Patents by Inventor Byoung Gill Kim

Byoung Gill Kim 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: 20180014210
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a digital broadcasting system for transmitting/receiving a digital broadcasting signal and a method of processing data. In one aspect of the present invention provides a method of processing data, the method including receiving a broadcasting signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, demodulating the received broadcasting signal, obtaining an identifier indicating that data frame of the broadcasting signal includes service guide information, decoding and storing the service guide information from the data frame; and outputting a service included in the mobile service data according to the decoded service guide information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Song, In Hwan Choi, Ho Taek Hong, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Jong Yeul Suh, Jin Pil Kim, Won Gyu Song, Chul Soo Lee, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee, Joon Hui Lee
  • Publication number: 20180014042
    Abstract: A digital television (DTV) receiving system includes an information detector, a resampler, a timing recovery unit, and a carrier recovery unit. The information detector detects a known data sequence which is periodically inserted in a digital television (DTV) signal received from a DTV transmitting system. The resampler resamples the DTV signal at a predetermined resampling rate. The timing recovery unit performs timing recovery on the DTV signal by detecting a timing error from the resampled DTV signal using the detected known data sequence. The carrier recovery unit performs carrier recovery on the resampled DTV signal by estimating a frequency offset value of the resampled DTV signal using the detected known data sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: JONG MOON KIM, IN HWAN CHOI, KOOK YEON KWAK, BYOUNG GILL KIM, WON GYU SONG, JIN WOO KIM, HYOUNG GON LEE
  • Patent number: 9860871
    Abstract: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The data processing method includes receiving a broadcast signal in which main service data and mobile service data are multiplexed, demodulating the broadcast signal to acquire fast-information-channel signaling information including reference time information for a system clock, and outputting demodulation time information of a specific position of a frame of the broadcast signal, decoding the fast-information-channel signaling information, and establishing the reference time information as the system clock at a demodulation time according to on the outputted demodulation time information and decoding the mobile service data according to the system clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Chul Soo Lee, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Jin Woo Kim, Jae Hyung Song, Jin Pil Kim, Won Gyu Song, Hyoung Gon Lee, Byoung Gill Kim, Jong Yeul Suh
  • Patent number: 9860016
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a digital broadcast system and a data processing method. A broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed is transmitted and received. Then, in a broadcasting receiver, the program table information including information about a service or a program of an ensemble is parsed according to an identifier of the ensemble in which the mobile service data are multiplexed, in the received broadcast signal. And a mobile service is outputted by using the mobile service data and the parsed program table information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Song, In Hwan Choi, Ho Taek Hong, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Jong Yeul Suh, Jin Pil Kim, Won Gyu Song, Chul Soo Lee, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee, Joon Hui Lee
  • Publication number: 20170359144
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for transmitting and receiving broadcast signals are provided. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal includes encoding mobile data for forward error correction (FEC), encoding signaling data, forming data groups including the encoded mobile data and the encoded signaling data and transmitting a signal frame that includes the data groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung SONG, Byoung Gill KIM, Jin Woo KIM, Won Gyu SONG, Hyoung Gon LEE, In Hwan CHOI, Chul Kyu MUN
  • Publication number: 20170359802
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal are provided. Data of data packets is encoded to add first parity data to the data packets. The data packets include broadcast data and signaling data for a service. The signaling data includes type information indicating a type of the service and channel information of the service. Information for acquisition of the signaling data is predefined. The encoded data is block interleaved. The block-interleaved data is convolutional interleaved. Transmission parameters are first encoded for signaling the broadcast data to add second parity data to the transmission parameters, and the first-encoded transmission parameters are second encoded at a code rate. A frame including the convolutional interleaved data and the second-encoded transmission parameters is built. The broadcast signal including the frame is transmitted. The transmission parameters include information for identifying a number of the first parity data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Il Soo CHO, Hyeon Cheol CHO, Jong Sun PARK, In Hwan CHOI, Hyoung Gon LEE, Won Gyu SONG, Seung Man KIM, Jong Moon KIM, Jin Woo KIM, Kook Yeon KWAK, Byoung Gill KIM
  • Patent number: 9838038
    Abstract: A method of transmitting broadcast signals includes forward error correction (FEC) encoding mobile data; interleaving the FEC encoded mobile data; encoding signaling information for the mobile data; mapping the interleaved mobile data and the encoded signaling information into a data unit, wherein the data unit includes a first region and a second region, wherein the first region is concatenated with the second region, wherein the first region includes known data and the encoded signaling information, and wherein the second region includes known data and the encoded mobile data; and transmitting the broadcast signals including the data unit, wherein the data unit is multiplexed with a data unit of main data in a specific time period, wherein the signaling information includes information of the data unit having the interleaved mobile data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee, Won Gyu Song
  • Patent number: 9831969
    Abstract: A transmitting system and a method of transmitting digital broadcast signal are provided. The method of transmitting digital broadcasting signal in a transmitter includes multiplexing mobile data and main data, transmitting a transmission frame including the multiplexed mobile and main data, where a parade of data group is transmitted during slots, where each slot includes specified number of mobile data packets, a first scalable number of mobile data packets, and a second scalable number of main data packets, where the data group including a plurality of regions and the fifth region of the plurality of regions includes the first scalable number of mobile data packets, and where the data group is assigned to one of the slots in such a manner that slots of consecutive slot number carry data groups of inconsecutive group number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Won Gyu Song, Byoung Gill Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee, Jae Hyung Song, In Hwan Choi, Chul Kyu Mun
  • Patent number: 9831986
    Abstract: A method and transmitting system for processing data are discussed. The method according to an embodiment includes randomizing enhanced data; first encoding the randomized enhanced data to add first parity data for error correction, thereby forming a frame; dividing data of the frame into a plurality of groups, wherein the plurality of groups have a same size; first interleaving data of each group; second interleaving the first-interleaved data; encoding signaling information at a code rate; and transmitting a broadcast signal including the second-interleaved enhanced data and the encoded signaling information. Second encoding on the randomized enhanced data is selectively performed, wherein, when the second encoding is performed, second parity data for error detection are added to the randomized enhanced data. The signaling information includes transmission parameters to indicate whether the second encoding is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Kim, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Jong Moon Kim, Won Gyu Song, Hyoung Gon Lee, Byoung Gill Kim
  • Publication number: 20170311133
    Abstract: A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed, which are robust to error when mobile service data are transmitted. To this end, additional encoding is performed for the mobile service data, whereby it is possible to strongly cope with fast channel change while giving robustness to the mobile service data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung SONG, In Hwan CHOI, Ho Taek HONG, Kook Yeon KWAK, Byoung Gill KIM, Jong Yeul SUH, Jin Pil KIM, Won Gyu SONG, Chul Soo LEE, Jin Woo KIM, Hyoung Gon LEE, Joon Hui LEE
  • Patent number: 9780914
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for transmitting and receiving broadcast signals are provided. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal includes encoding mobile data for forward error correction (FEC), encoding signaling data, forming data groups including the encoded mobile data and the encoded signaling data and transmitting a signal frame that includes the data groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Song, Byoung Gill Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Won Gyu Song, Hyoung Gon Lee, In Hwan Choi, Chul Kyu Mun
  • Patent number: 9743382
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving system capable of receiving mobile broadcast data and a method for processing broadcast signals are disclosed. The broadcast receiving system includes a first receiving unit, a second receiving unit, a known sequence detector, a equalizer, and a display unit. The first receiving unit receives a first broadcast signal including first mobile broadcast service data and first main broadcast service data. The second receiving unit receives a second broadcast signal including second mobile broadcast service data and second main broadcast service data. The known sequence detector detects at least one of known data included in the received first broadcast signal and known data included in the received second broadcast signal. The channel equalizer uses the detected known data, thereby channel-equalizing the received first and second mobile broadcast service data corresponding to the detected known data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Il Soo Cho, Hyeon Cheol Cho, Jong Sun Park, In Hwan Choi, Hyoung Gon Lee, Won Gyu Song, Seung Man Kim, Jong Moon Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim
  • Patent number: 9736508
    Abstract: A digital television (DTV) receiving system includes an information detector, a resampler, a timing recovery unit, and a carrier recovery unit. The information detector detects a known data sequence which is periodically inserted in a digital television (DTV) signal received from a DTV transmitting system. The resampler resamples the DTV signal at a predetermined resampling rate. The timing recovery unit performs timing recovery on the DTV signal by detecting a timing error from the resampled DTV signal using the detected known data sequence. The carrier recovery unit performs carrier recovery on the resampled DTV signal by estimating a frequency offset value of the resampled DTV signal using the detected known data sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jong Moon Kim, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Won Gyu Song, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee
  • Patent number: 9730088
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a digital broadcasting system for transmitting/receiving a digital broadcasting signal and a method of processing data. In one aspect of the present invention provides a method of processing data, the method including receiving a broadcasting signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, demodulating the received broadcasting signal, obtaining an identifier indicating that data frame of the broadcasting signal includes service guide information, decoding and storing the service guide information from the data frame; and outputting a service included in the mobile service data according to the decoded service guide information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Song, In Hwan Choi, Ho Taek Hong, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Jong Yeul Suh, Jin Pil Kim, Won Gyu Song, Chul Soo Lee, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee, Joon Hui Lee
  • Publication number: 20170201338
    Abstract: A method of receiving a broadcast signal in a receiver. The received broadcast signal is demodulated. The demodulated broadcast signal is parsed to output at least one signal frame. The at least one signal frame includes first data, second data, and signaling data. The signaling data is decoded. The first data and the second data are decoded with different code rates, respectively. The at least one signal frame includes known data for channel estimation. The at least one signal frame includes a plurality of subframes, and the subframes include a plurality of data units. A first data unit in the data units includes the first data, and a second data unit in the data units includes the second data. The signaling data includes information for fast service acquisition which allows the receiver to locate upper layer signaling information. The signaling data further includes information on encoding type of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: In Hwan CHOI, Kook Yeon KWAK, Byoung Gill KIM, Won Gyu SONG, Jin Woo KIM, Hyoung Gon LEE
  • Publication number: 20170195074
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a broadcast signal includes encoding mobile data for FEC (Forward Error Correction); encoding signaling information for signaling the mobile data; allocating the encoded mobile data and signaling data into a transmission frame; and transmitting the broadcast signal including the transmission frame, wherein the transmission frame includes a service signaling table having service_type information identifying a type of a service of the mobile data and hidden information indicating whether the service of the mobile data is hidden or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Chul Soo LEE, In Hwan CHOI, Ho Taek HONG, Kook Yeon KWAK, Hyoung Gon LEE, Jae Hyung SONG, Jin Pil KIM, Won Gyu SONG, Joon Hui LEE, Jin Woo KIM, Byoung Gill KIM, Jong Yeul Suh, Kyu Tae AHN
  • Publication number: 20170187490
    Abstract: A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast transmitting system, the method includes randomizing, by a hardware processor, the broadcast data; first encoding, by the hardware processor, the randomized broadcast data to add first parity data for first forward error correction; second encoding, by the hardware processor, the first-encoded broadcast data to add second parity data for second forward error correction; permuting the second-encoded broadcast data; block interleaving, by the hardware processor, the permuted broadcast data; third encoding signaling information for signaling the broadcast data to add parity data; fourth encoding the third-encoded signaling information at a code rate; block interleaving the fourth-encoded signaling information; modulating the block-interleaved broadcast data and the block-interleaved signaling information; and transmitting a broadcast signal including the modulated broadcast data and the modulated signaling information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyoung Gon LEE, In Hwan CHOI, Byoung Gill KIM, Won Gyu SONG, Jong Moon KIM, Jin Woo KIM
  • Patent number: RE46458
    Abstract: A digital television transmitting system includes a frame encoder, a block processor, a group formatter, and a multiplexer. The frame encoder forms an enhanced data frame and encodes the data frame for error correction and for error detection. The block processor further encodes the encoded data frame at a rate of 1/2 or 1/4, and the group formatter divides the encoded data frame into a plurality of enhanced data blocks and maps the divided data blocks into a plurality of enhanced data groups, respectively. The multiplexer multiplexes the enhanced data groups with main data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyoung Gon Lee, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Won Gyu Song, Sung Ryong Hong, Jong Moon Kim, Jae Hyung Kim, Jin Woo Kim
  • Patent number: RE46527
    Abstract: A transmitting system, a receiving system, and a method for processing a broadcast signal are disclosed. The receiving system comprises a tuner, a channel equalizer, a turbo decoder, a demultiplexer, a first error correction decoder, a block deinterleaver, and a second error correction decoder. The tuner receives a broadcast signal including a data group. The data group comprises mobile service data, regularly spaced known data sequences, and signaling data. The turbo decoder performs turbo decoding for the signaling data included in the channel equalized broadcast signal in the channel equalizer. The block deinterleaver performs block deinterleaving for the turbo-decoded FIC data in a block unit of TNoG (the number of all data groups assigned to one subframe)×51 bytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Won Gyu Song, Byoung Gill Kim, Hyoung-Gon Lee, In Hwan Choi, Jin Woo Kim
  • Patent number: RE46676
    Abstract: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. A time zone identifier is inserted into program table information of a broadcasting signal and the broadcasting signal is transmitted/received. The digital broadcasting system can calculate a local time of a region, in which the digital broadcasting system is located, using the time zone identifier. Accordingly, although the position of the digital broadcasting system is changed, it is possible to process the broadcasting signal related to the local time without an error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Song, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Won Gyu Song, Jin Pil Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee, Jong Moon Kim