Patents by Inventor Woo Suk Ko

Woo Suk Ko 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: 9008234
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving a signal and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal are disclosed. The method includes receiving the signal from a first frequency band in a signal frame including at least one frequency band, demodulating the received signal by an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) method and parsing the signal frame, acquiring a symbol stream of a service stream from the at least one frequency band included in the parsed signal frame, demapping symbols included in the symbol stream and outputting the demapped symbols to sub streams, multiplexing the output sub streams and outputting one bit stream, and deinterleaving and error-correction-decoding the output bit stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Publication number: 20150071378
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving a signal and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal are disclosed. The method for receiving the signal includes receiving (S210) the signal in a first frequency band, identifying (S220) a first pilot signal including, a cyclic prefix obtained by frequency-shifting a first portion of an useful portion of the first pilot signal and a cyclic suffix obtained by frequency-shifting a second portion of the useful portion of the first pilot signal from the received signal, demodulating (S220) a signal frame including a physical layer pipe (PLP) to which a service stream is converted, by an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, using information set in the first pilot signal, parsing (S230) the signal frame and obtaining the PLP and obtaining (S240) the service stream from the PLP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Publication number: 20150055728
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and a method of receiving signals an corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to an efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient transmitter and an efficient receiver using the efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient cable broadcasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Woo Suk KO, Sang Chul MOON
  • Patent number: 8929481
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving a signal and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal are disclosed. The method for receiving the signal includes receiving (S210) the signal in a first frequency band, identifying (S220) a first pilot signal including, a cyclic prefix obtained by frequency-shifting a first portion of an useful portion of the first pilot signal and a cyclic suffix obtained by frequency-shifting a second portion of the useful portion of the first pilot signal from the received signal, demodulating (S220) a signal frame including a physical layer pipe (PLP) to which a service stream is converted, by an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, using information set in the first pilot signal, parsing (S230) the signal frame and obtaining the PLP and obtaining (S240) the service stream from the PLP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Publication number: 20140376663
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a broadcasting signal is provided. The method includes encoding data; encoding signaling data by an LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) scheme; building a signal frame based on at least one preamble data symbol having the encoded signaling data and a data slice having the encoded data; inserting at least one pilot into the signal frame with a specific pattern and modulating the signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) method; and transmitting the modulated signal frame. A signaling block having the signaling data is repeated in the at least one preamble data symbol in a frequency domain by a bandwidth. The bandwidth of the signaling block corresponds to a number of active subcarriers assigned to a single channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Woo Suk KO, Sang Chul MOON
  • Patent number: 8897390
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and a method of receiving signals and corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to an efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient transmitter and an efficient receiver using the efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient cable broadcasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Patent number: 8867640
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of transmitting a broadcasting signal includes: encoding data; encoding signaling data by an LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) scheme; building a signal frame based on at least one preamble data symbol having the encoded signaling data and a data slice having the encoded data; inserting at least one pilot into the signal frame with a specific pattern and modulating the signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) method; and transmitting the modulated signal frame. A signaling block having the signaling data is repeated in the at least one preamble data symbol in a frequency domain by a bandwidth. The bandwidth of the signaling block corresponds to a number of active subcarriers assigned to a single channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chuk Moon
  • Publication number: 20140298144
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and a method of receiving signals and corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to an efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient transmitter and an efficient receiver using the efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient cable broadcasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Woo Suk KO, Sang Chul MOON
  • Publication number: 20140226755
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and receiving signals and a corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of receiving a signal, which includes interleaving in an appropriate manner for a channel bonding system. The interleaving can allow decoding a user requested service at a random tuner window position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk KO, Sang Chul MOON
  • Patent number: 8787497
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and a method of receiving signals and corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to an efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient transmitter and an efficient receiver using the efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient cable broadcasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Patent number: 8750398
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and receiving signals and a corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of receiving a signal, which includes interleaving in an appropriate manner for a channel bonding system. The interleaving can allow decoding a user requested service at a random tuner window position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Publication number: 20140149832
    Abstract: A method is provided for receiving a signal. The method includes receiving a signal transmitted in a radio frequency (RF) band including at least one RF channel, demodulating the received signal, parsing a preamble of a signal frame including layer-1 information from the demodulated signal, deinterleaving bits of the layer-1 information, decoding the deinterleaved bits using an error correction decoding scheme including a shortening scheme and a puncturing scheme and obtaining physical layer pipes (PLPs) from the signal frame using the error-correction-decoded layer-1 information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woo Suk KO, Sang Chul Moon
  • Publication number: 20140133592
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of transmitting at least one broadcasting signal having PLP (Physical Layer Pipe) data and preamble data includes: encoding the PLP data; encoding the preamble data; mapping the encoded PLP data to PLP data symbols by QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) modulations; mapping the encoded preamble data to preamble data symbols by QAM modulations; building a signal frame including the PLP data symbols and the preamble data symbols, wherein the preamble data symbols include first signaling information and second signaling information, wherein the first signaling information is for the second signaling information and includes size information of the second signaling information, and wherein the second signaling information is for the PLP data symbols; modulating the signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method; and transmitting the modulated signal frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Publication number: 20140112412
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving a signal and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal are disclosed. The method for receiving the signal includes receiving (S210) the signal in a first frequency band, identifying (S220) a first pilot signal including, a cyclic prefix obtained by frequency-shifting a first portion of an useful portion of the first pilot signal and a cyclic suffix obtained by frequency-shifting a second portion of the useful portion of the first pilot signal from the received signal, demodulating (S220) a signal frame including a physical layer pipe (PLP) to which a service stream is converted, by an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, using information set in the first pilot signal, parsing (S230) the signal frame and obtaining the PLP and obtaining (S240) the service stream from the PLP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Publication number: 20140105328
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a transmitter for transmitting at least one broadcast signal having PLP (Physical Layer Pipe) data includes: a BCH (Bose-Chadhuri-Hocquenghem) encoder configured to BCH encode the PLP data; an LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) encoder configured to LDPC encode the BCH encoded PLP data and output FECFrames (Forward Error Correction Frames); a mapper configured to map data in the FECFrames onto constellations by QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) schemes; a time-interleaver configured to time-interleave the mapped data; a frame builder configured to build a signal frame including preamble symbols and data symbols; and an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) modulator configured to modulate data in the signal frame by an OFDM scheme. The PLP data are processed by an LDPC scheme for a long or a short LDPC FECframe. The preamble symbols include signaling information for the time-interleaved PLP data. The data symbols include the time-interleaved PLP data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woo Suk KO, Sang Chul MOON
  • Patent number: 8694875
    Abstract: A method is provided for receiving a signal. The method includes receiving a signal transmitted in a radio frequency (RF) band including at least one RF channel, demodulating the received signal, parsing a preamble of a signal frame including layer-1 information from the demodulated signal, deinterleaving bits of the layer-1 information, decoding the deinterleaved bits using an error correction decoding scheme including a shortening scheme and a puncturing scheme and obtaining physical layer pipes (PLPs) from the signal frame using the error-correction-decoded layer-1 information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Patent number: 8670494
    Abstract: The present invention relates to method of transmitting and receiving signals and a corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to an efficient layer 1 (L1) processing method for a transmitter and a receiver using data slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Patent number: 8644406
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and receiving signals and a corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of extracting PLP from data slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Publication number: 20140029692
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and receiving signals and a corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of receiving a signal, which includes interleaving in an appropriate manner for a channel bonding system. The interleaving can allow decoding a user requested service at a random tuner window position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Woo Suk KO, Sang Chul MOON
  • Publication number: 20140023148
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of transmitting a broadcasting signal includes: encoding data; encoding signaling data by an LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) scheme; building a signal frame based on at least one preamble data symbol having the encoded signaling data and a data slice having the encoded data; inserting at least one pilot into the signal frame with a specific pattern and modulating the signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) method; and transmitting the modulated signal frame. A signaling block having the signaling data is repeated in the at least one preamble data symbol in a frequency domain by a bandwidth. The bandwidth of the signaling block corresponds to a number of active subcarriers assigned to a single channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woo Suk KO, Sang Chul MOON