Patents by Inventor HaeSueng LIM

HaeSueng LIM 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: 11733371
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a radar apparatus including: an antenna including a first transmitting antenna, a second transmitting antenna, and a receiving antenna; a transmitter including a first modulator for generating a first transmission signal having an inverted phase of a source signal and transmitting the first transmission signal through the first transmitting antenna, and a second modulator for generating a second transmission signal having a shifted phase of the source signal and transmitting the second transmission signal through the second transmitting antenna; a receiver for receiving a reflection signal of the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal reflected from the object through the receiving antenna; and a controller for obtaining information for the object based on the reflection signal. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to efficiently detect the object using the antenna having a simple structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HL KLEMOVE CORP.
    Inventors: Kyung Jin You, HaeSueng Lim
  • Publication number: 20220327863
    Abstract: Facial identification of subjects using a millimeter wave radar sensor, including: transmitting a radar signal onto faces of subjects using the millimeter wave radar sensor; receiving and accumulating reflected radar data, wherein the reflected radar data is received from channels of multiple receiving antennas; converting the reflected radar data into an image form suitable as an input to a convolutional neural network; and performing the facial identification on the image form using a classifier trained by the convolutional neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Jae-eun Lee, Haesueng Lim, Seongwook Lee
  • Patent number: 11424532
    Abstract: Provided are a structure and alignment method of array antennas for a vehicle radar, the structure and method being able to adjust the locations, number of channels, number of arrays, and channel distance according to the type of antennas, so as to minimize a space occupied by the antennas while maintaining the radiation efficiency of the antennas. Even in a case in which conditions regarding the location of the array antennas and the number of channels are changed within designated ranges, the efficient array antenna structure minimizes the area of array antennas for a vehicle while maintaining the detection ability of the array antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MANDO MOBILITY SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyung Jin You, HaeSueng Lim, Yun Ki Han, Seong Hee Jeong
  • Patent number: 11099269
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a radar device for a vehicle, enabling to determine a target satisfying a pairing condition for finding an intersection point by using a combination of a pair of up-chirp and down-chirp signals with an added down-chirp signal, without an additional hardware resource. The radar device includes at least: a transmission unit configured to transmit, through the transmission antenna, a transmission signal including a pair of up-chirp and down-chirp signals having predetermined slopes, and an added chirp signal having a slope different from the slopes; a reception unit configured to receive, through the reception antenna, a reception signal that is the transmission signal reflected on the target located before the vehicle; and a signal processing unit configured to determine the target satisfying the pairing condition for finding an intersection point through a combination of at least one of a pair of the up-chirp and down-chirp signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: HaeSueng Lim, JaeEun Lee, Seong Hee Jeong
  • Publication number: 20200284899
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a radar apparatus including: an antenna including a first transmitting antenna, a second transmitting antenna, and a receiving antenna; a transmitter including a first modulator for generating a first transmission signal having an inverted phase of a source signal and transmitting the first transmission signal through the first transmitting antenna, and a second modulator for generating a second transmission signal having a shifted phase of the source signal and transmitting the second transmission signal through the second transmitting antenna; a receiver for receiving a reflection signal of the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal reflected from the object through the receiving antenna; and a controller for obtaining information for the object based on the reflection signal. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to efficiently detect the object using the antenna having a simple structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Kyung Jin YOU, HaeSueng LIM
  • Patent number: 10732273
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a radar device for a vehicle which may determine a target as a single target or multiple targets according to a dispersion level of a slope for each reception channel, calculated through a phase difference for each reception channel of a reflection signal and an arrangement interval for each reception channel, and estimate the angle of the target so as to acquire the angle of the target using a small amount of calculations, and a method for estimating the angle of a target using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: HaeSueng Lim, JaeEun Lee, Seong Hee Jeong
  • Publication number: 20200203824
    Abstract: Provided are a structure and alignment method of array antennas for a vehicle radar, the structure and method being able to adjust the locations, number of channels, number of arrays, and channel distance according to the type of antennas, so as to minimize a space occupied by the antennas while maintaining the radiation efficiency of the antennas. Even in a case in which conditions regarding the location of the array antennas and the number of channels are changed within designated ranges, the efficient array antenna structure minimizes the area of array antennas for a vehicle while maintaining the detection ability of the array antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Kyung Jin YOU, HaeSueng LIM, Yun Ki HAN, Seong Hee JEONG
  • Patent number: 10613196
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a radar signal processing apparatus and a signal processing method thereof in which an additional beamforming is performed by reflecting an angle of a target that is positioned in front of the vehicle or by reflecting a surrounding clutter situation thereof in order to thereby improve the performance of detecting the target in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: HaeSueng Lim
  • Patent number: 10429494
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for detecting a target object by a radar device for a vehicle. The method includes recognizing the situation that causes the deterioration in the function of a radar, and preventing the performance from deterioration through a signal processing technology. The apparatus includes: a signal transmitting unit that transmits a transmission signal for detecting a target object; a signal receiving unit that receives a reception signal generated by a reflection of the transmission signal; a signal analyzing unit that calculates frequency spectrum information of the reception signal, and extracts periodicity information for determining a periodicity of the frequency spectrum information; a determining unit that determines whether a clutter structure exists; and a target detecting unit that detects a target object by deleting a peak value component of the periodicity information when it is determined that the clutter structure exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: JaeEun Lee, HaeSueng Lim
  • Patent number: 10401487
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a radar device for a vehicle, enabling distance and velocity of a target approaching at a high speed in a short distance to be measured while securing a detection performance of the target. The radar device includes at least: a transmission unit configured to transmit, as a transmission signal, a multi-chirp signal having different slopes through the transmission antenna; a reception unit configured to receive, through the reception antenna, a reception signal that is the transmission signal reflected on the target located before the vehicle, in which the transmission signal is transmitted by the transmission unit; and a signal processing unit configured to calculate a frequency difference between the transmission signal and the reception signal, frequency variation according to a distance of the target, and frequency variation according to the velocity of the target to measure the distance and velocity of the corresponding target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: HaeSueng Lim, JaeEun Lee, Seong Hee Jeong
  • Patent number: 10389421
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for estimating an arrival-angle of a reception signal and a beam-forming apparatus in a radio wave receiver, such as radar. More specifically, the present invention relates to an apparatus for accurately estimating an arrival-angle of a reception signal, or an apparatus for performing the beam-forming of a reception signal by using a multi-reception array antenna, by using a reference value that is obtained by calculating the degree of distortion of the magnitude and phase of a signal for each reception angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: Mando Corporation, Soongsil University Foundation of University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: JaeEun Lee, HaeSueng Lim, Seong Hee Jeong, Hyun-Chool Shin
  • Patent number: 10261172
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radar apparatus for vehicle and a method of removing a ghost of the radar apparatus for vehicle by determining a grating lobe ghost based on a reception signal received through linearly and equally spaced receiving antennas and unequally spaced receiving antennas. The radar apparatus comprises: a transmitting unit configured to transmit a predetermined transmission signal to the front of the vehicle through the plurality of transmitting antennas; a receiving unit configured to receive a reception signal generated from the transmission signal transmitted by the transmitting unit and reflected and returned by the target positioned in front of the vehicle through the plurality of receiving antennas and the additionally included receiving antenna; and a signal processing unit configured to remove a grating lobe ghost by using the difference of a gain obtained through a digital beamforming result and the reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: HaeSueng Lim, JaeEun Lee, Seong Hee Jeong
  • Patent number: 10048355
    Abstract: A radar apparatus comprises a signal transmission unit, a signal reception unit, a determination unit, and a target detection unit. The signal transmission unit transmits a transmission signal for detecting a target object. The signal reception unit receives a reception signal generated when the transmission signal is reflected. The determination unit determines a presence of a clutter structure using frequency response information of the reception signal. The target detection unit detects a target object by correcting a detection threshold value for detecting a target object according to the determination result on the presence of the clutter structure and detects a target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: HaeSueng Lim, Seong Hee Jeong, JaeEun Lee, HyunChool Shin
  • Publication number: 20170184702
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for detecting a target object by a radar device for a vehicle. The method includes recognizing the situation that causes the deterioration in the function of a radar, and preventing the performance from deterioration through a signal processing technology. The apparatus includes: a signal transmitting unit that transmits a transmission signal for detecting a target object; a signal receiving unit that receives a reception signal generated by a reflection of the transmission signal; a signal analyzing unit that calculates frequency spectrum information of the reception signal, and extracts periodicity information for determining a periodicity of the frequency spectrum information; a determining unit that determines whether a clutter structure exists; and a target detecting unit that detects a target object by deleting a peak value component of the periodicity information when it is determined that the clutter structure exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: JaeEun LEE, HaeSueng LIM
  • Publication number: 20170168139
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radar apparatus for vehicle and a method of removing a ghost of the radar apparatus for vehicle by determining a grating lobe ghost based on a reception signal received through linearly and equally spaced receiving antennas and unequally spaced receiving antennas. The radar apparatus comprises: a transmitting unit configured to transmit a predetermined transmission signal to the front of the vehicle through the plurality of transmitting antennas; a receiving unit configured to receive a reception signal generated from the transmission signal transmitted by the transmitting unit and reflected and returned by the target positioned in front of the vehicle through the plurality of receiving antennas and the additionally included receiving antenna; and a signal processing unit configured to remove a grating lobe ghost by using the difference of a gain obtained through a digital beamforming result and the reception signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: HaeSueng LIM, JaeEun LEE, Seong Hee JEONG
  • Publication number: 20170146648
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a radar device for a vehicle, enabling to determine a target satisfying a pairing condition for finding an intersection point by using a combination of a pair of up-chirp and down-chirp signals with an added down-chirp signal, without an additional hardware resource. The radar device includes at least: a transmission unit configured to transmit, through the transmission antenna, a transmission signal including a pair of up-chirp and down-chirp signals having predetermined slopes, and an added chirp signal having a slope different from the slopes; a reception unit configured to receive, through the reception antenna, a reception signal that is the transmission signal reflected on the target located before the vehicle; and a signal processing unit configured to determine the target satisfying the pairing condition for finding an intersection point through a combination of at least one of a pair of the up-chirp and down-chirp signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: HaeSueng LIM, JaeEun LEE, Seong Hee JEONG
  • Publication number: 20170146647
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a radar device for a vehicle, enabling distance and velocity of a target approaching at a high speed in a short distance to be measured while securing a detection performance of the target. The radar device includes at least: a transmission unit configured to transmit, as a transmission signal, a multi-chirp signal having different slopes through the transmission antenna; a reception unit configured to receive, through the reception antenna, a reception signal that is the transmission signal reflected on the target located before the vehicle, in which the transmission signal is transmitted by the transmission unit; and a signal processing unit configured to calculate a frequency difference between the transmission signal and the reception signal, frequency variation according to a distance of the target, and frequency variation according to the velocity of the target to measure the distance and velocity of the corresponding target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: HaeSueng LIM, JaeEun LEE, Seong Hee JEONG
  • Publication number: 20170117946
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for estimating an arrival-angle of a reception signal and a beam-forming apparatus in a radio wave receiver, such as radar. More specifically, the present invention relates to an apparatus for accurately estimating an arrival-angle of a reception signal, or an apparatus for performing the beam-forming of a reception signal by using a multi-reception array antenna, by using a reference value that is obtained by calculating the degree of distortion of the magnitude and phase of a signal for each reception angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: JaeEun LEE, HaeSueng LIM, Seong Hee JEONG, Hyun-Chool SHIN
  • Publication number: 20170102453
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a radar device for a vehicle which may determine a target as a single target or multiple targets according to a dispersion level of a slope for each reception channel, calculated through a phase difference for each reception channel of a reflection signal and an arrangement interval for each reception channel, and estimate the angle of the target so as to acquire the angle of the target using a small amount of calculations, and a method for estimating the angle of a target using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: HaeSueng LIM, JaeEun LEE, Seong Hee JEONG
  • Publication number: 20160363651
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a radar signal processing apparatus and a signal processing method thereof in which an additional beamforming is performed by reflecting an angle of a target that is positioned in front of the vehicle or by reflecting a surrounding clutter situation thereof in order to thereby improve the performance of detecting the target in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventor: HaeSueng LIM