Patents by Inventor Seung Chan Bang

Seung Chan Bang 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: 8989732
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for setting a communication target in a wireless communication system. A method of setting, by a setting device, a communication target in a wireless communication system may include: obtaining a synchronization and a characteristic of a target device by receiving a signal transmitted from the target device during a predetermined period of time; transmitting setting information to the target device based on the synchronization and the characteristic of the target device; and completing setting of the communication target by receiving setting response signal from the target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Tae Joong Kim, Young Hoon Kim, Byung Jae Kwak, Pyeong Jung Song, Seung Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 8982911
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for generating a downlink frame including generating a first short sequence and a second short sequence indicating cell group information, generating a first scrambling sequence determined by the first synchronization signal, generating a second scrambling sequence determined by the first short sequence, scrambling the first short sequence with the first scrambling sequence, scrambling the second short sequence with at least the second scrambling sequence, and mapping a second synchronization signal including the scrambled first short sequence and the scrambled second short sequence in the frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kap Seok Chang, Il Gyu Kim, Hyeong Geun Park, Young Jo Ko, Hyo Seok Yi, Moon Sik Lee, Young Hoon Kim, Seung Chan Bang
  • Publication number: 20150030055
    Abstract: A method for converting source data to a channel-modulated signal having a plurality of pairs of in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) data in a mobile station, wherein the mobile station uses at least one channel, includes the steps of: a) encoding the source data to generate at least one data part and a control part; b) generating at least one spreading code to be allocated to the channel, wherein each spreading code is selected on the basis of a data rate of the data part and the control part and spreading codes are selected so that two consecutive pairs of the I and Q data are correspondent to two points located on same point or symmetrical with respect to a zero point on a phase domain; and c) spreading the control part and the data part by using the spreading code, to thereby generate the channel-modulated signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Seung Chan BANG, Tae Joong KIM, Jae Heung KIM, Jung Im KIM, Jong Suk CHAE, Hyuck Jae LEE, Jae Ryong SHIM, Narm Hee LEE
  • Patent number: 8902859
    Abstract: When a terminal generates an uplink signal in a communication system, the terminal hops a sequence for differentiating itself from another terminal with time. The terminal generates the uplink signal by multiplying a transmission symbol by a sequence of a transmission time corresponding to the transmission symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyeong-Geun Park, Il-Gyu Kim, Young-Jo Ko, Kap-Seok Chang, Hyo-Seok Yi, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Publication number: 20140313124
    Abstract: A method for tracking a user's gaze point using a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes detecting the user's eye area from a camera that is mounted in the mobile terminal and selecting reference points of the eye area, detecting a pupil corresponding to an interest area that is obtained from the reference points, generating a first virtual grid of the eye area using a pickup image of a gaze point of the pupil corresponding to each corner of the display and generating a second virtual grid having the same division areas as those of the first virtual grid in the display, and mapping a position of the pupil within the second virtual grid area corresponding to a position of the pupil within the first virtual grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicants: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Soo Chang KIM, Young Hoon KIM, Seung Chan BANG, Hee-Jae LEE, Sang-Goog LEE
  • Publication number: 20140293809
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for enabling a device-to-device (D2D) communication, despite an identifier (ID) of a target device being unknown are provided. The apparatus may include a target device determining unit to select primary target devices based on relative distance information between a main device and a target device for communication with the main device, and to determine a final target device based on relative distance information between the main device and each of the primary target devices, a transmitter to transmit, to each of the primary target devices, a selection notification message and a relative distance information request message that are generated by the target device determining unit, and a receiver to receive, from each of the primary target devices, a response message corresponding to the selection notification message, and relative distance information used to determine a final target device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Soo Chang Kim, Byung Jae Kwak, Seon Ae Kim, Young Hoon Kim, Seung Chan Bang
  • Publication number: 20140269455
    Abstract: Methods for wireless communications based on relay and apparatuses for the same are disclosed. The method for a terminal to transmit signals comprises receiving scheduling information from a base station connected to the terminal; generating uplink data based on the scheduling information; performing punctuation on a data symbol positioned in a region through a downlink synchronization signal is transmitted in the generated uplink data; and transmitting the punctured uplink data. Therefore, the terminal may acquire synchronization signal easily, and perform neighbor cell search correctly based on the acquired synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Il Gyu Kim, Seung Chan Bang
  • Publication number: 20140247788
    Abstract: Provided is a method for transmitting paging information in a cellular system. An object of the method is transmitting paging information which can improve applicability of a limited radio resource by variably and flexibly setting up and mapping a transport channel and a physical channel in order to transmit information notifying start of downlink information from a base station to a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The method includes the steps of: forming a paging channel (PCH) in a transport channel corresponding to generation of paging information; setting a paging indication channel (PICH) based on the paging information and forming the paging indication channel in a radio resource of a physical layer; and allocating the paging channel to the radio resource of the physical layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae Heung KIM, Jung Im KIM, Kyoung Seok LEE, Soo Jung JUNG, Seung Chan BANG, Byung Han RYU
  • Publication number: 20140242998
    Abstract: Disclosed are handover and connection of a terminal and control of connection of a terminal by a base station in a communication environment including a plurality of communication cells having different ranges of communication coverage. According to an exemplary embodiment, a terminal of a wireless communication system including a plurality of hierarchical cells determines whether the terminal accesses a microcell in a macrocell as the terminal moves based on whether a control signal transmitted from a micro-base station managing the microcell is detected in a communication environment including a plurality of hierarchical cells divided according to communication coverage, determines whether the terminal connects to the microcell based on a connection criteria for the microcell, and connects to the microcell when the connection criteria for the microcell are satisfied and conducts communications using the macrocell when the connection criteria for the microcell are not satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Don Sung OH, Min Ho CHEONG, Sok Kyu LEE, Seung Chan BANG
  • Patent number: 8817770
    Abstract: Provided are a sync channel of a forward link, a common pilot channel structure, and an initial cell search method and an adjacent cell search method for handover in a cellular system using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). A cell search method in an OFDM cellular system in which a primary sync channel and a secondary sync channel are configured based on time division multiplexing (TDM) includes acquiring sync block synchronization and a primary sync channel sequence number using a primary sync channel symbol included in a frame received by a terminal, detecting a boundary of the frame and a scrambling code group using the sync block and a secondary sync channel symbol included in the frame received by the terminal, and acquiring a scrambling code using the primary sync channel sequence number and the scrambling code group, thereby reducing cell search time with low complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il-Gyu Kim, Hyeong-Geun Park, Young-Jo Ko, Kapseok Chang, Hyoseok Yi, Jun-Hwan Lee, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Publication number: 20140233411
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for detecting a collision in a wireless multi-access channel are disclosed. The method of detecting the collision in the wireless multi-access according to an exemplary embodiment includes generating a request-to-send (RTS) message by a transmission terminal, transmitting the RTS message to a reception terminal, and receiving a response message from the reception terminal and determining whether a collision occurs based on a number of pieces of tone information included in the response message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung Geun JIN, Byung Jae KWAK, Jin Kyeong KIM, Sung Cheol CHANG, Seung Chan BANG
  • Patent number: 8811301
    Abstract: Provided is a method of efficiently transmitting an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) bit supporting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a wireless communication system supporting multi-user multi-input and multi-output (MIMO). The method transmits the same downlink code and in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) multiplexed ACK/NACK bit to two mobile stations using the same uplink resource block. Accordingly, the method can efficiently transmit the ACK/NACK bit for multi-user MIMO and efficiently use downlink radio resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Il-Gyu Kim, Hyeong-Geun Park, Young-Jo Ko, Kapseok Chang, Hyoseok Yi, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 8797973
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for RA in a cellular system. The RA in the cellular system includes receiving an RA preamble from a terminal for RA, transmitting, to the terminal, an RA response message including a sequence of the received RA preamble and uplink resource information of the terminal and overload state information with respect to the RA, receiving control information generated based on the RA response message from the terminal through the uplink resource information, and transmitting control response information with respect to the received control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae Heung Kim, Kyoung Seok Lee, Jung-Im Kim, Byung-Han Ryu, Seung Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 8787829
    Abstract: A method for establishing a communication link of a first communication device includes: selecting a second communication device for establishing a communication link on a screen of the first communication device; transmitting a request for a communication link to the selected second communication device; receiving a communication link response from the second communication device; and establishing a communication link between the first communication device and the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Instittue
    Inventors: Seung Chan Bang, Young Hoon Kim, Don Sung Oh, Il Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 8761814
    Abstract: Provided is a method for transmitting paging information in a cellular system. An object of the method is transmitting paging information which can improve applicability of a limited radio resource by variably and flexibly setting up and mapping a transport channel and a physical channel in order to transmit information notifying start of downlink information from a base station to a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The method includes the steps of: forming a paging channel (PCH) in a transport channel corresponding to generation of paging information; setting a paging indication channel (PICH) based on the paging information and forming the paging indication channel in a radio resource of a physical layer; and allocating the paging channel to the radio resource of the physical layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae-Heung Kim, Jung-Im Kim, Kyoung-Seok Lee, Soo-Jung Jung, Byung-Han Ryu, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Publication number: 20140162655
    Abstract: There are provided an antenna apparatus and a method of handover using the antenna apparatus. The antenna apparatus may comprise a plurality of antenna elements forming a plurality of beams in a predetermined service area. The plurality of antenna elements are arranged in a plurality of rows, and a number of antenna elements included in an uppermost row of the plurality of rows is smaller than a number of antenna elements included in a downmost row of the plurality of rows, and differences between center angles of beams formed by the antenna elements included in the downmost row are larger than differences between center angles of beams formed by the antenna elements included in the uppermost row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Eun HONG, Moon Sik LEE, Young Seog SONG, Jun Hwan LEE, Eun Young CHOI, Il Gyu KIM, Seung Chan BANG
  • Patent number: 8737361
    Abstract: When a plurality of sectors transmit the same signal in a communication system, the same signal is transmitted after a weight is applied to the same signal. At this time, defective reception of the same signal in a terminal may be reduced by setting a weight pattern differently according to a symbol transmission time and a sector number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyeong-Geun Park, Il-Gyu Kim, Young-Jo Ko, Kap-Seok Chang, Hyo-Seok Yi, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 8724444
    Abstract: Provided is method of forming a signal in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of terminals commonly use a resource in the time domain and the frequency domain. The method includes multiplying a signal to be transmitted by a frequency domain orthogonal code symbol corresponding to a first cyclic shift index in a first slot to be transmitted to a base station, wherein the multiplying is performed by a first terminal and a second terminal; and multiplying information to be transmitted by a frequency domain orthogonal code symbol corresponding to a second cyclic index that is different from the first cyclic index of the first slot to be transmitted to the base station, in a second slot, wherein the multiplying is performed by the first terminal and the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Jo Ko, Hyeong-Geun Park, Il-Gyu Kim, Kapseok Chang, Hyoseok Yi, Young-Hoon Kim, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Publication number: 20140126611
    Abstract: An orthogonal complex spreading method for a multichannel and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The method includes the steps of complex-summing ?n1WM,n1Xn1 which is obtained by multiplying an orthogonal Hadamard sequence WM,n1 by a first data Xn1 of a n-th block and ?n2WM,n2Xn2 which is obtained by multiplying an orthogonal Hadamard sequence W1,n2 by a second data Xn2 of a n-th block; complex-multiplying ?n1WM,n1Xn1+j?n2WM,n2Xn2 which is summed in the complex type and WM,n3+jPWM,n4 of the complex type using a complex multiplier and outputting as an in-phase information and quadrature phase information; and summing only in-phase information outputted from a plurality of blocks and only quadrature phase information outputted therefrom and spreading the same using a spreading code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Chan BANG, Jae Ryong SHIM, Ki Chul HAN, Jung Im KIM, Tae Joong KIM
  • Patent number: RE45237
    Abstract: An apparatus for making a plurality of terminals have a random access to the reverse common channel system in CDMA, comprises code synchronization detection information broadcast means provided in the base station for broadcasting the state information of a channel card in real time for the terminals to recognize the code synchronization detection when the code synchronization of a certain data is acquired through performing the code synchronization of the preambles transmitted from the terminals through the reverse common channel, and data transmission determination means provided in the terminals for making the terminals to have attempted data transmission in the same time slot with the data of the code synchronization detection continuously transmit data and the other terminals stop data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Tae Joong Kim, Seung Chan Bang, Ki Chul Han