Patents by Inventor Won-hee Choe

Won-hee Choe 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: 11194390
    Abstract: Electronic devices, according to various embodiments of the present invention, comprise: a display for displaying content; and a processor, wherein the processor may confirm additional information relating to the field of view (FoV) for content or setting information relating to the FoV, identify a first FoV for the content on the basis of the additional information or the setting information, and display the content using the display on the basis of the first FoV that has been identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se-Hoon Kim, Won-Hee Choe, Min-Woo Lee, Jae-Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 11122235
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display configured to display at least one of an image and a text; a sensing unit configured to sense ambient illuminance; and a processor configured to gradually increase an output luminance value of the display, if a specific condition is satisfied based on the ambient illuminance sensed by the sensing unit and display attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-hee Choe, Min-woo Lee
  • Patent number: 11054978
    Abstract: A portable device and a method for controlling brightness thereof are provided. The portable device includes a display, a sensor and a controller. The display provides a display region that is displayed with a first brightness. The sensor senses a surrounding brightness of the portable device. The controller controls the display to display a partial region corresponding to a User Interaction (UI) element in the display region with a second brightness based on the sensed surrounding brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pankaj Agarwal, Ji-su Jung, Won-hee Choe
  • Patent number: 10978006
    Abstract: A user terminal device is provided. The user terminal device includes a display, a first sensor provided on a front surface of the user terminal device and configured to detect a front illumination, a second sensor provided on a rear surface of the user terminal device and configured to detect a rear illumination, and a controller configured to adjust a luminance of the display based on the front illumination detected by the first sensor and the rear illumination detected by the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-heon Lee, Se-hoon Kim, Jee-young Yeom, Won-hee Choe, Han-tak Kwak, Seo-young Lee
  • Patent number: 10944995
    Abstract: A decoding apparatus is provided. The decoding apparatus includes a communication unit for receiving multiple encoding data respectively corresponding to multiple areas constituting one image, and reference data including attribute information of each of the multiple areas, and a processor for generating multiple divided images by decoding the multiple encoding data respectively, changing the resolutions of some divided images among the multiple divided images on the basis of the received attribute information, and generating a reconstructed image by merging the some divided images having the changed resolutions and the remaining divided images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang-hyun Won, Jae-sung Lee, Won-hee Choe, Soon-gi Hong
  • Patent number: 10878532
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes: an image processor image-processing contents and scaling the contents at a first scaling magnification; a controller determining a second scaling magnification on the basis of a resolution of the contents scaled at the first scaling magnification and an output resolution of the display device; and a display scaling the contents scaled at the first scaling magnification depending on the second scaling magnification and displaying the contents scaled depending on the second scaling magnification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-woo Lee, Jong-ho Kim, Hyun-Hee Park, Jae-hun Cho, Ho-jin Kim, Yong-man Lee, Won-hee Choe, Dong-kyoon Han
  • Patent number: 10706762
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The present display device comprises: a display unit of which the color gamut range varies according to the size of a driving current; and a processor for analyzing, per frame unit, the color distribution of an image signal, and adjusting, per frame unit, the size of the driving current on the basis of the analyzed color distribution such that the display unit operates within the color gamut range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-young Jung, Jee-young Yeom, Min-woo Lee, Won-hee Choe
  • Publication number: 20200142578
    Abstract: A portable device and a method for controlling brightness thereof are provided. The portable device includes a display, a sensor and a controller. The display provides a display region that is displayed with a first brightness. The sensor senses a surrounding brightness of the portable device. The controller controls the display to display a partial region corresponding to a User Interaction (UI) element in the display region with a second brightness based on the sensed surrounding brightness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pankaj Agarwal, Ji-su JUNG, Won-hee CHOE
  • Publication number: 20200097079
    Abstract: Electronic devices, according to various embodiments of the present invention, comprise: a display for displaying content; and a processor, wherein the processor may confirm additional information relating to the field of view (FoV) for content or setting information relating to the FoV, identify a first FoV for the content on the basis of the additional information or the setting information, and display the content using the display on the basis of the first FoV that has been identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Se-Hoon KIM, Won-Hee CHOE, Min-Woo LEE, Jae-Sung LEE
  • Publication number: 20200043423
    Abstract: A user terminal device is provided. The user terminal device includes a display, a first sensor provided on a front surface of the user terminal device and configured to detect a front illumination, a second sensor provided on a rear surface of the user terminal device and configured to detect a rear illumination, and a controller configured to adjust a luminance of the display based on the front illumination detected by the first sensor and the rear illumination detected by the second sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-heon Lee, Se-hoon Kim, Jee-young Yeom, Won-hee Choe, Han-tak Kwak, Seo-young Lee
  • Patent number: 10552019
    Abstract: A portable device and a method for controlling brightness thereof are provided. The portable device includes a display, a sensor and a controller. The display provides a display region that is displayed with a first brightness. The sensor senses a surrounding brightness of the portable device. The controller controls the display to display a partial region corresponding to a User Interaction (UI) element in the display region with a second brightness based on the sensed surrounding brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pankaj Agarwal, Ji-su Jung, Won-hee Choe
  • Publication number: 20190349537
    Abstract: Provided are an image composition apparatus for composing color images with black-and-white images including infrared components, and an image composition method thereof. The image composition method includes generating a first image signal with color information and a second image signal including infrared components without color information, dividing the first image signal into a brightness signal and a color signal, composing the brightness signal of the first image signal with a brightness signal of the second image signal to generate a composed brightness signal, and composing the composed brightness signal with the color signal of the first image signal to generate a color image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Won-hee CHOE, Jae-hyun KWON, Seong-deok LEE
  • Patent number: 10446093
    Abstract: A user terminal device is provided. The user terminal device includes a display, a first sensor provided on a front surface of the user terminal device and configured to detect a front illumination, a second sensor provided on a rear surface of the user terminal device and configured to detect a rear illumination, and a controller configured to adjust a luminance of the display based on the front illumination detected by the first sensor and the rear illumination detected by the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-heon Lee, Se-hoon Kim, Jee-young Yeom, Won-hee Choe, Han-tak Kwak, Seo-young Lee
  • Publication number: 20190244369
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display device and method for image processing. An image processing method of a display device according to the present invention includes: a step of receiving an input of a plurality of image frames configuring content; a step of analyzing the plurality of image frames to determine a motion of a camera capturing an image of the content; a step of determining a sense of motion sickness on the basis of the camera motion captured; and a step of performing image processing on the plurality of image frames on the basis of the camera motion, when the determined sense of motion sickness is equal to or greater than a predefined value. Accordingly, the display device can reduce the sense of motion sickness for image content having a high possibility of inducing a sense of motion sickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-min LIM, Se-hoon KIM, Nupur KALA, Young-yoon LEE, Won-hee CHOE, Ji-young KANG, Kang-Jin YOON
  • Patent number: 10368015
    Abstract: Provided are an image composition apparatus for composing color images with black-and-white images including infrared components, and an image composition method thereof. The image composition method includes generating a first image signal with color information and a second image signal including infrared components without color information, dividing the first image signal into a brightness signal and a color signal, composing the brightness signal of the first image signal with a brightness signal of the second image signal to generate a composed brightness signal, and composing the composed brightness signal with the color signal of the first image signal to generate a color image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-hee Choe, Jae-hyun Kwon, Seong-deok Lee
  • Patent number: 10360847
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: an image inputter configured to receive an image; a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels; a panel driver configured to drive the plurality of pixels of the display panel on a pixel basis to display the image; and a processor configured to divide the image into a plurality of areas based on a grayscale characteristic of the image, and control the panel driver to individually adjust brightness of at least one of the plurality of areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-woo Lee, Han-tak Kwak, Won-hee Choe
  • Publication number: 20190187790
    Abstract: A vehicle display device and a control method thereof are provided. The present vehicle display device comprises: a camera for photographing a driver; a sensing unit for measuring the distance to an external object; a display for providing operating information of a vehicle; and a processor, which analyzes an image captured through a camera so as to track a driver's gaze, determines an external object present at the location at which the tracked driver's gaze is directed, calculates the distance to the determined object through the sensing unit, and controls the display such that the operating information is displayed on the basis of the driver's gaze and the distance to the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-hwan WOO, Young-yoon LEE, Won-hee CHOE, Se-hoon KIM, Seung-heon LEE, Kang-jin YOON, Hae-in CHUN
  • Publication number: 20190130817
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The present display device comprises: a display unit of which the color gamut range varies according to the size of a driving current; and a processor for analyzing, per frame unit, the color distribution of an image signal, and adjusting, per frame unit, the size of the driving current on the basis of the analyzed color distribution such that the display unit operates within the color gamut range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Ho-young JUNG, Jee-young YEOM, Min-woo LEE, Won-hee CHOE
  • Publication number: 20190087933
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes: an image processor image-processing contents and scaling the contents at a first scaling magnification; a controller determining a second scaling magnification on the basis of a resolution of the contents scaled at the first scaling magnification and an output resolution of the display device; and a display scaling the contents scaled at the first scaling magnification depending on the second scaling magnification and displaying the contents scaled depending on the second scaling magnification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-woo LEE, Jong-ho KIM, Hyun-Hee PARK, Jae-hun CHO, Ho-jin KIM, Yong-man LEE, Won-hee CHOE, Dong-kyoon HAN
  • Publication number: 20190089987
    Abstract: A decoding apparatus is provided. The decoding apparatus includes a communication unit for receiving multiple encoding data respectively corresponding to multiple areas constituting one image, and reference data including attribute information of each of the multiple areas, and a processor for generating multiple divided images by decoding the multiple encoding data respectively, changing the resolutions of some divided images among the multiple divided images on the basis of the received attribute information, and generating a reconstructed image by merging the some divided images having the changed resolutions and the remaining divided images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Kwang-hyun WON, Jae-sung LEE, Won-hee CHOE, Soon-gi HONG