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Jae-Hun

Jae Hun Choi, Sungnam KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090147997METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CORRECTING DISTANCE USING LINEAR REGRESSION AND SMOOTHING IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE DISPLAY - The invention provides a method of correcting a distance between an ambient intelligence display and a user using a linear regression and a smoothing, by which distance information of a user who approaches to the display can be accurately output even in an unanticipated condition using a passive infrared (PIR) sensor and an ultrasonic device.06-11-2009

Jae Hun Jung, Yeosu-Si KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090240002Impact Modifier, Method for Preparing the Same and Scratch Resistant Methacrylate Resin Composition Using the Same - Disclosed herein is an impact modifier formed by graft polymerizing about 45 to about 70% by weight of a rubber polymer with about 30 to about 55% by weight of a methacrylate-based monomer, wherein said rubber polymer is prepared by polymerizing about 0.1 to about 1 part by weight of an antioxidant with about 100 parts by weight of a monomer mixture comprising about 30 to about 45% by weight of a diene-based monomer and about 55 to about 70% by weight of alkyl acrylate. The methacrylate-based resin composition of the present invention using the aforementioned impact modifier may have improved transparency, impact resistance and a good appearance.09-24-2009

Jae Hun Kim, Seoul KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100103225INKJET HEAD - An inkjet head is disclosed. The inkjet head can include a nozzle, configured to discharge ink; a chamber, configured to supply the ink to the nozzle; and a piezoelectric element, configured to receive electricity from an external power source and press the chamber, being made of a material having xPb(Mg04-29-2010
20100107411INKJET HEAD MANUFACTURING METHOD - An inkjet head manufacturing method is disclosed. The method of manufacturing an inkjet bead including a plurality of chambers, configured to contain ink; and an actuator, configured to provide pressure to the chamber, which includes forming a piezoelectric element on one side of the inkjet head that is adjacent to the chambers; forming the actuator(s) by dicing the piezoelectric element such that the piezoelectric element is divided and placed corresponding to a position of the chamber(s); and etching one side of the inkjet head such that a part of the piezoelectric element remaining between the adjacent actuators, can manufacture an inkjet head having a thin-film actuator reducing the cross talk by removing a part of the piezoelectric element remaining between the actuators of the inkjet head.05-06-2010
20110031404APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY GENERATING TERAHERTZ WAVE AND SUPERCONTINUUM, AND SPECTROSCOPY METHOD USING THE SAME - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for simultaneously generating terahertz wave and supercontinuum, and a spectroscopy method using the apparatus and method, in which terahertz wave and supercontinuum can be efficiently and simultaneously generated by a single device after taking into consideration the problems of conventional methods in which terahertz wave and supercontinuum were generated by separate devices. The apparatus for simultaneously generating terahertz wave and supercontinuum, includes a terahertz wave generation unit for generating a terahertz wave, and a supercontinuum generation unit for generating a supercontinuum based on nonlinear effect, wherein the terahertz wave and the supercontinuum are simultaneously generated using a single input light signal.02-10-2011
20110031417TERAHERTZ WAVE GENERATOR AND METHOD OF GENERATING HIGH-POWER TERAHERTZ WAVES USING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a terahertz wave generator and a method of generating high-power terahertz waves using the terahertz wave generator. The terahertz wave generator includes a hollow spherical body, and a focusing lens installed in a cutout portion of the spherical body or an opening formed in the cutout portion, wherein an inner surface of the spherical body is coated with metal. In the method, frequencies having different levels are incident through the focusing lens or the opening to generate a plurality of air plasmas, and the air plasmas cause continuous focusing the metal-coated inner surface and hollow space of the spherical body, thus generating high-power terahertz waves.02-10-2011
20110109702Inkjet head - There is provided an inkjet head. An inkjet head according to an aspect of the invention may include: a body having a nozzle in an outer surface thereof; a reservoir provided within the body and containing ink being externally injected; an ink chamber receiving the ink from the reservoir through a restrictor and ejecting the ink to an outside through the nozzle; and a reservoir actuator mounted on the body at a position corresponding to the reservoir and transmitting vibrations to the reservoir.05-12-2011
20110134182INKJET HEAD PACKAGE - There is provided an inkjet head package including: an ink head having an actuator mounted thereon and ejecting ink to the outside by a driving force of the actuator; an intermediate substrate disposed between the ink head and an ink storage supplying ink to the ink head, and having a socket provided on a surface thereof; and a lead frame provided on an upper surface of the ink head such that the intermediate substrate and the actuator are electrically connected to each other.06-09-2011
20110134196Inkjet head - There is provided an inkjet head including: a flow path plate having a plurality of ink chambers; a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles connected to the respective ink chambers in order to eject ink in the ink chambers to the outside; a piezoelectric actuator provided above the ink chambers and controlling pressure of the ink chambers; and a parylene protective film provided in order to prevent oxidization of the piezoelectric actuator.06-09-2011
20110141199Inkjet head assembly - An inkjet head assembly includes: a tank head having an ink channel formed therein; an inkjet head disposed in the tank head to jet ink introduced through the ink channel; and a mass disposed on the inkjet head and applying a weight to control vibrations when ink is jetted from the inkjet head.06-16-2011
20110162181Device for polling piezoelectric element and polling method using the same - A device for polling a piezoelectric element includes: a polling chamber in which a plurality of piezoelectric elements are disposed; a power supply unit providing voltage to poll the piezoelectric elements; a capacitance measurement unit connected with the piezoelectric elements to measure the capacitance of the piezoelectric elements; and a switching system connected with the power supply unit and the piezoelectric elements within the polling chamber, and selectively providing the voltage of the power supply unit to the piezoelectric elements.07-07-2011
20110164087Apparatus for cleaning inkjet print head - An apparatus for cleaning an inkjet print head includes: a cleaning plate disposed to correspond to an inkjet print head with an ink flow space interposed therebetween; and a pneumatic device installed in the ink flow space and removing ink in a direction different from a direction in which ink is discharged by changing a fluid pressure of the ink remaining at a nozzle of the inkjet print head.07-07-2011
20110169895Inkjet print head, wafer level package and method of manufacturing the same - There is provided an inkjet print head including an ink head and a chipping prevention portion. The ink head includes a nozzle for ejecting ink to the outside by a driving force of a piezoelectric actuator mounted on a surface of the ink head. The chipping prevention portion includes a cutting portion disposed at a side of the ink head and being cut so as to have a height lower than that of the nozzle.07-14-2011
20110181668Inkjet print head and manufacturing method thereof - There is provided an inkjet print head including: a body portion including a nozzle ejecting ink, an ink chamber connected to the nozzle so as to supply the ink to the nozzle, and a vibration plate transferring vibrations to the ink chamber and formed of an elastomer; an actuator mounted on the body portion in order to be arranged to correspond to the ink chamber and generating the vibrations transferred to the ink chamber; and a buffer layer allowing for an electrical connection with the actuator and having a Young's modulus greater than that of the body portion.07-28-2011
20110181674Inkjet print head - There is provided an inkjet print head including: a reservoir storing a first ink drawn in through an ink inlet; a pressure chamber storing the first ink drawn in from the reservoir and transferring the first ink to a nozzle by a driving force of an actuator; and a damper disposed between the pressure chamber and the nozzle and allowing the first ink to be mixed with a second ink drawn through an ink flow path for the second ink.07-28-2011
20110193915Piezoelectric actuator, inkjet head including the same, and method of manufacturing piezoelectric actuator - A piezoelectric actuator according to an aspect of the invention may include: upper and lower electrodes supplying a driving voltage; and a piezoelectric material formed by solidifying a piezoelectric liquid having viscosity between the upper and lower electrodes and providing a driving force to ink inside an ink chamber of an inkjet head.08-11-2011
20110205301Inkjet head - There is provided an inkjet head including: a body portion ejecting ink therein by a driving of an actuator; and a rigidity reinforcing portion coupled to an outer surface of the body portion and reducing deformation of the body portion during the ejecting of the ink.08-25-2011
20110205313Inkjet print head and method of manufacturing the same - There is provided an inkjet print head including: a pressure chamber storing ink in order to eject the ink to a nozzle; a piezoelectric actuator receiving part being recessed in order to correspond to the pressure chamber in a direction of the pressure chamber; and a piezoelectric actuator received in the piezoelectric actuator receiving part, in which viscous liquid having piezoelectric properties is filled and hardened, and supplying the pressure chamber with a driving force for ejection of the ink.08-25-2011
20110234657Inkjet head assembly - There is provided an inkjet head assembly that can readily store ink by separating a passage for transferring ink from a passage for transferring ink between a first storage unit and a second storage unit inside an ink tank. An inkjet head assembly according to an aspect of the invention may include: an ink tank including a first storage unit receiving ink therein and a second storage unit receiving the ink from the first storage unit to maintain a full ink level within the ink, and having an ink transfer hole, through which the ink is supplied from the first storage unit to the second storage ink, and an air transfer hole, through which air from the second storage unit is transmitted to the first storage unit, between the first and second storage units; and an inkjet head connected to the second storage unit via an ink supply passage, the inkjet head receiving the ink from the second storage unit to eject the ink.09-29-2011
20110234712Inkjet head assembly - Provided is an inkjet head assembly capable of reducing the generation of air bubbles during ink injection by using a guide formed inside an ink tank. The inkjet head assembly includes an ink tank including an ink inlet through which ink is injected from the outside, and storing ink injected through the ink inlet, an inkjet head connected with the ink tank through an ink supply channel, receiving ink from the ink tank and discharging the received ink, and a guide disposed inside the ink tank and guiding ink, injected through the ink inlet, to an inner surface of the ink tank.09-29-2011
20110285782Apparatus for cleaning inkjet print head and inkjet printer having the same - There is provided an apparatus for cleaning an inkjet print head and an inkjet printer having the same. The apparatus for cleaning the inkjet print head includes a cleaning plate spaced apart from the inkjet print head with a cleaning area interposed therebetween, the inkjet print head ejecting ink through a nozzle; an electrode part allowing residual ink remaining at an end portion of the nozzle to be moved outwardly of the cleaning plate; and a power supply part electrically connecting the inkjet print head to the electrode part.11-24-2011
20110292397BEAM SCANNING SYSTEM FOR SENSING BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCES - Embodiments of adaptively performing clutter filtering are disclosed. In one embodiment, a beam scanning system includes a light source configured to generate a supercontinuum light beam; an optical device configured to receive the supercontinuum light beam for guidance thereof to at least two output ports; and a power supply unit configured to supply voltage to one output port of the at least two output ports to change a phase of the light beam from said one output port.12-01-2011
20120024573Printed circuit board and manufacturing method thereof - There are provided a printed circuit board and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method of a printed circuit board includes: preparing a substrate having active regions and non-active regions, the non-active regions being formed on edges thereof; printing resists on dummy portions corresponding to the non-active regions of the substrate by using an inkjet printing method; curing the resists; and performing plating on the active regions of the substrate. The resists are masked on the dummy portions corresponding to the non-active regions of the substrate to prevent plating from being performed on the dummy portions, thereby reducing manufacturing costs.02-02-2012
20120113181Resist ink printing device - There is provided a resist ink printing device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention including: a transfer unit transferring a substrate on which lead-in wires for electrolytic gold plating are patterned into a main body; a controller formed on the main body to measure a warpage degree of the substrate and recognizing a gerber file stored with circuit diagram information of the substrate to compensate for the warpage degree of the substrate and correct the gerber file; and at least one inkjet printing head part discharging liquid photo resist ink to the lead-in wires by the corrected gerber file.05-10-2012

Patent applications by Jae Hun Kim, Seoul KR

Jae Hun Kim US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120056948Solution storage tank and inkjet printer head assembly with the same - Disclosed herein is an inkjet printer head assembly. The inkjet printer head assembly according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention includes: a storage unit having an inner space in which a solution is stored; a fluid supplier supplying fluid to the storage unit; and an agitator provided in the storage unit and driven by the fluid supplied to the storage unit from the fluid supplier to agitate the solution.03-08-2012

Jae Hun Lee, Gyeoungbuk KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120118228SAPPHIRE INGOT GROWER - Provided is a sapphire ingot grower. The sapphire ingot grower includes a chamber, a crucible disposed in the chamber to contain alumina melt, a heater disposed outside the crucible to heat the crucible, and a heat supply unit disposed over an ingot growing within the crucible to apply heat to the ingot.05-17-2012

Jae Hun Lee, Seoul KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110184888SYSTEM TO TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE WIRELESS POWER, TERMINAL DEVICE, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A system to transmit and receive wireless power, a terminal device, a management server, and a wireless power transmission apparatus may use non-radial wireless energy transmission technology to generate a resonant frequency in resonators and charge a device. The terminal device may receive the wireless power to perform charging by non-contact energy transmission.07-28-2011
20120044264APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY - An apparatus and method for providing augmented reality (AR) includes acquiring an image of a real world including a first object, setting the first object as a reference object, acquiring a photographing position, a photographing direction, and a distance value between the reference object and the photographing position, acquiring map information corresponding to the photographing position and a photographing direction, mapping the reference object to the map information by using the acquired distance value, detecting AR information of the objects from the map information, and outputting the detected AR information.02-23-2012

Jae Hun Ryu, Seoul KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080266378MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE CAPABLE OF STORING VIDEO CHATTING LOG AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile communication device including a radio communication unit configured to establish a video telephony call between a first user of the mobile communication device and at least a second user of another communication device, a display unit configured to display a first image data of the first user and a second image data of the second user on the mobile communication device, and to display a chatting window on the mobile communication device when a video chatting service is selected such that the first and second users can perform a chatting operation in the chatting window, in which the first and second image data are transmitted/received through the video telephony call, a control unit configured to link chatting data displayed in the chatting window with at least one of the first image data of the first user and the second image data of the second user, and a memory unit configured to store the linked chatting data as a video chatting log.10-30-2008

Jae Hun Ryu, Gwangmyeong-Si KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100053301TERMINAL AND CALL PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF - A terminal and a call providing method may be provided in which a calling terminal transmits both a video call and a voice call to a called terminal. A controller may generate a message for transmitting both a video call and a voice call to a selected contact information and a wireless communication unit may transmit the message generated by the controller to a called terminal that matches the selected contact information.03-04-2010

Jae Hun Shim, Chungcheongnam-Do KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100289311CORE MOVING FITNESS CHAIR - The present invention relates to a core-moving health chair comprising: an outer frame where the structure of the chair is divided into a circumferential zone and a central zone; a central inner frame where the floor frame of the chair is divided into a circumferential zone and a central zone; a core-moving means which is attached to the floor frame of the chair and which moves the central inner frame upwards or downwards; and a core-driving means which drives the core-moving means and moves the core upwards or downwards. The present invention provides a core-moving health chair which can change the pressure at the portion being compressed under body weight when the chair is being sat upon. The core of the chair is assembled on the core-moving means, the position of the core of the chair is moved by means of the core-moving means, and the core-moving movement is driven by means of a motor. If the core-moving means is provided in the seating location of the chair, then a person sitting on the chair can experience a change in the pressure distribution on the buttocks. This feature allows the contact pressure of the chair to be adjusted to suit the requirements of the individual. Alternatively, air circulation in the buttock region can be adjusted. By changing the region where pressure is applied to the buttocks, the present invention can be used to promote health for example with sphincter-muscle exercise and Kegel exercise while seated on the chair.11-18-2010
20120100350TOP SHEET FOR DISPOSABLE DIAPER AND SANITARY PAD WITH IMPROVED SKIN FRIENDLINESS - Provided is a top sheet for a disposable diaper and sanitary pad which is prepared by manufacturing a perforated hydrophobic nonwoven having a weight of 25 g/m04-26-2012

Jae Hun Shim, Gongju-Si KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100269283PROTRUDED NON-WOVEN SHEET TOWEL FOR IMPROVING OF CLEANING AND WATER ABSORBING CAPABILITY - A nonwoven towel having protrusions and improved cleaning and water-absorbing capacity, suitable for use as wet towels, wet tissues, handkerchiefs, makeup removers, dishwashing sponges or electrostatic dustcloths. Absorbent nonwoven fabric made of fibers having a denier of 0.1-10 is press punched with heated pins, so that the nonwoven fabric has fibrous wrinkled protrusions having a height of 0.1-5 mm on one surface thereof to thus have a reduced fiber density and has recesses structured by perforations having a perforation rate of 5-50% caused by the punching in the other surface thereof. The portion of the nonwoven fabric not punched fluffs, thus reducing fiber density. This nonwoven towel is used in a manner such that two layers thereof are pressed through embossing so that the protrusions are disposed outwards, or absorbent nonwoven fabric or paper tissue is sandwiched between the two layers thereof and then the three-layered composite is pressed through embossing. The nonwoven towel is imparted with enhanced absorbing capacity through corona treatment and reduced lint through embossing treatment, with embossed unevenness.10-28-2010

Jae Hun Song, Seoul KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090128051Apparatus and method of driving lamp of liquid crystal display device - A method of driving a lamp of a liquid crystal display device includes generating a control signal; generating a first drive signal using the control signal; generating a second drive signal by shifting a voltage level of the first drive signal; selectively outputting one of a high potential supply voltage and a low potential supply voltage in response to the second drive signal; transforming the selectively outputted voltage; and supplying the transformed voltage to a lamp.05-21-2009

Patent applications by Jae Hun Song, Seoul KR

Jae Hun Yoon, Seoul KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110204796LIGHTING APPARAUTS - Disclosed is a lighting device. The lighting device includes: 08-25-2011

Jae-Hun Cho, Yongin-Si KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100157087METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DISPLAYING PORTRAIT ON DISPLAY - A method of displaying a portrait on a display is provided. The method includes determining whether a photographed image is a character-photographed image according to photographing information of the photographed image; executing face detection from the photographed image if it is determined that the photographed image is a character-photographed image; setting a character area in the photographed image according to a result of the face detection; and magnifying and displaying the character area on the display.06-24-2010
20100177210METHOD FOR ADJUSTING WHITE BALANCE - A white balance adjustment method is disclosed, in which a plurality of input pixels are transformed into a digital component color space, a hue region of each of the color-space transformed input pixels is determined, and a transformation matrix is determined according to the determined hue region.07-15-2010
20100209105VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A Visible Light Communication (VLC) method in a VLC terminal, in which the VLC terminal requests initial access to an Access Point (AP) on a selected mini-slot among a plurality of mini-slots constituting a control slot, based on control information in a frame, sends an association request to the AP on an allocated uplink time slot, if the uplink time slot allocated to correspond to the selected mini-slot exists in control information in a next frame, and transmits data at a data rate appointed to the VLC terminal included in control information in the current frame using an association Identifier (ID) included in a response received in reply to the association request and the allocated uplink time slot.08-19-2010
20110181599METHOD FOR DISPLAYING BATTERY RESIDUAL QUANTITY IN PORTABLE TERMINAL HAVING SELF-LUMINESCENCE DISPLAY AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method and apparatus for displaying a battery residual quantity of a portable terminal having a self-luminescence display are provided. The brightness of an image frame is determined by analyzing a histogram of the image frame output through the self-luminescence display. A power consumption of the self-luminescence display is determined based on the brightness of the image frame output through the self-luminescence display. A battery voltage and a battery voltage variance value are determined. The battery residual quantity is displayed in accordance with the power consumption of the self-luminescence display and the battery voltage variance value.07-28-2011
20110199396METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE FOR SELF-LUMINESCENCE DISPLAY - A method of displaying an image for a self-luminescence display includes determining loads by channels of an input image frame, estimating a display brightness of the input image frame using a relationship between the loads predetermined by channels and a change of the display brightness, correcting a luminance value of the image frame to correspond to the estimated brightness, and displaying the luminance-corrected image frame.08-18-2011

Jae-Hun Cho, Suwon-Si KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080240719METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING SYSTEM DELAY TIME AND FRAME LENGTH IN TIME DIVISION DUPLEXING SYSTEM - A method of establishing a system delay time and a frame length in a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) system includes adjusting time lengths of an uplink (UL) frame, a downlink (DL) frame, a Transmit/receive Transition Gap (TTG), and a Receive/transmit Transition Gap (RTG); a Base Station (BS) transmitting a DL frame and receiving a UL frame; and a Mobile Station (MS) receiving the DL frame and transmitting the UL frame.10-02-2008
20090034672METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TIME SYNCHRONIZATION USING GPS INFORMATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for time synchronization (TS) method using GPS information in a communication system synchronizing the time of slave nodes, which do not have a GPS receiver, by using GPS information of a node having a GPS receiver. The method includes the steps of extracting 1PPS, TOD, 1PPS_en, and clocks using GPS signals by a grand master node having a GPS receiver, stabilizing the signals, generating a sync message for TS, and transmitting the sync message to a slave node; receiving the sync message by the slave node and conducting a TS operation using OFCC synchronization technology extracting 1PPS, TOD, and 1PPS_en signals using the modified TOD information by the block and delivering to a stabilization block of the slave node for stabilization; and redelivering to the TS block to update TOD information and generate a sync message for TS of a second slave node.02-05-2009
20090168808APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING TIME SYNCHRONIZATION USING GPS INFORMATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for performing time synchronization by using Global Positioning System (GPS) information in a communication system. The apparatus comprises a grand-master node having a GPS receiver, for generating a synchronizing message required to synchronize time on slave nodes by using Time Of Day (TOD) information received from the GPS receiver and at least one slave node for receiving the synchronizing message required to synchronize time from the grand-master node or from another slave node, for carrying out time synchronization operation by using an Offset and Frequency Compensation Clock (OFCC) synchronization process supporting time offset and frequency separation compensation, and for generating a synchronizing message required to synchronize time on other slave nodes.07-02-2009

Patent applications by Jae-Hun Cho, Suwon-Si KR

Jae-Hun Jeong, Hwangsoeng-Si KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110227141NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES HAVING VERTICAL CHANNEL STRUCTURES AND RELATED FABRICATION METHODS - A memory device having a vertical channel structure is disclosed. The memory device includes a plurality of gate lines extending substantially parallel to one another along a surface of a substrate, and a connection unit electrically connecting the plurality of gate lines. The connection unit includes a first portion laterally extending along the surface of the substrate, a second portion extending substantially perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, and a supporting insulating layer extending in a cavity defined by the first and second portions of the connection unit. Related fabrication methods are also discussed.09-22-2011

Jae-Hun Lee, Yongin-Si KR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090317008METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE USING ADAPTIVE DISTRIBUTION ADJUSTMENT OF DIFFERENTIAL VALUES - Provided are an image encoding method and apparatus, in which a distribution of difference values included in an image unit is adjusted using a predetermined offset, an image unit including the adjusted distribution of the difference values is divided into an image plane corresponding to upper bits and an image plane for lower bits, and then the image planes are entropy-encoded.12-24-2009
20100054334METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A PREDICTION MODE - A method and apparatus for determining a prediction mode which is used during encoding of a current block is provided. In the method and apparatus, a prediction mode candidate group to be used for the current block is determined based on a prediction mode for a block positioned at the same location on a reference picture as a location of the current block encoded, predictive coding is performed on the current block by using predictive modes included in the prediction mode candidate group. Thus, image prediction efficient is improved, and the time and number of calculations required for prediction mode determination are reduced.03-04-2010
20110102681IMAGE CONVERTING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON MOTION VECTOR-SHARING - An image converting method and apparatus therefor for performing resolution conversion or performing frame rate conversion, by sharing at least one motion vector for a current frame, are provided. The image converting method includes estimating at least one motion vector for a current frame of an image sequence; and performing at least one of conversion of resolution of the current frame based on the at least one motion vector and conversion of a frame rate of the image sequence based on the at least one estimated motion vector.05-05-2011
20110142368METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOCK-BASED IMAGE DENOISING - A block-based image denoising method includes determining similarities between a current block and reference blocks within a search range around the current block, from among certain-sized blocks divided from an input image; determining weights of the reference blocks with respect to the current block based on the similarities; and generating resultant blocks by denoising the current block with respect to every block of the input image based on the weights of the reference blocks.06-16-2011
20110188772IMAGE SCALING METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH ENHANCEMENT OF IMAGE QUALITY - An image scaling apparatus and method, with enhancement of image quality. The method includes generating a plurality of intermediate pixels positioned near a plurality of resultant pixels to be generated to scale an input image using pixels of the input image; determining the image characteristics of the plurality of resultant pixels using a predetermined region of the input image or the plurality of intermediate pixels within the predetermined region; determining a filter for generating the plurality of resultant pixels based on the image characteristics with respect to the resultant pixels, and generating the plurality of resultant pixels through filtering of the plurality of intermediate pixels using the determined filter. The apparatus includes an intermediate pixel generation unit which generates a plurality of intermediate pixels. A filter determination unit determines a filter for generating the plurality of resultant pixels. A resultant pixel generation unit generates the plurality of resultant pixels.08-04-2011

Patent applications by Jae-Hun Lee, Yongin-Si KR