Patents by Inventor Sung-Joo Ahn

Sung-Joo Ahn 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).

  • Patent number: 12043953
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of controlling a garment folding machine having a plurality of folding layers configured to perform a function of folding a garment or a function of conveying the garment using at least one conveyor, and the method includes a wrinkle removing step of operating a conveyor motor to allow the conveyor to drop one end of the garment from the conveyor, thereby removing wrinkles of the garment using a weight of the garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyosoon Chae, Keun Joo Kim, Sung Hoon Ahn, Choongho Lim
  • Patent number: 11004241
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus produce and reproduce Augmented Reality (AR) contents in a mobile terminal. In the method, contents are produced. An image including an object corresponding to the contents is recognized. Recognition information for the object corresponding to the contents is obtained based on a recognition result. AR contents including the contents and the recognition information are generated. Therefore, AR contents for an input image may be easily produced and reproduced, and the AR contents may be used as independent multimedia contents, not an auxiliary means of other contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-He Jung, Kwang-Cheol Choi, Dae-Kyu Shin, Seung-Pyo Ryu, Shin-Jun Lee, Sung-Joo Ahn, Ik-Hwan Cho, Tae-Hwan Son
  • Publication number: 20200034994
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus produce and reproduce Augmented Reality (AR) contents in a mobile terminal. In the method, contents are produced. An image including an object corresponding to the contents is recognized. Recognition information for the object corresponding to the contents is obtained based on a recognition result. AR contents including the contents and the recognition information are generated. Therefore, AR contents for an input image may be easily produced and reproduced, and the AR contents may be used as independent multimedia contents, not an auxiliary means of other contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Jin-He JUNG, Kwang-Cheol CHOI, Dae-Kyu SHIN, Seung-Pyo RYU, Shin-Jun LEE, Sung-Joo AHN, Ik-Hwan CHO, Tae-Hwan SON
  • Patent number: 10430976
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus produce and reproduce Augmented Reality (AR) contents in a mobile terminal. In the method, contents are produced. An image including an object corresponding to the contents is recognized. Recognition information for the object corresponding to the contents is obtained based on a recognition result. AR contents including the contents and the recognition information are generated. Therefore, AR contents for an input image may be easily produced and reproduced, and the AR contents may be used as independent multimedia contents, not an auxiliary means of other contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-He Jung, Kwang-Cheol Choi, Dae-Kyu Shin, Seung-Pyo Ryu, Shin-Jun Lee, Sung-Joo Ahn, Ik-Hwan Cho, Tae-Hwan Son
  • Patent number: 10387014
    Abstract: A method and a mobile terminal for controlling the icons of the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes displaying at least one icon on a widget screen corresponding with a function for changing the size of the icon displayed on a touch screen; receiving a selection of an icon to which the function is to be applied; activating an attribute of the selected icon; and adjusting, if a side of the selected icon is dragged on the widget screen, a size of the selected icon according to a direction of the drag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: So-Young Kim, Yong-Gu Ji, Sung-Joo Ahn, Hwan Hwangbo, Hyo-Chang Kim, Jung-Hoon Park, Hyung-Jun Oh, Hyun-Guk Yoo, Gyeong-Ho Chu
  • Publication number: 20180292966
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus and method for providing an interface in a device with a touch screen includes displaying on a screen, a directory including a plurality of names and phone numbers corresponding to the names. When a touch event takes place, focusing a region in screen where the touch event occurs, and converting a name and phone number in the focusing region into Braille data and transmitting the Braille data to a Braille display through the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Hang-Sik SHIN, Jung-Hoon PARK, Sung-Joo AHN
  • Publication number: 20170256075
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus produce and reproduce Augmented Reality (AR) contents in a mobile terminal. In the method, contents are produced. An image including an object corresponding to the contents is recognized. Recognition information for the object corresponding to the contents is obtained based on a recognition result. AR contents including the contents and the recognition information are generated. Therefore, AR contents for an input image may be easily produced and reproduced, and the AR contents may be used as independent multimedia contents, not an auxiliary means of other contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Jin-He Jung, Kwang-Cheol Choi, Dae-Kyu Shin, Seung-Pyo Ryu, Shin-Jun Lee, Sung-Joo Ahn, Ik-Hwan Cho, Tae-Hwan Son
  • Patent number: 9659385
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus produce and reproduce Augmented Reality (AR) contents in a mobile terminal. In the method, contents are produced. An image including an object corresponding to the contents is recognized. Recognition information for the object corresponding to the contents is obtained based on a recognition result. AR contents including the contents and the recognition information are generated. Therefore, AR contents for an input image may be easily produced and reproduced, and the AR contents may be used as independent multimedia contents, not an auxiliary means of other contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-He Jung, Kwang-Cheol Choi, Dae-Kyu Shin, Seung-Pyo Ryu, Shin-Jun Lee, Sung-Joo Ahn, Ik-Hwan Cho, Tae-Hwan Son
  • Patent number: 9658762
    Abstract: A method for controlling display of an object displayed on a touch screen in a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes displaying the object on the touch screen, generating an extension bar in response to a touch that is detected on the touch screen for a period of time, generating a zoom window in response to resizing of the extension bar, and zooming in and displaying content of the object in response to movement of the generated zoom window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jung-Hoon Park, Yong Gu Ji, So-Young Kim, Sung-Joo Ahn, Hwan Hwangbo, Hyo Chang Kim, Hyung Jun Oh, Hyun-Guk Yoo, Gyeong-Ho Chu
  • Publication number: 20160379416
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling movement of a first object. A screen photographed by a camera is displayed on a display of an electronic device. A virtual area is set on the screen based on user input. A first object is identified on the screen. The first object is controlled to move within the virtual area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: An-na PARK, Byung-jun SON, Sung-joo AHN, Hyun-guk YOO, Ga-hyun JOO
  • Publication number: 20160004416
    Abstract: A method and a mobile terminal for controlling the icons of the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes displaying at least one icon on a widget screen corresponding with a function for changing the size of the icon displayed on a touch screen; receiving a selection of an icon to which the function is to be applied; activating an attribute of the selected icon; and adjusting, if a side of the selected icon is dragged on the widget screen, a size of the selected icon according to a direction of the drag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: So-Young KIM, Yong-Gu JI, Sung-Joo AHN, Hwan HWANGBO, Hyo-Chang KIM, Jung-Hoon PARK, Hyung-Jun OH, Hyun-Guk YOO, Gyeong-Ho CHU
  • Publication number: 20140245223
    Abstract: A method for controlling display of an object displayed on a touch screen in a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes displaying the object on the touch screen, generating an extension bar in response to a touch that is detected on the touch screen for a period of time, generating a zoom window in response to resizing of the extension bar, and zooming in and displaying content of the object in response to movement of the generated zoom window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicants: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Hoon PARK, Yong Gu JI, So-Young KIM, Sung-Joo AHN, Hwan HWANGBO, Hyo Chang KIM, Hyung Jun OH, Hyun-Guk YOO, Gyeong-Ho CHU
  • Publication number: 20140028538
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a finger motion recognition glove using conductive materials configured to detect the bending of fingers using a characteristic in which the glove which is made of conductive fibers. The finger motion recognition glove includes pairs of contacts, positioned on corresponding pairs of locations on the glove where knuckles of fingers are bent, each pair of contacts coupled to a first surface of the glove, the finger region between each of the pairs of contacts having a resistance value that changes as the corresponding finger region of the glove is bent and unbent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicants: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hang-Sik Shin, Jung-Hoon Park, Sung-Joo Ahn, DaeEun Kim, Jaehong Lee, Eunseok Jeong
  • Publication number: 20140015850
    Abstract: A color transformation method and apparatus are provided for a person with a color vision defect. A color vision characteristic of a user is determined by receiving at least one of a kind of color vision defect and a degree of color vision defect selected by the user via a preset user color vision characteristic input menu. A preset basic hue table of a terminal is transformed according to the color vision characteristic of the user and transforming colors of a video to be displayed by applying the transformed basic hue table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Sung-Joo AHN, Sung-Jea KO, Jung-Hoon PARK, Hang-Sik SHIN, Hyun-Ji KIM, Jae-Yun JEONG, Hyun-Guk YOO
  • Publication number: 20130254714
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of providing a floating user interface is provided. A floating user interface including menus for executable terminal functions is activated and a terminal function is executed through the floating user interface, thus enabling a user to conveniently perform terminal functions through the floating user interface under any environment of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hang-Sik SHIN, Sung-Joo AHN, Jung-Hoon PARK, Hyun-Guk YOO
  • Publication number: 20130038557
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling screen display in a portable terminal are provided. In the method, whether a screen touch occurs is determined. When the screen touch occurs, whether the screen touch corresponds to a spiral touch is determined using coordinates at which the screen is touched. When the screen touch is the spiral touch, the screen is magnified or reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Shin-Jun Lee, Jin-He Jung, Seong-Woon Kim, Dae-Kyu Shin, Seung-Pyo Ryu, Sung-Joo Ahn, Tae-Hwan Son, Hyun-Jung Lee
  • Publication number: 20120315607
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus and method for providing an interface in a device with a touch screen. The method includes displaying on a screen, a directory including a plurality of names and phone numbers corresponding to the names. When a touch event takes place, focusing a region in screen where the touch event occurs, and converting a name and phone number in the focusing region into Braille data and transmitting the Braille data to a Braille display through the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hang-Sik Shin, Jung-Hoon Park, Sung-Joo Ahn
  • Publication number: 20120194421
    Abstract: A terminal and method for providing user interfaces linked to postures of a terminal, whereby a key input signal is received from any one of function keys located at both sides of the terminal, a posture of the terminal is determined in response to the received key input signal, a user interface screen corresponding to the determined posture of the terminal is provided, and settings of the terminal are changed according to the determined posture of the terminal, thereby increasing convenience of a user interface without use of a complicated sensor system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Hwan SON, Sung-Joo Ahn, Jin-He Jung
  • Patent number: 8135586
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for estimating noise included in a sound signal during sound signal processing. The method includes estimating harmonics components in a frame of an input sound signal; using the estimated harmonics components, computing a Voice Presence Probability (VPP) on the frame of the input sound signal; determining a weight of an equation necessary to estimate a noise spectrum, depending on the computed VPP; and using the determined weight and the equation necessary to estimate a noise spectrum, estimating the noise spectrum, and updating the noise spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Korea University Industrial & Academic Collaboration Foundation
    Inventors: Hyun-Soo Kim, Hanseok Ko, Sung-Joo Ahn, Jounghoon Beh, Hyun-Jin Yoon
  • Patent number: D747337
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hang-Sik Shin, Sung-Joo Ahn, Hyun-Gok Yoo, Jung-Hoon Park