Patents by Inventor Kwon Choi

Kwon 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: 10298029
    Abstract: A battery pack for providing different power sources may include: a low voltage battery configured to supply a first voltage; a high voltage battery configured to supply a second voltage, the second voltage being higher than the first voltage; a charging circuit configured to charge the low voltage battery using the high voltage battery; and/or a controller configured to control the charging circuit to charge the low voltage battery when a charge state of the low voltage battery is less than a desired charge state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon-Kee Cho, ChangHyun Roh, Youngbo Shim, Byung-Kwon Choi, Taesin Ha
  • Patent number: 10265196
    Abstract: A motion assistance apparatus may include a first fixing member to be fixed to a portion of a user, a second fixing member to be fixed to another portion of the user, a driving source provided in the first fixing member, a power transmitting member connected between the driving source and the second fixing member, a sensing portion to sense a fixing state of the first fixing member or the second fixing member, and a controller to control the driving source based on information received from the sensing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taesin Ha, ChangHyun Roh, Youngbo Shim, Joon-Kee Cho, Byung-Kwon Choi
  • Publication number: 20190070060
    Abstract: A method and device for outputting a torque of a walking assistance device is provided. The method and device may determine a degree of progress in a gait cycle based on data received through wireless communication, calculate a torque corresponding to the determined degree of progress, and output the torque to a driver of the walking assistance device. However, when the data received through wireless communication is not updated data, the method and device may determine reference data based on a reference pattern, and update the data using the determined reference data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung-Kwon CHOI, Youngbo SHIM
  • Publication number: 20180367793
    Abstract: Provided are a video decoding method including determining at least one first block for partitioning a current frame which is one of at least one frame included in a video, determining a first prediction mode indicating an intra-prediction method to be performed on a current first block which is one of the at least one first block based on first intra-prediction mode information obtained from a bitstream when intra-prediction is performed on the current first block, determining a plurality of second blocks included in the current first block, determining second prediction modes indicating intra-prediction methods to be performed on the plurality of second blocks based on at least one of the first prediction mode and second intra-prediction mode information obtained from the bitstream with respect to each of the plurality of second blocks, and decoding the video by performing intra-prediction based on the first prediction mode and the second prediction mode; and a video decoding apparatus capable of performing
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-woo PARK, Bo-ra JIN, Na-rae CHOI, In-kwon CHOI
  • Patent number: 10127455
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a processing unit configured to extract at least one frame selected from a plurality of frames of moving-picture data as a candidate thumbnail image, wherein the at least one frame corresponds to at least one frame selected according to a plurality of thumbnail extraction criteria, and to determine at least one candidate thumbnail image selected from a group comprising candidate thumbnail images obtained by the extracting, as at least one final thumbnail image, based on a thumbnail extraction criterion to which the candidate thumbnail images obtained by the extracting respectively correspond, and a display unit configured to display the at least one final thumbnail image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyu-chun Han, Sung-hoon Kim, Su-jin Ryu, Dong-jin Jung, Jun-kwon Choi
  • Publication number: 20180275071
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a slot die coating device and a control method therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: SUNG AN MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Kwon CHOI, Ok Jin KIM, Young Min LEE, Young Jin KIM
  • Patent number: 10022072
    Abstract: A signal processing method including receiving a signal, compressing the signal through a sampling of the signal, and generating transmission data of the signal by matching at least one feature indicating characteristics of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byung-Kwon Choi
  • Patent number: 10011893
    Abstract: Provided are a ferritic/martensitic oxide dispersion strengthened steel with increased high temperature creep resistance, including 0.02 to 0.2 wt % of carbon (C), 8 to 12 wt % of chromium (Cr), 0.1 to 0.5 wt % of yttria (Y2O3), 0.2 to 2 wt % of molybdenum (Mo), 0.01 to 0.5 wt % of titanium (Ti), 0.01 to 1 wt % of manganese (Mn), 0.01 to 0.3 wt % of vanadium (V), 0 to 0.3 wt % of zirconium (Zr), 0 to 0.5 wt % of nickel (Ni), and the remaining content of iron (Fe), and a method of manufacturing the same. The ferritic/martensitic oxide dispersion strengthened steel may be useful as a material for core structural components of a nuclear power system, ultra supercritical pressure steam generator components of a thermal power plant, or engine components of an airplane due to a high tensile strength at 700° C. and excellent creep resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
    Inventors: Tae Kyu Kim, Sanghoon Noh, Byoung-Kwon Choi, Ki-Baik Kim, Yong-Hwan Jeong
  • Patent number: 10010290
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing a signal, wherein the apparatus identifies a sample interval satisfying a predetermined reference using a change in a plurality of samples based on a downsampling, acquires, based a result of the identifying, a feature point of a signal before the downsampling is applied to the signal, and acquires time information corresponding to a position of the feature point in a feature sample interval including the feature point is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung-Kwon Choi, Keehong Seo, Youngbo Shim, Taesin Ha
  • Publication number: 20180177671
    Abstract: A walking assistance apparatus including a first fixing device and a second fixing device to be attached to both legs of a user, respectively, a motor device configured to provide an active assistance force to the first fixing device and the second fixing device using at least one motor, and a passive assistance force transmitter connected to the first fixing device and the second fixing device to provide a passive assistance force to the first fixing device and the second fixing device may be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-Rock KIM, Keehong SEO, Jusuk LEE, Jun-Won JANG, Byung-Kwon CHOI
  • Publication number: 20180181409
    Abstract: The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a method and an apparatus for accelerated loading of mobile application content which are capable of automatically discover opportunities for application acceleration to remarkably reduce a response time of a mobile application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dongsu HAN, Byung kwon CHOI, Jeong min KIM
  • Publication number: 20180176595
    Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method including: determining whether first coordinates and second coordinates of a contour, which are determined according to mode information of the contour for determining at least one segment from a current block, are derivable from a neighboring block of the current block; when it is determined that the first coordinates and the second coordinates of the contour are derivable from the neighboring block of the current block, determining the at least one segment from the current block based on the first coordinates and the second coordinates of the contour derived from the neighboring block of the current block; determining whether to perform prediction on a boundary region including a boundary of segments forming the current block, in a direction of the boundary; and when it is determined to perform the prediction on the boundary region in the direction of the boundary, performing the prediction on the boundary region by using a neighboring sample of the current block in the d
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-woo PARK, In-kwon CHOI, Jin-young LEE, Chan-yul KIM
  • Patent number: 9993050
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, there is provided a wearable electronic device including a main body, at least one strap connected to at least one part of the main body, a buckle installed to an end portion of the strap, and a connection member for connecting the buckle and the strap. Accordingly, hardness and aesthetic feeling can be improved, while improving an assembling capability, reducing a manufacturing cost, and contributing to a slimness of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Hak Lee, Byoung-Uk Yoon, Chong-Du Kim, Youn-Jin Nam, Seung-Kwon Choi
  • Patent number: 9992500
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for evaluating video quality of compressed versions of a motion video to select compressed frames of that motion video without access to an uncompressed version. A device to transmit motion video includes a device scoring component to select a set of coefficients from a vector correlating temporal complexity values to sets of coefficients based on a temporal complexity of a first compressed frame of a first compressed video data, the vector derived from opinion scores associated with at least one viewing characteristic of a viewing device; and a selection component to select either the first compressed frame or a second compressed frame of a second compressed data to transmit to the viewing device based on a metric of video quality derived from the selected set of coefficients, the first and second compressed data representing a motion video. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lark Kwon Choi, Yiting Liao, Barry O'Mahony
  • Publication number: 20180139441
    Abstract: Provided is a method of decoding a video according to an embodiment, the method including determining at least one processing block for splitting the video; determining an order of determining at least one largest coding unit in the at least one processing block; determining at least one largest coding unit on the basis of the determined order; and decoding the determined at least one largest coding unit, wherein the order is one of a plurality of orders for determining a largest coding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-ho CHOI, Min-woo PARK, Elena ALSHINA, Chan-yul KIM, In-kwon CHOI
  • Publication number: 20180139443
    Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method including: obtaining mode information of a contour for determining at least one segment from a current block; determining whether first coordinates and second coordinates of the contour are derivable from a neighboring block of the current block, based on the mode information of the contour; when the first and second coordinates of the contour are derivable from the neighboring block of the current block, determining the at least one segment from the current block based on the first and second coordinates of the contour derived from the neighboring block of the current block; and performing prediction with respect to the determined at least one segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-woo PARK, In-kwon CHOI, Jin-young LEE, Chan-yul KIM, Yin-ji PIAO
  • Publication number: 20180117619
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a slot die coating apparatus. A slot die coating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a slot die configured to perform a coating process by applying ink to a substrate; an image capturing unit disposed adjacent to the slot die and configured to capture a state of the slot die and a state of ink applied to the substrate during the coating process; and a control unit configured to compare an image captured by the image capturing unit with a reference image and control an operation of the slot die and a transfer of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Dong Kwon CHOI, Ok Jin KIM, Dong Hoon KIM, Jang Hwan LEE, Young Min LEE, Young Jin KIM, Tae Su CHUN
  • Patent number: 9921464
    Abstract: Provided is a gimbal for 360-degree video and picture shooting including: a camera mounting unit having a body and a cavity formed in a center of the body, with a plurality of cameras being mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the body to take a 360-degree image or picture; a multi-axis driving unit provided in the cavity of the camera mounting unit and fixed to one side of the camera mounting unit to calibrate shaking of the camera mounting unit; and a support unit to which the other side of the multi-axis driving unit is fixed. Since the multi-axis driving unit is not exposed to the outside when the gimbal takes the 360-degree image and picture, it is possible to minimize the restriction of the area to be filmed when taking the surrounding image and picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Inventor: Seung Kwon Choi
  • Publication number: 20180064560
    Abstract: Disclosed is a walking assist method including acquiring arm motion data; creating walking data based on the arm motion data; and assisting a walking based on the created walking data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: BYUNG-KWON CHOI, Keehong Seo, Youngbo Shim, Taesin Ha, Seungyong Hyung
  • Patent number: 9861548
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of converting and reconstructing a signal, including: at a data generator, acquiring signal-analyzed data from an original signal, wherein the signal-analyzed data includes at least one feature point acquired from the original signal; transmitting and receiving the signal-analyzed data and at least one reference data corresponding to the signal-analyzed data; and reconstructing the original signal based on the signal-analyzed data and the at least one reference data to acquire a reconstructed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Kwon Choi, Kee Hong Seo, Young Do Kwon, Tae Sin Ha