Patents by Inventor Kwang Chun

Kwang Chun 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: 8588838
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for controlling power in a mobile communication system. The apparatus includes a moving speed measuring unit for measuring a moving speed of the terminal, a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) processing unit for requesting a base station to adjust a CQI report frequency when the moving speed measured by the moving speed measuring unit exceeds a threshold value, and determining a CQI report frequency based on information on the CQI report frequency received from the base station to report CQI, and a power controller for performing a power control in response to a power control signal created by the CQI reported from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-Min Kim, Heon-Kook Kwon, Joon-Hyung Kim, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20130251055
    Abstract: Disclosed are a signal distortion component adjusting apparatus and method capable of adjusting error vector magnitude of subcarriers of a predetermined position by adjusting a signal distortion component occurring while decreasing a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) in a communication system of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology or an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) scheme, and a system using the same. The present invention includes a signal distortion component adjusting unit to add an additional signal distortion component Pe((n+N/2) % N) to a signal distortion component e(n) that is obtained by subtracting a threshold Th value, set to decrease peak power, from an absolute value of a time domain signal x(n) of an input signal, and to thereby adjust the signal distortion component. The present invention may transmit a highly reliable signal by adjusting error vector magnitude of subcarrier of a frequency domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Chang Wahn YU, Gweon Do JO, Jung Hoon OH, Kwang Chun LEE, Jae Ho JUNG
  • Patent number: 8521081
    Abstract: A repeating apparatus in a wireless communication system includes: a signal detection unit configured to receive a signal from a base station or a mobile station and detect strength of the signal; a control unit configured to compare the signal strength detected by the signal detection unit with signal strength predetermined by the system and provide comparison information; and an output signal control unit configured to receive the comparison information from the control unit and adjust and amplify gain of a signal transmitted to the base station or the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Byung-Su Kang, Heon-Kook Kwon, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 8509714
    Abstract: In a wideband mobile communication system, a signal transmitting apparatus separates an envelope curve signal which is size information and a phase signal which is phase information from a signal to transmit, and compares the envelope curve signal with a predetermined voltage. The signal transmitting apparatus performs active bias control that amplifies and outputs an envelope curve signal according to different driving voltages based on a comparison result, and supplies a bias voltage to a power amplifier that amplifies a phase signal based on the amplified signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Joon Hyung Kim, Kwang Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 8477866
    Abstract: The method includes performing a wired back-to-back test by forming M wired paths connecting one of the N transmission antennas with the M reception antennas through M cables, separating ith digital data corresponding to an ith receiver wired path from the plurality of digital data stored in the receiver wherein i is a natural number greater than 1 and smaller than M, extracting a time delay by decimating the separated ith digital data and performing sliding correlation on the decimated data, and extracting attenuation and phase characteristics of the ith receiver wired path by extracting samples after the time delay among the decimated samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung-Jun Lee, Kwang-Chun Lee, Hyun-Kyu Chung
  • Publication number: 20130163690
    Abstract: The method for transmitting a signal of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing type according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention has a configuration allowing a radio unit (RU) to perform a component adding a compression component and a decompression component before/after a serial interface interlocking between a digital unit (DU) and the radio unit (RU) and a component inserting a cyclic prefix (CP) into a signal so as to secure orthogonality of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, in a structure in which a base station is physically divided into the DU and the RU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Gweon Do JO, Chang Wahn YU, Heon Kook KWON, Byung Su KANG, Kwang Chun LEE
  • Patent number: 8433268
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for transmitting complex signals in a wireless communication system. The present invention, there is provided a method for controlling gain according to a magnitude change of output signals in a polar transmitter including an amplification unit having two or more amplification degrees, the method includes processes to control an output level of a modulated signal when a output-required power of transmission signals are less than a predetermined threshold value, and to perform a basic amplification through the amplification unit; to amplify the amplification unit at a first amplification level when the output-required power of the transmission signals is equal to or greater than a predetermined first threshold value and is less than a predetermined second threshold value; and to amplify the amplification unit at a second amplification level when the output-required power of the transmission signal is equal to or greater than the second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae-Ho Jung, Joon-Hyung Kim, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 8421534
    Abstract: The predistorter may include: a predistortion filter predistorting an input signal to provide an output signal; a predistortion output estimation unit estimating the characteristics of a nonlinear device based on a signal processed by the nonlinear device and the output signal, and calculating a desired output signal of the predistortion filter by using the estimated characteristics of the nonlinear device; and an adaptive algorithm driving unit comparing the output signal with the desired output signal to output an error as a comparison result, calculating a filter coefficient according to which the calculated error is minimized, and providing the calculated filter coefficient to the predistortion filter in order to update a filter coefficient of the predistortion filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute
    Inventors: Young Hoon Kim, Gweon Do Jo, Kwang Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20130082366
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor package including: a substrate having at least one element mounted thereon; a prepreg layer stacked on the substrate to cover the at least one element; a metal shielding layer stacked on the prepreg layer to electrically shield the at least one element; and a via electrode penetrating through the metal shielding layer and the prepreg layer and electrically connected to a ground electrode formed on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventor: Kwang Chun JUNG
  • Publication number: 20130063824
    Abstract: There is provided a lens module including: a first lens member including an optical part and a bonding part; and an identification mark printed on the first lens member. Further, there is provided a lens module manufacturing method, the manufacturing method including: preparing a first lens member including an optical part and a bonding part; and printing and forming a light shielding film and an identification mark on the bonding part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang Chun LEE, Seok Cheon LEE
  • Patent number: 8391406
    Abstract: Provided are a signal amplifying apparatus and method and a wireless transmitter using the same. The signal amplifier includes a polar coordinate converter configured to output an envelope signal and a phase signal by converting a signal to a polar coordinate, a multilevel quantizer configured to output a multilevel quantized signal by quantizing the envelope signal to multiple levels, an amplification state controller configured to control an amplification state using the multilevel quantized signal, and a power amplifier configured to amplify the phase signal according to the controlled amplification state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Joon-Hyung Kim, Kwang-Chun Lee, Gweon-Do Jo, Jae-Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 8369033
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a lens, including applying a second lens material to a first lens member made of a first lens material; aligning and fixing a light shielding member to the second lens material; and further applying the second lens material to the first lens member and performing curing thereon to complete a second lens member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye Ran Oh, Kwang Chun Lee, In Cheol Chang, Young Su Jin
  • Publication number: 20130027841
    Abstract: There is provided a multi-layered ceramic capacitor including: a laminated body having a plurality of dielectric layers laminated therein and including first and second surfaces opposed to each other; a first internal electrode formed between the plurality of dielectric layers, exposed to the first surface, and including a plurality of first sub-electrodes; a second internal electrode exposed to the second surface and including a plurality of second sub-electrodes alternately disposed with the first sub-electrodes; a third internal electrode having at least one dielectric layer disposed between the first and second internal electrodes and the third internal electrode, exposed to the second surface, and including a plurality of third sub-electrodes disposed to be opposed to the first sub-electrodes; and a fourth internal electrode exposed to the first surface and including a plurality of fourth sub-electrodes opposed to the second sub-electrodes and alternately disposed with the third sub-electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventor: Kwang Chun Jung
  • Publication number: 20130026668
    Abstract: There is provided a lens molding apparatus, the apparatus including: a first mold part and a second mold part molding a lens array; first alignment marks respectively formed on the first mold part and the second mold part; second alignment marks respectively formed on the first mold part and the second mold part and positioned outside of the first alignment marks; and a controller sensing an alignment error of the first alignment marks based on the second alignment marks and correcting a relative position of the second mold part with respect to the first mold part in proportion to the magnitude of the sensed alignment error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Chun LEE, Young Su Jin, Sang Hyo Seo
  • Patent number: 8233845
    Abstract: Provided are a method for measuring a variable bandwidth wireless channel, and a transmitter and a receiver therefor. The transmitter, includes: a pre-processing unit for performing variable over-sampling and band-limited filtering on an original sequence for measuring the wireless channel according to a pre-determined digital-to-analog (D/A) operation speed and measurement bandwidth, and creating and storing a probing sequence whose frequency is up-converted into a fixed transmitting intermediate frequency; and a real-time processing unit for transmitting a probing signal that the stored probing sequence is converted according to the D/A operation speed to the wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung-Jun Lee, Heon-Kook Kwon, Myung-Don Kim, Hyun-Kyu Chung, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20120182836
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technology for performing a communication using an ultrasonic wave in an environment where an electromagnetic shielding is so severe that a wireless communication using an electromagnetic is difficult. In the environment where the electromagnetic shielding is severe, an ultrasonic terminal according to the present invention may transmit the ultrasonic wave using a solid structure as a medium, and an ultrasonic base station may receive the ultrasonic wave using the solid structure as the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Byung-Jae Kwak, Kwang Chun Lee, Hyun Kyu Chung, Nah-Oak Song
  • Publication number: 20120176688
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a lens, including applying a second lens material to a first lens member made of a first lens material; aligning and fixing a light shielding member to the second lens material; and further applying the second lens material to the first lens member and performing curing thereon to complete a second lens member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hye Ran Oh, Kwang Chun Lee, In Cheol Chang, Young Su Jin
  • Publication number: 20120177819
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a lens, including: forming a first lens layer having a protrusion and a groove part formed on a first surface thereof; forming a light shielding layer on the first surface; and forming a second lens on the first surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Chun Lee, Young Su Jin, Hye Ran Oh
  • Patent number: 8216839
    Abstract: A method for preparing isolated hepatocytes is disclosed. The method comprises: a) culturing mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in a medium comprising hepatic growth factor (HGF) to cause the MSCs to differentiate toward hepatocytes, wherein the MSCs are isolated from bone marrow or umbilical cord blood; b) culturing cells from a) in a medium comprising HGF and oncostatin M (OSM) to facilitate the cell differentiation toward hepatocytes; and c) culturing cells from b) in a medium comprising OSM to cause the differentiated cells to mature into hepatocytes, and thereby producing the isolated hepatocyte cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: National Yang-Ming University
    Inventors: Oscar Kuang-Sheng Lee, Tom Kwang-Chun Kuo
  • Patent number: 8213891
    Abstract: A gain control apparatus in a receiver of multiband OFDM system includes: an amplifier amplifying a received signal based on a first auto gain control signal; an analog-to-digital converter for converting the amplified signal into a digital signal; band reception signal extractor for extracting a signal of a desired reception band from the converted digital signal for each reception band, and controlling gain of the extracted signal according to a second auto gain control signal; a reception power detector for detecting a reception power value of whole band from the converted digital signal; and a multiband integration baseband processor for generating the first auto gain control signal by using the detected reception power value of the whole band, and generating the second auto gain control signal to be provided to the band reception signal extraction units, resource allocation information for each band and a reception power for each reception band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seong-Min Kim, Byung-Su Kang, Gweon-Do Jo, Jae-Ho Jung, Joon-Hyung Kim, Heon-Kook Kwon, Sung-Jun Lee, Kwang-Chun Lee