Patents by Inventor Yong Son

Yong Son 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).

  • ERROR CONCEALMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO SIGNAL AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO SIGNAL USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20150120309
    Abstract: An error concealment method and apparatus for an audio signal and a decoding method and apparatus for an audio signal using the error concealment method and apparatus. The error concealment method includes selecting one of an error concealment in a frequency domain and an error concealment in a time domain as an error concealment scheme for a current frame based on a predetermined criteria when an error occurs in the current frame, selecting one of a repetition scheme and an interpolation scheme in the frequency domain as the error concealment scheme for the current frame based on a predetermined criteria when the error concealment in the frequency domain is selected, and concealing the error of the current frame using the selected scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eum-mi OH, Ki-hyun CHOO, Ho-sang SUNG, Chang-yong SON, Jung-hoe KIM, Kang-eun LEE
  • MASK FOR EXPOSURE, METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF FABRICATING DISPLAY PANEL USING THE MASK
    Publication number: 20150064857
    Abstract: A mask for etching a target layer includes a mask substrate. A phase inversion layer is disposed to correspond to a non-etched area of a pattern target layer. The phase inversion layer is configured to generate inverted light by inverting a phase of incident light and to transmit the inverted light to the non-etched area of a pattern target layer. An inversion offset part is disposed in a center part of the phase inversion layer. The inversion offset part is configured to generate offset light causing destructive interference with the inverted light in the non-etched area and to provide the offset light to the non-etched area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MIN KANG, Hyunjoo Lee, Bong-Yeon Kim, DongEon Lee, Yong Son, Junhyuk Woo, Jinho Ju
  • Analog/digital audio converter and a method thereof
    Patent number: 8954171
    Abstract: An analog/digital audio converting apparatus enables listening to both digital and analog audio signals received from a digital receiving apparatus and analog audio signals input from an external source using the same receiver by providing a formatter capable of converting the analog audio signal into a digital audio signal with the digital broadcasting receiving apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae-yong Son
  • PORTABLE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF TESTING THE SAME, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20150035994
    Abstract: A portable communication apparatus is provided. The portable communication apparatus includes: a camera module configured to capture a plurality of test images that are sequentially output from a display apparatus; a microphone module configured to record a test voice that is output from the display apparatus; a communication interface unit configured to communicate with the display apparatus; and a controller configured to control the communication interface unit to calculate an output time difference between the plurality of test images and the test voice to test a synchronization state of the display apparatus and transmit the test result to the display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho-yong SON, Hong-jae KIM
  • Error concealment method and apparatus for audio signal and decoding method and apparatus for audio signal using the same
    Patent number: 8930188
    Abstract: An error concealment method and apparatus for an audio signal and a decoding method and apparatus for an audio signal using the error concealment method and apparatus. The error concealment method includes selecting one of an error concealment in a frequency domain and an error concealment in a time domain as an error concealment scheme for a current frame based on a predetermined criteria when an error occurs in the current frame, selecting one of a repetition scheme and an interpolation scheme in the frequency domain as the error concealment scheme for the current frame based on a predetermined criteria when the error concealment in the frequency domain is selected, and concealing the error of the current frame using the selected scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-mi Oh, Ki-hyun Choo, Ho-sang Sung, Chang-yong Son, Jung-hoe Kim, Kang eun Lee
  • APPARATUS FOR BEAMFORMING INCLUDING MULTI-CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20140378838
    Abstract: An apparatus for beamforming including a multi-cluster architecture is disclosed, in which, a number of unit clusters including a reconfigurable processor and a co-processor may vary based on requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Yong SON, Do Hyung KIM, Min Soo KIM, Kang Eun LEE, Shi Hwa LEE
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ULTRASONIC DATA
    Publication number: 20140350892
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing data including a data compressor configured to compress ultrasonic data, and store the compressed ultrasonic data in a memory; and a data decompressor configured to read the stored ultrasonic data from the memory, decompress the read ultrasonic data, and transfer the decompressed ultrasonic data to a processor configured to perform beamforming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Soo Kim, Do Hyung Kim, Chang Yong Son, Kang Eun Lee, Shi Hwa Lee
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DECODING AUDIO DATA
    Publication number: 20140297290
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for decoding audio data. The apparatus for decoding the audio data may perform block data unpacking by preferring a channel order to a block order from a bitstream, and perform dithering through preferring a block order to a channel order. Complexity in decoding may be reduced through integrating bitstream searching and the bock data unpacking, and a dithering error may be prevented through processing the block data unpacking and the dithering separately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Eun Lee, Do Hyung KIM, Chang Yong SON, Shi Hwa LEE
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVELY ENCODING AND DECODING HIGH FREQUENCY BAND
    Publication number: 20140257822
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal. According to the present application, a signal of a high frequency band above a preset frequency band is adaptively encoded or decoded in the time domain or in the frequency domain by using a signal of a low frequency band below the preset frequency band. As such, the sound quality of a high frequency signal is not deteriorate even when an audio signal is encoded or decoded by using a small number of bits and thus coding efficiency may be maximized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-yong SON, Eun-mi OH, Ki-hyun CHOO, Jung-hoe KIM
  • ICE THERMAL STORAGE TANK AND WATER COOLER HAVING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140223942
    Abstract: There are provided an ice thermal storage tank having excellent cold water generation efficiency and having a considerably reduced size, and a water cooler having the same. The ice thermal storage tank includes: a tank body accommodating an ice storage liquid cooled according to an ice thermal storage scheme; a cold water generation unit heat-exchanging introduced water with the cooled ice storage liquid to generate cold water; and a circulation unit extracting the ice storage liquid accommodated in the tank body to circulate it within the tank body. The water cooler includes: the thermal storage tank cooling water supplied from the outside; and a water dispensing unit dispensing cooled water from the ice thermal storage tank. Since an ice storage liquid is circulated without using a stirrer, the size of an ice thermal storage tank can be remarkably reduced, and thus, a water cooler is reduced in size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Coway Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo-Young Lee, Hee-Do Jung, Jin-Pyo Hong, Yong-Bum Kim, Tae-Yong Son, Kyung-Heon Lee, Hyoung-Min Moon, Min-Sub Song
  • Power amplifier
    Patent number: 8803607
    Abstract: There is provided a power amplifier capable of increasing linear output power and efficiency without sacrificing an overall gain by employing a vector modulation function in a driving stage, with no separate vector modulator. The power amplifier includes a driving stage performing vector-modulation on an input RF signal to provide an I channel signal and a Q channel signal having different phases and amplifying the I channel signal and the Q channel signal to set gains; and a power stage amplifying power levels of the signals amplified by the driving stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
    Inventors: Ki Yong Son, Gyu Suck Kim, Yoo Sam Na, Song Cheol Hong, Bon Hoon Koo
  • Method and apparatus to conceal error in decoded audio signal
    Patent number: 8798172
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to decode audio data constructed with a plurality of layers. An error concealment method of process a decoded bitstream selects one of a frequency domain and a time domain in order to conceal the errors, detects a position where the errors exist in a frame when the error concealment method in the frequency domain is selected, and conceals the errors only in a segment after the detected position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-mi Oh, Ho-sang Sung, Chang-yong Son, Ki-hyun Choo, Jung-hoe Kim
  • SIZE SEPARATING DEVICE FOR CARBON NANOTUBE AGGLOMERATE USING MAGNETIC FIELD, AND SEPARATING AND OBTAINING METHOD OF DISPERSED CARBON NANOTUBE USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140183139
    Abstract: A size sorting device for carbon nanotube agglomerate and a method for separating and collecting dispersed carbon nanotubes using the size sorting device are provided. The size sorting device and method for separation and collection may use a magnetic field for separating and collecting dispersed carbon nanotubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicants: JC CORP., RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dong Hyun LEE, Seung Yong SON, Doo Kyoo KIM, Ki Chull SHIN
  • ACTIVE REGENERATION METHOD FOR DEIONIZATION MODULE AND WATER TREATMENT APPARATUS USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140158539
    Abstract: There are provided an active regeneration method for a deionization module, and a water treatment apparatus using the same. The water treatment apparatus may include: a power applying unit applying power to the deionization module in order to perform a regeneration process a regeneration parameter measuring unit measuring a regeneration parameter of the deionization module when the power is applied; and a controlling unit terminating the regeneration process, based on the measured regeneration parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: COWAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Heon Lee, Tae-Yong Son, Hyoung-Min Moon, Soo-Young Lee, Hee-Do Jung, Hyun-Woo Lee
  • Adaptive time and/or frequency-based encoding mode determination apparatus and method of determining encoding mode of the apparatus
    Patent number: 8744841
    Abstract: An adaptive time/frequency-based encoding mode determination apparatus including a time domain feature extraction unit to generate a time domain feature by analysis of a time domain signal of an input audio signal, a frequency domain feature extraction unit to generate a frequency domain feature corresponding to each frequency band generated by division of a frequency domain corresponding to a frame of the input audio signal into a plurality of frequency domains, by analysis of a frequency domain signal of the input audio signal, and a mode determination unit to determine any one of a time-based encoding mode and a frequency-based encoding mode, with respect to the each frequency band, by use of the time domain feature and the frequency domain feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Mi Oh, Ki Hyun Choo, Jung-Hoe Kim, Chang Yong Son
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVELY ENCODING AND DECODING HIGH FREQUENCY BAND
    Publication number: 20140149125
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal. According to the present application, a signal of a high frequency band above a preset frequency band is adaptively encoded or decoded in the time domain or in the frequency domain by using a signal of a low frequency band below the preset frequency band. As such, the sound quality of a high frequency signal is not deteriorate even when an audio signal is encoded or decoded by using a small number of bits and thus coding efficiency may be maximized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-yong SON, Eun-mi OH, Ki-hyun CHOO, Jung-hoe KIM
  • Method and apparatus to determine encoding mode of audio signal and method and apparatus to encode and/or decode audio signal using the encoding mode determination method and apparatus
    Patent number: 8712782
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to determine an encoding mode of an audio signal, and a method and apparatus to encode an audio signal according to the encoding mode. In the encoding mode determination method, a mode determination threshold for the current frame that is subject to encoding mode determination is adaptively adjusted according to a long-term feature of the audio signal for a frame (the current frame) that is subject to encoding mode determination, thereby improving the hit rate of encoding mode determination and signal classification, suppressing frequent oscillation of an encoding mode in frame units, improving noise tolerance, and improving smoothness of a reconstructed audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chang-yong Son, Eun-mi Oh, Ki-hyun Choo, Jung-hoe Kim, Ho-sang Sung, Kang-eun Lee
  • Multi-path trellis coded quantization method and multi-path coded quantizer using the same
    Patent number: 8706481
    Abstract: A method of multi-path trellis coded quantization (TCQ) usable in a speech coding system, and a quantizer using the method. Specifically the method includes calculating accumulated distortions corresponding to 2N survivor paths, wherein N indicates an integer greater than two, each of the 2N survivor paths is going towards one of nodes at an i th stage of a trellis, and i indicates an integer greater than zero, comparing the accumulated distortions respectively corresponding to the 2N survivor paths to select N paths among the 2N survivor paths, wherein the accumulated distortions corresponding to selected N paths are smaller than the accumulated distortions corresponding to unselected N paths establishing the selected N paths as survivor paths going toward an i+1 th stage, and selecting an optimal path among the 2N survivor paths corresponding to each node of a last stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kang Eun Lee, Eun Mi Oh, Ho Sang Sung, Chang Yong Son
  • Surround sound virtualization apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8705779
    Abstract: A surround sound virtualization apparatus and method. The surround sound virtualization apparatus may include an audio decoder to perform head-related transfer function (HRTF) filtering, and a time delay unit to provide a time delay to a plurality of output signals of the audio decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kang Eun Lee, Do-Hyung Kim, Chang Yong Son
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS, AND WATER TREATMENT APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140102902
    Abstract: Provided are apparatus and method for controlling total dissolved solids, and water treatment apparatus including apparatus for controlling total dissolved solids. The total dissolved solid controlling apparatus includes, a filtering unit including a deionizing filter removing dissolved solids from inflow raw water by an input current and, a control unit controlling the input current such that water discharged from the deionizing filter corresponds to target total dissolved solids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: COWAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-Yong Son, Soo-Young Lee, Hyoung-Min Moon, Kyung-Heon Lee, Hee-Do Jung, Hyun-Woo Lee, Jin-Pyo Hong