Patents by Inventor Sung Wook Choi

Sung Wook Choi 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: 9513463
    Abstract: Provided are a photographic lens and an electronic apparatus including the photographic lens. The photographic lens includes a first lens that has a positive refractive power and includes a biconvex lens, a second lens that has a negative refractive power, a third lens that has a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens that has a negative refractive power. The first, second, third, and fourth lenses are arranged sequentially from an object-side to an image-side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liefeng Zhao, Sung-wook Choi
  • Publication number: 20160286256
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a server which implements an interactive system are disclosed. The server includes a communicator which receives text information corresponding to a user voice collected at the display apparatus from the display apparatus, and a controller which extracts an utterance component from the text information and controls so that a query to search contents is generated using the extracted utterance component and transmitted to an external server which categorizes metadata of the content under each item and stores the same, in which the controller generates the query by adding a preset item to a criteria to search a content, when a number of criteria to categorize the content under an item corresponding to the extracted utterance component is less than a preset number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-wook SHIN, Seung-min SHIN, Sung-wook CHOI, Hye-jeong LEE, Ji-hye CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20160259959
    Abstract: A wrapper for a terahertz wave according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a terahertz wave transmission layer that is made of a material that transmits a terahertz wave; and an electric field enhancement structure that enhances an electric field by reacting with a predetermined frequency band of terahertz waves passing through the terahertz wave transmission layer. An optical identification device for a terahertz wave according to an embodiment of the present invention includes m identification units composed of: a terahertz wave transmission layer that is made of a material that transmits a terahertz wave; and a waveguide grating that resonates at a natural resonant frequency when receiving the transmitted terahertz wave, in which the natural resonant frequency is any one of a first natural resonant frequency to an n-th natural resonant frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung Wook CHOI, Hyun Jung KIM, Na Ri LEE, Hyun Joo CHANG, Gyeong Sik OK
  • Publication number: 20160246033
    Abstract: An imaging lens is provided comprising: a first lens having a negative refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power and having a convex object side surface; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens having a convex image side surface; and a fifth lens having an image side surface, the image side surface having an inflection point, wherein, the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lenses are sequentially arranged from a front end of the imaging lens to a rear end of the imaging lens, and the imaging lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Sang-yong JEON, Sung-wook CHOI
  • Patent number: 9395237
    Abstract: An image sensor module includes: an image sensor having an image surface; a plurality of lenses arranged sequentially from an object side to the image surface side, each of the lenses refracting an incident light; and at least one infrared cut-off filter configured to cut off an infrared component from the incident light. At least one surface of the infrared cut-off filter has a concave shape in relation to the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-Wook Choi
  • Patent number: 9380330
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a server which implements an interactive system are disclosed. The server includes a communicator which receives text information corresponding to a user voice collected at the display apparatus from the display apparatus, and a controller which extracts an utterance component from the text information and controls so that a query to search contents is generated using the extracted utterance component and transmitted to an external server which categorizes metadata of the content under each item and stores the same, in which the controller generates the query by adding a preset item to a criteria to search a content, when a number of criteria to categorize the content under an item corresponding to the extracted utterance component is less than a preset number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-wook Shin, Seung-min Shin, Sung-wook Choi, Hye-jeong Lee, Ji-hye Chung
  • Publication number: 20160167861
    Abstract: A wrapper for a terahertz wave according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a terahertz wave transmission layer that is made of a material that transmits a terahertz wave; and an electric field enhancement structure that enhances an electric field by reacting with a predetermined frequency band of terahertz waves passing through the terahertz wave transmission layer. An optical identification device for a terahertz wave according to an embodiment of the present invention includes m identification units composed of: a terahertz wave transmission layer that is made of a material that transmits a terahertz wave; and a waveguide grating that resonates at a natural resonant frequency when receiving the transmitted terahertz wave, in which the natural resonant frequency is any one of a first natural resonant frequency to an n-th natural resonant frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung Wook CHOI, Hyun Jung KIM, Na Ri LEE, Hyun Joo CHANG, Gyeong Sik OK
  • Patent number: 9346054
    Abstract: Disclosed is a non-contact heating type gene amplification system. The non-contact heating type gene amplification system includes separate light sources for each step of a polymerase chain reaction in order to perform a high-speed temperature cycle by moving a rotation unit, in which a plurality of sample chambers are formed, to places at which the sample chambers are controlled at the temperatures corresponding to each step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hyang Sook Chun, Sung Wook Choi, Na Ri Lee, Hyun Joo Chang
  • Publication number: 20160084701
    Abstract: A scanning module including first path shifting unit changing a path of an incident electromagnetic wave from a light source; a first driving unit adjusting the path of the electromagnetic wave by moving the first path shifting unit; and a Bessel beam generating unit making a Bessel beam on a portion of an object, using the electromagnetic wave with the path changed by the path shifting unit. A detection probe which includes a light source generating an electromagnetic wave; a path shifting unit changing a path of an electromagnetic wave from a light source; a Bessel beam generating unit making a Bessel beam on a portion of an object, using the electromagnetic wave with the path changed by the path shifting unit; a detecting unit detecting intensity of a wave from the object, and a housing accommodating the light source, path shifting unit, Bessel beam generating unit, and detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Sung Wook CHOI, Hyun Jung KIM, Na Ri LEE, Hyun Joo CHANG, Gyeong Sik OK
  • Patent number: 9288477
    Abstract: A light path adjustment apparatus includes: a support plate with a first through hole through which light passes; a plurality of optical units, including first and second optical units, that move between an open location where the first through hole is opened by the optical units moving toward an outside of the first through hole and a closing location where the first through hole is divided into a plurality of regions by the plurality of optical units moving toward the first through hole and blocking at least a part of the light; and a rotation plate that has a second through hole corresponding to the first through hole and is rotatably disposed with respect to the support plate. The first and second optical units correspond to first and second regions of the first through hole, respectively, and are coupled to the support plate and the rotation plate, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-oh Jung, Cheol-eun Jang, Sung-wook Choi, Woo-jong Cho
  • Patent number: 9277393
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for supporting Non-Access Stratum (NAS) communication between a User Equipment (UE) and a Mobility Management Entity (MME) efficiently by addressing the signaling problems occurring between the UE and the MME in a situation where it is necessary for a network node to identify the UE and acquire UE information, if there is any, from another network node to which the UE has been attached, are provided. The method for communication between the UE and network based on the NAS protocol messages and operations is implemented with the involvement a UE, an MME, and an old MME or an old Serving General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Support Node (SGSN) to which the UE has been attached before so as to facilitate discovering a best node using the UE information acquired from the old MME or old SGSN during the communication between the UE and the network, resulting in a reduction of a communication delay between the UE and network and an improvement of communication efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung Joo Suh, Ho Gun Lim, Kyung Hun Jung, Sung Wook Choi, Sang Soo Jeong
  • Publication number: 20160034458
    Abstract: There is provided a speech recognition controlling method which includes extracting a keyword by crawling a webpage, adding the keyword to a lexicon in which a plurality of words are registered and updating the lexicon, recognizing, in response to a user speech being input, the speech based on the updated lexicon, performing a search according to the recognized result, and displaying a result of the search.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-wook CHOI, Sung-pil HWANG, Ji-won YOO
  • Patent number: 9239287
    Abstract: An object inspection apparatus includes a terahertz wave supplying unit for generating a terahertz wave and moving a path of the terahertz wave according to time so that the terahertz wave is supplied to an object to be inspected, a focusing lens located between the terahertz wave supplying unit and the object to be inspected to focus the terahertz wave supplied by the terahertz wave supplying unit, a rotating plate having a plate shape and including a plurality of the focusing lenses with different distances from the center thereof, the rotating plate rotating in the circumferential direction so that one of the focusing lenses is located at a path of the terahertz wave according to the path movement of the terahertz wave, and a terahertz wave detecting unit for collecting and detecting a terahertz wave incident to the object to be inspected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hyang-Sook Chun, Sung-Wook Choi, Hyun-Joo Chang, Na-Ri Lee, Gyeong-Sik Ok
  • Patent number: 9218056
    Abstract: A display apparatus employs two tracking units to track the gaze of a user. The display apparatus includes a first tracking unit to generate position information on a user positioned relative to a displayed image; and a second tracking unit to track a gaze of the user upon the displayed image, based on the position information. A method of eye tracking using the display apparatus includes steps of displaying an image; generating position information on a user positioned relative to the displayed image; and tracking a gaze of the user upon the displayed image, based on the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-jin Lee, Sung-wook Choi
  • Publication number: 20150348620
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell suitable for having a predetermined cell state based on a data stored therein, a control signal generation unit suitable for generating a control signal for changing the cell state of the memory cell during a reading operation, an information storage unit suitable for storing a variation status information of the control signal to which a moment when the cell state of the memory cell changes is reflected, and an output unit suitable for outputting the variation status information of the control signal stored in the information storage unit as a signal corresponding to the data stored in the memory cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Sung-Wook CHOI, Jung-Hoon HAM, Young-Il KIM, Sang-Sun LEE
  • Patent number: 9176362
    Abstract: An optical adjusting device includes: a rotating unit that includes and rotates about a through-hole through which light passes; at least one moving unit that is movably disposed relative to the rotating unit and is linearly movable between an advance position corresponding to the through-hole and a retreat position outside the through-hole; a transmitting unit that is disposed between the rotating unit and the moving unit and transmits a rotational force of the rotating unit to the moving unit; and an optical unit that is disposed on the moving unit and blocks at least part of light passing through the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheol-eun Jang, Hee-seung Choi, Kun-woo Lee, Woo-jong Cho, Sung-wook Choi
  • Publication number: 20150219877
    Abstract: Provided are a photographic lens and an electronic apparatus including the photographic lens. The photographic lens includes a first lens that has a positive refractive power and includes a biconvex lens, a second lens that has a negative refractive power, a third lens that has a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens that has a negative refractive power. The first, second, third, and fourth lenses are arranged sequentially from an object-side to an image-side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Liefeng Zhao, Sung-wook Choi
  • Publication number: 20150189391
    Abstract: A server apparatus is disclosed. The server apparatus includes a communicator configured to receive a text which corresponds to a voice signal input, and a controller configured to, in response to a keyword, which corresponds to the text, not existing from among a keyword included in a mapping table, search for content information belonging to at least one content genre mapped with a synonym of the text, provide a search result to a display apparatus through the communicator, and update the mapping table by adding the synonym as the keyword. Accordingly, the server apparatus may effectively perform search for content information according to voice input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee-ran LEE, Yong-wook SHIN, Sung-wook CHOI, Seung-min SHIN, Sung-pil HWANG
  • Publication number: 20150189362
    Abstract: A display apparatus, including a microphone configured to receive a voice signal and a controller configured to generate a resulting screen corresponding to the voice signal different from a first displayed screen and according to a status of the content of the first displayed screen; to display the resulting screen on the display. Accordingly, the display apparatus provides a different resulting screen according to a status of the display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee-ran LEE, Hee-Seob Ryu, Sung-wook CHOI, Sung-pil HWANG
  • Publication number: 20150172770
    Abstract: A display apparatus and control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes: a processor configured to process image data of image contents; a display configured to display the image data processed by the processor as an image; a user interface configured to sense a reaction of a user to the image displayed by the display; and a controller configured to determine a preference of the user for the image contents based on the reaction sensed by the user interface. The controller is configured to determine the preference based on an accumulated value of each reaction among a plurality of kinds of reactions generated while the image is displayed and a weight set up corresponding to the reaction. The weight corresponding to the reaction is set up according to genres of the image contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicants: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: In-ji KIM, Yoshihiro MIYAKE, Jinhwan KWON, Sang-on CHOI, Sung-wook CHOI