Patents by Inventor Gi-Hong Im

Gi-Hong Im 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: 9042435
    Abstract: A transmitter and/or receiver for performing frequency domain equalization is provided. A transmitter includes a pilot position determination unit for determining positions for inserting pilots in a frequency domain based on frequency spectrums of data, and a pilot insertion unit for inserting the pilots between the frequency spectrums of the data according to the determined positions for inserting the pilots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Dong Sik Kim, Ui Kun Kwon, Gi Hong Im, Chang Yong Shin
  • Patent number: 8897208
    Abstract: A space frequency block code signal relaying system is provided. The space frequency block code signal relaying system includes a signal detecting unit which receives, via a radio channel, a source signal sent from a source station and detects the received signal; a relay signal generation unit which generates a relay signal corresponding with the source signal transmitted from the source station to a destination node based on the received signal, the source signal and the relay signal being signals encoded in a Space Frequency Block Code (SFBC) scheme; and a signal transmitting unit which transmits the relay signal to the destination node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eung Sun Kim, Young-Doo Kim, Tae Soo Kwon, Dae-Young Seol, Gi Hong Im, Ui Kun Kwon
  • Patent number: 8811260
    Abstract: A communication device that may select a relay node from a plurality of relay nodes, and be used as a signal receiving node through the selected relay node is provided. Additionally, a relay device that may be used as a relay node to receive and broadcast signals is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Won-Jae Shin, Tae-Won Yune, Gi Hong Im, Chang Yong Shin, Dongsik Kim
  • Patent number: 8811503
    Abstract: A method and system for generating a space frequency block code relay signal includes a signal detection unit which detects a received signal by receiving a first and second source signals transmitted from a first and second source nodes, a relay signal generation unit which generates a relay signal cooperating with the first and second source signals using a space frequency block code (SFBC) scheme based on the received signal, and a signal transmitter which transmits the relay signal to a destination node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Young-Doo Kim, Eung Sun Kim, Chang Yong Shin, Gi Hong Im, Jong Bu Lim, Tae-Won Yune
  • Patent number: 8761298
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and/or receiving a signal in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system are provided. An apparatus for transmitting a signal in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system includes an input unit to receive NT symbol streams in parallel, where NT is an integer greater than or equal to 2, a multiple signal generating unit to generate NT multiple signals having a transmit diversity gain by applying a cyclic delay of a different pattern to each of the NT symbol streams, and a multiple signal providing unit to provide the generated NT multiple signals to NT transmit antennas, respectively, based on a predetermined transmit antenna index of each of the NT transmit antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Jong Bu Lim, Ui Kun Kwon, Chan Ho Choi, Gi Hong Im
  • Patent number: 8451916
    Abstract: A relay-based communication system and method processing a signal without a cyclic prefix is provided. An apparatus for generating a relay signal includes a signal receiving unit which receives a source signal transmitted from a source node to a relay node and detects a received signal, a signal conversion unit which extracts samples corresponding to a first time duration from the received signal, sums the received signal and the extracted samples in a second time duration, and generates a converted received signal, a relay signal generation unit which generates a relay signal cooperating with the source signal based on the converted received signal according to a space frequency block code (SFBC) scheme, and a signal transmission unit which transmits the generated relay signal to a destination node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Ui Kun Kwon, Young-Doo Kim, Gi Hong Im, Dae-Young Seol, Won-Jae Shin
  • Patent number: 8428199
    Abstract: A transmitter and/or receiver for performing frequency domain equalization is provided. A transmitter includes a pilot position determination unit for determining positions for inserting pilots in a frequency domain based on frequency spectrums of data, and a pilot insertion unit for inserting the pilots between the frequency spectrums of the data according to the determined positions for inserting the pilots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Dong Sik Kim, Ui Kun Kwon, Gi Hong Im, Chang Yong Shin
  • Patent number: 8391414
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a space block coding signal through Iterative Multi-user Detection is provided. The apparatus includes a multi-user interference cancellation unit which cancels multi-user interference in a received signal and outputs a first signal and a second signal that are sequentially transmitted from two transmitting antennas, a linear combiner which performs linear combination for the first signal and the second signal, and an equalizer which applies different equalization coefficients to the combined first signal and the second signal, respectively, to perform frequency-domain equalization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Chang Yong Shin, Eung Sun Kim, Young-Doo Kim, Gi Hong Im, Jong Bu Lim, Chan ho Choi
  • Patent number: 8005031
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system includes a transmitter with at least four transmit antennas and a receiver with at least one receive antenna. Space Frequency Block Coding (SFBC) processes are performed for input signals on a basis of two antenna pairs. Signal blocks whose number corresponds to the number of transmit antennas are output. A Space Time Block Coding (STBC) process is performed for the signal blocks generated according to the antenna pairs. Signals carried by single carriers are transmitted through the at least four transmit antennas mapped to the signal blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Tae-Won Yune, Jong-Hyeuk Lee, Gi-Hong Im, Eung-Sun Kim, Jong-Hyung Kwun
  • Patent number: 7907511
    Abstract: A wireless data transmission method and apparatus are provided for compensating a distortion due to a clipped amplitude when an amplitude of a signal is clipped to reduce a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) in a wireless communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme and a transmit diversity method using an orthogonal coding. The wireless data transmission apparatus includes a coding unit which Space-Time block codes a first data stream into a plurality of second data streams, the plurality of second data streams being orthogonal to each other; an inverse Fourier transform unit which performs an inverse Fourier transform of each of the Space-Time block coded second data stream and generates a plurality of time domain signals; and a plurality of amplitude clipping units which clips an amplitude of each of the plurality of generated time domain signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Young-Doo Kim, Eung Sun Kim, Tae Soo Kwon, Ui Kun Kwon, Gi Hong Im, Dong Sik Kim
  • Publication number: 20100322140
    Abstract: A relay-based communication system and method processing a signal without a cyclic prefix is provided. An apparatus for generating a relay signal includes a signal receiving unit which receives a source signal transmitted from a source node to a relay node and detects a received signal, a signal conversion unit which extracts samples corresponding to a first time duration from the received signal, sums the received signal and the extracted samples in a second time duration, and generates a converted received signal, a relay signal generation unit which generates a relay signal cooperating with the source signal based on the converted received signal according to a space frequency block code (SFBC) scheme, and a signal transmission unit which transmits the generated relay signal to a destination node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Ui Kun KWON, Young-Doo KIM, Gi Hong IM, Dae-Young SEOL, Won-Jae SHIN
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20100261426
    Abstract: A communication device that may select a relay node from a plurality of relay nodes, and be used as a signal receiving node through the selected relay node is provided. Additionally, a relay device that may be used as a relay node to receive and broadcast signals is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventors: Won-Jae SHIN, Tae-Won YUNE, Gi Hong IM, Chang Yong SHIN, Dongsik KIM
  • Patent number: 7751464
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data by performing an iterative multi-user detection is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Young-Doo Kim, Eung Sun Kim, Chang Wook Ahn, Gi-Hong Im, Jong-Bu Lim, Tae-Won Yune, Chan-Ho Choi
  • Publication number: 20100074362
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and/or receiving a signal in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system are provided. An apparatus for transmitting a signal in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system includes an input unit to receive NT symbol streams in parallel, where NT is an integer greater than or equal to 2, a multiple signal generating unit to generate NT multiple signals having a transmit diversity gain by applying a cyclic delay of a different pattern to each of the NT symbol streams, and a multiple signal providing unit to provide the generated NT multiple signals to NT transmit antennas, respectively, based on a predetermined transmit antenna index of each of the NT transmit antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Jong Bu Lim, Ui Kun Kwon, Chan Ho Choi, Gi Hong Im
  • Patent number: 7680200
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transceiving apparatus and method in which a space frequency block coding (SFBC) technique is applied to the SC-FDE technique. The transceiving method encodes an input signal into frequency-domain blocks so as to output at least two signal blocks in parallel to each other, inserts a cyclic prefix (CP) into the output signal blocks, and outputs the signal blocks through the same sub-channel using a corresponding antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Jong-Hyung Kwun, Eung-Sun Kim, Jong-Hyeuk Lee, Gi-Hong Im, Hui-Chul Won, Jin-Ho Jang
  • Publication number: 20090252254
    Abstract: A transmitter and/or receiver for performing frequency domain equalization is provided. A transmitter includes a pilot position determination unit for determining positions for inserting pilots in a frequency domain based on frequency spectrums of data, and a pilot insertion unit for inserting the pilots between the frequency spectrums of the data according to the determined positions for inserting the pilots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Dong Sik Kim, Ui Kun Kwon, Gi Hong Im, Chang Yong Shin
  • Patent number: 7586992
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for channel estimation and CP reconstruction in an OFDM-STBC mobile communication system are provided. An ISI canceller cancels ISI signal components from first and second received symbol sequences. A cyclicity restorer cancels ICI signal components from the ISI-cancelled first received symbol sequence and the ISI-cancelled second received symbol sequence. A recoverer acquires the recovered sequence estimates of the ICI-cancelled first received symbol sequence and the ICI-cancelled second received symbol sequence by decoding. The ICI cancellation of the ISI-cancelled first and second received symbol sequences and the ISI cancellation of the second received symbol sequence are iterated a predetermined number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Postech Foundation
    Inventors: Jong-Hyung Kwun, Eung-Sun Kim, Jong-Hyeuk Lee, Gi-Hong Im, Hui-Chul Won
  • Publication number: 20090103428
    Abstract: A method and system for generating a space frequency block code relay signal includes a signal detection unit which detects a received signal by receiving a first and second source signals transmitted from a first and second source nodes, a relay signal generation unit which generates a relay signal cooperating with the first and second source signals using a space frequency block code (SFBC) scheme based on the received signal, and a signal transmitter which transmits the relay signal to a destination node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Doo Kim, Eung Sun Kim, Chang Yong Shin, Gi Hong Im, Jong Bu Lim, Tae-Won Yune
  • Publication number: 20090092182
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a space block coding signal through Iterative Multi-user Detection is provided. The apparatus includes a multi-user interference cancellation unit which cancels multi-user interference in a received signal and outputs a first signal and a second signal that are sequentially transmitted from two transmitting antennas, a linear combiner which performs linear combination for the first signal and the second signal, and an equalizer which applies different equalization coefficients to the combined first signal and the second signal, respectively, to perform frequency-domain equalization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Chang Yong Shin, Eung Sun Kim, Young-Doo Kim, Gi Hong Im, Jong Bu Lim, Chan ho Choi