Patents by Inventor Kyoung-gu Woo

Kyoung-gu Woo 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).

  • Patent number: 10811008
    Abstract: A system for processing a user utterance is provided. The system includes at least one network interface; at least one processor operatively connected to the at least one network interface; and at least one memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, wherein the at least one memory stores a plurality of specified sequences of states of at least one external electronic device, wherein each of the specified sequences is associated with a respective one of domains, wherein the at least one memory further stores instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to receive first data associated with the user utterance provided via a first of the at least one external electronic device, wherein the user utterance includes a request for performing a task using the first of the at least one external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kyoung Gu Woo, Woo Up Kwon, Jin Woo Park, Eun Taek Lim, Joo Hyuk Jeon, Ji Hyun Kim, Dong Ho Jang
  • Patent number: 10698971
    Abstract: A method of storing an access log and an access log storing apparatus are provided. The method includes obtaining a keyword based on an input, determining a website related to the keyword based on access log information associated with a selected link, generating summary information on the determined website, and storing, in a database the summary information on the determined website and address information of the determined website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sojeong Ha, Kyoung Gu Woo
  • Publication number: 20200152181
    Abstract: An electronic device and method for utilizing same are disclosed, the electronic device including a touch screen display disposed in the housing and exposed through a first portion of the housing; a microphone disposed in the housing and exposed through a second portion of the housing; at least one speaker disposed in the housing and exposed through a third portion of the housing; a communication circuit disposed in the housing; a processor disposed in the housing and electrically connected to the display, the microphone, the speaker, and the communication circuit; and a memory disposed in the housing, electrically connected to the processor, and configured to store application programs including a first application program, a second application program and a third application program, the second application program and the third application program include at least one common function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Kyoung Gu WOO, Ho Jun JAYGARL, Kyu Young KIM, Jin Woong KIM, Hyun Jin PARK, Jae Yung YEO
  • Patent number: 10607605
    Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for processing a control command for an electronic device based on a voice agent. The apparatus includes a command tagger configured to receive at least one control command for the electronic device from at least one voice agent and to tag additional information to the at least one control command, and a command executor configured to, in response to the command tagger receiving a plurality of control commands, integrate the plurality of control commands based on additional information tagged to each of the plurality of control commands and to control the electronic device based on a result of the integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo Hyuk Jeon, Kyoung Gu Woo
  • Publication number: 20200034112
    Abstract: The electronic device according to an embodiment may receive a first user input including a first request for performing a first task requiring one or more first parameters for execution, to transmit first data associated with the first user input through the communication circuit to a server including an intelligence system providing a sequence of action states for the electronic device performing at least one task using the at least one application program, to receive the first sequence of the action states for performing the first task, from the server through the communication circuit, to perform not all but part of the first sequence of the action states, based at least on the first user input, and to transmit second data associated with an action state of the electronic device caused from the performing of the part of the first sequence, to the server through the communication circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kyoung Gu WOO, Ho Jun JAYGARL, Han Jun KU, Kyung Tae KIM, Ga Jin SONG
  • Patent number: 10546574
    Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus and corresponding method include a processor configured to calculate a probability distribution corresponding to an intent associated with an utterance of a user by applying pre-stored training data to an input voice signal input based on the utterance. The processor is also configured to select a target feature extractor including either one or both of a training-based feature extractor and a rule-based feature extractor using the calculated probability distribution, and extract a feature associated with the utterance based on the selected target feature extractor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Hoe Kim, Jehun Jeon, Kyoung Gu Woo
  • Patent number: 10521474
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for web page access and an apparatus and method for structuring a web page access history are provided. The apparatus for structuring a web page access history includes a topic extractor configured to analyze a web page accessed by a user to extract at least one topic related to the page, a mapper configured to map the at least one extracted topic onto a node of an ontology-based data structure, and a summary graph generator configured to extract a sub graph including the mapped node from the data structure, and to generate a summary graph based on the extracted sub graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Jin Hong, Kyoung Gu Woo, Yo Han Roh, Sang Hyun Yoo, Ji Hyun Lee, Ho Dong Lee
  • Patent number: 10460125
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for automatic query processing are disclosed, which includes a query analyzer configured to a query analyzer configured to extract the query condition from the input query, a scheduler configured to create one or more sub-queries to verify whether the query condition is satisfied, and to determine an execution condition for the one or more sub-queries, and a condition verifier configured to execute the one or more sub-queries according to the determined execution condition, and to verify whether the query condition is satisfied using results of executing the one or more sub-queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Kon Kang, Kyoung Gu Woo
  • Publication number: 20190286699
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for executing an application may execute a text string selected by a user or an application associated with a type of text string to input the text string to increase the user's convenience. The apparatus of executing an application includes a text string recognizer to determine a text string, a determiner to determine one or more candidate applications related to the text string, and an input location of the selected text string based on a type of the selected text string and the association model, an application list provider to generate and display a list of the candidate applications, and an application executer to execute a candidate application selected from the list and to input the selected text string into the input location of the candidate application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hyun LEE, Kyoung Gu WOO, Seok Jin HONG, Yo Han ROH, Sang Hyun YOO, Ho Dong LEE
  • Patent number: 10417333
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for executing an application may execute a text string selected by a user or an application associated with a type of text string to input the text string to increase the user's convenience. The apparatus of executing an application includes a text string recognizer to determine a text string, a determiner to determine one or more candidate applications related to the text string, and an input location of the selected text string based on a type of the selected text string and the association model, an application list provider to generate and display a list of the candidate applications, and an application executer to execute a candidate application selected from the list and to input the selected text string into the input location of the candidate application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltdd.
    Inventors: Ji Hyun Lee, Kyoung Gu Woo, Seok Jin Hong, Yo Han Roh, Sang Hyun Yoo, Ho Dong Lee
  • Publication number: 20190155571
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a touchscreen display exposed through a first portion of the housing, a microphone disposed at a second portion of the housing, a speaker disposed at a third portion of the housing, a memory disposed inside the housing, a processor disposed inside the housing, and electrically connected to the display, the microphone, the speaker, and the memory. The memory is configured to store a plurality of application programs, each of which includes a graphic user interface (GUI).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: In Jong RHEE, Ji Min LEE, Sang Ki KANG, Han Jun KU, Sung Pa PARK, Jang Seok SEO, In Wook SONG, Won Ick AHN, Kyoung Gu WOO, Ji Soo YI, Chang Kyun JEON, Ho Jun JAYGARL, Il Hwan CHOI, Yoo Jin HONG, Ji Hyun KIM, Jae Yung YEO
  • Patent number: 10283109
    Abstract: A nickname management apparatus includes a speech agent configured to recognize a speech of a user to obtain nickname information of a device, and a nickname manager configured to determine a device corresponding to the nickname information from one or more devices on a network, and register the named device based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyoung Min Park, Kyoung Gu Woo, Hye Jin Kam, Jung Hoe Kim
  • Publication number: 20190075167
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes housing, a touch screen display, a microphone, a wireless communication circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores a software program including a user interface supporting the control of at least one external device based on a user account, and the memory stores at least one instruction that, when executed, causes the processor to receive a first user input for connecting the electronic device to a first external device, to receive a second user input corresponding to a request for performing at least part of a task by using the first external device, to receive a first response including a sequence of states from the second external device to perform, by the first external device, the at least part of the task depending on the sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Seong Min JE, Sun Key LEE, Kyung Tae KIM, Joo Hwan KIM, Jae Yung YEO, Kyoung Gu WOO, Jeong Hyeon YUN, Dong Sun LIM
  • Patent number: 10198668
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for supporting Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) based on a speed of a probe. The apparatus includes a region of interest (ROI) detector configured to detect an ROI from a current image acquired from a probe; and an ROI classifier configured to determine whether to classify the ROI using a determined state of a speed, and classify the ROI according to a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Woo Ryu, Yeong Kyeong Seong, Kyoung Gu Woo
  • Patent number: 10191718
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a touchscreen display exposed through a first portion of the housing, a microphone disposed at a second portion of the housing, a speaker disposed at a third portion of the housing, a memory disposed inside the housing, a processor disposed inside the housing, and electrically connected to the display, the microphone, the speaker, and the memory. The memory is configured to store a plurality of application programs, each of which includes a graphic user interface (GUI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In Jong Rhee, Ji Min Lee, Sang Ki Kang, Han Jun Ku, Sung Pa Park, Jang Seok Seo, In Wook Song, Won Ick Ahn, Kyoung Gu Woo, Ji Soo Yi, Chang Kyun Jeon, Ho Jun Jaygarl, Il Hwan Choi, Yoo Jin Hong, Ji Hyun Kim, Jae Yung Yeo
  • Publication number: 20190026073
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a touch screen display disposed inside the housing and exposed through a first portion of the housing, a microphone disposed inside the housing and exposed through a second portion of the housing, a communication circuit disposed inside the housing, a processor disposed inside the housing and electrically connected to the touch screen display, the microphone, and the communication circuit, and a memory disposed in the housing and electrically connected with the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Joo Hwan KIM, Sun Key LEE, Kyung Tae KIM, Jae Yung YEO, Kyoung Gu WOO, Jeong Hyeon YUN, Dong Sun LIM, Seong Min JE
  • Patent number: 10186062
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an interface unit configured to provide, to a terminal, an interface supporting one or more modes, and display, on the interface, an image including a contour of a region of interest. The apparatus further includes a contour modification unit configured to modify the contour based on a mode selected by a user from the one or more modes, and an operation performed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ye-Hoon Kim, Kyoung-Gu Woo
  • Patent number: 10185808
    Abstract: There are provided an apparatus and method for diagnosis using a medical image. The apparatus includes: an analyzing unit configured to detect a lesion area, and generate a group of candidate lesion areas with respect to the detected lesion area; and an interface unit configured to arrange one or more candidate lesion areas selected among the group of candidate lesion areas with information about each of the one or more selected candidate lesion areas in a first region of an interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Man Park, Kyoung-Gu Woo
  • Publication number: 20190013024
    Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a network interface and processor. The processor implements the method, including receiving a voice input through a network interface as transmitted from a first external device, including a request to execute a function using at least one application which is not indicated in the voice input, extracting a first text from the voice input by executing automatic speech recognition (ASR), when the at least one application is identified based on the first text, transmitting, through the network interface to the first external device, second data associated with the identified at least one application for display by the first external device, and when the at least one application is not identified based at least in part on the first text, reattempting identification of the at least one application by executing natural language understanding (NLU) on the first text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Joo Hyuk JEON, Woo Up KWON, Jin Woo PARK, Kyoung Gu WOO, Eun Taek LIM, Kyung Hak HYUN, Dong Ho JANG
  • Publication number: 20180374482
    Abstract: A system for processing a user utterance is provided. The system includes at least one network interface; at least one processor operatively connected to the at least one network interface; and at least one memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, wherein the at least one memory stores a plurality of specified sequences of states of at least one external electronic device, wherein each of the specified sequences is associated with a respective one of domains, wherein the at least one memory further stores instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to receive first data associated with the user utterance provided via a first of the at least one external electronic device, wherein the user utterance includes a request for performing a task using the first of the at least one external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Kyoung Gu WOO, Woo Up KWON, Jin Woo PARK, Eun Taek LIM, Joo Hyuk JEON, Ji Hyun KIM, Dong Ho JANG