Patents by Inventor In O. Kim

In O. 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: 9696456
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of processing marine gravity data and a processing apparatus for the same. According to the present invention, the processing method comprises obtaining an initial free-air anomaly per profile from raw data; obtaining a filtered free-air anomaly by filtering high-frequency components from the initial free-air anomaly; shifting free-air anomaly by correcting the filtered free-air anomaly based on a reference free-air anomaly; and showing a per-profile free-air anomaly using the reference corrected free-air anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resource
    Inventors: Kyong O Kim, Jin Ho Kim, Gee Soo Kong, Moo Hee Kang, Young Ho Yoon
  • Patent number: 9698233
    Abstract: Tunnel insulation layer structures and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The tunnel insulation layer structures may include a first tunnel insulation layer, a second tunnel insulation layer, a third tunnel insulation layer, a fourth tunnel insulation layer and a fifth tunnel insulation layer. The first tunnel insulation layer on a substrate has a first band gap energy. The second tunnel insulation layer on the first tunnel insulation layer has a second band gap energy which is lower than the first band gap energy. The third tunnel insulation layer on the second tunnel insulation layer has a third band gap energy which is higher than the second band gap energy. The fourth tunnel insulation layer on the third tunnel insulation layer has a fourth band gap energy which is lower than the third band gap energy. The fifth tunnel insulation layer on the fourth tunnel insulation layer has a fifth band gap energy which is higher than the fourth band gap energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Yeoung Choi, Young-Jin Noh, Bi-O Kim, Kwang-Min Park, Jae-Young Ahn, Ju-Mi Yun, Jae-Ho Choi, Ki-Hyun Hwang
  • Patent number: 9651670
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving anti-jamming performance are provided. A threshold value level estimated in a GPS (global positioning system) receiver RF/IF stage, a threshold value weight, a median value of a median value of a 2˜8 MHz bandwidth is estimated as a threshold value with respect to a frequency component exceeding the estimated threshold value level, and an adjustable K-median threshold scheme is provided in a multi-jamming environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Jun O Kim, Jun Seoung Bae, Ki Won Song
  • Patent number: 9653808
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multilayer-type patch antenna including: an upper patch antenna portion having a first through hole and a second through hole which are at a predetermined angle; a lower patch antenna portion having a third through hole and a fourth through hole which are at a predetermined angle, and a fifth through hole which is spaced from the third through hole and the fourth through hole; a first feeding pin which passes through the first through hole and the third through hole and protrudes from a lower end of the lower patch antenna portion; a second feeding pin which passes through the second through hole and the fourth through hole and protrudes from the lower end of the lower patch antenna portion; and a third feeding pin which passes through the fifth through hole and protrudes from the lower end of the lower patch antenna portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chul Hwang, In-Jo Jeong, Sang-O Kim, Ki-Hwan You, Tae-Jae Cho, Gil-Yup Song, Kyou-Yub Lee, Hyeong-Jin Yoon
  • Patent number: 9637987
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coring system and a determining method that can determine whether accurate coring was achieved. A coring system according to the present invention includes: a coring part with a core to be filled with an object to be cored; a driving unit controlling upward/downward movement of the coring part; a rope connecting the coring part with the driving unit; and a tensiometer measuring tension in the rope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
    Inventors: Moo Hee Kang, Gee Soo Kong, Kyong O Kim, Jin Ho Kim, Young Ho Yoon, Chang Sik Lee, Kyu Jung Kim
  • Publication number: 20170083204
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display configured to display a plurality of items and a cursor indicating a location of an input; input receiving circuitry configured to receive an input for moving the cursor; and a controller configured to control the cursor to move in accordance with the received input, to control items adjacent to the cursor to be set as candidate items if the cursor stops moving, and to control guidelines to be displayed on the candidate items, wherein in response to an input of a direction key while the focus is displayed on the first candidate item, and wherein the controller is further configured to control the focus to move to a second candidate item among the candidate items corresponding to the input of the direction key if the input of the direction key corresponds to a short press and to control the cursor to move in a direction corresponding to the input of the direction key if the input of the direction key corresponds to a long press.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Hyeong-o KIM, Bo-sung SEO
  • Patent number: 9530899
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes insulation layers and gate electrodes alternately stacked on a substrate, a vertical channel vertically passing through the insulation layers and the gate electrodes, and a threshold voltage controlling insulation layer, a tunnel insulation layer and a charge storage layer disposed between the vertical channel and the gate electrodes, wherein the threshold voltage controlling insulation layer is disposed between the charge storage layer and the vertical channel and including a material configured to suppress an inversion layer from being formed in the vertical channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bi O Kim, Jin-Tae Noh, Su-Jin Shin, Jae-Young Ahn, Ki-Hyun Hwang
  • Publication number: 20160350996
    Abstract: The present invention provides an anti-counterfeiting pattern processing apparatus and a method thereof that quickly process the anti-counterfeiting pattern with a low cost by forming a fine pattern of a nanometer or micrometer scale by using a laser processing system, and an apparatus and a method thereof detecting the anti-counterfeiting pattern of the micrometer or nanometer scale by using a laser measuring system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Ji-Whan NOH, Hee-Shin KANG, Hyon Kee SOHN, Jeng-O KIM
  • Patent number: 9508452
    Abstract: A partial chip and a system including the partial chip are provided. The partial chip includes a memory cell array and a signal control circuit. The memory cell array includes a pass region and a fail region. The signal control circuit is configured to generate second data corresponding to first data to be output from the fail region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Seok Ryu, Myeong O Kim
  • Publication number: 20160341846
    Abstract: Provided are ocean magnetic survey measurement method and system. The ocean magnetic survey measurement method includes a measuring operation for measuring an earth's magnetic field value using a magnetometer according to a heading angle of a probe, which is measured in clockwise direction on a basis of the true north, while the probe moves along a circular path based on a center point in an exploration target area with the magnetometer taken in tow, a data input operation for receiving, by a calculation unit, data for the heading angle of the probe and data for the earth's magnetic field value measured at the heading angle, a calculating operation for setting, by the calculation unit containing a calculation program therein, a magnetic disturbance value induced by the probe, which is included in the measured earth's magnetic field value, and calculating an actual earth's magnetic field value by subtracting the magnetic disturbance value from the measured earth's magnetic field value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Moo Hee KANG, Kyong-o KIM
  • Patent number: 9460766
    Abstract: A memory device may include a pre-charge control circuit, an active control circuit, and a driver circuit. The pre-charge control circuit may be configured to receive an active command after receiving a pre-charge command for a first bank, determine whether or not a pre-charge operation for the first bank has ended when receiving the active command, and generate an active instruction signal according to a result of the determination. The active control circuit may be configured to generate an active control signal for an active operation according to the active instruction signal. The driver circuit may be configured to control an active operation according to the active control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-Yoon Lee, Myeong-O Kim, Kyo-Min Sohn, Sang-Joon Hwang
  • Publication number: 20160192480
    Abstract: An electronic device including a transparent and flexible mica substrate and a method of manufacturing the electronic device are provided, in which the method includes forming an organic or inorganic layer on the mica substrate and thermally processing the mica substrate at a temperature of 200° C. or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicants: CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyounghwan CHOI, Sung-O KIM, Do Yeob KIM
  • Publication number: 20160178833
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic appliance having an improved structure enabling multi-image conversion. The electronic appliance includes a display device configured to display a plurality of images, wherein the display device includes first and second images that are selectively displayed on a screen. A first light-guiding layer is disposed between the screen and a second light-guiding layer, and two light sources disposed to selectively illuminate the first light-guiding layer and the second light-guiding layer. The second light-guiding layer has a thickness that is 25% to 45% greater than a thickness of the first light-guiding layer such that an intensity of light that is emitted from the first light source and introduced into the second light-guiding layer is greater than an intensity of light that is emitted from the second light source and introduced into the first light-guiding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Jung Hye KANG, Ah Hyun BAE, Ki Du KIM, Jin O KIM
  • Patent number: 9343546
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a channel region extending in a vertical direction perpendicular to a substrate and having a nitrogen concentration distribution, a plurality of gate electrodes arranged on a side wall of the channel region and separated from each other in a vertical direction, and a gate dielectric layer disposed between the channel region and the gate electrodes. The nitrogen concentration distribution has a first concentration near an interface between the channel region and the gate dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bi-o Kim, Jin-tae Noh, Chang-woo Sun, Jae-young Ahn, Seung-hyun Lim, Ki-hyun Hwang
  • Patent number: 9324730
    Abstract: A vertical memory device including a substrate including first regions and a second region; a plurality of channels in the first regions, the plurality of channels extending in a first direction substantially perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate; a charge storage structure on a sidewall of each channel in a second direction substantially parallel to the top surface of the substrate; a plurality of gate electrodes in the first regions, the plurality of gate electrodes arranged on a sidewall of the charge storage structure and spaced apart from each other in the first direction; and a plurality of supporters in the second region, the plurality of supporters spaced apart from each other in a third direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, the plurality of supporters contacting a sidewall of at least one gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Phil-Ouk Nam, Dong-Chul Yoo, Bi-O Kim, Jae-Young Ahn, Byong-Hyun Jang, Ki-Hyun Hwang
  • Publication number: 20160071561
    Abstract: A memory device may include a pre-charge control circuit, an active control circuit, and a driver circuit. The pre-charge control circuit may be configured to receive an active command after receiving a pre-charge command for a first bank, determine whether or not a pre-charge operation for the first bank has ended when receiving the active command, and generate an active instruction signal according to a result of the determination. The active control circuit may be configured to generate an active control signal for an active operation according to the active instruction signal. The driver circuit may be configured to control an active operation according to the active control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Tae-Yoon LEE, Myeong-O KIM, Kyo-Min SOHN, Sang-Joon HWANG
  • Publication number: 20160013558
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multilayer-type patch antenna including: an upper patch antenna portion having a first through hole and a second through hole which are at a predetermined angle; a lower patch antenna portion having a third through hole and a fourth through hole which are at a predetermined angle, and a fifth through hole which is spaced from the third through hole and the fourth through hole; a first feeding pin which passes through the first through hole and the third through hole and protrudes from a lower end of the lower patch antenna portion; a second feeding pin which passes through the second through hole and the fourth through hole and protrudes from the lower end of the lower patch antenna portion; and a third feeding pin which passes through the fifth through hole and protrudes from the lower end of the lower patch antenna portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Chul HWANG, In-Jo JEONG, Sang-O KIM, Ki-Hwan YOU, Tae-Jae CHO, Gil-Yup SONG, Kyou-Yub LEE, Hyeong-Jin YOON
  • Patent number: 9219477
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a non-contact switch. More particularly, the non-contact switch includes a button which is disposed at a predetermined position of a housing and operated by an external pressure while being formed, at one end portion thereof, with a magnetic substance; a magnetic field sensor device which is accommodated in the housing to face the magnetic substance and generates an induced voltage depending on an interval between the magnetic field sensor device and the magnetic substance; and a semiconductor device which is driven by the induced voltage generated at the magnetic field sensor device to switch power supplied from a separate battery to a separate load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: DAESUNG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myung O Kim, Weon Ho Lee, Kyu Sung Cho
  • Patent number: 9171605
    Abstract: Provided is a method of detecting a concentrated address of a semiconductor device using an n-bit address. The method includes dividing the n-bit address into k groups, wherein each of n and k is an integer equal to or greater than 2, for each group of the k groups, detecting one or more concentrated sub addresses corresponding to the group, and generating at least one concentrated address by combining the one or more concentrated sub addresses for the k groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Sik Kim, Won-Il Bae, Myeong-O Kim, Min-Soo Kim, Ho-Seok Seol, Min-Sang Park, Kyo-Min Sohn, Chi-Hwan Lee, Sang-Joon Hwang
  • Publication number: 20150303037
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for processing substrate which prevents a plasma discharge from being transferred to a substrate so as to minimize damages on the substrate and also minimize deterioration in quality of a thin film deposited on the substrate, wherein the apparatus may include a process chamber for providing a reaction space, and a gas distribution module for dissociating processing gas by the use of plasma, and distributing the dissociated processing gas onto a substrate, wherein the gas distribution module may include a lower frame having a plurality of electrode inserting portions, an upper frame having a plurality of protruding electrodes and processing gas distribution holes, and an insulating plate having a plurality of electrode penetrating portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Eun Geu HA, Sung Kook KIM, Hyun O KIM, Il Young PARK