Patents by Inventor Sunmin KWON

Sunmin KWON 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: 20240114062
    Abstract: An example electronic device may include at least one processor and a communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yongsuk KWON, Sooyoung NAM, Youngjun SEO, Munhwan CHOI, Sunmin HWANG
  • Publication number: 20240114091
    Abstract: An example electronic device may include at least one processor and a communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yongsuk KWON, Youngjun SEO, Munhwan CHOI, Sunmin HWANG
  • Patent number: 11895224
    Abstract: A crypto processor, a method of operating a crypto processor, and an electronic device including a crypto processor. A method of operating a crypto processor for performing a polynomial multiplication of lattice-based texts includes transferring coefficients of polynomials for the polynomial multiplication to multipliers, performing multiplications for a portion of the coefficients in parallel using the multipliers, performing an addition for a portion of results of the multiplications using an adder, and determining a result of the polynomial multiplication based on another portion of the results of the multiplications and a result of the addition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngsam Shin, Sunmin Kwon, Dong-Hoon Yoo
  • Publication number: 20230327849
    Abstract: An apparatus and method with homomorphic encryption are included. An apparatus includes a processor configured to, and/or coupled with a memory storing instructions to configure the processor to: generate, from a ciphertext corresponding to a polynomial having a first degree for performing a homomorphic encryption operation, split polynomials having a second degree by factorizing the polynomial, wherein the split polynomials have a second degree that is less than the first degree, generate partial operation results by performing an element-wise operation using the split polynomials, and generate a homomorphic encryption operation result corresponding to the ciphertext by joining the partial operation results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Graz University of Technology
    Inventors: Ahmet Can MERT, Sujoy SINHA ROY, Aikata, Sunmin KWON, Yongwoo LEE
  • Patent number: 11750365
    Abstract: A method and device for comparing movement paths based on homomorphic encrypted is disclosed, where a server includes a processor configured to collect first encrypted movement path information of a comparison target encrypted by a common key, receive, from a user device, second encrypted movement path information of a user of the user device encrypted by a private key, compare the first encrypted movement path information and the second encrypted movement path information, decrypt a portion of a result of the comparison by the common key to generate a partially decrypted comparison result, and provide the partially decrypted result of the comparison to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Hoon Yoo, Sunmin Kwon, Jieun Eom
  • Publication number: 20230171084
    Abstract: An apparatus with homomorphic encryption includes: a first memory configured to receive and store a polynomial; a second memory configured to store a twiddle factor; a number theoretic transform (NTT) module configured to perform an NTT operation on the polynomial based on the twiddle factor; and a controller configured to control the first memory, the second memory, and the NTT module, wherein the NTT module comprises a butterfly unit (BU) array that comprises a plurality of BUs configured to, for the performing of the NTT operation, perform a modular operation on coefficients of the polynomial.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., INHA-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sunmin KWON, Hanho LEE, Phap Ngoc DUONG, Dong-Hoon YOO
  • Publication number: 20230132500
    Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses and methods with crypto processing. Computing devices may be interconnected to each other. Each computing device may be configured to perform polynomial operations based on homomorphic encryption. Memories may be configured to store instructions. Controllers may be configured to transfer instructions from the memories to the computing devices. One or more of the computing devices may each be configured to individually process, in parallel, at least a portion of the polynomial operations based on the homomorphic encryption according to an instruction transferred from a corresponding memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Graz University of Technology
    Inventors: Sujoy Sinha Roy, Ahmet Can Mert, Aikata, Sunmin Kwon, YOUNGSAM SHIN, DONG-HOON YOO
  • Publication number: 20220182220
    Abstract: A crypto processor, a method of operating a crypto processor, and an electronic device including a crypto processor. A method of operating a crypto processor for performing a polynomial multiplication of lattice-based texts includes transferring coefficients of polynomials for the polynomial multiplication to multipliers, performing multiplications for a portion of the coefficients in parallel using the multipliers, performing an addition for a portion of results of the multiplications using an adder, and determining a result of the polynomial multiplication based on another portion of the results of the multiplications and a result of the addition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Youngsam SHIN, Sunmin KWON, Dong-Hoon YOO
  • Publication number: 20210409189
    Abstract: A method and device for comparing movement paths based on homomorphic encrypted is disclosed, where a server includes a processor configured to collect first encrypted movement path information of a comparison target encrypted by a common key, receive, from a user device, second encrypted movement path information of a user of the user device encrypted by a private key, compare the first encrypted movement path information and the second encrypted movement path information, decrypt a portion of a result of the comparison by the common key to generate a partially decrypted comparison result, and provide the partially decrypted result of the comparison to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Hoon YOO, Sunmin KWON, Jieun EOM
  • Patent number: 10068353
    Abstract: A method of compressing a texture includes receiving a texel block obtained by dividing texels forming a texture into units of blocks of texels, determining a block pattern of the texel block, and compressing the texel block based on the block pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunmin Kwon, Hoyoung Kim, Jeongae Park
  • Patent number: 10008023
    Abstract: A method and a device for texture filtering include determining an upper mipmap and a lower mipmap based on a level of detail (LOD) value corresponding to a quad, obtaining first color values corresponding to the upper mipmap, obtaining second color values corresponding to the lower mipmap, and obtaining third color values of the pixels of the quad by using linear interpolation, based on the obtained first and second color values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seonghun Jeong, Sangheon Lee, Sunmin Kwon, Hoyoung Kim, Heejun Shim
  • Patent number: 9898838
    Abstract: A method of determining a level of detail (LOD) for a texturing includes: acquiring texture coordinate data on pixels included in an upper block; determining a reference quad among quads included in the upper block; determining a similarity between the determined reference quad and the upper block using texture coordinates of the determined reference quad and the upper block; and determining LODs of remaining quads among the quads included in the upper block to be the same as an LOD of the determined reference quad in response to the determining of the similarity including determining that the determined reference quad and the upper block are similar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heejun Shim, Kwontaek Kwon, Sunmin Kwon, Hoyoung Kim, Seonghun Jeong
  • Patent number: 9807400
    Abstract: An image processing method includes receiving a bitstream comprising a first encoding unit and a second encoding unit; acquiring from the bitstream a reference value for decoding of the first coding unit, a weight value for performing interpolation using the reference value to determine one or more sample values, and an index indicating one of the one or more sample values; decoding the first encoding unit using the index and a result of interpolation performed using the reference value and the weight value; and decoding the second encoding unit from the bitstream using the interpolation result used in the decoding of the first encoding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeongae Park, Sunmin Kwon, Kwontaek Kwon
  • Patent number: 9721359
    Abstract: Provided is a decompression apparatus and method thereof for decompressing rendering data. The decompression apparatus includes a data parsing unit configured to acquire a control component and a texture component from compressed input data including rendering information of an object, a decompression controller configured to allocate the control component to a control unit, wherein the control unit extracts a control command from the control component, and a logic calculation unit configured to, based on the control command, restore texture data of the object from the texture component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunmin Kwon, Jeongae Park, Hoyoung Kim, Heejun Shim, Seonghoon Jeong
  • Publication number: 20170103565
    Abstract: A method and a device for texture filtering include determining an upper mipmap and a lower mipmap based on a level of detail (LOD) value corresponding to a quad, obtaining first color values corresponding to the upper mipmap, obtaining second color values corresponding to the lower mipmap, and obtaining third color values of the pixels of the quad by using linear interpolation, based on the obtained first and second color values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seonghun JEONG, Sangheon LEE, Sunmin KWON, Hoyoung KIM, Heejun SHIM
  • Publication number: 20170091961
    Abstract: A method of determining a level of detail (LOD) for a texturing includes: acquiring texture coordinate data on pixels included in an upper block; determining a reference quad among quads included in the upper block; determining a similarity between the determined reference quad and the upper block using texture coordinates of the determined reference quad and the upper block; and determining LODs of remaining quads among the quads included in the upper block to be the same as an LOD of the determined reference quad in response to the determining of the similarity including determining that the determined reference quad and the upper block are similar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heejun SHIM, Kwontaek KWON, Sunmin KWON, Hoyoung KIM, Seonghun JEONG
  • Publication number: 20170084055
    Abstract: A method of compressing a texture includes receiving a texel block obtained by dividing texels forming a texture into units of blocks of texels, determining a block pattern of the texel block, and compressing the texel block based on the block pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunmin KWON, Hoyoung KIM, Jeongae PARK
  • Publication number: 20170078677
    Abstract: An image processing method includes receiving a bitstream comprising a first encoding unit and a second encoding unit; acquiring from the bitstream a reference value for decoding of the first coding unit, a weight value for performing interpolation using the reference value to determine one or more sample values, and an index indicating one of the one or more sample values; decoding the first encoding unit using the index and a result of interpolation performed using the reference value and the weight value; and decoding the second encoding unit from the bitstream using the interpolation result used in the decoding of the first encoding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongae PARK, Sunmin KWON, Kwontaek KWON
  • Publication number: 20160078665
    Abstract: Provided is a decompression apparatus and method thereof for decompressing rendering data. The decompression apparatus includes a data parsing unit configured to acquire a control component and a texture component from compressed input data including rendering information of an object, a decompression controller configured to allocate the control component to a control unit, wherein the control unit extracts a control command from the control component, and a logic calculation unit configured to, based on the control command, restore texture data of the object from the texture component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunmin KWON, Jeongae PARK, Hoyoung KIM, Heejun SHIM, Seonghoon JEONG
  • Publication number: 20160078667
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of processing rendering data are disclosed. The method of processing rendering data includes comparing texture information of a first tile with texture information of a second tile that is rendered after the first tile, selecting at least one piece of texture data from pieces of texture data of the first tile according to a frequency of use of the at least one piece of texture data for rendering the second tile, and changing the selected at least one piece of texture data into another piece of texture data. When an image is rendered, the method and apparatus may more efficiently use resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heejun SHIM, Soojung RYU, Hoyoung KIM, Sunmin KWON, Seonghoon JEONG