Patents by Inventor Byeongho Min

Byeongho Min has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20180305851
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus includes a recommendation request unit configured to receive input that enables a recommendation of a laundry treating course from among a plurality of courses or a recommendation of a laundry treating option from among a plurality of options, a controller configured to, based on reception of the input from the recommendation request unit, determine a recommended course or a recommended option according to evaluation of one or more recommendation rules that are accessible by the controller and that have been stored in the controller, and a display unit configured to display the recommended course or the recommended option that has been determined by the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Baekeun KWON, Hyejeong KIM, Byeongho MIN, Yonggyung BAE
  • Patent number: 9836803
    Abstract: A network system is provided. The network system includes: at least one component selected from an energy receiving unit receiving energy and an energy management unit managing the energy receiving unit. The energy receiving unit or the energy management unit receives energy rate related information; an energy usage amount or a usage rate of when the component is controlled on the basis of at least the energy rate related information is less than that of when the component is controlled without the basis of at least energy rate related information; if the energy rate related information is high cost information, a function of one component constituting the energy receiving unit is limited; and an operating time or an output of the energy receiving unit is adjusted in correspondence to the limited function of one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC
    Inventors: Junho Ahn, Yanghwan Kim, Hoonbong Lee, Koonseok Lee, Sangseog Kang, Sunhee Kang, Younghyun Kang, Youngtae Kwon, Jaekuk Kwon, Byeongho Min, Kicheol Shin, Dongchun Shin, Taeyun Lim, Shinjae Jeong, Kyungeun Jo, Juyoung Cha, Sungyong Heo
  • Publication number: 20130274938
    Abstract: A network system is provided. The network system includes: at least one component selected from an energy receiving unit receiving energy and an energy management unit managing the energy receiving unit. The energy receiving unit or the energy management unit receives energy rate related information; an energy usage amount or a usage rate of when the component is controlled on the basis of at least the energy rate related information is less than that of when the component is controlled without the basis of at least energy rate related information; if the energy rate related information is high cost information, a function of one component constituting the energy receiving unit is limited; and an operating time or an output of the energy receiving unit is adjusted in correspondence to the limited function of one component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Junho Ahn, Yanghwan Kim, Hoonbong Lee, Koonseok Lee, Sangseog Kang, Sunhee Kang, Younghyun Kang, Youngtae Kwon, Jaekuk Kwon, Byeongho Min, Kicheol Shin, Dongchun Shin, Taeyun Lim, Shinjae Jeong, Kyungeun Jo, Juyoung Cha, Sungyong Heo