Patents by Inventor Jae Do Kwak

Jae Do Kwak 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: 8145273
    Abstract: A method for operating a mobile terminal, and which includes performing voice recognition on call content to produce recognized call content, converting the recognized call content into one or more units of character information, registering the one or more units of character information to one or more particular functions of the mobile terminal based on a type of the character information or a field of the character information, inputting a search parameter, searching one of a plurality of file types and identifying a file related to both the search parameter and the one or more registered units of character information, and displaying or automatically executing the identified file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: In-Jik Lee, Sun-Hwa Cha, Jae-Do Kwak
  • Publication number: 20110300913
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal including a display module configured to display a portion of a display object; and a control module configured to control the display module to display screen location information using a first box and a second box, the screen location information indicating a relative location of the portion of the display object with respect to an entire portion of the display object. Further, the control module is further configured to control the display module to move or enlarge/reduce the second box by moving or enlarging/reducing the display object in response to a touching manner of the display module, and the second box is disposed inside the first box and represents the relative location and a size of the portion of the display object with respect to the entire portion of the display object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Jae-Do KWAK, Hee Soo KIM
  • Patent number: 8060161
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes: first and second bodies connected to be relatively movable; a position sensing unit configured to sense at least one relative position set between opened and closed positions of the first and second bodies; and an output unit mounted on at least one of the first and second bodies and outputting an operation mode corresponding to the sensed relative position. A desired operation mode can be selected easily when the mobile terminal is moved to be opened and closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jae-Do Kwak
  • Patent number: 8035753
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a broadcast signal including generating display control information for a plurality of broadcast objects to be displayed on a receiving terminal, and transmitting the broadcasting signal including both the plurality of broadcast objects and the display control information to the receiving terminal. Further, the display control information includes instructions on how the receiving terminal is to display the plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seong Cheol Han, Seung Heon Yang, Jong Keun Youn, Byoung Ho Choi, Jae Do Kwak, Jin Tae Kim, Mun Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 8024005
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal which displays screen location information and a method of controlling the mobile communication terminal are provided. When a portion of a display object is displayed on a display screen of a display module, the mobile communication terminal displays screen location information regarding the relative location of the display object portion to the entire display object. Thus, a user can easily determine which part of the display object is currently being displayed. In addition, it is possible to prevent unnecessary power consumption caused by performing screen loading while continuously moving the display object portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Do Kwak, Hee Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 7971216
    Abstract: A method of displaying broadcast channel information on a broadcast terminal. The method includes touching a pointer at a first position on a touch screen of the broadcast terminal and then dragging the pointer to a second position on the touch screen, and displaying information about broadcast channels respectively assigned in advance to the first and second positions while the pointer is dragged from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Ho Woo, Jae Do Kwak
  • Patent number: 7881523
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal including a memory unit configured to store images and control information indicating whether the images are to be displayed as two-dimensional images or three-dimensional images, a display unit configured to display the images, a barrier panel configured to generate a difference between a focus of first image incident on a user's right eye and a focus of a second image incident on the user's left eye, and a control unit configured to selectively activated or deactivated the barrier panel in accordance with the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Do Kwak, Tae Ik Kang
  • Publication number: 20100151890
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a message can be sent in a manner that necessary information is contained in the message according to a configuration of the mobile terminal, a data volume of the message, a recipient of the message and/or the like. The present invention includes a wireless communication unit configured to send a message stipulated to limit a data space to which data can be inputted by a user, a display unit configured to display the message, a memory configured to store at least two user informations previously set, a user input unit configured to input the message, and a control unit controlling one of the at least two user informations to be selected according to a size of an empty space of the data space in sending the message after completion of writing the message, the control unit controlling the selected user information to be sent by being contained in the data space of the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Seung Kwon AHN, Jae Do Kwak
  • Publication number: 20100009720
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for recognizing a voice and converting it into a text, and more particularly, a method for preferentially voice-recognizing a word starting with a character inputted through a keypad before voice is inputted and converting it into a text, and a mobile terminal implementing such method. The mobile terminal includes a keypad to receive an input of a specific character from a user; a controller to recognize voice input from the user based on words starting with the specific character, and to convert the recognized voice into text; and a display to display the text under a control of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Sun-Hwa CHA, In-Jik Lee, Jae-Do Kwak, Jong-Keun Youn
  • Publication number: 20100009719
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for automatically displaying a menu relating to a specific function by recognizing a user's voice command in a call mode, and for directly executing the menu, and a mobile terminal having the same. A mobile terminal may include a microphone configured to receive a user's voice in a video call mode, a display for displaying information, and a controller configured to recognize the voice, detect a voice command included in the voice, and automatically display a menu corresponding to the detected voice command on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: You-Hwa Oh, Ik-Hoon Kim, Kyoung-Jin Jo, Jae-Do Kwak
  • Publication number: 20090299730
    Abstract: A method for selecting text created in a mobile terminal by word and correcting it or changing it to another word, and a mobile terminal implementing the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit to display one or more words of text, and to display tags for each of the one or more words; an input unit to select at least one of the tagged one or more words as selected one word; and a controller to display candidate words having a similar pronunciation to that of the word selected via the input unit, select one of the candidate words as selected one candidate word, and change the selected one word from the text to the selected one candidate word.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Jae-Min JOH, Jae-Do KWAK, Jong-Keun YOUN
  • Publication number: 20090273659
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including an input unit configured to receive an instruction from a first user to perform a video call communication with at least a second user, a display unit, a voice recognition module configured to recognize input voice statements conducted during the video call communication between the first and second users, and a controller configured to perform the video call communication between the first and second users based on the instruction from the first user, to control the display unit to display images of the first and second users, to detect a voice statement from the first user designating the second user by examining the voice statements recognized by the voice recognition module, and to emphatically display the image of the second user compared with the image of the first user based on the detected voice statement from the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Hyun-Suk LEE, An-Na CHOI, Jin-Ho SON, Sun-Ju LEE, Jae-Do KWAK, Jong-Keun YOUN
  • Publication number: 20090275365
    Abstract: A method for operating a mobile terminal, and which includes performing voice recognition on call content to produce recognized call content, converting the recognized call content into one or more units of character information, registering the one or more units of character information to one or more particular functions of the mobile terminal based on a type of the character information or a field of the character information, inputting a search parameter, searching one of a plurality of file types and identifying a file related to both the search parameter and the one or more registered units of character information, and displaying or automatically executing the identified file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: In-Jik LEE, Sun-Hwa Cha, Jae-Do Kwak
  • Publication number: 20090253463
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including an input unit configured to receive an input to activate a voice recognition function on the mobile terminal and a memory configured to store multiple domains related to menus and operations of the mobile terminal. It further includes a controller configured to access a specific domain among the multiple domains included in the memory based on the received input to activate the voice recognition function, to recognize user speech based on a language model and an acoustic model of the accessed domain, and to determine at least one menu and operation of the mobile terminal based on the accessed specific domain and the recognized user speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Jong-Ho SHIN, Jong-Keun YOUN, Dae-Sung JUNG, Jae-Hoon YU, Tae-Jun KIM, Jae-Min JOH, Jae-Do KWAK
  • Publication number: 20090033803
    Abstract: A broadcast receiver which can scale up broadcast-related information displayed on a screen using a data service and a method of controlling the broadcast receiver are provided. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast signal, extracts broadcast program data from the broadcast signal, and displays the broadcast program data on a screen. Also, the broadcast receiver extracts broadcast-related information from the broadcast signal and stores the broadcast-related information. When a broadcast-related information scale-up mode is selected, the broadcast receiver withdraws the broadcast-related information and displays the broadcast-related information on the screen. In this manner, it is possible to display broadcast-related information on a screen so that a user can easily recognize the broadcast-related information from the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Jae Do Kwak, Mi Sun Kim
  • Publication number: 20080229377
    Abstract: A method for displaying broadcast content in a portable electronic device includes identifying a priority channel to be displayed on a display associated with the electronic device, indicating that the priority channel is no longer available, and displaying content associated with a current channel which differs from the priority channel. The method further includes indicating that the priority channel is available for displaying on the display, and switching a displayed channel of the display from the current channel to the priority channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Sung Ho Woo, Jae Do Kwak
  • Publication number: 20080222677
    Abstract: A method of displaying broadcast channel information on a broadcast terminal. The method includes touching a pointer at a first position on a touch screen of the broadcast terminal and then dragging the pointer to a second position on the touch screen, and displaying information about broadcast channels respectively assigned in advance to the first and second positions while the pointer is dragged from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Sung Ho WOO, Jae Do Kwak
  • Publication number: 20080146298
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes: first and second bodies connected to be relatively movable; a position sensing unit configured to sense at least one relative position set between opened and closed positions of the first and second bodies; s and an output unit mounted on at least one of the first and second bodies and outputting an operation mode corresponding to the sensed relative position. A desired operation mode can be selected easily when the mobile terminal is moved to be opened and closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventor: Jae-Do KWAK
  • Publication number: 20080132285
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal which displays screen location information and a method of controlling the mobile communication terminal are provided. When a portion of a display object is displayed on a display screen of a display module, the mobile communication terminal displays screen location information regarding the relative location of the display object portion to the entire display object. Thus, a user can easily determine which part of the display object is currently being displayed. In addition, it is possible to prevent unnecessary power consumption caused by performing screen loading while continuously moving the display object portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Do KWAK, Hee Soo Kim
  • Publication number: 20080037683
    Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus and method for transmitting content, an apparatus and method for outputting content, and a data structure for transmitting content. According to an embodiment, the method for transmitting content includes generating content output information of the content; and transmitting the content and the content output information as transmission data, wherein the content output information defines an output condition of the content to be selectively outputted at a receiver's side when a content output event occurs at the receiver's side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Seong Cheol Han, Seung Heon Yang, Jong Keun Youn, Byoung Ho Choi, Jae Do Kwak, Jin Tae Kim, Mun Ho Jung