Patents by Inventor Yong Beom Lee

Yong Beom Lee 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).

  • Publication number: 20070189599
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and medium displaying a stereo image compensates for errors between a left image and a right image to reduce eye fatigue experienced by a user. The apparatus includes a feature-point extractor to extract feature points of graphics objects included in a left image and a right image, of a stereo image, a representative-vector determiner to determine a representative vector among vectors between a predetermined point and the feature points, an error-correction unit to correct at least one of a vertical error and a rotation error between the left image and the right image using a difference between the representative vector determined in the left image and the representative vector determined in the right image, and a display unit to display the left image and the right image for which at least one of the vertical error and the rotation error has been corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee-seob Ryu, Soo-hyun Bae, Yong-beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20070176914
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and medium displaying an input image according to a position of a user, extracting a position vector of the user and warping the image input to both eyes of the user according to the extracted position vector in order to provide a stereoscopic image that is not perceived as warped by the user. The apparatus for displaying an input image according to the position of a user includes a position sensing unit to sense the position of the user, a change measurement unit to measure an amount of change in position of the user, and an image correction unit to correct the input image when the amount of change meets a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soo-hyun Bae, Hee-seob Ryu, Yong-beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20070178375
    Abstract: A separator for a rechargeable lithium battery, a rechargeable lithium battery including the same, and a method of manufacturing a rechargeable lithium battery. The separator includes a separating substrate; and an antistatic agent coated on the separating substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Naoya Kobayashi, Yong-Beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20070165037
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for displaying a three-dimensional image according to the position of a user, in which the distance between a display panel displaying a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional optical panel converting a two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional image is controlled in accordance with the position of the user to provide an optimized three-dimensional image. The apparatus includes a three-dimensional optical device converting a displayed two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional image, a position measurement module measuring the position of the user who converges on the three-dimensional image, a crosstalk calculator calculating the level of crosstalk that can occur in the position of the user, and a driver adjusting a position of the three-dimensional optical device if the level of crosstalk exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-seob Ryu, Tae-hee Kim, Soo-hyun Bae, Jun-il Sohn, Yong-beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20070152962
    Abstract: A user interface system and method for providing a vibration signal are provided. The user interface system includes a storage module to store a plurality of graphic objects and attribute information of each of the graphic objects, a control module to receive motion information of an interface object moved a user among the plurality of graphic objects from an interface device and to provide frequency information and amplitude information based on the motion information and the attribute information, and a drive module to generate a vibration signal based on the frequency information and the amplitude information and to transmit the vibration signal to the interface device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-youn Kim, Kyu-yong Kim, Byung-seok Soh, Gyung-hye Yang, Yong-beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20070152974
    Abstract: A haptic button providing various stimulations to a user according to a current application and a haptic device using the same are provided. The haptic button includes an electro-active polymer having a flat shape, a pair of electrodes contacting two sides of the electro-active polymer, an electric circuit applying a predetermined voltage to the pair of electrodes, and a sensor sensing a button input from a user, wherein stimulation provided from the electro-active polymer to the user is changed by changing a waveform of the voltage according to a current application status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyu-yong Kim, Sang-youn Kim, Byung-seok Soh, Gyung-hye Yang, Yong-beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20070156348
    Abstract: A method and system of quantitatively evaluating subjective inconvenience, e.g., physiological fatigue and emotional fatigue, experienced by a user when the user views a three-dimensional display screen, based on objectively measurable indices. The method includes sorting words representing a degree of fatigue associated with a 3D image display among a plurality of words, grouping the sorted words through factor analysis, setting words with the highest factor weight as subjective parameters, receiving evaluation scores for the subjective parameters while varying test values of objective parameter candidates capable of representing 3D image characteristics in numerical values, obtaining a correlation between each of indices for N groups and each of the objective parameter candidates using the evaluation scores, and applying the factor weight to the indices to represent the degree of fatigue in the objective parameter candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo-hyun Bae, Tae-hee Kim, Hee-seob Ryu, Jun-il Sohn, Min-kyu Park, Yong-beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20070152982
    Abstract: An input device for adaptively providing various input modes according to an aspect of the present application and providing a clicking feeling to a user by controlling the stiffness of a button pressed by the user is provided. The input device includes a contact surface (physically) contacting a user, an actuator providing a displacement or a force to the contact surface, and an electric circuit controlling the operation of the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyu-yong Kim, Sang-youn Kim, Yong-beom Lee, Byung-seok Soh, Gyung-hye Yang
  • Publication number: 20070146339
    Abstract: A mobile apparatus for providing a user interface and method and medium for executing functions using the user interface are provided. The mobile apparatus includes a user interface module sensing a user's touch and providing information regarding the user's touch, and a control module determining a type of mode and function selected by a user based on the provided information regarding the user's touch, wherein the user interface module provides a user interface pad by which mode items and function items corresponding to the mode items are simultaneously formed, and the user interface module includes a first area for selecting mode items corresponding to the type of mode and function determined by the control module, a second area for selecting the function items, and a common area of the first and second areas, and the control module executes a function positioned at the common area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Gyung-hye Yang, Kyu-yong Kim, Sang-youn Kim, Byung-seok Soh, Yong-beom Lee
  • Patent number: 7223501
    Abstract: A solid polymer electrolyte, a lithium battery employing the same, and methods of forming the electrolyte and the lithium battery. The polymer electrolyte includes polyester (meth)acrylate having a polyester polyol moiety having three or more hydroxide (—OH) groups, at least one hydroxde group being substituted by a (meth)acrylic ester group and at least one hydroxide group being substituted by a radical non-reactive group, or its polymer, a peroxide having 6 to 40 carbon atoms, and an electrolytic solution including a lithium salt and an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheol-soo Jung, Ki-ho Kim, Eui-hwan Song, Doo-kyung Yang, Kyoung-hee Lee, Yong-beom Lee, Hyun-jeong Lim, Takitaro Yamaguchi, Ryuichi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7225128
    Abstract: There are provided a system and method for providing information using a spoken dialogue interface. The system includes a speech recognizer for transforming voice signals into sentences; a sentence analyzer for analyzing the sentences by their structural elements; a dialogue manager for extracting information on speech acts or intentions from the structural elements, and generating information on system's speech acts or intentions for a response to the extracted information on speech acts or intentions; a sentence generator for generating sentences based on the information on the system's speech acts or intentions for the response; a speech synthesizer for synthesizing the generated sentences into voices; an information extractor for extracting information required for the response from the Internet in real time; and a user modeling means for analyzing and classifying users' tendencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-su Kim, Yong-beom Lee, Jae-won Lee, Hye-jeong Lee, Chan-min Park, Hee-kyoung Seo
  • Publication number: 20070118248
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reckoning a position of a moving robot using dead-reckoning and range sensing. The method includes performing dead-reckoning to determine a variation state in accordance with motion of the moving robot, calculating an absolute position of the moving robot by sensing a distance between the moving robot and at least one fixed position, predicting an optimized current position of the moving robot using the variation state and the absolute position, determining whether the optimized current position is within a specified effective area, and correcting the optimized current position in accordance with the determined result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyoung-ki Lee, Hyeon Myeong, Ki-wan Choi, Yong-beom Lee, Seok-won Bang
  • Publication number: 20070106423
    Abstract: A mobile robot and a method of localizing the robot are disclosed. The robot includes a gyroscope module providing information regarding a rotational angle of a gyroscope; an encoder module providing information regarding velocity and information regarding a rotational angle of a wheel of the robot by sensing motion of the wheel; and a control module estimating a current pose of the robot according to a method based on information provided by the encoder module and the gyroscope module, the control module incorporating information regarding rotational angle provided by the gyroscope module when estimating the current pose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeon Myeong, Yong-beom Lee, Hyoung-ki Lee, Ki-wan Choi
  • Publication number: 20070085830
    Abstract: A pointer displaying apparatus, method, and medium are provided. The pointer displaying apparatus includes a management unit which sets an event zone for an object currently being displayed on a screen, the object being referred to as the current object; a reception unit which receives the coordinates of a pointed-to-spot currently being pointed at by a direct pointing device; a control unit which determines whether the pointed-to-spot is included in the event zone; and a screen coordinate determination unit which determines screen coordinates of a location on the screen where a pointer is to be displayed based on the coordinates of the center of the current object and the coordinates of the pointed-to-spot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho-joon Yoo, Ki-wan Choi, Sun-gi Hong, Yong-beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20070083361
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to disturb a voice signal by attenuating and masking the voice signal are provided. The method includes; receiving a voice signal from a wired or wireless network; obtaining a masked voice signal by dividing the received voice signal into a plurality of segments of the same size; outputting the received voice signal and receiving a feedback signal of the output voice signal; obtaining an attenuated voice signal by performing a first sound attenuation operation on the feedback signal; and combining the attenuated voice signal and the masked voice signal and outputting the result of the combination as disturbing sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Attila Ferencz, Jun-il Sohn, Kwon-ju Yi, Yong-beom Lee, Sang-ryong Kim
  • Publication number: 20070072601
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for providing information during a call by delivering the current state and changes of state of a mobile device by tactile information, and which does not interfere with the phone conversation. The apparatus for providing information during a call comprises an information-sensing unit sensing at least one among information about the state of a mobile device and the state of a phone conversation, an information-analysis unit analyzing the sensed state information, a tactile information-generating unit generating tactile information corresponding to the sensed information, which was analyzed by the information-analysis unit, a tactile information-outputting unit delivering the tactile information to a user, and a driving unit generating a driving signal which drives the tactile information-outputting unit by converting the tactile information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-youn Kim, Gyung-hye Yang, Byung-seok Soh, Yong-beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20070070054
    Abstract: A slide-type input device, a portable device provided with the input device and a method and medium of using the input device, which more freely move a pointer displayed on a screen, and more conveniently and exactly select a specific object, is provided. The slide-type input device includes a slide button movable in a specific direction, a motion control hole providing a movement area of the slide button, a location-detection module detecting location-change information according to the movement of the slide button, and a controller controlling a pointer displayed on the screen based on the location-change information of the slide button, wherein the slide button is moved in the specific direction by an external force applied by a user, and is then returned to an original location by an elastic force when the external force of the user is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Dong-Kyung Nam, Yong-beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20070055513
    Abstract: A method, medium, and system for masking voice information of a communication device. The method of masking a user's voice through an output of a masking signal similar to a formant of voice data may include dividing the voice data received into frames of a predetermined size, transforming the frames on a frequency axis thereof, regarded as a domain, obtaining formant information of intensive signal regions in the transformed frames, generating a sound signal disturbing the formant information with reference to the formant information, and outputting the sound signal in accordance with a time point when the voice signal is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang-il Hwang, Sang-ryong Kim, Yong-beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20070046627
    Abstract: An input device and method for protecting input information from exposure, in which the time of input of information is determined using a tactile output to protect the input information from being exposed. The input device for protecting input information from exposure includes a user-input module for receiving predetermined input information from a user, a control module for setting the information inputted in association with a tactile signal among the input information as user-input information, and a tactile-output-generation module for generating and providing the tactile signal to the user-input module under the control of the control module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung-seok Soh, Kyu-yong Kim, Sang-youn Kim, Gyung-hye Yang, Yong-beom Lee
  • Publication number: 20070006717
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for providing music file search function. The apparatus includes an input unit that receives an input of an attribute of a music file to be played, an extract unit that extracts a characteristic segment from the music file according to the input attribute, a 3D-sound generating unit that generates 3D sound from the characteristic segment of the music file along a spatial axis corresponding to the attribute, and an output unit that outputs the 3D sound. The method includes the steps of inputting an attribute of a music file to be played, searching a characteristic segment of the music file according to the input attribute, generating 3D sound from the characteristic segment of the music file along a spatial-axis corresponding to the attribute, and outputting the 3D sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeon Myeong, Chang-kyu Choi, Yeun-bae Kim, Min-kyu Park, Yong-beom Lee