Patents by Inventor Jin Pil Kim

Jin Pil 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).

  • Patent number: 9154817
    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: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    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
  • Publication number: 20150281738
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a broadcast signal includes encoding mobile service data to build a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame according to an RS frame mode, wherein the mobile service data is either a mobile service data of a base layer or a mobile service data of the base layer and at least one enhancement layer, wherein each layer is specified by a layer identifier, wherein a layer identifier value of the base layer is set to 0 and a layer identifier value of the at least one enhancement layer starts from 1; and encoding signaling data, wherein the signaling data includes fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, and the FIC data includes information for rapid mobile service acquisition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jong Yeul SUH, In Hwan CHOI, Ho Taek HONG, Kook Yeon KWAK, Byoung Gill KIM, Jae Hyung SONG, Jin Pil KIM, Won Gyu SONG, Jin Woo KIM, Hyoung Gon LEE, Joon Hui LEE, Chul Soo LEE
  • Publication number: 20150281668
    Abstract: A broadcast receiver and a 3D video data processing method are disclosed. The method includes receiving a broadcast signal including system information and video data, parsing system information of a program, and determining whether the program provides a 3D broadcast service from the system information, extracting, if the program provides a 3D broadcast service, broadcast data of the program, and processing video data of broadcast data according to the system information. The broadcast receiver includes a receiving unit receiving a broadcast signal including system information and video data, an SI processor parsing system information of a program, and determining whether the program provides a 3D broadcast service from the system information, a demultiplexer extracting, if the program provides a 3D broadcast service, broadcast data of the program, and a video processor processing video data of the broadcast data according to system information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Jong Yeul SUH, Jeong Hyu YANG, Jin Pil KIM, Kwan Suk KIM
  • Patent number: 9148692
    Abstract: A method of processing a digital television (DTV) signal in a DTV receiver, the method includes receiving a digital television signal including a plurality of extended text table (ETT) instances that appear in transport stream packets with common PID values, the ETT instances having common table ID values, each ETT instance comprising a section header and a message body, the section header containing a table identification (ID) extension field that serves to establish uniqueness of each ETT instance, the message body containing an extended text message (ETM) which provides detailed descriptions of a virtual channel or an event associated with each ETT instance, wherein the section header further contains a current next indicator field and a last section number field indicating a last section number, demodulating the digital television signal and identifying at least one pertinent ETT instance from the plurality of ETT instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Pil Kim, Kyung Mee Lee
  • Patent number: 9136960
    Abstract: A digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system and a method for processing data are disclosed. The method for processing data may enhance the receiving performance of the receiving system by performing additional coding and multiplexing processes on the traffic information data and transmitting the processed data. Thus, robustness is provided to the traffic information data, thereby enabling the data to respond strongly against the channel environment which is always under constant and vast change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Pil Kim, Young In Kim, Ho Taek Hong, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Hyoung Gon Lee, Byoung Gill Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Jong Moon Kim, Won Gyu Song
  • Patent number: 9131262
    Abstract: A DTV receiver includes a receiver to receive a digital television signal including a plurality of extended text table (ETT) instances that appear in transport stream packets with common PID values, the ETT instances having common table ID values, each ETT instance comprising a section header and a message body, the section header containing a table identification (ID) extension field that serves to establish uniqueness of each ETT instance, the message body containing an extended text message (ETM) which provides detailed descriptions of a virtual channel or an event associated with each ETT instance, wherein the section header further contains a protocol version field indicating a protocol version and a section length field indicating a section length, a demodulator to demodulate the digital television signal and an identifier to identify at least one pertinent ETT instance from the plurality of ETT instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Pil Kim, Kyung Mee Lee
  • Patent number: 9124938
    Abstract: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Pil Kim, C. Gomer Thomas
  • Patent number: 9124927
    Abstract: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Pil Kim, C. Gomer Thomas
  • Patent number: 9118975
    Abstract: A method of providing a Non-Real-Time (NRT) service includes receiving a file configuring the NRT service, first signaling information, and second signaling information in a state of being IP-packetized and contained in a single ensemble, configuring and displaying a service guide using the first signaling information acquired from the ensemble, acquiring a first content identifier of content selected from the displayed service guide, accessing a FLUTE session using the second signaling information acquired from the ensemble and acquiring a second content identifier matched with the first content identifier from the accessed FLUTE session, and receiving and storing at least one file configuring the content based on the acquired second content identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Song, Jong Yeul Suh, Chul Soo Lee, Gomer Thomas, Jin Pil Kim, Ho Taek Hong, Joon Hui Lee
  • Patent number: 9113179
    Abstract: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Pil Kim, C. Gomer Thomas
  • Publication number: 20150226989
    Abstract: A substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes: a substrate including a display region displaying an image and a non-display region surrounding the display region; a dummy pattern in the non-display area over the substrate, the dummy pattern having a length that corresponds to a side of the display area; and an orientation film on the dummy pattern, the orientation film covering the non-display area and the whole display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Jae-Won Lee, So-Young Noh, Sung-Ki Kim, Jin-Pil Kim, Kyung-Mo Son
  • Patent number: 9088806
    Abstract: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Pil Kim, C. Gomer Thomas
  • Patent number: 9083953
    Abstract: A 3D caption display method for harmoniously merging and displaying closed caption with 3D image in a 3D display apparatus, and a 3D display apparatus suitable for implementing the method. The 3D display apparatus receives a broadcast signal containing caption data, and obtains caption control commands including a 3D parameter setting command from the caption data. Afterwards, the 3D display apparatus displays a plurality of 3D caption images according to the caption control commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jong-Yeul Suh, Jin-Pil Kim, Jeong-Hyu Yang, Seok-Joo Lee
  • Patent number: 9084009
    Abstract: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Pil Kim, C. Gomer Thomas
  • Publication number: 20150195507
    Abstract: The disclosure is disclosed an apparatus of processing an image and a method thereof. According to the present invention, the method of transmitting a broadcast signal for 3-dimensional, 3D, service, may include encoding video data for a 3D service into a stream, generating first service information including a first descriptor including first information for specifying that a type of the stream is a video stream and second information for specifying a type of a component included in the video stream is a 3D video component and transmitting a broadcast signal including the encoded stream and the generated service information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Jong Yeul Suh, Jin Pil Kim, Jee Hyun Choe, Ho Taek Hong, Kwan Suk Kim
  • Publication number: 20150195505
    Abstract: A broadcast receiver and a method for processing 3D video data are disclosed. A method for processing video data of a broadcast receiver includes receiving a broadcast signal including a video stream, wherein the video stream includes a plurality of video stream sections having different viewpoints, acquiring viewpoint information indicating corresponding viewpoints of the video stream sections, and outputting an interface indicating a viewpoint of the video stream that is currently displayed according to the viewpoint information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Jong Yeul SUH, Jeong Hyu YANG, Jin Pil KIM, Kwan Suk KIM
  • Publication number: 20150195610
    Abstract: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Jin Pil KIM, C. Gomer Thomas
  • Publication number: 20150195622
    Abstract: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Jin Pil KIM, C. Gomer Thomas
  • Patent number: 9078032
    Abstract: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Pil Kim, C. Gomer Thomas
  • Patent number: 9078046
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a broadcast signal includes encoding mobile service data to build a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame according to an RS frame mode, wherein the mobile service data is either a mobile service data of a base layer or a mobile service data of the base layer and at least one enhancement layer, wherein each layer is specified by a layer identifier, wherein a layer identifier value of the base layer is set to 0 and a layer identifier value of the at least one enhancement layer starts from 1; and encoding signaling data, wherein the signaling data includes fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, and the FIC data includes information for rapid mobile service acquisition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jong Yeul Suh, In Hwan Choi, Ho Taek Hong, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Jae Hyung Song, Jin Pil Kim, Won Gyu Song, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee, Joon Hui Lee, Chul Soo Lee