Patents by Inventor Yun-Tae Kim

Yun-Tae Kim 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: 7944498
    Abstract: A multi-focal camera apparatus and methods and mediums for generating a focus-free image and an autofocus image using the multi-focal camera apparatus are provided. The multi-focal camera apparatus includes a lens module which comprises a plurality of lenses that concentrate light incident thereupon, and an image-sensor module which comprises a plurality of sensing zones respectively corresponding to the lenses, and obtains a plurality of images by converting beams of light that transmit through the lenses into electrical signals using the sensing zones, wherein the lenses have the same optical properties and are different distances apart from the respective sensing zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gee-young Sung, Heui-keun Choh, Du-sik Park, Young-ran Han, Yun-tae Kim
  • Publication number: 20110102423
    Abstract: Provided are a high density multi-view image display system and method based on active sub-pixel rendering. The image display system may perform a rendering with respect to a viewpoint image in a pixel unit, using a viewpoint varying based on a position of left/right eyes of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Kyung Nam, Du-Sik Park, Gee Young Sung, Chang Yeong Kim, Yun-Tae Kim, Ju Yong Park
  • Publication number: 20110090243
    Abstract: Disclosed is an inter-view crosstalk reduction apparatus and method. The inter-view crosstalk reduction apparatus applies a different margin value based on a spatial location of an image, the margin value being used to compensate for crosstalk, performs smoothing of a margin image, and applies a margin only to a portion where the margin is utilized, thereby decreasing crosstalk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju Yong Park, Yun-Tae Kim, Gee Young Sung, Dong Kyung Nam
  • Publication number: 20110081042
    Abstract: A depth adjusting method and apparatus is described. The depth adjusting method and apparatus may calculate an average depth value of objects based on a spatial feature of an image, may adjust a depth of the image based on the calculated average value, and may adjust a depth of the image according to a difference in depth between a current frame and a previous frame, based on a temporal feature of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Tae Kim, Gee Young Sung, Dong Kyung Nam, Ju Yong Park
  • Publication number: 20110069228
    Abstract: Provided is a video signal generation apparatus and method that may minimize crosstalk between a luminance signal and color difference signals. The video signal generation apparatus may generate the luminance signal using a nonlinear Y signal and then generate color difference signals using a nonlinear XYZ signal to maximize a de-correlation characteristic between the luminance signal and the color difference signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seo Young CHOI, Ho Young Lee, Yun-Tae Kim, Du-Sik Park, Ji Young Hong
  • Patent number: 7871572
    Abstract: Provided are mixed ligand metal nanoparticle chemical sensors in which metal nanoparticles are encapsulated by at least two kinds of different molecule ligands having a relatively low conductivity and various composition ratios, and a chemical sensor array in which a film of the metal nanoparticle sensor is formed on the substrate. The metal nanoparticle sensor using the mixed ligand improves sensitivity and reaction speed with respect to an analyte, and selectivity with respect to various analytes, and a kind and a composition of a ligand of the mixed ligand constituting the metal nanoparticle sensor are adjusted to allow the high sensitivity nanoparticle sensor to be applied to the sensor array technology, thereby enabling a design of sensor properties as well as systematic access to a configuration of the sensor array the most efficient for the analytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Instutute
    Inventors: Young Jun Kim, Yong Shin Kim, Yoon Seok Yang, Seung Chul Ha, Hae Sik Yang, Yun Tae Kim, Dae Sik Lee, Young Sik Hong
  • Publication number: 20100315324
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image display device and an image display method thereof that may generate a plurality of directional lights based on a number of views of an input image by using a variable scattering feature of a variable scattering layer included in a backlight unit, and may output a multi-view image by using the generated plurality of directional lights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Kyung Nam, Gee Young Sung, Yun-Tae Kim, Ju Yong Park
  • Patent number: 7824618
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor structure comprising a heater and a temperature sensor at the center of a membrane having a well structure, allowing a temperature to be rapidly controlled with low power, and the object is analyzed using a conductivity change measured at two or more substrate temperatures with a pair of detecting electrode and a detecting layer implemented on the heater, wherein the sensing layer can include a conductive particle and a non-conductive organic composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yong Shin Kim, Yun Tae Kim, Hae Sik Yang, Young Jun Kim, Seung Chul Ha, Yoon Seok Yang
  • Publication number: 20100188375
    Abstract: A light emitting display is configured to reduce or prevent motion blur by shortening a time that a black frame is displayed between image frames. One embodiment includes display region, a data driver, a scan driver, and a controller. The display region displays frames of images according to a data signal and a scan signal. The data driver transmits data for displaying first frames and second (black) frames between the first frames. The scan driver includes first and second scan driving circuits for transmitting scan signals, and a switch unit for selectively coupling the first and second scan driving circuits. The scan driver transmits scan signals sequentially during the first frames and transmits scan signals to at least two of the scan lines concurrently by driving the first and second scan driving circuits in parallel during the second frames. The controller transmits a driving control signal to control the switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: An-Su Lee, Myung-Ho Lee, June-Young Song, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Myoung-Seop Song, Yun-Tae Kim, Jong-Soo Kim, Jung-Keun Ahn, Min-Cheol Kim, Sang-Kyun Cho, Hye-Jin Shin, Hun-Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 7750919
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for enhancing device-adaptive color is disclosed. The apparatus includes an auxiliary-gamut-setting unit which sets a boundary of a device-adaptive auxiliary gamut using information on a color gamut of a source device and information on a color gamut of a desired reference color space; a gamut-conversion unit which converts the color in the gamut of the source device into the color of the set auxiliary gamut; and a gamut-mapping unit which carries out gamut mapping of the color of the auxiliary gamut to a destination gamut of an image output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: You-sun Bang, Yun-tae Kim, Heui-keun Choh
  • Patent number: 7733526
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for converting an input color space into a CMYK color space are provided. The method includes converting a color signal of a predetermined input color space into an sRGB color space, converting the color signal of the sRGB color space into an sRGB L*a*b* color space, and converting the color signal of the sRGB L*a*b* color space into a color signal of a printer-output CMYK color space (CMYKPrinter) using a lookup table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-tae Kim, Heui-keun Choh
  • Patent number: 7725988
    Abstract: Disclosed are a hinge assembly and a mobile device having the hinge assembly. In the mobile device, a rotation portion 14 slides and rotates on a base portion 10, so as to be inclined to the base portion 10. For this reason, the rotation portion 14 is connected to the base portion by means of the hinge assembly 20 so as to slide and rotate on the base portion 10. The rotation portion 14 slides on the base portion by a predetermined distance, and then rotates to be inclined at a desired angle with respect to the base portion 10. The rotation portion 14 easily rotates with respect to the base portion of the mobile device, so that the status of the mobile device can be easily converted. Further, when the status of the mobile device is converted, the front, rear, left and right of a display screen is not changed. As a result, the mobile device should not have a structure of changing a display direction of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yun Tae Kim, Kwang Soo Kim, Seung Don Lee, Hyun Suk Yang, Ji Yeon Lee, Jeong Rok Lee
  • Publication number: 20100118126
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) display device and method using a directional light field is provided. The 3D display device may construct a light field using a direction light generated by a high speed projector and at least one rotating optical device to thereby display a more natural 3D image in a wide region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju Yong Park, Dong Kyung Nam, Du-Sik Park, Gee Young Sung, Yun-Tae Kim
  • Publication number: 20100118127
    Abstract: A display apparatus and method that may display a high depth three-dimensional (3D) image is provided. The display method may separate an input image into a near-sighted image and a far-sighted image, image and output the near-sighted image using a light field method, and image and output the far-sighted image using a multi-view method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Kyung Nam, Yun-Tae Kim, Du-Sik Park, Gee Young Sung, Ju-Yong Park
  • Publication number: 20100097302
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels coupled to scan lines and data lines, a data driver for applying data signals to the data lines, a black data inserting unit between the display unit and the data driver for applying black data to the display unit, the black data being applied between periods in which the data signals are applied, and a timing controller for controlling the data driver and the black data inserting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: An-Su Lee, Myung-Ho Lee, June-Young Song, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Myoung-Seop Song, Yun-Tae Kim, Jong-Soo Kim, Jung-Keun Ahn, Min-Cheol Kim, Sang-Kyun Cho, Hye-Jin Shin, Hun-Tae Kim
  • Publication number: 20100097387
    Abstract: A rendering method is provided. The rendering method forms a pixel structure in which a plurality of red, green, blue, and white (RGBW) sub pixels is arranged in a predetermined pattern, and renders a plurality of pixels which configure an image using the plurality of RGBW sub pixels on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Tae Kim, Gee Young Sung
  • Publication number: 20100091095
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for driving a glasses-type stereoscopic display preventing visual fatigue and refractive index-variable shutter glasses. The method includes generating a plurality of left-eye viewing point images and a plurality of right-eye viewing point images. The plurality of left-eye viewing point images and right-eye viewing point images have viewing points different from each other. An initial left-eye viewing point image and a subsequent left-eye viewing point image of the plurality of left-eye viewing point images are output, and an initial right-eye viewing point image and a subsequent right-eye viewing point image of the plurality of right-eye viewing point images are output. Each of the plurality of left-eye viewing point images and right-eye viewing point images is inputted into a single pupil. The glasses include a refractive index control unit to control a strength of an electric field to vary a refractive index of the glasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gee Young Sung, Du Sik Park, Dong Kyung Nam, Yun Tae Kim, Ju Yong Park
  • Publication number: 20100090940
    Abstract: An image display apparatus and method. At least one of a left eye image and a right eye image may be formed on a pixel representation unit at a predetermined frame rate. A light, emitted from a backlight module, may be converted into a directional light having at least one direction through synchronization with the predetermined frame rate. The directional light may be guided to the pixel representation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun-Tae Kim, Du-Sik Park, Gee Young Sung, Dong Kyung Nam, Ju Yong Park
  • Publication number: 20100091354
    Abstract: An image display apparatus and method are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Dong Kyung Nam, Gee Young Sung, Yun Tae Kim, Ju Yong Park
  • Publication number: 20100079584
    Abstract: A two dimensional/three dimensional (2D/3D) switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus and method to selectively display a 2D image and a 3D image using two displays and a convertible lens. When outputting the 2D image, the 2D/3D switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus may control a first display to output a white image/white light, control a second display to output an image, and control an electrical diffuser lens of the convertible lens to be switched off and the white image to be diffused so as to operate as a backlight. When outputting the 3D image, the 2D/3D switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus may control the first display to output an image, control the second display to be switched off to be in a transparent state, control the electrical diffuser lens of the convertible lens to be switched on to be in the transparent state, and control the lenticular lens to output the 3D image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gee Young SUNG, Yun-Tae KIM, Du-Sik PARK, Dong Kyung NAM, Ju Yong PARK