Patents by Inventor Sung Bum Park

Sung Bum Park 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: 9257856
    Abstract: A method and a wireless power transmitter for transmitting charging power to a wireless power receiver are provided. The method includes applying the charging power to the wireless power receiver; determining whether a current value of the charging power is greater than a predetermined threshold; and driving the overcurrent protection circuit upon a determination that the current value of the charging power is greater than the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se-Ho Park, Sung-Bum Park, Sung-Ku Yeo
  • Publication number: 20160034559
    Abstract: A device configured to classify images, includes a user interface configured to receive an input of selecting an image from the images, and a controller configured to determine attribute information of the selected image or image analysis information of the selected image, and classify the images based on the attribute information or the image analysis information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jan FEYEREISL, Sung-bum PARK, Tae-gyu LIM, Woo-sung SHIM
  • Patent number: 9166446
    Abstract: A wireless power transmission controlling apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes a power amplifier that receives a source power, amplifies the received source power, and outputs a wireless power transmission signal from the amplified received source power, a band pass filter that filters the wireless power transmission signal, and passes a harmonic wave corresponding to a communication frequency band, and a communication unit that transmits a wireless power transmission control signal using the harmonic wave corresponding to the communication frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Woo-Ram Lee, Joon-Il Kim, Sung-Bum Park, Young-Min Lee, Hong-Kweun Kim, Se-Ho Park, Seung-Woo Han
  • Patent number: 9143791
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing a video frame is provided. The method includes dividing the video frame into pixel blocks each including a reference pixel; calculating difference values between the reference pixel and pixels neighboring the reference pixel; converting the calculated difference values into values that belong to a bit depth range; and performing entropy coding by using the converted difference values as symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-bum Park, Jae-won Yoon, Hae-young Jun, Shin-wook Kang, Dai-woong Choi, Huai-rong Shao
  • Publication number: 20150215450
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus is disclosed. The terminal apparatus includes a display; a communicator configured to receive an incoming call; a storage configured to store contact object information including a connecting application corresponding to caller identification information; and a controller configured to receive the incoming call including the caller identification information received through the communicator, execute the connecting application corresponding to the caller identification information, and display a search result related to the contact object information in a screen of the executed connecting application on the display. Accordingly, it is possible to determine a counterpart during connecting a call, and automatically execute the connecting application per contact information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju-hee SEO, Han-tak KWAK, Hyun-woo NAM, Sung-bum PARK, Se-Hoon KIM, Woo-sung SHIM, Seo-young LEE, Yang-wook KIM, Hae-in CHUN, Jae-ho JUNG
  • Publication number: 20150207561
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods which provide synchronized data using visible light communication are described. In one method, a first Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting apparatus, which has a checked Identification (ID), receives a synchronization signal from a mobile communication network. This synchronization signal is analyzed in order to synchronize the first LED lighting apparatus with at least one second LED lighting apparatus adjacent to the first LED lighting apparatus. A synchronized time slot is prepared using the synchronization signal and a period of the time slot is determined, using the checked ID of the first LED apparatus, for transmitting data of the first LED lighting apparatus to a mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Hong-Seok Shin, Dae-Kwang Jung, Jeong-Seok Choi, Kyung-Woo Lee, Sung-Bum Park, Ki-Uk Song
  • Patent number: 9077992
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing a video frame is provided. The method includes dividing the video frame into pixel blocks each including a reference pixel; calculating difference values between the reference pixel and pixels neighboring the reference pixel; converting the calculated difference values into values that belong to a bit depth range; and performing entropy coding by using the converted difference values as symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-bum Park, Jae-won Yoon, Hae-young Jun, Shin-wook Kang, Dai-woong Choi, Huai-rong Shao
  • Publication number: 20150188359
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for wireless charging are provided. Transmission power transmitted from a wireless power transmitter is received at a power receiver of a wireless power receiver. A battery of the wireless power receiver is charged with the received transmission power. It is determined whether the battery is fully charged. A packet from a communication unit of the wireless power receiver is transmitted to the wireless power transmitter when the battery is fully charged. An auxiliary charge of the battery is performed by receiving strength-reduced transmission power from the wireless power transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Sung-Bum PARK, Se-Ho PARK, Young-Min LEE
  • Patent number: 9071849
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating video packets and a method and apparatus for restoring video are provided. The method of generating video packets includes: generating at least one pixel block consisting of at least one reference pixel and a plurality of neighboring pixels adjacent to the at least one reference pixel from pixels of a video frame; replacing pixel values of the neighboring pixels in the at least one pixel block with pixel difference values, which are difference values between a pixel value of one of pixels adjacent to the neighboring pixels and the pixel values of the neighboring pixels; generating packets so that a pixel value of the at least one reference pixel and the pixel difference values of the neighboring pixels are allocated to different packets according to positions of the pixels; and performing entropy coding of some of the packets including the pixel difference values of the neighboring pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-won Yoon, Sung-bum Park, Hae-young Jun, Shin-wook Kang, Dai-woong Choi
  • Publication number: 20150137749
    Abstract: A wireless charging apparatus and a wireless charging method are provided. The method includes selecting at least one of a wireless power reception mode and a wireless power transmission mode by a wireless charging apparatus, wirelessly receiving electric power when the wireless power reception mode is selected, and wirelessly transmitting electric power when the wireless power transmission mode is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Sung-Bum PARK
  • Patent number: 9013117
    Abstract: Disclosed is a color lamp driving apparatus for generating illumination light of various colors by using a plurality of Red (R), Green (R), and Blue (B) lamps together with each other, having a color controller for generating a color control signal, which indicates driving time rates of R, G, and B lamp arrays, according to color information of required illumination light, and a lamp driving module for outputting a driving signal for driving each of R, G, and B lamp arrays according to the color control signal output from the color controller. The driving signal is set to apply driving times for the R, G, and B lamp arrays based on one among a start time point, a middle time point, and an end time point of each corresponding period ?T within one light-emitting period T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Dae-Kwang Jung, Yun-Je Oh, Sung-Bum Park
  • Patent number: 9008448
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for compression encoding/decoding an image based on the repetition of an access unit and the repetition of a residual value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-bum Park, Jung-woo Kim, Dai-woong Choi, Jae-won Yoon
  • Patent number: 9000723
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for wireless charging are provided. Transmission power transmitted from a wireless power transmitter is received at a power receiver of a wireless power receiver. A battery of the wireless power receiver is charged with the received transmission power. It is determined whether the battery is fully charged. A packet from a communication unit of the wireless power receiver is transmitted to the wireless power transmitter when the battery is fully charged. An auxiliary charge of the battery is performed by receiving strength-reduced transmission power from the wireless power transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sung-Bum Park, Se-Ho Park, Young-Min Lee
  • Patent number: 8995840
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for providing synchronized data by using visible light communication includes, receiving a synchronization channel from a mobile communication base station using a specific mobile communication network, by a Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting; analyzing the received synchronization channel, and extracting a synchronization signal for synchronizing the LED lighting with at least one LED lighting adjacent to the LED lighting; selecting a specific time slot of the synchronization signal based on IDentifications (IDs) of the LED lightings; and including a data frame of the LED lighting in the specific time slot, and transmitting the specific time slot, which includes the data frame of the LED lighting, to a mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hong-Seok Shin, Dae-Kwang Jung, Jeong-Seok Choi, Kyung-Woo Lee, Sung-Bum Park, Ki-Uk Song
  • Patent number: 8982037
    Abstract: A display device for providing additional information using Visible Light Communication (VLC), including a decoder for dividing an input signal into a video signal and a data signal including additional information on at least one object included in an image output through the video signal; a display; a VLC controller for receiving the data signal from the decoder and encoding the data signal in accordance with a VLC protocol to output the data signal as a visible light signal through the VLC; light source blocks, which include light sources, back light the display, and output the data signal encoded in accordance with the VLC; and a control unit for controlling the encoded data signal including the additional information on the object, to be output as the visible light signal through a light source block at a position corresponding to the object from among the light source blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kyung-Woo Lee, Dae-Kwang Jung, Jeong-Seok Choi, Hong-Seok Shin, Sung-Bum Park, Ki-Uk Song
  • Patent number: 8948526
    Abstract: Provided are binary image encoding and decoding methods and binary image encoding and decoding apparatuses using an adaptive template. The binary image encoding method includes: applying a window having a predetermined size and shape to a predetermined number of previous pixels and peripheral pixels of the previous pixels, and acquiring correlations between the previous pixels and the peripheral pixels within the window; determining relative locations having high correlation with the previous pixels within the window based on the acquired correlations; generating a template based on the determined relative locations; and performing binary arithmetic encoding on a current pixel by using the generated template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-bum Park, Jae-won Yoon, Dai-woong Choi
  • Patent number: 8934549
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for decoding an image are provided. The method includes: decoding information representing that a first block of the image has been encoded in a first mode; and reconstructing the first block by setting pixel values of the first block to be identical with pixel values of a second block of the image that is adjacent to the first block and has been decoded prior to the first block, wherein the first mode is a mode for encoding information representing that the first block is identical or similar to the second block and has been encoded in the first mode, instead of encoding the pixel values of the first block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-bum Park, Jung-woo Kim, Dai-woong Choi, Jae-won Yoon, Jun-ho Cho
  • Publication number: 20140324953
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus is disclosed. The terminal apparatus includes a display, a communicator configured to perform communication with a server, and a controller configured to, in response to a preset event, receive from the server a curated content based on a user information related to the preset event and control the display to display the content, wherein the preset event is related to an application operated separately from a server-only application. Accordingly, the terminal apparatus may extract a content based on user information and display the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju-hee SEO, Han-tak KWAK, Hyun-woo NAM, Sung-bum PARK, Woo-sung SHIM, Seo-young LEE, Se-Hoon KIM
  • Patent number: 8866836
    Abstract: A data communication apparatus based on digital image processing includes a display that displays a color block array including color blocks corresponding to transmission data. The data communication apparatus also includes a camera that captures an image of a color block array displayed on a display of a transmitting side, and a storage that stores a code table including information about colors mapped to data values. The data communication apparatus further includes a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) that creates a color block array by converting transmission data to color blocks according to the code table during data transmission, identifies the color block array in the image captured by the camera, detects colors of color blocks in the color block array, and extracts data values corresponding to the detected colors during data reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kyung-Woo Lee, Yun-Je Oh, Dae-Kwang Jung, Jeong-Seok Choi, Hong-Seok Shin, Dong-Jae Shin, Sung-Bum Park
  • Patent number: D747268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do-Won Kim, Kyu-Sub Kwak, Sung-Bum Park, Keum-Su Song, Kyung-Woo Lee