Patents by Inventor Hoon-Young Cho

Hoon-Young Cho 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: 8934089
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for analyzing an electroluminescence sample, which comprises: a pulse generator for applying a pulse driving signal to the electroluminescence sample; an electroluminescence (EL) detector for receiving electroluminescence which is emitted from the electroluminescence sample according to the application of the pulse driving signal, thereby acquiring a light-receiving signal; a temperature controller for varying the temperature of the electroluminescence sample; and an electroluminescence transient spectroscopy (ELTS) analysis unit for analyzing a change in a time division section of the light-receiving signal delayed depending on a change of the temperature of the electroluminescence sample, and acquiring information on a defect-type charge trap which exists in the electroluminescence sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Dongguk University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Hoon Young Cho, Dong Wha Lee, Dong Wook Kwak, Hyun Yul Choi
  • Publication number: 20150003739
    Abstract: An advertisement detection system based on fingerprints, including a content stream storage unit storing broadcast content in real time, a section selection unit selecting a reference section and a test section from broadcast content stored by the storage unit, a fingerprint extraction unit extracting fingerprints from the reference section and test section selected by the selection unit, a fingerprint matching unit comparing fingerprints from the test section and reference section, extracted by the extraction unit, with each other and then performing matching between the fingerprints, an advertisement section determination unit determining advertisement segments from the test section based on results of the matching performed by the matching unit, an advertisement DB management unit storing segment information about the advertisement segments determined by the determination unit in an advertisement DB and managing the DB, and a section update unit changing the reference section and test section selected by t
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: ENSWERS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoon-Young Cho, Jaehyung Lee
  • Patent number: 8886635
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for recognizing content using an audio signal. The content recognition apparatus includes a query fingerprint extraction unit for forming frames having a preset frame length for an audio signal, and generating frame-based feature vectors for respective frames, thus extracting a query fingerprint. A reference fingerprint DB stores reference fingerprints to be compared with the query fingerprint and pieces of content information corresponding to the reference fingerprints. A fingerprint matching unit determines a reference fingerprint matching the query fingerprint. In this case, the query fingerprint extraction unit forms the frames while varying a frame shift size that is an interval between start points of neighboring frames in a partial section. According to the present invention, there can be provided a content recognition apparatus and method which can maintain the accuracy and reliability of matching while promptly providing results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Enswers Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoon-young Cho, Jaehyung Lee, Chandra Shekhar Dhir
  • Patent number: 8698122
    Abstract: A silicon nanowire including metal nanoclusters formed on a surface thereof at a high density. The metal nanocluster improves electrical and optical characteristics of the silicon nanowire, and thus can be usefully used in various electrical devices such as a lithium battery, a solar cell, a bio sensor, a memory device, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Dongguk University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Gyeong-su Park, In-yong Song, Sung Heo, Dong-wook Kwak, Hoon Young Cho, Han-su Kim, Jae-man Choi, Moon-seok Kwon
  • Patent number: 8679949
    Abstract: A silicon nanowire includes metal nanoclusters formed on a surface thereof at a high density. The metal nanoclusters improve electrical and optical characteristics of the silicon nanowire, and thus can be usefully used in various electrical devices such as a lithium battery, a solar cell, a bio sensor, a memory device, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Dongguk University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Gyeong-su Park, In-yong Song, Sung Heo, Dong-wook Kwak, Hoon Young Cho, Han-su Kim, Jae-man Choi, Moon-seok Kwon
  • Publication number: 20130318071
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for recognizing content using an audio signal. The content recognition apparatus includes a query fingerprint extraction unit for forming frames having a preset frame length for an audio signal, and generating frame-based feature vectors for respective frames, thus extracting a query fingerprint. A reference fingerprint DB stores reference fingerprints to be compared with the query fingerprint and pieces of content information corresponding to the reference fingerprints. A fingerprint matching unit determines a reference fingerprint matching the query fingerprint. In this case, the query fingerprint extraction unit forms the frames while varying a frame shift size that is an interval between start points of neighboring frames in a partial section. According to the present invention, there can be provided a content recognition apparatus and method which can maintain the accuracy and reliability of matching while promptly providing results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: ENSWERS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoon-young Cho, Jaehyung Lee, Chandra Shekhar Dhir
  • Publication number: 20130138437
    Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus, includes a reliability estimating unit configured to estimate reliability of a time-frequency segment from an input voice signal; and a reliability reflecting unit configured to reflect the reliability of the time-frequency segment to a normalized cepstrum feature vector extracted from the input speech signal and a cepstrum average vector included for each state of an HMM in decoding. Further, the speech recognition apparatus includes a cepstrum transforming unit configured to transform the cepstrum feature vector and the average vector through a discrete cosine transformation matrix and calculate a transformed cepstrum vector. Furthermore, the speech recognition apparatus includes an output probability calculating unit configured to calculate an output probability value of time-frequency segments of the input speech signal by applying the transformed cepstrum vector to the cepstrum feature vector and the average vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hoon-Young Cho, Youngik Kim, Sanghun Kim
  • Publication number: 20130138441
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of generating a search network for voice recognition, the method including: generating a pronunciation transduction weighted finite state transducer by implementing a pronunciation transduction rule representing a phenomenon of pronunciation transduction between recognition units as a weighted finite state transducer; and composing the pronunciation transduction weighted finite state transducer and one or more weighted finite state transducers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seung Hi Kim, Dong Hyun Kim, Young Ik Kim, Jun Park, Hoon Young Cho, Sang Hun Kim
  • Publication number: 20130035935
    Abstract: The present invention allows a man to recognize a location of a sound source in a three-dimensional space using two ears and applies a method of separating a sound source in a certain orientation to improve the performance of an application technology using a speech in a noisy environment. The present invention acquires a speech signal using two sensors and determines an orientation angle of a sound source in a zero-crossing point step with respect to a frequency separated signal with a band pass filter bank. An object of the present invention is to obtain excellent sound source orientation detection and division performance which is difficult to be obtained in an existing crossing correlation method calculated in units of time frames in a noisy environment with a plurality of sound sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Young Ik KIM, Hoon Young Cho, Sang Hun Kim
  • Publication number: 20130026443
    Abstract: A silicon nanowire including metal nanoclusters formed on a surface thereof at a high density. The metal nanocluster improves electrical and optical characteristics of the silicon nanowire, and thus can be usefully used in various electrical devices such as a lithium battery, a solar cell, a bio sensor, a memory device, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Gyeong-su PARK, In-yong SONG, Sung HEO, Dong-wook KWAK, Hoon Young CHO, Han-su KIM, Jae-man CHOI, Moon-seok KWON
  • Patent number: 8249867
    Abstract: A microphone-array-based speech recognition system using a blind source separation (BBS) and a target speech extraction method in the system are provided. The speech recognition system performs an independent component analysis (ICA) to separate mixed signals input through a plurality of microphone into sound-source signals, extracts one target speech spoken for speech recognition from the separated sound-source signals by using a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) or a hidden Markov Model (HMM), and automatically recognizes a desired speech from the extracted target speech. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain a high speech recognition rate even in a noise environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hoon Young Cho, Yun Keun Lee, Jeom Ja Kang, Byung Ok Kang, Kap Kee Kim, Sung Joo Lee, Ho Young Jung, Hoon Chung, Jeon Gue Park, Hyung Bae Jeon
  • Patent number: 8219396
    Abstract: An apparatus for evaluating the performance of speech recognition includes a speech database for storing N-number of test speech signals for evaluation. A speech recognizer is located in an actual environment and executes the speech recognition of the test speech signals reproduced using a loud speaker from the speech database in the actual environment to produce speech recognition results. A performance evaluation module evaluates the performance of the speech recognition by comparing correct recognition results answers with the speech recognition results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hoon-Young Cho, Yunkeun Lee, Ho-Young Jung, Byung Ok Kang, Jeom Ja Kang, Kap Kee Kim, Sung Joo Lee, Hoon Chung, Jeon Gue Park, Hyung-Bae Jeon
  • Publication number: 20120109650
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for creating an acoustic model. The apparatus includes a binary tree creation unit, an information creation unit, and a binary tree reduction unit. The binary tree creation unit creates a binary tree by repeatedly merging a plurality of Gaussian components for each Hidden Markov Model (HMM) state of an acoustic model based on a distance measure reflecting a variation in likelihood score. The information creation unit creates information about information about the largest size of the acoustic model in accordance with a platform including a speech recognizer. The binary tree reduction unit reduces the binary tree in accordance with the information about the largest size of the acoustic model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hoon-Young CHO, Young-Ik Kim, Il-Bin Lee, Seung-Hi Kim, Jun Park, Dong-Hyun Kim, Sang-Hun Kim
  • Publication number: 20110240954
    Abstract: A silicon nanowire includes metal nanoclusters formed on a surface thereof at a high density. The metal nanoclusters improve electrical and optical characteristics of the silicon nanowire, and thus can be usefully used in various electrical devices such as a lithium battery, a solar cell, a bio sensor, a memory device, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., DONGGUK UNIVERSITY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Gyeong-su PARK, In-yong SONG, Sung HEO, Dong-wook KWAK, Hoon Young CHO, Han-su KIM, Jae-man CHOI, Moon-seok KWON
  • Publication number: 20100070274
    Abstract: An apparatus for a speech recognition based on source separation and identification includes: a sound source separator for separating mixed signals, which are input to two or more microphones, into sound source signals by using independent component analysis (ICA), and estimating direction information of the separated sound source signals; and a speech recognizer for calculating normalized log likelihood probabilities of the separated sound source signals. The apparatus further includes a speech signal identifier identifying a sound source corresponding to a user's speech signal by using both of the estimated direction information and the reliability information based on the normalized log likelihood probabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hoon-Young CHO, Sang Kyu Park, Jun Park, Seung Hi Kim, Ilbin Lee, Kyuwoong Hwang, Hyung-Bae Jeon, Yunkeun Lee
  • Publication number: 20090157399
    Abstract: An apparatus for evaluating the performance of speech recognition includes a speech database for storing N-number of test speech signals for evaluation. A speech recognizer is located in an actual environment and executes the speech recognition of the test speech signals reproduced using a loud speaker from the speech database in the actual environment to produce speech recognition results. A performance evaluation module evaluates the performance of the speech recognition by comparing correct recognition results answers with the speech recognition results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hoon-Young CHO, Yunkeun Lee, Ho-Young Jung, Byung Ok Kang, Jeom Ja Kang, Kap Kee Kim, Sung Joo Lee, Hoon Chung, Jeon Gue Park, Hyung-Bae Jeon
  • Publication number: 20090150146
    Abstract: A microphone-array-based speech recognition system using a blind source separation (BBS) and a target speech extraction method in the system are provided. The speech recognition system performs an independent component analysis (ICA) to separate mixed signals input through a plurality of microphone into sound-source signals, extracts one target speech spoken for speech recognition from the separated sound-source signals by using a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) or a hidden Markov Model (HMM), and automatically recognizes a desired speech from the extracted target speech. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain a high speech recognition rate even in a noise environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hoon Young CHO, Yun Keun Lee, Jeom Ja Kang, Byung Ok Kang, Kap Kee Kim, Sung Joo Lee, Ho Young Jung, Hoon Chung, Jeon Gue Park, Hyung Bae Jeon
  • Publication number: 20060105524
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a non-volatile memory device manufactured using ion-implantation, and a method of manufacturing the same. A dielectric layer may be formed on a semiconductor substrate, and an ion implantation layer, which may be used as a charge trapping site, may be formed by ion implantation with Si or Ge. Then, an annealing process may be performed. Subsequently, a process for forming a transistor on the dielectric layer may be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong-hee Han, Hoon-young Cho, Chung-woo Kim, Chan-jin Park, Jong-soo Oh, Ki-hyun Cho