Patents by Inventor In Choi

In Choi 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: 9611349
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing an ethylene/alpha-olefin/diene-based elastic copolymer having high viscosity and a high molecular weight, in which energy efficiency of the entire process is optimized. The method of preparing the elastic copolymer includes the steps of: copolymerizing an ethylene/alpha-olefin/diene-based elastic copolymer; and separating and removing the solvent and unreacted monomers from the polymer solution and recovering the elastic copolymer, by sequentially using a gas-liquid separator and a stripper in the purification of the solvent and unreacted monomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Seok Ko, Sung-Cheol Yoon, Sung-Ho Park, Soo-Young Choi
  • Patent number: 9614491
    Abstract: A composite electronic component includes a composite body containing a capacitor and an inductor coupled to each other, the capacitor including a ceramic body having a plurality of dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes, and the inductor including a magnetic body including a coil part, an input terminal disposed on a first end surface of the composite body and connected to the coil part, an output terminal including first output terminals disposed on a second end surface of the composite body and connected to the coil part and a second output terminal disposed on a second side surface of the composite body and connected to the first internal electrodes, and a ground terminal disposed on a first side surface of the composite body. The capacitor and the inductor are coupled in a vertical direction, and a magnetic metal layer is provided between the inductor and the capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Ryong Choi, Il Jin Park, Sung Yong An, Jung Wook Seo, Myeong Gi Kim
  • Patent number: 9612729
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and a controlling method of the same are provided. The method includes displaying a first screen corresponding to a first application; displaying a second screen corresponding to a second application above the first screen such that the second screen overlaps at least a portion of the first screen; and displaying at least a portion of the second screen that overlaps the portion of the first screen, while controlling the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho-june Yoo, Byung-seok Soh, Eun-seok Choi, Sang-on Choi
  • Patent number: 9612464
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes first and second substrates facing each other, the first and second substrates including facing display areas and peripheral areas around the display areas, a plurality of pixels on the display area of the first substrate, a common voltage applying unit on the peripheral area of the first substrate, a data driving circuit unit on the peripheral area of the first substrate, a data driver connecting line on the peripheral area of the first substrate, the data driver connecting line being positioned between the common voltage applying unit and the display area of the first substrate, and connecting the data driving circuit unit and a data line in the display area, and a sealant between the peripheral areas of the first and second substrates and covering the common voltage applying unit and part of the data driver connecting line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Suk Choi, Seung Wook Nam, Su Jin Kim, Jin Won Kim, Joo Young Yoon, Hyeok Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 9614026
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a trigonal crystal substrate defining a (0001) C-plane. The substrate may comprise Sapphire or other suitable material. A plurality of rhombohedrally aligned SiGe (111)-oriented crystals are disposed on the (0001) C-plane of the crystal substrate. A first region of material is disposed on the rhombohedrally aligned SiGe layer. The first region comprises an intrinsic or doped Si, Ge, or SiGe layer. The first region can be layered between two secondary regions comprising n+doped SiGe or n+doped Ge, whereby the first region collects electrons from the two secondary regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Sang Hyouk Choi, Yeonjoon Park, Glen C. King, Hyun-Jung Kim, Kunik Lee
  • Patent number: 9615091
    Abstract: A hybrid block motion compensation/adaptive overlapped block motion compensation apparatus for an encoding apparatus includes: a selector for selecting between a block motion compensation BMC and an overlapped block motion compensation OBMC with respect to a current block in units of pixels according to a set criterion; an adaptive motion compensator; a scan mode setter for scanning the current block in a plurality of set scan modes and establishing a scan mode causing a smallest number of transitions between the BMC and OBMC; and an information recorder for recording transition information at locations of the pixels corresponding to the transitions between the BMC and OBMC. A decoding apparatus is disclosed including: an interpreter for scan mode information of a current block and information about transitions between the BMC and OBMC for each of pixels of the current block; and an adaptive motion compensator for operating in units of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hayoon Kim, Yungho Choi, Yoonsik Choe, Yonggoo Kim, Byongho Kim
  • Patent number: 9612706
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying contents-related items. The method includes using a correlation between a first attribute and a second attribute to determine values of the second attribute, wherein the first attribute is one of a plurality of attributes of the contents-related items, the second attribute is one of a plurality of attributes of a plurality of blocks which is a part or a region of a screen, and each one of the plurality of blocks corresponds to each one contents-related item; and displaying the one or more contents-related items by displaying each corresponding block having the determined value of the second attribute on the screen, wherein the first attribute and the second attribute can be quantitatively represented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-bum Moon, Jung-won Lee, Yoo-jin Choi, Min-jung Park, Woo-yong Chang, Chang-seog Ko
  • Patent number: 9613060
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a location-based service method and system using location data included in image data, particularly to a method and a system of providing the location-based service with photos taken by a camera phone, using location information at the shooting time. The location-based service method according to the present invention, using the image data provided using a terminal equipped with a camera and the location data including the location information of the terminal, comprises the steps of shooting a target image with the terminal at a predetermined location and generating first image data; receiving the location data; including the received location data in the first image data and generating second image data; and displaying an image corresponding to the first image data and providing a service using the location data, if the second image data are selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-Seung Choi, Jae-Chul Lim, Jae-Bum Park, Hong-Keun Ji, Jong-Ho Kim, Do-Wan Kim, Hyun-Jun Oh, Dong-Won Na, Won-Hee Sull
  • Patent number: 9611193
    Abstract: A process for the production of C4 olefins, which may include: contacting a hydrocarbon mixture comprising alpha-pentenes with an isomerization catalyst to form an isomerization product comprising beta-pentenes; contacting ethylene and the beta-pentenes with a first metathesis catalyst to form a first metathesis product comprising butenes and propylene, as well as any unreacted ethylene and C5 olefins; and fractionating the first metathesis product to for an ethylene fraction, a propylene fraction, a butene fraction, and a C5 fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Lummus Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Sukwon Choi, Bala Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 9613025
    Abstract: A natural language question answering system and method, and a paraphrase module are provided. The natural language question answering system includes a conversion module configured to generate a plurality of modified questions by paraphrasing a user's question; a plurality of question answering engines configured to receive each of the user's question and the modified questions, and select candidate answers corresponding to each of the user's question and the modified questions; and a detection module configured to detect at least one among the selected candidate answers as an answer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jeong Heo, Young Rae Kim, Hyun Ki Kim, Pum Mo Ryu, Yong Jin Bae, Hyo Jung Oh, Chung Hee Lee, Hyung Jik Lee, Soo Jong Lim, Joon Ho Lim, Myung Gil Jang, Mi Ran Choi
  • Patent number: 9615277
    Abstract: A method for operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes determining, by the electronic device, a position estimation point according to state information of the electronic device. Further, the method includes transmitting a position estimation request message to an Access Point (AP) at the determined position estimation point with a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) connection not being performed, and receiving position information of the electronic device from the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bu-Seop Jung, Jun-Ho Lee, Young-Kwan Chung, Jong-Mu Choi
  • Patent number: 9610905
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) connector assembly for a vehicle includes a male connector and a female connector to which a plurality of cables are assembled, respectively. A female housing of the female connector is inserted into a male housing of the male connector to be coupled to each other. Simultaneously, a female terminal module provided in the female connector for a signal transmission of the cables and a male terminal block provided in the male connector for the signal transmission of the cables contact each other to transmit signals. The male connector may include a board with signal pins on one side and a ground plane on the other side and may also include a cover with a plurality of pressurizing protrusions to downwardly press the cables whereby terminals of the cables may stably contact each of a plurality of male signal pins thereunder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, INFAC ELECS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Jin Choi, Jin Kyu Hwang, Kil Sun Hong
  • Patent number: 9613293
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for image processing. A scene includes a low resolution depth image and a high resolution color image. A depth image up-scaler up-scales the depth image using an interpolation so as to improve the resolution of the depth image. A color-depth similarity based filter removes noise from the up-scaled depth image using the color image and the up-scaled depth image. A boundary sharpening filter converts a boundary between objects in the up-scaled depth image into a clearer boundary. The resolution of the depth image may increase to the level of the resolution of the color image by means of the depth image up-scaler, the color-depth similarity based filter and the boundary sharpening filter, and the depth of each pixel in the depth image may be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ouk Choi, Do Kyoon Kim, Kee Chang Lee
  • Patent number: 9614183
    Abstract: A display may have thin-film transistor (TFT) circuitry on a substrate. An array of organic light-emitting diodes may be formed on the thin-film transistor circuitry. The display may include inorganic brittle layers and organic and metal layers that are ductile and mechanically robust. To help prevent propagation of cracks and other defects along the edge of the display, the display may be provided with crack stop structures and crack detection circuitry. The crack detection circuitry may include one or more loops that are formed along the periphery of the display. The crack stop structures may include TFT/OLED structures formed in a staggered configuration. At least some of the brittle layers can be removed from the panel edge. An additional adhesion layer may also be formed directly on the substrate to help prevent inorganic layers from debonding from the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhen Zhang, Lalgudi Bhadrinarayana Visweswaran, Chih Jen Yang, Damien S. Boesch, Jae Won Choi, Paul S. Drzaic, Stephen S. Poon, Young Bae Park
  • Patent number: 9612528
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a pellicle. The method includes preparing a substrate, forming a membrane on the substrate by performing a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, separating the membrane from the substrate in a first solvent, rinsing the separated membrane in a second solvent, and transferring the separated membrane to a frame in a third solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Munja Kim, Byunggook Kim, Jaehyuck Choi
  • Patent number: 9612470
    Abstract: A display may have a layer of liquid crystal material between a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. Column spacer structures may be formed between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer to maintain a desired separation between the color filter and thin-film transistor layers. Column spacers may be deposited in column spacer regions of the color filter layer. The color filter layer may include rows of red, green, and blue color filter elements. Blue color filter material that forms blue color filter elements in the color filter layer may also be used to form a planar surface over red and green color filter elements in the column spacer regions. Using the blue color filter material to planarize the surface on which column spacers are formed ensures that the column spacers provide sufficient support for the display without requiring an additional planarization layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Un Choi, Zhibing Ge, Shang-Chih Lin, Hiroshi Osawa, Ton-Yong Wang, Ming Xu
  • Patent number: 9613551
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display apparatus and a method and apparatus for easily inspecting the organic light emitting diode display apparatus to determine whether an electrical failure occurs. The organic light emitting diode display apparatus comprises a plurality of pixels each comprising a pixel electrode, an intermediate layer including an organic emission layer, and an opposite electrode; scan lines and data lines corresponding to the plurality of pixels; first power supply lines connected to the plurality of pixels and extending in a first direction; second power supply lines connected to the first power supply lines; and a control line unit for simultaneously supplying control signals to the plurality of pixels, the control line unit including a plurality of control lines extending in one direction and two common lines being respectively connected to both ends of each of the plurality of control lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: June-Woo Lee, Jae-Beom Choi, Kwan-Wook Jung, Sung-Soo Choi, Seong-Jun Kim, Guang-Hai Jin, Ga-Young Kim, Jee-Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9613800
    Abstract: In a method of forming an oxide layer of a semiconductor process, a preliminary precursor flow is provided on a substrate in a deposition chamber to form a preliminary precursor layer, a precursor flow and a first oxidizing agent flow are provided on the preliminary precursor layer alternately and repeatedly to form precursor layers and first oxidizing agent layers alternately stacked on the preliminary precursor layer, and a second oxidizing agent flow is provided on the precursor layer or the first oxidizing agent layer alternately stacked to form a second oxidizing agent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Yong Go, Jin-Gyun Kim, Dong-Kyum Kim, Jung-Ho Kim, Koong-Hyun Nam, Sung-Hae Lee, Eun-Young Lee, Jung-Geun Jee, Eun-Yeoung Choi, Ki-Hyun Hwang
  • Patent number: 9610310
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating inflammatory diseases or asthma comprising a Lagerstroemia ovalifolia extract or a fraction thereof as an active ingredient, and a health functional food and a feed additive for preventing or improving inflammatory diseases or asthma comprising the extract or the fraction as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology
    Inventors: Kyung Seop Ahn, Sei Ryang Oh, Ok Kyoung Kwon, Fifit Juniarti, Rifatul Widjhati, Ji Won Park, Jin Hyub Paik, Joong Ku Lee, Hyeong Kyu Lee, Sang Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 9614248
    Abstract: The stack-folding type electrode assembly according to the present disclosure is an electrode assembly including a plurality of stack type unit cells which is stacked on one another with a continuous folding separator sheet interposed between each of the stacked unit cells, wherein the unit cells has a combination of at least two quad cells of a positive electrode/separator/negative electrode/separator/positive electrode/separator/negative electrode structure, and one C-type bicell of a negative electrode/separator/positive electrode/separator/negative electrode structure, and unit cells disposed above and below a central part or a winding start point have an asymmetrical structure each other with the quad cell disposed at the central part, or unit cells disposed above and below a central part or a winding start point have a symmetrical structure each other with the C-type bicell disposed at the central part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Seok Choi, Jae-Hyun Lee, Ji-Hyun Kim