Patents by Inventor Chi-youn Park

Chi-youn Park 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: 20230040938
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a processor configured to execute one or more instructions stored in a memory to: control a receiver to receive a speech signal; determine whether the received speech signal includes speech signals of a plurality of different speakers; when the received speech signal includes the speech signals of the plurality of different speakers, detect feature information from a speech signal of each speaker; determine relations between pieces of speech content of the plurality of different speakers, based on the detected feature information; determine a response method based on the determined relations between the pieces of speech content; and control the electronic device such that an operation of the electronic device is performed according to the determined response method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Young Ho HAN, Nam Hoon KIM, Jae Young ROH, Chi Youn PARK, Kyung Min LEE, Keun Seok CHO, Jong Youb RYU
  • Patent number: 11495222
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a processor configured to execute one or more instructions stored in a memory to: control a receiver to receive a speech signal; determine whether the received speech signal includes speech signals of a plurality of different speakers; when the received speech signal includes the speech signals of the plurality of different speakers, detect feature information from a speech signal of each speaker; determine relations between pieces of speech content of the plurality of different speakers, based on the detected feature information; determine a response method based on the determined relations between the pieces of speech content; and control the electronic device such that an operation of the electronic device is performed according to the determined response method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Ho Han, Nam Hoon Kim, Jae Young Roh, Chi Youn Park, Kyung Min Lee, Keun Seok Cho, Jong Youb Ryu
  • Patent number: 11145292
    Abstract: A method of updating a grammar model used during speech recognition includes obtaining a corpus including at least one word, obtaining the at least one word from the corpus, splitting the at least one obtained word into at least one segment, generating a hint for recombining the at least one segment into the at least one word, and updating the grammar model by using at least one segment comprising the hint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-hoon Ahn, Chi-youn Park, Kyung-min Lee, Jae-won Lee
  • Publication number: 20210210086
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a processor configured to execute one or more instructions stored in a memory to: control a receiver to receive a speech signal; determine whether the received speech signal includes speech signals of a plurality of different speakers; when the received speech signal includes the speech signals of the plurality of different speakers, detect feature information from a speech signal of each speaker; determine relations between pieces of speech content of the plurality of different speakers, based on the detected feature information; determine a response method based on the determined relations between the pieces of speech content; and control the electronic device such that an operation of the electronic device is performed according to the determined response method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Young Ho HAN, Nam Hoon KIM, Jae Young ROH, Chi Youn PARK, Kyung Min LEE, Keun Seok CHO, Jong Youb RYU
  • Patent number: 10984790
    Abstract: A speech recognition device is provided. The speech recognition device includes at least one microphone configured to receive a sound signal from a first sound source, and at least one processor configured to determine a direction of the first sound source based on the sound signal, determine whether the direction of the first sound source is in a registered direction, and based on whether the direction of the first sound source is in the registered direction, recognize a speech from the sound signal regardless of whether the sound signal comprises a wake-up keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeon-Taek Lim, Sang-Yoon Kim, Kyung-Min Lee, Chang-Woo Han, Nam-Hoon Kim, Jong-Youb Ryu, Chi-Youn Park, Jae-Won Lee
  • Patent number: 10964310
    Abstract: A method of updating speech recognition data including a language model used for speech recognition, the method including obtaining language data including at least one word; detecting a word that does not exist in the language model from among the at least one word; obtaining at least one phoneme sequence regarding the detected word; obtaining components constituting the at least one phoneme sequence by dividing the at least one phoneme sequence into predetermined unit components; determining information regarding probabilities that the respective components constituting each of the at least one phoneme sequence appear during speech recognition; and updating the language model based on the determined probability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-youn Park, Il-hwan Kim, Kyung-min Lee, Nam-hoon Kim, Jae-won Lee
  • Patent number: 10762899
    Abstract: A speech recognition method and an apparatus which recognize speech, based on speaker recognition, and output a result of the speech recognition are provided. The speech recognition method includes activating a session for receiving an input of an audio signal, performing speech recognition on a speech signal detected from the input audio signal while the session is maintained, determining whether a speaker of the speech signal is a registered speaker based on speaker information generated from the speech signal, determining whether to maintain the session based on a result of the determination, and outputting a result of performing the speech recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keun-seok Cho, Dong-hoon Ahn, Chi-youn Park, Young-ho Han, Jae-won Lee
  • Publication number: 20200219483
    Abstract: A method of updating speech recognition data including a language model used for speech recognition, the method including obtaining language data including at least one word; detecting a word that does not exist in the language model from among the at least one word; obtaining at least one phoneme sequence regarding the detected word; obtaining components constituting the at least one phoneme sequence by dividing the at least one phoneme sequence into predetermined unit components; determining information regarding probabilities that the respective components constituting each of the at least one phoneme sequence appear during speech recognition; and updating the language model based on the determined probability information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-youn PARK, Il-hwan Kim, Kyung-min Lee, Nam-hoon Kim, Jae-won Lee
  • Patent number: 10706838
    Abstract: A method of updating speech recognition data including a language model used for speech recognition, the method including obtaining language data including at least one word; detecting a word that does not exist in the language model from among the at least one word; obtaining at least one phoneme sequence regarding the detected word; obtaining components constituting the at least one phoneme sequence by dividing the at least one phoneme sequence into predetermined unit components; determining information regarding probabilities that the respective components constituting each of the at least one phoneme sequence appear during speech recognition; and updating the language model based on the determined probability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-youn Park, Il-hwan Kim, Kyung-min Lee, Nam-hoon Kim, Jae-won Lee
  • Patent number: 10665224
    Abstract: A method of updating speech recognition data including a language model used for speech recognition, the method including obtaining language data including at least one word; detecting a word that does not exist in the language model from among the at least one word; obtaining at least one phoneme sequence regarding the detected word; obtaining components constituting the at least one phoneme sequence by dividing the at least one phoneme sequence into predetermined unit components; determining information regarding probabilities that the respective components constituting each of the at least one phoneme sequence appear during speech recognition; and updating the language model based on the determined probability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-youn Park, Il-hwan Kim, Kyung-min Lee, Nam-hoon Kim, Jae-won Lee
  • Patent number: 10636417
    Abstract: A method of obtaining a grammar model to perform speech recognition includes obtaining information about a state of at least one device, obtaining grammar model information about the at least one device based on the obtained information, and generating a grammar model to perform the speech recognition based on the obtained grammar model information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-youn Park, Cheong-jae Lee, Nam-hoon Kim, Kyung-min Lee, Jae-won Lee
  • Patent number: 10614170
    Abstract: A method of translating a first language-based speech signal into a second language is provided. The method includes receiving the first language-based speech signal, converting the first language-based speech signal into a first language-based text including non-verbal information, by performing voice recognition on the first language-based speech signal, and translating the first language-based text into the second language, based on the non-verbal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-ha Kim, Eun-kyoung Kim, Ji-sang Yu, Jong-youb Ryu, Chi-youn Park, Jin-sik Lee, Jae-won Lee
  • Patent number: 10572605
    Abstract: An electronic device and method for providing a translations service are disclosed. The electronic device for providing a translation service includes an input unit comprising input circuitry configured to receive input text of a first language, a processor configured to divide the input text into a main segment and a sub-segment and to generate output text of a second language by selecting translation candidate text corresponding to the input text from translation candidate text of the second language, based on a meaning of text included in the sub-segment, and an output unit comprising output circuitry configured to output the output text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-ho Han, Il-hwan Kim, Chi-youn Park, Nam-hoon Kim, Kyung-min Lee
  • Publication number: 20200058294
    Abstract: A method of updating a grammar model used during speech recognition includes obtaining a corpus including at least one word, obtaining the at least one word from the corpus, splitting the at least one obtained word into at least one segment, generating a hint for recombining the at least one segment into the at least one word, and updating the grammar model by using at least one segment comprising the hint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Dong-hoon AHN, Chi-youn PARK, Kyung-min LEE, Jae-won LEE
  • Patent number: 10510342
    Abstract: Provided herein is a voice recognition server and a control method thereof, the method including determining an index value for each of a plurality of training texts; setting a group for each of the plurality of training texts based on the index values of the plurality of training texts, and matching a function corresponding to each group and storing the matched results; in response to receiving a user's uttered voice from a user terminal apparatus, determining an index value from the received uttered voice; and searching a group corresponding to the index value determined from the received uttered voice, and performing the function corresponding to the uttered voice, thereby providing a voice recognition result of a variety of user's uttered voices suitable to the user's intentions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-min Lee, Il-hwan Kim, Chi-youn Park, Young-ho Han, Nam-hoon Kim, Jae-won Lee
  • Patent number: 10497363
    Abstract: A method of updating a grammar model used during speech recognition includes obtaining a corpus including at least one word, obtaining the at least one word from the corpus, splitting the at least one obtained word into at least one segment, generating a hint for recombining the at least one segment into the at least one word, and updating the grammar model by using at least one segment comprising the hint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-hoon Ahn, Chi-youn Park, Kyung-min Lee, Jae-won Lee
  • Publication number: 20190348022
    Abstract: A method of updating speech recognition data including a language model used for speech recognition, the method including obtaining language data including at least one word; detecting a word that does not exist in the language model from among the at least one word; obtaining at least one phoneme sequence regarding the detected word; obtaining components constituting the at least one phoneme sequence by dividing the at least one phoneme sequence into predetermined unit components; determining information regarding probabilities that the respective components constituting each of the at least one phoneme sequence appear during speech recognition; and updating the language model based on the determined probability information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Chi-youn PARK, II-hwan Kim, Kyung-min Lee, Nam-hoon Kim, Jae-won Lee
  • Patent number: 10403267
    Abstract: A method of updating speech recognition data including a language model used for speech recognition, the method including obtaining language data including at least one word; detecting a word that does not exist in the language model from among the at least one word; obtaining at least one phoneme sequence regarding the detected word; obtaining components constituting the at least one phoneme sequence by dividing the at least one phoneme sequence into predetermined unit components; determining information regarding probabilities that the respective components constituting each of the at least one phoneme sequence appear during speech recognition; and updating the language model based on the determined probability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chi-youn Park, Il-hwan Kim, Kyung-min Lee, Nam-hoon Kim, Jae-won Lee
  • Publication number: 20190164552
    Abstract: A speech recognition device is provided. The speech recognition device includes at least one microphone configured to receive a sound signal from a first sound source, and at least one processor configured to determine a direction of the first sound source based on the sound signal, determine whether the direction of the first sound source is in a registered direction, and based on whether the direction of the first sound source is in the registered direction, recognize a speech from the sound signal regardless of whether the sound signal comprises a wake-up keyword.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Hyeon-taek LIM, Sang-yoon KIM, Kyung-min LEE, Chang-woo HAN, Nam-hoon KIM, Jong-youb RYU, Chi-youn PARK, Jae-won LEE
  • Patent number: RE49762
    Abstract: A method of updating speech recognition data including a language model used for speech recognition, the method including obtaining language data including at least one word; detecting a word that does not exist in the language model from among the at least one word; obtaining at least one phoneme sequence regarding the detected word; obtaining components constituting the at least one phoneme sequence by dividing the at least one phoneme sequence into predetermined unit components; determining information regarding probabilities that the respective components constituting each of the at least one phoneme sequence appear during speech recognition; and updating the language model based on the determined probability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-youn Park, Il-hwan Kim, Kyung-min Lee, Nam-hoon Kim, Jae-won Lee