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).

  • Publication number: 20100073768
    Abstract: A two dimensional/three dimensional (2D/3D) switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus and method. The 2D/3D switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus and method may selectively display a 2D image and 3D image using two displays, control a display operated as backlight from among the two displays when displaying the 2D image, and thereby may increase a contrast. Also, the 2D/3D switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus and method may output a 2D object and a 3D background using two displays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun-Tae Kim, Gee Young Sung, Du-sik Park, Dong Kyung Nam, Ju Yong Park
  • Publication number: 20100073465
    Abstract: Disclosed are a 3D image display apparatus and method. The 3D image display apparatus may adjust a number of viewpoints of a 3D image, distance between viewpoints, and other parameters through varying a display pattern of a viewing zone generating unit and a distance between an image display unit and the viewing zone generating unit. Accordingly, the 3D image display apparatus may effectively express the 3D image suitable for various viewing circumstances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju Yong Park, Gee Young Sung, Du-Sik Park, Dong Kyung Nam, Yun-Tae Kim
  • Publication number: 20100073467
    Abstract: An image display apparatus and method to simultaneously display two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) images with minimized visual 3D discomfort. The image display apparatus may include a lens unit to spatially separate images displayed in a display panel unit to thereby simultaneously form a 2D image viewing area and a 3D image viewing area, respectively, enabling the simultaneous displaying of the 2D images and the 3D images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Kyung NAM, Yun-Tae KIM, Du-Sik PARK
  • Patent number: 7682571
    Abstract: Provided is a micro-fluidic heating system, which comprises a micro-fluidic control element for providing a chamber, a flow path and a valve, and a main body for heating the inside of the chamber in contact with the micro-fluidic control element, wherein the micro-fluidic control element consists of an upper substrate for providing the chamber, the flow path and the valve, and a lower substrate as a thin film bonded to the upper substrate, and the main body consists of a membrane in which heating means and suction holes are formed, and support member for supporting the membrane, and the heating means is partially in contact with the lower substrate of the chamber to heat the inside of the chamber, so that thermal transfer efficiency becomes maximized and temperature of each chamber may be independently controlled in the case of configuration having chambers arranged in array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung Jin Kim, Hae Sik Yang, Dae Sik Lee, Yong Taik Lim, Kwang Hyo Chung, Kyu Won Kim, Se Ho Park, Yun Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 7652370
    Abstract: Provided are a plastic microfabricated structure, and a microfabricated thermal device, a microfabricated reactor, a microfabricated reactor array and a micro array using the same, which may be applied to a bio chip, and the present invention may fabricate the plastic microfabricated structure for providing a heating region by means of insulating plastic, which has a thin thickness, flatness enough to allow a photolithography process to be performed, thermal isolation in its some or total area, and a small thermal mass, and on top of the heating region of the plastic microfabricated structure, a heater, a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature, an electrode, and an electrode pad are formed to thereby fabricate the microfabricated heating device, whereby element may be readily fabricated at a low cost, and the heating region is formed of a plastic thin layer, so that uniform temperature control is possible even with a low power, and various samples may be thermally treated at a fast speed to obtain their
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Dae Sik Lee, Hae Sik Yang, Yong Taik Lim, Kwang Hyo Chung, Sung Jin Kim, Se Ho Park, Kyu Won Kim, Yun Tae Kim
  • Publication number: 20100007674
    Abstract: In an organic light emitting display, a gamma can be applied according to color regardless of the sequence of data output from a data driver, even if a separate gamma by color is used. A method for driving the organic light emitting display is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: An-Su Lee, Myung-Ho Lee, June-Young Song, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Myoung-Seop Song, Yun-Tae Kim, Jong-Soo Kim, Min-Cheol Kim, Jung-Keun Ahn, Hun-Tae Kim, Sang-Kyun Cho, Hye-Jin Shin
  • Publication number: 20090244054
    Abstract: A display device and a method of driving the display device are provided. The display device includes a scan driver for transmitting scan signals to a plurality of scan lines, a data driver for transmitting data signals to a plurality of data lines, and a signal controller for controlling the transmissions of the scan driver and the data driver. The scan driver and the data driver are configured to begin operating in response to a reset signal. The signal controller is configured to detect the reset signal, to determine whether the detected reset signal is a normal reset signal or an abnormal reset signal applied after an on time at which power is supplied to the scan driver and the data driver, and to apply a normal reset signal when the detected reset signal is determined to be an abnormal reset signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Hyo-Jin Lee, Il-Han Lee, Yun-Tae Kim
  • Publication number: 20090122075
    Abstract: A color conversion method and apparatus for a multi-primary display (MPD) are provided with analyzing an input image to determine a transformation parameter; interpolating at least two look-up tables for color conversion according to the transformation parameter, in order to calculate a look-up table for the input image; and applying the calculated look-up table to the input image to perform the color conversion. Accordingly, it is possible to provide good color reproduction and efficiently use a color gamut of an MPD having color coordinates that are different from those of primaries of an input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju-yong Park, Du-sik Park, Yun-tae Kim
  • Publication number: 20090085926
    Abstract: A system and method of converting a red-green-blue (RGB) pixel to a red-green-blue-white (RGBW) pixel by using a W value extraction, the RGB-to-RGBW converting system including: a lookup table generator to generate an RGBW lookup table using one or more RGB lattice points; and an RGBW value computation unit to compute an RGBW value of an input pixel with respect to an RGB value of the input pixel based on the generated RGBW lookup table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Tae KIM, Du-Sik Park, Ju Yong Park
  • Publication number: 20090059078
    Abstract: A system and method for improving the saturation of a red-green-blue-white (RGBW) image signal, the system including: an image signal classification unit to classify a frame of an image signal into an image classification unit using an image classification parameter based on a luminance and a saturation of the frame; a backlight luminance controller to increase a backlight luminance with respect to the frame if the image classification unit thereof is a saturation improvement target; and a W sub-pixel controller to decrease a luminance of a W sub-pixel of the frame according to an amount of increase in the backlight luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electroncs Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Tae Kim, Du-Sik Park, Ju Yong Park
  • Publication number: 20090027425
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel which comprises sub-pixels including an R sub-pixel, a G sub-pixel, a B sub-pixel and a W sub-pixel and disposed in a matrix form, a gate line and a data line which insulatingly cross each other and transmit a driving signal to the sub-pixels; a driver connected to the gate line and the data line; and a signal controller which comprises a signal converter including a W extracting unit to convert R, G and B image signals into R, G, B and W image signals and a rendering unit to render the R, G, B and W image signals so that eight sub-pixels adjacent in an extending direction of the gate line display three pixels, and controls the driver to apply rendered image signals to the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventors: Jong-Woung Park, Yun-Tae Kim, Sung-Woo Lee, Byung-Ki Jeon, Ju-Yong Park, Kee-Han Uh, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 7445754
    Abstract: Disclosed is to a device for exchanging minimum amount of the fluid only by using surface tension of the fluid instead of external force like a pump. According to the device, an additional pump and power supply is not needed, thereby the device can be small sized and portable, and not only manufacturing cost decreases and yield increases but the device is hardly out of order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwang Hyo Chung, Jong Soo Ko, Hyun Chul Yoon, Hae Sik Yang, Hyeon Bong Pyo, Sung Jin Kim, Yun Tae Kim
  • Publication number: 20080252558
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a color display apparatus which has a pixel pattern including a plurality of repeating units of a pixel array, wherein each of the plurality of repeating units of the pixel array is composed of at least five sub-pixels while including at least one sub-pixel from a first to fourth sub-pixel, respectively, the first sub-pixel representing a red color (R), the second sub-pixel representing a green color (G), the third sub-pixel representing a blue color (B), and the fourth sub-pixel representing a mixed color of at least two colors from among the R, G, and B, and each of the plurality of repeating units of the pixel array corresponds to at least two image pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Tae KIM, Chang Yeong Kim, Du-Sik Park, Seung Sin Lee, Wonhee Choe, Joo Hyung Lee, Jong Woung Park
  • Patent number: 7412990
    Abstract: Provided is a microfluidic control device and method for controlling the microfluid, and a fine amount of fluid is controlled even with natural fluid flow and solution injection, wherein a pressure barrier of a capillary is removed by a surface tension change resulted from the solution injection to thereby obtain transport, interflow, mixing, and time delay of the microfluid, and to detail this, solution is injected to meet the boundary surface of the stopped fluid when the fluid is stopped by the stop valve, so that a function of the stop valve is removed to obtain the transport, interflow, and mixing of the fluid, and the method for controlling the microfluid may be applied to the microfluidic control device for biochemical reaction, and it uses only the capillary force change resulted from solution injection to thereby have its structure simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwang Hyo Chung, Hae Sik Yang, Dae Sik Lee, Yong Taek Lim, Sung Jin Kim, Se Ho Park, Kyu Won Kim, Yun Tae Kim
  • Publication number: 20080181490
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for generating an image using a multi-channel filter. More particularly, provided are an apparatus and method for generating an image using a multi-channel filter, wherein images input into a plurality of image sensors are allowed to pass through different filters, each of which includes a plurality of channels, and segmented images passed through the filters are combined to produce a desired image. The apparatus includes a filter unit including a plurality of filters having different patterns with respect to a plurality of image channels and filtering images input into the filters, an image sensing unit including a plurality of image sensors sensing images filtered through the plurality of the filters, an interpolation unit calculating image channel values of pixels of the sensed images, and an image combination unit assigning the calculated image channel values to corresponding pixel positions to generate a single desired image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun-tae Kim, Heui-keun Choh, Gee-young Sung
  • Publication number: 20080180522
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing method and apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes an image capturing unit generating a plurality of images at different visual points and a three-dimensional image processing unit extracting depth information using the plurality of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun-Tae Kim, Heui-Keun Choh, Gee-Young Sung
  • Patent number: 7395106
    Abstract: Provided are a wearable physiological signal detection module and a measurement apparatus having the same. A physiological signal detection module including a measuring electrode implemented by a dry electrode having good conductivity to detect various physiological signals is detachably disposed inside the clothing closely adhered to user's skin. The measuring electrode can be in stable contact with the user's skin as well as the detection module can be conveniently worn for a long time. The various physiological signals detected by the measuring electrodes are wirelessly transmitted to an external device, thereby conveniently monitoring the physiological signal of the user in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Chang Yong Ryu, Seung Chul Shin, Seung Hoon Nam, Jae Hwan Kang, Yoon Seon Song, Tae Gyu Yim, Seunghwan Kim, Yun Tae Kim
  • Publication number: 20080095341
    Abstract: A line interface unit in which a circuit to detect a calling line and a ring signal includes a connecting unit connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to individually detect the calling line and the ring signal and to commonly use an insulating circuit electrically insulated from PSTN. A circuit to detect the calling line and the ring signal is simply implemented so that economical burden can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Tae Kim, Jeong Baek Lee, Jong Cheol Oh
  • Patent number: 7362387
    Abstract: A programmable mask used in a photolithography process for fabricating a biomolecule array and a method for fabricating a biomolecule array using the same are disclosed. Particularly, a TFT-LCD type programmable mask for selectively transmitting incident light in accordance with an electrical signal applied thereto and a method for fabricating a biomolecule array using the same are provided. The ultraviolet light is selectively illuminated to a sample substrate so that the biomolecule array having high density can be fabricated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Moon Youn Jung, Hae Sik Yang, Chi Hoon Jun, Yun Tae Kim, Young Shin Kim, Dong Ho Shin
  • Publication number: 20080088892
    Abstract: A system, medium, and method calibrating gray data. The system calibrating gray data includes a transformation unit to transform red, green, and blue (RGB) data of a source device into transformed color data of a different color space using a color appearance model, and a calibration unit to map a chroma value of gray data, corresponding to the transformed color data, in the different color space to a predetermined value to generate calibrated color space data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-ki Cho, Heui-keun Choh, YouSun Bang, Se-eun Kim, Yun-tae Kim