Patents by Inventor Byeong Cheol Choi

Byeong Cheol Choi 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: 20170099391
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a telephone, a switchboard, and a method for sending a message between the telephone and the switchboard using a Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF) signal. The telephone includes a sensor interface unit for collecting sensing signals by being connected to sensors, a transmission unit for generating a message using the sensing signals, converting the message into a DTMF signal, and transmitting the DTMF signal and a telephone signal, and a power distribution unit for being supplied with power from the switchboard and distributing the power to operation units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jae-Hong RUY, Hyo-Chan BANG, Byeong-Cheol CHOI, Hoon JEONG
  • Patent number: 9591592
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for controlling transmission power in CAN communication, including: a controller area network (CAN) interface configured to receive transmitted data through a CAN BUS; a message priority management unit configured to read an arbitration ID included in the received data, and determine a priority of the received data; and a transmission power level selection unit configured to determine a transmission power level according to the priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kyo Hoon Son, Byeong Cheol Choi, Se Han Kim
  • Publication number: 20160248591
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a firmware watermarking method, firmware based on the method, and an apparatus for performing firmware watermarking, which can provide a basis for legally preparing for firmware modification attacks by embedding a watermark for original firmware in nonvolatile memory at the time of manufacturing embedded devices. The presented method is a firmware watermarking method performed by an apparatus for performing the firmware watermarking method, the method including generating an original watermark for firmware, and embedding the generated original watermark in the firmware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Byeong-Cheol CHOI, Jung-Chan NA
  • Patent number: 9420592
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of avoiding channel interference by a sensor node including a multi transmission and reception unit in a wireless sensor network. The method includes setting channel A in channel group A for a first wireless transmission and reception unit, and setting channel B in channel group B for a second wireless transmission and reception unit, checking interference for the channel A, detecting interference for the channel B if interference is detected in the channel A, and performing communication through a channel where interference has not been detected among the channel A and the channel B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Byeong Cheol Choi, Jae Hong Ruy
  • Publication number: 20150276932
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining the location of a mobile object are disclosed. The apparatus includes a GPS module unit, a mobile communication module unit, a USN module unit, and a control module unit. The GPS module unit receives a GPS signal including the coordinate information of the current location of a mobile object. The mobile communication module unit is operated when the GPS module unit has received the GPS signal, and transmits the coordinate information of the current location of the mobile object and the ID of the mobile object to a location estimation apparatus. The USN module unit is operated when the GPS module unit fails to receive the GPS signal, and broadcasts a beacon signal carrying the ID of the mobile object. The control module unit operates any one of the mobile communication module unit and the USN module unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Kye-Seon LEE, Jae-Hong RYU, Jae-Heum LEE, Byeong-Cheol CHOI, Nae-Soo KIM
  • Publication number: 20150212206
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic dependent surveillance data protection method which is performed by an authentication server. The automatic dependent surveillance data protection method includes receiving an authentication request of an ADS-B receiver from at least one client, performing authentication of the ADS-B receiver in response to the authentication request, issuing a certificate of the ADS-B receiver when the authentication of the ADS-B receiver is valid, and transmitting the issued certificate of the ADS-B receiver to the client and at least one authentication information sharing client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seoung Hyeon LEE, Deok Gyu LEE, Byeong Cheol CHOI, Yong Kyun KIM, Jong Wook HAN, Hyo Dal PARK
  • Publication number: 20150208365
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for controlling transmission power in CAN communication, including: a controller area network (CAN) interface configured to receive transmitted data through a CAN BUS; a message priority management unit configured to read an arbitration ID included in the received data, and determine a priority of the received data; and a transmission power level selection unit configured to determine a transmission power level according to the priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kyo Hoon SON, Byeong Cheol CHOI, Se Han KIM
  • Publication number: 20150142222
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for tracing a flight plan status are disclosed. The apparatus for tracing a flight plan status includes: a flight plan structure generation unit configured to generate a flight plan status transition structure based on received flight plan information; a flight plan setting unit configured to set a flight plan status based on a flight message transferred through an aeronautical fixed telecommunication network; and a flight plan tracing unit configured to trace the flight plan status included in the flight plan status transition structure based on the set flight plan status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Byeong-Cheol CHOI, Seoung-Hyeon LEE, Deok-Gyu LEE, Yong-Kyun KIM, Jong-Wook HAN, Hyo-Dal PARK
  • Publication number: 20150133055
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of avoiding channel interference by a sensor node including a multi transmission and reception unit in a wireless sensor network. The method includes setting channel A in channel group A for a first wireless transmission and reception unit, and setting channel B in channel group B for a second wireless transmission and reception unit, checking interference for the channel A, detecting interference for the channel B if interference is detected in the channel A, and performing communication through a channel where interference has not been detected among the channel A and the channel B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Byeong Cheol CHOI, Jae Hong RUY
  • Publication number: 20140257683
    Abstract: A method for testing states in a flight plan state management system is provided, which includes defining control variables for monitoring the flight plan state management system, modeling the flight plan state management system based on the control variables defined for monitoring, calculating and extracting control variables for testing the stability of, and checking for errors in, the flight plan state management system using the result of modeling, testing the stability of, and checking for errors in, the flight plan state management system based on the calculated and extracted control variables for testing stability and checking for errors, and expressing the result of stability testing and error checking on a display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicants: INHA Industry Partnerships Institute, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Byeong Cheol CHOI, Seoung Hyeon LEE, Deok Gyu LEE, Yong Kyun KIM, Jong-Wook HAN, Hyo Dal PARK
  • Publication number: 20140245454
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for automatically protecting flight data in response to a variety of kinds of cyber terror that paralyze control service in a flight data system by enhancing the availability, reliability, and integrity of the flight data system when damage due to external or internal viruses or hacking, such as the alteration or modification of flight data, occurs. The flight data protection system has an advantage in that it can manage a system safely by providing an embedded system, using an Enhanced Write Filter (EWF), and protecting an Operating System (OS).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Deok Gyu LEE, Seoung Hyeon LEE, Byeong Cheol CHOI, Yong Kyun KIM, Jong-Wook HAN, Hyo Dal PARK
  • Patent number: 8761499
    Abstract: A system for detecting a global harmful video includes: a video determination policy generation unit for determining harmfulness of learning video segments from video learning information to analyze occurrence information of harmful learning video segments, and generating a global harmfulness determination policy based on the occurrence information; and a video determination policy execution unit for determining harmfulness of input video segments from information of an input video to analyze occurrence information of harmful input video segments, and determining whether the input video is harmful or not based on the occurrence information of the harmful input video segments and the global harmfulness determination policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Wan Han, Jae Deok Lim, Byeong Cheol Choi, Byung Ho Chung, Hyun Sook Cho
  • Publication number: 20140133473
    Abstract: An end device transmits a request command for requesting a slot management to a coordinator, and receives a reply command including a result of the slot management request from the coordinator. Each of the request command and the reply command includes an allocation order for indicating a slot allocation interval request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chang Sub Shin, Wun-Cheol Jeong, Hoyong Kang, Byeong Cheol Choi
  • Patent number: 8620091
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting specific human body parts in an image includes: a texture energy analysis unit for analyzing energy distribution in the image and generating texture energy maps; a candidate region-of-interest extraction unit for extracting candidate regions-of-interest for the specific body parts on a given texture energy map by applying a threshold to the given texture energy map, the given texture energy map being selected among the texture energy maps; a candidate mask application unit for performing convolution between candidate masks for the specific body parts and the candidate regions-of-interest and selecting candidate body parts based on results of the convolution; and a body part detection unit for detecting the specific body parts on the image by performing verification on the candidate body parts. The verification is performed by using machine-learning models for the specific body parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Byeong Cheol Choi
  • Patent number: 8432844
    Abstract: A low-power method for media access control on a semi-linear sensor network with multiple sensor nodes, includes: sensing a channel after waking up from a sleep mode by an arbitrary transmission sensor node that has obtained data; and generating a long preamble including a number of element preambles and sending to a destination sensor node after said channel sensing. This method further includes: sending said data to said destination sensor node after completion of transmission of said long preamble; and identifying duty cycle information of said destination sensor node after completion of transmission of said data and adjusting the number of said element preambles according to said duty cycle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Myung Nam Bae, Byung Bog Lee, Byeong Cheol Choi, Jae Hong Ruy, In Hwan Lee, Jong-Arm Jun
  • Patent number: 8411964
    Abstract: A method for analyzing nudity of an image using a body part detection model includes: extracting a skin blob from an image; calculating a first probability value, which indicates a probability of determination on harmfulness of at least one of the image and the skin blob, using a harmfulness detection model; classifying the skin blob as a specific body part using a body part detection model, and calculating a second probability value which indicates a probability of certainty of said classifying; and rating nudity of the image based on the first probability value and the second probability value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Byeong Cheol Choi
  • Patent number: 8386719
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for controlling a shared memory, and a method of accessing the shared memory. The apparatus includes a processing unit configured to process an application program, a user program unit configured to execute a program written by a user based on the application program of the processing unit, a shared memory unit connected to each of the processing unit and the user program unit through a system bus and configured to store data interchanged between the processing unit and the user program unit, and a control unit configured to relay a control signal indicating whether the system bus, by which the data is interchanged between the processing unit and the user program unit, is occupied, and control connection of each of the processing unit and the user program unit with the system bus in response to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Byung Bog Lee, Myung Nam Bae, Byeong Cheol Choi, In Hwan Lee, Nae Soo Kim
  • Publication number: 20120237126
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining a characteristic of a motion picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Byeong Cheol CHOI, Seung Wan HAN, Jae Deok LIM
  • Publication number: 20120155471
    Abstract: A router relays sensing data between a field network including at least one sensor node and a plant network including a management system. The routing apparatus manages a routing table in which a next address and an output interface corresponding to an extension destination address of 6 bytes and an input interface are stored and transmits sensing data to another field network or a management system using the routing table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Byung Bog Lee, Jae Hong Ryu, Myung Nam Bae, Byeong Cheol Choi, In Hwan Lee
  • Publication number: 20120134578
    Abstract: A system for detecting a global harmful video includes: a video determination policy generation unit for determining harmfulness of learning video segments from video learning information to analyze occurrence information of harmful learning video segments, and generating a global harmfulness determination policy based on the occurrence information; and a video determination policy execution unit for determining harmfulness of input video segments from information of an input video to analyze occurrence information of harmful input video segments, and determining whether the input video is harmful or not based on the occurrence information of the harmful input video segments and the global harmfulness determination policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seung Wan HAN, Jae Deok LIM, Byeong Cheol CHOI, Byung Ho CHUNG, Hyun sook CHO