Patents by Inventor Woo-Myoung Park

Woo-Myoung 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: 10931400
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond the 4G communication system such as LTE. A decoding method using a polar code according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: determining a first function for decoding input bits and a second function, which is independent from a log likelihood ratio (LLR) value of a previous input bit by the first function; and decoding the input bits in parallel using the first function and the second function. Also, the method comprises the steps of: determining an internal frozen bit using at least one input frozen bit which has a predetermined value of a predetermined position from among the input bits; and determining LLR values for layer bits sequentially from the higher layers of N layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Jang, Woo-Myoung Park, Jae-Yoel Kim, Seok-Ki Ahn, Chi-Woo Lim
  • Patent number: 10630422
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for channel encoding and channel decoding in a wireless communication system are provided. The channel encoding method includes generating a first parity set and a second parity set based on information bits, determining a number of additional parity bits based on a number of the information bits and a required coding rate, generating the determined number of additional parity bits using the information bits, and generating a codeword including the information bits, the first parity set, the second parity set, and the generated additional parity bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok-Ki Ahn, Jae-Yoel Kim, Chi-Woo Lim, Min Jang, Kwang-Taik Kim, Woo-Myoung Park
  • Patent number: 10560216
    Abstract: Fifth Generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transfer rate higher than that of a fourth Generation (4G) communication system, such as Long Term Evolution (LTE), and subsequent systems. The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting a signal by a transmission terminal in a communication system using a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code. The method include receiving a change request for changing a coding rate of the LDPC code, from a reception terminal; determining a first coding rate based on the change request; and transmitting information on the first coding rate in respond to the change request, to a reception terminal, wherein the change request for changing the coding rate comprises at least one of information indicating a coding rate determined by the reception terminal, or information indicating a state of the reception terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-Woo Lim, Jae-Yoel Kim, Woo-Myoung Park, Seok-Ki Ahn, Min Jang
  • Patent number: 10511060
    Abstract: A 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE) is disclosed. The present disclosure relates to a rate compatible low-density parity-check (RC-LDPC) encoding method and device therefor. The encoding method includes using LDPC in a communication system, including the operations of LDPC encoding information bits by a first encoding rate, and performing a concatenated single parity check (SPC) encoding for the encoded bits by at least one second encoding rate lower than the first encoding rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Jang, Seok-Ki Ahn, Chi-Woo Lim, Jae-Yoel Kim, Woo-Myoung Park
  • Patent number: 10454618
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). A method and apparatus for transmitting a signal in a transmitting apparatus in a communication system supporting a rate compatible-low density parity check (RC-LDPC) code are provided. The method includes encoding information bits based on a first parity check matrix and a first code rate to generate a codeword, processing the codeword to generate a transmission signal, and transmitting the transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Jang, Seok-Ki Ahn, Chi-Woo Lim, Jae-Yoel Kim, Woo-Myoung Park
  • Patent number: 10356771
    Abstract: A 5th-generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system which is to support a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE) is provided. The method for transmitting a downlink signal by a base station in a wireless communication system supporting non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) includes the steps of selecting a pair of terminals including one short-distance terminal and at least one long-distance terminal which will share an identical downlink transmission resource, generating a superimposed signal in which a signal for the short-distance terminal and a signal for the long-distance terminal are superimposed on one another, generating information necessary for cancelling the signal of the long-distance terminal from the superimposed signal, transmitting the generated information necessary for cancelling the signal of the long-distance terminal to the short-distance terminal, and transmitting the generated superimposed signal to the pair of terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-Woo Lim, Woo-Myoung Park
  • Patent number: 10341056
    Abstract: A decoding method in a mobile communication system using a non-binary LDPC code according to various embodiments of the present disclosure includes: selecting a message value having the highest reliability from each column and each row of an input vector message; generating a configuration set using the message value selected for each column and a GF element corresponding to the message value; and generating a check node output message using the generated configuration set and an extra output message value. According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a decoding time period is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Min Kim, Woo-Myoung Park, Seok-Ki Ahn, Chi-Woo Lim
  • Patent number: 10271337
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present invention relates to method and apparatus for performing a decoding with low complexity in a wireless communication system. A decoding method of a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises determining a first characteristic value indicating a statistical characteristic of an interference signal based on a received signal of a base station, determining a second characteristic value indicating a statistical characteristic of an interference signal based on data received from the base station, and decoding the data according to a decoding scheme corresponding to a difference of the first characteristic value and the second characteristic value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Sagong, Woo-Myoung Park, Seok-Ki Ahn, Chi-Woo Lim, Sung-Nam Hong
  • Patent number: 10205468
    Abstract: Provided is a method for decoding a non-binary (NB) low density parity check (LDPC) code at a user equipment (UE) that implements at least one variable nodes that receive a received signal of a wireless channel and deliver an input message to a check node and the check node that checks the input message and outputs an output message. The method includes receiving at least one input messages, generating a temporary vector by using the at least one input messages, searching for an element having a dominant value by checking the temporary vector, generating a configuration set, which is a check target, by using the element having the dominant value, and generating the output message by performing comparison with respect to the generated configuration set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok-Ki Ahn, Kyeong-Cheol Yang, Sang-Min Kim, Woo-Myoung Park, Min Sagong, Chi-Woo Lim, Sung-Nam Hong
  • Publication number: 20180351693
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond the 4G communication system such as LTE. A decoding method using a polar code according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: determining a first function for decoding input bits and a second function, which is independent from a log likelihood ratio (LLR) value of a previous input bit by the first function; and decoding the input bits in parallel using the first function and the second function. Also, the method comprises the steps of: determining an internal frozen bit using at least one input frozen bit which has a predetermined value of a predetermined position from among the input bits; and determining LLR values for layer bits sequentially from the higher layers of N layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min JANG, Woo-Myoung PARK, Jae-Yoel KIM, Seok-Ki AHN, Chi-Woo LIM
  • Patent number: 10122385
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present invention relates to a method and a device for efficiently shortening and puncturing a non-binary LDPC code, the method for a transmitter shortening and puncturing a non-binary code being capable of supporting various modulation methods by using a single non-binary code, and the method comprising the steps of: shortening, on the basis of a modulation method, at least one information bit in at least one information symbol constituting the non-binary code; encoding the at least one information symbol having a shortened information bit; and puncturing, on the basis of the modulation method, at least one parity code in at least one parity symbol obtained through the encoding step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok-Ki Ahn, Woo-Myoung Park, Min Sagong, Chi-Woo Lim, Sung-Nam Hong
  • Patent number: 10098103
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for supporting multiuser superposition transmission. The method includes transmitting a signaling message including an indication of multiuser superposition transmission to a first UE among UEs scheduled for multiuser superposition transmission, transmitting, to the first UE, first DCI containing transmission information for the first UE and second DCI containing transmission information for at least one second UE among the UEs for multiuser superposition transmission, and transmitting a first downlink signal containing data for the first UE and a second downlink signal containing data for the second UE in a superposed manner on same resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-Woo Lim, Hyun-Kyu Yu, Jae-Won Kim, Woo-Myoung Park
  • Patent number: 10050820
    Abstract: A method for modulation in a transmitter for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step for determining a modulation scheme; a step for, if the determined modulation scheme corresponds to a specific modulation scheme, converting encoded information bits to quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbols in accordance with a predetermined QAM modulation order, selecting a sequence corresponding to an element of an integer vector in a predetermined sequence set, repeating the converted QAM symbols for a predetermined sequence length, and outputting signals by multiplying the repeated QAM symbols and the selected sequence; and a step for transmitting the outputted signals to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Nam Hong, Woo-Myoung Park, Min Sagong, Seok-Ki Ahn, Chi-Woo Lim
  • Patent number: 10027441
    Abstract: Provided is a method for receiving data in a receiver that performs decoding using a non-binary Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code. The method includes generating a message vector for each symbol by demodulating received data; determining data characteristics and channel characteristics of the received data; determining the number of vector elements to be used for decoding among vector elements of the message vector using at least one of the data characteristics and the channel characteristics; and selecting vector elements according to the determined number of vector elements, and decoding the received data using the selected vector elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Min Kim, Woo-Myoung Park, Chi-Woo Lim
  • Patent number: 9906397
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting messages using a channel combining/splitting transmission scheme for a 5G or pre-5G communication system. The method comprising: splitting the messages into a first part to be transmitted to a first channel, which is a degradation channel, and a second part to be transmitted to a second channel, which is an enhancement channel, generating first modulation signals by performing a channel encoding and frequency quadrature amplitude modulation on the first part and generating second modulation signals by performing a channel encoding and quadrature amplitude modulation on the second part, generating first transmission signals by combining the first modulation signals with a part of or all the second modulation signals and generating second transmission signals using the second modulation signals, and transmitting the generated first transmission signals and second transmission signals through the first channel and the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo-Myoung Park, Seok-Ki Ahn, Chi-Woo Lim
  • Patent number: 9819364
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). A method for transmitting a signal in a signal transmitting apparatus in a communication system supporting a bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding (BICM-ID) scheme is provided. The method includes performing an outer encoding operation; performing an interleaving operation on the outer code corresponding to an interleaving scheme which is based on a preset generation matrix to generate an interleaved signal; performing an inner encoding operation; performing a modulating operation; and transmitting the modulated signal, wherein the generation matrix is generated by applying at least one of a preset column permutation rule and a preset row permutation rule to a generation matrix for a quasi-cyclic (QC) interleaver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong-Seok Ha, Woo-Myoung Park, Sang-Ha Lee, Jae-Yoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20170324605
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond 4G communication systems such as LTE. A method for modulation in a transmitter for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step for determining a modulation scheme; a step for, if the determined modulation scheme corresponds to a specific modulation scheme, converting encoded information bits to quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbols in accordance with a predetermined QAM modulation order, selecting a sequence corresponding to an element of an integer vector in a predetermined sequence set, repeating the converted QAM symbols for a predetermined sequence length, and outputting signals by multiplying the repeated QAM symbols and the selected sequence; and a step for transmitting the outputted signals to a receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Sung-Nam Hong, Woo-Myoung Park, Min Sagong, Seok-Ki Ahn, Chi-Woo Lim
  • Publication number: 20170288936
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G communication system such as LTE. The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting messages using a channel combining/splitting transmission scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Woo-Myoung Park, Seok-Ki Ahn, Chi-Woo Lim
  • Publication number: 20170288706
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present invention relates to a method and a device for efficiently shortening and puncturing a non-binary LDPC code, the method for a transmitter shortening and puncturing a non-binary code being capable of supporting various modulation methods by using a single non-binary code, and the method comprising the steps of: shortening, on the basis of a modulation method, at least one information bit in at least one information symbol constituting the non-binary code; encoding the at least one information symbol having a shortened information bit; and puncturing, on the basis of the modulation method, at least one parity code in at least one parity symbol obtained through the encoding step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Seok-Ki Ahn, Woo-Myoung Park, Min Sagong, Chi-Woo Lim, Sung-Nam Hong
  • Publication number: 20170271718
    Abstract: A 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE) is disclosed. The present disclosure relates to a rate compatible low-density parity-check (RC-LDPC) encoding method and device therefor. The encoding method includes using LDPC in a communication system, including the operations of LDPC encoding information bits by a first encoding rate, and performing a concatenated single parity check (SPC) encoding for the encoded bits by at least one second encoding rate lower than the first encoding rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Min JANG, Seok-Ki AHN, Chi-Woo LIM, Jae-Yoel KIM, Woo-Myoung PARK