Patents by Inventor Ick Sang Han

Ick Sang Han 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: 11366516
    Abstract: A visibility improvement method using gaze tracking includes detecting a gaze of a user using a camera; determining a focus object at which the user gazes from among at least one object viewed through a display unit of an electronic device; and displaying, on the display unit, an image with high visibility that corresponds to the focus object and has higher visibility than the focus object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myung-Sik Kim, Chang-Yeong Kim, Ick-Sang Han, Joon-Oo Kim, Jinho Kim, Yun-Je Oh, Sun-Tae Jung
  • Publication number: 20220004255
    Abstract: A visibility improvement method using gaze tracking includes detecting a gaze of a user using a camera; determining a focus object at which the user gazes from among at least one object viewed through a display unit of an electronic device; and displaying, on the display unit, an image with high visibility that corresponds to the focus object and has higher visibility than the focus object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myung-Sik KIM, Chang-Yeong Kim, Ick-Sang Han, Joon-Oo Kim, Jinho Kim, Yun-Je Oh, Sun-Tae Jung
  • Patent number: 11194388
    Abstract: A visibility improvement method using gaze tracking includes detecting a gaze of a user using a camera; determining a focus object at which the user gazes from among at least one object viewed through a display unit of an electronic device; and displaying, on the display unit, an image with high visibility that corresponds to the focus object and has higher visibility than the focus object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myung-Sik Kim, Chang-Yeong Kim, Ick-Sang Han, Joon-Oo Kim, Jinho Kim, Yun-Je Oh, Sun-Tae Jung
  • Patent number: 10529329
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving the performance of voice recognition in a mobile device are provided. The method of recognizing a voice includes: monitoring the usage pattern of a user of a device for inputting a voice; selecting predetermined words from among words stored in the device based on the result of monitoring, and storing the selected words; and recognizing a voice based on an acoustic model and predetermined words. In this way, a voice can be recognized by using prediction of whom the user mainly makes a call to. Also, by automatically modeling the device usage pattern of the user and applying the pattern to vocabulary for voice recognition based on probabilities, the performance of voice recognition, as actually felt by the user, can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyu-hong Kim, Jeong-su Kim, Ick-sang Han
  • Patent number: 10514758
    Abstract: A visibility improvement method using gaze tracking includes detecting a gaze of a user using a camera; determining a focus object at which the user gazes from among at least one object viewed through a display unit of an electronic device; and displaying, on the display unit, an image with high visibility that corresponds to the focus object and has higher visibility than the focus object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myung-Sik Kim, Chang-Yeong Kim, Ick-Sang Han, Joon-Oo Kim, Jinho Kim, Yun-Je Oh, Sun-Tae Jung
  • Patent number: 10203754
    Abstract: A visibility improvement method using gaze tracking includes detecting a gaze of a user using a camera; determining a focus object at which the user gazes from among at least one object viewed through a display unit of an electronic device; and displaying, on the display unit, an image with high visibility that corresponds to the focus object and has higher visibility than the focus object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myung-Sik Kim, Chang-Yeong Kim, Ick-Sang Han, Joon-Oo Kim, Jinho Kim, Yun-Je Oh, Sun-Tae Jung
  • Publication number: 20180053509
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving the performance of voice recognition in a mobile device are provided. The method of recognizing a voice includes: monitoring the usage pattern of a user of a device for inputting a voice; selecting predetermined words from among words stored in the device based on the result of monitoring, and storing the selected words; and recognizing a voice based on an acoustic model and predetermined words. In this way, a voice can be recognized by using prediction of whom the user mainly makes a call to. Also, by automatically modeling the device usage pattern of the user and applying the pattern to vocabulary for voice recognition based on probabilities, the performance of voice recognition, as actually felt by the user, can be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyu-hong Kim, Jeong-su Kim, Ick-sang Han
  • Patent number: 9851788
    Abstract: A visibility improvement method using gaze tracking includes detecting a gaze of a user using a camera; determining a focus object at which the user gazes from among at least one object viewed through a display unit of an electronic device; and displaying, on the display unit, an image with high visibility that corresponds to the focus object and has higher visibility than the focus object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Myung-Sik Kim, Chang-Yeong Kim, Ick-Sang Han, Joon-Oo Kim, Jinho Kim, Yun-Je Oh, Sun-Tae Jung
  • Patent number: 9824686
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving the performance of voice recognition in a mobile device are provided. The method of recognizing a voice includes: monitoring the usage pattern of a user of a device for inputting a voice; selecting predetermined words from among words stored in the device based on the result of monitoring, and storing the selected words; and recognizing a voice based on an acoustic model and predetermined words. In this way, a voice can be recognized by using prediction of whom the user mainly makes a call to. Also, by automatically modeling the device usage pattern of the user and applying the pattern to vocabulary for voice recognition based on probabilities, the performance of voice recognition, as actually felt by the user, can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyu-hong Kim, Jeong-su Kim, Ick-sang Han
  • Patent number: 9269356
    Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus and method that can improve speech recognition rate and recognition speed by reflecting information for dynamic display, are provided. The speech recognition apparatus generates a display variation signal indicating that variations have occurred on a screen and creates display information about the varied screen. The speech recognition apparatus adjusts a word weight for at least one word related to the varied screen and a domain weight for at least one domain included in the varied screen, according to the display variation signal and the display information. The adjusted word weight and the adjusted domain weight are dynamically reflected in a language model that is used for speech recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ick-Sang Han, Jeong-Mi Cho
  • Patent number: 9251786
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a mobile voice web service in a mobile terminal. The method includes analyzing a web history of a user from web search logs of the user and generating a voice access list based on the analysis results, and performing voice recognition by dynamically generating a voice recognition syntax according to the generated voice access list. Accordingly, by limiting syntax required for voice recognition by generating a syntax suitable for a web context of the user, efficient voice recognition, which can be performed in a terminal not a server, can be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong-mi Cho, Ji-yeun Kim, Yoon-kyung Song, Byung-kwan Kwak, Nam-hoon Kim, Ick-sang Han
  • Patent number: 8990086
    Abstract: A recognition confidence measurement method, medium and system which can more accurately determine whether an input speech signal is an in-vocabulary, by extracting an optimum number of candidates that match a phone string extracted from the input speech signal and estimating a lexical distance between the extracted candidates is provided. A recognition confidence measurement method includes: extracting a phoneme string from a feature vector of an input speech signal; extracting candidates by matching the extracted phoneme string and phoneme strings of vocabularies registered in a predetermined dictionary and; estimating a lexical distance between the extracted candidates; and determining whether the input speech signal is an in-vocabulary, based on the lexical distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Bae Jeong, Nam Hoon Kim, Ick Sang Han, In Jeong Choi, Gil Jin Jang, Jae-Hoon Jeong
  • Publication number: 20140361984
    Abstract: A visibility improvement method using gaze tracking includes detecting a gaze of a user using a camera; determining a focus object at which the user gazes from among at least one object viewed through a display unit of an electronic device; and displaying, on the display unit, an image with high visibility that corresponds to the focus object and has higher visibility than the focus object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myung-Sik KIM, Chang-Yeong KIM, Ick-Sang HAN, Joon-Oo KIM, Jinho KIM, Yun-Je OH, Sun-Tae JUNG
  • Patent number: 8849668
    Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus is provided. The speech recognition apparatus includes a primary speech recognition unit configured to perform speech recognition on input speech and thus to generate word lattice information, a word string generation unit configured to generate one or more word strings based on the word lattice information, a language model score calculation unit configured to calculate bidirectional language model scores of the generated word strings selectively using forward and backward language models for each of words in each of the generated word strings, and a sentence output unit configured to output one or more of the generated word strings with high scores as results of the speech recognition of the input speech based on the calculated bidirectional language model scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ick-Sang Han, Chi-Youn Park, Jeong-Su Kim, Jeong-Mi Cho
  • Patent number: 8566101
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating an avatar based video message are provided. The apparatus and method are capable of generating an avatar based video message based on speech of a user. The avatar based video message apparatus and method displays information that corresponds to input user speech. The avatar based video message apparatus and method edits the input user speech according to a user input signal with reference to the displayed information, generates avatar animation according to the edited speech, and generates an avatar based video message based on the edited speech and the avatar animation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ick-sang Han, Jeong-mi Cho
  • Patent number: 8275612
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for detecting noise are provided. The method of detecting noise includes: receiving an input of a voice frame and converting the voice frame into a filter bank vector; converting the converted filter bank vector into band data; calculating a weight Gaussian mixture model (GMM) for each band by using the converted band data; and detecting noise in the voice frame based on the calculation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Nam-hoon Kim, Jeong-mi Cho, Byung-hwan Kwak, Ick-sang Han, Yiogchun Huang
  • Publication number: 20120095766
    Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus is provided. The speech recognition apparatus includes a primary speech recognition unit configured to perform speech recognition on input speech and thus to generate word lattice information, a word string generation unit configured to generate one or more word strings based on the word lattice information, a language model score calculation unit configured to calculate bidirectional language model scores of the generated word strings selectively using forward and backward language models for each of words in each of the generated word strings, and a sentence output unit configured to output one or more of the generated word strings with high scores as results of the speech recognition of the input speech based on the calculated bidirectional language model scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ick-Sang Han, Chi-Youn Park, Jeong-Su Kim, Jeong-Mi Cho
  • Patent number: 8155956
    Abstract: A voice query extension method and system. The voice query extension method includes: detecting voice activity of a user from an input signal and extracting a feature vector from the voice activity; converting the feature vector into at least one phoneme sequence and generating the at least one phoneme sequence; matching the at least one phoneme sequence with words registered in a dictionary, extracting a string of the matched words with a linguistic meaning, and selecting the string of the matched words as a query; determining whether the query is in a predetermined first language, and when the query is not in the first language as a result of the determining, converting the query using a phoneme to grapheme rule, and generating a query in the first language; and searching using the query in the first language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Mi Cho, Byung-Kwan Kwak, Nam Hoon Kim, Ick Sang Han
  • Patent number: 8140334
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for recognizing voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-bae Jeong, Nam-hoon Kim, Jeong-su Kim, In-jeong Choi, Ick-sang Han
  • Patent number: 7970612
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for automatically completing a text input using speech recognition. The method includes: receiving a first part of a text from a user through a text input device; recognizing a speech of the user, which corresponds to the text; and completing a remaining part of the text based on the first part of the text and the recognized speech. Therefore, accuracy of the text input and convenience of the speech recognition can be ensured, and a non-input part of the text can be easily input based on the input part of the text and the recognized speech at a high speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ick-sang Han, Joong-mi Cho, Yoon-kyung Song, Byung-kwan Kwak, Nam-hoon Kim, Ji-yeun Kim