Patents by Inventor Min-Su Cheon

Min-Su Cheon 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 ENCODING VIDEO BY USING TRANSFORMATION INDEX, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO BY USING TRANSFORMATION INDEX
    Publication number: 20150146793
    Abstract: Encoding and decoding a video using transformation index that indicates information that indicates a structure of a transformation unit transforming data of a current coding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-hye MIN, Woo-jin HAN, Tammy LEE, Il-koo KIM, Min-su CHEON
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO BY USING TRANSFORMATION INDEX, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO BY USING TRANSFORMATION INDEX
    Publication number: 20150146792
    Abstract: Encoding and decoding a video using transformation index that indicates information that indicates a structure of a transformation unit transforming data of a current coding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-hye MIN, Woo-jin HAN, Tammy LEE, Il-koo KIM, Min-su CHEON
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO BY USING TRANSFORMATION INDEX, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO BY USING TRANSFORMATION INDEX
    Publication number: 20150146791
    Abstract: Encoding and decoding a video using transformation index that indicates information that indicates a structure of a transformation unit transforming data of a current coding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-hye MIN, Woo-jin HAN, Tammy LEE, Il-koo KIM, Min-su CHEON
  • Method and apparatus for encoding video by using transformation index, and method and apparatus for decoding video by using transformation index
    Patent number: 9042460
    Abstract: Encoding and decoding a video using transformation index that indicates information that indicates a structure of a transformation unit transforming data of a current coding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-hye Min, Woo-jin Han, Tammy Lee, Ii-koo Kim, Min-su Cheon
  • Method and apparatus for encoding video by using transformation index, and method and apparatus for decoding video by using transformation index
    Patent number: 9042459
    Abstract: Encoding and decoding a video using transformation index that indicates information that indicates a structure of a transformation unit transforming data of a current coding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-hye Min, Woo-jin Han, Tammy Lee, Il-koo Kim, Min-su Cheon
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING IMAGES AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGES
    Publication number: 20150139561
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an image includes an encoding information extractor which extracts split information indicating whether to split a coding unit of an upper depth into coding units of deeper depths and skip information indicating whether a prediction mode of a current coding unit is a skip mode, from image data and a decoding unit which determines a split structure of a maximum coding unit, according to the split information so that the maximum coding unit is hierarchically split as a depth increases and determines whether the prediction mode of the current coding unit is the skip mode according to the skip information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hae-kyung JUNG, Min-su CHEON, Jung-hye MIN, Il-koo KIM
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING IMAGES AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGES
    Publication number: 20150139562
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an image includes an encoding information extractor which extracts split information indicating whether to split a coding unit of an upper depth into coding units of deeper depths and skip information indicating whether a prediction mode of a current coding unit is a skip mode, from image data and a decoding unit which determines a split structure of a maximum coding unit, according to the split information so that the maximum coding unit is hierarchically split as a depth increases and determines whether the prediction mode of the current coding unit is the skip mode according to the skip information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hae-kyung JUNG, Min-su CHEON, Jung-hye MIN, Il-koo KIM
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE BY USING LARGE TRANSFORM UNIT
    Publication number: 20150139563
    Abstract: A method of decoding an image in which wherein, when a prediction mode is an inter prediction mode, not an intra prediction mode, a size of at least one prediction unit in the coding unit is determined independently from a size of at least one transformation unit in the coding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-su CHEON, Woo-jin HAN, Hae-kyung JUNG, Il-koo KIM, Tammy LEE, Jianle CHEN
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO BASED ON SCANNING ORDER OF HIERARCHICAL DATA UNITS, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO BASED ON SCANNING ORDER OF HIERARCHICAL DATA UNITS
    Publication number: 20150139315
    Abstract: A video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus based on a scanning order of hierarchical data units are provided. The decoding method includes: receiving and parsing a bitstream of an encoded video; extracting from the bitstream information about a size of a maximum coding unit for decoding a picture of the encoded video, and encoding information about a coded depth and an encoding mode for coding units of the picture, wherein the size of the maximum coding unit is a maximum size of a coding unit which is a data unit for decoding the picture; and determining a hierarchical structure of the maximum coding unit and the coding units into which the picture is divided according to depths, and decoding the picture based on the coding units, by using the information about the size of the maximum coding unit and the encoding information about the coded depth and the encoded mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-hye MIN, Hae-kyung JUNG, Il-koo KIM, Min-su CHEON
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO BASED ON SCANNING ORDER OF HIERARCHICAL DATA UNITS, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO BASED ON SCANNING ORDER OF HIERARCHICAL DATA UNITS
    Publication number: 20150131723
    Abstract: A video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus based on a scanning order of hierarchical data units are provided. The decoding method includes: receiving and parsing a bitstream of an encoded video; extracting from the bitstream information about a size of a maximum coding unit for decoding a picture of the encoded video, and encoding information about a coded depth and an encoding mode for coding units of the picture, wherein the size of the maximum coding unit is a maximum size of a coding unit which is a data unit for decoding the picture; and determining a hierarchical structure of the maximum coding unit and the coding units into which the picture is divided according to depths, and decoding the picture based on the coding units, by using the information about the size of the maximum coding unit and the encoding information about the coded depth and the encoded mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-hye MIN, Hae-kyung JUNG, Il-koo KIM, Min-su CHEON
  • Method and apparatus for encoding video by motion prediction using arbitrary partition, and method and apparatus for decoding video by motion prediction using arbitrary partition
    Patent number: 9025667
    Abstract: A method of decoding a video including parsing AMP information indicating whether partition types include asymmetric partition types, from a bitstream of an encoded image, determining at least one coding unit included in a maximum coding unit by using split information parsed from the received bitstream, determining at least one prediction unit of a coding unit among the at least one coding unit, by using the AMP information and information about a partition type of the coding unit parsed from the received bitstream, and performing motion compensation using the prediction units for the coding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun-il Lee, Min-su Cheon, Woo-jin Han
  • Method and apparatus for encoding video by using transformation index, and method and apparatus for decoding video by using transformation index
    Patent number: 8982961
    Abstract: Encoding and decoding a video using transformation index that indicates information that indicates a structure of a transformation unit transforming data of a current coding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-hye Min, Woo-jin Han, Tammy Lee, Il-koo Kim, Min-su Cheon
  • Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image by using large transform unit
    Patent number: 8971654
    Abstract: A method of decoding an image including performing entropy-decoding to obtain quantized transformation coefficients of at least one transformation unit in a coding unit of the image, performing inverse-quantization and inverse-transformation on the quantized transformation coefficients of the at least one transformation unit to obtain residuals, and performing inter prediction for at least one prediction unit in the coding unit to generate a predictor and restoring the image by using the residuals and the predictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-su Cheon, Woo-jin Han, Hae-kyung Jung, Il-koo Kim, Tammy Lee, Jianle Chen
  • Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image by using large transform unit
    Patent number: 8971653
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an image includes an entropy decoder that performs entropy-decoding to obtain quantized transformation coefficients of at least one transformation unit in a coding unit of the image, an inverse transformer that performs inverse-quantization and inverse-transformation on the quantized transformation coefficients of the at least one transformation unit to obtain residuals, and a restorer that performs inter prediction for at least one prediction unit in the coding unit to generate a predictor and restores the image by using the residuals and the predictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-su Cheon, Woo-jin Han, Hae-kyung Jung, Il-koo Kim, Tammy Lee, Jianle Chen
  • Method and apparatus for encoding video, and method and apparatus for decoding video
    Patent number: 8953682
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of encoding a video, the method including: splitting a current picture into at least one maximum coding unit; determining a coded depth to output a final encoding result according to at least one split region obtained by splitting a region of the maximum coding unit according to depths, by encoding the at least one split region, based on a depth that deepens in proportion to the number of times the region of the maximum coding unit is split; and outputting image data constituting the final encoding result according to the at least one split region, and encoding information about the coded depth and a prediction mode, according to the at least one maximum coding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianle Chen, Min-su Cheon, Jae-chool Lee, Jung-hye Min, Hae-kyung Jung, Il-koo Kim, Sang-rae Lee, Kyo-hyuk Lee
  • Method and apparatus for encoding video by motion prediction using arbitrary partition, and method and apparatus for decoding video by motion prediction using arbitrary partition
    Patent number: 8938006
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus of encoding a video, the method including: splitting video data into a maximum coding unit; encoding the video data of the maximum coding unit based on deeper coding units of hierarchical structures in which a coding unit of an upper depth is split as a depth deepens, according to at least one split region of the maximum coding unit, and determining a coding depth at which an encoding result is to be output, including inter prediction using partitions obtained by splitting the coding unit according to arbitrary ratios; and outputting a bitstream including the encoded video data corresponding to a coding depth for the at least one split region according to maximum coding units and information regarding the coding depth and encoding modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun-il Lee, Min-su Cheon, Woo-jin Han
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING IMAGES AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGES
    Publication number: 20150016508
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an image includes an encoding information extractor which extracts split information indicating whether to split a coding unit of an upper depth into coding units of deeper depths and skip information indicating whether a prediction mode of a current coding unit is a skip mode, from image data and a decoding unit which determines a split structure of a maximum coding unit, according to the split information so that the maximum coding unit is hierarchically split as a depth increases and determines whether the prediction mode of the current coding unit is the skip mode according to the skip information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hae-kyung JUNG, Min-su CHEON, Jung-hye MIN, Il-koo KIM
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO BY CONSIDERING SKIP AND SPLIT ORDER
    Publication number: 20150003516
    Abstract: A method of encoding a video includes: splitting a picture into a maximum coding unit; for the maximum coding unit, determining coding units having a tree structure including coding units of coded depths and determining encoding modes for the coding units of the coded depths by performing encoding based on coding units according to depths, the coding units according to depths obtained by hierarchically splitting the maximum coding unit as a depth deepens; and outputting information about a maximum coding unit size and, for the maximum coding unit, information indicating an order of split information and skip mode information which is selectively determined for the coding units according to depths, information about the encoding modes for the coding units of the coded depths including the split information and the skip mode information which are arranged according to the order, and encoded video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Il-koo KIM, Jung-hye MIN, Hae-kyung JUNG, Sun-il LEE, Min-su CHEON
  • ULTRASOUND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150002538
    Abstract: An ultrasound image display method displays an ultrasound image, detects a shadow pattern for determining an internal state of an object displayed in the ultrasound image, determines the number of the detected shadow patterns, and displays the determined number of shadow patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiwon SOHN, Ho-kyung KANG, Jong-geun PARK, Yu-mi SOHN, Young-yoon LEE, Jin-woo YIM, Min-su CHEON
  • Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image by using large transform unit
    Patent number: 8923641
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an image includes an entropy decoder that performs entropy decoding to generate quantized transformation coefficients of a transformation unit in a coding unit and an inverse transformer that inverse quantizes the quantized transformation coefficients to generate transformation coefficients of the transformation unit and inverse transforms the transformation coefficients to generate residual components of the transformation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-su Cheon, Woo-jin Han, Hae-kyung Jung, Il-koo Kim, Tammy Lee, Jianle Chen