Patents by Inventor Hyun-kwon Chung

Hyun-kwon Chung 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).

  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING 3D VIDEO IMAGE
    Publication number: 20090315979
    Abstract: A 3D video image processing method including: acquiring three-dimensional (3D) format information of a video image generated from video data to determine a 3D format of the video image; generating, from a first graphic image, a second graphic image corresponding to the determined 3D format of the video image using the 3D format information, the first graphic image being generated from graphic data; and overlaying the video image with the second graphic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kil-soo Jung, Hyun-kwon Chung, Dae-jong Lee
  • IMAGE GENERATING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20090317061
    Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus and an image generating method and apparatus, the image processing method to output a video data being a two-dimensional (2D) image as the 2D image or a three-dimensional (3D) image including: extracting information about the video data from metadata associated with the video data; and outputting the video data as the 2D image or the 3D image by using the extracted information about the video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kil-soo JUNG, Hyun-kwon CHUNG, Dae-jong LEE
  • IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20090317062
    Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus to output video data, which is a two-dimensional (2D) image, as a three-dimensional (3D) image, the image processing method including: when a current frame of the video data is classified as a new shot that is different from a shot a previous frame of the video data that is output temporally before the current frame, estimating a motion of the current frame by using one or more next frames of the video data that are output temporally after the current frame and are classified as the new shot; and outputting the current frame as the 3D image by using the estimated motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kil-soo JUNG, Hyun-kwon CHUNG, Dae-jong LEE
  • IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20090315981
    Abstract: An image processing method and an image processing apparatus, the image processing method including: extracting background depth information and object depth information from meta data with respect to video data; creating a depth map for a background of a frame of the video data using the background depth information; and creating a depth map for an object of the frame of the video data by using the object depth information, wherein the object is a normal object that contacts the background or a highlighted object that does not contact the background.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kil-soo JUNG, Hyun-kwon CHUNG, Dae-jong LEE
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING THREE DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DATA
    Publication number: 20090315977
    Abstract: A video processing method and apparatus, the video processing method including: decoding two-dimensional video data; adjusting a brightness of the decoded two-dimensional video data; converting the brightness-adjusted two-dimensional video data into three-dimensional video data; and displaying the three-dimensional video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kil-soo Jung, Hyun-Kwon Chung, Dae-Jong Lee
  • IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20090315980
    Abstract: An image processing method including outputting a predetermined region of one or more frames of video data as a two-dimensional (2D) image and other regions of the one or more frames as a three-dimensional (3D) image by using meta data of the video data, where the meta data includes information to classify the frames into predetermined units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co.,
    Inventors: Kil-soo JUNG, Hyun-kwon Chung, Dae-jong Lee
  • Information storage medium containing enhanced AV (ENAV) buffer configuration information, reproducing method thereof and method for managing the buffer
    Patent number: 7627230
    Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for use with an information storage medium including ENAV buffer configuration information includes: an ENAV buffer in which an ENAV file is loaded; and an ENAV engine which interprets and reproduces the ENAV file, wherein the ENAV engine allocates at least a portion of the ENAV buffer as an updateable markup area on the basis of ENAV buffer configuration information, reads the ENAV file, and loads the ENAV file in the ENAV buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-kwon Chung, Sung-wook Park
  • Recording medium containing thumbnail recorded thereon, recording apparatus and method therefor, and reproducing apparatus and method therefor
    Patent number: 7620295
    Abstract: A recording medium includes a program containing video data and/or audio data and navigation information which defines a thumbnail, wherein the thumbnail relates to the program and is reproduceable as moving pictures. The recording medium may include a plurality of programs and the thumbnail may identify or represent one or more of the programs. By assigning a predetermined interval of a bit stream corresponding to a program as a thumbnail, the recording medium having the thumbnail thereon, that can be reproduced as moving pictures, can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong-gil Bak, Hee-soo Lee, Tae-yun Chung, Hyun-kwon Chung, Sung-wook Park
  • STORAGE MEDIUM INCLUDING TEXT-BASED CAPTION INFORMATION, REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20090268090
    Abstract: A storage medium including moving picture data and subtitle data to be output as a graphic overlapping an image based on the moving picture data, wherein the subtitle data includes text data to generate pixel data converted into a bitmap image, and control information to control the pixel data to be output in real time, and a reproducing apparatus and reproducing method using the storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-kwon Chung, Sung-wook Park
  • Apparatus for use with information storage medium containing enhanced AV (ENAV) buffer configuration information, reproducing method thereof and method for managing the buffer
    Patent number: 7596303
    Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for use with an information storage medium including ENAV buffer configuration information includes: an ENAV buffer in which an ENAV file is loaded; and an ENAV engine which interprets and reproduces the ENAV file, wherein the ENAV engine allocates at least a portion of the ENAV buffer as an updateable markup area on the basis of ENAV buffer configuration information, reads the ENAV file, and loads the ENAV file in the ENAV buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-kwon Chung, Sung-wook Park
  • STORAGE MEDIUM IN WHICH AUDIO-VISUAL DATA WITH EVENT INFORMATION IS RECORDED, AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20090208187
    Abstract: A storage medium in which audio-visual data with event information is recorded, and a reproducing apparatus and reproducing method thereof, includes: audio-visual (AV) data; and event information to activate an event when a predetermined specific scene is reproduced while reproducing the AV data and to execute a predetermined program application corresponding to the activated event by synchronizing the program application with the specific scene. Accordingly, the storage medium may be controlled so that an application having a program function is synchronized with a specific scene of the AV data using the event information while reproducing the entirety of the AV data or a portion of the AV data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang-min KIM, Jung-ho LEE, Hyun-kwon CHUNG, Kil-soo JUNG, Man seok KANG
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MEDIA CLOCK AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE METHOD
    Publication number: 20090208183
    Abstract: A method of generating a media clock indicating a time referred to by an application, which is a reference time used during operation of the application so as to synchronize video and the application. The method includes confirming a presentation start time of an enhanced video object unit (EVOBU) corresponding to a system time clock (STC) of playback video, subsequently setting an accumulated playback time of an EVOBU preceding the EVOBU corresponding to the STC as a media clock start time and setting the media clock of the playback video by adding the media clock start time to a difference value obtained by subtracting the presentation start time from the STC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Man-seok KANG, Hyun-kwon Chung
  • Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing video data, and information storage medium in which video data is recorded by the same
    Patent number: 7577333
    Abstract: A method of recording and reproducing video data is provided. The method of recording video data in an information storage medium includes the steps of (a) decoding originally encoded video data, (b) re-encoding the decoded video data in a different way to the originally encoded video data, (c) generating video transform information which is to be referred to for decoding the video data into its original state, and (d) recording the generated video transform information and the re encoded video data in the information storage medium. Accordingly, the video data can be properly reproduced even if it is re-encoded in a different way to the originally encoded video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-kwon Chung, Bong-gil Bak, Sung-wook Park, Jung-wan Ko
  • INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM WITH STRUCTURE FOR MULTI-ANGLE DATA, AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20090129751
    Abstract: An information storage medium on which multi-angle data is recorded includes at least two clips in each of which video object data for an angle of the multi-angle data is recorded. The at least two clips are recorded in contiguous areas of the information storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kil-Soo Jung, Seong-jin Moon, Jung-wan Ko, Jung-kwon Heo, Sung-wook Park, Hyun-kwon Chung
  • Data storage medium in which multiple bitstreams are recorded, apparatus and method for recording the multiple bitstreams, and apparatus and method for reproducing the multple bitstreams
    Patent number: 7522818
    Abstract: A data storage medium in which multiple bitstreams are recorded, an apparatus and method for recording the multiple bitstreams, and an apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams are provided. The reproducing apparatus includes: a reading unit for reading main data including audio data and/or video data, and reading sub data recorded in a separate bitstream from the main data, which is later reproduced in synchronization with the main data; and a multiplexer for multiplexing the main data and sub data read by the reading unit. Therefore, multiple bitstreams can be read and reproduced at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-wook Park, Hee-soo Lee, Bong-gil Bak, Hyun-kwon Chung, Tae-yun Chung
  • Data storage medium in which multiple bitstreams are recorded, apparatus and method for recording the multiple bitstreams, and apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams
    Patent number: 7522819
    Abstract: A data storage medium in which multiple bitstreams are recorded, an apparatus and method for recording the multiple bitstreams, and an apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams are provided. The reproducing apparatus includes: a reading unit for reading main data including audio data and/or video data, and reading sub data recorded in a separate bitstream from the main data, which is later reproduced in synchronization with the main data; and a multiplexer for multiplexing the main data and sub data read by the reading unit. Therefore, multiple bitstreams can be read and reproduced at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-wook Park, Hee-soo Lee, Bong-gil Bak, Hyun-kwon Chung, Tae-yun Chung
  • Data storage medium in which multiple bitstreams are recorded, apparatus and method for recording the multiple bitstreams, and apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams
    Patent number: 7522820
    Abstract: A data storage medium in which multiple bitstreams are recorded, an apparatus and method for recording the multiple bitstreams, and an apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams are provided. The reproducing apparatus includes: a reading unit for reading main data including audio data and/or video data, and reading sub data recorded in a separate bitstream from the main data, which is later reproduced in synchronization with the main data; and a multiplexer for multiplexing the main data and sub data read by the reading unit. Therefore, multiple bitstreams can be read and reproduced at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-wook Park, Hee-soo Lee, Bong-gil Bak, Hyun-kwon Chung, Tae-yun Chung
  • Data storage medium in which multiple bitstreams are recorded, apparatus and method for recording the multiple bitstreams, and apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams
    Patent number: 7519275
    Abstract: A data storage medium in which multiple bitstreams are recorded, an apparatus and method for recording the multiple bitstreams, and an apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams are provided. The reproducing apparatus includes: a reading unit for reading main data including audio data and/or video data, and reading sub data recorded in a separate bitstream from the main data, which is later reproduced in synchronization with the main data; and a multiplexer for multiplexing the main data and sub data read by the reading unit. Therefore, multiple bitstreams can be read and reproduced at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-wook Park, Hee-soo Lee, Bong-gil Bak, Hyun-kwon Chung, Tae-yun Chung
  • Information storage medium containing enhanced AV (ENAV) buffer configuration information, reproducing method thereof and method for managing the buffer
    Patent number: 7515599
    Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for use with an information storage medium including ENAV buffer configuration information includes: an ENAV buffer in which an ENAV file is loaded; and an ENAV engine which interprets and reproduces the ENAV file, wherein the ENAV engine allocates at least a portion of the ENAV buffer as an updateable markup area on the basis of ENAV buffer configuration information, reads the ENAV file, and loads the ENAV file in the ENAV buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-kwon Chung, Sung-wook Park
  • Method to display a mark-up document according to a parental level, method and apparatus to reproduce the mark-up document in an interactive mode, and a data storage medium therefor
    Patent number: 7493552
    Abstract: Provided are a method to display a mark-up document according to a parental level, a method and an apparatus for reproducing AV data in an interactive mode, and a data storage medium. The data storage medium includes the AV data, and mark-up documents to reproduce the AV data in an interactive mode. Here, among the mark-up documents, a start-up document contains information on the mark-up documents to be displayed according to a set parental level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kil-soo Jung, Sung-wook Park, Hyun-kwon Chung