Patents by Inventor Dae Young Jang

Dae Young Jang 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).

  • BINAURAL RENDERING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING MULTI CHANNEL AUDIO
    Publication number: 20200234718
    Abstract: Disclosed is a binaural rendering method and apparatus for decoding a multichannel audio signal. The binaural rendering method may include: extracting an early reflection component and a late reverberation component from a binaural filter; generating a stereo audio signal by performing binaural rendering of a multichannel audio signal base on the early reflection component; and applying the late reverberation component to the generated stereo audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yong Ju LEE, Jeong Il SEO, Jae Hyoun YOO, Seung Kwon BEACK, Jong Mo SUNG, Tae Jin LEE, Kyeong Ok KANG, Jin Woong KIM, Tae Jin PARK, Dae Young JANG, Keun Woo CHOI
  • UNIFIED SPEECH/AUDIO CODEC (USAC) PROCESSING WINDOWS SEQUENCE BASED MODE SWITCHING
    Publication number: 20200227060
    Abstract: A Unified Speech and Audio Codec (USAC) that may process a window sequence based on mode switching is provided. The USAC may perform encoding or decoding by overlapping between frames based on a folding point when mode switching occurs. The USAC may process different window sequences for each situation to perform encoding or decoding, and thereby may improve a coding efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicants: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Seungkwon BEACK, Tae Jin LEE, Min Je KIM, Kyeongok KANG, Dae Young JANG, Jeongil SEO, Jin Woo HONG, Chieteuk AHN, Ho Chong PARK, Young-cheol PARK
  • Apparatus for encoding and decoding of integrated speech and audio
    Patent number: 10714103
    Abstract: Provided is an encoding apparatus for integrally encoding and decoding a speech signal and a audio signal, and may include: an input signal analyzer to analyze a characteristic of an input signal; a stereo encoder to down mix the input signal to a mono signal when the input signal is a stereo signal, and to extract stereo sound image information; a frequency band expander to expand a frequency band of the input signal; a sampling rate converter to convert a sampling rate; a speech signal encoder to encode the input signal using a speech encoding module when the input signal is a speech characteristics signal; a audio signal encoder to encode the input signal using a audio encoding module when the input signal is a audio characteristic signal; and a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Tae Jin Lee, Seung-Kwon Baek, Min Je Kim, Dae Young Jang, Jeongil Seo, Kyeongok Kang, Jin-Woo Hong, Hochong Park, Young-Cheol Park
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNAL USING COMPOSITED ORDER AMBISONICS
    Publication number: 20200196081
    Abstract: Disclosed is an audio signal processing method including identifying a sound source provided inside a preset reference distance and a sound source provided outside the reference distance to represent a sound field based on virtual reality (VR) content that is represented in a predetermined virtual space in which a user is located in a VR environment, processing a sound field using three-dimensional (3D) ambisonics based on height information and horizontal information of the sound source provided inside the reference distance, and processing a sound field using two-dimensional (2D) ambisonics based on horizontal information of the sound source provided outside the reference distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae-hyoun YOO, Yong Ju LEE, Tae Jin LEE, Dae Young JANG
  • Method and apparatus for processing audio signal using composited order ambisonics
    Patent number: 10687163
    Abstract: Disclosed is an audio signal processing method including identifying a sound source provided inside a preset reference distance and a sound source provided outside the reference distance to represent a sound field based on virtual reality (VR) content that is represented in a predetermined virtual space in which a user is located in a VR environment, processing a sound field using three-dimensional (3D) ambisonics based on height information and horizontal information of the sound source provided inside the reference distance, and processing a sound field using two-dimensional (2D) ambisonics based on horizontal information of the sound source provided outside the reference distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae-hyoun Yoo, Yong Ju Lee, Tae Jin Lee, Dae Young Jang
  • ENCODER AND ENCODING METHOD FOR MULTI-CHANNEL SIGNAL, AND DECODER AND DECODING METHOD FOR MULTI-CHANNEL SIGNAL
    Publication number: 20200176002
    Abstract: An encoder and an encoding method for a multi-channel signal, and a decoder and a decoding method for a multi-channel signal are disclosed. A multi-channel signal may be efficiently processed by consecutive downmixing or upmixing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon BEACK, Tae Jin LEE, Jong Mo SUNG, Jeong Il SEO, Kyeong Ok KANG, Dae Young JANG, Jin Woong KIM
  • AUDIO ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AUDIO DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND AUDIO REPRODUCING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200154224
    Abstract: An audio encoding apparatus and method that encodes hybrid contents including an object sound, a background sound, and metadata, and an audio decoding apparatus and method that decodes the encoded hybrid contents are provided. The audio encoding apparatus may include a mixing unit to generate an intermediate channel signal by mixing a background sound and an object sound, a matrix information encoding unit to encode matrix information used for the mixing, an audio encoding unit to encode the intermediate channel signal, and a metadata encoding unit to encode metadata including control information of the object sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon BEACK, Tae Jin LEE, Jong Mo SUNG, Kyeong Ok KANG, Jeong Il SEO, Dae Young JANG, Yong Ju LEE, Jin Woong KIM
  • Method and apparatus for control of randering multiobject or multichannel audio signal using spatial cue
    Patent number: 10652685
    Abstract: The present research relates to controlling rendering of multi-object or multi-channel audio signals. The present research provides a method and apparatus for controlling rendering of multi-object or multi-channel audio signals based on spatial cues in a process of decoding the multi-object or multi-channel audio signals. To achieve the purpose, the method suggested in the research controls rendering in a spatial cue domain in the process of decoding the multi-object or multi-channel audio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seung-Kwon Beack, Jeong-Il Seo, Dae-Young Jang, Tae-Jin Lee, Yong-Ju Lee, Jin-Woo Hong, Jin-Woong Kim
  • Multichannel audio signal processing method and device
    Patent number: 10645515
    Abstract: Disclosed are a multi-channel audio signal processing method and a multi-channel audio signal processing apparatus. The multi-channel audio signal processing method may generate N channel output signals from N/2 channel downmix signals based on an N-N/2-N structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon Beack, Jeong Il Seo, Jong Mo Sung, Tae Jin Lee, Dae Young Jang, Jin Woong Kim
  • Multichannel signal processing method, and multichannel signal processing apparatus for performing the method
    Patent number: 10638243
    Abstract: Provided are an encoding method of a multichannel signal, an encoding apparatus to perform the encoding method, a multichannel signal processing method, and a decoding apparatus to perform the decoding method. The decoding method may include identifying an N/2-channel downmix signal derived from an N-channel input signal; and generating an N-channel output signal from the identified N/2-channel downmix signal using a plurality of one-to-two (OTT) boxes. If a low frequency effect (LFE) channel is absent in the output signal, the number of OTT boxes may be equal to N/2 where N/2 denotes the number of channels of the downmix signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon Beack, Jeong Il Seo, Jong Mo Sung, Tae Jin Lee, Dae Young Jang, Jin Soo Choi
  • LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus of modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT)-based unified voice/audio encoding device
    Patent number: 10621998
    Abstract: Disclosed is an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus of an MDCT based unified voice and audio encoding device. The LPC residual signal encoding apparatus analyzes a property of an input signal, selects an encoding method of an LPC filtered signal, and encode the LPC residual signal based on one of a real filterbank, a complex filterbank, and an algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon Beack, Tae Jin Lee, Min Je Kim, Kyeongok Kang, Dae Young Jang, Jin Woo Hong, Jeongil Seo, Chieteuk Ahn, Hochong Park, Young-cheol Park
  • Unified speech/audio codec (USAC) windows sequence based mode switching
    Patent number: 10622001
    Abstract: A Unified Speech and Audio Codec (USAC) that may process a window sequence based on mode switching is provided. The USAC may perform encoding or decoding by overlapping between frames based on a folding point when mode switching occurs. The USAC may process different window sequences for each situation to perform encoding or decoding, and thereby may improve a coding efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Seungkwon Beack, Tae Jin Lee, Min Je Kim, Kyeongok Kang, Dae Young Jang, Jeongil Seo, Jin Woo Hong, Chieteuk Ahn, Ho Chong Park, Young-cheol Park
  • Binaural rendering method and apparatus for decoding multi channel audio
    Patent number: 10614820
    Abstract: Disclosed is a binaural rendering method and apparatus for decoding a multichannel audio signal. The binaural rendering method may include: extracting an early reflection component and a late reverberation component from a binaural filter; generating a stereo audio signal by performing binaural rendering of a multichannel audio signal base on the early reflection component; and applying the late reverberation component to the generated stereo audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yong Ju Lee, Jeong Il Seo, Jae Hyoun Yoo, Seung Kwon Beack, Jong Mo Sung, Tae Jin Lee, Kyeong Ok Kang, Jin Woong Kim, Tae Jin Park, Dae Young Jang, Keun Woo Choi
  • Encoder and encoding method for multi-channel signal, and decoder and decoding method for multi-channel signal
    Patent number: 10580419
    Abstract: An encoder and an encoding method for a multi-channel signal, and a decoder and a decoding method for a multi-channel signal are disclosed. A multi-channel signal may be efficiently processed by consecutive downmixing or upmixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon Beack, Tae Jin Lee, Jong Mo Sung, Jeong Il Seo, Kyeong Ok Kang, Dae Young Jang, Jin Woong Kim
  • Audio encoding apparatus and method, audio decoding apparatus and method, and audio reproducing apparatus
    Patent number: 10575111
    Abstract: An audio encoding apparatus and method that encodes hybrid contents including an object sound, a background sound, and metadata, and an audio decoding apparatus and method that decodes the encoded hybrid contents are provided. The audio encoding apparatus may include a mixing unit to generate an intermediate channel signal by mixing a background sound and an object sound, a matrix information encoding unit to encode matrix information used for the mixing, an audio encoding unit to encode the intermediate channel signal, and a metadata encoding unit to encode metadata including control information of the object sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon Beack, Tae Jin Lee, Jong Mo Sung, Kyeong Ok Kang, Jeong Il Seo, Dae Young Jang, Yong Ju Lee, Jin Woong Kim
  • APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF INTEGRATED SPEECH AND AUDIO
    Publication number: 20190385621
    Abstract: Provided is an encoding apparatus for integrally encoding and decoding a speech signal and a audio signal, and may include: an input signal analyzer to analyze a characteristic of an input signal; a stereo encoder to down mix the input signal to a mono signal when the input signal is a stereo signal, and to extract stereo sound image information; a frequency band expander to expand a frequency band of the input signal; a sampling rate converter to convert a sampling rate; a speech signal encoder to encode the input signal using a speech encoding module when the input signal is a speech characteristics signal; a audio signal encoder to encode the input signal using a audio encoding module when the input signal is a audio characteristic signal; and a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicants: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Kwangwoon University Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation
    Inventors: Tae Jin LEE, Seung-Kwon BAEK, Min Je KIM, Dae Young JANG, Jeongil SEO, Kyeongok KANG, Jin-Woo HONG, Hochong PARK, Young-Cheol PARK
  • Apparatus for encoding and decoding image using adaptive DCT coefficient scanning based on pixel similarity and method therefor
    Patent number: 10499064
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an encoding apparatus using a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) scanning, which includes a mode selection means for selecting an optimal mode for intra prediction; an intra prediction means for performing intra prediction onto video inputted based on the mode selected in the mode selection means; a DCT and quantization means for performing DCT and quantization onto residual coefficients of a block outputted from the intra prediction means; and an entropy encoding means for performing entropy encoding onto DCT coefficients acquired from the DCT and quantization by using a scanning mode decided based on pixel similarity of the residual coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation, Industry-Academia Cooperation Group of Sejong University
    Inventors: Se-Yoon Jeong, Hae-Chul Choi, Jeong-Il Seo, Seung-Kwon Beack, In-Seon Jang, Jae-Gon Kim, Kyung-Ae Moon, Dae-Young Jang, Jin-Woo Hong, Jin-Woong Kim, Yung-Lyul Lee, Dong-Gyu Sim, Seoung-Jun Oh, Chang-Beom Ahn, Dae-Yeon Kim, Dong-Kyun Kim
  • ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING CHANNEL SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20190304474
    Abstract: An encoding/decoding apparatus and method for controlling a channel signal is disclosed, wherein the encoding apparatus may include an encoder to encode an object signal, a channel signal, and rendering information for the channel signal, and a bit stream generator to generate, as a bit stream, the encoded object signal, the encoded channel signal, and the encoded rendering information for the channel signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jeong ll SEO, Seung Kwon BEACK, Dae Young JANG, Kyeong Ok KANG, Tae Jin PARK, Yong Ju LEE, Keun Woo CHOI, Jin Woong KIM
  • APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE USING ADAPTIVE DCT COEFFICIENT SCANNING BASED ON PIXEL SIMILARITY AND METHOD THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20190297331
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an encoding apparatus using a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) scanning, which includes a mode selection means for selecting an optimal mode for intra prediction; an intra prediction means for performing intra prediction onto video inputted based on the mode selected in the mode selection means; a DCT and quantization means for performing DCT and quantization onto residual coefficients of a block outputted from the intra prediction means; and an entropy encoding means for performing entropy encoding onto DCT coefficients acquired from the DCT and quantization by using a scanning mode decided based on pixel similarity of the residual coefficients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicants: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation, Industry-Academia Cooperation Group of Sejong University
    Inventors: Se-Yoon JEONG, Hae-Chul CHOI, Jeong-Il SEO, Seung-Kwon BEACK, In-Seon JANG, Jae-Gon KIM, Kyung-Ae MOON, Dae-Young JANG, Jin-Woo HONG, Jin-Woong KIM, Yung-Lyul LEE, Dong-Gyu SIM, Seoung-Jun OH, Chang-Beom AHN, Dae-Yeon KIM, Dong-Kyun KIM
  • MULTICHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190289413
    Abstract: Disclosed are a multi-channel audio signal processing method and a multi-channel audio signal processing apparatus. The multi-channel audio signal processing method may generate N channel output signals from N/2 channel downmix signals based on an N?N/2?N structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon BEACK, Jeong Il SEO, Jong Mo SUNG, Tae Jin LEE, Dae Young JANG, Jin Woong KIM