Patents Assigned to Postech Foundation
  • Patent number: 7932766
    Abstract: There is provided a digitally controlled oscillator, which is capable of widening its operation range with maintaining its resolution and the maximum frequency at which it operates. The digitally controlled oscillator includes a phase compensation block, a coarse block, and a fine block. The phase compensation block 510 generating a PLL signal PLLCLK and a first clock signal CLK1 which has the same phase and frequency as the PLL signal, in response to a phase control signal DISABLE and a fourth clock signal CLK4. The coarse block 520 generating a second clock signal CLK2 and a third clock signal CLK3 which results from delaying the PLL signal PLLCLK and the first clock signal CLK1 for a given time, in response to a m(integer)-bit coarse A control signal COAR_A and an (m?1)-bit coarse B control signal COAR_B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignees: Postech Foundation, Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Kwang Hee Choi, Hong June Park
  • Patent number: 7932540
    Abstract: A T-gate forming method for a high electron mobility transistor includes the steps of: coating a first, a second and a third resist, each having an electron beam sensitivity different from each other, on a semiconductor substrate; performing a first exposure process by using an electron beam on the semiconductor substrate and then selectively developing the third resist; defining a gate head area by selectively developing the second resist to have a developed width wider than that of the third resist; performing a second exposure process by using an electron beam on the semiconductor substrate and then selectively developing the first resist in a bent shape at a temperature lower than in the development of the second and the third steps; and depositing metallic materials on the resists and then removing them to form a T-gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignees: Postech Foundation, Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Yoon-Ha Jeong, Kang-Sung Lee, Young-Su Kim, Yun-Ki Hong, Sung-Woo Jung
  • Patent number: 7924939
    Abstract: An envelope elimination and restoration power transmission apparatus in a wireless communication system is provided. The apparatus comprises a signal processor for dividing a transmission signal into a size component and a phase component and for generating a control signal for controlling a current of a bias modulator according to the size component, the bias modulator for amplifying the size component according to the control signal supplied from the signal processor, for lowering an impedance characteristic of the amplified size component and for outputting the amplified size component, a frequency modulator for modulating the phase component into a radio frequency (RF) signal, and a power amplifier for amplifying the RF signal by using an output signal of the bias modulator as a bias voltage. As provided, the transmission apparatus reduces a memory effect due to an impedance difference in a modulation frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Han-Seok Kim, Jin-Sung Kim, Bum-Man Kim
  • Patent number: 7908541
    Abstract: A signal transmission apparatus in a communication system is disclosed. A channel interleaver generates an interleaved vector by channel-interleaving a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codeword according to a channel interleaving rule, and a modulator generates a modulation symbol by modulating the interleaved vector according to a modulation scheme. The channel interleaving rule is one of a first channel interleaving rule and a second channel interleaving rule. The first channel interleaving rule is a rule for setting degree distribution for nodes in a factor graph of the LDPC codeword separately for individual levels supported by the modulation scheme. The second channel interleaving rule is a rule for allowing coded bits included in the LDPC codeword to be interleaved according to an unequal error characteristic of the modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Gyu-Bum Kyung, Seung-Hoon Choi, Hong-Sil Jeong, Dong-Seek Park, Jae-Yoel Kim, Sung-Eun Park, Hyun-Koo Yang, Kyeong-Cheol Yang
  • Publication number: 20110059127
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mutant HIV-1 (Human immunodeficiency virus-1) protease capable of effectively enhancing cell-mediated immune responses to DNA vaccination, and use of a nucleic acid encoding the same as a vaccine adjuvant. The mutant HIV-1 protease according to the present invention has inactivated or attenuated proteolytic activity, while retaining chaperone-like activity. When the mutant HIV-1 protease is used together with a DNA vaccine against the HIV-1 envelope protein or the HPV antigen (E6 or E7), cell-mediated immune responses can be effectively enhanced for the prevention or treatment of AIDS or cervical cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: POSTECH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Young Chul Sung, Dong Bin Jin, Kwang Soon Kim
  • Patent number: 7903785
    Abstract: Provided is a method of bright-field imaging using x-rays in a sample to reveal lattice defects as well as structural inhomogeneities, the method comprising: (a) disposing a sample on a holder in the Laue transmission geometry and setting the sample to a single reflection in the Bragg diffraction; (b) projecting a beam of monochromatic x-rays on the sample; and (c) obtaining transmitted radiographic images and reversed diffracted images of the projected beam of monochromatic x-rays by the sample, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignees: Postech Foundation, Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Jung Ho Je, Jae Mok Yi
  • Patent number: 7892355
    Abstract: A high quality single-crystalline polyalkylthiophene structure can be easily prepared by the inventive method which comprises: (i) dissolving polyalkylthiophene in an organic solvent at a temperature ranging from 50 to 100° C., sequentially quenching the polyalkylthiophene solution at a temperature ranging from 25 to 40° C. and then at ?5 to 15° C., to obtain a self-seeding polyalkylthiophene solution; and (ii) applying the self-seeding polyalkylthiophene solution obtained in step (i) to one surface of a nano-template having a hydrophobic supramolecule coating layer formed thereon to induce self-assembly and crystallization of polyalkylthiophene on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignees: Postech Foundation, Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Kilwon Cho, Do Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 7882414
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving signal, supporting a variable coding rate, in a communication system. The method includes receiving an information vector, generating a child parity check matrix based on a parent parity check matrix according to a coding rate to be applied for generating a block Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codeword using the information vector, and encoding the information vector into the block LDPC codeword according to the child parity check matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Seung-Hoon Choi, Hong-Sil Jeong, Gyu-Bum Kyung, Dong-Seek Park, Jae-Yoel Kim, Sung-Eun Park, Chi-Woo Lim, Se-Ho Myung, Kyeong-Cheol Yang, Hyun-Koo Yang
  • Patent number: 7877664
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for transmitting/receiving a signal in a communication system, which generates an Affine Permutation Matrix-Low Density Parity Check (APM-LDPC) codeword by encoding an information vector in an APM-LDPC encoding scheme which is a preset structured LDPC encoding scheme, and detects the information vector by decoding the signal in a decoding scheme corresponding to the APM-LDPC encoding scheme, thereby making it possible to generate a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code in the form of maximizing a girth while minimizing complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Gyu bum Kyung, Seung-Hoon Choi, Hong-Sil Jeong, Jae-Yoel Kim, Chi-Woo Lim, Sung-Eun Park, Young-Kyun Kim, Dong-Seek Park, Se-Ho Myung, Kyeong-Cheol Yang
  • Patent number: 7867391
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cucurbituril derivative-bonded solid substrate in which cucurbituril derivatives of Formula 1 are covalently bonded to a modified solid substrate of Formula 2. The cucurbituril derivative provides functional groups which can be used to link biomaterials to the substrate. Protein chips, gene chips, and sensors for biomaterial assays having the cucurbituril derivative-bonded solid substrate are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Kimoon Kim, Jin Koo Kang, Woo Seong Jeon, Sang Yong Jon, Selvapalam Narayanan, Dong Hyun Oh, Kangkyun Baek
  • Publication number: 20100330608
    Abstract: The inventive molecular transporter compound shows significantly high permeability through a biological membrane such as a plasma membrane, nuclear membrane and blood-brain barrier, and accordingly, can be effectively used in delivering various biologically active molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicants: Postech Foundation, Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Sung-Kee Chung, Kaustabh Kumar Maiti, Woo Sirl Lee, Ock-Youm Jeon, Seok-Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20100330671
    Abstract: The inventive molecular transporter compound shows significantly high permeability through a biological membrane such as a plasma membrane, nuclear membrane and blood-brain barrier, and accordingly, can be effectively used in delivering various biologically active molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicants: Postech Foundation, Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Sung-Kee CHUNG, Kaustabh Kumar Maiti, Woo Sirl Lee, Ock-Youm Jeon, Seok-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 7850992
    Abstract: Provided are a gel including a compound represented by Formula 1 below and a method of preparing the same: wherein n, X, A1, and A2 are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignees: Postech Academy-Industry Foundation, Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Kimoon Kim, II Ha Hwang, Woo Sung Jeon, Hee Joon Kim, Dongwoo Kim, Narayanan Selvapalam, Erumaipatty R. Nagarajan
  • Patent number: 7846975
    Abstract: The inventive molecular transporter compound shows significantly high permeability through a biological membrane such as a plasma membrane, nuclear membrane and blood-brain barrier, and accordingly, can be effectively used in delivering various biologically active molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignees: Postech Foundation, Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Sung-Kee Chung, Kaustabh Kumar Maiti, Woo Sirl Lee, Ock-Youm Jeon, Seok-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 7844107
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stereo image matching method for re-creating 3-dimensional spatial information from a pair of 2-dimensional images. The conventional stereo image matching method generates much noise from a disparity value in the vertical direction, but the present invention uses disparity information of adjacent image lines as a constraint condition to eliminate the noise in the vertical direction, and compress the disparity by using a differential coding method to thereby increase a compression rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Hong Jeong, Sungchan Park
  • Patent number: 7829698
    Abstract: Provided are nanoparticles prepared by the aggregation of cucurbituril derivatives and having a particle size of 1 to 1,000 nm, a pharmaceutical composition in which a pharmaceutically active substance is loaded into the nanoparticles, and preparation methods thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Kimoon Kim, Sang Yong Jon, Young Jin Jeon, Dong Hyun Oh, Narayanan Selvapalam
  • Patent number: 7826517
    Abstract: A receiver for ICI cancellation in a MIMO system is provided, in which a detection orderer determines a subcarrier detection order according to SINRs of subcarriers in an I-CMOS, a detector receives a vector on the subcarriers and a priori information from a decoder according to the subcarrier detection order and iteratively estimates the received vector using the a priori information, and the decoder decodes an ICI-cancelled signal according to the estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Eung-Sun Kim, Jong-Hyeuk Lee, Jong-Hyun Kwun, Jong-Bu Lim, Gi-Hong Im, Chan-Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 7817714
    Abstract: Provided is an integrating receiver having an adaptive decision feedback equalizer function and a system having the same. The integrating receiver can simultaneously remove an inter-symbol interference (ISI) and high frequency noises in a high speed DRAM data transmission system. The integrating receiver reduces a probability of wrong decision of data in a state in which the ISI that exists in a channel is removed so as to increase a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a receiver, so that a maximum operation speed increases even in an environment with heavy noises. There is also provided a method of obtaining an equalizer coefficient suitable for the integrating receiver and a method of obtaining a reference voltage by using an integrator in a single ended transmission method. In addition, in order to increase a decision feedback equalizer speed, a look-ahead method is used. In this method, flip flops with a high speed including multiplexers are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Postech Foundation and Postech Academy Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Seung Jun Bae, Hong June Park
  • Patent number: 7795498
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a use of AtBG1 {Arabidopsis thaliana ?-glucosidase 1) gene and a transgenic plan with the AtBG1 gene insertion, more precisely, a use of AtBG1 gene for the generation of a transgenic plant having resistance to various environmental stresses by increasing the level of abscisic acid (ABA), a kind of plant hormone, and a transgenic plant having stress-resistance with the AtBG1 gene insertion. Plants have enhanced resistance against various environmental stresses including low temperature, salt damage and dehydration owing to the increased level of ABA. Thus, the method to increase the level of ABA can greatly contribute to the enhancement of agricultural production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignees: Postech Foundation, FNP Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Inhwan Hwang, Kwang Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 7795213
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a VEGF polypeptide that binds to A?. The present invention also relates to a compound that sequesters A?. And conversely, the invention relates to a compound that sequesters VEGF. Thus, the present invention also relates to a method of screening for a compound that inhibits the binding of VEGF to A?, and thus relates to prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignees: POSCO, Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Chi-Bom Chae, Yong Song Gho, Seung-Pil Yang, Dong-Goo Bae, Byung Oh Kwon, Sewook Hwang