Patents by Inventor Eun-Sang Bak

Eun-Sang Bak 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: 20240038088
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for questions and answers includes a display unit includes an input unit configured to receive user's speech voice; a communication unit configured to perform data communication with an answer server; and a processor configured to create and display one or more question sentences using the speech voice in response to the speech voice being a word speech, create a question language corresponding to the question sentence selected from among the displayed one or more question sentences, transmit the created question language to the answer server via the communication unit, and, in response to one or more answer results related to the question language being received from the answer server, display the received one or more answer results. Accordingly, the display apparatus may provide an answer result appropriate to a user's question intention although a non-sentence speech is input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eun-sang BAK
  • Patent number: 11817013
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for questions and answers includes a display unit includes an input unit configured to receive user's speech voice; a communication unit configured to perform data communication with an answer server; and a processor configured to create and display one or more question sentences using the speech voice in response to the speech voice being a word speech, create a question language corresponding to the question sentence selected from among the displayed one or more question sentences, transmit the created question language to the answer server via the communication unit, and, in response to one or more answer results related to the question language being received from the answer server, display the received one or more answer results. Accordingly, the display apparatus may provide an answer result appropriate to a user's question intention although a non-sentence speech is input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun-sang Bak
  • Publication number: 20210065572
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for questions and answers includes a display unit includes an input unit configured to receive user's speech voice; a communication unit configured to perform data communication with an answer server; and a processor configured to create and display one or more question sentences using the speech voice in response to the speech voice being a word speech, create a question language corresponding to the question sentence selected from among the displayed one or more question sentences, transmit the created question language to the answer server via the communication unit, and, in response to one or more answer results related to the question language being received from the answer server, display the received one or more answer results. Accordingly, the display apparatus may provide an answer result appropriate to a user's question intention although a non-sentence speech is input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eun-sang BAK
  • Patent number: 10922990
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for questions and answers includes a display unit includes an input unit configured to receive user's speech voice; a communication unit configured to perform data communication with an answer server; and a processor configured to create and display one or more question sentences using the speech voice in response to the speech voice being a word speech, create a question language corresponding to the question sentence selected from among the displayed one or more question sentences, transmit the created question language to the answer server via the communication unit, and, in response to one or more answer results related to the question language being received from the answer server, display the received one or more answer results. Accordingly, the display apparatus may provide an answer result appropriate to a user's question intention although a non-sentence speech is input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun-sang Bak
  • Publication number: 20190279523
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for questions and answers includes a display unit includes an input unit configured to receive user's speech voice; a communication unit configured to perform data communication with an answer server; and a processor configured to create and display one or more question sentences using the speech voice in response to the speech voice being a word speech, create a question language corresponding to the question sentence selected from among the displayed one or more question sentences, transmit the created question language to the answer server via the communication unit, and, in response to one or more answer results related to the question language being received from the answer server, display the received one or more answer results. Accordingly, the display apparatus may provide an answer result appropriate to a user's question intention although a non-sentence speech is input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eun-sang BAK
  • Patent number: 10339823
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for questions and answers includes a display unit includes an input unit configured to receive user's speech voice; a communication unit configured to perform data communication with an answer server; and a processor configured to create and display one or more question sentences using the speech voice in response to the speech voice being a word speech, create a question language corresponding to the question sentence selected from among the displayed one or more question sentences, transmit the created question language to the answer server via the communication unit, and, in response to one or more answer results related to the question language being received from the answer server, display the received one or more answer results. Accordingly, the display apparatus may provide an answer result appropriate to a user's question intention although a non-sentence speech is input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun-Sang Bak
  • Patent number: 9953645
    Abstract: A voice recognition device includes an extractor configured to extract at least one of a first utterance element indicating an execution command and a second utterance element indicating a subject, from a user's voice utterance, a domain determiner configured to determine a current domain to provide response information regarding the voice utterance based on the first and the second utterance elements, and a controller configured to determine a candidate conversation frame to provide the response information regarding the voice utterance on at least one of the current domain and a previous domain based on a conversation state of the current domain, wherein the previous domain is determined from a previous voice utterance of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-Sang Bak, Kyung-duk Kim, Myung-jae Kim, Yu Liu, Seong-han Ryu, Geun-bae Lee
  • Patent number: 9865252
    Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus and a method for providing response information are provided. The voice recognition apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an extractor configured to extract a first utterance element representing a user action and a second utterance element representing an object from a user's utterance voice signal; a domain determiner configured to detect an expansion domain related to the extracted first and second utterance elements based on a hierarchical domain model, and determine at least one candidate domain related to the detected expansion domain as a final domain; a communicator which performs communication with an external apparatus; and a controller configured to control the communicator to transmit information regarding the first and second utterance elements and information regarding the determined final domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-sang Bak, Kyung-duk Kim, Myung-jae Kim, Yu Liu, Seong-han Ryu, Geun-bae Lee
  • Publication number: 20160267139
    Abstract: A knowledge-based service system, a knowledge-based service server, a method for providing a knowledge-based service, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium thereof, are provided. The knowledge-based service system includes a display apparatus configured to receive a query from a user, and a knowledge-based service server configured to receive the query from the display apparatus, determine whether a word that is included in the received query is at least one among an entity and an attribute, and transmit, to the display apparatus, an answer to the query based on a result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-duk KIM, Hyung-jong NOH, Eun-sang BAK, Geun-bae LEE, Sang-do HAN
  • Publication number: 20160133146
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for questions and answers includes a display unit includes an input unit configured to receive user's speech voice; a communication unit configured to perform data communication with an answer server; and a processor configured to create and display one or more question sentences using the speech voice in response to the speech voice being a word speech, create a question language corresponding to the question sentence selected from among the displayed one or more question sentences, transmit the created question language to the answer server via the communication unit, and, in response to one or more answer results related to the question language being received from the answer server, display the received one or more answer results. Accordingly, the display apparatus may provide an answer result appropriate to a user's question intention although a non-sentence speech is input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun-sang BAK
  • Patent number: 9183832
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for executing a link and a method for recognizing a voice thereof are provided. The method for executing a link of the display apparatus includes displaying a user interface, determining a text included in a link included in the user interface, displaying the text determined in the link to be distinguished from other texts, recognizing a voice input from a user, and if the voice uttered by the user matches the text determined in the link, executing the link associated with the matching text. Accordingly, possibility of misrecognition of a voice input by the user is reduced, and the user controls a display apparatus using more exact voice recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-sang Bak, Hyun-kyu Yun
  • Publication number: 20150310855
    Abstract: A voice recognition device includes an extractor configured to extract at least one of a first utterance element indicating an execution command and a second utterance element indicating a subject, from a user's voice utterance, a domain determiner configured to determine a current domain to provide response information regarding the voice utterance based on the first and the second utterance elements, and a controller configured to determine a candidate conversation frame to provide the response information regarding the voice utterance on at least one of the current domain and a previous domain based on a conversation state of the current domain, wherein the previous domain is determined from a previous voice utterance of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-Sang BAK, Kyung-duk KIM, Myung-jae KIM, Yu LIU, Seong-han RYU, Geun-bae LEE
  • Publication number: 20150205779
    Abstract: A server and method for correcting an error of a voice recognition result are provided. The method includes, in response to recognizing a user voice, determining a pattern of parts of speech of text data corresponding to the recognized user voice; comparing a prestored standard pattern of parts of speech with the pattern of parts of speech of text data; detecting an error region of the recognized user voice based on a result of the comparing; and correcting the text data corresponding to the detected error region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-sang BAK, Kyung-duk KIM, Hyung-jong NOH, Geun-bae LEE, Jun-hwi CHOI
  • Publication number: 20140350933
    Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus includes: an extractor configured to extract utterance elements from a user's uttered voice; an LSP converter configured to convert the extracted utterance elements into LSP formats; and a controller configured to determine whether an utterance element related to an OOV exists among the utterance elements converted into the LSP formats with reference to vocabulary list information including pre-registered vocabularies, and to determine an OOD area in which it is impossible to provide response information in response to the uttered voice, in response to determining that the utterance element related to the OOV exists. Accordingly, the voice recognition apparatus provides appropriate response information according to a user's intent by considering a variety of utterances and possibilities regarding a user's uttered voice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-sang BAK, Kyung-duk KIM, Hyung-jong NOH, Seong-han RYU, Geun-bae LEE
  • Publication number: 20140214425
    Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus and a method for providing response information are provided. The voice recognition apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an extractor configured to extract a first utterance element representing a user action and a second utterance element representing an object from a user's utterance voice signal; a domain determiner configured to detect an expansion domain related to the extracted first and second utterance elements based on a hierarchical domain model, and determine at least one candidate domain related to the detected expansion domain as a final domain; a communicator which performs communication with an external apparatus; and a controller configured to control the communicator to transmit information regarding the first and second utterance elements and information regarding the determined final domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-sang BAK, Kyung-duk KIM, Myung-jae KIM, Yu LIU, Seong-han RYU, Geun-bae LEE
  • Publication number: 20140129223
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for voice recognition are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a voice receiver which receives a user's voice signal; a first voice recognition engine which receives the voice signal and recognizes voice based on the voice signal; a communicator which receives and transmits the voice signal to an external second voice recognition engine; and a controller which transmits the voice signal from the voice receiver to the first voice recognition engine, and in response to the first voice recognition engine being capable of recognizing voice from the voice signal, the controller outputs the voice recognition results of the first voice recognition engine, and in response to the first voice recognition engine being incapable of recognizing voice from the voice signal, the controller controls transmission of the voice signal to the second voice recognition engine through the communicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun-sang BAK
  • Publication number: 20140122075
    Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus is provided. The voice recognition apparatus comprises: a voice receiver which receives a user's voice signal; a first voice recognition engine which receives the voice signal and performs a voice recognition process; a communication unit which receives the voice signal and transmits the voice signal to an external second voice recognition engine; and a controller which transmits the voice signal received through the voice receiver to at least one of the first voice recognition engine and the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-sang BAK, Myung-jae KIM, Yu LIU, Geo-geun PARK
  • Publication number: 20130110508
    Abstract: An electronic device and a control method are provided. The electronic device includes a voice receiver which receives a voice of a user; a signal processor which performs signal processing on the received voice; a communicator which communicates with a first external device; and a controller which determines a text corresponding to the received voice of the user, and controls the communicator to transmit the signal processed voice and the determined text to the first external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-sang BAK, Ju-rack CHAE, Jae-hwan KIM, Yu LIU
  • Publication number: 20130041666
    Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus, a voice recognition server, a voice recognition system, and a voice recognition method, in which a general-purpose voice recognition engine may accurately recognize a limited number of words used in a specific area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun-sang BAK
  • Publication number: 20130035927
    Abstract: A display apparatus, a method of controlling the same, and a server thereof are provided, in which the display apparatus includes: a communication unit which communicates with a terminal via a conversation mode; a video processor which processes an image related to the conversation mode; a display unit which displays the image processed by the video processor; and a controller which controls the display unit to display a conversation graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a translation selection item and a conversation window for having a conversation with a user of the terminal if the conversation mode is selected, and provides a result from a translation of the conversation if the translation selection item is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-hwan CHA, Ju-rack CHAE, Jae-cheol KIM, Jae-hwan KIM, Eun-sang BAK