Patents by Inventor Myoung-Hwan Han
Myoung-Hwan Han 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: 9501216Abstract: A method and system for displaying a screen in a mobile device are provided. The method includes displaying a list of items where the items are arranged in a three-dimensional form, viewed from a side, receiving a command for altering the display form of the list of items, and altering and displaying the image of the list of items, viewed from the side, into an image of the list of items viewed from above. The method and system allow a user to easily and rapidly search for a corresponding item on a screen of a mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu Mi Ahn, Young Sun Shin, Myoung Hwan Han
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Patent number: 8367922Abstract: A music composition method and system is provided for composing a music piece using a touch interaction with a touchscreen-enabled portable device. A music composition method includes setting an accompaniment with chords varying according to the progress of a unit play time; playing the accompaniment; displaying, when a series of touches are detected, a trace of the touches; playing a melody of tones mapped to positions of the touches and matching notes of a note scale defined by chords of the accompaniment playing at the times when the touches are detected; and saving the trace, melody, and accompaniment as a music piece as an ensemble.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2012Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Moon Sik Jung, Seung Woo Shin, Myoung Hwan Han, Joong Sam Yun
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Publication number: 20120139861Abstract: A music composition method and system is provided for composing a music piece using a touch interaction with a touchscreen-enabled portable device. A music composition method includes setting an accompaniment with chords varying according to the progress of a unit play time; playing the accompaniment; displaying, when a series of touches are detected, a trace of the touches; playing a melody of tones mapped to positions of the touches and matching notes of a note scale defined by chords of the accompaniment playing at the times when the touches are detected; and saving the trace, melody, and accompaniment as a music piece as an ensemble.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., LTD.Inventors: Moon Sik JUNG, Seung Woo SHIN, Myoung Hwan HAN, Joong Sam YUN
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Patent number: 8138408Abstract: A music composition method and system is provided for composing a music piece using a touch interaction with a touchscreen-enabled portable device. A music composition method includes setting an accompaniment with chords varying according to the progress of a unit play time; playing the accompaniment; displaying, when a series of touches are detected, a trace of the touches; playing a melody of tones mapped to positions of the touches and matching notes of a note scale defined by chords of the accompaniment playing at the times when the touches are detected; and saving the trace, melody, and accompaniment as a music piece as an ensemble.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2010Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Moon Sik Jung, Seung Woo Shin, Myoung Hwan Han, Joong Sam Yun
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Publication number: 20120054612Abstract: A method and an apparatus for playing contents are provided. The apparatus includes: a touch screen playing contents on a screen and detecting a touch input through the screen; and a processor sensing a touch event occurring on the touch screen during a playback of the contents, displaying a progressive bar having information regarding running time of the contents played on the touch screen to overlap with the contents in response to the touch event, and controlling display of a mark at a location of the progressive bar corresponding to an occurrence time point of the touch event.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Il Geun BOK, Min Kyung KIM, Myoung Hwan HAN, Tae Yeon KIM
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Publication number: 20110273388Abstract: A method for receiving a user's gesture-based input and apparatus of a mobile device is provided. The method and apparatus halts an input function by a particular mode that is executed when a present event occurs on the mobile device, creates a new input area, allows for a user's gesture-based input, and controls the function of the mobile device according to the user's gesture. The method includes: sensing an event that occurs while the mobile device is operating in a particular mode; and creating a new input area for receiving a user's gesture-based input and providing it. When the event occurs, the input function with respect to data of the particular mode is halted. The new input area is provided as a fog screen having a fog effect. The functions of the mobile device are controlled according to a user's gestures that are performed on the fog screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong Sung JOO, Il Geun BOK, Myoung Hwan HAN, Tae Yeon KIM
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Patent number: 8049755Abstract: Disclosed is a apparatus and a method for displaying various character effects on a character input screen of a mobile station using a differentiated graphic element according to a key input signal. In the method a visual character theme set by a user is displayed in a character input mode, and a character input effect corresponding to the visual character theme is shown according to a key input signal. Accordingly, since the mobile station can show a visual character input effect in every key input sequence by allowing the user to select a desired visual character theme in advance, an entertaining effect is added to a user interface of the mobile station.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2006Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae-Young Kang, Dong-Uk Lee, Myoung-Hwan Han, Jin-Gyu Seo, Nho-Kyung Hong, Chang-Hoon Lee
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Patent number: 8044932Abstract: Provided is a method of controlling a pointer, such as changing between a pointer mode for activating the pointer and a search key mode for deactivating the pointer, in a mobile terminal having a pointing device. The method of controlling a pointer includes detecting movement input by the pointing device; identifying whether the detected movement satisfies a condition of changing a display mode; if the detected movement satisfies a condition of changing a display mode, displaying the pointer by changing the current display mode to a pointer mode; identifying whether a specific key is input; and if the specific key is input, hiding the pointer by changing the current display mode to a search key mode. Additionally, if elapsed time measured after displaying the pointer exceeds a predetermined value, the display mode of the mobile terminal may automatically be changed to a search key mode.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2007Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong Seok Ryu, Nho Kyung Hong, Jae Joon Hwang, Myoung Hwan Han
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Publication number: 20110197164Abstract: A method and system for displaying a screen in a mobile device are provided. The method includes displaying a list of items where the items are arranged in a three-dimensional form, viewed from a side, receiving a command for altering the display form of the list of items, and altering and displaying the image of the list of items, viewed from the side, into an image of the list of items viewed from above. The method and system allow a user to easily and rapidly search for a corresponding item on a screen of a mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.Inventors: Yu Mi AHN, Young Sun SHIN, Myoung Hwan HAN
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Publication number: 20100288108Abstract: A music composition method and system is provided for composing a music piece using a touch interaction with a touchscreen-enabled portable device. A music composition method includes setting an accompaniment with chords varying according to the progress of a unit play time; playing the accompaniment; displaying, when a series of touches are detected, a trace of the touches; playing a melody of tones mapped to positions of the touches and matching notes of a note scale defined by chords of the accompaniment playing at the times when the touches are detected; and saving the trace, melody, and accompaniment as a music piece as an ensemble.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2010Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Moon Sik Jung, Seung Woo Shin, Myoung Hwan Han, Joong Sam Yun
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Publication number: 20100174987Abstract: A method and an apparatus of object navigation using a touch screen divided into an output area and a control area utilizes organic interaction between the output area and the control area. A first area is an output area for displaying an object, and a second area for displaying a Graphic User Interface (GUI) is a control area for controlling navigation of the object. When an event for navigation occurs in one of the first area and the second area, change information according to the navigation is provided in both the first area and the second area, so that a touch screen can be manipulated without any blockage of an image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2010Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung Woo SHIN, Myoung Hwan HAN
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Publication number: 20100175008Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are described in which an electronic device includes a display means having an output area and an execution area. An electronic device user may simply and intuitively play a multimedia item through manipulation of objects in the output area and the execution area. The multimedia item playing system may includes an output area to display an object corresponding to a multimedia item, and an execution area to receive the object moved from the output area and to play the multimedia item in response to the receiving.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2010Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Myoung Hwan HAN, Seung Woo Shin
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Publication number: 20100164893Abstract: An electronic device has a graphical user interface (GUI) such as a touch screen and a physical user interface (PUI) such as a touch pad. A first touch zone in the GUI is disposed adjacently and symmetrically to a second touch zone in the PUI. The touch zones may receive continuous contacts that occur thereon. The continuous contacts may be accepted as a single gestural input, which is used to control a particular operation of the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2009Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung Woo SHIN, Myoung Hwan Han
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Publication number: 20060276234Abstract: Disclosed is a apparatus and a method for displaying various character effects on a character input screen of a mobile station using a differentiated graphic element according to a key input signal. In the method a visual character theme set by a user is displayed in a character input mode, and a character input effect corresponding to the visual character theme is shown according to a key input signal. Accordingly, since the mobile station can show a visual character input effect in every key input sequence by allowing the user to select a desired visual character theme in advance, an entertaining effect is added to a user interface of the mobile station.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2006Publication date: December 7, 2006Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae-Young Kang, Dong-Uk Lee, Myoung-Hwan Han, Jin-Gyu Seo, Nho-Kyung Hong, Chang-Hoon Lee
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Publication number: 20060187204Abstract: An apparatus controlling menu navigation in a terminal. The apparatus includes a display for display a menu screen; a user interface; an inertial sensor for instantaneously sensing a motion of the terminal; and a controller for displaying the menu screen on the display in response to a first input sensed by the user interface, and shifting a focus on the menu screen displayed on the display according to the motion of the terminal sensed by the inertial sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2006Publication date: August 24, 2006Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sun-Young Yi, Myoung-Hwan Han, Saung-Woo Shin, Jin-Gyu Shin, Byeong-Cheol Hwang
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Patent number: D608369Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2008Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee-Kyung Jeon, Joong-Hun Kwon, Dae-Won Kim, Kyoung-Sik Yoon, Ji-Eun Kim, Jee-Yeun Wang, Myoung-Hwan Han, Min-Hwa Jung, Bong-Won Lee
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Patent number: RE46020Abstract: Provided is a method of controlling a pointer, such as changing between a pointer mode for activating the pointer and a search key mode for deactivating the pointer, in a mobile terminal having a pointing device. The method of controlling a pointer includes detecting movement input by the pointing device; identifying whether the detected movement satisfies a condition of changing a display mode; if the detected movement satisfies a condition of changing a display mode, displaying the pointer by changing the current display mode to a pointer mode; identifying whether a specific key is input; and if the specific key is input, hiding the pointer by changing the current display mode to a search key mode. Additionally, if elapsed time measured after displaying the pointer exceeds a predetermined value, the display mode of the mobile terminal may automatically be changed to a search key mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong Seok Ryu, Nho Kyung Hong, Jae Joon Hwang, Myoung Hwan Han