Patents by Inventor Kyung Uk Kim

Kyung Uk 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).

  • Publication number: 20240121543
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a housing comprising a first surface facing in a first direction and a second surface facing in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, the first surface comprising an at least partially transparent part and at least one opening formed adjacent to the at least partially transparent part; a camera positioned inside the housing, the camera comprising an image sensor facing in the first direction through the at least partially transparent part of the housing; and an acoustic component arranged between the first surface and the second surface, the acoustic component comprising a vibration plate configured to generate a sound such that the same moves in at least one direction selected from the first and second directions, a first passage formed in a third direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction such that the generated sound passes through the same, and a second passage forme
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Young-Bae PARK, Byoung-Hee LEE, Jae-Hee YOU, Tae-Eon KIM, Han-Bom PARK, Sun-Young LEE, Byoung-Uk YOON, Kyung-Hee LEE, Ho-Chul HWANG
  • Patent number: 11946541
    Abstract: A method of controlling an EOP of a powertrain may include determining, by a controller electrically connected to the EOP, whether an oil sloshing phenomenon in which it is difficult for oil to return to a space where an oil intake port of the EOP is positioned may occur while a vehicle is running; and reducing, by the controller, the revolutions per minute (RPM) of the EOP by a predetermined reduced RPM when it is determined that the oil sloshing phenomenon may occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Sik Choi, Kyung Moo Lee, Seong Min Son, Ki Bum Kim, Se Hwan Jo, Bong Uk Bae
  • Patent number: 11945308
    Abstract: A cluster according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a display and a spatial image panel. The display is installed in the vehicle to output predetermined information as a 2D image. The spatial image panel is configured to output a 3D image in a predetermined space in front. The spatial image panel includes a first lens array, a second lens array, and a refractive medium. The first lens array is disposed adjacent to the display and includes a plurality of first lenses arranged on the same plane. The second lens array is disposed in parallel with the first array so that the first lenses and second lenses overlap each other. The refractive medium is disposed between the first lens array and the second lens array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yong Uk Lee, Kyung Lack Kim, Ki Hoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20160065854
    Abstract: There is provided an offset cancellation apparatus including: a power amplifier forcibly generating an offset; a replica amplifier, which is the same replica amplifier as the power amplifier, having a non-inverting input terminal and an inverting input terminal connected to a non-inverting input terminal and an inverting input terminal, respectively, of the power amplifier and outputting an offset compensation determining signal; and an offset compensating unit applying an offset compensating current to the power amplifier and the replica amplifier based on the offset compensation determining signal. According to the offset cancellation apparatus, whether or not the offset is compensated may be accurately determined and additional switches for sensing the offset are not required, and since the same replica amplifier as the power amplifier is used, a configuration is simple and an operation for canceling the offset is simple, thereby making it possible to rapidly cancel the offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyung Uk KIM
  • Patent number: 9075088
    Abstract: The present invention includes a calculating unit for calculating an absolute value of an applied commercial voltage, an accumulating unit for accumulating the absolute value of the applied commercial voltage per a constant period to output, an extracting unit for sampling an absolute value accumulative maximum value of the commercial voltage for each period and a determining unit for determining a quality of the commercial voltage by using the absolute value accumulative maximum value of the sampled commercial voltage. It has an advantage that the power quality can be monitored at high speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wan Cheol Yang, Jung Hoo Lee, Kyung Uk Kim
  • Publication number: 20150168460
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a clock signal may include a first voltage generation unit storing electrical charges if an input signal has a high level while discharging the electric charges if the input signal has a low level so as to generate a first voltage, a second voltage generation unit storing electrical charges if the input signal has a low level while discharging the electric charges if the input signal has a high level so as to generate a second voltage, and a signal detection unit comparing the first voltage or the second voltage with a reference voltage so as to detect whether a clock signal or operating power is being input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyung Uk KIM
  • Publication number: 20150139634
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a system for correcting hand-shake, including a position sensor detecting positional information of a lens, a digital signal processor generating a digital control signal for controlling a driving range of the lens based on the detected positional information, and a motor driver generating a driving voltage and a control signal of an actuator for driving the lens based on the digital control signal and controlling the driving of the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyung Uk KIM
  • Patent number: 8760006
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wireless power transmission/reception apparatus and method having a communication function. The wireless power transmission/reception apparatus includes a wireless power transmission device and wireless power transmission devices. The wireless power transmission device receives a returned wireless power signal, detects the number of power consumption devices, modulates pieces of ID data, each including ID of a corresponding power consumption device, transmits the modulated ID data, receives returned ID data, and determines suitableness of the power consumption devices. Each of the wireless power reception devices returns a remaining wireless power signal which is not received among wireless power signals from the wireless power transmission device, and temporarily stops a power consumption device when an ID of the received ID data is an ID of a power consumption device connected thereto, thus returning ID data which will be subsequently received to the wireless power transmission device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang Du Lee, Kyung Uk Kim, Jeong Hoon Kim, Eung Ju Kim
  • Publication number: 20140111031
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wireless power transmission/reception apparatus. The wireless power transmission/reception apparatus includes a wireless power transmission unit and a wireless power reception unit. The wireless power transmission unit receives power, generates a wireless power signal to be wirelessly transmitted, wirelessly transmits the generated wireless power signal in a magnetic resonance manner, receives a returned wireless power signal and detects the number of power consumption devices, and wirelessly transmits a wireless power signal using resonance frequency appropriate for the number of power consumption devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Du LEE, Kyung Uk KIM, Jeong Hoon KIM, Eung Ju KIM
  • Publication number: 20140111156
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wireless power transmission/reception apparatus. The wireless power transmission/reception apparatus includes a wireless power transmission unit and a wireless power reception unit. The wireless power transmission unit receives power, generates a wireless power signal to be wirelessly transmitted, wirelessly transmits the generated wireless power signal in a magnetic resonance manner, receives a returned wireless power signal and detects the number of power consumption devices, and wirelessly transmits a wireless power signal using resonance frequency appropriate for the number of power consumption devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Du LEE, Kyung Uk KIM, Jeong Hoon KIM, Eung Ju KIM
  • Publication number: 20140046609
    Abstract: Provided is a metering chip and a method of metering. The metering chip includes a first analog-to-digital converter connected to an output terminal of a current sensor for detecting a power supply current; and a noise canceller connected to an output terminal of the first analog-to-digital converter and can reduce its power consumption and size while accurately detecting a low current than before.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wan Cheol Yang, Kyung Uk Kim
  • Patent number: 8633615
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wireless power transmission/reception apparatus. The wireless power transmission/reception apparatus includes a wireless power transmission unit and a wireless power reception unit. The wireless power transmission unit receives power, generates a wireless power signal to be wirelessly transmitted, wirelessly transmits the generated wireless power signal in a magnetic resonance manner, receives a returned wireless power signal and detects the number of power consumption devices, and wirelessly transmits a wireless power signal using resonance frequency appropriate for the number of power consumption devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mchanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang Du Lee, Kyung Uk Kim, Jeong Hoon Kim, Eung Ju Kim
  • Patent number: 8576001
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an offset compensation apparatus for a magnetic detection circuit, and a method thereof. The offset compensation apparatus includes: an amplifying unit amplifying an output voltage, and outputting the amplified voltages; an offset detection unit detecting an offset; a comparison unit determining whether or not the offset output from the offset detection unit is greater than a pre-set positive reference value or smaller than a pre-set negative reference value; a counter unit; and a current supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Seung Chul Pyo, Kyung Uk Kim
  • Publication number: 20130230318
    Abstract: There are provided a communications interface apparatus and a method of operating the same. The communications interface apparatus includes: a transmission line including a conductor line and a plastic optical fiber for optical communications; a signal transmitting unit transmitting a first data signal through the plastic optical fiber and transmitting a second data signal through the conductor line; and a signal receiving unit receiving the first data signal and the second data signal, wherein the signal transmitting unit differentiates a signal as the first data signal or the second data signal based on at least one of a level and a frequency of the signal to be transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: Eung Ju Kim, Won Jin Baek, Kyung Uk Kim
  • Publication number: 20130158909
    Abstract: The present invention includes a calculating unit for calculating an absolute value of an applied commercial voltage, an accumulating unit for accumulating the absolute value of the applied commercial voltage per a constant period to output, an extracting unit for sampling an absolute value accumulative maximum value of the commercial voltage for each period and a determining unit for determining a quality of the commercial voltage by using the absolute value accumulative maximum value of the sampled commercial voltage. It has an advantage that the power quality can be monitored at high speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Wan Cheol Yang, Jung Hoo Lee, Kyung Uk Kim
  • Publication number: 20130080093
    Abstract: A power computing apparatus and method is provided. The power computing apparatus includes: a multiplexer configured to receive detected single-phase current and voltage signals and output a single analog signal; an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the analog signal output from the multiplexer into a digital signal; a demultiplexer configured to separate the digital conversion signal output from the analog-to-digital converter into digital signals representing single-phase current and voltage and output the separated digital signals; a phase detector configured to detect a phase angle between the single-phase current and voltage signals; and a power computing block configured to compute power from the digital current and voltage signals output from the demultiplexer by using error compensation parameter and the phase angle detected by the phase detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicants: KOREA ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATION, SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wan Cheol Yang, Kyung Uk Kim
  • Patent number: 8324950
    Abstract: There are provided a Schmitt trigger circuit that has hysteresis characteristics in which a release point and an operating point are determined based on a width of an inputted pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Tae Kim, Sang Gyu Park, Kyung Uk Kim, Dong Ok Han, Seung Chul Pyo, Soo Woong Lee
  • Publication number: 20120274381
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an offset compensation apparatus for a magnetic detection circuit, and a method thereof. The offset compensation apparatus includes: an amplifying unit amplifying an output voltage, and outputting the amplified voltages; an offset detection unit detecting an offset; a comparison unit determining whether or not the offset output from the offset detection unit is greater than a pre-set positive reference value or smaller than a pre-set negative reference value; a counter unit; and a current supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Chul PYO, Kyung UK KIM
  • Publication number: 20120262163
    Abstract: There is provided a Hall sensor for canceling an offset, including: a Hall element unit including at least one pair of Hall elements, each having a preset detection direction, and connecting detection terminals of the pair of Hall elements to different paths according to a preset calibration mode and a preset operation mode; and a calibration unit calibrating an offset of a detection voltage in the operation mode of the Hall element unit according to an detection voltage in the calibration mode of the Hall element unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Dong Ok HAN, Kyung Uk Kim
  • Publication number: 20120256622
    Abstract: There are provided a hall sensor having an offset removal function removing an offset included in a hall voltage, and an offset removing method thereof. The hall sensor includes: a converting unit converting first and second detection voltages detected for each of a plurality of preset detection directions by a hall device detecting a magnetic field as a voltage according to the plurality of preset detection directions into a pulse having a level difference therebetween as a width; a sign determining unit comparing the first and second detection voltages with each other and determining whether the pulse has a positive sign or a negative sign according to the comparison result; a counter counting the width of the pulse from the converting unit with a preset reference time unit; and an operating unit removing an offset voltage included in the first and second detection voltages by performing a minus operation with the numbers counted by the counter according to the sign determined by the sign determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Sung Tae KIM, Sang Gyu Park, Kyung Uk Kim, Dong Ok Han, Seung Chul Pyo, Soo Woong Lee