Patents by Inventor Sun Min Kim

Sun Min 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).

  • METHOD FOR PROCESSING SOUND ON BASIS OF IMAGE INFORMATION, AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180014135
    Abstract: A method of processing an audio signal including at least one audio object based on image information includes: obtaining the audio signal and a current image that corresponds to the audio signal; dividing the current image into at least one block; obtaining motion information of the at least one block; generating index information including information for giving a three-dimensional (3D) effect in at least one direction to the at least one audio object, based on the motion information of the at least one block; and processing the audio object, in order to give the 3D effect in the at least one direction to the audio object, based on the index information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-joo CHUNG, Sun-min KIM, Chang-yeong KIM
  • AUDIO PROVIDING APPARATUS AND AUDIO PROVIDING METHOD
    Publication number: 20180007483
    Abstract: An audio providing apparatus and method are provided. The audio providing apparatus includes: an object renderer configured to render an object audio signal based on geometric information regarding the object audio signal; a channel renderer configured to render an audio signal having a first channel number into an audio signal having a second channel number; and a mixer configured to mix the rendered object audio signal with the audio signal having the second channel number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-bae CHON, Sun-min KIM, Jae-ha PARK, Sang-mo SON, Hyun JO, Hyun-joo CHUNG
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESTORING AUDIO SIGNAL
    Publication number: 20170337926
    Abstract: Provided is a method of reconstructing an audio signal, the method including detecting a lossy frequency band, based on an energy value of each of frequencies of the audio signal; obtaining a cut-off frequency, based on the lossy frequency band; and reconstructing the audio signal of the lossy frequency band, based on the cut-off frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-bae CHON, Sun-min KIM, Yoon-jae LEE
  • HYBRID TYPE FILTRATION STRUCTURE FOR FILTERING LIQUID
    Publication number: 20170326503
    Abstract: A hybrid type filtration structure for filtering liquid includes a first active layer, a porous supporting layer and a permeable layer. The first active layer has a first nano pore inner wall of which a function group included compound is combined with. The porous supporting layer has a plurality of pores and is disposed under the first active layer. The permeable layer is disposed under the porous supporting layer. The porous supporting layer includes a plurality of lipid bilayers having membrane protein inside of the pore, a molecule of water selectively passes through the membrane protein. The first nano pore passes through the first active layer vertically. The first nano pore and the pore are connected with each other through which liquid flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Jeong-Hwan KIM, Yeong-Eun YOO, Jae-Sung YOON, Tae-Joon JEON, Sun Min KIM, Seung-Hyun KIM, Moon-Ki KIM, Dae-Joong KIM, Yun Jung LEE, Young-Rok KIM, Young-Ho SEO, No-Won KIM
  • Binaural decoder to output spatial stereo sound and a decoding method thereof
    Patent number: 9800987
    Abstract: A binaural decoder for an MPEG surround stream, which decodes an MPEG surround stream into a stereo 3D signal, and a decoding method thereof. The method includes dividing a compressed audio stream and head related transfer function (HRTF) data into subbands, selecting predetermined subbands of the HRTF data divided into subbands and filtering the HRTF data to obtain the selected subbands, decoding the audio stream divided into subbands into a stream of multi-channel audio data with respect to subbands according to spatial additional information, and binaural-synthesizing the HRTF data of the selected subbands with the multi-channel audio data of corresponding subbands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han-gil Moon, Sun-min Kim, In-gyu Chun
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING 3-DIMENSIONAL AUDIO SIGNAL
    Publication number: 20170301357
    Abstract: A method of encoding a multi-channel 3-dimensional (3D) audio signal mixed with a multi-channel 3D object signal is provided. The method includes: obtaining a location parameter indicating a virtual location of the multi-channel 3D object signal on a multi-channel speaker layout based on a gain value of the multi-channel 3D object signal for each channel; and encoding the multi-channel 3D audio signal and the location parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-woo LEE, Sun-min KIM, Hwan SHIM, Nam-suk LEE, Hyun-wook KIM, Jong-hoon JEONG
  • Audio providing apparatus and audio providing method
    Patent number: 9774973
    Abstract: An audio providing apparatus and method are provided. The audio providing apparatus includes: an object renderer configured to render an object audio signal based on geometric information regarding the object audio signal; a channel renderer configured to render an audio signal having a first channel number into an audio signal having a second channel number; and a mixer configured to mix the rendered object audio signal with the audio signal having the second channel number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-bae Chon, Sun-min Kim, Jae-ha Park, Sang-mo Son, Hyun Jo, Hyun-joo Chung
  • Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding 3-dimensional audio signal
    Patent number: 9754595
    Abstract: A method of encoding a multi-channel 3-dimensional (3D) audio signal mixed with a multi-channel 3D object signal is provided. The method includes: obtaining a location parameter indicating a virtual location of the multi-channel 3D object signal on a multi-channel speaker layout based on a gain value of the multi-channel 3D object signal for each channel; and encoding the multi-channel 3D audio signal and the location parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-woo Lee, Sun-min Kim, Hwan Shim, Nam-suk Lee, Hyun-wook Kim, Jong-hoon Jeong
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING AND PLAYING BACK AUDIO SIGNAL
    Publication number: 20170251323
    Abstract: A method for generating audio according to an embodiment of the present invention, for solving the above technical problem, comprises the steps of: receiving an audio signal through at least one mic; generating an input channel signal respectively corresponding to the at least one mic; generating a virtual input channel signal based on the input channel signal; generating additional information including playback positions of the input channel signal and the virtual input channel signal; and transmitting a multichannel audio signal including the input channel signal and the virtual input channel signal, and the additional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun JO, Sun-min KIM, Jae-ha PARK, Sang-mo SON
  • Method and apparatus for reproducing stereophonic sound
    Patent number: 9749767
    Abstract: Method and apparatus reproduce a stereophonic sound. The method includes obtaining sound depth information which denotes a distance between at least one object within a sound signal and a reference position, and providing sound perspective to the sound object output from a speaker, based on the sound depth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sun-min Kim
  • METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRODE, ELECTRODE MANUFACTURED ACCORDING TO THE METHOD, SUPERCAPACITOR INCLUDING THE ELECTRODE, AND RECHARGABLE LITHIUM BATTERY INCLUDING THE ELECTRODE
    Publication number: 20170237061
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for manufacturing an electrode including mixing at least two electrode materials selected from a carbon material, a metal oxide precursor, and a conductive polymer with a solvent to prepare a mixture, coating the mixture on a current collector, and radiating IPL (intense pulsed light) on the mixture coated on the current collector, the electrode manufactured according to the method, and a supercapacitor and rechargeable lithium battery including the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Yong-Won SONG, Jung Ah LIM, Tae Hee YOO, Sun Min KIM
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RENDERING ACOUSTIC SIGNAL, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20170223477
    Abstract: When a channel signal, such as a 22.2 channel signal, is rendered into a 5.1 channel signal, a three-dimensional (3D) audio may be reproduced by using a two-dimensional (2D) output channel, however, when an elevation angle of an input channel is different from a standard elevation angle, if elevation rendering parameters according to the standard elevation angle are used, distortion may occur in a sound image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-bae CHON, Sun-min KIM
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RENDERING ACOUSTIC SIGNAL, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20170188169
    Abstract: When a multi-channel signal, such as from a 22.2 channel, is rendered to a 5.1 channel, three-dimensional audio signals can be reproduced by means of a two-dimensional output channel. However, when the elevation of the input channel differs from the standard elevation and an elevation rendering parameter corresponding to the standard elevation is used, audio image distortion occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-bae CHON, Sun-min KIM
  • Audio correction apparatus, and audio correction method thereof
    Patent number: 9646625
    Abstract: An audio correction apparatus and an audio correction method. The audio correction method includes: receiving audio data, which may be input by a user and/or an instrument uttering sounds; detecting onset information by analyzing harmonic components of the received audio data; detecting pitch information of the received audio data based on the detected onset information; comparing the audio data with reference audio data and aligning the two based on the detected onset information and the detected pitch information; and correcting the aligned audio data to match the reference audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sang-bae Chon, Kyo-gu Lee, Doo-yong Sung, Hoon Heo, Sun-min Kim, Jeong-su Kim, Sang-mo Son
  • SYNTHESIS OF HONOKIOL
    Publication number: 20170113989
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are improved methods for the synthesis of honokiol, as well as methods for the synthesis of 3,3?-di-tert-butyl-5,5?-dimethyl-[1,1?-biphenyl]-2,4?-diol, 3?,5-dimethyl-[1,1?-biphenyl]-2,4?-diol, and 2,4?-dimethoxy-3?,5-dimethyl-1,1?-biphenyl, 3,3?,5,5?-tetra-tert-butyl-[1,1?-biphenyl]-2,4?-diol, and certain tetrasubstituted bisphenols, and uses therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Stanislav JARACZ, Marisa KOZLOWSKI, Young EUN LEE, Sun Min KIM
  • Method and apparatus for reproducing three-dimensional sound
    Patent number: 9622007
    Abstract: Stereophonic sound is reproduced by acquiring image depth information indicating a distance between at least one object in an image signal and a reference location, acquiring sound depth information indicating a distance between at least one sound object in a sound signal and a reference location based on the image depth information, and providing sound perspective to the at least one sound object based on the sound depth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-choon Cho, Sun-min Kim
  • AUDIO APPARATUS AND AUDIO PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20170094438
    Abstract: An audio apparatus and an audio providing method thereof are provided. The audio providing method includes receiving an audio signal including a plurality of channels, applying an audio signal having a channel, from among the plurality of channels, giving a sense of elevation to a filter to generate a plurality of virtual audio signals to be respectively output to a plurality of speakers, applying a combination gain value and a delay value to the plurality of virtual audio signals so that the plurality of virtual audio signals respectively output through the plurality of speakers form a sound field having a plane wave, and respectively outputting the plurality of virtual audio signals, to which the combination gain value and the delay value are applied, through the plurality of speakers. The filter processes the audio signal to have a sense of elevation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-bae CHON, Sun-min KIM, Hyun JO, Jeong-su KIM
  • Multimedia apparatus, music composing method thereof, and song correcting method thereof
    Patent number: 9607594
    Abstract: A multimedia apparatus, a music composing method thereof, and a song correcting method thereof are provided. A music composing method includes setting a type of musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) data according to a user's input, sensing a user interaction, analyzing the sensed user interaction and determining a beat and a pitch of the user interaction, and generating MIDI data using the set type of MIDI data and the determined beat and pitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-bae Chon, Sun-min Kim, Sang-mo Son
  • Semiconductor devices having gate structures and methods of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 9590099
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices are provided including an active layer, a gate structure, a spacer, and a source/drain layer. The active layer is on the substrate and includes germanium. The active layer includes a first region having a first germanium concentration, and a second region on both sides of the first region. The second region has a top surface getting higher from a first portion of the second region adjacent to the first region toward a second portion of the second region far from the first region, and has a second germanium concentration less than the first germanium concentration. The gate structure is formed on the first region of the active layer. The spacer is formed on the second region of the active layer, and contacts a sidewall of the gate structure. The source/drain layer is adjacent to the second region of the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bin Liu, Sun-Min Kim, Shigenobu Maeda
  • Method and apparatus for processing audio signal
    Patent number: 9554227
    Abstract: An audio signal processing apparatus including an index estimation unit that receives three-dimensional image information as an input and generates index information for applying a three-dimensional effect to an audio object in at least one direction of right, left, up, down, front, and back directions, based on the three-dimensional image information; and a rendering unit for applying a three-dimensional effect to the audio object in at least one direction of right, left, up, down, front, and back directions, based on the index information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun-min Kim, Young-woo Lee, Yoon-jae Lee