Patents by Inventor Wook AHN

Wook 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: 8866919
    Abstract: A shake correction module, a camera module including the same, and a method of manufacturing the camera module are provided. The shake correction module includes: a hinge member which supports rotation movement of an optical module based on each of at least two axes at least by using an elastic characteristic of the hinge member, wherein the optical module comprises an image sensor; a base member to which the hinge member is installed; and a driving motor which rotates the hinge member based on the each of the at least two axes with respect to the base member, in order to manufacture a structure for supporting two-axes rotation of the optical module to be simple and reliable with a low manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd., Optis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-wook Ahn, Nam-il Kim, Jae-hwan Jeong, Tae-ho Kim, Kyung-sik Shin
  • Patent number: 8856822
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for inserting second contents stored in a storage medium of a host while first contents input from an external provider are played includes: searching, by a searching unit, for the second contents using location information which indicates a location of the second contents stored in the storage medium; detecting, by a signal information detecting unit, signaling information from the first contents, the signaling information indicating a section in the first contents in which insertion of the second contents is allowed; and playing, by a playing unit, the searched, second contents in the allowed section of the first contents which are being played, based on the signaling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Wook Ahn, Kwang-Hyuk Kim
  • Patent number: 8850170
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for dynamically determining the execution mode of a reconfigurable array are provided. Performance information of a loop may be obtained before and/or during the execution of the loop. The performance information may be used to determine whether to operate the apparatus in a very long instruction word (VLIW) mode or in a coarse grained array (CGA) mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bernhard Egger, Dong-Hoon Yoo, Tai-Song Jin, Won-Sub Kim, Min-Wook Ahn, Jin-Seok Lee, Hee-Jin Ahn
  • Publication number: 20140102971
    Abstract: A hollow fiber membrane module and a method for preparing a hollow fiber membrane module. A hollow fiber membrane module includes a header, and a sheet block inserted into the header, and the sheet block includes a hollow fiber membrane block, wherein the hollow fiber membrane block comprises a plurality of hollow fiber membranes arranged at regular intervals in a vertical direction of the header; and a resin block formed at an end of the hollow fiber membrane blocks and contacting an inner wall of the header to be secured thereto, and a potting agent is filled between hollow fiber membranes of the hollow fiber membrane blocks in a space between an upper side of the resin block to an inlet of the header to secure the hollow fiber membranes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Hyoung Wook AHN, Young Lim KOO
  • Publication number: 20140092356
    Abstract: A curved display device includes a bent first substrate and a bent second substrate spaced apart and facing each other, a sealant positioned at edges of the first substrate and the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and contained by the sealant, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are bent to have almost the same curvature radius, and a modulus of elasticity of the sealant, at least when bending of the bent first and second substrates occurs, is about 1 MPa to about 100 MPa and more specifically about 1 MPa to about 50 MPa so that the sealant can be easily shear deformed during the bending process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Wook AHN, Dong-Wook KIM, Keun Chan OH, Cheong Hun LEE, Yu Deok SEO, Min Su KIM, Jang-Hyun KIM
  • Publication number: 20140085271
    Abstract: Provided is a system for controlling a user terminal, comprising a sensing unit to sense a motion of an object in a shape of a rod that can be held between fingers of a user, and a control unit to generate a control command for controlling the user terminal based on a motion pattern of the object sensed by the sensing unit, wherein the motion is a spinning motion of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Sung Jae Hwang, Andrea Bianchi, Ian Oakley, Kwang Yun Wohn, Myung Wook Ahn
  • Publication number: 20140075245
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a source code error location in a mixed-mode program is disclosed. The apparatus may include a compiler, a mapping table generator, a simulator, a comparison data generator and an error location detector. The apparatus extracts low-level data while simulating a verification program and while simulating a reference program. The low-level data is mapped to mapping tables for a verification program and a reference program, and by comparing the tables it is determined if there is an error in the mixed-mode program and if so, where.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: Hee -Jun SHIM, Min-Wook AHN, Jin-Sae JUNG, Yen-Jo HAN
  • Publication number: 20140055696
    Abstract: A curved liquid crystal display panel includes an upper substrate having a curved shape, a liquid crystal layer, a lower substrate having a curved shape, where the lower substrate is combined with the upper substrate and the liquid crystal layer is disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, and a heating line disposed on at least one of the upper substrate and the lower substrate and which provides heat to the liquid crystal layer such that a temperature of the liquid crystal layer increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheong-Hun LEE, Jeong-Man SON, Dong-Wook KIM, Byong-Wook AHN
  • Publication number: 20130321740
    Abstract: A curved display apparatus and a multi display system having the same are provided. The curved display apparatus includes a display panel, and a fixation member which fixes the display panel so that the display panel is curved with multiple curvatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicants: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-seok AN, Dong-wook KIM, Sung-hwan KIM, Jee-su PARK, Chan-hong PARK, Byung-kook SIM, Jong-cheol LEE, Cheol-se LEE, Hyeong-sik CHOI, Byung-wook AHN, Cheong-hun LEE
  • Publication number: 20130263961
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composite pipe having improved bonding strength between heterogeneous materials, which provides continuous bonding strength by chemical bond between heterogeneous materials, thereby preventing separation between the heterogeneous materials even at a high temperature and a high pressure, so as to replace a metal-based pipe used in fields of industry demanding heat resistance and chemical resistance, and an apparatus and a method of manufacturing the composite pipe. Accordingly, strong bonding strength according to chemical bond in the unit of nano between the heterogeneous materials is achieved, so that separation between the heterogeneous materials is not generated even at a high temperature and a high pressure, thereby being capable of further expanding the applicable fields of industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: LORDO AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Kyung Wook Ahn
  • Patent number: 8553393
    Abstract: Disclosed is a coin type lithium ion capacitor which includes a positive electrode made of an activated carbon based positive active material and a negative electrode opposite to the positive electrode with a first separator interposed therebetween. The negative electrode includes a graphite electrode including a first current collector and a graphite based negative active material coated onto the first current collector; and a lithium metal member opposite to the graphite electrode with a second separator interposed therebetween and including a second current collector and lithium metal coated on the second current collector, in which lithium ions of the lithium metal move from the lithium metal to the positive electrode through the graphite electrode during discharge and are carried in the graphite electrode from the positive electrode during charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Energy Research
    Inventors: Chang Soo Jin, Wook Ahn, Kyoung Hee Shin, Kyu Nam Jung, Bum Suk Lee, Myung Seok Jeon
  • Publication number: 20130238877
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for improving the transfer latency of vector register file data when an interrupt is generated. According to an aspect, when interrupt occurs, a core determines whether to store vector register file data currently being executed in a first memory or in a second memory based on whether or not the first memory can store the vector register file data therein. In response to not being able to store the vector register file data in the first memory, a data transfer unit, which is implemented as hardware, is provided to store vector register file data in the second memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-Seok Lee, Dong-Hoon Yoo, Won-Sub Kim, Tai-Song Jin, Hae-Woo Park, Min-Wook Ahn, Hee-Jin Ahn
  • Publication number: 20130225153
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for remotely controlling a device through a mobile network, and a device which converts a command into a text which is recorded in a short message field of an SMS message when a user inputs the command for remote control, transmits the text by dividing the text into a plurality of SMS messages in case the length of the text is longer than the size of the short message field, and delivers various SMS commands to a remote device through the SMS message regardless of the length of the text by determining the command by using information included in the text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-Jeoung Kim, Sung-Wook Ahn, Man-Seok Kang, Sung-Jin Park
  • Patent number: 8505043
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for limiting a content usage authority scope of a client by using metadata in an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service. The method performed by a metadata server adds control information to the metadata and transmits the metadata, wherein the content usage authority scope of the client is defined in the control information. The client of a user limits a content control operation according to a user input by using the control information extracted from the metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In-chul Hwang, O-Hoon Kwon, Sung-jin Park, Mun-jo Kim, Eun-hee Rhim, Sung-wook Ahn
  • Patent number: 8495673
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing and using content advisory (CA) information on Internet contents. A method of providing CA information by using a CA information server, includes receiving a request for the CA information on a content, from an Internet Protocol television (IPTV); searching for CA information on the content; and transmitting the found CA information to the IPTV. A method of using CA information when an IPTV reproduces a content not having the CA information, according to the present invention, includes transmitting a request for CA information, to a CA information server; receiving the CA information from the CA information server; analyzing the CA information; and applying the CA information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-shin Park, Kwang-hyuk Kim, Sung-wook Ahn, Sung-wook Byun, Sang-woong Lee, Eun-hee Rhim, O-hoon Kwon, Sung-jin Park, In-chul Hwang, Mun-jo Kim
  • Publication number: 20130136840
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for preparing high purity gentiooligosaccharides, high purity gentiooligosaccharides obtained therefrom, and uses thereof. The methods of the present invention involve: adding a low purity gentiooligosaccharide to a liquid medium; subjecting the liquid medium to inoculation with a microorganism, followed by incubation and fermentation to consume glucose that is contained in the low purity gentiooligosaccharide; and subjecting the resulting fermentation broth to filtration and purification. According to the method of the present invention, high purity gentiooligosaccharides having a purity of at least 90% that can be used as alternatives to foods such as cocoa, chocolate, coffee, beer, tea, bread or confectionery product, and beverage or the main ingredients thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: CORN PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT, INC.
    Inventors: JAE Ho LEE, Sang Wook Ahn, Sang Jae Park, Kyeong Hee Kim
  • Publication number: 20130124839
    Abstract: A technology for executing an external operation from a software-pipelined loop is provided. Code performance efficiency can be improved by overlapping the execution of the external operations of the loop and the iterations of the loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Min-Wook AHN, Won-Sub Kim, Dong-Hoon Yoo
  • Publication number: 20130124825
    Abstract: A technique for minimizing overhead caused by copying or moving a value from one cluster to another cluster is provided. A number of operations, for example, a mov operation for moving or copying a value from one cluster to another cluster and a normal operation may be executed concurrently. Accordingly, access to a register file outside of the cluster may be reduced and the performance of code may be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Min-Wook AHN, Tai-Song Jin, Hee-Jin Ahn
  • Publication number: 20120259932
    Abstract: A message to be transmitted is converted into an image file. The image file is stored and location information about a location where the image file is stored, is generated. The image file is transmitted to at least one device based on the location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-kyoung KANG, Sung-wook AHN, Eun NAMGUNG, Jong-ho LEE
  • Publication number: 20120246444
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method capable of processing code to which a software pipelining is not applicable, in a CGA mode. The apparatus may include a processing unit that has a very long instruction word (VLIW) mode and a coarse-grained array (CGA) mode, and an adjusting unit configured to detect a target region to which software pipelining is not applicable, in code to be executed by the processing unit. The adjusting unit may selectively map the detected target region to one of the VLIW mode and the CGA mode according to a schedule length of the detected target region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Tai-Song Jin, Dong-Hoon Yoo, Min-Wook Ahn, Jin-Seok Lee