Patents by Inventor Sang-Kwon Na
Sang-Kwon Na 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).
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Patent number: 11825153Abstract: A display apparatus, a control method thereof and a recording medium are provided. The display apparatus includes: a display; a communicator configured to communicate with at least one external apparatus; and a processor configured to: control a user interface (UI) to be displayed on the display, the UI including a first item corresponding to the display apparatus and a second item corresponding to the at least one external apparatus and being displayed to distinguish between an external apparatus connected to the display apparatus and an external apparatus disconnected from the display apparatus, and, based on one of at least one of the second item being selected, control the external apparatus corresponding to the selected item to be connected to or disconnected from the display apparatus through the communicator.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Joo Chung, Woo Seok Kang, Doo Hyun Kim, Sang Kwon Na, Chul Woo Lee, Doo Chan Hwang, Ki Won Yoo
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Publication number: 20230042014Abstract: A display apparatus, a control method thereof and a recording medium are provided. The display apparatus includes: a display; a communicator configured to communicate with at least one external apparatus; and a processor configured to: control a user interface (UI) to be displayed on the display, the UI including a first item corresponding to the display apparatus and a second item corresponding to the at least one external apparatus and being displayed to distinguish between an external apparatus connected to the display apparatus and an external apparatus disconnected from the display apparatus, and, based on one of at least one of the second item being selected, control the external apparatus corresponding to the selected item to be connected to or disconnected from the display apparatus through the communicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Joo CHUNG, Woo Seok Kang, Doo Hyun Kim, Sang Kwon NA, Chul Woo Lee, Doo Chan Hwang, Ki Won Yoo
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Patent number: 11503364Abstract: A display apparatus, a control method thereof and a recording medium are provided. The display apparatus includes: a display; a communicator configured to communicate with at least one external apparatus; and a processor configured to: control a user interface (UI) to be displayed on the display, the UI including a first item corresponding to the display apparatus and a second item corresponding to the at least one external apparatus and being displayed to distinguish between an external apparatus connected to the display apparatus and an external apparatus disconnected from the display apparatus, and, based on one of at least one of the second item being selected, control the external apparatus corresponding to the selected item to be connected to or disconnected from the display apparatus through the communicator.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Joo Chung, Woo Seok Kang, Doo Hyun Kim, Sang Kwon Na, Chul Woo Lee, Doo Chan Hwang, Ki Won Yoo
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Patent number: 11234053Abstract: A device may receive a request associated with adjusting the media output level of a sink device that is configured to output media content. The device may identify a source gain of a source device that is configured to provide the media content to the sink device, and a sink gain of the sink device. The device may identify a sink adjustment value for changing the sink gain based on the request for adjusting the media output level of the sink device, the source gain, and the sink gain. The device may transmit, to the sink device, a control signal to permit the sink gain to be changed based on the sink adjustment value. The media output level of the sink device is based on the source gain and the sink gain.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo Seok Kang, Doo Hyun Kim, Sang Kwon Na, Ki Won Yoo, Chul Woo Lee, Jin Joo Chung, Doo Chan Hwang
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Patent number: 11057616Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method including obtaining a residue of a first bit-depth with respect to a current block by decoding a bitstream; when intra predicting the current block, generating a prediction block of the current block by using a block that is previously decoded at the first bit-depth and then stored in a buffer; and generating a reconstruction block of the first bit-depth by using the prediction block and the residue of the first bit-depth. When the current block is inter predicted, the video decoding method may further include generating a prediction block of a second bit-depth by using an image previously decoded at the second bit-depth, and generating the prediction block of the current block by changing the generated prediction block of the second bit-depth to the first bit-depth. The first bit-depth is higher than the second bit-depth.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATIONInventors: Sang-kwon Na, Soo-ik Chae, Ki-won Yoo, Jae-moon Kim, Woo-seok Jeong
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Patent number: 11032554Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method for reconstructing an image, the video decoding method including: obtaining reference image data from a bitstream; determining an attribute of the reference image data as a long-term reference attribute or a short-term reference attribute, according to a frequency of referring to the reference image data by image data to be decoded; storing the reference image data in a memory by using the attribute of the reference image data; and decoding an image by using the reference image data stored in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang-kwon Na, Sung-oh Kim, Jae-moon Kim, Ki-won Yoo
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Publication number: 20200359083Abstract: A display apparatus, a control method thereof and a recording medium are provided. The display apparatus includes: a display; a communicator configured to communicate with at least one external apparatus; and a processor configured to: control a user interface (UI) to be displayed on the display, the UI including a first item corresponding to the display apparatus and a second item corresponding to the at least one external apparatus and being displayed to distinguish between an external apparatus connected to the display apparatus and an external apparatus disconnected from the display apparatus, and, based on one of at least one of the second item being selected, control the external apparatus corresponding to the selected item to be connected to or disconnected from the display apparatus through the communicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2018Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Joo CHUNG, Woo Seok KANG, Doo Hyun KIM, Sang Kwon NA, Chul Woo LEE, Doo Chan HWANG, Ki Won YOO
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Patent number: 10701357Abstract: A video encoding apparatus comprises an encoder encoding input video; a decoder decoding video data, and a filter to compensate for a pixel value of the encoded video data. An adaptive loop filter (ALF) parameter predictor generates an ALF filter parameter using the decoded video data. The ALF filter parameter is applied to an ALF filter to compensate a current pixel by using a pixel adjacent to the current pixel and a filter coefficient with respect to the neighboring pixel; a sample adaptive offset (SAO) filter unit applied to the decoded video data compensates for a current pixel by using at least one of an edge offset and a band offset; an ALF filter unit applies the ALF filter parameter, the ALF filter to video data to which the SAO filter has been applied; and an entropy encoder performs entropy encoding on the ALF filter parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung-dae Kim, Ki-won Yoo, Jae-moon Kim, Sang-kwon Na
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Patent number: 10694190Abstract: A processing apparatus has a processor including a first memory. The processor divides a frame in video content into a plurality of coding units (CUs), and encodes the plurality of CUs in a diagonal direction to generate an encoded frame, wherein when a first CU is encoded based on a first encoding type, the processor is further configured to load, from a second memory, a first partial region of a reference frame corresponding to first position information of the first CU to the first memory and encode the first CU based on the first partial region of the reference frame loaded from the second memory, and wherein, when the first CU is encoded based on a second encoding type, the processor is further configured to encode the first CU based on a first reference pixel value corresponding to the first position information of the first CU from the first memory.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang-kwon Na, Ki-won Yoo, Doo-hyun Kim
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Publication number: 20200177964Abstract: A device may receive a request associated with adjusting the media output level of a sink device that is configured to output media content. The device may identify a source gain of a source device that is configured to provide the media content to the sink device, and a sink gain of the sink device. The device may identify a sink adjustment value for changing the sink gain based on the request for adjusting the media output level of the sink device, the source gain, and the sink gain. The device may transmit, to the sink device, a control signal to permit the sink gain to be changed based on the sink adjustment value. The media output level of the sink device is based on the source gain and the sink gain.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-seok KANG, Doo Hyun KIM, Sang Kwon NA, Ki Won YOO, Chul Woo LEE, Jin Joo CHUNG, Doo Chan HWANG
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Publication number: 20200099950Abstract: Provided is a processing device. The processing device includes a memory storing a video content, and a processor to divide a frame forming the video content into a plurality of coding units, and generate an encoded frame by performing encoding for each of the plurality of coding units, and the processor may add information including a motion vector that is obtained in the encoding process for each of the plurality of coding units to the encoded frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang-kwon NA, Ki-won YOO
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Patent number: 10602230Abstract: A device may receive a request associated with adjusting the media output level of a sink device that is configured to output media content. The device may identify a source gain of a source device that is configured to provide the media content to the sink device, and a sink gain of the sink device. The device may identify a sink adjustment value for changing the sink gain based on the request for adjusting the media output level of the sink device, the source gain, and the sink gain. The device may transmit, to the sink device, a control signal to permit the sink gain to be changed based on the sink adjustment value. The media output level of the sink device is based on the source gain and the sink gain.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo Seok Kang, Doo Hyun Kim, Sang Kwon Na, Ki Won Yoo, Chul Woo Lee, Jin Joo Chung, Doo Chan Hwang
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Publication number: 20200036966Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method including obtaining a residue of a first bit-depth with respect to a current block by decoding a bitstream; when intra predicting the current block, generating a prediction block of the current block by using a block that is previously decoded at the first bit-depth and then stored in a buffer; and generating a reconstruction block of the first bit-depth by using the prediction block and the residue of the first bit-depth. When the current block is inter predicted, the video decoding method may further include generating a prediction block of a second bit-depth by using an image previously decoded at the second bit-depth, and generating the prediction block of the current block by changing the generated prediction block of the second bit-depth to the first bit-depth. The first bit-depth is higher than the second bit-depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2016Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATIONInventors: Sang-kwon NA, Soo-ik CHAE, Ki-won YOO, Jae-moon KIM, Woo-seok JEONG
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Publication number: 20190222840Abstract: A video encoding apparatus comprises an encoder encoding input video; a decoder decoding video data, and a filter to compensate for a pixel value of the encoded video data. An adaptive loop filter (ALF) parameter predictor generates an ALF filter parameter using the decoded video data. The ALF filter parameter is applied to an ALF filter to compensate a current pixel by using a pixel adjacent to the current pixel and a filter coefficient with respect to the neighboring pixel; a sample adaptive offset (SAO) filter unit applied to the decoded video data compensates for a current pixel by using at least one of an edge offset and a band offset; an ALF filter unit applies the ALF filter parameter, the ALF filter to video data to which the SAO filter has been applied; and an entropy encoder performs entropy encoding on the ALF filter parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung-dae KIM, Ki-won YOO, Jae-moon Kim, Sang-kwon Na
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Patent number: 10321155Abstract: Provided is a video encoding method including: performing padding outside an input image such that a size of the input image is a multiple of a maximum coding unit; when a current maximum coding unit includes a padding area generated via the padding, determining a coding unit by splitting the current maximum coding unit by using a boundary of the input image and the padding area; determining information indicating whether a coding unit included in the padding area includes a nonzero coefficient to be 0; and encoding a bitstream including the determined information.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki-won Yoo, Jae-moon Kim, Sang-kwon Na
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Publication number: 20190158926Abstract: A device may receive a request associated with adjusting the media output level of a sink device that is configured to output media content. The device may identify a source gain of a source device that is configured to provide the media content to the sink device, and a sink gain of the sink device. The device may identify a sink adjustment value for changing the sink gain based on the request for adjusting the media output level of the sink device, the source gain, and the sink gain. The device may transmit, to the sink device, a control signal to permit the sink gain to be changed based on the sink adjustment value. The media output level of the sink device is based on the source gain and the sink gain.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo Seok KANG, Doo Hyun KIM, Sang Kwon NA, Ki Won YOO, Chul Woo LEE, Jin Joo CHUNG, Doo Chan HWANG
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Patent number: 10291915Abstract: A video encoding method includes: receiving an image; up-sampling the received image; and changing a sample value of an up-sampling region included in the up-sampled image and encoding the up-sampled image by using the changed sample value, wherein the up-sampling region is a region inserted into the received image by the up-sampling.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae-moon Kim, Ki-won Yoo, Chang-su Han, Sang-kwon Na, Hyung-ju Chun
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Patent number: 10277917Abstract: An image encoding method includes generating symbols by performing transformation and quantization according to a transformation block, on a block that performs prediction according to a prediction mode; updating a probability index of a current sub block by using a probability index of a previous sub block among sub blocks included in the transformation block; determining a rate according to a bit length of the current sub block by using the probably index; determining a rate of the transformation block by using rates of the sub blocks; determining a distortion by using a difference between an original image and a reconstruction image according to transformation and quantization; and determining a rate-distortion (R-D) cost by using the distortion and the rate.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATIONInventors: Sang-kwon Na, Soo-ik Chae, Ki-won Yoo, Soon-woo Choi, Woo-seok Jeong
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Patent number: 10250879Abstract: A video encoding apparatus comprises an encoder encoding input video; a decoder decoding video data, and a filter to compensate for a pixel value of the encoded video data. An adaptive loop filter (ALF) parameter predictor generates an ALF filter parameter using the decoded video data. The ALF filter parameter is applied to an ALF filter to compensate a current pixel by using a pixel adjacent to the current pixel and a filter coefficient with respect to the neighboring pixel; a sample adaptive offset (SAO) filter unit applied to the decoded video data compensates for a current pixel by using at least one of an edge offset and a band offset; an ALF filter unit applies the ALF filter parameter, the ALF filter to video data to which the SAO filter has been applied; and an entropy encoder performs entropy encoding on the ALF filter parameter.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung-dae Kim, Ki-won Yoo, Jae-moon Kim, Sang-kwon Na
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Patent number: 10244247Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for decoding an image by accessing a memory by a block group. The method comprises checking information regarding a size of one or more blocks included in a bitstream of an encoded image, determining whether to group one or more blocks for performing decoding, based on the information regarding the size of the one or more blocks, setting a block group including one or more blocks based on the information regarding the size of the one or more blocks, and accessing a memory by the block group to perform a parallel-pipeline decoding process by the block group.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chan-sik Park, Myung-ho Kim, Sang-kwon Na, Ki-won Yoo, Chang-su Han