Patents by Inventor Tak Choi

Tak 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: 9635139
    Abstract: A user terminal includes an inputter which receives a user command, a display, a communicator configured to communicate with an external server, and a controller configured to create a first rule in which the user terminal performs a first action when a first condition is met in another first user terminal, control the communicator to transmit the created first rule to the external server, and perform the first action according to an event command when the event command to perform the first action is received from the external server upon the first condition being met in the first user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung-tak Choi, Yu-na Kim, O-hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 9600574
    Abstract: An IPTV terminal is provided. It is possible to provide an additional service allowing a user to watch video content, in addition to a service for reproducing an audio file, by extracting metadata on the audio file if a reproduction command of the audio file is input, searching for the video content related to the audio file based on the extracted metadata, and receiving and reproducing the video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyung-tak Choi
  • Patent number: 9582542
    Abstract: A device and method for searching for content, the device including: a display; a storage configured to store a plurality of contents; an inputter configured to receive a user answer to a question displayed on the display for searching for content stored in the storage; and a controller configured to determine, based on the plurality of contents, the question, output, through the display, the determined question, determine, based on the user answer to the output question, a criterion for searching for content, and output, through the display, a search result searched based on the criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-jong Choi, Hyung-tak Choi, O-hoon Kwon
  • Publication number: 20160336024
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for controlling the same are provided. The electronic device includes a storage configured to store domain information that is categorized for dialogue subjects, a speaker configured to output a system response based on a user utterance sound, and a processor configured to detect a domain, among the domain information, based on the user utterance sound, determine one among the detected domain and a previous domain as a domain to be used to process the user utterance sound, based on a confidence between the user utterance sound and the detected domain, and process the user utterance sound to generate the system response, based on the determined domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung-tak CHOI, In-chul HWANG, Deok-ho KIM, Jung-sup LEE, Hee-sik JEON
  • Publication number: 20160171058
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus is provided. The terminal apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive an input of a search word related to a content to be searched for, a search unit including a processor configured to search for a time range corresponding to the content using the input search word and pre-stored log information, and to search for log information within the searched time range, and a display unit configured to display information regarding a list of contents corresponding to the searched log information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Hyung-tak CHOI, Sang-wook CHO
  • Publication number: 20160171339
    Abstract: A user terminal device is provided. The user terminal device includes a plurality of different types of sensors, a storage unit configured to store object information, and a controller configured to acquire sensing results of the plurality of sensors, determine a plurality of object categories respectively corresponding to the sensing results, and compare objects belonging to the plurality of object categories to estimate an object commonly belonging to the object categories as a recognition result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Hyung-tak CHOI, Ho-jung LEE
  • Publication number: 20160155096
    Abstract: A device and a method of providing a to-do list of a user are provided. The device includes a controller configured to collect behavior information about behavior between the user and another user, the behavior being performed by using the device, generate a to-do list of the user based on the collected behavior information, and determine an unperformed task not performed by the user from among at least one task in the to-do list by using log information about an operation of the device, and an output unit configured to output notification information in a dialogue style, along with a notification reason for notifying the determined unperformed task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventor: Hyung-tak CHOI
  • Patent number: 9332762
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing amicarbazone by using amino-triazolinone, which is an intermediate compound, and relates to a method for preparing amicarbazone, comprising the steps of: obtaining hydrazine carboxylic acid represented by 5 chemical formula (V) by reacting acylhydrazide represented by chemical formula (II) and a carbamating agent represented by chemical formula (III) or (IV); reacting the obtained hydrazine carboxylic acid represented by chemical formula (V) and hydrazine hydrate in the presence of a base catalyst; and reacting the obtained compound represented by chemical formula (I) 10 and an alkyl isocyanate represented by chemical formula (IV) in the presence of a base catalyst. Amino-triazolinone and amicarbazone would be stably produced by the present invention without safety gear and safety facilities for the leakage of phosgene, which has been conventionally used as a reactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: KS LABORATORIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keun Sik Kim, Yeon Tak Choi
  • Patent number: 9277252
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for performing adaptive streaming according to a streaming environment based on information about a plurality of elements for determining qualities of a plurality of media data with respect to the same content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho-jin Ha, O-hoon Kwon, Guanhua Zhang, Hyung-tak Choi, Sun-bal Kim, Ji-eun Keum
  • Patent number: 9258619
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for performing an internet protocol television (IPTV) communication service. The method includes: acquiring an application message providing the IPTV communication service from an external input with respect to a general-purpose web application by using plug-in application programming interfaces (APIs) of a web browser which are independent of an IPTV communication service provider; sending the application message to an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) gateway (IG) functional entity apparatus; and receiving a response message comprising a result of processing the application message as a response to the sending of the application message, from the IG functional entity apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung-tak Choi, Soon-back Cha, Ho Jin
  • Publication number: 20150350380
    Abstract: A user terminal includes an inputter which receives a user command, a display, a communicator configured to communicate with an external server, and a controller configured to create a first rule in which the user terminal performs a first action when a first condition is met in another first user terminal, control the communicator to transmit the created first rule to the external server, and perform the first action according to an event command when the event command to perform the first action is received from the external server upon the first condition being met in the first user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung-tak CHOI, Yu-na KIM, O-hoon KWON
  • Publication number: 20150336906
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing amicarbazone by using amino-triazolinone, which is an intermediate compound, and relates to a method for preparing amicarbazone, comprising the steps of: obtaining hydrazine carboxylic acid represented by 5 chemical formula (V) by reacting acylhydrazide represented by chemical formula (II) and a carbamating agent represented by chemical formula (III) or (IV); reacting the obtained hydrazine carboxylic acid represented by chemical formula (V) and hydrazine hydrate in the presence of a base catalyst; and reacting the obtained compound represented by chemical formula (I) 10 and an alkyl isocyanate represented by chemical formula (IV) in the presence of a base catalyst. Amino-triazolinone and amicarbazone would be stably produced by the present invention without safety gear and safety facilities for the leakage of phosgene, which has been conventionally used as a reactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Keun Sik KIM, Yeon Tak CHOI
  • Patent number: 9197689
    Abstract: A streaming method and apparatus, in which information regarding a plurality of chapters of content is inserted into a media presentation description that includes information regarding a plurality of media data generated by encoding the content so as to have different qualities, and then, streaming is performed based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho-jin Ha, Soon-back Cha, Ji-eun Keum, O-hoon Kwon, Hyung-tak Choi, Sun-bal Kim
  • Publication number: 20150120709
    Abstract: An IPTV terminal is provided. It is possible to provide an additional service allowing a user to watch video content, in addition to a service for reproducing an audio file, by extracting metadata on the audio file if a reproduction command of the audio file is input, searching for the video content related to the audio file based on the extracted metadata, and receiving and reproducing the video content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyung-tak CHOI
  • Publication number: 20150088994
    Abstract: A method of operating an image display apparatus includes receiving image contents, performing a social network service (SNS) according to the image contents, receiving a reference time set according to information corresponding to an image contents reproduction time of a plurality of image display apparatuses interworking with the SNS, and displaying the image contents according to the reference time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung-tak CHOI, Myung-jin EOM, O-hoon KWON, Jong-sung DONG
  • Patent number: 8957221
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing an amino-triazolinone which can be used as a raw material for amicarbazone and has chemical formula (I). The method for preparing the amino-triazolinone includes the steps of: reacting an acyl hydrazide of chemical formula (II) with a carbamating agent of chemical formula (III) or (IV) so as to obtain a hydrazine carboxylic acid of chemical formula (V); and reacting the thus-obtained hydrazine carboxylic acid of chemical formula (V) with a hydrazine hydrate under the presence of a base catalyst. According to the present invention, the amino-triazolinone may be stably prepared without using safety equipment or safety facilities for a possible leakage of phosgene, which has been used as a conventional reactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: KS Laboratories Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keun Sik Kim, Yeon Tak Choi
  • Patent number: 8924417
    Abstract: An IPTV terminal is provided. It is possible to provide an additional service allowing a user to watch video content, in addition to a service for reproducing an audio file, by extracting metadata on the audio file if a reproduction command of the audio file is input, searching for the video content related to the audio file based on the extracted metadata, and receiving and reproducing the video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyung-tak Choi
  • Patent number: 8805172
    Abstract: A contents reproducing method and apparatus for adjusting a contents reproducing time are provided. The method includes: receiving a target reproducing time and user preference information, the user preference information including at least one of user preferred contents sections or scenes from an external source; obtaining contents reproducing data for adjusting a reproducing speed of the contents based on the target reproducing time and the user preference information; and adjusting the reproducing speed of the contents based on the reproducing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun-bal Kim, Hyung-tak Choi, In-chul Hwang
  • Publication number: 20140163239
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing an amino-triazolinone which can be used as a raw material for amicarbazone and has chemical formula (I). The method for preparing the amino-triazolinone includes the steps of: reacting an acyl hydrazide of chemical formula (II) with a carbamating agent of chemical formula (III) or (IV) so as to obtain a hydrazine carboxylic acid of chemical formula (V); and reacting the thus-obtained hydrazine carboxylic acid of chemical formula (V) with a hydrazine hydrate under the presence of a base catalyst. According to the present invention, the amino-triazolinone may be stably prepared without using safety equipment or safety facilities for a possible leakage of phosgene, which has been used as a conventional reactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: KS LABORATORIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keun Sik Kim, Yeon Tak Choi
  • Publication number: 20140067861
    Abstract: A device and method for searching for content are provided. The device includes: a display; a storage configured to store a plurality of contents; an inputter configured to receive a user answer to a question displayed on the display for searching for content stored in the storage; and a controller configured to determine, based on the plurality of contents, the question, output, through the display, the determined question, determine, based on the user answer to the output question, a criterion for searching for content, and output, through the display, a search result searched based on the criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-jong CHOI, Hyung-tak CHOI, O-hoon KWON