Patents by Inventor Hyung Jik Lee

Hyung Jik Lee 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: 11880421
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing a search service based on important sentences. The apparatus for providing a search service based on important sentences includes memory in which at least one program and a previously trained word importance measurement model are recorded and a processor for executing the program. The program may include a word importance measurement unit for measuring the importance of each of multiple words included in input text in the corresponding input text based on the word importance measurement model and a sentence importance measurement unit for measuring the importance of each of at least one sentence included in the text based on the measured importance of each of the multiple words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yong-Jin Bae, Joon-Ho Lim, Min-Ho Kim, Hyun Kim, Hyun-Ki Kim, Ji-Hee Ryu, Kyung-Man Bae, Hyung-Jik Lee, Soo-Jong Lim, Myung-Gil Jang, Mi-Ran Choi, Jeong Heo
  • Publication number: 20230105610
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing a search service based on important sentences. The apparatus for providing a search service based on important sentences includes memory in which at least one program and a previously trained word importance measurement model are recorded and a processor for executing the program. The program may include a word importance measurement unit for measuring the importance of each of multiple words included in input text in the corresponding input text based on the word importance measurement model and a sentence importance measurement unit for measuring the importance of each of at least one sentence included in the text based on the measured importance of each of the multiple words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yong-Jin BAE, Joon-Ho LIM, Min-Ho KIM, Hyun KIM, Hyun-Ki KIM, Ji-Hee RYU, Kyung-Man BAE, Hyung-Jik LEE, Soo-Jong LIM, Myung-Gil JANG, Mi-Ran CHOI, Jeong HEO
  • Publication number: 20220108076
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for automatically generating machine reading comprehension training data, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for automatically generating and managing machine reading comprehension training data based on text semantic analysis. The apparatus for automatically generating machine reading comprehension training data according to the present invention includes a domain selection text collection unit configured to collect pieces of text data according to domains and subjects, a paragraph selection unit configured to select a paragraph using the pieces of collected text data and determine whether questions and correct answers are generatable, and a question and correct answer generation unit configured to generate questions and correct answers from the selected paragraph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yong Jin BAE, Joon Ho LIM, Min Ho KIM, Hyun KIM, Hyun Ki KIM, Ji Hee RYU, Kyung Man BAE, Hyung Jik LEE, Soo Jong LIM, Myung Gil JANG, Mi Ran CHOI, Jeong HEO
  • Patent number: 10771408
    Abstract: A chatbot system and method conversing with other chatbots in place of a user. The chatbot system and method understand the purpose of conversation of a user, select chatbots to which the purpose of the user is to be transferred, converse with the selected chatbots in place of the user, and present the user with a result of conversation undertaken. The chatbot system converses with provider chatbots provided by property and service providers. The chatbot system includes a consumer chatbot that understands a purpose of conversation of a user, converses with the provider chatbots in place of the user, and provides a result of the conversation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Joon Ho Lim, Hyun Ki Kim, Min Ho Kim, Ji Hee Ryu, Kyung Man Bae, Yong Jin Bae, Ji Hyun Wang, Hyung Jik Lee, Soo Jong Lim, Myung Gil Jang, Mi Ran Choi, Jeong Heo
  • Patent number: 10691892
    Abstract: The language analysis method includes collecting an online document, performing coined word filtering on the collected document based on a predetermined coined word extraction pattern and a dictionary to extract a coined word candidate which corresponds to the coined word extraction pattern and is not registered in a coined stop word dictionary, performing morpheme analysis on the extracted coined word candidate to verify a coined word candidate which does not correspond to a predetermined part of speech and is not registered in a pre-stored morpheme dictionary, refining the coined word extraction pattern, based on a result of the verification and updating the verified coined word candidate in the coined stop word dictionary, and updating the verified coined word candidate in the morpheme dictionary, based on the result of the verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chung Hee Lee, Hyun Ki Kim, Sang Kyu Park, Kyung Man Bae, Yong Jin Bae, Ji Hyun Wang, Hyung Jik Lee, Soo Jong Lim, Joon Ho Lim, Myung Gil Jang, Mi Ran Choi, Jeong Heo
  • Patent number: 10650814
    Abstract: Provided are an interactive question answering apparatus and method, which improve an unnatural question sentence and prevent the impossibility of a question in a state which does not know additional information, thereby providing a multimodal-based question answering method enabling a person to provide a question like conversing. Also, a question answering service is exposed to potential product purchasers of content such as an image, video, audio, etc., thereby providing an environment available to advertisement market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ji Hyun Wang, Hyun Ki Kim, Chung Hee Lee, Soo Jong Lim, Mi Ran Choi, Sang Kyu Park, Yong Jin Bae, Hyung Jik Lee, Joon Ho Lim, Myung Gil Jang, Jeong Heo
  • Publication number: 20200133946
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for searching of a similar patent based on element alignment. The method includes: extracting patent elements from an input query patent, extracting search words from the elements, and searching for a similar patent; aligning the elements of the query patent with elements of a similar patent obtained through the search and calculating a matching rate; determining whether any element has been unmatched between the elements of the query patent and the elements of the similar patent and extracting an unmatched element; determining whether an additional search is necessary and causing a user to input a paraphrase suitable to additionally search for the unmatched element when an additional search is necessary; and receiving the paraphrase input by the user, changing the unmatched element for the received paraphrase, and returning to the searching for a similar patent using the changed paraphrase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Min Ho KIM, Hyun Ki KIM, Ji Hee RYU, Kyung Man BAE, Yong Jin BAE, Hyung Jik LEE, Soo Jong LIM, Joon Ho LIM, Myung Gil JANG, Mi Ran CHOI, Jeong HEO
  • Publication number: 20190213480
    Abstract: Provided is a method of providing a shared neural model by a question-answering system, the method including: learning a shared neural model on the basis of initial model learning data; providing a plurality of user terminals with the shared neural model upon completing the learning of the shared neural model; upon the user terminal updating the shared neural model to a personalized neural model, collecting the updated personalized neural model; updating the shared neural model on the basis of the collected personalized neural model; and providing the updated shared neural model to the plurality of user terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Joon Ho LIM, Mi Ran CHOI, Hyun Ki KIM, Min Ho KIM, Ji Hee RYU, Kyung Man BAE, Yong Jin BAE, Ji Hyun WANG, Hyung Jik LEE, Soo Jong LIM, Myung Gil JANG, Jeong HEO
  • Publication number: 20190166071
    Abstract: A chatbot system and method conversing with other chatbots in place of a user. The chatbot system and method understand the purpose of conversation of a user, select chatbots to which the purpose of the user is to be transferred, converse with the selected chatbots in place of the user, and present the user with a result of conversation undertaken. The chatbot system converses with provider chatbots provided by property and service providers. The chatbot system includes a consumer chatbot that understands a purpose of conversation of a user, converses with the provider chatbots in place of the user, and provides a result of the conversation to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Joon Ho LIM, Hyun Ki KIM, Min Ho KIM, Ji Hee RYU, Kyung Man BAE, Yong Jin BAE, Ji Hyun WANG, Hyung Jik LEE, Soo Jong LIM, Myung Gil JANG, Mi Ran CHOI, Jeong HEO
  • Patent number: 10093289
    Abstract: An autonomous emergency braking system includes a vehicle speed detector, a pedestrian position detector, a pedestrian information storage portion and an electronic control unit which receives the vehicle speed and information of the position of the pedestrian detected by the pedestrian position detector, calculates a time to collision (TTC), predicts a relative position of the pedestrian compared with the vehicle at a point in time after the calculated TTC passes by tracking a moving trajectory of the pedestrian from a time series change in the position of the pedestrian stored in the pedestrian information storage portion, and performs autonomous emergency braking control depending on the predicted relative position of the pedestrian.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hyung-Jik Lee
  • Patent number: 10089300
    Abstract: An apparatus for amending a language analysis error includes: a main language analyzer, which includes a plurality of language processing modules being sequentially connected to each other, and generates one best main analysis result for each processing module; a subsidiary language analyzer, which includes the plurality of language processing modules, and generates a plurality of subsidiary analysis results for each of the plurality of language processing modules; and an analysis result amender to in response to an error occurring in the main analysis result, acquire a subsidiary analysis result, and transmit the subsidiary analysis result to the main language analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Soo Jong Lim, Hyun Ki Kim, Sang Kyu Park, Yong Jin Bae, Chung Hee Lee, Hyung Jik Lee, Joon Ho Lim, Myung Gil Jang, Mi Ran Choi, Jeong Heo
  • Publication number: 20180267957
    Abstract: The language analysis method includes collecting an online document, performing coined word filtering on the collected document based on a predetermined coined word extraction pattern and a dictionary to extract a coined word candidate which corresponds to the coined word extraction pattern and is not registered in a coined stop word dictionary, performing morpheme analysis on the extracted coined word candidate to verify a coined word candidate which does not correspond to a predetermined part of speech and is not registered in a pre-stored morpheme dictionary, refining the coined word extraction pattern, based on a result of the verification and updating the verified coined word candidate in the coined stop word dictionary, and updating the verified coined word candidate in the morpheme dictionary, based on the result of the verification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Chung Hee LEE, Hyun Ki Kim, Sang Kyu Park, Kyung Man Bae, Yong Jin Bae, Ji Hyun Wang, Hyung Jik Lee, Soo Jong Lim, Joon Ho Lim, Myung Gil Jang, Mi Ran Choi, Jeong Heo
  • Patent number: 10043392
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sensing apparatus for a vehicle, the apparatus including: a sensing unit that is configured to sense at least one of vehicle speed information, yaw rate information, and steering angle information, and to sense a forward object existing within a sensing distance set in advance; a calculator that is configured to calculate at least one of a driving curvature radius, which is calculated based on the vehicle speed information and the yaw rate information, and a steering angular speed, which is calculated based on the steering angle information; and an adjusting unit that is configured to adjust the sensing distance to be decreased when the driving curvature radius is less than, or equal to, a predetermined curvature radius or when the steering angular speed is less than, or equal to, a predetermined angular speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hyung Jik Lee
  • Patent number: 10025849
    Abstract: Provided is a question answering system with respect to a natural language question and a method thereof. The question answering system includes a candidate answer generating unit configured to extract a document mapped to an input natural language question, and generate candidate answers with respect to the natural language question from the extracted document, a text entailment recognizing unit configured to generate a text entailment recognition result representing a degree of association between multiple evidence sentences including the generated candidate answers and the natural language question, a list generating unit configured to generate a candidate answer list including the multiple evidence sentences in high association degree order on the basis of the text entailment recognition result, and an output unit configured to output the generated candidate answer list as a search result with respect to the natural language question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Young Rae Kim, Hyung Jik Lee, Jin Young Moon, Chang Seok Bae, Hyun Ki Kim
  • Publication number: 20180151178
    Abstract: Provided are an interactive question answering apparatus and method, which improve an unnatural question sentence and prevent the impossibility of a question in a state which does not know additional information, thereby providing a multimodal-based question answering method enabling a person to provide a question like conversing. Also, a question answering service is exposed to potential product purchasers of content such as an image, video, audio, etc., thereby providing an environment available to advertisement market.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Ji Hyun Wang, Hyun Ki Kim, Chung Hee Lee, Soo Jong Lim, Mi Ran Choi, Sang Kyu Park, Yong Jin Bae, Hyung Jik Lee, Joon Ho Lim, Myung Gil Jang, Jeong Heo
  • Patent number: 9925963
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an autonomous emergency braking system and a method of controlling the same, capable of autonomously performing emergency braking using information detected by a radar sensor. The autonomous emergency braking system includes a radar sensor and an ECU. The radar sensor transmits a radio wave and receives a wave reflected from an object in front of a vehicle, so as to detect the object in front of the vehicle. The ECU receives object detection information from the radar sensor, and stops or puts off autonomous emergency braking when the number of times the object is detected within a predetermined distance is equal to or greater than a predetermined number of times, based on the received object detection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Mando Corporation
    Inventor: Hyung Jik Lee
  • Publication number: 20180011927
    Abstract: Provided is a natural language query answering method. The natural language query answering method includes generating a query axiom from an input query, generating answer candidates from the input query, filtering the answer candidates based on a similarity between the query axiom and the answer candidates, reasoning out the answer candidates by using at least one of an inductive reasoning method, a deductive reasoning method, and an abductive reasoning method, calculating reliability of the answer candidates, determining ranks of the answer candidates based on the calculated reliability, and comparing a threshold value with a reliability ratio of reliability of an answer candidate determined as No. 1 rank to reliability of an answer candidate determined as No. 2 rank, readjusting the determined ranks according to a result of the comparison, and detecting a No. 1 rank answer candidate, determined through the readjustment, as a final answer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Hyung Jik LEE, Hyun Ki KIM, Sang Kyu Park, Yong Jin BAE, Chung Hee LEE, Soo Jong LIM, Joon Ho LIM, Myung Gil JANG, Mi Ran CHOI, Jeong HEO
  • Patent number: 9855935
    Abstract: Provided is an emergency braking system, including: a receiving unit that receives sensing signals sensed by the sensing unit; a prediction position selecting unit that, when the moving object is sensed through fusion between the sensing signals received by the receiving unit, selects a lateral prediction position of the moving object predicted to collide with the vehicle according to a lateral movement of the moving object; and a braking determining unit that predicts collision and provides an emergency braking control signal to a braking unit when the prediction position selected by the prediction position selecting unit is located inside a vehicle width, and determines a braking control of the braking unit when the prediction position is located outside the vehicle width, so as to suspend a control of the braking unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hyung Jik Lee
  • Publication number: 20170169009
    Abstract: An apparatus for amending a language analysis error includes: a main language analyzer, which includes a plurality of language processing modules being sequentially connected to each other, and generates one best main analysis result for each processing module; a subsidiary language analyzer, which includes the plurality of language processing modules, and generates a plurality of subsidiary analysis results for each of the plurality of language processing modules; and an analysis result amender to in response to an error occurring in the main analysis result, acquire a subsidiary analysis result, and transmit the subsidiary analysis result to the main language analyzer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Soo Jong LIM, Hyun Ki KIM, Sang Kyu PARK, Yong Jin BAE, Chung Hee LEE, Hyung Jik LEE, 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