Patents by Inventor Hyungjun So

Hyungjun So 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: 10440467
    Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle relates to a voice masking technology for allowing only a specific passenger among passengers in the vehicle to listen to a voice communication signal such as a dial tone, and the technology inhibits the remaining passengers other than the specific passenger from listening to the voice communication signal. The vehicle includes a voice signal receiver to receive a voice signal, a speaker provided in the vehicle to output the voice signal, and a controller to perform frequency conversion of the received voice signal. In particular, the controller generates a masking sound for inhibiting transmission of information contained in the voice signal on the basis of a frequency band of the converted voice signal, and generates a control signal in a manner that the generated masking sound is output to a predetermined region of an indoor space of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jung Keun You, Jinmo Lee, Kaangdok Yee, Jinseok Hong, Joongkwan Kim, Jung Woo Choi, Hyungjun So
  • Publication number: 20190215606
    Abstract: A vehicle may include: a plurality of speakers disposed in the vehicle; a plurality of headrest speakers, each of which disposed in a headrest of a seat in the vehicle; and a controller configured to divide an internal space of the vehicle into a plurality of areas according to a predetermined reference, to determine an area of the plurality of areas to be used as a destination of sound from a speaker of the plurality of speakers, to generate a control signal by which the sound from the speaker is output to the determined area and not output to any area of the plurality of areas other than the determined area, and to control a headrest speaker of the plurality of headrest speakers disposed in a headrest of a seat in the determined area so as to output the sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Jung Keun You, Jinseok Hong, Kaangdok Yee, Jung Woo Choi, Hyungjun So
  • Publication number: 20190215604
    Abstract: A vehicle may include: a speaker configured to output a sound; and a controller configured to divide an internal space of the vehicle into a plurality of areas according to a predetermined reference, to determine a destination area among the plurality of areas to be used as a destination for the sound, and to generate a control signal causing the speaker to output the sound to the destination area without outputting the sound to other areas of the plurality of areas other than the destination area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Jung Keun You, Jinseok Hong, Kaangdok Yee, Jung Woo Choi, Hyungjun So