Patents by Inventor Shin-Haeng Kim

Shin-Haeng 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).

  • Patent number: 11282237
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to restore a quantization error of an image signal only by expanding the number of bits of a reconstructed image compared to the number of bits of an input image without expanding the number of bits in an image signal processing process. An image display apparatus may include a signal inputter configured to receive an input image signal; an image signal processor configured to perform image processing of the input image signal, to identify a type of image processing by comparing the input image signal and the processed image signal, to obtain restoration information of the processed image signal according to the identified image processing type, and to restore an error of the processed image signal by performing remapping of the processed image signal using the restoration information; and an outputter configured to output the image signal in which the error is restored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won Seok Song, Shin Haeng Kim, Yoo Sun Jung
  • Publication number: 20200334865
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to restore a quantization error of an image signal only by expanding the number of bits of a reconstructed image compared to the number of bits of an input image without expanding the number of bits in an image signal processing process. An image display apparatus may include a signal inputter configured to receive an input image signal; an image signal processor configured to perform image processing of the input image signal, to identify a type of image processing by comparing the input image signal and the processed image signal, to obtain restoration information of the processed image signal according to the identified image processing type, and to restore an error of the processed image signal by performing remapping of the processed image signal using the restoration information; and an outputter configured to output the image signal in which the error is restored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won Seok SONG, Shin Haeng KIM, Yoo Sun JUNG
  • Patent number: 10291927
    Abstract: A motion vector estimation method of a motion vector estimation apparatus are provided. The motion vector estimation method of the motion vector estimation apparatus includes: determining a motion vector of a current block by setting, in another frame, a local search area for searching a plurality of reference pixel blocks corresponding to the current block which is one of pixel blocks in a single frame; and finally determining one of the determined motion vector and a previous motion vector referred to in order to determine the local search area as a motion vector of the current block, based on sum of absolution difference (SAD) values of the reference pixel blocks included in the local search area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-hoon Yu, Hyung-jun Lim, Seong-hoon Choi, Shin-haeng Kim, Tae-gyoung Ahn
  • Patent number: 10264142
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The method includes receiving image data, processing the image data, and dividing a display panel into a plurality of regions, synchronizing a scanning timing of the image data at which the processed image data is scanned in a first region among the plurality of regions with a backlight-on timing of the display panel, and outputting the processed image data in the display panel. The outputting the processed image data includes compensating and outputting the processed image data according to a relation between a scanning timing of the image data for each region of the plurality of regions of the display panel and the synchronized backlight-on timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-seok Song, Shin-haeng Kim, Yoo-sun Jung
  • Publication number: 20180183947
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The method includes receiving image data, processing the image data, and dividing a display panel into a plurality of regions, synchronizing a scanning timing of the image data at which the processed image data is scanned in a first region among the plurality of regions with a backlight-on timing of the display panel, and outputting the processed image data in the display panel. The outputting the processed image data includes compensating and outputting the processed image data according to a relation between a scanning timing of the image data for each region of the plurality of regions of the display panel and the synchronized backlight-on timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-seok SONG, Shin-haeng KIM, Yoo-sun JUNG
  • Publication number: 20170118483
    Abstract: A motion vector estimation method of a motion vector estimation apparatus are provided. The motion vector estimation method of the motion vector estimation apparatus includes: determining a motion vector of a current block by setting, in another frame, a local search area for searching a plurality of reference pixel blocks corresponding to the current block which is one of pixel blocks in a single frame; and finally determining one of the determined motion vector and a previous motion vector referred to in order to determine the local search area as a motion vector of the current block, based on sum of absolution difference (SAD) values of the reference pixel blocks included in the local search area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Yong-hoon YU, Hyung-jun LIM, Seong-hoon CHOI, Shin-haeng KIM, Tae-gyoung AHN
  • Publication number: 20150054915
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for improving picture quality by an image displaying apparatus, which includes the steps of eliminating motion judder from an input image by a motion judder elimination part, changing the frame rate of the image rid of the motion judder by a frame rate change part, converting the image of the changed frame rate into a multi-view image involving the images determined in proportion to the number of angles by an image converter, an displaying the multi-view image by a displaying part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok-Man Jeong, Shin-Haeng Kim, Tae-Gyoung Ahn
  • Patent number: 8279340
    Abstract: An image signal processing unit and an image signal processing method thereof. An image signal processing unit estimates motion characteristics of an input image, and adjusts a phase of an interpolation frame according to the motion characteristics when converting a frame rate. Accordingly, linearity can be maintained according to the motion characteristics of an input image, and the frame rate can be converted without generating noise such as halo artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-haeng Kim, Yeong-taeg Kim
  • Publication number: 20120127163
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes an image receiver which receives a plurality of image frames each including a first image and a second image respectively corresponding to a first eye and a second eye of a user, and an image processor which detects a pixel of the second image corresponding to at least one pixel of the first image and updates the first image based on information about the detected pixel of the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shin-haeng KIM, Seung-hoon HAN, Young-wook SOHN
  • Publication number: 20100026891
    Abstract: An image signal processing unit and an image signal processing method thereof An image signal processing unit estimates motion characteristics of an input image, and adjusts a phase of an interpolation frame according to the motion characteristics when converting a frame rate. Accordingly, linearity can be maintained according to the motion characteristics of an input image, and the frame rate can be converted without generating noise such as halo artifacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-haeng KIM, Yeong-taeg KIM
  • Publication number: 20090153591
    Abstract: A control method of a display apparatus having a display panel formed with a plurality of pixels is provided. The method includes: detecting high gray level pixels having gray scale values greater than a predetermined high gray scale value; detecting a highlight zone including the detected high gray level pixels, wherein a gray scale value difference between boundary pixels of the highlight zone and adjacent pixels is greater than a predetermined reference difference; and applying a gray scale value greater than a gray scale value of the high gray level pixels to a surrounding zone adjacent to the highlight zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho-chul SHIN, Sang-su LEE, Ho-nam Lee, Dale YIM, Shin-haeng KIM, Hak-hun CHOI
  • Publication number: 20090002554
    Abstract: An image display apparatus and method which remove double edges are provided. The image display apparatus includes a first driving unit which generates pulse signals indicating the beginning of each of a plurality of frames which constitute an image signal reproduced by adjusting a frame rate of an image signal, a second driving unit which performs impulsive driving while the pulse signals are generated, and a third driving unit which displays the frames received after the impulsive driving on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shin-haeng Kim
  • Patent number: 7098957
    Abstract: Interlaced video signals are processed by mixing spatially interpolated video signals with temporally interpolated video signals. The respectively interpolated signals are mixed in dependence on a degree of motion at the given location in the video picture, as defined by a motion decision parameter. In order to dependably determine whether motion is to be taken into account in a current frame, motion decisions of previous frames are taken into account. That is, to define the motion decision parameter and to exclude false determinations, the motion decision parameter is computed recursively, by taking into account motion decision parameters of the associated previous fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Taeg Kim, Shin-Haeng Kim
  • Patent number: 7095445
    Abstract: A motion decision value provides a dependable estimate whether motion occurs in a given region of a video image in an interlaced video sequence. The motion detection is particularly applicable in the conversion from interlaced video to progressive video. An input first is fed to an absolute value former which computes a frame difference signal from a difference between the first field and the second field in one frame. A point-wise motion detection in the frame difference signal is then followed by a region-wise motion detection that combines the point-wise motion detection signal with an adjacent point-wise motion detection signal delayed by one field. The motion decision value is then computed from the region-wise motion detection signal and output for further processing in the video signal processing system, such as for choosing whether the spatially interpolated video signal value or the temporally interpolated video signal value should be used for the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Taeg Kim, Shin-Haeng Kim
  • Patent number: 7035481
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for interpolating lines of input image signal. The apparatus has a detection unit for detecting a directional characteristic and an angle with respect to a horizontal direction of a sampled edge component obtained by sampling the edge component of an upper horizontal line and a lower horizontal line in an area around a pixel to be interpolated; a judgment unit for judging whether an error is generated based on the directional characteristic and the angle detected by the detection unit and an average value of pixels corresponding to the directional characteristic and the angle; and an image signal generation unit for generating a line interpolated image signal by line interpolating an input image signal, according to a result judged by the judgment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-Haeng Kim, Yeong-taeg Kim
  • Patent number: 6822691
    Abstract: A motion decision value provides a dependable estimate whether motion occurs in a given region of a video image in an interlaced video sequence. The motion detection is particularly applicable in the conversion from interlaced video to progressive video. An input first is fed to an absolute value former which computes a frame difference signal from a difference between the first field and the second field in one frame. A point-wise motion detection in the frame difference signal is then followed by a region-wise motion detection that combines the point-wise motion detection signal with an adjacent point-wise motion detection signal delayed by one field. The motion decision value is then computed from the region-wise motion detection signal and output for further processing in the video signal processing system, such as for choosing whether the spatially interpolated video signal value or the temporally interpolated video signal value should be used for the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Taeg Kim, Shin-Haeng Kim
  • Publication number: 20030059126
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for interpolating lines of input image signal. The apparatus has a detection unit for detecting a directional characteristic and an angle with respect to a horizontal direction of a sampled edge component obtained by sampling the edge component of an upper horizontal line and a lower horizontal line in an area around a pixel to be interpolated; a judgment unit for judging whether an error is generated based on the directional characteristic and the angle detected by the detection unit and an average value of pixels corresponding to the directional characteristic and the angle; and an image signal generation unit for generating a line interpolated image signal by line interpolating an input image signal, according to a result judged by the judgment unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shin-Haeng Kim, Yeong-taeg Kim
  • Publication number: 20020136305
    Abstract: A motion decision value provides a dependable estimate whether motion occurs in a given region of a video image in an interlaced video sequence. The motion detection is particularly applicable in the conversion from interlaced video to progressive video. An input first is fed to an absolute value former which computes a frame difference signal from a difference between the first field and the second field in one frame. A point-wise motion detection in the frame difference signal is then followed by a region-wise motion detection that combines the point-wise motion detection signal with an adjacent point-wise motion detection signal delayed by one field. The motion decision value is then computed from the region-wise motion detection signal and output for further processing in the video signal processing system, such as for choosing whether the spatially interpolated video signal value or the temporally interpolated video signal value should be used for the output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Taeg Kim, Shin-Haeng Kim
  • Publication number: 20020080284
    Abstract: Interlaced video signals are processed by mixing spatially interpolated video signals with temporally interpolated video signals. The respectively interpolated signals are mixed in dependence on a degree of motion at the given location in the video picture, as defined by a motion decision parameter. In order to dependably determine whether motion is to be taken into account in a current frame, motion decisions of previous frames are taken into account. That is, to define the motion decision parameter and to exclude false determinations, the motion decision parameter is computed recursively, by taking into account motion decision parameters of the associated previous fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Taeg Kim, Shin-Haeng Kim