Patents Assigned to LINE Plus Corporation
  • Publication number: 20230083136
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer-readable record medium are provided to display content of interest. A content display method may include analyzing a user interest based on a user activity on an application; generating a customized content in response to receiving from a server, information that matches the user interest; and displaying the customized content through an interface related to a specific event when the specific event occurs on the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Min Hwang, Sangmo Goo, Jihun Im, Jay Lee, Yeon Jin Jin, Yubin Kim
  • Patent number: 11606581
    Abstract: Disclosed is a live broadcast method and apparatus that may effectively remove delay of a guest broadcast output from a guest side by generating and transmitting an audio of a host and an audio of a guest as individual elementary streams (ESs) in a simultaneous live broadcast transmitted by mixing a host broadcast stream and a guest broadcast stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: LINE PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Joonsick Baick
  • Publication number: 20230075590
    Abstract: A method for managing a plurality of federated learning models incorporated to a device includes monitoring state information of the computer device to which a plurality of federated learning models is mounted; and performing learning scheduling on the plurality of federated learning models based on the state information and requirements for each model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Hyukjae JANG, Dong Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 11593966
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of providing an image storage service, computer-readable recording mediums, and/or computing devices. The method of providing the image storage service includes selecting image data in a first format, determining an initial compression parameter for converting the selected image data in the first format into a second format, obtaining primary image data in the second format by transcoding the selected image data in the first format based on the initial compression parameter, searching for a desired compression parameter based on whether image quality of the primary image data satisfies a criterion, obtaining final image data in the second format by transcoding the selected image data in the first format based on the desired compression parameter, and storing final image data in the second format in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Joon Sick Baick, Seung Hoon Baek
  • Patent number: 11586712
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for protecting content copyright in a chatroom. A content protection method includes adding, by at least one processor, a mark to content in a chatroom, the mark including chatroom information for identifying the chatroom in response to a user request from a user associated with the content in the chatroom, and executing, by the at least one processor, a function corresponding to the user request using the content to which the mark is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: LINE PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eun Jung Joung, Hyun Jung Lee, Chaewon Jung, Sungwhan Kim, Seo Hyun Cho
  • Publication number: 20230047600
    Abstract: A method for sharing content performed by at least one processor of a first user terminal includes initiating, through a first external device, a call between a first user account associated with the first user terminal and a second user account associated with a second user terminal included in a chat room of an instant messaging application, transmitting a co-view request associated with a content to share to the first external device, where the content to share is one of a plurality of contents shared within the chat room, and displaying the content to share with a call screen on a display of the first user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Keumryong KIM
  • Patent number: 11582052
    Abstract: A message management method includes receiving, by at least one processor of a computer system, a share request for a message group that includes at least one message among messages in a chatroom; and forwarding, by the at least one processor, based on receiving the share request, information about the message group to a server which stores the information about the message group in association with the chatroom and shares the message group with users in the chatroom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Wook Han, Su Ahn Lee, Youngsub Park, Jae Yun Jung, Hee Jong Lee
  • Publication number: 20230044057
    Abstract: Provided is a method for assisting video content viewing, the method being performed by processing circuitry of a user terminal, and the method including displaying a playback screen of first video content on a display of the user terminal, the first video content being played on the playback screen, generating a graphic object configured to enable playback of similar content associated with a first playback time of the first video content, and displaying the graphic object on the display together with the playback screen of the first video content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Eun Bin KANG
  • Patent number: 11575529
    Abstract: Provided are a method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable record medium for controlling joining a chatroom based on a location. The method may include identifying a first location of an electronic device at a first point in time; displaying a chatroom that uses a user location as a chatroom joining condition, and that allows a user of an electronic device to join based on the first location of the electronic device; and in response to a join request being input at a second point in time from the user to join the displayed chatroom, determining whether to allow the user to join the chatroom based on a second location of the electronic device at the second point in time at which the join request is input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Chaewon Jung, Sungwhan Kim, Hyun Jung Lee, Seo Hyun Cho, Eun Jung Joung
  • Patent number: 11574430
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and apparatuses for creating an animal-shaped avatar using a human face. An avatar creation method according to example embodiments includes analyzing an image including a human face and automatically creating an animal-shaped avatar corresponding to the human face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Soon Ho Kwon, Geum Yong Yoo, Yongseon Yim, JongHun Kim
  • Publication number: 20230031018
    Abstract: Provided is a method for managing messages on an instant messaging application, which is executed by one or more processors of a user terminal. The method may include receiving a new message from another user through a chat room of the instant messaging application, displaying the new message on a display of the user terminal, sending a waiting message to the another user through the chat room, and maintaining the new message as an unread message in response to the sending of the waiting message to the another user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Keumryong KIM
  • Patent number: 11568631
    Abstract: A method for extracting and providing a text color and background color in an image, includes detecting a first area that includes a text in a given image; extracting, from the first area, a representative text color that represents the text and a representative background color that represents a background of the first area; and overlaying a second area that includes a translation result of the text on the given image and applying the representative text color and the representative background color to a text color and a background color of the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Seunghoon Baek
  • Patent number: 11570221
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for a group call using whisper are provided. The group call method includes participating in a group call session with a plurality of participants; designating at least one participant among the plurality of participants as a whisper target based on a touch gesture during the group call session; generating a whisper packet configured to control a server to transfer, only to the whisper target, at least one of video and audio that are input through an input device while the whisper group is designated; and transmitting the whisper packet to the server through the group call session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Na Young Kim
  • Patent number: 11567638
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for providing a reputation badge for a video chat. The method includes providing a video chat with another user selected through real-time matching based on a request from a user of the computer apparatus; and using a plurality of reputation badges representing different reputation information in the video chat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Eunsun Hwang, Jinhee Yoo, Eun-Joon Lee, Jeong Yub Lee, Sojung Yang, Seung Jun Park, Grace Minjoo Chung
  • Patent number: 11562520
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling avatar motion, which is operated in a user terminal and includes receiving an input audio by an audio sensor, and controlling, by one and more processors, a motion of a first user avatar based on the input audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: LINE PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yunji Lee
  • Publication number: 20230017421
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium may storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to set a communication session for a conference in which a plurality of users participates through a server, transmit, to the server, an identifier of an avatar to be represented on a virtual space for the conference and coordinate information of the avatar in the virtual space, receive, from the server, resources of neighboring avatars selected based on the coordinate information, transmit, to the server, motion data of the avatar through the communication session, receive, from the server, motion data of the neighboring avatars through the communication session, and represent the neighboring avatars on the virtual space based on the resources of the neighboring avatars and the motion data of the neighboring avatars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Jungnam GWOCK, Geum Yong YOO, Snow KWON, Ohik KWON
  • Patent number: 11558721
    Abstract: A computer-implemented billing method including displaying, on a video call screen, video data related to a counterpart terminal with which a video call is connected, recognizing reaction information input from the counterpart terminal based on the video data related to the counterpart terminal displayed on the video call screen, and generating billing data related to the recognized reaction information of the counterpart terminal based on a billing policy may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Line Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Ji Seon Choi, Donggun Yoo
  • Patent number: 11558562
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for providing a 360-degree panoramic background during a video call. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for providing a background on an electronic device. The operations include separating an object video and an original background video from video data input to a first video call screen of an electronic device during a video call; generating new video data by synthesizing a panoramic video image and the object video such that the new video data includes the object video and includes the panoramic video image as a replacement background video; and displaying, on the first video call screen, the new video data such that a location of the panoramic video image of the new video data moves in response to motion information of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Jinhee Yoo, Ji Seon Choi, Chihoon Ryu, Seong Ran Seo
  • Patent number: 11558666
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable record medium for providing content based on a user reaction related to a video are provided. A content providing method includes: providing a user interface that comprises a plurality of interaction types to input one or more user reactions to a video during a playback of the video; storing a user reaction of a specific interaction type, which is input through the user interface among the plurality of interaction types, in association with a specific frame of the video based on a reaction input time at which the user reaction is input; and providing content related to the specific frame in response to a playback request associated with the user reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Eunae Park
  • Patent number: 11558331
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for filtering chatroom messages. The message processing method includes setting at least one filter condition related to a chatroom for at least one chatroom on a messenger; and displaying a message corresponding to the filter condition among messages included in the chatroom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: LINE PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jaesik Sim