Samsung Electro-mechanics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Tae Eung Kim

Sang Kyeong Yun

Won Tae Choi

Dong Won Lee

Joo Hyun Kim

Bong Soon Kang

Kang Joo Kim

Tae Hyeon Kwon

Yong Min Jung

Chang Soo Lim

Tae Keun Oh

Hyun Sik Kim

Keun Woo Park

A harbor lighting control apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of slaves to perform on control or off control, and dimming control with respect to a light emitting diode (LED) array light source mounted to a lighthouse when an on control signal or off control signal, and a dimming control signal are received, and to transmit a result of the control as acknowledge signals, and a master to transmit the on control signal or off control signal and the dimming control signal to all of the plurality of slaves by a broadcast scheme, to transmit the on control signal or off control signal and the dimming control signal to an individual slave by a unicast scheme, and to recognize operational states of the plurality of slaves by receiving the acknowledge signals from the plurality of slaves. Accordingly, stable and reliably control of the harbor lighting is enabled.

Harbor lighting control apparatus

An apparatus for controlling gain of color signal includes an auto white balance algorithm applying unit determining a white estimation region from an input image, and calculating a first color signal gain for correcting an average color signal level of pixels of the white estimation region to white, a pixel determining unit determining a form of each pixel according to brightness and color using the color signal level of the each pixel of the input image, and a color signal gain determining unit determining a color signal gain to be applied to the each pixel according to the form of the each pixel of the input image as any one of the first color signal gain, a second color signal gain determined by the color signal level of the each pixel for correcting the each pixel to white and a unit gain.

Apparatus and method for controlling gain of color signal

An automatic exposure control apparatus employed by an image sensor module including a lens unit, an image sensing unit having a shutter, and an image signal processing unit, the apparatus including: a brightness calculator extracting average brightness of a image signal; a brightness adjustment determiner determining whether to fix or adjust a speed of the shutter based on the average brightness; an adjustment path controller controlling the speed of the shutter by using the brightness error; a digital filter filtering the brightness error; a shutter speed adjuster adjusting a present shutter speed value by using one of the brightness error and the filtered brightness; and a shutter speed controller controlling a speed of the shutter by using the adjusted shutter speed value.

Apparatus for automatically controlling exposure of image sensor

The present invention relates to autofocusing apparatus of a camera. The autofocusing apparatus of a camera includes a lens section on which a light signal is incident; an image sensor and ISP section that receives the light signal incident on the lens section so as to convert into an electrical signal and then outputs digitalized image data; an autofocus DSP that receives the image data from the image sensor and ISP section so as to extract predetermined image components, divides the central region of a picture into N regions (N is an integer larger than two), calculates a focus value for each region by integrating the predetermined image components, and calculates the maximum value while moving the focus lens of the lens section in the up and down direction in accordance with the focus value calculated for each region; and a driving section that drives the focus lens of the lens section.

Autofocusing apparatus of camera and autofocusing method thereof

Disclosed herein is an auto focusing apparatus and method for a camera. The auto focusing apparatus includes an image sensor unit, an Image Signal Processor (ISP) unit, a compression module, a focus value calculating unit, and an auto focus Digital Signal Processor (DSP).

Auto focusing apparatus and method using discrete cosine transform coefficients

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Gyunggi-do, South Korea

Tae Eung Kim