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20090079843 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND ENCODED DATA TRANSFERRING METHOD - A method of transferring encoded data and an imaging device executing the method thereof are disclosed. The image signal processor according to an embodiment of the present invention has an encoding unit, which generates encoded image data by encoding, in accordance with a predetermined encoding method, image data corresponding to an electrical signal inputted from an image sensor, and a data output unit, which temporarily stores the image data encoded by the encoding unit and transfers the stored encoded image data to a receiving part. The data output unit can input a skip command, which makes the process of a following frame skip, to the image sensor or the encoding unit in case input start information of the following frame is inputted from the image sensor or the encoding unit while a preceding frame is processed by the encoding unit, the skip command. Therefore, it becomes possible to increase the process efficiency of the back-end chip and to reduce the power consumption. | 03-26-2009 |
20090242979 | Vertical Transistor of Semiconductor Device and Method of Forming the Same - A vertical transistor of a semiconductor device has a channel area formed in a vertical direction to a semiconductor substrate. After semiconductor poles corresponding to the length of semiconductor channels and gate electrodes surrounding sidewalls of the semiconductor poles are formed, subsequent processes of forming silicon patterns corresponding to junction areas, etc. are performed. The gate electrodes support the semiconductor poles during these subsequent processes. The height of the semiconductor poles corresponding to the length of the channel is increased, yet the semiconductor poles do not collapse or incline since the gate electrodes support the semiconductor poles. | 10-01-2009 |
20100110048 | Dual panel type organic electroluminescent display device and method of fabricating the same - The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent display (OELD) device, more particularly, to a dual panel type OELD device and a method of fabricating the same. The OLED structure has first and second barrier walls having a reverse-taper shape with respect to the first substrate and first and second side surfaces, wherein the walls define novel polymer patterns with varying heights relative to each other. | 05-06-2010 |
20100303922 | METHOD FOR THE PREPARATION OF BIOCOMPATIBLE POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES FOR DRUG DELIVERY AND NANOPARTICLES PREPARED THEREBY - Disclosed are biocompatible polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery and a method for preparing the same. They can be prepared by mixing a tri-block copolymer, PEG, and a drug at a predetermined temperature to give a homogeneous polymeric mixture; solidifying the homogeneous polymeric mixture at room temperature; and dissolving the solidified polymeric mixture in an aqueous solution. Based on a polymer melting process, the method makes it easy to produce poloxamer nanoparticles at low cost. The nanoparticles show desired particle sizes suitable for use in drug delivery and a uniform particle size distribution. Consisting of a bilayer structure, the nanoparticles can contain sparingly soluble drugs. Also, the nanoparticles contain no organic solvents and are thus safe to the body because they are free of organic solvent residuals. Further, after being administered into the body, the nanoparticles with a high content of sparingly soluble drug entrapped therein can safely deliver the drug to target sites and stably release the drug at a controlled rate. | 12-02-2010 |
20100308629 | ACTIVE HEADREST APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE SEAT - An active headrest apparatus for a vehicle seat. A contact area in which the upper body of a person who is seated in a car in the event of a rear-end collision of the car is moved backward due to an inertial force and contacts a back plate can be increased, and a distance at which a headrest is moved and rises can be increased so that the function of an active headrest can be more faithfully performed and neck injury of the person who is seated in the car can be prevented to the maximum. | 12-09-2010 |
20110037111 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - The invention relates to a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same, wherein a storage node contact hole is made large to solve any problem caused during etching a storage node contact hole with a small CD, a landing plug is formed to lower plug resistance, and the SAC process is eliminated at the time of the bit line formation. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device according to the invention comprises: forming a device isolation film for defining a multiplicity of active regions in a semiconductor substrate; forming a multiplicity of buried word lines in the semiconductor substrate; forming a storage node contact hole for exposing a storage node contact region of two adjoining active regions; filling the storage node contact hole with a storage node contact plug material; forming a bit-line groove for exposing a bit-line contact region of the active region and splitting the storage node contact plug material into two; and burying the bit line into the bit-line groove. | 02-17-2011 |
20110094338 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING Fe-Si ALLOY POWDERS - The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a Fe—Si alloy powder. A method for manufacturing a Fe—Si alloy powder includes: providing a mixture of an Al | 04-28-2011 |
20110133261 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes an active region defined by an isolation region formed in a cell area, buried gates disposed in the active region and the isolation region, conduction layers disposed on the active region and having the same heights as an surface of the isolation region, and a line type storage node contact connected with one of the conduction layers. | 06-09-2011 |
20110172820 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING ERROR OF GYRO SENSOR IN MOBILE ROBOT - Provided are a method and apparatus for correcting an error of a gyro sensor, and more particularly, a method and apparatus for correcting an error of a gyro sensor installed in a mobile robot. | 07-14-2011 |
20110204686 | ACTIVE HEADREST - An active headrest has a simple structure so that injuries of the neck and a portion near the neck of a passenger can be effectively prevented in the event of a rear-end collision and forward and rearward inclinations of the active headrest can be adjusted in an ordinary driving state to improve user's convenience and shake of the active headrest with respect to a vehicle seat in an ordinary state can be prevented to suppress noise and vibration and the quality of the vehicle seat and the car can be improved. | 08-25-2011 |
20110291726 | DUTY CORRECTING CIRCUIT, DELAY-LOCKED LOOP CIRCUIT INCLUDING THE CIRCUIT, AND METHOD OF CORRECTING DUTY - A duty correcting circuit includes a duty steerer circuit, a differential clock generator, and a charge pump circuit. The duty steerer circuit corrects a duty cycle of an input clock signal in response to a duty control signal and generates an output clock signal. The differential clock generator generates two internal clock signals having a phase difference of 180° from each other based on the output clock signal. The charge pump circuit performs a charge pump operation in a differential mode in response to the internal clock signals to generate a duty control signal. | 12-01-2011 |
20120074518 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - The invention relates to a semiconductor device, wherein a storage node contact hole is made large to solve any problem caused during etching a storage node contact hole with a small CD, a landing plug is formed to lower plug resistance. A semiconductor device according to the invention comprises: first and second active regions formed in a substrate, the first and second active being adjacent to each other, each of the first and second active regions including a bit-line contact region and a storage node contact region and a device isolation structure; a word line provided within a trench formed in the substrate; first and second storage node contact plugs assigned to the first and second active regions, respectively, the first and second storage node contact plugs being separated from each other by a bit line groove; and a bit line formed within the bit-line groove. | 03-29-2012 |
20120080747 | Semiconductor Device - A vertical transistor of a semiconductor device has a channel area formed in a vertical direction to a semiconductor substrate. After semiconductor poles corresponding to the length of semiconductor channels and gate electrodes surrounding sidewalls of the semiconductor poles are formed, subsequent processes of forming silicon patterns corresponding to junction areas, etc. are performed. The gate electrodes support the semiconductor poles during these subsequent processes. The height of the semiconductor poles corresponding to the length of the channel is increased, yet the semiconductor poles do not collapse or incline since the gate electrodes support the semiconductor poles. | 04-05-2012 |
20120091871 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISASSEMBLING AND ASSEMBLING THE SAME - A substrate processing apparatus includes: a chamber including a body having an open portion and a door for blocking the open portion; a substrate supporter connected to the door; and a door operating means including a rotation shaft for straightly moving and rotating the door, the door and the body separated in parallel from each other by straightly moving the door. | 04-19-2012 |
20120092705 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, HOST APPARATUS, AND PRINT METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an image forming apparatus, a host apparatus, and a print method thereof. A method includes receiving a one touch print command from a print button provided in the image forming apparatus to print an image of at least one monitor among a plurality of monitors of a host apparatus connected to the image forming apparatus. With this configuration, high quality output products may be provided without any image distortion due to a difference in resolution upon receiving a one touch print command in the multi monitor environment. | 04-19-2012 |
20120182076 | LIMITER CIRCUIT AND VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR INCLUDING THE SAME - A limiter circuit in a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) includes a first control circuit, a second control circuit and a driving circuit having a pull-up transistor and a pull-down transistor. The first control circuit generates a first driving control signal for controlling the pull-up transistor based on an AC input signal and a first DC bias voltage. The second control circuit generates a second driving control signal for controlling the pull-down transistor based on the AC input signal and a second DC bias voltage. The driving circuit generates an output signal based on the first driving control signal and the second driving control signal. The output signal swings between a first voltage at the pull-up transistor and a second voltage at the pull-down transistor. | 07-19-2012 |
20120289397 | METHOD OF FABRICATION OF NANO PARTICLE COMPLEX CATALYST BY PLASMA ION IMPLANTATION AND DEVICE FOR THE SAME - Provided is a method of fabricating a nano particle complex catalyst including generating a plasma ion of a solid element and performing plasma ion implantation to carry a catalyst component of the solid element in a porous carrier. In the method, a pulse direct current voltage is applied to the deposition source to generate the plasma ion of the solid element, and a synchronized voltage is applied to the porous carrier, thereby instantly applying a pulse high voltage to the solid element. The ionized solid element is accelerated toward the porous carrier by the pulse high voltage instantly applied to the solid element, thereby performing the ion implantation. | 11-15-2012 |
20130015450 | Organic Light Emitting Display DeviceAANM Kim; Shin-HanAACI Gyeonggi-DoAACO KRAAGP Kim; Shin-Han Gyeonggi-Do KRAANM Ahn; Byung-ChulAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP Ahn; Byung-Chul Seoul KRAANM Tak; Yoon-HeungAACI Gyeonggi-DoAACO KRAAGP Tak; Yoon-Heung Gyeonggi-Do KRAANM Han; Chang-WookAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP Han; Chang-Wook Seoul KRAANM Kim; Do-HyungAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP Kim; Do-Hyung Seoul KRAANM Lee; Jae-ManAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP Lee; Jae-Man Seoul KRAANM Choi; Hong-SeokAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP Choi; Hong-Seok Seoul KRAANM Bae; Sung-JoonAACI Gyeonggi-DoAACO KRAAGP Bae; Sung-Joon Gyeonggi-Do KRAANM Joung; Seung-RyongAACI Gyeonggi-DoAACO KRAAGP Joung; Seung-Ryong Gyeonggi-Do KR - An organic light emitting display device is provided to avoid color change due to a viewing direction. The organic light emitting display includes a light compensation layer having a refractive index different than that of an insulating layer. The organic light emitting display may be disposed at the side to which light emitted from an organic light emitting layer is entered to change the path and phase of light, thereby coinciding cavity peak phases for each wavelength of white light emitted from an organic light emitting unit. | 01-17-2013 |
20130052475 | METHOD OF FABRICATING POROUS FILM STRUCTURE USING DRY PROCESSES AND POROUS FILM STRUCTURES FABRICATED BY THE SAME - Provided are a method of fabricating a porous thin film structure, by forming a thin film from at least two elements, followed by selectively removing the certain element using a dry etching process, and a porous thin film structure fabricated by the same. Because all processes of the method of fabricating a porous thin film structure are dry processes, process control is simply accomplished, environmental impact is low, and mass production is possible, in contrast to when using a typical wet process such as electrodeposition or dealloying. Also, since a level of porosity is easily controlled and maintained uniform, a mesoporous thin film structure showing a reproducible level of sensitivity when used as a sensor can be fabricated. | 02-28-2013 |
20130120981 | Organic Light Emitting Display Panel and Method of Manufacturing the Same - An organic light emitting display panel with improved efficiency and lifespan and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The organic light emitting display panel according to the present invention includes a substrate having red, green, blue, and white sub-pixel regions, red, green, and blue color filters respectively formed in the red, green, and blue sub-pixel regions, an overcoat layer that is formed in the red and green sub-pixel regions except for the blue and white sub-pixel regions or is formed in the sub-pixel regions such that a thickness of the overcoat layer in the red and green sub-pixel regions is greater than a thickness of the overcoat layer in the blue and white sub-pixel regions; and organic emitting cells respectively formed in the red, green, blue, and white sub-pixel regions. | 05-16-2013 |
20130169988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A PRINTER BY USING AN EXTERNAL MEMORY - Provided is printer operation control system and method for a printer having diverse print functions by using an external memory. The external memory is used to store information on the availability of each print function. A reader is provided for reading the information on the availability of each print function stored in the external memory. Further, a function setting unit is provided for setting up the operability of software for each print function based on the information read in the reader. Even further, a controller is provided for controlling the operation of the printer based on the operability of each software set up in the function setting unit. | 07-04-2013 |
20130175512 | Organic Light Emitting Display Device - Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a thin film transistor formed on the substrate, a first electrode formed on the thin film transistor, an organic emission layer, and a second electrode formed on the organic emission layer. The organic emission layer includes a first stack that includes a first emission layer formed on the first electrode to emit first color light, a second stack that includes a second emission layer formed on the first electrode to emit second color light, and a charge generation layer formed between the first and second stacks. | 07-11-2013 |
20140100961 | System for Providing Information to Client Terminal when Conducting Communication Service - The present invention relates to a system for providing information to a client terminal when conducting a communication service, and more particularly, to a system for providing information to at least one client terminal including an outgoing terminal and an incoming terminal when conducting a communication service, comprising: a call control and maintenance server for forming and maintaining a media session to conduct the communication service between the outgoing terminal and the incoming terminal; and an information maintenance server for maintaining the information to be transmitted to at least one client terminal, wherein the information maintenance server transmits to either the outgoing terminal or the incoming terminal information-related data, which is related to the information to be provided to the client terminal before the media session for the communication service between the outgoing terminal and the incoming terminal, or while the communication service is being conducted, and wherein the client terminal which receives the information-related data provides information to an information display area on the display portion of a terminal based on the information-related data. | 04-10-2014 |
20140130087 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON BROADCASTING CONTENT - The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing additional information on broadcast content, and particularly, to a method and a system for providing additional information corresponding to broadcast content displayed on a television to a separate viewer's terminal. The method for providing additional information on the broadcast content is performed by a voice feature extraction server and comprises the steps of: extracting audio feature data of the broadcast content to store voice feature information previously grouped in preset units in a provided storage space; and detecting voice feature information corresponding to the voice feature data received from the viewer's terminal among the stored one or more pieces of voice feature information and transmitting the detected feature information to the viewer's terminal, wherein the viewer's terminal extracts the voice feature data from an input audio signal according to a preset method and transmits the extracted voice feature data to the voice feature extraction server, a temporal position corresponding to the voice feature data is determined from the received voice feature information, and the additional information is displayed at the temporal position. | 05-08-2014 |
20150014830 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE UTILZING REDISTRIBUTION LAYERS TO COUPLE STACKED DIE - A semiconductor device utilizing redistribution layers to couple stacked die is disclosed and may include a first semiconductor die with a first surface comprising bond pads, a second surface opposite the first surface, and sloped side surfaces between the first and second surfaces, such that a cross-section of the first die is trapezoidal in shape. A second semiconductor die with a first surface may be bonded to the second surface of the first die, wherein the first surface of the second die may comprise bond pads. A passivation layer may be formed on the first surface and sloped side surfaces of the first die and the first surface of the second die. A redistribution layer may be formed on the passivation layer, electrically coupling bond pads on the first and second die. A conductive pillar may extend from a bond pad on the second die to the second redistribution layer. | 01-15-2015 |
20150062432 | PIXEL CLOCK GENERATOR, DIGITAL TV INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF GENERATING PIXEL CLOCK - A pixel clock generator is provided. The pixel clock generator includes a phase-locked-loop (PLL) circuit that generates, from an oscillation signal having a first frequency of tens of MHz, a multi-phase oscillation signal having a second frequency of several GHz; and a frequency/phase adjusting circuit that synchronizes the multi-phase oscillation signal with a horizontal sync signal to generate a first oscillation signal, frequency-divides the first oscillation signal to generate a second oscillation signal, and adjusts a phase of the second oscillation signal to generate the pixel clock. | 03-05-2015 |
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20080317116 | Method, medium, and system compressing and/or reconstructing image information with low complexity - A system, medium, and method compressing and/or restoring images. Such a data compression method may include selecting a mode from among a plurality of modes for compressing current data, according to predetermined criteria, and calculating a difference between the current data and reference data, according to the selected mode, and compressing the current data, or truncating a part of the current data and compressing the current data. Accordingly, it is possible to significantly lower the complexity of an image encoder/decoder system and exactly meet a picture-based CBR required by LCD DCC devices/systems. | 12-25-2008 |
20090037169 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING FIXED CODEBOOKS OF SPEECH CODECS AS COMMON MODULE - A method and apparatus for implementing fixed codebooks as a common module are provided. In the method of implementing fixed codebooks of a plurality of speech codecs as a common module, it is possible to include only a part excluding fixed codebooks in a communication terminal or communication system, support various speech codecs without using a chip with high price and high performance, and reduce a memory space that is occupied by the speech codecs by generating a track of a fixed codebook corresponding to a speech codec based on information on the speech codec among the plurality of speech codecs and selecting a codebook vector corresponding to a target signal among codebook vectors constructed with combinations of pulses represented by the generated track. In addition, it is possible to reduce processing complexity as compared with a case of embodying the common fixed codebook module in software by embodying the common fixed codebook module in hardware. In addition, it is possible to improve the entire voice processing performance by applying the latest fixed codebook searching algorithm only to the common fixed codebook, thereby easily applying the latest fixed codebook searching algorithm to the entire voice codec. | 02-05-2009 |
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20100166238 | Surround sound virtualization apparatus and method - 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. | 07-01-2010 |
20100172508 | Method and apparatus of generating sound field effect in frequency domain - A method and apparatus of generating a sound field effect is provided. The sound field effect generating apparatus may generate a frequency coefficient that is frequency-transformed from a direct signal, may generate a reflection signal from the frequency coefficient, may generate an output signal using the frequency coefficient and the reflection signal, and may perform an inverse-frequency transform of the output signal. | 07-08-2010 |
20110069900 | Random access image encoding system and method - An image encoding system and method for performing random access may be provided. The image encoding system may perform intra prediction based on a processing unit, and code a pixel using a result of the intra prediction. Also, the image encoding system may generate a bitstream with respect to an input image using a Fixed Length Code (FLC). Coding may be performed based on the processing unit, and thus random access may be performed based on the processing unit. | 03-24-2011 |
20110091044 | Virtual speaker apparatus and method for processing virtual speaker - A virtual speaker apparatus and a virtual speaker processing method is disclosed. The virtual speaker apparatus uses the closest surround speaker when a virtual speaker to be virtually generated is a back left virtual speaker or a back right virtual speaker. | 04-21-2011 |
20110116638 | Apparatus of generating multi-channel sound signal - An apparatus of generating a multi-channel sound signal is provided. The apparatus may include a sound separator to determine a number (N) of sound signals based on at least one of a mixing characteristic and a spatial characteristic of a multi-channel sound signal when receiving the multi-channel sound signal, and to separate the multi-channel sound signal into N sound signals, the sound signals being generated such that the multi-channel sound signal is separated, and a sound synthesizer to synthesize N sound signals to be M sound signals. | 05-19-2011 |
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20110305343 | Method and system decoding audio data with selective power control - Provided is an audio data decoding system and method that may selectively transfer compressed audio data from a top system to at least one audio input buffer of a separately provided and/or separately power management controlled subsystem, restore the compressed audio data to digital pulse code modulation (PCM) data using an audio decoding unit of the subsystem, convert the digital PCM data to analog PCM data or an audio output signal, and output the converted audio output signal. | 12-15-2011 |
20120121196 | Apparatus for decoding image data based on availability of reference data and method thereof - An image data decoding apparatus and method are based on an availability of reference data. The image data decoding apparatus may include a core to process decoding of image data, and an availability determining device to receive, from the core, availability verification request information with respect to a reference area of a first frame included in the image data, to determine an availability with respect to the reference area based on the received availability verification request information, and to transmit, to the core, the determined availability. When the reference area is available, the core may process decoding of a second frame based on the reference area. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124324 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSLATING MEMORY ACCESS ADDRESS - A memory access address translating apparatus and method may each classify pixels included in an input image into a plurality of tiles, and may generate a new memory for each of the successive tiles to enable the successive tiles, among a plurality of tiles, to be stored in different banks. | 05-17-2012 |
20130034235 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SPATIAL IMPRESSION - A signal processing apparatus and method for providing a spatial impression. The signal processing apparatus applies a reverberation effect to a summed signal formed by summing original signals corresponding to locations of a plurality of sound sources, and removes a correlation from the summed signal, thereby generating reverberation signals corresponding to the locations of the plurality of sound sources. Next, the signal processing apparatus applies panning information derived from the original signals, thereby reflecting location information of the original signals. | 02-07-2013 |
20130064374 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING 3D SOUND EFFECT - A signal processing apparatus and method providing a 3-dimensional (3D) sound effect may determine a mask related to an ambience of an input signal, separate the input signal into a primary signal and an ambience signal using the mask, decorrelate the ambience signal, and sum the decorrelated ambience signal and the primary signal, accordingly generating an output signal to which a sound effect is applied. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064463 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESTORING IMAGE BY COPYING MEMORY - A method and apparatus for restoring an image by copying a memory may include determining whether to perform an interpolation operation based on block information, and restoring a current image using a reference image depending on whether to perform the interpolation operation. | 03-14-2013 |
20130103392 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF REPRODUCING AUDIO DATA USING LOW POWER - A method and apparatus for reproducing audio data using low power are provided. The apparatus may reproduce the audio data by determining a power mode based on a memory resource of an internal memory, and an amount of a memory required for reproducing the audio data, controlling a power based on the determined power mode, and decoding the audio data. | 04-25-2013 |
20130202048 | DEBLOCKING FILTERING APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON RASTER SCANNING - A deblocking filtering apparatus and method based on raster scanning is provided. The deblocking filtering apparatus may include a boundary determining unit to determine whether at least one of a vertical edge boundary and a horizontal edge boundary of a block corresponds to at least one of a coding unit (CU) boundary, a transform unit (TU) boundary, and a prediction unit (PU) boundary, a boundary strength (BS) computing unit to compute a BS value for at least one of the vertical edge boundary and the horizontal edge boundary when at least one of the vertical edge boundary and the horizontal edge boundary of the block corresponds to at least one of the CU boundary, the TU boundary, and the PU boundary as a result of the determining, and a filtering performing unit to perform deblocking filtering on at least one of the vertical edge boundary and the horizontal edge boundary. | 08-08-2013 |
20130215976 | ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PARALLEL CORRECTION OF IN-LOOP PIXELS BASED ON MEASURED COMPLEXITY, USING VIDEO PARAMETER - An encoding/decoding apparatus and method for parallel correction of in-loop pixels based on complexity using a video parameter may include a complexity measuring unit to measure a complexity of an in-loop pixel correction process, using video codec parameter information, in a video codec, and a core allocating unit to evenly distribute jobs associated with the in-loop pixel correction process, using the measured complexity. | 08-22-2013 |
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20140047182 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSSING DATA USING WINDOW - Provided are a data processing method and device using a window. The data processing method may include caching data by applying a window to data stored in a memory on a per channel basis, and transmitting the cached data to a core processor using location information of a point. | 02-13-2014 |
20140149684 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CACHE - An apparatus and method for controlling a cache may include a cache controller configured to collect a portion of data corresponding to a cache miss in the data at one time, and a data operation unit configured to perform an operation on the data based on the collected data. | 05-29-2014 |
20140185929 | METHOD, MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM COMPRESSING AND/OR RECONSTRUCTING IMAGE INFORMATION WITH LOW COMPLEXITY - A system, medium, and method compressing and/or restoring images. Such a data compression method may include selecting a mode from among a plurality of modes for compressing current data, according to predetermined criteria, and calculating a difference between the current data and reference data, according to the selected mode, and compressing the current data, or truncating a part of the current data and compressing the current data. Accordingly, it is possible to significantly lower the complexity of an image encoder/decoder system and exactly meet a picture-based CBR required by LCD DCC devices/systems. | 07-03-2014 |
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20140286442 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IN-LOOP FILTERING BASED ON LARGEST CODING UNIT FOR REDUCING EXTERNAL MEMORY ACCESS BANDWIDTH - An apparatus and method for in-loop filtering based on a largest coding unit (LCU) to reduce an external memory access bandwidth. An in-loop filter may include an external memory to store decoded frames, an internal memory to store pixels in use for deblocking filtering and sample adaptive offset filtering, a horizontal deblocking filter to perform deblocking filtering on input pixels in a horizontal direction with respect to vertical edge boundaries within an input area, a vertical deblocking filter to perform deblocking filtering in a vertical direction with respect to horizontal edge boundaries within the input area, and a sample adaptive offset filter to perform sample adaptive offset filtering. | 09-25-2014 |
20140310720 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PARALLEL PROCESSING EXECUTION - An apparatus and method of parallel processing execution that executes a job through distributing the job to a plurality of calculators, based on a calculation property of the job. The apparatus for parallel processing execution may include a plurality of calculators to calculate a job configuring a plurality of tasks of a process, and a distributor to distribute the job to a plurality of calculators based on a calculation property of the job, wherein the plurality of calculators includes a first calculator to process a job through a controlled calculation, and a second calculator to process a job through a large volume calculation. | 10-16-2014 |
20140313213 | MEMORY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA - A memory apparatus may include a tile generator configured to generate a plurality of tiles by dividing a plurality of pixels constituting input data based on a predetermined pixel unit, and a tile storage configured to store the plurality of tiles by sequentially enumerating luminance information and chrominance information about pixels included in the plurality of tiles. | 10-23-2014 |
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20140350892 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ULTRASONIC DATA - 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. | 11-27-2014 |
20140355892 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing method includes searching for areas matching each other between a plurality of input images, the plurality of input images comprising a reference image and a target image, generating hierarchical image structures formed of a plurality of hierarchical images having different resolutions with respect to the matching areas between the plurality of input images, repeatedly performing image processing based on a similarity of values of pixels matching each other in the plurality of hierarchical images of the same level by using the hierarchical image structures generated with respect to the matching areas, and generating an output image by using pixel values according to the repeated image processing. | 12-04-2014 |
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20150116338 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed are an image processing apparatus and method that more efficiently process image data. The image processing apparatus includes a vector data manager that receives at least some of all image data and converts the received image data into vector data, a vector processor that receives the vector data from the vector data manager, performs a vector processing operation by using the vector data, and generates output vector data as a result of the vector processing operation, and a synchronizer that controls a timing of when the vector data manager transmits the vector data to the vector processor. | 04-30-2015 |
20150117548 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING INVERSE TRANSFORM, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO STREAM - A method of decoding a bitstream, a method of accelerating an inverse transform, an apparatus, a video decoder, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided. The method includes receiving an encoded bitstream, extracting transformation coefficients from the received bitstream, determining a position of a block including at least one nonzero transformation coefficient from among the extracted transformation coefficients, and generating decoded video data by inverse-transforming transformation coefficients in the block by using the determined position. | 04-30-2015 |
20150117650 | METHOD OF GENERATING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL AND APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT SAME - A method of generating a multi-channel audio signal includes: representing locations of a plurality of speakers as a plurality of polygons whose vertices are located at locations of corresponding speakers; acquiring a location of an object sound; calculating distances between the plurality of polygons and the location of the object sound; selecting one of the plurality of polygons on the basis of the calculated distances; and generating a multi-channel audio signal that corresponds to speakers corresponding to the selected polygon by mapping the object sound to the speakers corresponding to the selected polygon. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120306 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUADRATURE MIRROR FILTERING - A method of performing quadrature mirror filter (QMF) synthesis filtering includes recording new samples corresponding to a current time slot at positions of samples to be discarded in a first array that includes modulated QMF sub-band samples. The method further includes extracting samples from the first array to remove aliasing between adjacent sub-bands, determining filter coefficients corresponding to the extracted samples by using modulo operation, and synthesizing a time domain sample where aliasing is removed by using the extracted samples and the filter coefficients. | 04-30-2015 |
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