Samsung Electro-mechanics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Dong-a University Research Foundation for Industry-academy Cooperation

Joo Young Ha

Won Tae Choi

Bong Soon Kang

Won Woo Jang

Jae Seung Lee

Jung Soo Lim

Young Shik Shin

Yong Han Kim

Kyung Rin Kim

Won Jae Yoon

Jeong Han Kim

Kyung Hee Hahm

Hye Ran Lee

Joo Hyun Kim

Chang Hak Lim

Cheong Hee Lee

Sang Hyo Seo

Ji Young Lee

Byung Hyun Kim

Boo Dong Kwak

In Taek Song

Sung Mok Lee

Dae Seob Kim

Hae Jin Jeon

Sun Mi Sin

Gi Dong Lee

Hyuk Joo Kim

Jae Kyung Kim

Gyu Won Kim

Kyoung Joong Min

Byung Hun Kim

Hwan Soo Park

Hak Sun Kim

Sang Jin Jeong

In Cheol Chang

Tae Yeon Won

Kang Joo Kim

Hee Sung Jun

Young An Choi

Jae Kwang Lee

Hak Yong Han

Hyun Soo Kim

Mi Sun Park

Seo Eun Yun

Young Mi Han

Jung Joo Yang

Chank Hak Lim

Kyoung Hoon Ko

Provided is a cooking apparatus and method of controlling the cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking chamber; a heating portion installed in the cooking chamber; and a smoking agent accommodation portion separably mounted on the heating portion and capable of accommodating a smoking agent.

Cooking apparatus and method for controlling cooking apparatus

A camera module includes an upper housing coupled to a lower housing to form an inner space, a lens module provided in the inner space and including a heating element, and a substrate configured to supply power to the heating element, wherein the lens module includes an inner barrel comprising one or more lenses, an outer barrel which is coupled to a portion of the inner barrel in an optical axis direction, and a holder in which the outer barrel is fixed, wherein the substrate is fixed to a portion of the holder, wherein the heating element is disposed between the inner barrel and the outer barrel, and is connected to the substrate by a power connection line, and wherein the power connection line is connected to the substrate through a coupling hole in the holder.

Camera module with heating element

A camera module includes a lens module including a lens barrel and a holder to hold the lens barrel, a heater to seal the lens module and including a first cutting portion having a D-shape, and a ring-shaped electrode portion including a second cutting portion having a D-shape and a third cutting portion having a D-shape. The electrode portion is coupled to two surfaces of the heater that are perpendicular to an optical axis direction to align the first cutting portion with the second cutting portion and the third cutting portion.

Camera module

A camera module includes a first lens barrel including a first lens, a second lens barrel including a second lens that is aligned with the first lens in an optical axis direction, and a stop module disposed between the first lens barrel and the second lens barrel. The stop module includes blades configured to form one or more incidence holes having various sizes. The stop module includes a magnet portion including a driving magnet opposing a driving coil, and the magnet portion moves back and forth rectilinearly.

In a control method of a refrigerator having a storage chamber for aging of meat, an operation to keep the storage chamber at an aging temperature and an operation to cool the storage chamber to a cooling temperature lower than the aging temperature are repeated. This enables optimal aging of meat via an aging time and aging temperature suitable for meat.

Refrigerator and control method for aging of meat

A color interpolation apparatus includes a threshold value determining unit that calculates a luminance value of each area set based on each pixel of a Bayer pattern image and determines edge determining threshold values, an edge information calculating unit that calculates pixel value variations in multiple directions of the set areas by using pixel values of pixels included in each area and edge information regarding each area by using the multiple directional pixel value variations, an area determining unit that determines an edge type by using the edge determining threshold values and the edge information, and a color interpolation unit that applies a color interpolation filter previously set according to the edge type to a corresponding area according to the edge type. The area determining unit uses green information or interpolated green information of a central pixel depending on whether or not a color of the central pixel is green.

Color interpolation apparatus

A touch screen apparatus includes a mirror part arranged on a side of a quadrilateral touch area, retroreflectors arranged on remaining three sides of the touch area, first and second light transmitting and receiving parts, each being disposed on each of two edges formed by one of the retroreflectors and emitting light to the touch area and detecting reflected light out of the emitted light by the mirror part and the retroreflectors, an angle extracting part calculating a plurality of light emitting angles for a location from which no reflected light is received, by at least one of the first and second light transmitting and receiving parts, and a coordinate generating part calculating a coordinate pair of a location in which light paths corresponding to the plurality of light emitting angles calculated by the angle extracting part intersect with each other.

Touch screen apparatus for determining accurate touch point coordinate pair

There are provided an apparatus and a method for estimating edge areas of pixels in a digital image to thereby prevent an edge sharpening algorithm from being applied to non-edge area of the digital image. Therefore, the apparatus can accurately determine whether each pixel is in an edge area or in a non-edge area, by generating a binary mask obtained by using a luminance difference average between each pixel and each of neighboring pixels in the digital image. Moreover, the determination of an edge-area or a non-edge area may be applied to various digital images, by adjusting a level of edge-area determination.

Apparatus and method for estimating edge areas of digital image

There are provided a connector and a connector module which may commonly use mutually different interface schemes, and an electronic apparatus having the same. The connector includes a body having a fixed volume; and at least one coupling hole formed inwardly in a side of the body, and electrically coupled with a pin from the outside, wherein the coupling hole includes a first coupling unit having a predetermined first depth and electrically coupled with the pin from the outside, and a second coupling unit having a second depth deeper than the first depth and electrically coupled with another pin from the outside.

Connector with a second couling unit extending from a bottom face of a first coupling unit

An apparatus for auto white balance includes a histogram generation unit writing respective histograms of Cb values and Cr values with regard to pixels included in an input image frame, a single-tone determination unit comparing respective maximum values of the histograms of Cb values and Cr values with a first threshold value, and determining the input image frame as a single-tone image if at least one of the maximum values is higher than the first threshold value, and an auto white balance gain computation unit computing and an auto white balance gain by using color information of an input image frame and outputting the computed auto white balance gain, wherein if the input image frame is determined to be a single-tone image, the auto white balance gain computation unit outputs an auto white balance gain computed with respect to a previous input image frame.

Apparatus and method for auto white balance control considering the effect of single tone image

There is provided an apparatus for improving the sharpness of an image, which may prevent occurrence of distortion of an image in an edge enhancement process of the image by applying an active weight in accordance with a two-dimensional (2D) high pass filtering value of the image. The apparatus may include: a 2D high pass filter outputting a high frequency element value for the luminance values of pixels of an input image; a weight generating unit generating a weight changed depending on a magnitude of the high frequency element value; a weight applying unit applying the weight to the high frequency element value; and an edge enhancement image generating unit adding, to the luminance values of the pixels of the input image, the high frequency element value to which the weight is applied to thereby output an image of which an edge is enhanced.

Apparatus for improving sharpness of image

Disclosed herein is a camera module including: an image sensor which converts an image entering through a lens into an electric signal; a rigid-flexible substrate which includes first and second rigid substrates distanced from each other and a flexible substrate to connect the first and the second rigid substrates to each other; a first connection part which is electrically connected to the rigid-flexible substrate; and a second connection part which has one end electrically connected to the first connection part and the other end connected to a cable, and which is disconnectable from the first connection part and the cable.

There is provided an apparatus for removing color noise including: a color interpolation unit performing color interpolation on a bayer pattern image output from an image sensor; a high-pass filter unit performing high-pass filtering on each of the pixels of the bayer pattern image to generate high-pass filtered values of each of the pixels; a high frequency region determining unit comparing pixel values of a target pixel, from which color noise is removed, and pixels adjacent to the target pixel with the high-pass filtered values to determine whether the target pixel is included in a high frequency region; and a color noise region determining unit using differences between color values of the target pixel interpolated by the color interpolation unit and determining whether the target pixel is included in a color noise region when it is determined that the target pixel is included in the high frequency region.

Apparatus and method of removing color noise of digital image

An apparatus and method for controlling auto exposure (AE) that is used in digital imaging devices. The apparatus controlling the luminance of an image being outputted from an image sensor by controlling exposure time and analog gain of the image sensor includes: a luminance operation unit operating and outputting a mean luminance of the image outputted from the image sensor; a shutter index determination unit comparing a predetermined target luminance with the mean luminance of the outputted image and determining a shutter index in different manners according to the magnitude of the difference between the target luminance and the mean luminance of the outputted image; and an exposure time/analog gain determination unit generating exposure time and analog gain corresponding to the shutter index determined in the shutter index determination unit and applying the generated exposure time and analog gain to the image sensor.

Apparatus and method for controlling auto exposure

An auto-exposure control method includes: creating an exposure table and an analog gain table including an exposure time and an analog gain of an image sensor set according to an index, respectively; calculating an average luminance value of an image frame obtained by the image sensor; checking whether or not the average luminance value is within a pre-set range including a prescribed final target value; if the average luminance value is not within the pre-set range, determining a shift step from indexes which have been applied to a current image frame according to the difference between the average luminance value and the final target value in order to determine indexes of the exposure table and the analog gain table to be applied to a next image frame; and repeatedly performing of reading an exposure time and an analog gain corresponding to the indexes shifted by the shift step determined from the indexes applied to the current image frame, from the exposure table and the analog gain table, applying the same to the image sensor, obtaining a next image frame, and calculating an average luminance value.

Method for controlling auto-exposure

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Joo Young Ha