Patents by Inventor Seungcheon Baek

Seungcheon Baek 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: 20130115930
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal capable of providing a phone number of an anticipated call origination counterpart along with associated supplementary information according to a user's communication pattern, time information at which the mobile terminal is in use, or location information of the mobile terminal, thereby guaranteeing a rapid and convenient accessibility with respect to the call origination counterpart, and a method for recommending a call origination counterpart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jungsu Lee, Jinwook Choi, Seungcheon Baek
  • Patent number: 8331993
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile terminal and an operation control method thereof in which a delay time of the screen lock execution is controlled according to the type of application, thereby improving the inconvenience of a user interface and effectively managing a battery according to an interrupt when required to continuously receive an input from the user or continuously provide visual information to the user. For this purpose, a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include an input unit configured to receive a user input; an execution controller configured to execute screen lock if the user input is not received for a predetermined time; and a change controller configured to change the predetermined time based on a type of application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jungsu Lee, Jinwook Choi, Seungwon Lee, Seungcheon Baek
  • Publication number: 20120225697
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile terminal and an operation control method thereof in which a delay time of the screen lock execution is controlled according to the type of application, thereby improving the inconvenience of a user interface and effectively managing a battery according to an interrupt when required to continuously receive an input from the user or continuously provide visual information to the user. For this purpose, a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include an input unit configured to receive a user input; an execution controller configured to execute screen lock if the user input is not received for a predetermined time; and a change controller configured to change the predetermined time based on a type of application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventors: Jungsu LEE, Jinwook Choi, Seungwon Lee, Seungcheon Baek
  • Publication number: 20120174007
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of determining a category of an application based on a context type related to the application executable in the mobile terminal and an operation control method thereof, thereby allowing a user to intuitively and conveniently manage applications executable in the mobile terminal. To this end, a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a storage unit configured to store an application and an object set to execute the application; a display unit configured to display the object on a screen; and a controller configured to acquire a context type of the application when the object displayed on the screen is selected, and determine a category of the application based on the acquired context type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Seungwon LEE, Jungsu Lee, Seheon Choi, Jinwook Choi, Minkyung Cho, Seungcheon Baek, Kyunghwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20120064865
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes a wireless communication unit configured to receive a phone event and transmit an indication message, a travel state determining unit configured to determine whether or not a vehicle is traveling based upon vehicle state information when the phone event is received, and a controller configured to transmit an indication message to an originating terminal of the received phone event when it is determined that the vehicle is traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Jinwook Choi, Seungwon Lee, Seungcheon Baek, Jungsu Lea
  • Publication number: 20120066629
    Abstract: A terminal including: a user input unit configured to input schedule information and to perform a management function of the inputted schedule information; a sensing unit configured to measure status information of the terminal; a controller configured to provide control to change the form of an object on a scheduler on the basis of the status information of the terminal measured by the sensing unit or the inputted schedule information; and a display unit configured to display schedule information or an object under the control of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Seungwon LEE, Jinwook Choi, Seungcheon Baek, Jungsu Lee
  • Publication number: 20120064948
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile terminal and an operation control method thereof in which a delay time of the screen lock execution is controlled according to the type of application, thereby improving the inconvenience of a user interface and effectively managing a battery according to an interrupt when required to continuously receive an input from the user or continuously provide visual information to the user. For this purpose, a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include an input unit configured to receive a user input; an execution controller configured to execute screen lock if the user input is not received for a predetermined time; and a change controller configured to change the predetermined time based on a type of application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Jungsu Lee, Jinwook Choi, Seungwon Lee, Seungcheon Baek
  • Publication number: 20120052817
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile terminal and an operation control method thereof in which the status of a wireless communication unit is controlled based on a user's usage pattern for the wireless communication unit in the mobile terminal, thereby reducing the consumption of a battery caused by the abuse of the wireless communication unit in the mobile terminal and allowing the user to conveniently connect to an external device. In order to accomplish the foregoing object, the mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a wireless communication unit; a storage unit configured to store a usage pattern of the wireless communication unit; and a controller configured to provide an interface of changing or capable of changing the wireless communication unit to an active or inactive state based on the usage pattern, wherein the usage pattern is changed based on time or location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: Seungwon Lee, Jinwook Choi, Seungcheon Baek, Jungsu Lee
  • Publication number: 20120015693
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method for configuring a screen of the mobile terminal are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes collecting status information and usage information of the mobile terminal while menus displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal are used, forming a menu usage pattern based on at least one of the status information and the usage information, and selectively changing, based on at least the menu usage pattern, at least one display configuration of menus to be displayed on the screen when the screen is idle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Jinwook CHOI, Seungwon LEE, Seungcheon Baek, Jungsu LEE