Patents Assigned to NHN
  • Patent number: 11941666
    Abstract: A system for automatic matching search advertisement based on a product includes an advertising server configured to be accessible by at least one affiliate server and provide the affiliate server with a product-based automatic matching advertising interface, a text analysis apparatus configured to generate at least one text-based product attribute value corresponding to selected product advertising information by analyzing text information corresponding to the product advertising information selected by the affiliate server while operating in conjunction with the advertising server and to provide the at least one text-based product attribute value, and at least one user terminal having a product search application provided by the advertising server and installed therein, and connected to the advertising server over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bowoo Choi, Ji Hyun Sung, Kirin Choi
  • Patent number: 11915292
    Abstract: An apparatus, a system, and a method for providing a customized clothing recommendation service are provided. The method for providing a customized clothing recommendation service recommending clothing products with a neckline suitable for a user by a neckline recommendation service providing server, comprises: constructing a database for storing clothing product information matching neckline type information to clothing products; receiving an image of a user's upper body; detecting a face from the received upper body image and determining a face type of the detected face; and determining neckline type information matching the determined face type and detecting one or more clothing products matching the determined neckline type information; and providing the detected clothing products to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NHN CLOUD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ohk Yeob Heo
  • Patent number: 11861816
    Abstract: A system and a method for detecting image forgery through a convolutional neural network are capable of detecting image manipulation of compressed and/or color images. The system comprises a manipulated feature pre-processing unit applying an input image to a high-pass filter to enhance features due to image forgery; a manipulated feature extraction unit extracting image manipulated feature information from the image with the enhanced features through a pre-trained convolutional neural network; a feature refining unit refining the extracted image manipulated feature information; and a manipulation classifying unit determining the image forgery based on the image manipulated feature information refined by the feature refining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NHN CLOUD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyeon-gi Kim, Rokkyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11738271
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for predicting game difficulty by using a deep-learning based game play server predict a difficulty of stage maps of a match puzzle game using a deep-learning based game play server that performs the match puzzle game and modify the stage maps. The deep-learning based game play server includes: a communicator configured to receive first stage maps of a first size and second stage maps of a second size; memory configured to store an agent model; at least one processor configured to perform learning of the agent model and perform the match puzzle game using the learned agent model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NHN CLOUD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chang Yul Lee, Jun Yeop Lee, Choong Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11727605
    Abstract: A method and system for creating a virtual image based on deep learning according to an embodiment of the present disclosure creates a virtual image based on deep learning by an image application executed by a processor of a computing device, where the method comprises obtaining a plurality of product images with respect to one product; classifying the obtained product images into a plurality of categories according to different pose types; determining a target category from among the plurality of categories for which the virtual image is to be created; creating a virtual image of a first pose type matched to the determined target category based on at least one product image among the plurality of product images; and displaying the created virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NHN CLOUD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Myounghoon Cho
  • Patent number: 11669867
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including: a memory having a plurality of applications stored therein; an application management module configured to receive application information corresponding to the respective applications, and generate status information of the applications, corresponding to the application information; and a controller configured to determine execution history information of the applications through the status information provided from the application management module, wherein the application management module includes: an application information collection unit configured to collect cache data size information of the respective applications at preset time intervals; and a comparison unit configured to generate the status information of the applications by comparing the cache data size information of the applications, collected by the application information collection unit, to reference values corresponding to the respective applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Daebeom Lee, Joon Sung Park, Joon Ho Lee, Donghun Kwon, Jun Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 11663632
    Abstract: A network server for providing web pages to user terminals which access through user identifications (IDs) may include: a communicator connected to a network; and a processor configured to communicate with the user terminals through the communicator. The processor may be configured to score first convertibility points corresponding to the respective user IDs, according to whether actions of the user terminals on the web pages are matched with predetermined user events, select one of the plurality of message types according to whether the first convertibility point of one user ID among the user IDs is higher than a threshold value, when the one user ID accesses through a user terminal, and provide the selected message type including the selected object to the user terminal of the one user ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignees: NHN CORPORATION, NHN AD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sunha Baik, Jichan Yoo, Dong Ju Shin
  • Patent number: 11659364
    Abstract: A method capable of enhancing a user's acceptance of a received message, a message application program for performing the method, and a user terminal performing the method. The method of exposing received messages is a method performed by a message application program running on a user terminal. The method comprises receiving a message, and displaying the message if the current state of the user terminal satisfies a condition included in an exposure rule. After the message application program receives the message, the message application program displays the message only when the current state of the terminal satisfies the condition included in the exposure rule, thereby increasing the acceptance of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Dong Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 11631064
    Abstract: A crowdfunding method may be executed by one or more processors of a crowdfunding system based on a blockchain for creating a game operating on a distributed network composed of a plurality of nodes. The method comprises performing a crowdfunding service on the distributed network according to a configured smart contract. The smart contract comprises generating an initial block including data records related to game production plan information, sharing at least one transaction record related to electronic transactions of coins with the plurality of nodes, generating at least one new block including data records related to at least one transaction record, and updating a blockchain stored in at least one of the plurality of nodes so as to add the new block to the blockchain through communication with the distributed network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soo Kyoung Seol, Heetae Lyu, Junghwa Baek, Kiho Na, HeeJae Myeong, Min Tae Kim, SeungJae Lee
  • Patent number: 11620693
    Abstract: A method for providing a product search result of a meta shopping mall comprises constructing a database by receiving store information and product information from servers for stores; receiving the store information and the product information from the stores, generating a store index document and a product index document including search words, and storing the store index document and the product index document on the database; generating keyword comprehensive information about a store which has registered a keyword, generating a keyword index document matching the keyword to the store which has registered the keyword, and storing the keyword index document on the database; receiving a search word input from a user; and searching the keyword index document within the database for the search word and providing the user with a store search result output interface for a product corresponding to the keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: NHN CLOUD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eun bit Yoo
  • Patent number: 11544905
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provide a virtual clothing wearing service based on deep-learning. A virtual clothing wearing server based on deep-learning includes a communicator configured to receive a user image and a v clothing image; a memory configured to store a program including first and second deep-learning models; a processor configured to generate an image of virtually dressing a virtual wearing clothing on a user. The program is configured to: generate, by the first deep-learning model, a transformed virtual wearing clothing image by transforming the virtual wearing clothing image in accordance with a body of the user in the user image based on the user image and the virtual wearing clothing image, and generate, by the second deep-learning model, the virtual wearing person image by dressing the transformed virtual wearing clothing on the body of the user based on the user image and the transformed virtual wearing clothing image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NHN CLOUD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyug Jae Lee, Rok Kyu Lee, Min Seok Kang, Myoung Hoon Cho
  • Patent number: 11544759
    Abstract: A method for providing similar or related products based on deep-learning, which is performed by a data processing unit of a shopping mall server, includes: acquiring an item image and item information for an item registered in a shopping mall; detecting bounding boxes for one or more objects by object-detecting the item image; setting a bounding box for an object associated with the item based on the item information; creating a main bounding box image by cropping a portion of the item image in the set bounding box; creating a padding image by padding-processing the main bounding box image; extracting a feature vector for the padding image; matching the feature vector with the item and storing the feature vector in a database; and creating the database for a similar or related product search service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NHN CLOUD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Myounghoon Cho
  • Patent number: 11531882
    Abstract: A processor of an image automatic classification server may perform a method for automatically classifying images. The method includes receiving partial or entire contents of a plurality of products from an online shopping website, classifying the received contents of the plurality of products into each of the products and storing the contents classified by each of the products, extracting a plurality of product images of one product among the plurality of products form the stored contents, and automatically classifying the extracted product images of the one product into a plurality of categories to generate information for the one product. The information for the one product comprises information that classifies the plurality of product images of the one product for each of a plurality of categories to provide the classified product images to be selectable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Myounghoon Cho
  • Patent number: 11526883
    Abstract: An automated payment method performed by an automated payment system include: receiving a payment request for a home shopping order from a user of a home shopping server associated with a home shopping broadcast; performing, in an authentication processor, authentication processing on the user based on a user information included in the payment request; and performing, in a payment processor, payment processing corresponding to the payment request based on the user information in response to successful authentication of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: NHN PAYCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bomyoung Oh, Sang Mi Kim
  • Patent number: 11509759
    Abstract: A method of providing a user interface for managing voice call information and text message information in a mobile terminal including a voice call management part to process manage a voice call, and a text message management part to process and manage a text message, the method including the steps of accessing the voice call management part and the text message management part to retrieve the voice call information and the text message information, editing the voice call information and the text message information according to a predetermined message block format to generate integrated message information, generating message blocks including the integrated message information, and arranging the message blocks according to a receiving time and a transmitting time of the voice call information and the text message information to display the message blocks on a message management user interface of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: Dong Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 11483392
    Abstract: A network server communicating with a plurality of user terminals over a network includes a communicator and at least one processor configured to communicate with the plurality of user terminals through the communicator. The at least one processor obtains an event history including information on user input events of each of the plurality of user terminals by communicating with each of the plurality of user terminals through the communicator, determines a macro score corresponding to each of the plurality of user terminals based on each of the event histories of the plurality of user terminals, adjusts a reference value for detecting whether a macro is used, based on the macro scores corresponding to the plurality of user terminals, and detects whether each of the plurality of user terminals uses the macro, by comparing each of the macro scores corresponding to the plurality of user terminals with the reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung Jun Kim, Cheol Won Jang, Han Sol Jung
  • Patent number: 11465038
    Abstract: A method for providing a puzzle game performed by a game server connected to a user terminal via a network includes the steps of: performing a user login process in response to receiving login information from the user terminal; and executing the puzzle game on the user terminal in response to receiving a game execution signal from the user terminal. Game action is performed in conjunction with player object groups if it is determined that a puzzle block elimination condition is satisfied according to a cumulative result of eliminating the puzzle blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: NHN Entertainment Corporation, NHN PixelCube Corporation
    Inventor: Seong Hyeon Kim
  • Patent number: 11442926
    Abstract: A method for storing driving record data based on a blockchain comprises generating and storing driving record information associated with a driving of a vehicle; detecting occurrence of a predetermined event to the vehicle; if the occurrence of the event is detected, extracting driving record information related to the event from the stored driving record information; converting the extracted driving record information into transaction data; and transmitting the converted transaction data to a consortium blockchain network system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Youngjun Jo
  • Patent number: 11389728
    Abstract: Provided is a method of monitoring mobile game macro user. The method is performed by a processor of a computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chang Yul Lee
  • Patent number: 11361128
    Abstract: Provided is a simulation method and system for real-time broadcasting. A simulation method may include verifying an action set for a mechanical object, and displaying a movement of the mechanical object in response to the action using a line that connects a start location of the movement and an end location of the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Hyeok Jun Kwon, Chan Jong Lee, Kieran Kyunghoon Park, Chul Byung Chae, Jong Woon Park