Patents by Inventor Nam-il Kim

Nam-il 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).

  • Publication number: 20120093255
    Abstract: Provided is a data transmission device and a symbol generation method of the same. A data processing unit of a data transmission device according to an embodiment of the present invention accesses a memory device for reading another data block while symbols for one data block are generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Chan Bok JEONG, Nam Il KIM, Daeho KIM
  • Patent number: 8143970
    Abstract: Disclosed is a variable phase shifter, the variable phase shifter including: a fixed board which is fixedly provided in a housing, and consisting of a dielectric board, and consisting of a dielectric board, having a second transfer stripline having at least one arc-shaped output micro stripline on one surface; a rotating board rotatably provided within the housing while coming in contact with the one surface of the fixed board, and consisting of a dielectric board, having a second transfer stripline coupled to the arc-shaped output micro stripline on a surface where the rotating board comes in contact with the one surface of the fixed board even when the rotating board rotates; wherein both the sides of at least one output micro stripline of the fixed board are connected to an output port, and the other surface of the fixed board includes an input micro stripline, so that the other surface of the fixed board is electrically connected and receives an input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: KMW Inc.
    Inventors: Young-Chan Moon, Ryoji Matsubara, Nam-Il Kim
  • Patent number: 8125976
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of generating a downlink signal and searching a cell on the basis of the downlink signal in an OFDM-based cellular system. The downlink signal includes a plurality of synchronization blocks each having a plurality of sub-frames, and a synchronization pattern composed of a combination of a cell group identification code for identifying a cell group and a frame synchronization identification code for indicating a frame start point is generated in each of the synchronization blocks. Different frame synchronization identification codes are allocated to the synchronization blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, SK Telecom., Co., Ltd., KT Corporation
    Inventors: Kap-Seok Chang, Il-Gyu Kim, Nam-Il Kim, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 8102927
    Abstract: The present invention provides an OFDM symbol generating apparatus. The OFDM symbol generating apparatus generates a plurality of weight-applied symbol groups by applying a plurality of weights to a digital modulation symbol group, and generates a plurality of IFFT symbol groups by performing an IFFT operation on the plurality of weight-applied symbol groups. Subsequently, an IFFT symbol group having the minimum PAPR is selected from among the plurality of IFFT symbol groups such that a characteristic of a PAPR can be improved without reducing data transmission speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignees: SK Telecom. Co., Ltd., KT Corporation, Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Nam-Il Kim, Il-Gyu Kim, Hye-Kyung Jwa, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 8027397
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal transmitting and receiving device, in which a peak to average power ratio characteristic is improved without reducing a data transmission speed. The OFDM signal transmitting device separates a digital modulated symbol as a real part and an imaginary part, and performs discrete cosine transform (DCT) and discrete sine transform (DST) operations respectively for real and imaginary part symbols, performs an inverse fast Fourier transform operation, and generates an OFDM symbol. The OFDM signal receiving device performs a fast Fourier transform operation for the OFDM symbol, and performs an inverse DCT operation and an inverse DST operation, performs a digital demodulating operation, and generates a final binary data symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, SK Telecom., Co., Ltd., KT Corporation
    Inventors: Nam-Il Kim, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Publication number: 20110217520
    Abstract: An abrasive sheet having improved properties which enable precise polishing and finishing is prepared by (1) coating an abrasive material-containing slurry on a concave face of an embossed first substrate and then UV-curing or pre-drying with heat the coating layer to form an abrasive material coating layer on the embossed first substrate; (2) coating an adhesive on one side of a second substrate to form an adhesive layer thereon; (3) combining the first and second substrates such that the abrasive material coating layer is bonded to the adhesive layer to form a laminate; and (4) separating the first substrate from the laminate formed in step (3), to obtain an abrasive sheet having an embossed abrasive material coating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: SUN ABRASIVES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nam Il Kim
  • Publication number: 20110145669
    Abstract: A data derate matcher for supporting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ), includes a control parameter generation unit for generating control parameters to separate bits of an input bit stream ek; and a bit separation unit for separating the bits of the input bit stream ek into three types of bits streams v(0)k, v(1)k, and v(2)k by modulus operation of each of the bits of the input bit stream and the control parameters. Further, the data derate matcher for supporting the HARQ includes address generators for generating addresses (j) of valid data to be used in deinterleavers with respect to data of each of the bit streams output from the bit separation unit; and subblock deinterleavers for sequentially inputting data corresponding to the addresses generated by the address generators to output decoded data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Nam Il KIM, Daeho KIM
  • Publication number: 20110122267
    Abstract: A shake correction module, a camera module including the same, and a method of manufacturing the camera module are provided. The shake correction module includes: a hinge member which supports rotation movement of an optical module based on each of at least two axes at least by using an elastic characteristic of the hinge member, wherein the optical module comprises an image sensor; a base member to which the hinge member is installed; and a driving motor which rotates the hinge member based on the each of the at least two axes with respect to the base member, in order to manufacture a structure for supporting two-axes rotation of the optical module to be simple and reliable with a low manufacturing cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicants: SAMSUNG TECHWIN CO., LTD., MUTAS INC.
    Inventors: Jae-wook AHN, Nam-il KIM, Jae-hwan JEONG, Tae-ho KIM, Kyung-sik SHIN
  • Publication number: 20110044256
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a downlink signal and a cell search apparatus are disclosed. An apparatus for generating a downlink signal generates a downlink signal by one unique cell identification code group and a plurality of frame synchronization identification sequences, generates a downlink signal by a plurality of unique cell identification code groups and a plurality of frame synchronization identification sequences, or generates a downlink signal by a plurality of unique cell identification code groups and one frame synchronization identification sequence. A cell search apparatus obtains frame synchronization and identifies cells through a frame synchronization identification sequence and a unique cell identification code group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kap-Seok Chang, Il-Gyu Kim, Nam-Il Kim, Hyeong-Geun Park, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Publication number: 20100191932
    Abstract: Provided are an address generation apparatus and method of an interleaver/deinterleaver. By calculating coefficients of an address generator polynomial of an interleaver by determining exponents according to the number of prime factors forming a length of input data of the interleaver and generating an address of the deinterleaver using the calculated coefficients, errors generated when the address of the deinterleaver is generated can be removed, and right interleaver and deinterleaver addresses can be calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicants: Eletronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nam-Il Kim, Young-Jo Ko, Young-Hoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20100162077
    Abstract: A Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) decoder and a MAP decoding method are provided. The MAP decoder includes a first metric operation unit, a first bit-width control unit, a second metric operation unit, a Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) operation unit, and a second bit-width control unit. The first metric operation unit outputs a first metric data using an input data. The first bit-width control unit controls a bit-width of the first metric data according to a modulation scheme of the input data. The second metric operation unit outputs a second metric data using the first metric data having the controlled bit-width. The LLR operation unit outputs LLR data using the second metric data. The second bit-width control unit outputs decoding data by re-controlling the bit-width of the LLR data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Nam Il Kim, Dae Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20100157918
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for allocating DeModulation Reference Signals (DMRSs). The method includes generating DMRSs, and allocating the DMRSs at consecutive subcarrier positions with respect to all the transmit (TX) antennas of each User Equipment (UE) and allocating the DMRSs at different subcarrier positions with respect to each TX antenna of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Nam Il KIM, Dae Ho KIM
  • Publication number: 20100104001
    Abstract: Provided are a receiver and a receiving method for a scalable bandwidth in a mobile station of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. The receiving method includes the steps of: (a) filtering a received RF signal; (b) oscillating a frequency according to a center frequency control signal to output a local oscillation frequency; (c) down-converting the filtered RF signal by using the local oscillation frequency; (d) scalable-filtering the down-converted signal while adjusting a bandwidth according to a bandwidth control signal; (e) controlling gain of the scalable-filtered signal; (f) converting the gain-controlled analog signal into a digital signal by using a sampling frequency matching with a corresponding bandwidth according to an ADC control signal; and (g) demodulating the converted digital signal, outputting the center frequency control signal, the bandwidth control signal, and the ADC control signal according to control information received from an upper layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Moon-Sik Lee, Nam-Il Kim, Hyeong-Geun Park, Il-Gyu Kim, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 7652978
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmitter in an OFDM system for improving the PAPR, and a method thereof. According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, channel encoding is performed in order to correct a data transmission error of a radio channel, a predetermined bit of the channel encoded data is bit-inverted by using a mask bit or a mask bit sequence, and a PAPR of the signal is reduced. Accordingly, reduction of transmission efficiency which has been generated in block coding and DSI methods is not generated when the signal is transmitted because an additional bit is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Nam-Il Kim, In-Hwa Jung, Young-Hoon Kim, Sang-Woo Nam
  • Publication number: 20090262344
    Abstract: The present invention relates to equipment for measuring water quality using a fish or a water flea, an more particularly, to equipment for measuring water quality in which small organisms such as killifish (or medaka) or water flea are put into test chamber having a plurality of divided sections and behavior of the fishes or the water fleas accommodated in the test chamber is observed while continuously flowing water of a river or a water zone to be examined through the test chamber, thereby finding out and measuring existence of toxic element or harmful substance included in the water to be examined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Sung Jin Yoon, nam-il Kim, Han-Oh Park
  • Publication number: 20090252109
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for demodulating a BCH by using an SCH in an OFDM system with transmit diversity, and a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus using the same. For this purpose, the present invention provides a transmit diversity transmission method for a transmitting apparatus of a base station that generates an SCH symbol and a BCH symbol, maps the SCH symbol and the BCH symbol to an OFDM signal, converts the OFDM signal into a time domain signal, and transmits the OFDM signal trough a selected antenna among a plurality of antennas. In addition, the present invention provides a method for demodulating a BCH by using an SCH to a mobile station that receives an OFDM signal from the base station, filters an SCH and a BCH from the OFDM signal, converts the OFDM signal to a frequency domain signal, calculates a channel estimation value by using the SCH and the BCH, and coherently demodulates the BCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Il-Gyu Kim, Hyeong-Geun Park, Nam-Il Kim, Kap-Seok Chang, Moon-Sik Lee, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Publication number: 20090240024
    Abstract: A biaxially oriented polyester film of the present invention which comprises a polyester resin prepared by polymerizing a glycol component mainly comprising 1,3-propanediol and an acid component mainly comprising terephthalic acid or dimethyl terephthalate, said polyester film having an unit impact absorption energy of 1.0 or more, can be advantageously used for packaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: SKC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam-Il Kim, Sang-ll Kim, Kyung-Yon Kim, Taebyoung Oh, Youngwon Kim
  • Publication number: 20090219882
    Abstract: Provided are a cell search method, a forward link frame transmission method, an apparatus using the methods, and a forward link frame structure. The cell search apparatus includes a sync acquirer acquiring synchronization of sync channel symbols using a sync channel of a forward link, and a group detector detecting at least one hopping codeword element belonging to a hopping codeword of a target cell from a forward link signal containing sync channel symbols sequence-hopped using a hopping codeword corresponding to a code group to which a scrambling code of each cell belongs based on the acquired synchronization, and detecting a code group of the target cell based on the detected hopping codeword element, wherein the hopping codewords are orthogonal to a cyclic shift operation. Accordingly, a cell search time and the complexity of the cell search can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Il-Gyu Kim, Hyeong-Geun Park, Nam-Il Kim, Kap-Seok Chang, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Publication number: 20090195329
    Abstract: Disclosed is a variable phase shifter The variable phase shifter includes a housing; a fixed board unit fixedly installed inside the housing, equipped with an input microstrip line with a via hole for receiving an input signal on one face thereof, and equipped with at least one circular arc-shaped output microstrip line outside the input microstrip line; and a rotating board unit rotatably installed inside the housing while being in contact with the one face of the fixed board unit, equipped with a transmission microstrip line on a face coming in contact with the one face of the fixed board unit, and for providing at least one output signal by making coupling even during rotation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: KMW INC.
    Inventors: Duk-Yong Kim, Young-Chan Moon, Ryoji Matsubara, Eui-Song Choi, Nam-Il Kim
  • Publication number: 20090184780
    Abstract: Disclosed is a variable phase shifter, the variable phase shifter including: a fixed board which is fixedly provided in a housing, and consisting of a dielectric board, and consisting of a dielectric board, having a second transfer stripline having at least one arc-shaped output micro stripline on one surface; a rotating board rotatably provided within the housing while coming in contact with the one surface of the fixed board, and consisting of a dielectric board, having a second transfer stripline coupled to the arc-shaped output micro stripline on a surface where the rotating board comes in contact with the one surface of the fixed board even when the rotating board rotates; wherein both the sides of at least one output micro stripline of the fixed board are connected to an output port, and the other surface of the fixed board includes an input micro stripline, so that the other surface of the fixed board is electrically connected and receives an input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: KMW INC.
    Inventors: Young-Chan Moon, Ryoji Matsubara, Nam-Il Kim