Patents by Inventor Hak-bong Lee

Hak-bong Lee 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).

  • Patent number: 11272263
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus including: at least one communicator configured to communicate with a first external apparatus and a second external apparatus; and a processor configured to receive a request for writing a file on the second external apparatus from the first external apparatus, receive the file from the first external apparatus based on a filename format of the file, writing of which is permitted, and make the received file be selectively stored in the second external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-yang Mok, Nam-Jae Jeon, Hak-bong Lee
  • Publication number: 20190289371
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus including: at least one communicator configured to communicate with a first external apparatus and a second external apparatus; and a processor configured to receive a request for writing a file on the second external apparatus from the first external apparatus, receive the file from the first external apparatus based on a filename format of the file, writing of which is permitted, and make the received file be selectively stored in the second external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-yang MOK, Nam-Jae JEON, Hak-bong LEE
  • Patent number: 10146553
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a storage divided into a first area and a second area, the second area having a storage method different than a storage method of the first area regarding data from the first area and a processor configured to, in response to a predetermined event occurring, store booting data stored in the first area in the second area, and if the predetermined event occurs again while the booting data is stored in the second area, to boot the electronic apparatus using the booting data stored in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hak-bong Lee, Jae-wook Kwon, Nam-jae Jeon
  • Publication number: 20170090947
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a storage divided into a first area and a second area, the second area having a storage method different than a storage method of the first area regarding data from the first area and a processor configured to, in response to a predetermined event occurring, store booting data stored in the first area in the second area, and if the predetermined event occurs again while the booting data is stored in the second area, to boot the electronic apparatus using the booting data stored in the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Hak-bong LEE, Jae-wook KWON, Nam-jae JEON
  • Patent number: 8996852
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method of booting the electronic device is provided. The electronic device and method include a power supply unit, a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, and a controller which, in response to power being supplied by the power supply unit, performs booting in a first booting mode that uses a suspend image stored in the volatile memory; and, in response to an error occurring in the first booting mode, performs a next booting in a second booting mode that uses a suspend image stored in the non-volatile memory. In response to power being supplied by the power supply unit, performing booting in a first booting mode that uses a suspend image stored in the volatile memory; and in response to an error occurring in the first booting mode, performing a next booting in a second booting mode using a suspend image stored in the non-volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye-yeong Seo, Hak-bong Lee
  • Patent number: 8694848
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and a method for controlling an image processing apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: primarily processing a first thread from among a plurality of threads for a preset process; generating and storing a first error correction code for data recorded in a stack area of a random access memory (RAM) corresponding to the first thread when a primary process terminates; processing a second thread which is different from the first thread from among the plurality of threads; determining whether the data of the stack area is valid on the basis of the stored first error correction code at a point of time when the process for the second thread terminates and a secondary process for the first thread begins; and secondarily processing the first thread by restoring the data having an error in the stack area in response to a determination that the data of the stack area is invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung-ki Woo, Hak-bong Lee
  • Publication number: 20120272050
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method of booting the electronic device is provided. The electronic device and method include a power supply unit, a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, and a controller which, in response to power being supplied by the power supply unit, performs booting in a first booting mode that uses a suspend image stored in the volatile memory; and, in response to an error occurring in the first booting mode, performs a next booting in a second booting mode that uses a suspend image stored in the non-volatile memory. In response to power being supplied by the power supply unit, performing booting in a first booting mode that uses a suspend image stored in the volatile memory; and in response to an error occurring in the first booting mode, performing a next booting in a second booting mode using a suspend image stored in the non-volatile memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hye-yeong SEO, Hak-bong LEE
  • Publication number: 20120272121
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and a method for controlling an image processing apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: primarily processing a first thread from among a plurality of threads for a preset process; generating and storing a first error correction code for data recorded in a stack area of a random access memory (RAM) corresponding to the first thread when a primary process terminates; processing a second thread which is different from the first thread from among the plurality of threads; determining whether the data of the stack area is valid on the basis of the stored first error correction code at a point of time when the process for the second thread terminates and a secondary process for the first thread begins; and secondarily processing the first thread by restoring the data having an error in the stack area in response to a determination that the data of the stack area is invalid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung-ki WOO, Hak-bong LEE
  • Patent number: 8209053
    Abstract: An improved cleaning robot that uses a simple structure to sense an obstacle is provided. The cleaning robot includes a robot main body comprising a driving unit to drive the cleaning robot, and a cleaning unit to remove dust, a bumper unit which is movably mounted in the robot main body to protect the robot main body from collision with an obstacle, a sensor unit which supports the bumper unit movably in a plurality of directions to sense the collision of the bumper unit and the obstacle, and a control unit which controls the driving unit on the basis of a signal sensed by the sensor to avoid the obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoung-woung Kim, Sam-jong Jeung, Jeong-gon Song, Myeong-ho Kim, Tae-young Ryu, Ju-sang Lee, Heung-yi Kim, Sam-hyun Choi, Jang-youn Ko, Dae-hyung Kim, Hak-bong Lee, Yoon-kyunh Cho
  • Patent number: 7975790
    Abstract: A wheel driving apparatus for a moving apparatus is provided. The wheel driving apparatus includes a wheel, a driving motor to generate a driving power to rotate the wheel, a gear box to transmit the rotational force of the driving motor to the wheel, and a guide shaft movable vertically with respect to the base member, wherein the wheel, the driving motor, the gear box, and the guide shaft are connected integrally with each other to move vertically with respect to the base member in unison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myeong-ho Kim, Sam-jong Jeung, Jeong-gon Song, Il-du Jung, Ju-sang Lee, Heung-yi Kim, Sam-hyun Choi, Jang-youn Ko, Kyoung-woung Kim, Dae-hyung Kim, Hak-bong Lee, Yoon-kyung Cho
  • Patent number: 7787991
    Abstract: A robot cleaner system is disclosed. The robot cleaner system includes a robot cleaner to carry out a cleaning operation while automatically traveling around along a surface to be cleaned, and a charging station connectable with the robot cleaner to charge a charging battery mounted in the robot cleaner with electricity. The charging station includes a setting switch to selectively set up a value of threshold height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sam-jong Jeung, Jeong-gon Song, Myeong-ho Kim, Ju-sang Lee, Jang-youn Ko, Kyoung-woung Kim, Hak-bong Lee
  • Patent number: 7751940
    Abstract: A control method for a robot cleaner that includes: driving a driving part to move the robot cleaner by a predetermined distance in an opposite direction to a proceeding direction thereof when a bumper sensor detects a collision with an obstacle, measuring the number of times in which the robot cleaner repeats moving in real-time, comparing the measured number with a predetermined reference number, and stopping the robot cleaner when the measured number is more than the reference number. With this method, the robot cleaner can diagnose a breakdown of the bumper sensor to stop the cleaner, and inform a user of the breakdown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju-sang Lee, Sam-jong Jeung, Jeong-gon Song, Myeong-ho Kim, Jang-youn Ko, Kyoung-woung Kim, Hak-bong Lee
  • Patent number: 7749294
    Abstract: A robot cleaner that has a dust collection unit with a cyclone part generating an ascending rotary air current from the dust-laden air being drawn in through a lower part thereof, separating the dust from the air using a centrifugal force, and discharging the dust-separated air to the lower part through a center part, and a collection part surrounding the cyclone part to receive the dust being centrifugally separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang-keun Oh, Hak-bong Lee
  • Patent number: 7708791
    Abstract: A cyclone dust separating apparatus for separating dust from external air drawn in thereto and discharging the separated dust, comprises at least one first cyclone body having a tubular shape and forming a first cyclone chamber where the external air is rotated; and at least one second cyclone body forming a second cyclone chamber where the air discharged from the first cyclone chamber is rotated again to separate dust, wherein the external air is drawn in through a lower end of the first cyclone chamber and discharged through an upper end of the first cyclone chamber, and the air discharged from the first cyclone chamber is drawn in through an upper end of the second cyclone chamber and discharged through an upper end of the second cyclone chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang-keun Oh, Jung-guyn Han, Min-ha Kim, Hak-bong Lee
  • Patent number: 7610652
    Abstract: A dust receptacle comprising an ultraviolet transmission window and a vacuum cleaner having the same. The dust receptacle includes a receptacle body detachably mounted to a cleaner body, an ultraviolet (UV) transmission window penetratingly formed on the receptacle body, and a TeflonĀ® cover sealing the UV transmission window. The vacuum cleaner having the dust receptacle includes a cleaner body, a dust receptacle detachably mounted to the cleaner body, a UV sterilizer lamp mounted within the cleaner body to scan the dust receptacle with a UV ray, a grill protecting the UV sterilizer lamp. In the vacuum cleaner, the dust receptacle has the same structure as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-won Seo, Jang-Keun Oh, Hak-bong Lee
  • Patent number: 7594943
    Abstract: A cyclone dust separating apparatus for separating dust from external air drawn in thereto and discharging the separated dust, comprises at least one first cyclone body having a tubular shape and forming a first cyclone chamber where the external air is rotated; and at least one second cyclone body forming a second cyclone chamber where the air discharged from the first cyclone chamber is rotated again to separate dust, wherein the external air is drawn in through a lower end of the first cyclone chamber and discharged through an upper end of the first cyclone chamber, and the air discharged from the first cyclone chamber is drawn in through an upper end of the second cyclone chamber and discharged through an upper end of the second cyclone chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang-keun Oh, Jung-guyn Han, Min-ha Kim, Hak-bong Lee
  • Publication number: 20090205162
    Abstract: A cyclone dust separating apparatus for separating dust from external air drawn in thereto and discharging the separated dust, comprises at least one first cyclone body having a tubular shape and forming a first cyclone chamber where the external air is rotated; and at least one second cyclone body forming a second cyclone chamber where the air discharged from the first cyclone chamber is rotated again to separate dust, wherein the external air is drawn in through a lower end of the first cyclone chamber and discharged through an upper end of the first cyclone chamber, and the air discharged from the first cyclone chamber is drawn in through an upper end of the second cyclone chamber and discharged through an upper end of the second cyclone chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Jang-Keun Oh, Jung-Guyn Han, Min-Ha Kim, Hak-Bong Lee
  • Patent number: 7559964
    Abstract: A dust separating apparatus for a vacuum cleaner having a casing, a cyclone unit formed in the casing to filter contaminants from drawn-in air and discharge air removed of the contaminants, and a dust collection part arranged in parallel with the cyclone unit in the casing to collect the contaminant separated from the air by the cyclone unit. The casing is substantially semicircular to correspond to the mounting chamber of the vacuum cleaner body. On a bottom surface of the cyclone unit, an air inlet and an air outlet are formed. The air outlet is formed at one side of the air inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang-keun Oh, Hak-bong Lee
  • Patent number: 7547337
    Abstract: A multi dust-collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner separating dirt particles from air by taking two steps. The multi dust-collecting apparatus includes a dust-collecting unit to separate dirt particles from the air by using gravity and inertia, and a plurality of cyclones to swirl the air discharged from the dust-collecting unit and separate the dirt particles from the air by using centrifugal force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang-keun Oh, Hak-bong Lee
  • Publication number: 20090071732
    Abstract: A wheel driving apparatus for a moving apparatus is provided. The wheel driving apparatus includes a wheel, a driving motor to generate a driving power to rotate the wheel, a gear box to transmit the rotational force of the driving motor to the wheel, and a guide shaft movable vertically with respect to the base member, wherein the wheel, the driving motor, the gear box, and the guide shaft are connected integrally with each other to move vertically with respect to the base member in unison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Myeong-ho Kim, Sam-jong Jeoung, Jeong-gon Song, Il-du Jung, Ju-sang Lee, Heung-yi Kim, Sam-hyun Choi, Jang-youn Ko, Kyoung-woung Kim, Dae-hyung Kim, Hak-bong Lee, Yoon-kyung Cho