Patents by Inventor Hyun-Ki Kim

Hyun-Ki Kim 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: 9633006
    Abstract: Disclosed are a question answering system for structured knowledgebase using deep natural language question analysis, and a method thereof, the question answering system for structured knowledgebase using deep natural language question analysis includes a deep natural language question analysis unit configured to create a structure of a semantic frame by analyzing a natural language question that is input, a question-intermediate expression creation unit configured to create a question-intermediate expression of a lexicon level based on the semantic frame, a knowledgebase-specialized query creation unit configured to create a query used to search in knowledgebase that is a subject of search, based on the question-intermediate expression, and a knowledgebase search unit configured to find a correct answer in the knowledgebase that is subject of search based on the query, to provide an accuracy of the correct answer, a confidence of the correct answer and an evidence for the correct answer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Pum Mo Ryu, Hyun Ki Kim, Yong Jin Bae, Hyo Jung Oh, Chung Hee Lee, Soo Jong Lim, Joon Ho Lim, Myung Gil Jang, Mi Ran Choi, Jeong Heo
  • Patent number: 9613025
    Abstract: A natural language question answering system and method, and a paraphrase module are provided. The natural language question answering system includes a conversion module configured to generate a plurality of modified questions by paraphrasing a user's question; a plurality of question answering engines configured to receive each of the user's question and the modified questions, and select candidate answers corresponding to each of the user's question and the modified questions; and a detection module configured to detect at least one among the selected candidate answers as an answer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jeong Heo, Young Rae Kim, Hyun Ki Kim, Pum Mo Ryu, Yong Jin Bae, Hyo Jung Oh, Chung Hee Lee, Hyung Jik Lee, Soo Jong Lim, Joon Ho Lim, Myung Gil Jang, Mi Ran Choi
  • Patent number: 9609392
    Abstract: A controlling method for arranging a content list of a display apparatus is provided. The method includes storing at least one content selected by a user, displaying a content list including the at least one content, and in response to a location fixation command related to one of the at least one content included in the content list being input, fixing a location of the selected at least one content on the content list. Accordingly, the content list can be arranged efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-ki Kim, Yong-hwan Kwon
  • Patent number: 9589625
    Abstract: A method of operating a memory device may include: providing a first power supply voltage to a sense amplifier during a first time interval, the first time interval being between a first time at which a voltage is provided to a first bit line, and a second time at which a pre-charge command is received; and providing a second power supply voltage to the sense amplifier during a second time interval, during which the word line is enabled after the pre-charge command is received. The second power supply voltage may be greater than the first power supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Ki Kim, Hyung-Sik You
  • Patent number: 9582835
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, and a method for searching for a power user in social media. The apparatus according to the present invention includes an input unit configured to receive a keyword corresponding to an interested object from a user; a communication unit configured to transmit a search request message including the received keyword and receive a search response message corresponding to the transmitted search request message; a controller configured to, when receiving the search response message, extract a search list in which power users related to the keyword are arranged according to a preset power ranking from the received search response message; a display unit configured to sequentially display the power users related to the keyword received from the user according to the preset power ranking based on the extracted search list; and a storage unit configured to store the extracted search list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yeo Chan Yoon, Hyun Ki Kim, Hyeon Jin Kim, Hyo Jung Oh, Chung Hee Lee, Myung Gil Jang, Yo Han Jo, Mi Ran Choi, Yoon Jae Choi, Jeong Heo, Pum Mo Ryu
  • Publication number: 20170040293
    Abstract: Provided are a printed circuit board (PCB) capable of blocking introduction of impurities during a molding process so as to reduce damage on a semiconductor package, a method of manufacturing the PCB, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor package by using the PCB. An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: a substrate body comprising an active area and a dummy area on an outer portion of the active area, the substrate body extending lengthwise in a first direction; a plurality of semiconductor units mounted on the active area; and a barrier formed on the dummy area, wherein the barrier extends in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Jin-gyu KIM, Ji-sun HONG, Su-jung HYUNG, Hyun-ki KIM, Hyun LEE
  • Patent number: 9524337
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, and a method for detecting complex issues based on social media analysis according to the present invention. A system for detecting complex issues based on social media analysis according to the present invention includes: a unit issue detecting unit configured to receive a keyword from a user terminal, and to detect per-type unit issues associated with the received keyword; a complex issue detecting unit configured to detect per-type complex issues from the detected per-type unit issues; a complex issue ranking unit configured to analyze the detected per-type complex issues, and to rank the per-type complex issues based on the analysis result; and a complex issue configuring unit configured to configure the ranked per-type complex issues in a predetermined form that enable users to induce a micro trend, and to provide the configured form to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chung Hee Lee, Hyeon Jin Kim, Hyun Ki Kim, Hyo Jung Oh, Myung Gil Jang, Yo Han Jo, Pum Mo Ryu, Jeong Heo, Mi Ran Choi, Yeo Chan Yoon, Yoon Jae Choi
  • Publication number: 20160341398
    Abstract: Provided is an LED lighting device including: a lighting unit provided with a plurality of LEDs as a light source to generate light; a housing including an opening provided on one face, a light emitting part provided on the other face to emit light outwardly, and an inner space; a reflecting part provided on an inner face of the housing to reflect light generated from the lighting unit to the light emitting part; and a heat radiation unit provided on a rear face of the lighting unit to be exposed outwardly so as to radiate heat outwardly. The lighting unit is installed to cover the opening such that its front face is directed toward the inner space of the housing, and the light emitting part is installed to emit the light generated from the lighting unit or to emit light reflected through the reflecting part from the lighting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Duk-Yong Kim, Byung-Ju Kang, Hyun-Ki Kim
  • Publication number: 20160319777
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas adsorption means for an automobile, and provides an adsorption means formed by coupling an adsorption block including an adsorbent, which collects and separates evaporation gas introduced into a canister, and a processing body in which a vent channel is ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicants: KOREA FUEL-TECH CORPORATION, WONDAE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Ki KIM, Min Soo LEE
  • Publication number: 20160292409
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a handgrip arranged on one side of a door to open and close a storage compartments, a measurer configured to measure fingerprints and body composition of a user when the user grabs the handgrip, a display configured to display the measured body composition information, and a controller configured to recognize the user based on the measured fingerprints and store the measured body composition information as information regarding the recognized user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Jong-won Park, Hiroshi Awata, Kwan-joon Kim, Hyun-ki Kim
  • Patent number: 9418058
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a social media question and answer service, and discloses a social media issue processing device and method. The method includes a question analyzing unit which analyzes a question type of an input question through a question pattern dictionary which is stored in advance; a social media analyzing unit which performs issue period recognition for the question, question type based analysis, question based summary creation, and question based reliability calculation; and a report creating unit which creates a summary in accordance with at least one of correlation between the question type and the question based summary, correlation between the issue period and the question type based analysis result, and correlation between the reliability and the question based summary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jeong Heo, Hyun Ki Kim, Sang Kyu Park, Soo Jong Lim, Yoon Jae Choi, Mi Ran Choi, Pum Mo Ryu, Yong Jin Bae, Yeo Chan Yoon, Myung Gil Jang, Chung Hee Lee, Yo Han Jo, Hyo Jung Oh
  • Publication number: 20160231195
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for inspecting a canister for a vehicle, the device including: an inspection unit fixing a canister and inspecting airtightness of the canister using pressure of air supplied from an external supply source; a control unit controlling the pressure of the air and showing inspection process and result by the canister; and an alarm unit providing least any one of a voice and light warning in cooperation with the control unit in an inspection process when a defect of canister is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: KOREA FUEL-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyun Ki KIM, Hyun Shik KIM, Ju Young OH, Byeong Un CHOI, Jung Sun LEE, Jong Soo LIM
  • Publication number: 20160148101
    Abstract: A knowledge evaluation apparatus, method, and system are provided. The knowledge evaluation apparatus includes an extraction module configured to extract at least one of triple information which is previously set with respect to a document for each field accumulated in an Internet community site; a classification module configured to classify and digitize the triple information extracted from the document for each field by a topic and an item; and a measurement module configured to measure knowledge maturity of the Internet community site based on the knowledge classified and digitized by the classification module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Young Jik LEE, Hyun Ki KIM, Hyo Jung OH
  • Publication number: 20160147739
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for updating a language analysis result are provided. The apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store language analysis result and language analysis metadata to be used for update of the language analysis result, and an update unit configured to reanalyze the language analysis metadata based on language knowledge which is added to language knowledge resources, and update the language analysis result based on the reanalyzed result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Joon Ho LIM, Hyun Ki KIM, Pum Mo RYU, Yong Jin BAE, Hyo Jung OH, Chung Hee LEE, Soo Jong LIM, Myung Gil JANG, Mi Ran CHOI, Jeong HEO
  • Publication number: 20160147737
    Abstract: Disclosed are a question answering system for structured knowledgebase using deep natural language question analysis, and a method thereof, the question answering system for structured knowledgebase using deep natural language question analysis includes a deep natural language question analysis unit configured to create a structure of a semantic frame by analyzing a natural language question that is input, a question-intermediate expression creation unit configured to create a question-intermediate expression of a lexicon level based on the semantic frame, a knowledgebase-specialized query creation unit configured to create a query used to search in knowledgebase that is a subject of search, based on the question-intermediate expression, and a knowledgebase search unit configured to find a correct answer in the knowledgebase that is subject of search based on the query, to provide an accuracy of the correct answer, a confidence of the correct answer and an evidence for the correct answer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Pum Mo RYU, Hyun Ki KIM, Yong Jin BAE, Hyo Jung OH, Chung Hee LEE, Soo Jong LIM, Joon Ho LIM, Myung Gil JANG, Mi Ran CHOI, Jeong HEO
  • Publication number: 20160140958
    Abstract: A natural language question answering system and method, and a paraphrase module are provided. The natural language question answering system includes a conversion module configured to generate a plurality of modified questions by paraphrasing a user's question; a plurality of question answering engines configured to receive each of the user's question and the modified questions, and select candidate answers corresponding to each of the user's question and the modified questions; and a detection module configured to detect at least one among the selected candidate answers as an answer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Jeong HEO, Young Rae KIM, Hyun Ki KIM, Pum Mo RYU, Yong Jin BAE, Hyo Jung OH, Chung Hee LEE, Hyung Jik LEE, Soo Jong LIM, Joon Ho LIM, Myung Gil JANG, Mi Ran CHOI
  • Publication number: 20160140187
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for answering a natural language question which show improved information retrieval performance. The system includes an index unit configured to analyze text of previously stored irregular documents and classify and index the irregular documents according to meanings of sentences or paragraphs, a database configured to receive and store the irregular documents indexed according to the meanings and transmitted from the index unit, a retrieval unit configured to extract an index word by semantically analyzing an input question and search the database for documents related to the extracted index word, and a provision unit configured to generate a correct answer to the question by analyzing the documents searched by the retrieval unit and provide the search results and the correct answer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Yong Jin BAE, Hyun Ki KIM, Pum Mo RYU, Hyo Jung OH, Chung Hee LEE, Soo Jong LIM, Joon Ho LIM, Myung Gil JANG, Mi Ran CHOI, Jeong HEO
  • Publication number: 20160142544
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for customer interaction service is provided. The apparatus for customer interaction comprises a customer interaction information DB configured to map voice of customer(VOC) with customer interaction information responding to the VOC by a service provider and store the result; a VOC collecting unit configured to collect VOC in a text or voice form; a VOC analyzing unit configured to extract target texts to be analyzed from the collected VOC and analyze the extracted text to provide analysis result including the subject of VOC; an interaction information searching unit configured to search VOC related to the collected VOC from the customer interaction information DB by using the analysis result; and a response providing unit configured to determine suitability of each customer interaction information related to the collected VOC to provide the best response to the customer based on the determined suitability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Hyo-Jung OH, Hyun-Ki KIM, Pum-Mo RYU, Yong-Jin BAE, Chung-Hee LEE, Soo-Jong LIM, Joon-Ho LIM, Myung-Gil JANG, Mi-Ran CHOI, Jeong HEO
  • Publication number: 20160132485
    Abstract: A system and method for constructing a morpheme dictionary based on an automatic extraction of a non-registered word is provided. A non-registered word is automatically extracted based on a language-independent non-registered word automatic extraction method, and performance of a dictionary and a morpheme analysis is verified based on an automatic estimation by constructing a morpheme dictionary based on the automatically extracted non-registered word. Since the morpheme dictionary is constructed using only a dictionary in which a final verification is passed and it is helpful to improve the performance, the morpheme analysis can be properly performed on the non-registered word of a new field or a new word which newly appears as time passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Chung Hee LEE, Hyun Ki KIM, Pum Mo RYU, Yong Jin BAE, Hyo Jung OH, Soo Jong LIM, Joon Ho LIM, Myung Gil JANG, Mi Ran CHOI, Jeong HEO
  • Publication number: 20160027495
    Abstract: A method of operating a memory device may include: providing a first power supply voltage to a sense amplifier during a first time interval, the first time interval being between a first time at which a voltage is provided to a first bit line, and a second time at which a pre-charge command is received; and providing a second power supply voltage to the sense amplifier during a second time interval, during which the word line is enabled after the pre-charge command is received. The second power supply voltage may be greater than the first power supply voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Hyun-Ki KIM, Hyung-Sik YOU