Patents by Inventor Hee-Youl Choi
Hee-Youl 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).
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Publication number: 20210272551Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus includes a probability calculator configured to calculate phoneme probabilities of an audio signal using an acoustic model; a candidate set extractor configured to extract a candidate set from a recognition target list; and a result returner configured to return a recognition result of the audio signal based on the calculated phoneme probabilities and the extracted candidate set.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Hyun YOO, Hee Youl CHOI
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Patent number: 10529317Abstract: A neural network training apparatus includes a primary trainer configured to perform a primary training of a neural network model based on clean training data and target data corresponding to the clean training data; and a secondary trainer configured to perform a secondary training of the neural network model on which the primary training has been performed based on noisy training data and an output probability distribution of an output class for the clean training data calculated during the primary training of the neural network model.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ho Shik Lee, Hee Youl Choi
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Patent number: 10388284Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus and method. The speech recognition apparatus includes one or more processors configured to reflect a final recognition result for a previous audio signal in a language model, generate a first recognition result of an audio signal, in a first linguistic recognition unit, by using an acoustic model, generate a second recognition result of the audio signal, in a second linguistic recognition unit, by using the language model reflecting the final recognition result for the previous audio signal, and generate a final recognition result for the audio signal in the second linguistic recognition unit based on the first recognition result and the second recognition result. The first linguistic recognition unit may be a same or different linguistic unit type as the second linguistic recognition unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee Youl Choi, Seokjin Hong
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Patent number: 10127905Abstract: Described are an apparatus and method for generating to generate an acoustic model. The apparatus and method include a processor a processor configured to calculate a noise representation that represents noise data by using a noise model, and generate the acoustic model through training using training noisy speech data, which comprises speech data and the noise data, a string of phonemes corresponding to the speech data, and the noise representation.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: HoShik Lee, Hee Youl Choi
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Publication number: 20180144749Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus and method. The speech recognition apparatus includes one or more processors configured to reflect a final recognition result for a previous audio signal in a language model, generate a first recognition result of an audio signal, in a first linguistic recognition unit, by using an acoustic model, generate a second recognition result of the audio signal, in a second linguistic recognition unit, by using the language model reflecting the final recognition result for the previous audio signal, and generate a final recognition result for the audio signal in the second linguistic recognition unit based on the first recognition result and the second recognition result. The first linguistic recognition unit may be a same or different linguistic unit type as the second linguistic recognition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee Youl CHOI, Seokjin HONG
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Patent number: 9881615Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus and method. The speech recognition apparatus includes a first recognizer configured to generate a first recognition result of an audio signal, in a first linguistic recognition unit, by using an acoustic model, a second recognizer configured to generate a second recognition result of the audio signal, in a second linguistic recognition unit, by using a language model, and a combiner configured to combine the first recognition result and the second recognition result to generate a final recognition result in the second linguistic recognition unit and to reflect the final recognition result in the language model. The first linguistic recognition unit may be a same linguistic unit type as the second linguistic recognition unit. The first recognizer and the second recognizer are configured in a same neural network and simultaneously/collectively trained in the neural network using audio training data provided to the first recognizer.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee Youl Choi, Seokjin Hong
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Patent number: 9779730Abstract: A method and apparatus for speech recognition and for generation of speech recognition engine, and a speech recognition engine are provided. The method of speech recognition involves receiving a speech input, transmitting the speech input to a speech recognition engine, and receiving a speech recognition result from the speech recognition engine, in which the speech recognition engine obtains a phoneme sequence from the speech input and provides the speech recognition result based on a phonetic distance of the phoneme sequence.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seok Jin Hong, Young Sang Choi, Hee Youl Choi, Sang Hyun Yoo
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Patent number: 9773289Abstract: An automatic image selecting apparatus including an image receiver configured to receive an image; a feature extractor configured to extract a feature from the image; and a category determiner configured to determine whether the extracted feature matches predetermined category identification reference data used for determining whether to store the image.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yun Hong Min, In Chul Song, Ba Rom Jeon, Hee Youl Choi
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Publication number: 20170133006Abstract: A neural network training apparatus includes a primary trainer configured to perform a primary training of a neural network model based on clean training data and target data corresponding to the clean training data; and a secondary trainer configured to perform a secondary training of the neural network model on which the primary training has been performed based on noisy training data and an output probability distribution of an output class for the clean training data calculated during the primary training of the neural network model.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ho Shik LEE, Hee Youl CHOI
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Publication number: 20170084268Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for speech recognition, and a method and an apparatus for training transformation parameter. A speech recognition apparatus includes an acoustic score calculator configured to use an acoustic model to calculate an acoustic score of a speech input, an acoustic score transformer configured to transform the calculated acoustic score into an acoustic score corresponding to standard pronunciation by using a transformation parameter, and a decoder configured to decode the transformed acoustic score to output a recognition result of the speech input.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang Hyun YOO, Jung Hoe KIM, Hyoung Min PARK, Hee Youl CHOI, Seok Jin HONG
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Publication number: 20170076719Abstract: Described are an apparatus and method for generating to generate an acoustic model. The apparatus and method include a processor a processor configured to calculate a noise representation that represents noise data by using a noise model, and generate the acoustic model through training using training noisy speech data, which comprises speech data and the noise data, a string of phonemes corresponding to the speech data, and the noise representation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: HoShik LEE, Hee Youl CHOI
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Publication number: 20170054837Abstract: Disclosed are a terminal and a method for displaying caller information. A terminal for displaying caller information includes an incoming call notifier configured to output a notification of an incoming call, a user attention recognizer configured to recognize when the user pays attention to a display of the terminal, a display controller configured to determine the caller information to be displayed based on time elapsed from the notification of the incoming call to when the user pays attention to the display, and a call-waiting display configured to display the caller information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2016Publication date: February 23, 2017Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee-Youl CHOI, Yun-Hong MIN, In-Chul SONG, Paul Barom JEON
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Publication number: 20170053652Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus and method. The speech recognition apparatus includes a first recognizer configured to generate a first recognition result of an audio signal, in a first linguistic recognition unit, by using an acoustic model, a second recognizer configured to generate a second recognition result of the audio signal, in a second linguistic recognition unit, by using a language model, and a combiner configured to combine the first recognition result and the second recognition result to generate a final recognition result in the second linguistic recognition unit and to reflect the final recognition result in the language model. The first linguistic recognition unit may be a same linguistic unit type as the second linguistic recognition unit. The first recognizer and the second recognizer are configured in a same neural network and simultaneously/collectively trained in the neural network using audio training data provided to the first recognizer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: February 23, 2017Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee Youl CHOI, Seokjin HONG
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Publication number: 20170004824Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus includes a probability calculator configured to calculate phoneme probabilities of an audio signal using an acoustic model; a candidate set extractor configured to extract a candidate set from a recognition target list; and a result returner configured to return a recognition result of the audio signal based on the calculated phoneme probabilities and the extracted candidate set.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Hyun YOO, Hee Youl CHOI
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Publication number: 20160027437Abstract: A method and apparatus for speech recognition and for generation of speech recognition engine, and a speech recognition engine are provided. The method of speech recognition involves receiving a speech input, transmitting the speech input to a speech recognition engine, and receiving a speech recognition result from the speech recognition engine, in which the speech recognition engine obtains a phoneme sequence from the speech input and provides the speech recognition result based on a phonetic distance of the phoneme sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seok Jin HONG, Young Sang CHOI, Hee Youl CHOI, Sang Hyun YOO
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Publication number: 20150278979Abstract: An automatic image selecting apparatus including an image receiver configured to receive an image; a feature extractor configured to extract a feature from the image; and a category determiner configured to determine whether the extracted feature matches predetermined category identification reference data used for determining whether to store the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yun Hong Min, In Chul Song, Ba Rom Jeon, Hee Youl Choi
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Publication number: 20140279814Abstract: A context-aware apparatus and a context-aware method are provided. The context-aware apparatus includes a context-model creating unit configured to create a context model based on input data; and a context reasoning unit configured to update a previously stored context model in a memory storage based on the created context model, and to infer a context using the updated context model and input data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang-Do PARK, Hee-Youl CHOI
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Patent number: 7738574Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating a multi-channel mixed signal are provided. The method includes the steps of: a) transforming a temporal domain to a frequency domain by performing a discrete Fourier transform onto at least one of mixed signals inputted from an external device through multi-channel; b) estimating multi-decorrelation by calculating a plurality of cross power spectra for the mixed signal in the transformed frequency domain; c) estimating a separation coefficient of the mixed signal based on relative optimization in order to decorrelate the calculated cross power spectra, where the separation coefficient is serially updated; d) transforming the frequency domain to the temporal domain by performing an inverse discrete Fourier transform on the estimated separation coefficient in the temporal domain; and e) separating an original signal from the mixed signal by filtering the mixed signal using the separation coefficient of the transformed temporal domain.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2006Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Postech FoundationInventors: In-Seon Jang, Ki-Joeng Nam, Hee-Youl Choi, Seung-Jin Choi, Kyeong-Ok Kang
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Publication number: 20070058737Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating a multi-channel mixed signal are provided. The method includes the steps of: a) transforming a temporal domain to a frequency domain by performing a discrete Fourier transform onto at least one of mixed signals inputted from an external device through multi-channel; b) estimating multi-decorrelation by calculating a plurality of cross power spectra for the mixed signal in the transformed frequency domain; c) estimating a separation coefficient of the mixed signal based on relative optimization in order to decorrelate the calculated cross power spectra, where the separation coefficient is serially updated; d) transforming the frequency domain to the temporal domain by performing an inverse discrete Fourier transform on the estimated separation coefficient in the temporal domain; and e) separating an original signal from the mixed signal by filtering the mixed signal using the separation coefficient of the transformed temporal domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2006Publication date: March 15, 2007Inventors: In-Seon Jang, Ki-Joeng Nam, Hee-Youl Choi, Seung-Jin Choi, Kyeong-Ok Kang