Patents by Inventor In-Yong Choi

In-Yong 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: 9804772
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for managing a menu item in a portable terminal are provided. In the method, at least one item is selected from items displayed on a screen according to a user control. An attribute of selected at least one item is determined. A new item is generated by one of dividing and merging the at least one item depending on the determined attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Hoon Oh, Nam-Il Lee, In-Yong Choi, Seok-Yeong Jung
  • Patent number: 8879762
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to evaluate a quality of an audio signal, in which the number of effective channels is determined for each of a reference signal of a current frame and a test signal indicative of the reference signal that has passed through an audio codec, and an audio quality evaluation score of the current frame is calculated by evaluating an audio quality of the current frame based on the determined number of effective channels for each of the reference signal and the test signal by means of a predetermined evaluator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: In-Yong Choi
  • Publication number: 20130106997
    Abstract: A portable terminal for generating and reproducing stereoscopic data is provided. More particularly, an apparatus and method for providing stereoscopic audio by applying a sense of distance to audio data by the use of subject information of image data when generating the stereoscopic data are provided. An apparatus for generating stereoscopic data in the portable terminal includes an image processor for applying a stereoscopic effect to image data by acquiring the image data for generating the stereoscopic data via a plurality of cameras, and for recognizing subject motion information of the image data. An audio processor applies a stereoscopic effect to audio data in accordance with the subject motion information ascertained from video data after acquiring audio data for generating the stereoscopic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Hyun KIM, Kyung-Seok OH, Kyoung-Ho BANG, In-Yong CHOI
  • Publication number: 20120327203
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for a complementary walking service by a portable terminal. The method for providing the complementary walking service preferably includes obtaining an image of a walker's route, extracting at least one preliminary risk factor component from the image, checking risk factor data depending on a portable terminal and detecting risk factors existing in the walker's route by matching the preliminary factor risk factor component to the risk factor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Hoon OH, In-Yong CHOI, Kyoung-Ho BANG
  • Publication number: 20120226706
    Abstract: A system and method for sorting music files based on moods are provided. The system includes a portable terminal for sorting stored music files based on moods, for changing mood information of a corresponding music file in response to a request to change mood of at least one of the music files, and for transmitting the mood change information to a mood analyzing server, and a mood analyzing server for receiving the mood change information, for updating mood judgment information that is standard information for determining mood of a music file based on the received mood change information, and for transmitting the updated mood judgment information to the portable terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: In Yong CHOI, Joon Ho WON, Chul Min CHOI, Nam Il LEE, Sang Hoon OH
  • Publication number: 20120011470
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for managing a menu item in a portable terminal are provided. In the method, at least one item is selected from items displayed on a screen according to a user control. An attribute of selected at least one item is determined. A new item is generated by one of dividing and merging the at least one item depending on the determined attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Hoon OH, Nam-Il LEE, In-Yong CHOI, Seok-Yeong JUNG
  • Publication number: 20100189290
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to evaluate a quality of an audio signal, in which the number of effective channels is determined for each of a reference signal of a current frame and a test signal indicative of the reference signal that has passed through an audio codec, and an audio quality evaluation score of the current frame is calculated by evaluating an audio quality of the current frame based on the determined number of effective channels for each of the reference signal and the test signal by means of a predetermined evaluator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd
    Inventor: In-Yong CHOI
  • Publication number: 20100141620
    Abstract: A flat panel display device including electrodes facing each other is disclosed. The flat panel display device, including at least one unit discharge cell, includes: a upper and a lower substrates; one or more first partition members for supporting and keeping apart the upper and the lower substrates; and a pair of electrodes, formed on the first partition members, for generating the electric field in discharge space of the unit discharge cell, wherein the pair of electrodes are formed on one or more leteral faces which are in contact with the discharge space among all the lateral faces of the first partition members, the pair of electrodes facing each other at a right angle, and wherein intenal space is formed inside of the first partition members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: SSCP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Hyun Oh, Suk Youn Suh, Byung Soo Kim, Jin Ho Lee, Byeong Soo Lee, Yong Ki Lee, In Yong Choi
  • Publication number: 20090171671
    Abstract: There is an apparatus for evaluating the audio quality of a multi-channel audio codec, including: a preprocessing unit for synthesizing binaural signals based on multi-channel audio signals transmitted through a multi-channel of a multi-channel audio reproduction system; an output variable calculator for calculating an interaural cross-correlation coefficient distortion (IACCDist) and other output variables of the binaural signals; and an artificial neural network circuit for outputting a grade of the perceived quality based on the interaural cross-correlation coefficient distortion (IACCDist) and other output variables calculated in the output variable calculator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Jeong-Il Seo, Seung-Kwon Beack, In-Seon Jang, Kyeong-Ok Kang, Jin-Woo Hong, In-Yong Choi, Sang-Bae Chon, Koeng-Mo Sung