Patents by Inventor Yoo Mee Song

Yoo Mee Song 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: 9378588
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and method of controlling applications of the same are disclosed, by which each operation of all applications currently executed in a multitasking mode can be effectively controlled within one picture. The present invention includes executing a plurality of applications, displaying an execution picture of a first application among a plurality of the executed applications on a screen, and displaying a 3D polyhedron displaying a control window of at least one of a plurality of the applications except the first application on a corresponding facet of the 3D polyhedron on a screen in the course of displaying the execution picture of the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoo Mee Song, Hye Youn Cho, I Su Byun, Yee Rang Yun, Woo Jin Suh, Byung Sang Yeo, Sang Hyuck Lee, Seong Yoon Cho
  • Patent number: 8874608
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a wireless communication unit communicating with a server providing a social network service, a memory storing a contact list and account information related to the social network service, a user input unit receiving a search query, a controller searching for a contact person in the contact list based on the search query, the controller also connecting and transmitting information of the contact person found in the contact list to the server, and receiving a search result from the server, and a display unit displaying the search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yoo-Mee Song, Byung-Sang Yeo, Yee-Rang Yun, Hye-Youn Cho, Seong-Yoon Cho, Kyoung-Hee Son
  • Patent number: 8850333
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and display controlling method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes storing user registration information registered at each of one or more websites, receiving an input of a command signal for providing the user registration information, and displaying a registration information indicator corresponding to each of the one or more websites. Displaying the registration information indicator includes displaying the stored user registration information registered at the corresponding website within the registration information indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yoo Mee Song, Byung Sang Yeo, Seong Yoon Cho, Yee Rang Yun, Hye Youn Cho, Dong Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 8832586
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to transmit and receive signals to and from a network or Internet site; and a controller operatively connected to the wireless communication unit and configured to set an automatic login region or time period within the mobile terminal for automatically logging into the network or Internet site, to determine whether or not the mobile terminal has entered or exited the automatic login region or time period and generate a corresponding determination result, and to automatically log into the network or Internet site if the determination result indicates that the mobile terminal has entered the automatic login region or time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yoo Mee Song, Byung Sang Yeo, Seong Yoon Cho, Yee Rang Yun, Hye Youn Cho, Dong Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 8724004
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and its tag editing method are provided. The tag editing method of a mobile terminal includes operating a camera, displaying a preview image inputted via the camera on a preview screen, entering a tag editing mode from the preview screen, editing tag information in the tag editing mode, capturing an image by the camera after editing the tag information, tagging the edited tag information to the captured image to form a tagged image; and displaying the tagged image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yoo-Mee Song, Byung-Sang Yeo, Seong-Yoon Cho, Yee-Rang Yun, Hye-Youn Cho, Dong-Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 8423089
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method for controlling operation of the same are provided. A command input key including a command or an icon, which allows the user to input a command to execute an application to the mobile terminal, is displayed on the mobile terminal. The user may input a command to execute at least two applications to the mobile terminal through one command input key. The display state of the command input key is changed according to the pressure or duration of operation of the command input key. Through the changed display state of the command input key, the user can know which type of application is executed in response to operation of the command input key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yoo Mee Song, Hu Ran Choi, Seung Hyun Yang, Se Il Hwang, Myo Ha Kim
  • Patent number: 8260268
    Abstract: A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method including displaying, via a display on the mobile terminal, a list of contacts included on the mobile terminal, selecting, via an input unit on the mobile terminal, a first contact included in the list of contacts, accessing, via a wireless communication unit, a web site corresponding to the first contact, displaying, on the display, a list of contacts of the first contact included on the web site corresponding to the first contact without displaying personal contact information for the list of contacts of the first contact, selecting, via the input unit, a second contact from the list of contacts of the first contact, displaying, via the display, a plurality of options for communicating with the second contact without displaying personal contact information of the second contact that is used for communicating with the second contact, selecting, via the input unit, one of the plurality of options for communicating with the second contact, and communicating
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hye Youn Cho, Byung Sang Yeo, Seong Yoon Cho, Yee Rang Yun, Yoo Mee Song, Dong Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 8212785
    Abstract: An object search method, computer program product, and a terminal having an object search function are disclosed. The object search method includes: displaying a list of a plurality of objects including a first object and a second object in a first screen area, and displaying a touch input window for touch input in a second screen area; touching a first position on the touch input window with a pointer and then dragging the pointer to a second position on the touch input window; and moving an object indicator from the first object to the second object on the list as the pointer is dragged from the first position to the second position. Therefore, it is possible to efficiently search for an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Zee Young Min, Yoo Mee Song, Kye Sook Jeong, Jin A. Chang
  • Publication number: 20110134110
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and method of controlling applications of the same are disclosed, by which each operation of all applications currently executed in a multitasking mode can be effectively controlled within one picture. The present invention includes executing a plurality of applications, displaying an execution picture of a first application among a plurality of the executed applications on a screen, and displaying a 3D polyhedron displaying a control window of at least one of a plurality of the applications except the first application on a corresponding facet of the 3D polyhedron on a screen in the course of displaying the execution picture of the first application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Yoo Mee SONG, Hye Youn Cho, I Su Byun, Yee Rang Yun, Woo Jin Suh, Byung Sang Yeo, Sang Hyuck Lee, Seong Yoon Cho
  • Publication number: 20110081952
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and its tag editing method are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventors: Yoo-Mee Song, Byung-Sang Yeo, Seong-Yoon Cho, Yee-Rang Yun, Hye-Youn Cho, Dong-Seok Lee
  • Publication number: 20110078184
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a wireless communication unit communicating with a server providing a social network service, a memory storing a contact list and account information related to the social network service, a user input unit receiving a search query, a controller searching for a contact person in the contact list based on the search query, the controller also connecting and transmitting information of the contact person found in the contact list to the server, and receiving a search result from the server, and a display unit displaying the search result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Yoo-Mee SONG, Byung-Sang YEO, Yee-Rang YUN, Hye-Youn CHO, Seong-Yoon CHO, Kyoung-Hee SON
  • Publication number: 20110061016
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to transmit and receive signals to and from a network or Internet site; and a controller operatively connected to the wireless communication unit and configured to set an automatic login region or time period within the mobile terminal for automatically logging into the network or Internet site, to determine whether or not the mobile terminal has entered or exited the automatic login region or time period and generate a corresponding determination result, and to automatically log into the network or Internet site if the determination result indicates that the mobile terminal has entered the automatic login region or time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventors: Yoo Mee SONG, Byung Sang Yeo, Seong Yoon Cho, Yee Rang Yun, Hye Youn Cho, Dong Seok Lee
  • Publication number: 20110061006
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and display controlling method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes storing user registration information registered at each of one or more websites, receiving an input of a command signal for providing the user registration information, and displaying a registration information indicator corresponding to each of the one or more websites. Displaying the registration information indicator includes displaying the stored user registration information registered at the corresponding website within the registration information indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventors: Yoo Mee Song, Byung Sang Yeo, Seong Yoon Cho, Yee Rang Yun, Hye Youn Cho, Dong Seok Lee
  • Publication number: 20110009101
    Abstract: A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method including displaying, via a display on the mobile terminal, a list of contacts included on the mobile terminal, selecting, via an input unit on the mobile terminal, a first contact included in the list of contacts, accessing, via a wireless communication unit, a web site corresponding to the first contact, displaying, on the display, a list of contacts of the first contact included on the web site corresponding to the first contact without displaying personal contact information for the list of contacts of the first contact, selecting, via the input unit, a second contact from the list of contacts of the first contact, displaying, via the display, a plurality of options for communicating with the second contact without displaying personal contact information of the second contact that is used for communicating with the second contact, selecting, via the input unit, one of the plurality of options for communicating with the second contact, and communicating
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hye Youn Cho, Byung Sang Yeo, Seong Yoon Cho, Yee Rang Yun, Yoo Mee Song, Dong Seok Lee
  • Publication number: 20100317410
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method for controlling operation of the same are provided. A command input key including a command or an icon, which allows the user to input a command to execute an application to the mobile terminal, is displayed on the mobile terminal. The user may input a command to execute at least two applications to the mobile terminal through one command input key. The display state of the command input key is changed according to the pressure or duration of operation of the command input key. Through the changed display state of the command input key, the user can know which type of application is executed in response to operation of the command input key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Yoo Mee SONG, Hu Ran Choi, Seung Hyun Yang, Se II Hwang, Myo Ha Kim
  • Publication number: 20100299634
    Abstract: A method for controlling a menu in a mobile terminal is disclosed and the mobile terminal includes a display unit configured to display a menu configured to control the mobile terminal, the menu comprising first data, a memory configured to store the first data, an input unit configured to receive an input for accessing a preset website, a wireless communication module configured to access the preset website responsive to the input, and a controller configured to obtain second data related to the menu from the preset website and to display the menu comprising both the first data and the second data on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: Seong Yoon Cho, Hye Youn Cho, Byung Sang Yeo, Yee Rang Yun, Yoo Mee Song, Dong Seok Lee
  • Publication number: 20080288867
    Abstract: A mobile communication device, a computer program product, and a method of controlling the same are provided. The method includes displaying a list of multimedia files that can be played on a screen of a first display unit; selecting a multimedia file from the list; and playing the selected multimedia file and displaying information regarding the progress of play of the selected multimedia file on the screen of the second display unit. Accordingly, it is possible to enable a user to easily and effectively control the play of a multimedia file by displaying a list of multimedia files that can be played on the screen of a first display unit and displaying a menu or icon for controlling the play of the multimedia file on the screen of a second display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kye Sook Jeong, Zee Young Min, Jin A Chang, Yoo Mee Song
  • Publication number: 20080252611
    Abstract: An object search method, computer program product, and a terminal having an object search function are disclosed. The object search method includes: displaying a list of a plurality of objects including a first object and a second object in a first screen area, and displaying a touch input window for touch input in a second screen area; touching a first position on the touch input window with a pointer and then dragging the pointer to a second position on the touch input window; and moving an object indicator from the first object to the second object on the list as the pointer is dragged from the first position to the second position. Therefore, it is possible to efficiently search for an object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Zee Young Min, Yoo Mee Song, Kye Sook Jeong, Jin A. Chang