform of an odd column portion of a 2n×2n block or an n×n block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Seong-Soo Lee, Jong-Bae Lee
  • Patent number: 9698828
    Abstract: A two-dimensional interleaving method is provided. The two-dimensional interleaving method includes dividing a first page having N2×N2 pixels, N being a natural number, into a plurality of blocks, wherein each of the plurality of blocks includes N×N pixels, rearranging each of the plurality of the blocks of the first page into a second page, wherein each of two index located at same position in two adjacent block of the first page, respectively, is rearranged to have at least a dispersion distance D in the second page, and relocating an index pixel located at same position of each of the plurality of the blocks of the first page into a k-th block of the second page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Jaejin Lee, Seongkwon Jeong
  • Patent number: 9674281
    Abstract: A method of constructing and maintaining a circle-mesh overlay network is disclosed. The method of constructing a circle-mesh overlay network includes: (a) determining a reference member number of a circle overlay by using a total number of participating peers; (b) creating a new circle overlay and adding member peers from among the participating peers to the new circle overlay in consideration of the reference member number; and (c) forming a circle-mesh overlay network by way of interconnection between the new circle overlay and a different circle overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Young Han Kim, Le Hoanh Huu ThoP
  • Patent number: 9633606
    Abstract: A device for driving a light-emitting diode, a light-emitting device, and a display device are disclosed. The disclosed light-emitting diode driving device may include: a first transistor having a first conductive electrode connected with a source voltage terminal and having a second conductive electrode connected with an input terminal of the light-emitting diode; a second transistor having a control electrode connected with the second conductive electrode of the first transistor; and a capacitor having one end connected with a data voltage terminal and having the other end connected with a first node, which is connected with a control electrode of the first transistor and with a first conductive electrode of the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Ho-Jin Lee, Yong-Chan Kim, Sung-Young Seo
  • Patent number: 9609572
    Abstract: A method and system for supporting the mobility of a mobile terminal in a software-defined network are disclosed. A method for supporting the mobility of a mobile terminal in a software-defined network according to an embodiment of the invention can include: routing a data packet of the mobile terminal to an authority switch serving as an anchor within a first partition, said routing performed by a switch by referencing a flow table; and setting a data path to an authority switch of a second partition, which is the partition containing the destination of the data packet, based on a rule provided by a controller and transmitting the data packet to a destination, said setting and transmitting performed by the authority switch of the first partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Young-Han Kim, Hyun-Sik Yang
  • Patent number: 9608496
    Abstract: Provided is a reaction force compensation device capable of compensating for a reaction force caused by a motor that is continuously rotating. The reaction force compensation device is configured to compensate for a reaction force generated when a motor including a stator and a rotor, which is combined with the stator to be rotatable, is driven, and includes a housing disposed below the motor, and a rotation support member disposed between the housing and the rotor and configured to support the stator to be rotatable with respect to the housing. The stator rotates by a reaction force generated when the rotor rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Hyeong-Joon Ahn, Kyoung-Rock Kim, Dong-Jun Kim
  • Patent number: 9607238
    Abstract: An image processing system and method is provided. The image processing system includes extracting a first local statistical characteristics from an observed image, generating a low-pass filter according to the first local statistical characteristics to generate a predicted noise image, and extracting second local statistical characteristics from the predicted noise image, extracting a third local statistical characteristics from a predicted original image using the first local statistical characteristics of the observed image and the second local statistical characteristics of the predicted noise image, and setting a flag level indicating a noise level for each pixel of the observed image according to the third local statistical characteristics of the predicted original image to detect noise, and setting a filter coefficient according to the flag level of the detected noise to remove the noise, and restoring the observed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Min-Cheol Hong, Tuan-Anh Nguyen, Beomsu Kim
  • Publication number: 20170078863
    Abstract: Disclosed are a terminal discovery method in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication, and a device therefor. The method for discovering a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication, includes transmitting, by a terminal, a discovery signal, and receiving, by the terminal, a response signal as a response with respect to the discovery signal from a different terminal, wherein the response signal is transmitted by the different terminal when a response delay time determined on the basis of a reception signal-to-interference noise ratio (SINR) terminates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicants: LG ELECTRONICS INC., Industry-University Cooperation Foundation of Soongsil University
    Inventors: Hakseong KIM, Mochan YANG, Shanai WU, Yoan SHIN