Patents by Inventor Shin To

Shin To 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).

  • LED module and method for fabricating the same
    Patent number: 10468392
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating an LED module. The method includes: constructing a chip-on-carrier including a chip retainer having a horizontal bonding plane and a plurality of LED chips in which electrode pads are bonded to the bonding plane of the chip retainer; and transferring the plurality of LED chips in a predetermined arrangement from the chip retainer to a substrate by transfer printing. The transfer printing includes: primarily section-wise exposing a transfer tape to reduce the adhesive strength of the transfer tape such that bonding areas are formed at predetermined intervals on the transfer tape; and pressurizing the transfer tape against the LED chips on the chip retainer to attach the LED chips to the corresponding bonding areas of the transfer tape and detaching the electrode pads of the LED chips from the chip retainer to pick up the chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LUMENS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taekyung Yoo, Daewon Kim, Jinmo Kim, Jinwon Choi, Jimin Her, Younghwan Shin, Sol Han, Kyujin Lee
  • High resolution STR analysis using next generation sequencing
    Patent number: 10465241
    Abstract: A method for analyzing short tandem repeats (STRs) is described herein. In some embodiments, the method comprises: separately digesting two portions of a genomic sample at sites that are upstream and downstream of an STR; fragmenting those products; ligating adaptors to the fragmentation products; selectively amplifying part of the top strand but not the bottom strand of the ligation products derived from the first portion, and part of the bottom strand but not the top strand of the ligation products derived from the second portion; sequencing at least some of the amplification products to produce a plurality of top strand reads and a plurality of bottom strand reads; and counting the number of STR repeats in a sequence read. A kit for performing the method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELEAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Giwon Shin, Billy Tsz Cheong Lau, HoJoon Lee, Hanlee P. Ji
  • Personalized exercise service providing method and apparatus thereof
    Patent number: 10467463
    Abstract: Disclosed are a personalized exercise service providing method and an apparatus thereof. A personalized exercise service providing apparatus according to an example includes a user class identifier configured to identify user class of a user; an exercise data acquirer configured to acquire exercise data of the user; and a model generator configured to generate a personalized exercise model of the user based on a standard exercise model corresponding to the determined user class and the acquired exercise data of the user to provide the most effective exercise model to each user through user recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kye-Kyung Kim, Sang-Seung Kang, Su-Young Chi, Jae-Hong Kim, Sung-Woong Shin
  • Method for controlling air conditioner compressor
    Patent number: 10464395
    Abstract: A method for controlling an air conditioner compressor includes: driving the air conditioner compressor for a first time at a first revolutions per minute (RPM) smaller than a minimum lubrication demand RPM when a lubrication demand RPM of the air conditioner compressor is smaller than the minimum lubrication demand RPM; and driving the air conditioner compressor for a second time at the minimum lubrication demand RPM when the lubrication demand RPM of the air conditioner compressor is smaller than the minimum lubrication demand RPM after the first time elapse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Kwon Hyoung Choi, Jin Hyung Lee, Hyun Woo Shin, Wan Je Cho
  • Memory system and operation method for the same
    Patent number: 10466902
    Abstract: A memory system includes a memory device including a plurality of memory arrays, each of which includes a plurality of memory blocks, and a controller suitable for setting super blocks each including respective memory blocks that belong to two or more memory arrays among the plurality of the memory arrays and performing a garbage collection operation on the super blocks based on a valid page information and a wearing level of each super block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Woong-Sik Shin, Jeong-Ho Jeon
  • Sensing apparatus, display apparatus, and method of sensing electrical signal
    Patent number: 10467940
    Abstract: A sensing apparatus that senses electrical signals of a plurality of pixels arranged in rows or columns. The sensing apparatus includes a plurality of sensing circuits configured to sense electrical signals through sensing lines that correspond to the columns of the pixels, a first switch configured to connect a first sensing line of the sensing lines that corresponds to a first pixel column of the columns of the pixels and a first sensing circuit of the sensing circuits that corresponds to the first pixel column; and a second switch configured to connect the first sensing line and a second sensing circuit of the sensing circuits different from the first sensing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Choongsun Shin, Ohjo Kwon
  • Display panel
    Patent number: 10466746
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display panel including a display area that can be stretched by including a plurality of stretching units and a peripheral area positioned at an edge of the display area. Each of the stretching units includes: a plurality of islands separately disposed to include a plurality of pixels disposed therein; a plurality of bridges extended from the islands to connect adjacent islands or to connect the islands with the peripheral area; and a plurality of openings disposed adjacent to the bridges, between the bridges, and between the bridges and the islands, wherein areas of the islands are gradually increased toward the peripheral area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Ho Hong, Hye Jin Joo, Gun Mo Kim, Il Gon Kim, Jae Min Shin
  • Temperature compensating sensor having a compliant layer separating independent force sensing substrates and sense circuitry to obtain a relative measure between the force sensing substrates
    Patent number: 10466829
    Abstract: An optical force sensor that may compensate for environmental effects, including, for example, variations in temperature of the device or the surroundings. In some examples, two force-sensitive layers are separated by a compliant layer. The relative electrical response of the two force-sensitive layers may be used to compute an estimate of the force of a touch that reduces the effect of variations in temperature. In some examples, piezoelectric films having anisotropic strain properties are used to reduce the effects of temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sinan Filiz, James E. Pedder, Charley T. Ogata, John Stephen Smith, Dhaval Chandrakant Patel, Shin John Choi, Brian Q. Huppi, Christopher J. Butler, Martin P. Grunthaner
  • Flexible electronic device and method of operating same
    Patent number: 10466808
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a flexible touch screen including a display, a sensor configured to detect bending of the electronic device, and a processor operably connected to the display and the sensor and configured to determine whether the electronic device is worn by the user and perform an operation of an application executed before the electronic device is worn by the user based on a determination that the electronic device is worn by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Elecronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sun-Young Yi, Chaekyung Lee, Ha-Young Jeon, Heejin Kim, Dongjun Shin, Sungyoun An
  • Organic light-emitting display device
    Patent number: 10468477
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device is discussed, which reduces the area of a pixel drive circuit and increases the aperture ratio of a pixel by forming lines inside the pixel using a semiconductor pattern that forms a channel of each thin-film transistor array. The light-emitting display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form and a plurality of lines configured to supply a signal for driving each pixel, each pixel includes a thin-film transistor including an active layer having a first area and a second area, which are configured as conductors, and a gate electrode, and at least one of the first area and the second area is directly connected to a corresponding line among the lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-June Jung, Woo-Sup Shin, Sang-Moo Park
  • Display driving device and display device
    Patent number: 10467975
    Abstract: A display driving device includes a digital-to-analog converter generating analog image data, a plurality of pads connected to a plurality of data lines included in a display panel, a buffer circuit having a plurality of buffers receiving the analog image data to generate a data voltage, a first switch connected between an output terminal of the plurality of buffers and the plurality of pads, and a second switch connected between an input terminal of the plurality of buffers and the digital-to-analog converter, and a controller turning the first switch off and turning the second switch on to set at least a partial output of the plurality of buffers as new data voltages when the data voltage is output to the plurality of data lines through the plurality of pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Wook Suh, Chang Hee Shin, Hong Keun Yune, Seong Min Cheon
  • Mixer and reactor including the same
    Patent number: 10464038
    Abstract: A mixer and a reactor including the same are provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, the mixer includes a first piping part into which a first fluid flows, an elbow piping part having an inlet connected to the first piping part and an outlet provided at a location rotated by a predetermined angle from the inlet in a flow direction of the first fluid to have a curved flow path, and a second piping part connected to the elbow piping part to have a central axis perpendicular to a central axis of the first piping part so that a second fluid flows in a tangential direction of the elbow piping part when the second fluid flows into the elbow piping part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Kee Jang, Hyun Jin Shin, Young Soo Song
  • Display apparatus and method for providing channel list thereof
    Patent number: 10469911
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus according to an example embodiment includes a display configured to display a broadcast program, a storage configured to store a viewing history information regarding broadcasting programs viewed through the display apparatus, and a processor configured to determine a channel analysis model from among a plurality of channel analysis models based on a viewing history information related to a time when a predetermined event occurs in the display apparatus, to generate a channel list through the determined channel analysis model and to display the channel list on the display, and the channel list includes information regarding a broadcast program which is expected to be viewed at a time when a predetermined event occurs in the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong-seok Lee, Je-youn Dong, Do-sung Kim, In-jee Song, Seung-min Shin, Hee-ran Lee
  • Camera lens assembly
    Patent number: 10466573
    Abstract: A camera lens assembly includes: a lens holder unit to which a lens module is mounted; a wire member fixed to the lens holder unit and the lens module, and resiliently supporting the lens module such that the lens module is driven in an optical axis direction; and a fixing member mounted to the lens holder unit to fix the wire member and dampen an impact generated in the wire member due to an impact generated in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction. Also, a camera lens assembly can include: a wire module resiliently supporting a lens module such that the lens module is movable in an optical axis direction on a lens holder unit, dampening an impact generated in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and transferring a current applied to drive the lens module to a circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Ho Yu, Doo-Sik Shin
  • Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 10468252
    Abstract: Disclosed are semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same. The method comprises sequentially forming a target layer and a first mask layer on a substrate, patterning the first mask layer to form a first opening in the first mask layer, forming a spacer covering an inner wall of the first opening, forming on the first mask layer a first photoresist pattern having a second opening vertically overlapping at least a portion of the spacer, forming a third opening in the first mask layer that is adjacent to the first opening by using the spacer as a mask to remove a portion of the first mask layer that is exposed to the second opening, and using the first mask layer and the spacer as a mask to pattern the target layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jongchan Shin
  • Ceiling light
    Patent number: D866049
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seon Wook Jung, Chi Young Lee, Duck Su Oh, Hye Cho Shin
  • Ceiling light
    Patent number: D866051
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seon Wook Jung, Chi Young Lee, Duck Su Oh, Hye Cho Shin
  • Ceiling light
    Patent number: D866052
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seon Wook Jung, Chi Young Lee, Duck Su Oh, Hye Cho Shin
  • Ceiling light
    Patent number: D866053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seon Wook Jung, Chi Young Lee, Duck Su Oh, Hye Cho Shin
  • Forming grounded through-silicon vias in a semiconductor substrate
    Patent number: RE47709
    Abstract: A method of forming an interposer includes providing a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having a front surface and a back surface opposite the front surface; forming one or more through-silicon vias (TSVs) extending from the front surface into the semiconductor substrate; forming an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer overlying the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and the one or more TSVs; and forming an interconnect structure in the ILD layer, the interconnect structure electrically connecting the one or more TSVs to the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-Chun Hsieh, Wei-Cheng Wu, Hsiao-Tsung Yen, Hsien-Pin Hu, Shang-Yun Hou, Shin-Puu Jeng