Patents by Inventor Seong-Ho Son
Seong-Ho Son 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).
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Patent number: 7994980Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for correcting a phase of a phased array antenna and a method thereof. The apparatus for correcting a phase of a phased array antenna for receiving a radio signal, includes a phased array antenna for receiving radio signals from a reference antenna and combining power of the received radio signals, a power dividing unit for dividing the combined power of the received radio signals, a voltage detecting unit for detecting voltage values of the divided radio signals, and a phase controlling unit for estimating a phase error that makes the detected voltage value maximum and controlling a phase of each radiation element of the phased array antenna using the estimated phase error.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2008Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Postech Academy-Industry FoundationInventors: Seong-Ho Son, Soon-Young Eom, Soon-Ik Jeon, Woon-Bong Hwang
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Publication number: 20110149068Abstract: An apparatus for three-dimensionally measuring an object shape includes: a number of line lasers configured to emit laser lines to a subject to be measured and create a closed-curve shape related to a sectional contour line of the subject; and a camera configured to obtain an image of the created closed-curve shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Seong-Ho SON, Hyuk-Je Kim, Jong-Moon Lee, Soon-Ik Jeon
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Publication number: 20110130656Abstract: Provided are microwave image reconstruction apparatus and method. An apparatus for diagnosing a breast cancer, includes: a plurality of antennas for inserting a breast and configured to transmit and receive the electromagnetic wave; an electromagnetic wave transceiver configured to receive phase and amplitude information of the electromagnetic wave; an initial distribution value provider configured to set an initial dielectric constant and conductivity distribution value for dielectric constant and conductivity of a breast of a patient and in the tank; a first image reconstruction unit configured to transform the amplitude information of the electromagnetic wave through log transform and to obtain a first image by calculating a phase and amplitude information value of electric field generated from the electromagnetic wave; and a second image reconstruction unit configured to transform the first image in a value in a complex number form and to transform values to a second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: Seong-Ho SON, Hyuk-Je KIM, Jong-Moon LEE, Soon-Ik JEON, Pual M. MEANEY, Keith D. PAULSEN, Tomasz M. GRZEGORCZYK
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Patent number: 7888903Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for estimating sensor signals to stabilize a posture of a mobile satellite tracking antenna.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2006Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Seong-Ho Son, Soon-Young Eom, Young-Bae Jung, Jae-Seung Yun, Soon-Ik Jeon
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Patent number: 7773042Abstract: Provided is a conical scanning antenna system using a nutation method. The conical scanning antenna system includes: a main reflecting unit; a sub-reflecting unit which is disposed apart from the main reflecting unit by a predetermined distance and performing a conical scanning tracking by using the nutation method; and a feeding horn which doubly reflects electromagnetic wave inputted and radiated by the main reflecting unit and the sub-reflecting unit and inputs and outputs the electromagnetic wave by electrically steering beams.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jae-Seung Yun, Soon-Young Eom, Young-Bae Jung, Seong-Ho Son, Soon-Ik Jeon
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Publication number: 20100164425Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for estimating sensor signals to stabilize a posture of a mobile satellite tracking antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2006Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunication Research InstituteInventors: Seong-Ho Son, Soon-Young Eom, Young-Bae Jung, Jae-Seung Yun, Soon-Ik Jeon
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Patent number: 7696926Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for identifying a target satellite in a satellite communication antenna. The apparatus includes: a power splitting unit for splitting a signal inputted through the satellite communication antenna to more than two signals; a tuner unit for receiving the split signals from the power splitting unit and passing only signal of a predetermined channel frequency band; an analog-to-digital converting unit for converting each of signal intensities passed in the tuner unit to a digital value; and a controlling and identifying unit for determining whether a satellite traced by the satellite communication antenna is a target satellite using each of the signal intensities of the predetermined channel frequency band inputted from the A/D converting means, and controlling an orientation direction of the satellite communication antenna.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2005Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Seong-Ho Son, Ung-Hee Park, Soon-Young Eom, Soon-Ik Jeon
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Patent number: 7678242Abstract: Disclosed is a system and a method for manufacturing flexible copper clad laminate film capable of efficiently electroplating both surfaces of a polyimide-based film to form copper plating layers thereon while making it easy to repair and maintain the apparatus or clean its plating or cleaning bath. The system includes a pickling device adapted to spray a pickling liquid to both surfaces of a to-be-plated film to remove oxide coatings from the copper coatings; a number of water-cleaning devices for removing the pickling liquid and copper electrolyte remaining on the film; at least one plating device positioned between the water-cleaning devices to form copper plating layers on both surfaces of the film; an antirust device for preventing the copper plating layers, which have been formed by the plating device, from rusting; and a drying device for drying the antirust liquid on the film, which has been subjected to antirust treatment.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2005Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Korea Institute of Industrial TechnologyInventors: Hong Kee Lee, Seong-Ho Son, Seok Bon Koo
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Patent number: 7663565Abstract: Provided are a pedestal apparatus and a satellite-tracking antenna having the same. The pedestal apparatus includes: a fixing unit fixed at a moving object; a connecter for forming a first rotating axis vertically to the fixing unit; a first rotation supporter having a bottom fixed at the fixing unit and a Y-shaped top for rotating the tracking antenna around the first rotating axis; a second connecter connected to ends of the Y-shaped top for forming a second rotating axis; a second rotation supporter having both ends connected to the both ends of the second connecter for rotating the tracking antenna around the second rotating axis; a third connecter for forming a third rotating axis at a center of the second rotation supporter; and a supporter connected to the third connecter in a predetermined shape for supporting the tracking antenna, wherein the first, second and third rotating axes are not crossed one another.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2006Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Seong-Ho Son, Jae-Seung Yun, Young-Bae Jung, Soon-Young Eom, Soon-Ik Jeon
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Publication number: 20100010335Abstract: A cancer diagnostic apparatus using electromagnetic waves includes: a plurality of antennas configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave signal to a human body and receive the electromagnetic wave signal from the human body; a switching unit configured to switch the antennas to a transmit mode or a receive mode; a signal generator configured to generate an electromagnetic wave signal to be transmitted to an antenna set to the transmit mode; a signal converter configured to convert an electromagnetic wave signal received from an antenna set to the receive mode into an intermediate frequency signal; and a controller including a switching controller to control the switching unit and a data processor to process a permittivity distribution image of the human body from the intermediate frequency signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Hyuk-Je Kim, Jong-Moon Lee, Youn-Ju Lee, Seong-Ho Son, Soon-lk Jeon
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Publication number: 20090315774Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for correcting a phase of a phased array antenna and a method thereof. The apparatus for correcting a phase of a phased array antenna for receiving a radio signal, includes a phased array antenna for receiving radio signals from a reference antenna and combining power of the received radio signals, a power dividing unit for dividing the combined power of the received radio signals, a voltage detecting unit for detecting voltage values of the divided radio signals, and a phase controlling unit for estimating a phase error that makes the detected voltage value maximum and controlling a phase of each radiation element of the phased array antenna using the estimated phase error.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicants: ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATIONInventors: Seong-Ho SON, Soon-Young EOM, Soon-Ik JEON, Woon-Bong HWANG
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Publication number: 20090260702Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a solid body having a superhydrophobic surface structure formed by using a surface treatment of a metal body, a replication process, and a polymer sticking phenomenon to increase efficiency of fluid transfer and prevent foreign materials from being accumulated in the tube, and a superhydrophobic fluid transfer tube using the method. The superhydrophobic fluid transfer tube includes a fluid guider and a solid body provided on a fluid contact surface of the fluid guider and has micrometer-scaled unevenness and nanometer-scaled protrusions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2007Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATIONInventors: Dong-Hyun Kim, Sang-Min Lee, Il-Sin Bae, Dong-Seob Kim, Duk-Hyun Choi, Chang-Woo Lee, Ji-Hoon Jeon, Seong-Ho Son, Tae-Chul Moon, Woon-Bong Hwang, Joon-Won Kim, Hyun-Chul Park, Kun-Hong Lee
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Patent number: 7564420Abstract: A hybrid antenna system for providing a communication service or/and a satellite broadcasting receiving service by coarsely tracking a target satellite in a mechanical fashion and finely tracking the target satellite in an electrical fashion is disclosed. The hybrid antenna system includes: a rotatory unit for tracking a satellite direction using a mechanical movement including a rotating motion and an electron beam tracking function and transmitting/receiving a multi-band frequency from a satellite through a free space; a stationary unit for communicating to an external terminal and/or transmitting and receiving a broadcasting signal from/to the external terminal; and a stabilizing unit for connecting the rotatory unit to the stationary unit, and driving and controlling the rotatory unit in mechanical fashion and electrical fashion.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2005Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Soon-Ik Jeon, Soon-Young Eom, Young-Bae Jung, Seong-Ho Son, Jae-Seung Yun
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Publication number: 20090160701Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for identifying a target satellite in a satellite communication antenna. The apparatus includes: a power splitting unit for splitting a signal inputted through the satellite communication antenna to more than two signals; a tuner unit for receiving the split signals from the power splitting unit and passing only signal of a predetermined channel frequency band; an analog-to-digital converting unit for converting each of signal intensities passed in the tuner unit to a digital value; and a controlling and identifying unit for determining whether a satellite traced by the satellite communication antenna is a target satellite using each of the signal intensities of the predetermined channel frequency band inputted from the A/D converting means, and controlling an orientation direction of the satellite communication antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2005Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Seong-Ho Son, Ung-Hee Park, Soon-Young Eom, Soon-Ik Jeon
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Patent number: 7502764Abstract: A method for determining an array space of an array antenna by using a genetic algorithm and an array antenna having a soft structure with irregular array spacing are disclosed. The array antenna having a sofa structure with irregular array spacing, includes: a plurality of radiation elements having an inclined angle based on a horizontal plane and arranged with irregular array spacing for radiating and receiving an radio wave; a plurality of phase shifters for amplifying radiation signals radiated from the plurality of radiation elements and receiving signals received from the plurality of radiation elements, and controlling phases of the radiation signals and the receiving signals; and a radio wave signal coupler for dividing a transmitting signal to the radiation signals, transferring the divided radiation signals to the plurality of phase shifters and coupling the receiving signals from the plurality of phase shifters.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2004Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Seong-Ho Son, Ung-Hee Park, Soon-Ik Jeon, Chang-Joo Kim
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Publication number: 20090012768Abstract: A method for determining an array space of an array antenna by using a genetic algorithm and an array antenna having a soft structure with irregular array spacing are disclosed. The array antenna having a sofa structure with irregular array spacing, includes: a plurality of radiation elements having an inclined angle based on a horizontal plane and arranged with irregular array spacing for radiating and receiving an radio wave; a plurality of phase shifters for amplifying radiation signals radiated from the plurality of radiation elements and receiving signals received from the plurality of radiation elements, and controlling phases of the radiation signals and the receiving signals; and a radio wave signal coupler for dividing a transmitting signal to the radiation signals, transferring the divided radiation signals to the plurality of phase shifters and coupling the receiving signals from the plurality of phase shifters.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2004Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventors: Seong-Ho Son, Ung-Hee Park, Soon-Ik Jeon, Chang-Joo Kim
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Publication number: 20080297427Abstract: Provided is an antenna system for tracking a satellite which includes a fixed body and a rotating body. The antenna system includes a transmitting/receiving unit having a transmitting channel and a receiving channel for signal power, a driving unit for enabling mechanical motion of the rotating body for satellite tracking, and a control unit for monitoring and controlling the operation of the driving unit. Accordingly, the various kinds of the components of the antenna system mounted and operated on the movable body can be minimized and the output of the transmitted signal required in the antenna system can be simply replaced, thereby simplifying the configuration of the system and reducing the production cost of the system. In addition, the STR having the tracking signal processing function in the digital mode as well as the general analog mode is mounted on the antenna system, thereby improving accuracy of satellite tracking.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2006Publication date: December 4, 2008Inventors: Young-Bae Jung, Soon-Young Eom, Jae-Seung Yun, Seong-Ho Son, Soon-Ik Jeon, Chang-Joo Kim
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Publication number: 20080298298Abstract: Provided is a mobile tri-band antenna system having low profile. The antenna system includes a tri-band feeding unit for dividing a satellite broadcasting signal by a signal channel in an azimuth angle and an elevation angle, and transmitting/receiving the satellite communication signal through distinguishing the satellite communication signal; a beam shaping unit for dividing the satellite broadcasting signals into a first channel signal and a second channel signal, combined power thereof through channel switching; an antenna controlling unit for driving an antenna system in an azimuth and elevation angle to direct the satellite according to the power combined second channel signal from the beam shaping unit; a first triplexer unit for outputting the power combined first channel signal to a rotary joint unit; a second triplexer unit for converting the first channel signal inputted to a downlink frequency and providing the converted first channel signal to the indoor apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2005Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Soon-Young Eom, Young-Bae Jung, Seong-Ho Son, Jae-Seung Yun, Soon-Ik Jeon
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Publication number: 20080291102Abstract: Provided is a conical scanning antenna system using a nutation method. The conical scanning antenna system includes: a main reflecting unit; a sub-reflecting unit which is disposed apart from the main reflecting unit by a predetermined distance and performing a conical scanning tracking by using the nutation method; and a feeding horn which doubly reflects electromagnetic wave inputted and radiated by the main reflecting unit and the sub-reflecting unit and inputs and outputs the electromagnetic wave by electrically steering beams.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2006Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jae-Seung Yun, Soon-Young Eom, Young-Bae Jung, Seong-Ho Son, Soon-Ik Jeon
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Publication number: 20080258988Abstract: Provided are a pedestal apparatus and a satellite-tracking antenna having the same. The pedestal apparatus includes: a fixing unit fixed at a moving object; a connecter for forming a first rotating axis vertically to the fixing unit; a first rotation supporter having a bottom fixed at the fixing unit and a Y-shaped top for rotating the tracking antenna around the first rotating axis; a second connecter connected to ends of the Y-shaped top for forming a second rotating axis; a second rotation supporter having both ends connected to the both ends of the second connecter for rotating the tracking antenna around the second rotating axis; a third connecter for forming a third rotating axis at a center of the second rotation supporter; and a supporter connected to the third connecter in a predetermined shape for supporting the tracking antenna, wherein the first, second and third rotating axes are not crossed one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2006Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Seong-Ho Son, Jae-Seung Yun, Young-Bae Jung, Soon-Young Eom, Soon-Ik Jeon