Patents by Inventor Keun Kong
Keun Kong 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).
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Patent number: 11902626Abstract: An example content playing apparatus includes an output unit configured to output an image and voice; a user recognition unit configured to recognize a plurality of users viewing content played by the output unit; and a controller configured to select at least one of the plurality of users based on predetermined criteria and control playing of the content according to the at least one selected user.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyun-jee Kim, Won-keun Kong, Nam-suk Lee
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Patent number: 11734370Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-shik Kang, Min-Jeong Kang, Won-Keun Kong, Ga-Hyun Joo
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Publication number: 20220237249Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-shik KANG, Min-Jeong Kang, Won-Keun Kong, Ga-hyun Joo
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Patent number: 11314826Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-shik Kang, Min-Jeong Kang, Won-Keun Kong, Ga-hyun Joo
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Patent number: 11157577Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-shik Kang, Min-Jeong Kang, Won-Keun Kong, Ga-hyun Joo
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Patent number: 11080350Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-Shik Kang, Min-Jeong Kang, Won-Keun Kong, Ga-Hyun Joo
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Patent number: 11023549Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-shik Kang, Min-Jeong Kang, Won-Keun Kong, Ga-hyun Joo
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Publication number: 20210105535Abstract: An example content playing apparatus includes an output unit configured to output an image and voice; a user recognition unit configured to recognize a plurality of users viewing content played by the output unit; and a controller configured to select at least one of the plurality of users based on predetermined criteria and control playing of the content according to the at least one selected user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Hyun-jee KIM, Won-keun KONG, Nam-suk LEE
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Patent number: 10887654Abstract: An example content playing apparatus includes an output device including a display and a speaker; and one or more controllers configured to recognize a plurality of users viewing content played by the output device, select at least one of the plurality of users based on one or more criteria, and control playing of the content according to the at least one selected user.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyun-jee Kim, Won-keun Kong, Nam-suk Lee
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Publication number: 20190392009Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-shik KANG, Min-Jeong KANG, Won-Keun KONG, Ga-hyun JOO
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Publication number: 20190340209Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-shik KANG, Min-Jeong KANG, Won-Keun KONG, Ga-hyun JOO
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Patent number: 10337868Abstract: An apparatus for recognizing a user's motions based on sensor information and label information, a method for establishing an ONMF-based basis matrix, and a method for establishing an OSSNMF-based basis matrix are provided, where the basis matrices are used to extract motion features of the user. The apparatus for recognizing the user's motions may include a feature vector extractor configured to multiply a transposed matrix of an orthogonalized basis matrix by a sensor data matrix of frequency domain sensor data acquired from sensors to extract an ONMF-based feature vector and a multi-class classifier configured to use the extracted ONMF-based feature vector to classify the user's motion into a type from among types of a user's motions.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry FoundationInventors: Jae-Mo Sung, Won-Keun Kong, Sae-Hun Kim, Seung-Jin Choi
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Publication number: 20190188228Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2019Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-shik KANG, Min-Jeong KANG, Won-Keun KONG, Ga-hyun JOO
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Patent number: 10223466Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-shik Kang, Min-Jeong Kang, Won-Keun Kong, Ga-hyun Joo
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Patent number: 10129336Abstract: A method of managing data by a server includes receiving, from a client device, a signal that requests for a content list corresponding to a user account; selecting a content related to the user account and a file name generation rule corresponding to the user account; generating a file name of the content based on the file name generation rule; and providing the content list including the file name of the content to the client device.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyun-jae Shin, Won-Keun Kong, Yong-hyun Lim, Min-Jeong Kang, Moon-joo Lee
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Publication number: 20180268068Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-shik KANG, Min-Jeong KANG, Won-Keun KONG, Ga-hyun JOO
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Patent number: 9990433Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2014Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-shik Kang, Min-Jeong Kang, Won-Keun Kong, Ga-hyun Joo
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Publication number: 20160057497Abstract: An example content playing apparatus includes: an output device including a display and a speaker; and one or more controllers configured to recognize a plurality of users viewing content played by the output device, select at least one of the plurality of users based on one or more criteria, and control playing of the content according to the at least one selected user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Hyun-jee KIM, Won-keun KONG, Nam-suk LEE
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Publication number: 20150339391Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2014Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-shik KANG, Min-Jeong KANG, Won-Keun KONG, Ga-hyun JOO
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Publication number: 20150339348Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state of receiving the first query input of the first query type to a second state of receiving the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ga-hyun JOO, Min-Jeong KANG, Woo-shik KANG, Won-Keun KONG