Patents Assigned to NCSOFT CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20260179409
    Abstract: This electronic device may comprise: a memory for storing instructions; and a processor. When executed by the processor, the instructions can cause the electronic device to: acquire an image that includes the face of a user; extract feature values from the acquired image by using a face recognition model to which the weight of a masked auto encoder (MAE) trained for faces including the face is transferred; identify, from among reference embedding vectors stored in the memory, a reference embedding vector corresponding to an embedding vector generated on the basis of the extracted feature values; and recognize the user corresponding to the reference embedding vector identified from the image. The face recognition model can be trained through a loss function calculated on the basis of a reference margin value and a rotation margin value, which is based on at least one rotation angle value indicating the orientation of the face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2026
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Applicant: NCSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youngbaek Kim, Younghyun Lee, Jaehyeop Choi
  • Publication number: 20260166428
    Abstract: An electronic device that displays a screen on the display, while the screen is displayed, detects an event to cause a player character to ride a vehicle character associated with the player character in the screen, identifies a portion of the player character to be linked to a portion of the vehicle character when the player character is ridden on the vehicle character, generates an animation representing the player character riding the vehicle character by changing a distance between the portion of the vehicle character and the portion of the player character, and displays the animation on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2026
    Publication date: June 18, 2026
    Applicant: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventors: Jonghoon KIM, Jaemin SHIM, Doohyun CHO, Yunsu HAN
  • Publication number: 20260151703
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic device and method thereof including a display, a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor operably coupled to the display and the memory, and the at least one processor is configured, when executing the instructions, to: display, within a designated area of the display, a slot for executing a function usable for a player character (PC); on the basis of identifying a first input for the slot, display a first indicator for setting a first duration for periodic execution of the function related to the slot; and on the basis of a second input for setting the first duration for periodic execution of the function, by means of the first indicator, display a first element for indicating the first duration, superimposed on the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2026
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Applicant: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventors: Boyun KANG, Kyeongdae KIM, Munsu KIM, Taeeun KIM, Junghyun LEE, Joowon LEE
  • Publication number: 20260138018
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display, memory, and processor configured to display a screen with a virtual space including a player character (PC) and objects, with a sphere-shaped button for scanning target objects; display, upon detecting a pan input on the button, a user interface with a sphere-shaped visual object surrounding the PC and an indicator showing a first direction from a reference location; display the indicator showing a second direction changed from the first direction based on pan input movement; and display visually highlighted target objects within a range from a scan location identified based on the second direction upon detecting release of the pan input. The system provides visual guidance including progress bars, directional indicators, and coordinate-based direction definitions for intuitive object scanning in virtual environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Applicant: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventors: Boyun KANG, Kyeongdae Kim, Munsu Kim, Taeeun Kim, Junghyun Lee, Joowon Lee, Sunggoo Heo
  • Publication number: 20260140605
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic device and method thereof configured to display, on a display, multimedia content including a plurality of avatars. A processor of the device is configured to receive, from an external electronic device and by using a communication circuit, log information related to an event that has occurred in the multimedia content. The processor is configured to use the log information to identify the state of, among the plurality of avatars, a second avatar distinguished from a first avatar corresponding to the electronic device. The processor is configured to use the log information to display a text object, indicating the state of the second avatar, adjacent to a visual object corresponding to the second avatar in the multimedia content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Applicant: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventors: Boyun KANG, Kyeongdae KIM, Munsu KIM, Taeeun KIM, Junghyun LEE, Joowon LEE, Sunggoo HEO
  • Publication number: 20260138027
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic device including: a display; memory storing instructions; and at least one processor operably coupled to the display and the memory. The at least one processor may be configured to, when executing the instructions: display a specified number of slots in a specified area of the display; execute, on the basis of a first input, at least one of functions assigned to the specified number of slots; change slots of a first group among the specified number of slots on the basis of a second input; keep displaying slots of a second group, different from the slots of the first group, in the specified area; and change, on the basis of a third input, the number of slots of the first group to be changed by the second input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Applicant: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventors: Boyun KANG, Kyeongdae KIM, Munsu KIM, Taeeun KIM, Junghyun LEE, Joowon LEE, Sunggoo HEO
  • Patent number: 12632728
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a processor configured to obtain a first data set including a plurality of first words, based on a first neural network stored in the memory, obtain from the first data set, a second data set including a first sub data set including first parameters corresponding to each of designated second words and a second sub data set including second parameters corresponding to each of the plurality of first words, and output, based on parameters included in the second data set, one or more third words related to the plurality of first words, and the first neural network is trained based on a first weight factor applied to the first parameters corresponding to each of the second words and a second weight factor applied to the second parameter, using a second neural network. Various other embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: NCSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyungjong Noh, Sanghyuk Choi, Jeongin Hwang
  • Publication number: 20260084056
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display, memory, and processor configured to display a screen with a virtual space and a mini-map representing the virtual space, including a player character (PC); display the mini-map in a first state showing a first part of the virtual space from a first viewpoint above the PC along a first direction parallel to an elevation direction; and display, based on an input for changing the viewpoint, the mini-map in a second state showing a second part of the virtual space from a second viewpoint along a second direction different from the first direction. The mini-map includes visual objects indicating the PC's reference location and associated objects displayed in a floated state. The device provides altitude indicators, density representations via slider bars, and interactive UI elements for viewpoint manipulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Applicant: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventors: Boyun KANG, Kyeongdae KIM, Munsu KIM, Taeeun KIM, Junghyun LEE, Joowon LEE, Sunggoo HEO
  • Patent number: 12539463
    Abstract: Provided is a method for operating an electronic device with a display. The method includes displaying, in a first area of a user interface for a game, a plurality of visual objects; in response to receiving first user inputs for selecting first visual objects, displaying the first visual objects in a second area of the user interface; while displaying, with the first visual objects, at least one second visual object indicating at least one resource for enhancement of items indicated by the first visual objects in the second area, receiving a second user input for executing the enhancement of the items; in response to receiving the second user input, displaying at least one visual effect for representing that the enhancement of the items is being executed; and based at least in part on completion of execution of the enhancement, displaying a result of the enhancement in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventors: Jong Min Park, Song Hee So, Joo Won Lee, Yeon Gyeong Joo, Jung Joon Kim, Dan Bi Bae, Jin Soo Seo, Yoon Chae Lee
  • Patent number: 12483667
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a memory for storing instructions, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory, wherein when the instructions are executed, the at least one processor is configured to identify a plurality of videos capturing a body from each of a plurality of cameras, obtain a first information indicating a movement of a designated body part from a first video of the plurality of videos, obtain a second information indicating a movement of the designated body part from a second video of the plurality of videos, and synchronize the first video and the second video based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: NCSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sungbum Park, Yeonkun Lee, Seongjong Ha
  • Publication number: 20250322610
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a communication circuit and a processor. The processor is configured to: obtain a plurality of images; obtain feature information associated with the plurality of images, the feature information indicating a first probability that a body part is present in the plurality of images; obtain, using encoding layers, code information associated with the body part having dimensions smaller than dimensions associated with the feature information; obtain, using decoding layers, heatmap information indicating a second probability that one or more vertices corresponding to the body part exist, the second probability also indicating that the body part has dimensions greater than dimensions associated with the code information; and obtain mesh information that indicates a shape of the body in a virtual three-dimensional space, the mesh information comprising being based on the one or more vertices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2025
    Publication date: October 16, 2025
    Applicants: NCSOFT Corporation, KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sangjun AHN, Sunwon JEONG, Sungbum PARK, Juyong CHANG, Sungho CHUN
  • Publication number: 20250324130
    Abstract: A device and method for extracting and analyzing information from video data includes obtaining video data; detecting speech uttered within the video data to generate text data for the video data, the text data comprising a speech text of the video data, generating summary data for the video data based on the text data, generating trend data for the video data based on tag data; and displaying information about the video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2025
    Publication date: October 16, 2025
    Applicant: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventors: Hyeokjun KIM, Sanghoon BYUN, Dongkyu LEE
  • Publication number: 20250315972
    Abstract: An electronic device includes memory storing instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to input, into a neural network, at least one image, from among images that are obtained from different viewpoints, to obtain first information indicating locations of body parts of a subject included in the images, wherein the first information includes first location data indicating a first locations of portions of the body parts within a first image from among the images, and wherein the first locations are determined based on a first visibility values of the portions in the first image; obtain, based on the first information, second information indicating a second locations of the body parts at moments when the images were obtained; and track positions of the body parts in a virtual three-dimensional space based on the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2025
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Applicant: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventors: Sangjun Ahn, Sunwon Jeong, Sungbum Park
  • Patent number: 12400356
    Abstract: The electronic device according to various embodiments include a memory configured to store instructions and at least one processor configured, when executing the instructions, to obtain a first video sequence including a visual object corresponding to a body; obtain a local posture sequence of the visual object that indicates postures of at least one visual element of the visual object in the first video sequence, the at least one visual element of the visual object corresponding to at least one joint of the body; obtain a global motion sequence of the visual object, based on a difference between the postures of the at least one visual element, the postures of the at least one visual object obtained by using the local posture sequence; and obtain a second video sequence, based on the local posture sequence and the global motion sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignees: NCSOFT CORPORATION, KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Seonghyun Kim, Sungbum Park, Sangjun Ahn, Juyong Chang, Sunwon Jeong
  • Publication number: 20250265408
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for dynamic story generation. The method includes generating, using a first inference model, a first output sentence based on a seed sentence, the first output sentence describing a goal of a subject of the seed sentence; and generating, using a second inference model, a second output sentence describing a conflict associated with the goal of the subject of the seed sentence, based on the seed sentence and the first output sentence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2025
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Applicants: NCSOFT Corporation, RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Young June KIM, Young Rok SONG, Sae Byeok LEE, Chung Hee LEE, Yun Gyung CHEONG
  • Publication number: 20250213985
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for controlling a motion of a user character. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there may be provided a method of controlling a motion of a user character, the method including: determining whether a condition for a jump motion of the user character is satisfied; based on determining that the condition for the jump motion of the user character is satisfied, activating a jump motion input object and determining whether the user character is jumping; and based on determining that the user character is jumping, activating a jump attack motion input object, wherein the condition for the jump motion includes that the user character is airborne.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventor: Taeyong CHOI
  • Publication number: 20250213981
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for controlling a motion of a user character. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there may be provided a method of controlling a motion of a user character, the method including: determining whether a condition for a jump motion of the user character is satisfied; based on determining that the condition for the jump motion of the user character is satisfied, activating a jump motion input object and determining whether the user character is jumping; and based on determining that the user character is jumping, activating a jump attack motion input object, wherein the condition for the jump motion includes that the user character is airborne.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventor: Minsung KIM
  • Patent number: D1082820
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Mi Park, Yea Ji Ki, Jong Hae Won, Dan Bi Bae, Young Ah Kim, Hyo Joo Kim, Ji Hee Moon, Sung Woo Park, Joo Won Lee, Bo Min Kim, Bo Yun Kang, Kyeong Dae Kim, Tae Eun Kim
  • Patent number: D1082821
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Mi Park, Yea Ji Ki, Jong Hae Won, Dan Bi Bae, Young Ah Kim, Hyo Joo Kim, Ji Hee Moon, Sung Woo Park, Joo Won Lee, Bo Min Kim, Bo Yun Kang, Kyeong Dae Kim, Tae Eun Kim
  • Patent number: D1082822
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: NCSOFT Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Mi Park, Yea Ji Ki, Jong Hae Won, Dan Bi Bae, Young Ah Kim, Hyo Joo Kim, Ji Hee Moon, Sung Woo Park, Joo Won Lee, Bo Min Kim, Bo Yun Kang, Kyeong Dae Kim, Tae Eun Kim