Patents by Inventor Yookyung Kim

Yookyung Kim 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: 20240105160
    Abstract: A method for generating a synthesis voice is provided, which is performed by one or more processors, and includes acquiring a text-to-speech synthesis model trained to generate a synthesis voice for a training text, based on reference voice data and a training style tag represented by natural language, receiving a target text, acquiring a style tag represented by natural language, and inputting the style tag and the target text into the text-to-speech synthesis model and acquiring a synthesis voice for the target text reflecting voice style features related to the style tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEOSAPIENCE, INC.
    Inventors: Taesu KIM, Younggun LEE, Yookyung SHIN, Hyeongju KIM
  • Publication number: 20230135650
    Abstract: A negative active material composite, a method of preparing the same, and a negative electrode and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same, the negative active material composite including compound particles represented by SiOx, in which 0<x?2.0; silicon nanoparticles having an average particle diameter (D50) of greater than 0 nm and less than or equal to about 200 nm; and amorphous carbon, wherein an internal pore volume of the negative active material composite is greater than 0 cm3/g and less than or equal to about 5.0×10?2 cm3/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Young-Min KIM, Eunji KANG, Youngugk KIM, Yookyung KIM, Sunil PARK, Changsu SHIN, Doori OH, Jongmin WON, Dae-Hyeok LEE, Jungho LEE
  • Publication number: 20170201723
    Abstract: A method of providing an object image includes collecting a global image and an additional image of a predetermined space using a fixed camera and a tracking camera, displaying broadcast contents including the collected global image and additional image on a display, receiving an input of an object of interest selected by a user from the broadcast contents displayed on the display, and analyzing the object of interest selected from the broadcast contents and displaying the additional image mapped to the global image configuring the broadcast contents on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Yookyung Kim, Kwang-Yong Kim, Gi Mun Um, ALEX LEE, Kee Seong Cho, Gyeong-June Hahm
  • Patent number: 9436759
    Abstract: The performance of traditional speech recognition systems (as applied to information extraction or translation) decreases significantly with, larger domain size, scarce training data as well as under noisy environmental conditions. This invention mitigates these problems through the introduction of a novel predictive feature extraction method which combines linguistic and statistical information for representation of information embedded in a noisy source language. The predictive features are combined with text classifiers to map the noisy text to one of the semantically or functionally similar groups. The features used by the classifier can be syntactic, semantic, and statistical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Jun Huang, Yookyung Kim, Youssef Billawala, Farzad Ehsani, Demitrios Master
  • Patent number: 9430572
    Abstract: Method, system, and programs for mapping data. Information related to users and their interests is obtained by a first application from a second application. An interest space is determined based on one or more sources of information, each of which provides a plurality of concepts. A data structure is created with respect to the interest space, where the data structure has a plurality of attributes each of the attributes corresponds to a concept in the interest space. One or more interests for each of the users based on information obtained from the second application. Each user interest corresponds to an attribute in the structure. A user profile is generated for each user by mapping the interests of the user to the corresponding attributes in the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Liu, Yookyung Kim, Choon Hui Teo
  • Patent number: 9355185
    Abstract: An online article is enhanced by displaying, in association with the article, supplemental content that includes entities that are extracted from the article and/or entities that are related to entities that are extracted from the article. The supplemental content further includes information about each of the entities. The information about an entity may be obtained by searching for the entity in one or more searchable repositories of data. For example, the supplemental content may include, for each entity, video, image, web, and/or news search results. The supplemental content may further include information such as stock quotes, abstracts, maps, scores, and so on. The entities are selected using a variety of analysis and ranking techniques based on contextual factors such as user-specific information, time-sensitive popularity trends, grammatical features, search result quality, and so on. The entities may further be selected for purposes such as generating ad-based revenue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Yookyung Kim, Hongjian Zhao, Xin Li, Alexandra Levich, Tom Chi, Ming Sui, Yihong Zhao, Marc Davis
  • Publication number: 20160006998
    Abstract: An image correcting method includes capturing projected images, generating first captured images based on the capturing, analyzing a number of pixels depending on color intensities of colors of the first captured images, and correcting the first captured images based on the analyzing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Jinho LEE, Yookyung KIM, Dong Kyung NAM
  • Publication number: 20150134336
    Abstract: The performance of traditional speech recognition systems (as applied to information extraction or translation) decreases significantly with, larger domain size, scarce training data as well as under noisy environmental conditions. This invention mitigates these problems through the introduction of a novel predictive feature extraction method which combines linguistic and statistical information for representation of information embedded in a noisy source language. The predictive features are combined with text classifiers to map the noisy text to one of the semantically or functionally similar groups. The features used by the classifier can be syntactic, semantic, and statistical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Jun Huang, Yookyung Kim, Youssef Billawala, Farzad Ehsani, Demitrios Master
  • Publication number: 20140280350
    Abstract: Method, system, and programs for mapping data. Information related to users and their interests is obtained by a first application from a second application. An interest space is determined based on one or more sources of information, each of which provides a plurality of concepts. A data structure is created with respect to the interest space, where the data structure has a plurality of attributes each of the attributes corresponds to a concept in the interest space. One or more interests for each of the users based on information obtained from the second application. Each user interest corresponds to an attribute in the structure. A user profile is generated for each user by mapping the interests of the user to the corresponding attributes in the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Nathan Liu, Yookyung Kim, Choon Hui Teo
  • Patent number: 8760572
    Abstract: A method for constructing an image includes acquiring image data in a first domain. The acquired image data is transformed from the first domain into a second domain in which the acquired image data exhibits a high degree of sparsity. An initial set of transform coefficients is approximated for transforming the image data from the second domain into a third domain in which the image may be displayed. The approximated initial set of transform coefficients is updated based on a weighing of where substantial transform coefficients are likely to be located relative to the initial set of transform coefficients. An image is constructed in the third domain based on the updated set of transform coefficients. The constructed image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, The University of Arizona
    Inventors: Ali Bilgin, Yookyung Kim, Mariappan S. Nadar
  • Publication number: 20140143243
    Abstract: An online article is enhanced by displaying, in association with the article, supplemental content that includes entities that are extracted from the article and/or entities that are related to entities that are extracted from the article. The supplemental content further includes information about each of the entities. The information about an entity may be obtained by searching for the entity in one or more searchable repositories of data. For example, the supplemental content may include, for each entity, video, image, web, and/or news search results. The supplemental content may further include information such as stock quotes, abstracts, maps, scores, and so on. The entities are selected using a variety of analyses and ranking techniques based on contextual factors such as user-specific information, time-sensitive popularity trends, grammatical features, search result quality, and so on. The entities may further be selected for purposes such as generating ad-based revenue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Yookyung Kim, Hongjian Zhao, Xin Li, Alexandra Levich, Tom Chi, Ming Sui, Yihong Zhao, Marc Davis
  • Patent number: 8600979
    Abstract: An online article is enhanced by displaying, in association with the article, supplemental content that includes entities that are extracted from the article and/or entities that are related to entities that are extracted from the article. The supplemental content further includes information about each of the entities. The information about an entity may be obtained by searching for the entity in one or more searchable repositories of data. For example, the supplemental content may include, for each entity, video, image, web, and/or news search results. The supplemental content may further include information such as stock quotes, abstracts, maps, scores, and so on. The entities are selected using a variety of analyses and ranking techniques based on contextual factors such as user-specific information, time-sensitive popularity trends, grammatical features, search result quality, and so on. The entities may further be selected for purposes such as generating ad-based revenue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Yookyung Kim, Hongjian Zhao, Xin Li, Alexandra Levich, Tom Chi, Ming Sui, Yihong Zhao, Marc Davis
  • Patent number: 8583416
    Abstract: The performance of traditional speech recognition systems (as applied to information extraction or translation) decreases significantly with, larger domain size, scarce training data as well as under noisy environmental conditions. This invention mitigates these problems through the introduction of a novel predictive feature extraction method which combines linguistic and statistical information for representation of information embedded in a noisy source language. The predictive features are combined with text classifiers to map the noisy text to one of the semantically or functionally similar groups. The features used by the classifier can be syntactic, semantic, and statistical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Fluential, LLC
    Inventors: Jun Huang, Yookyung Kim, Youssef Billawala, Farzad Ehsani, Demitrios Master
  • Patent number: 8582907
    Abstract: A method for constructing an image includes acquiring image data in a sensing domain, transforming the acquired image data into a sparse domain, approximating sparse coefficients based on the transformed acquired image data, performing a Bayes Least Squares estimation on the sparse coefficients based on Gaussian Scale Mixtures Model to generate weights, approximating updated sparse coefficients by using the weights and acquired image, constructing an image based on the updated sparse coefficients, and displaying the constructed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignees: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of University of Arizona
    Inventors: Ali Bilgin, Yookyung Kim, Mariappan S. Nadar
  • Patent number: 8548797
    Abstract: A content-providing entity receives a relatively short text from a user and attempts to determine, automatically, based on that short text (and on other available clues), a language that the user can read and understand. The content-providing entity may then provide, to the user, documents that are written in the determined language. The content-providing entity may determine a language of the input text based on several factors in combination: (a) the service provider's “market,” which is determined based on at least a portion of the URL of the Internet site to which the user directed his browser; (b) the user's “region,” which is determined based on the source Internet Protocol (IP) address of the IP packets that the user sends to the Internet site; (c) the “script” in which the short user-entered text is written; and (d) a statistical analysis of the frequency of the characters present in the short user-entered text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Yookyung Kim, Shuang Guo, Xian Xiang Hu, Xin Li
  • Patent number: 8520928
    Abstract: A method for reconstructing a digital image from a set of measurements includes providing a previous image frame in a time series of measurements of an image signal and a current image frame in the time series, calculating an estimated motion vector for a spatial point and current time point between the previous and current image frames, calculating a motion compensated current image frame from the previous image frame, estimating a known support set of a sparse signal estimate of the motion compensated current image frame where the support set comprises indices of non-zero elements of the sparse signal estimate, calculating a sparse signal corresponding to the current image frame whose support contains a smallest number of new additions to the known support set while satisfying a data consistency constraint, and correcting the motion compensated current image frame image frame from the sparse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignees: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona, Siemens Corporation
    Inventors: Ali Bilgin, Yookyung Kim, Mariappan S. Nadar, Rajagopalan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 8229728
    Abstract: The present invention adopts the fundamental architecture of a statistical machine translation system which utilizes statistical models learned from the training data and does not require expert knowledge for rule-based machine translation systems. Out of the training parallel data, a certain amount of sentence pairs are selected for manual alignment. These sentences are aligned at the phrase level instead of at the word level. Depending on the size of the training data, the optimal amount for manual alignment may vary. The alignment is done using an alignment tool with a graphical user interface which is convenient and intuitive to the users. Manually aligned data are then utilized to improve the automatic word alignment component. Model combination methods are also introduced to improve the accuracy and the coverage of statistical models for the task of statistical machine translation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Fluential, LLC
    Inventors: Jun Huang, Yookyung Kim, Demitrios Master, Farzad Ehsani
  • Publication number: 20120008844
    Abstract: A method for reconstructing a digital image from a set of measurements includes providing a previous image frame in a time series of measurements of an image signal and a current image frame in the time series, calculating an estimated motion vector for a spatial point and current time point between the previous and current image frames, calculating a motion compensated current image frame from the previous image frame, estimating a known support set of a sparse signal estimate of the motion compensated current image frame where the support set comprises indices of non-zero elements of the sparse signal estimate, calculating a sparse signal corresponding to the current image frame whose support contains a smallest number of new additions to the known support set while satisfying a data consistency constraint, and correcting the motion compensated current image frame image frame from the sparse signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicants: Siemens Corporation, The University of Arizona
    Inventors: Ali Bilgin, Yookyung Kim, Mariappan S. Nadar, Rajagopalan Sundaresan
  • Publication number: 20120008843
    Abstract: A method for constructing an image includes acquiring image data in a sensing domain, transforming the acquired image data into a sparse domain, approximating sparse coefficients based on the transformed acquired image data, performing a Bayes Least Squares estimation on the sparse coefficients based on Gaussian Scale Mixtures Model to generate weights, approximating updated sparse coefficients by using the weights and acquired image, constructing an image based on the updated sparse coefficients, and displaying the constructed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicants: The University of Arizona, Siemens Corporation
    Inventors: Ali Bilgin, Yookyung Kim, Mariappan S. Nadar
  • Publication number: 20110320437
    Abstract: An online article is enhanced by displaying, in association with the article, supplemental content that includes entities that are extracted from the article and/or entities that are related to entities that are extracted from the article. The supplemental content further includes information about each of the entities. The information about an entity may be obtained by searching for the entity in one or more searchable repositories of data. For example, the supplemental content may include, for each entity, video, image, web, and/or news search results. The supplemental content may further include information such as stock quotes, abstracts, maps, scores, and so on. The entities are selected using a variety of analyses and ranking techniques based on contextual factors such as user-specific information, time-sensitive popularity trends, grammatical features, search result quality, and so on. The entities may further be selected for purposes such as generating ad-based revenue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Yookyung Kim, Hongjian Zhao, Xin Li, Alexandra Levich, Tom Chi, Ming Sui, Yihong Zhao, Marc Davis