Patents by Inventor Yong-Wook Shin

Yong-Wook Shin 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: 20250011170
    Abstract: A high-purity NO2 gas generation apparatus, according to the present invention, comprises: an ozone gas generator; a nitrogen oxide gas generator containing NO; and a mixing unit for mixing ozone from the ozone gas generator and gas from the nitrogen oxide gas generator. Gas containing NO2 from the high-purity NO2 gas generation apparatus may be supplied to an apparatus for producing high-concentration activated water and fertilizer water. The apparatus for manufacturing high-concentration activated water and fertilizer water, according to the present invention, comprises: an upright cylindrical column forming a flow path in the longitudinal direction; a water supply unit positioned above the column and supplying water to the flow path; a gas supply unit positioned below the flow path and supplying gas containing NO2 gas; and a discharge port positioned at the lower end of the flow path and discharging a fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF FUSION ENERGY
    Inventors: Yong Cheol HONG, Geon Woo YANG, Yong Wook SHIN, Hae Kwang KIM
  • Patent number: 12172868
    Abstract: IoT terminal and system of monitoring the occurrence of abnormal situation in an elevator are disclosed, wherein the system includes: an IoT terminal installed on the inside surface of an elevator and configured to detect abnormal situation in the elevator automatically and to transmitting the real-time sensing results; a control center terminal configured to receive the abnormal situation from the IoT terminal 100 in real time, to identify an abnormal situation in the elevator, and to control the abnormal situation and to propagate it in real time; an on-site personnel mobile terminal configured to receive the abnormal situation and output the abnormal situation that is propagated from the control center terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TETRA Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Wook Shin
  • Publication number: 20240096345
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, method, and computer readable medium are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator, and a controller. The controller, based on a first voice input being received, controls the communicator to receive data including first response information corresponding to the first voice input from a server, and outputs the first response information on a display, and based on a second voice input being received, controls the communicator to receive data including second response information corresponding to the second voice input from the server, and outputs the second response information on the display. Based on whether the second voice input is received within a predetermined time from a time corresponding to the output of the first response information, whether a use of utterance history information is identified, and the second response information is displayed differently based on whether the second voice input is received within the predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-hye Chung, Cheong-jae Lee, Hye-jeong Lee, Yong-wook Shin
  • Patent number: 11854570
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, method, and computer readable medium are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator, and a controller. The controller, based on a first voice input being received, controls the communicator to receive data including first response information corresponding to the first voice input from a server, and outputs the first response information on a display, and based on a second voice input being received, controls the communicator to receive data including second response information corresponding to the second voice input from the server, and outputs the second response information on the display. Based on whether the second voice input is received within a predetermined time from a time corresponding to the output of the first response information, whether a use of utterance history information is identified, and the second response information is displayed differently based on whether the second voice input is received within the predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-hye Chung, Cheong-jae Lee, Hye-jeong Lee, Yong-wook Shin
  • Publication number: 20230300398
    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: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CoO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-wook SHIN, Seung-min SHIN, Sung-wook CHOI, Hye-jeong LEE, Ji-hye CHUNG
  • Patent number: 11700409
    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: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-wook Shin, Seung-min Shin, Sung-wook Choi, Hye-jeong Lee, Ji-hye Chung
  • Publication number: 20230009958
    Abstract: A plasma water treatment apparatus includes a plasma generator that generates plasma in water, and a porous dielectric that adsorbs nitrogen oxide generated in the water, surrounds the plasma generator, and includes silicon dioxide powder and carbon powder, thereby removing color of wastewater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yong Cheol HONG, Yong Wook SHIN, Kang II KIM, Seong II HONG, Hee Jae LEE
  • Publication number: 20210204013
    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: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-wook Shin, Seung-min Shin, Sung-wook Choi, Hye-jeong Lee, Ji-hye Chung
  • Publication number: 20210118463
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, method, and computer readable medium are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator, and a controller. The controller, based on a first voice input being received, controls the communicator to receive data including first response information corresponding to the first voice input from a server, and outputs the first response information on a display, and based on a second voice input being received, controls the communicator to receive data including second response information corresponding to the second voice input from the server, and outputs the second response information on the display. Based on whether the second voice input is received within a predetermined time from a time corresponding to the output of the first response information, whether a use of utterance history information is identified, and the second response information is displayed differently based on whether the second voice input is received within the predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-hye CHUNG, Cheong-jae LEE, Hye-jeong LEE, Yong-wook SHIN
  • Patent number: 10986391
    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: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-wook Shin, Seung-min Shin, Sung-wook Choi, Hye-jeong Lee, Ji-hye Chung
  • Patent number: 10891968
    Abstract: An interactive server, a control method thereof, and an interactive system are provided. The interactive server includes: a communicator which communicates with a display apparatus to receive an uttered voice signal; a storage device which stores utterance history information of a second uttered voice signal received from the display apparatus before the first uttered voice signal is received; an extractor which extracts uttered elements from the received first uttered voice signal; and a controller which generates response information based on the utterance history information stored in the storage device and the extracted uttered elements and transmits the response information to the display apparatus. Therefore, the interactive server comprehends intentions of the user with respect to various uttered voices of the user to generate response information according to the intentions and transmits the response information to the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-hye Chung, Cheong-jae Lee, Hye-jeong Lee, Yong-wook Shin
  • Publication number: 20200260127
    Abstract: An interactive server, a display apparatus, and a control method thereof are disclosed. An interactive server includes a communication unit configured to perform communication with a display apparatus and receive a voice command signal including a first command element representing a target and a second command element representing an execution command; a storage unit configured to store indicators and command words; an extraction unit configured to extract an indicator corresponding to the first command element and a command word corresponding to the second command element from the storage unit; and a controller configured to generate response information corresponding to the voice command signal by combining the extracted indicator and command word, and send the response information to the display apparatus, wherein the first command element is an command element that is determined based on a displaying status of objects displayed on a screen of the display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-hye CHUNG, Myung-jae KIM, Yong-wook SHIN, Bo-ra LEE, Jin-sik LEE, Cheong-jae LEE
  • Patent number: 10528835
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a user input interface configured to provide a user input according to at least one input method; a storage configured to store a database for biometric information of at least one user which corresponds with at least one identification (IDs) previously registered to the image processing apparatus; a signal processor configured to process a preset service which is provided corresponding to an authenticated identification (ID) in response to a user being authenticated with the ID; and a controller configured to determine whether authentication is performed with regard to one of the IDs in response to an event occurring which identifies a current user, and retrieve and authenticate the ID from the database based on the biometric information of the current user acquired by the user input interface in response to determining that the authentication is not performed with regard to the ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-wook Shin, Ki-jun Jeong, Chi-sang Jung
  • Patent number: 10242586
    Abstract: An information providing method of a server, including: acquiring at least one of content information corresponding to content displayed on a display apparatus and user information of a user of the display apparatus; extracting at least one question related to the content from a question-answer database based on the at least one of the content information and the user information; and transmitting the extracted at least one question to the display apparatus, wherein the question-answer database is generated based on a question-answer template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-hyun Choi, Seung-won Kim, Je-youn Dong, Yong-wook Shin, Yong-hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10192459
    Abstract: An information providing method of a server, including: acquiring at least one of content information corresponding to content displayed on a display apparatus and user information of a user of the display apparatus; extracting at least one question related to the content from a question-answer database based on the at least one of the content information and the user information; and transmitting the extracted at least one question to the display apparatus, wherein the question-answer database is generated based on a question-answer template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-hyun Choi, Seung-won Kim, Je-youn Dong, Yong-wook Shin, Yong-hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10140985
    Abstract: A system includes a server and an image processing apparatus, and the server is provided that includes a communication interface, a storage, and a processor. The communication interface is configured to communicate with the image processing apparatus. The storage is configured to store data. The processor may provide a result of processing a first event that includes a speech of a user to the image processing apparatus in response to the first event being received from the image processing apparatus, store a record of the first event in the storage according to processing of the first event, determine a relation between the first and second events that includes a user input by a non-speech method in response to the second event being received from the image processing apparatus, and process the second event based on the record of the first event stored in the storage in response to the relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-wook Shin, Ji-hye Chung, Seung-min Shin, Hee-ran Lee, Sung-wook Choi
  • Patent number: 9749699
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee-ran Lee, Yong-wook Shin, Sung-wook Choi, Seung-min Shin, Sung-pil Hwang
  • Publication number: 20170026707
    Abstract: An electronic device for providing information associated with broadcast content and a method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a tuner configured to receive the broadcast content, and a controller configured to extract an object from the broadcast content, determine one or more keywords identifying the object, select keywords for generating a search query from the one or more keywords, combine the selected keywords to generate the search query, and provide a user with information of a search result using the search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-won YOO, Kyung-su PARK, Yong-wook SHIN, Kye-hyeon KIM, Dong-hyun CHOI
  • Publication number: 20170011009
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a tuner configured to receive news content; and a controller configured to extract text information from the news content, map the extracted text information onto pre-generated news clusters to select a news cluster corresponding to the text information, and provide a representative expression of the selected news cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-hyun CHOI, Yong-wook SHIN, Kye-hyeon KIM, Kyung-su PARK, Ji-won YOO
  • 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