Patents Assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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Publication number: 20230029759Abstract: A method of classifying emotions of utterances in a dialogue using word-level emotion embedding based on semi-supervised learning and a long short-term memory (LSTM) model includes embedding word-level emotion by tagging an emotion for each of words in utterances of input dialogue data with reference to a word-emotion association lexicon in which basic emotions are tagged for words for learning; extracting an emotion value of the utterances input; and classifying emotions of the utterances in consideration of change of emotion in the dialogue made in a messenger client, based on the LSTM model, using extracted emotion values of the utterances as input values of the LSTM model. The present invention can appropriately classify emotions by recognizing a change in emotion in a dialogue made in natural language.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hojin CHOI, Youngjun LEE
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Publication number: 20230029579Abstract: A power management integrated circuit includes a reconfigurable converter connected to a rechargeable battery and a control circuit. The reconfigurable converter includes an indcutor to accumulate energy based on an input voltage from a thermoelectric device, provides a wireless sensor node connected to an output node with an output voltage based on the input voltage and an internal input voltage of the rechargeable battery, operates in one of operation modes based on an available power provided from the thermoelectric device and a power consumption by the wireless sensor node and drives the wireless sensor node in response to the wireless sensor node consuming a current greater than a maximum current generated by the thermoelectric device. The control circuit to control the reconfigurable converter based on the input voltage, a first voltage of a first switching node, a second voltage of a second switching node and the output voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Sang-Gug Lee, Young-Seok Noh, Jeong-Il Seo, Won-Jong Choi
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Publication number: 20230030949Abstract: Disclosed is a synaptic device, a reservoir computing device using the synaptic device, and a reservoir computing method using the reservoir computing device. The synaptic device includes a substrate and a plurality of units cells on the substrate, wherein the unit cells each include a channel layer and a first electrode and second electrode intersecting the channel layer, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are spaced apart from each other, and define a gap region exposing a portion of the channel layer, and the channel layer includes a 2-dimensional semiconductor material or a 2-dimensional ferroelectric material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicants: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Heejun YANG, Linfeng SUN
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Patent number: 11566959Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible pressure sensor using a multi-material 3D-printed microchannel mold, and a method for manufacturing the same. An object of the present invention is to provide a flexible pressure sensor using a multi-material 3D-printed microchannel mold, the flexible pressure sensor being formed by using a conductive liquid and an elastomer, having a microchannel formed therein, and having improved flexibility, sensitivity, and stability in comparison to the related art. Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a flexible pressure sensor using a multi-material 3D-printed microchannel mold, in which the flexible pressure sensor is manufactured by using the microchannel mold including microbumps, the microchannel mold being multi-material 3D-printed by using a sacrificial material and a hard material.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Inkyu Park, Kyuyoung Kim
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Patent number: 11565245Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst composition comprising a gold nanoparticle superlattice embedded in hierarchical porous silica and a method for manufacturing the same. The catalyst composition comprising a gold nanoparticle superlattice embedded in hierarchical porous silica according to the present invention comprises micropores and mesopores in the superlattice, so that these pores are channelized to allow the rapid access of reactants to surfaces of gold nanoparticles, and the catalyst composition is very structurally stable and has excellent catalytic activity, and thus has an effect of exhibiting a CO conversion rate of 100% at room temperature.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Sung Min Choi, Shin Hyun Kang
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Patent number: 11568962Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for predicting a drug-drug interaction and a drug-food interaction by using structural information of a drug and, more particularly, to a method for predicting the mechanism of action and activity of a drug interaction through interaction prediction results expressed by a standardized sentence. When using a method for predicting a drug interaction according to the present invention, a drug interaction can be predicted quickly and accurately, and in particular, activity information of an unknown compound can also be predicted by expressing a prediction result by means of a sentence, and thus the method is very useful for developing a drug exhibiting desired activity without causing adverse effects.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Sang Yup Lee, Jae Yong Ryu, Hyun Uk Kim
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Patent number: 11563606Abstract: A method for detecting on-off keying symbols includes receiving, by each of distributed Rx nodes, a pilot signal for a pilot symbol transmitted from a transmitter, the distributed Rx nodes constituting the wireless body area communication network, obtaining, by each of the Rx nodes, a reference value using the received pilot signal, transmitting, by each of the Rx nodes, received data signal to a fusion center when the data signal for the on-off keying symbol transmitted from the transmitter is received by each of the Rx nodes, calculating, by the fusion center, a weight of the on-off keying symbol for each of the Rx nodes using the reference value obtained from each of the Rx nodes and the received data signal, and detecting, by the fusion center, the on-off keying symbol transmitted from the transmitter using the weight of the on-off keying symbol calculated for each of the Rx nodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Junil Choi, Jihoon Cha
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Patent number: 11559215Abstract: A method for measuring a high-accuracy and real-time heart rate based on a continuous-wave radar is provided. The method includes receiving an in-phase (I) signal and a quadrature (Q) signal for a receive signal received through the continuous-wave radar, selecting any one signal by comparing magnitudes of the received I signal and the received Q signal, performing frequency transform of each of bases respectively having predetermined phases with respect to the any one selected signal, and determining a heart rate based on a magnitude response of each of the bases by the frequency transform.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Seong Ook Park, Junhyeong Park
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Publication number: 20230013763Abstract: A modulation scheme conversion device includes: a backscattering tag to which a tag signal is provided; and a tag signal forming unit for forming a tag signal. The modulation scheme conversion device multiplies a radio signal, which has been modulated in a first modulation scheme, and a tag signal, and reconfigures the multiplied signal by using a second modulation scheme, so as to backscatter the reconfigured signal, wherein the reconfiguration is performed in a physical (PHY) layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jin Hwan JUNG, Song Min KIM, Ji Hoon RYOO, Yung YI
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Publication number: 20230020610Abstract: A battery cell assembly electrically connected to a circuit board and a battery package including multiple battery cell assemblies are disclosed. The battery cell assembly includes a battery cell forming electrodes with opposite polarities on the upper and the lower ends, one end fixed to the upper end electrode so that an electric current can flow, the first connector including the other end extended in a direction away from the center of the battery cell, is made of metal plate, and includes the second connector including the other end extended in a direction away from the center of the battery cell. The other end of the first connector and the other end of the second connector are extended in directions, so that the space between the two ends gets wider as they approach the bottom end, and directions that the two ends are not parallel with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Cheolwoo LIM, Gunsoo SHIN, Taeseong JANG, Wonho CHA, Jinkyu KIM, Sangki CHOI, Joungki SEO
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Patent number: 11555086Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of synthesizing hydrocarbon polymers using a deoxygenation reaction, wherein, by deoxygenating polymers including oxygen atom-containing functional groups in side chains thereof to thereby remove the functional groups of the side chains, various block copolymers including polyolefins and hydrocarbon polymers with complex architectures can be synthesized.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Myungeun Seo, Chung Sub Jeon, Sukbok Chang, Dong Wook Kim, Taeseok Oh, Seong Jang Jeon
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Patent number: 11555884Abstract: A method for mitigating a leakage signal in an FMCW radar and a radar system thereof are disclosed. The method for mitigating the leakage signal in the radar system includes generating an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal for a beat signal, generating a complex signal using the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal, concentrating a phase noise of the leakage signal included in the complex signal on a stationary point, and mitigating the phase noise based on stationary point concentration (SPC) of the phase noise.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: SeongOok Park, Junhyeong Park
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Patent number: 11558171Abstract: A method for encryption according to an embodiment includes generating a ciphertext for a secret key that is an integer vector by using an integer-based first homomorphic encryption algorithm, generating a key stream that is the integer vector from a nonce and the secret key by using a key stream generator, encoding the key stream by using a message encoding function of the first homomorphic encryption algorithm, encoding a message that is a real vector by using a message encoding function of a real number-based second homomorphic encryption algorithm, generating a ciphertext for the message by using a result of the encoding of the key stream and a result of the encoding of the message, and transmitting the nonce, the ciphertext for the secret key, and the ciphertext for the message to an apparatus for converting a ciphertext.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignees: SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTD., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Joo Hee Lee, Duk Jae Moon, Hyo Jin Yoon, Ji Hoon Cho, Eun Kyung Kim, Seong Kwang Kim, Joo Young Lee, Jin Cheol Ha, Won Seok Choi
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Patent number: 11557401Abstract: A method for operating an apparatus for predicting confirmed cases of an infectious disease is provided. The method comprises predicting infectious disease information per country, including an infection risk per country, expected number of entrants per country, and number of imported cases per country, based on collected epidemic statistics data per country and inflow data between a corresponding country and a destination country, grouping two or more countries based on geographic or economic relevance, and correcting the infectious disease information per country of countries within a grouped group according to a contagion risk impact set depending on a correlation between the countries within the group, and predicting total number of imported cases flowing into the destination country by re-correcting the infectious disease information per country through applying a correlation for the confirmed cases of the infectious disease between groups to the infectious disease information per country.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jae-Gil Lee, Minseok Kim, Junhyeok Kang, Doyoung Kim, Hwanjun Song, Hyangsuk Min, Youngeun Nam, Dongmin Park
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Patent number: 11552715Abstract: Disclosed are a body channel communication method and an apparatus performing the same. An operating method of a transmitter includes obtaining an input signal including biometric information, generating an encoded signal and a control signal by encoding the input signal, generating a return-to-zero (RZ) signal of a biphasic waveform based on the encoded signal, and transmitting the RZ signal through a body channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Minkyu Je, Yeseul Jeon, Chongsoo Jung
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Patent number: 11552267Abstract: The present disclosure provides a soft memristor for soft neuromorphic system including a substrate, a first electrode layer formed on the substrate, a metal diffusion barrier layer formed on the first electrode layer, a resistive switching material layer formed on the metal diffusion barrier layer, and a second electrode layer formed on the resistive switching material layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Sung-Yool Choi, Byung Chul Jang, Jun Hwe Cha
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Patent number: 11547379Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for correcting scattering artifacts in industrial three-dimensional (3D) cone beam computed tomography (CT) that may prepare raw data acquired from a subject through computed tomography (CT) and a primary signal acquired from shape prior information of the subject, may estimate a scatter kernel based on the raw data and the primary signal, may acquire result data by removing, from the raw data, a scatter signal estimated based on the scatter kernel, and may generate an image from the result data.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Chang-Ock Lee, Soomin Jeon
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Patent number: 11543443Abstract: An impedance measuring apparatus is disclosed. The impedance measuring apparatus includes an input current generator configured to generate a sinusoidal input signal of a carrier frequency, a first electrode configured to apply the sinusoidal input signal to an object which has an impedance, a second electrode configured to receive an amplitude modulated signal from the object, a first amplifier configured to amplify the received amplitude modulated signal and output a first amplified signal, a baseline signal subtractor configured to subtract a baseline signal generated based on the first amplified signal from the amplitude modulated signal and output a subtraction modulated signal, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to convert the subtraction modulated signal to a digital modulated signal, and an impedance measurer configured to measure the impedance based on the digital modulated signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Wonseok Lee, Ji-Hoon Suh, Minkyu Je, Sang Joon Kim
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Patent number: 11546147Abstract: Disclosed is a time division quadrature homodyne CV QKD system, and a continuous variable quantum key distribution system which includes: a transmitter generating an optical pulse of quantum state data by using continuous light according to data of a transmission target encryption key; and a receiver separating the optical pulse received from a channel into two paths and fixing phases of two signals having a time difference of one period of the optical pulse to orthogonal phases, and then generating bit information through state detection by a time division homodyne detection from interacted signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: June-Koo Rhee, Junsang Oh
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Patent number: 11542483Abstract: Disclosed is a recombinant microorganism capable of growing using only carbon dioxide and formic acid by introducing and improving a metabolic pathway for synthesizing pyruvic acid from carbon dioxide and formic acid to enhance pyruvic acid synthesis efficiency and performing additional genetic manipulation, and a method for producing useful substances using the same. Advantageously, the recombinant microorganism is capable of synthesizing pyruvic acid, a C3 organic compound, at a remarkably improved rate, and in particular, grows well even in a medium containing only carbon dioxide and formic acid as carbon sources without a glucose supply, and is thereby capable of synthesizing pyruvic acid and various high value-added compounds using the same as an intermediate product in an economically efficient manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Sang Yup Lee, Junho Bang, Chang Hun Hwang, Jung Ho Ahn, Jong An Lee