Patents by Inventor Hark-joon Kim

Hark-joon Kim 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: 10965143
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless power transmission device and an operation method of the wireless power transmission device according to embodiments. The wireless power transmission device according to an embodiment includes: a wireless power transmitter configured to transmit wireless power to a mobile device in response to a signal indicating that the mobile device is in contact with the wireless power transmission device; and a controller configured to control an operation with the mobile device, control an electronic device connected to the wireless power transmission device, or control at least one external device, in response to the signal indicating that the mobile device is in contact with the wireless power transmission device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-bum Moon, Jung-geun Kim, Hark-joon Kim
  • Publication number: 20210081623
    Abstract: Provided are method and apparatus for writing and reproducing a multimedia service using a tag in order to provide an intuitive interface for a user using a multimedia service. The method includes selecting a multimedia service to be written; generating tag information identifying the selected multimedia service; and writing the generated tag information to a tag. Accordingly, multimedia service information and content information can be stored in a tag by being written to tag information using a common format, and thus the user can later execute a service operation by easily writing information of a desired service operation to a tag and then simply connecting the tag to a tag reading device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pil-seung Yang, Kuk-hyun Han, Hark-joon Kim, Bo-hyun Kyung, Myoung-soon Choi, Dae-Hyun Kim, Sang-jun Han, Bo-mi Kim
  • Patent number: 10908703
    Abstract: A user terminal device and a control method are provided. The user terminal device includes a display, a sensor configured to sense a user interaction on the display, and a controller configured to, in response to a user interaction being sensed by the sensor of a touch being made by an input device of a polyhedral shape that includes different touch patterns on each of a plurality of surfaces, control a function of the user terminal device according to a touch pattern on a touched surface among the plurality of surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mi-ra Park, Sung-bin Kuk, Hark-joon Kim, Sang-il Lee, Min-kyu Jung, Seong-hoon Kang
  • Patent number: 10872211
    Abstract: Provided are method and apparatus for writing and reproducing a multimedia service using a tag in order to provide an intuitive interface for a user using a multimedia service. The method includes selecting a multimedia service to be written; generating tag information identifying the selected multimedia service; and writing the generated tag information to a tag. Accordingly, multimedia service information and content information can be stored in a tag by being written to tag information using a common format, and thus the user can later execute a service operation by easily writing information of a desired service operation to a tag and then simply connecting the tag to a tag reading device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.. LTD.
    Inventors: Pil-seung Yang, Kuk-hyun Han, Hark-joon Kim, Bo-hyun Kyung, Myoung-soon Choi, Dae-Hyun Kim, Sang-jun Han, Bo-mi Kim
  • Patent number: 10855899
    Abstract: A method of controlling a device is provided including identifying a registered device from a screen input by a camera, receiving a user input for the identified device, and transmitting a control command corresponding to the input to the identified device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-jin Eun, Hark-joon Kim, Seong-hoon Kang
  • Patent number: 10712988
    Abstract: A method of controlling at least one controlled device at an external device outside a network including a control device and the controlled device is provided. The method includes transmitting a message accepting a control request requesting to control the controlled device in a session established with the control device; receiving and displaying an identifier for identifying the controlled device; and selectively controlling the controlled device via the control device based on an input generated using the displayed identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hark-joon Kim, Kuk-hyun Han, Sang-jun Han
  • Patent number: 10698590
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a device and a method for setting an area for an interaction of reactive content in an electronic device, wherein an electronic device operating method can comprise the steps of: displaying an image acquired from an external electronic device electrically connected to the electronic device; correcting the image into a top view form; displaying a guide interface of a lattice pattern form such that the image corrected into a top view form is overlapped therewith; selecting at least a partial area of the guide interface; applying spatial coordinates for the at least partial area so as to set an area for an interaction in a sensor of the external electronic device; copying the selected at least partial area and attaching the same to an adjacent other area; and mapping content to the area for an interaction. Other embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hark-Joon Kim, Taeyeon Won, Dongjin Lee, Youn Ju Jin, Jinah Kong, Yangjic Lee, Hanui Yun, Saerom Hwang
  • Patent number: 10496225
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a contact sensing module for sensing a human body contact of a conductive object located outside the electronic device. The electronic device also has a position sensing module for sensing a contact position of the human body with which the conductive object is in contact from outside the electronic device. In addition a processor is included for displaying a graphic in a region of a display corresponding to the sensed contact position when a position of the human body is sensed through the position sensing module while contact of the human body is sensed through the contact sensing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minkyu Jung, Sungbin Kuk, Hark-Joon Kim, Seonghoon Kang
  • Publication number: 20190332195
    Abstract: A user terminal device and a control method are provided. The user terminal device includes a display, a sensor configured to sense a user interaction on the display, and a controller configured to, in response to a user interaction being sensed by the sensor of a touch being made by an input device of a polyhedral shape that includes different touch patterns on each of a plurality of surfaces, control a function of the user terminal device according to a touch pattern on a touched surface among the plurality of surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Mi-ra PARK, Sung-bin KUK, Hark-joon KIM, Sang-il LEE, Min-kyu JUNG, Seong-hoon KANG
  • Publication number: 20190320104
    Abstract: A method of controlling a device is provided including identifying a registered device from a screen input by a camera, receiving a user input for the identified device, and transmitting a control command corresponding to the input to the identified device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Dong-jin Eun, Hark-joon Kim, Seong-hoon Kang
  • Patent number: 10439838
    Abstract: A control device, a method of controlling the same, and an integrated control system are provided. The method includes in response to a setting command being input, registering a setting state of at least one device connected to the control device at a time point when the setting command is input as a preferred setting state of the at least one device, and, in response to an execution command being input, transmitting a control command to the at least one device based on the registered preferred setting state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hark-joon Kim, Sung-bin Kuk, Mi-ra Park, Sang-il Lee, Min-kyu Jung, Seong-hoon Kang
  • Publication number: 20190265873
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a device and a method for setting an area for an interaction of reactive content in an electronic device, wherein an electronic device operating method can comprise the steps of: displaying an image acquired from an external electronic device electrically connected to the electronic device; correcting the image into a top view form; displaying a guide interface of a lattice pattern form such that the image corrected into a top view form is overlapped therewith; selecting at least a partial area of the guide interface; applying spatial coordinates for the at least partial area so as to set an area for an interaction in a sensor of the external electronic device; copying the selected at least partial area and attaching the same to an adjacent other area; and mapping content to the area for an interaction. Other embodiments are possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hark-Joon KIM, Taeyeon WON, Dongjin LEE, Youn Ju JIN, Jinah KONG, Yangjic LEE, Hanui YUN, Saerom HWANG
  • Patent number: 10372238
    Abstract: A user terminal device and a control method are provided. The user terminal device includes a display, a sensor configured to sense a user interaction on the display, and a controller configured to, in response to a user interaction being sensed by the sensor of a touch being made by an input device of a polyhedral shape that includes different touch patterns on each of a plurality of surfaces, control a function of the user terminal device according to a touch pattern on a touched surface among the plurality of surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mi-ra Park, Sung-bin Kuk, Hark-joon Kim, Sang-il Lee, Min-kyu Jung, Seong-hoon Kang
  • Patent number: 10362208
    Abstract: A method of controlling a device is provided including identifying a registered device from a screen input by a camera, receiving a user input for the identified device, and transmitting a control command corresponding to the input to the identified device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Dong-jin Eun, Hark-joon Kim, Seong-hoon Kang
  • Publication number: 20190044366
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless power transmission device and an operation method of the wireless power transmission device according to embodiments. The wireless power transmission device according to an embodiment includes: a wireless power transmitter configured to transmit wireless power to a mobile device in response to a signal indicating that the mobile device is in contact with the wireless power transmission device; and a controller configured to control an operation with the mobile device, control an electronic device connected to the wireless power transmission device, or control at least one external device, in response to the signal indicating that the mobile device is in contact with the wireless power transmission device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Ji-bum MOON, Jung-geun KIM, Hark-joon KIM
  • Publication number: 20180299975
    Abstract: A user terminal device and a control method are provided. The user terminal device includes a display, a sensor configured to sense a user interaction on the display, and a controller configured to, in response to a user interaction being sensed by the sensor of a touch being made by an input device of a polyhedral shape that includes different touch patterns on each of a plurality of surfaces, control a function of the user terminal device according to a touch pattern on a touched surface among the plurality of surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Mi-ra PARK, Sung-bin KUK, Hark-joon KIM, Sang-il LEE, Min-kyu JUNG, Seong-hoon KANG
  • Publication number: 20180181217
    Abstract: A user terminal device and a control method are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Mi-ra PARK, Sung-bin KUK, Hark-joon KIM, Sang-il LEE, Min-kyu JUNG, Seong-hoon KANG
  • Patent number: 10007360
    Abstract: A user terminal device and a control method are provided. The user terminal device includes a display, a sensor configured to sense a user interaction on the display, and a controller configured to, in response to a user interaction being sensed by the sensor of a touch being made by an input device of a polyhedral shape that includes different touch patterns on each of a plurality of surfaces, control a function of the user terminal device according to a touch pattern on a touched surface among the plurality of surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mi-ra Park, Sung-bin Kuk, Hark-joon Kim, Sang-il Lee, Min-kyu Jung, Seong-hoon Kang
  • Publication number: 20180129842
    Abstract: Provided are method and apparatus for writing and reproducing a multimedia service using a tag in order to provide an intuitive interface for a user using a multimedia service. The method includes selecting a multimedia service to be written; generating tag information identifying the selected multimedia service; and writing the generated tag information to a tag. Accordingly, multimedia service information and content information can be stored in a tag by being written to tag information using a common format, and thus the user can later execute a service operation by easily writing information of a desired service operation to a tag and then simply connecting the tag to a tag reading device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pil-seung YANG, Kuk-hyun HAN, Hark-joon KIM, Bo-hyun KYUNG, Myoung-soon CHOI, Dae-Hyun KIM, Sang-jun HAN, Bo-mi KIM
  • Patent number: 9940831
    Abstract: A pointing device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The controlling method of the pointing device includes transmitting an identification signal to an external device that is targeted by the pointing device according to a user input, receiving a reflected signal that is generated by reflecting the identification signal from a reflective surface attached to a surface of the external device, and analyzing the reflected signal and identifying the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-kyu Jung, Sung-bin Kuk, Hark-joon Kim, Mi-ra Park, Sang-il Lee, Seong-hoon Kang