Patents by Inventor Dong Wha KANG

Dong Wha KANG 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).

  • Patent number: 11842493
    Abstract: A method for predicting brain disease state change is disclosed. The method includes acquiring test images obtained by capturing a portion of a human brain at a time interval, performing a pre-processing procedure of converting the test images into test voxels configured to be processed for image analysis, wherein a respective test voxel of the test voxels is composed of three-dimensional voxel units, mapping first and second test voxels selected from the test voxels acquired from a patient, with each other on a three-dimensional voxel unit, wherein the first test voxel is acquired at a first time-point and the second test voxel is acquired at a second time-point, generating a voxel-based data-set based on the mapped first and second test voxels, extracting a change in the test voxels using a deep neural network, and generating a state change probability model based on the change in the test voxels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: THE ASAN FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION
    Inventors: Dong Wha Kang, Young Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20230165461
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for providing visual perception training including a display module, and a controller for acquiring at least one target area corresponding to at least one of a first cell of a left eye visual field map and a second cell of a right eye visual field map, and providing a visual perception task to the at least one target area. In the providing of the visual perception task, the controller displays, through the display module, a task object for receiving a response of a patient and fixing a central visual field of the patient, displays, through the display module, at least one stimulus object at at least one stimulus position corresponding to the at least one target area, and acquires the response of the patient related to the task object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicants: THE ASAN FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION, NUNAPS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Wha KANG, Rak Kyeun HONG
  • Patent number: 11645931
    Abstract: Disclosed are training method, program and computing device to ameliorate visual field defect. The method includes presenting, by a computer, a virtual first object on a screen, wherein the first object is presented in an approaching manner toward the subject from a first position to a second position, when a position of the first object reaches the second position, the dividing, by the computer, of the first object into objects and presenting the divided objects on the screen or removing, by the computer, the first object from the screen, when the first object is divided or removed, presenting, by the computer, a virtual second object and a virtual third object on the screen, and receiving, by the computer, an identification input about the second object and the third object from a response input device of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventor: Dong Wha Kang
  • Publication number: 20230033982
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for providing visual perception training using visual perception learning, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a field-of-view map having a plurality of unit regions to which a vision index reflecting a user's vision ability is assigned; providing a first session using a visual perception task which is performed by displaying a first visual object for central fixation of the user's field of view and a second visual object in the vicinity of the first visual object, and requests the user's response related to at least the second visual object; determining a vision ability changed region among the plurality of unit regions on the basis of the user's response from the first session; and providing a second session using the visual perception task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicants: THE ASAN FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION, NUNAPS INC.
    Inventor: Dong Wha KANG
  • Publication number: 20230032569
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for providing visual perceptual training including an output module and a controller that controls the output module such that the output module outputs an instruction message informing a trainee of a rule related to visual perceptual training, provides a training session for the visual perceptual training, and stores a result in the training session for evaluating cognitive ability of the trainee, wherein the controller may, in the training session, control the output module such that the output module sequentially displays visual objects, check a type of a response of the trainee, determine whether the checked response is correct according to the rule including the first condition and the second condition based on the attribute of the visual object, the display order of the visual object, and the type of the checked response, and output a feedback indicating that the checked response is correct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicants: THE ASAN FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION, NUNAPS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Wha KANG, Han A KIM, Rak Kyeun HONG
  • Patent number: 11376393
    Abstract: Disclosed are a device, a method, and a program for training memory using brain stimulation. The method includes at least: displaying a first problem on a task display portion of a screen; receiving a first response corresponding to the first problem; and evaluating a memory state of a user based on the first response. The first problem includes one or more output images to be displayed at a specific location within the task display portion, and the first response includes a result of comparing a previous first problem that was displayed before N times (N is a natural number) of executing the method, with the displayed first problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: THE ASAN FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION
    Inventors: Dong Wha Kang, Dong Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20220180761
    Abstract: Disclosed are training method, program and computing device to ameliorate visual field defect. The method includes presenting, by a computer, a virtual first object on a screen, wherein the first object is presented in an approaching manner toward the subject from a first position to a second position, when a position of the first object reaches the second position, the dividing, by the computer, of the first object into objects and presenting the divided objects on the screen or removing, by the computer, the first object from the screen, when the first object is divided or removed, presenting, by the computer, a virtual second object and a virtual third object on the screen, and receiving, by the computer, an identification input about the second object and the third object from a response input device of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventor: Dong Wha KANG
  • Patent number: 11295627
    Abstract: Disclosed are training method, program and computing device to ameliorate visual field defect. The method includes presenting, by a computer, a virtual first object on a screen, wherein the first object is presented in an approaching manner toward the subject from a first position to a second position, when a position of the first object reaches the second position, the dividing, by the computer, of the first object into objects and presenting the divided objects on the screen or removing, by the computer, the first object from the screen, when the first object is divided or removed, presenting, by the computer, a virtual second object and a virtual third object on the screen, and receiving, by the computer, an identification input about the second object and the third object from a response input device of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventor: Dong Wha Kang
  • Patent number: 11249549
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a brain connectivity-based visual perception training device, method and program. The brain connectivity-based visual perception training method, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a step (S200; a spatial movement image providing step) of allowing a computer to provide a spatial movement image to a head-mounted display device; a step (S400; a visual perception training image providing step) of allowing the computer to provide a visual perception training image simultaneously with the spatial movement image or subsequently to the spatial movement image; and a step (S1000) of allowing the computer to receive, from a user, a performance result of a first task of the visual perception training image. Hereinafter, each step is described in detail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Wha Kang, Dong Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20210267538
    Abstract: The inventive concept relates to a stimulus providing device that provides training stimuli for improving pain of a pain patient, a perception training method, and a computer program. The stimulus providing device for providing a training stimulus for improving pain includes one or more mounting units mounted on body portions of a user, and one or more stimulus providing units disposed in the mounting units and which provides stimuli to the body portions, the stimulus providing units are controlled by a control unit included in the stimulus providing device or a control unit physically separated from the stimulus providing device to interwork with the stimulus providing device and included in a terminal of the user, and the control unit controls at least one of a location, a range, and an intensity of the stimuli.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Wha KANG, Rak Kyeun HONG
  • Patent number: 11026620
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for estimating an acute cerebral infarction onset time. The method according to the present disclosure includes at least: receiving a first image and a second image of a first patient whose acute cerebral infarction onset time is not identified; extracting an infarction area image from the second image; aligning the second image with the first image; defining an infarction area in the first image, based on a result of the alignment of the second image with the first image; extracting feature information of the first patient, from the infarction area in the first image; comparing the extracted feature information with reference data; and calculating an amount of time that has elapsed since the acute cerebral infarction onset time, based on a result of the comparison of the extracted feature information with reference data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: THE ASAN FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION
    Inventors: Namkug Kim, Hyun Na Lee, Sung Won Ham, Dong Wha Kang
  • Publication number: 20210146132
    Abstract: The inventive concept refers to a system, a method, and a computer program for providing training for pain improvement. According to an exemplary embodiment, a training providing method for pain improvement includes requesting, by a computer, a temperature providing device to provide a first temperature to a first body point, requesting, by the computer, the temperature providing device to provide a second temperature to a second body point, requesting a user to select a temperature matched with a specific condition among the first temperature and the second temperature, and calculating a correct answer rate after performing a trial of distinguishing between the first temperature and the second temperature by a predetermined number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Ho KIM, Dong Wha KANG
  • Patent number: 10987245
    Abstract: Disclosed is a temperature providing device including a housing body, a plurality of temperature transmitters transmitting different temperatures to an outside of the housing body, and a temperature adjusting unit adjusting a temperature of each of the plurality of temperature transmitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Ho Kim, Dong Wha Kang
  • Patent number: 10933237
    Abstract: The inventive concept refers to a system, a method, and a computer program for providing training for pain improvement. According to an exemplary embodiment, a training providing method for pain improvement includes requesting, by a computer, a temperature providing device to provide a first temperature to a first body point, requesting, by the computer, the temperature providing device to provide a second temperature to a second body point, requesting a user to select a temperature matched with a specific condition among the first temperature and the second temperature, and calculating a correct answer rate after performing a trial of distinguishing between the first temperature and the second temperature by a predetermined number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Ho Kim, Dong Wha Kang
  • Publication number: 20210035461
    Abstract: Disclosed are training method, program and computing device to ameliorate visual field defect. The method includes presenting, by a computer, a virtual first object on a screen, wherein the first object is presented in an approaching manner toward the subject from a first position to a second position, when a position of the first object reaches the second position, the dividing, by the computer, of the first object into objects and presenting the divided objects on the screen or removing, by the computer, the first object from the screen, when the first object is divided or removed, presenting, by the computer, a virtual second object and a virtual third object on the screen, and receiving, by the computer, an identification input about the second object and the third object from a response input device of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventor: Dong Wha KANG
  • Publication number: 20200357120
    Abstract: A method for predicting brain disease state change is disclosed. The method includes acquiring test images obtained by capturing a portion of a human brain at a time interval, performing a pre-processing procedure of converting the test images into test voxels configured to be processed for image analysis, wherein a respective test voxel of the test voxels is composed of three-dimensional voxel units, mapping first and second test voxels selected from the test voxels acquired from a patient, with each other on a three-dimensional voxel unit, wherein the first test voxel is acquired at a first time-point and the second test voxel is acquired at a second time-point, generating a voxel-based data-set based on the mapped first and second test voxels, extracting a change in the test voxels using a deep neural network, and generating a state change probability model based on the change in the test voxels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicants: THE ASAN FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION
    Inventors: Dong Wha KANG, Young Hwan KIM
  • Publication number: 20200348756
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a brain connectivity-based visual perception training device, method and program. The brain connectivity-based visual perception training method, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a step (S200; a spatial movement image providing step) of allowing a computer to provide a spatial movement image to a head-mounted display device; a step (S400; a visual perception training image providing step) of allowing the computer to provide a visual perception training image simultaneously with the spatial movement image or subsequently to the spatial movement image; and a step (S1000) of allowing the computer to receive, from a user, a performance result of a first task of the visual perception training image. Hereinafter, each step is described in detail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Wha KANG, Dong Ho KIM
  • Publication number: 20200146882
    Abstract: Disclosed is a temperature providing device including a housing body, a plurality of temperature transmitters transmitting different temperatures to an outside of the housing body, and a temperature adjusting unit adjusting a temperature of each of the plurality of temperature transmitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Ho KIM, Dong Wha KANG
  • Publication number: 20200147380
    Abstract: The inventive concept refers to a system, a method, and a computer program for providing training for pain improvement. According to an exemplary embodiment, a training providing method for pain improvement includes requesting, by a computer, a temperature providing device to provide a first temperature to a first body point, requesting, by the computer, the temperature providing device to provide a second temperature to a second body point, requesting a user to select a temperature matched with a specific condition among the first temperature and the second temperature, and calculating a correct answer rate after performing a trial of distinguishing between the first temperature and the second temperature by a predetermined number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: NUNAPS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Ho KIM, Dong Wha KANG
  • Patent number: 10478069
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for estimating an onset time of an infarct region based on brain images, the method including: obtaining brain images; extracting from the infarct region included in the brain images a set of quantitative values that vary according to the onset time of the infarct region; and having the set of quantitative values correspond to the onset time of the infarct region by applying a corresponding relation prepared therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: THE ASAN FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Nam Kug Kim, Dong Wha Kang