Patents by Inventor Seong-woon Kim

Seong-woon 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: 20070211072
    Abstract: An image display and storage device, method, and medium to process an original image and generate a main image so that the original image does not overlap a sub image, and store the original image instead of the main image when the main image and the sub image are displayed. The device includes an image processor to receive an image, and to generate a display image and a storage image using the received image, a display unit to receive the display image from the image processor, and to display the display image, and an image storing unit to receive the storage image from the image processor and to store the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung-in Yoo, Sung-guy Choi, Seong-woon Kim, Nam-woo Kim, Kwon Ju Yi, Yill-myung Yim, Yeun-bae Kim
  • Publication number: 20070127486
    Abstract: A packet detecting device used in a receiver employing PCI Express protocol is disclosed. The packet detecting device includes: a physical layer packet detecting unit for detecting a physical layer packet from a PCI express packet received and parallelized to 16 bit data through a physical deserializer; a descrambling unit for descrambling a physical layer packet from a PCI express packet received and parallelized to 16 bit data through a physical deserializer; a data link layer packet detecting unit for detecting a data link layer packet from a descrambled packet outputted from the descrambling unit; and a transaction layer packet detecting unit for detecting a transaction layer packet from a descrambled packet outputted from the descrambling unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Yong-Seok Choi, Seong-Woon Kim, Myung-Joon Kim
  • Publication number: 20070129046
    Abstract: A function input method for providing in advance to a user information on a function to be executed when the user presses a button to execute a specific function in a portable terminal, such as a cellular phone, and a button input apparatus using the same. The method includes: receiving a button input when the user presses one of a plurality of buttons; determining whether a mode of the button input is a touch mode or a click mode; and displaying a preview image of a function corresponding to the pressed button if the button input mode is the touch mode and executing the function corresponding to the pressed button if the button input mode is the click mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung-seok Soh, Seong-woon Kim, Chang-kyu Choi, Jun-ho Park, Kwon-lu Lee
  • Publication number: 20070115820
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and a method for creating and managing Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) transmission information based on a TCP Offload Engine (TOE). The apparatus includes: a TCP transmission processing unit for receiving a data transmission request from a predetermined network program, creating transmission information and deleting the transmission information; a TCP reception processing unit for receiving a reception command of the data, creating and managing the reception information; a transmission information region managing unit for allocating memory regions for storing the transmission information according to a command of the TCP transmission processing unit, creating an identification (ID) of each region, and managing a deleting process; and a storing unit for storing and deleting the transmission information according to control of the TCP transmission processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Sun-Wook Kim, Chan-Ho Park, Seong-Woon Kim, Myung-Joon Kim
  • Publication number: 20070088854
    Abstract: An apparatus for searching a socket ID of a received packet in a transmission control protocol (TCP) and a user datagram protocol (UDP) is provided. The apparatus includes: a master managing unit for analyzing command information from a processor, transferring a command to a branch table managing unit and a tree table managing unit, receiving results from the branch table managing unit and the tree table managing unit, and reporting the received results to the processor; a branch table managing unit for receiving a command from the mater managing unit and managing a branch table; and a tree table managing unit for managing a binary tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Chan-Ho Park, Seong-Woon Kim, Myung-Joon Kim
  • Publication number: 20070081813
    Abstract: A method, medium, and system for classifying photos. The system apparatus may include a storage module which stores a plurality of photos, a location-based classification module which classifies the plurality of photos into one or more photo groups according to photographing locations of the plurality of photos, and a time-based classification module which chooses one of the photo groups produced by the location-based classification module and classifies a plurality of photos included in the chosen photo group into one or more sub-photo groups according to photographing times of the photos included in the chosen photo group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-jin Hong, Seong-woon Kim, Myung-hyun Yoo
  • Publication number: 20070078549
    Abstract: A mobile device playing and outputting audio data having various formats. The mobile device includes a memory storing audio data having different formats; a plurality of audio-playing units, each having a codec that corresponds a respective format and restoring respective analog sound signals from the corresponding audio data; a processor receiving a hardware interrupt from some or all of the audio-playing units to provide corresponding data of the stored audio data to a corresponding audio playing unit; and an output unit mixing the restored analog sound signals in order to be output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang-il Hwang, Kwon-ju Yi, Dong-yoon Kim, Seong-woon Kim
  • Publication number: 20070039283
    Abstract: A prefabricated segmental concrete filled tube member, and fabrication structure and method using the same are provided. The prefabricated segmental concrete filled tube member has a hollow pipe filled therein with concrete, and a connection flange shaped in a ring radially extending from the peripheries of both ends of the pipe, wherein the segmental concrete filled tube member is integrally connected with another adjacent segmental concrete filled tube member by the connection flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Seong-woon Kim, Young-jin Kim, In-gyu Kim, Byeong-moo Jin, Tae-hoon Kim, Hyang-wook Ma, Yun-seok Lee
  • Publication number: 20070029172
    Abstract: A button input apparatus with a display function, which generates a switch signal in response to a user's press, and a portable electronic device having the same. The button input apparatus includes: a plurality of lever buttons each having a transparent window in at least a portion thereof, and one fixed edge on one side of the transparent window, so that the buttons are elastically vertically flexible; a switch substrate, which is disposed below the plurality of lever buttons, including openings respectively corresponding to the transparent windows, and generating a switch signal according to a motion of any of the plurality of lever buttons via a plurality of switches disposed to respectively correspond to elastic parts of the lever buttons; and a display panel, which provides an image in an area corresponding to each of the transparent windows, at least a portion of the display panel being disposed below the plurality of lever buttons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang-kyu Choi, Seong-woon Kim, Sungi Hong, Jun-ho Park, Kwangll Hwang, Hongseok Yang, Yillmyung Yim, Yeun-bae Kim, Namwoo Kim, Byungin Yoo
  • Publication number: 20060286987
    Abstract: A method for determining a mobile communication terminal user's points of interest, in which geographic information of an area where the mobile communication terminal user stays longer than a threshold time, and an apparatus for providing the geographic information using the method. The method includes providing identification information received from a mobile communication repeaters, which use a limited number of the identification information and repeatedly reuse the identification information at different places.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee-seob Ryu, Jong-ho Lea, Seong-woon Kim
  • Publication number: 20060221059
    Abstract: A portable terminal having display buttons for displaying images corresponding to specific functions through keys pressed by a user, and a method of inputting functions of the portable terminal using the display buttons. The portable terminal includes: a controller which receives signals corresponding to a user key pressed from the plurality of input buttons and outputs image data to be displayed on each of the plurality of input buttons using the received signals; and a plurality of buttons for inputting a key from a user and outputting a signal corresponding to the key pressed, and for receiving the image data from the controller and displaying the received image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-kyu Choi, Wook Chang, Sun-gi Hong, Won-chul Bang, Jung-hyun Shim, Soon-joo Kwon, Seong-woon Kim
  • Publication number: 20060136779
    Abstract: An object-based storage device with a low process load and a control method thereof are provided. The object-based storage device includes: a storage unit; a temporary storage unit; a transmission unit; a first control unit; and a second control unit. Particularly, the temporary storage unit and the transmission unit are provided separate from the main storage unit and the system bus, and these separately provided temporary storage unit and transmission unit allow a direct data transmission, which attributes to a reduction in a process load and a burden on the system bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Sang-Min Lee, Seong-Woon Kim, Myung-Joon Kim
  • Publication number: 20060092866
    Abstract: There are provided an information processing apparatus and method using a wireless communication terminal. The information processing apparatus includes: a wireless communication terminal generating displacement corresponding to its spatial movement by a user's manipulation, as pointing information, and wirelessly transmitting the pointing information; and an information processor receiving the pointing information transmitted from the wireless communication terminal, analyzing the received pointing information to extract the displacement, and moving a cursor on a screen to a location corresponding to the extracted displacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: Seong-woon Kim, Eun-seok Choi, Won-chul Bang, Chang-su Kim, Joon-kee Cho, Dong-yoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20040133695
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a network-storage apparatus for storing the data received through network on a disk in the form of zero copy, and transmitting the streaming data stored on the disk to many users through network in the form of zero copy in high speed, thereby transmitting and receiving the streaming data in high speed through network for transmitting and receiving the streaming data rapidly through Internet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Seong Woon Kim, Chong Won Park, Byung Kwon Jung
  • Patent number: 5659687
    Abstract: A memory data path controller for a large-scale parallel processing computer system in which, when a network interface and bus interface request access to a single-port memory, a dual path controller dividedly stores memory access requests in network queue and bus queue. This allows a single-port DRAM to be used as a dual-port memory device. Further, the network queue and bus queue are multi-staged to store sequential memory requests and transmit reading/writing data of the network queue or bus queue to the DRAM memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seong-Woon Kim, Suk-Han Yoon, Chul-Ho Won