Patents by Inventor Ki Wan Eom
Ki Wan Eom 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).
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Patent number: 10455342Abstract: Provided is a method of operating an acoustic event detecting apparatus including: receiving an acoustic input; extracting frequency characteristics of the acoustic input; determining whether a first acoustic event has occurred by analyzing the extracted frequency characteristics; and in response to determining that the first acoustic event has occurred, acquiring data about at least one of a sound, an image, and a video from an environment outside of the acoustic event detecting apparatus and transmitting the data to a first device.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin-sung Kim, Jae-hoon Jeong, Jung-eun Park, Ki-wan Eom, Byeong-seob Ko, Anant Baijal, In-woo Hwang, Sang-chul Ko, Jeong-su Kim, Seung-yeol Lee, Jae-youn Cho
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Patent number: 9712910Abstract: A glasses apparatus and a controlling method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The glasses apparatus is configured to operate with the display apparatus, and includes a communicator configured to perform communication with the display apparatus; an osteophony speaker configured to output audio received from the display apparatus; and a controller configured to control the communicator to receive contents audio from the display apparatus if the display apparatus provides a contents image, and to receive call audio from the display apparatus if the display apparatus performs a call function with an external user, and to output one of the received contents audio and call audio to the osteophony speaker.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki-wan Eom, Sang-yoon Kim, Woo-jung Lee, Jeong-su Kim
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Patent number: 9659092Abstract: A music information searching method includes extracting modulating spectrums from audio data, generating modulating spectrum peak point audio fingerprints by using position information which relates to preset peak points from the extracted modulating spectrums, converting the generated modulating spectrum peak point audio fingerprints into hash keys which indicate addresses of hash tables and hash values that are stored on the hash tables via hash functions, and searching music information by extracting hash keys which relate to audio query clips and comparing the extracted hash keys with the indicated addresses of the hash tables.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATIONInventors: Ki-wan Eom, Hyoung-Gook Kim, Kwang-ki Kim
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Publication number: 20160150338Abstract: Provided is a method of operating an acoustic event detecting apparatus including: receiving an acoustic input; extracting frequency characteristics of the acoustic input; determining whether a first acoustic event has occurred by analyzing the extracted frequency characteristics; and in response to determining that the first acoustic event has occurred, acquiring data about at least one of a sound, an image, and a video from an environment outside of the acoustic event detecting apparatus and transmitting the data to a first device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin-sung KIM, Jae-hoon JEONG, Jung-eun PARK, Ki-wan EOM, Byeong-seob KO, Anant BAIJAL, In-woo HWANG, Sang-chul KO, Jeong-su KIM, Seung-yeol LEE, Jae-youn CHO
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Patent number: 9251853Abstract: A method, medium, and system generating a video abstract with high processing speeds, may include a detecting of an event candidate section from video data, based on audio information, a detecting of shot change information from the detected event candidate section, a detecting of final event sections from the detected event candidate section, based on the detected shot change information and visual information, and a generating of video abstract information by merging the extracted final event sections.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2006Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Guk Jeong, Young Su Moon, Ki Wan Eom, Ji Yeun Kim, Hyoung Gook Kim
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Publication number: 20160014223Abstract: A personalized service method using a user history in a mobile terminal is provided. The personalized service method using the user history in the mobile terminal includes: checking at least one of event information and context information which occurred due to a user; checking a user's location, a user's condition, a user's emotional state, or an event occurrence time when the at least one of event information and context information occur; reflecting the user's location, the user's condition, the user's emotional state, or the event occurrence time in the at least one of event information and context information, and recording the at least one of event information and context information, having reflected the user's location, the user's condition, the user's emotional state, or the event occurrence time, in a database in a diary type; and displaying a representing image corresponding to the at least one of event information and context information, having been recorded in the diary type.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ki Wan EOM, Hyoung Gook KIM, Jeong Mi CHO, Jae Won LEE, Jung Eun KIM
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Publication number: 20150334486Abstract: A glasses apparatus and a controlling method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The glasses apparatus is configured to operate with the display apparatus, and includes a communicator configured to perform communication with the display apparatus; an osteophony speaker configured to output audio received from the display apparatus; and a controller configured to control the communicator to receive contents audio from the display apparatus if the display apparatus provides a contents image, and to receive call audio from the display apparatus if the display apparatus performs a call function with an external user, and to output one of the received contents audio and call audio to the osteophony speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki-wan EOM, Sang-yoon KIM, Woo-jung LEE, Jeong-su KIM
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Patent number: 9190056Abstract: A method and apparatus for correcting a named entity word in a speech input text. The method includes recognizing a speech input signal from a user, obtaining a recognition result including named entity vocabulary mark-up information, determining a named entity word recognized incorrectly in the recognition result according to the named entity vocabulary mark-up information, displaying the named entity word recognized incorrectly, and correcting the named entity word recognized incorrectly.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xuan Zhu, Hua Zhang, Tengrong Su, Ki-Wan Eom, Jae-Won Lee
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Patent number: 9143604Abstract: A personalized service method using a user history in a mobile terminal is provided. The personalized service method using the user history in the mobile terminal includes: checking at least one of event information and context information which occurred due to a user; checking a user's location, a user's condition, a user's emotional state, or an event occurrence time when the at least one of event information and context information occur; reflecting the user's location, the user's condition, the user's emotional state, or the event occurrence time in the at least one of event information and context information, and recording the at least one of event information and context information, having reflected the user's location, the user's condition, the user's emotional state, or the event occurrence time, in a database in a diary type; and displaying a representing image corresponding to the at least one of event information and context information, having been recorded in the diary type.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2007Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Wan Eom, Hyoung Gook Kim, Jeong Mi Cho, Jae Won Lee, Jung Eun Kim
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Patent number: 9113029Abstract: A glasses apparatus and a controlling method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The glasses apparatus is configured to operate with the display apparatus, and includes a communicator configured to perform communication with the display apparatus; an osteophony speaker configured to output audio received from the display apparatus; and a controller configured to control the communicator to receive contents audio from the display apparatus if the display apparatus provides a contents image, and to receive call audio from the display apparatus if the display apparatus performs a call function with an external user, and to output one of the received contents audio and call audio to the osteophony speaker.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki-wan Eom, Sang-yoon Kim, Woo-jung Lee, Jeong-su Kim
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Patent number: 9012755Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for generating and storing a database that may be searched for music upon a user's request, and a method and apparatus for searching for music corresponding to the user's request. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of melodies are divided based on phrase breaks and are stored, and a number of melodies which are similar to the user's request are detected from the stored melodies.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ki-wan Eom, Jae-won Lee, Jung-eun Kim, Jing Deng
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Patent number: 8892436Abstract: A method of recognizing speech is provided. The method includes the operations of (a) dividing first speech that is input to a speech recognizing apparatus into frames; (b) converting the frames of the first speech into frames of second speech by applying conversion rules to the divided frames, respectively; and (c) recognizing, by the speech recognizing apparatus, the frames of the second speech, wherein (b) comprises converting the frames of the first speech into the frames of the second speech by reflecting at least one frame from among the frames that are previously positioned with respect to a frame of the first speech.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University Industry FoundationInventors: Ki-wan Eom, Chang-woo Han, Tae-gyoon Kang, Nam-soo Kim, Doo-hwa Hong, Jae-won Lee, Hyung-joon Lim
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Publication number: 20140168349Abstract: A glasses apparatus and a controlling method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The glasses apparatus is configured to operate with the display apparatus, and includes a communicator configured to perform communication with the display apparatus; an osteophony speaker configured to output audio received from the display apparatus; and a controller configured to control the communicator to receive contents audio from the display apparatus if the display apparatus provides a contents image, and to receive call audio from the display apparatus if the display apparatus performs a call function with an external user, and to output one of the received contents audio and call audio to the osteophony speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki-wan EOM, Sang-yoon KIM, Woo-jung LEE, Jeong-su KIM
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Publication number: 20140135964Abstract: A music information searching method includes extracting modulating spectrums from audio data, generating modulating spectrum peak point audio fingerprints by using position information which relates to preset peak points from the extracted modulating spectrums, converting the generated modulating spectrum peak point audio fingerprints into hash keys which indicate addresses of hash tables and hash values that are stored on the hash tables via hash functions, and searching music information by extracting hash keys which relate to audio query clips and comparing the extracted hash keys with the indicated addresses of the hash tables.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicants: KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki-wan EOM, Hyoung-Gook KIM, Kwang-ki KIM
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Patent number: 8718293Abstract: A signal separation system and a method for automatically selecting a threshold to separate sound sources. The signal separation system calculates a power sequence for a target signal using a target mask, and a power sequence for an interference signal using a complementary mask, based on signals received from a plurality of microphones; applies a nonlinearity to the target signal power sequence and the interference signal power sequence; calculates a correlation coefficient of the nonlinear target signal power sequence and the nonlinear interference signal power sequence; and sets a noise masking threshold that minimizes the correlation coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2010Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chan Woo Kim, Ki Wan Eom, Jae Won Lee, Richard M. Stern
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Patent number: 8531917Abstract: An apparatus for estimating a Direction of Arrival (DOA) of a wideband includes a first signal receiving unit and a second signal receiving unit to receive a wideband signal while satisfying d?Mc/2fs, wherein ‘d’ denotes a distance the first signal receiving unit and the second signal receiving unit are spaced apart from each other, ‘c’ denotes the speed of sound, ‘M’ denotes a number of wideband frequencies being a number of fast Fourier transformation (FFT) points of a wideband signal, and ‘fs’ denotes a sampling frequency, and a DOA calculating unit to calculate a DOA (?) using a normalized frequency ( f) which is obtained by performing an FFT on the respective wideband signals transmitted from the first signal receiving unit and the second signal receiving unit, and using the distance d.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weiwei Cui, Ki Wan Eom, Hyung-Joon Lim
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Patent number: 8477962Abstract: A microphone signal compensation apparatus includes a plurality of audio input units to respectively receive a target signal, each audio input unit of the plurality of audio input units including a microphone; a constant filter unit to selectively apply a constant filtering calibration scheme to signals output by the plurality of audio input units to compensate for a difference in at least one characteristic among the audio input units, the constant filtering calibration scheme being estimated from an average value of a ratio of a desired signal to a reference signal among the signals output by the plurality of audio input units; and a noise remover to remove noise from the signals processed by the constant filter unit, and to separate the target signal from the signals from which the noise has been removed.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2010Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weiwei Cui, Ki Wan Eom, Hyung-Joon Lim
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Patent number: 8340426Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for recognizing characters. The apparatus includes a display unit to display an image in which a region of interest or an error region is indicated, and a character recognition result, a region-of-interest setting unit to set the region of interest in the image displayed on the display unit, a recognition unit to perform character recognition on the region of interest or the error region and provide the character recognition result to the display unit, and an error correction unit to set the error region in the image displayed on the display region, perform image copying on the set error region according to a user input, and provide a handwriting input using the image copying to the recognition unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ki-wan Eom, Jae-won Lee, Juno-eun Kim
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Publication number: 20120232904Abstract: A method and apparatus for correcting a named entity word in a speech input text. The method includes recognizing a speech input signal from a user, obtaining a recognition result including named entity vocabulary mark-up information, determining a named entity word recognized incorrectly in the recognition result according to the named entity vocabulary mark-up information, displaying the named entity word recognized incorrectly, and correcting the named entity word recognized incorrectly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xuan ZHU, Hua Zhang, Tengrong Su, Ki-Wan Eom, Jae-Won Lee
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Patent number: RE46037Abstract: An audio information retrieval method, medium, and system that can rapidly retrieve audio information, even in noisy environments, by extracting a modulation spectrum that is robust against noise, converting features of the extracted modulation spectrum into hash bits, and using a hash table. The audio information retrieval method may include extracting a modulation spectrum from audio data of a compressed domain, converting the extracted modulation spectrum into fingerprint bits, arranging the fingerprint bits in a form of a hash table, converting a received query into an address by a hash function corresponding to the query, and retrieving the audio information by referring to the hash table.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyoung Gook Kim, Ki Wan Eom, Ji Yeun Kim, Yuan Yuan She, Xuan Zhu