Patents by Inventor Jae Hean Kim

Jae Hean 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: 9554121
    Abstract: A 3D scanning apparatus and method using lighting based on a smart phone. The 3D scanning apparatus includes: an image capturing unit for capturing the image of a 3D object using a camera and a lighting apparatus installed in a terminal; an image processing unit for generating a color-enhanced image corresponding to the light emitted by the lighting apparatus; and a scanning unit for scanning the 3D object in 3D by extracting a scan area from the color-enhanced image based on the light and by extracting position information corresponding to the scan area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hyun Kang, Jae-Hean Kim, Chang-Joon Park, Jin-Sung Choi
  • Publication number: 20160379354
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring the position of a stereo camera. The apparatus for measuring a position of the camera according to an embodiment includes a feature point extraction unit for extracting feature points from images captured by a first camera and a second camera and generating a first feature point list based on the feature points, a feature point recognition unit for extracting feature points from images captured by the cameras after the cameras have moved, generating a second feature point list based on the feature points, and recognizing actual feature points based on the first feature point list and the second feature point list, and a position variation measurement unit for measuring variation in positions of the cameras based on variation in relative positions of the actual feature points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Jae-Hean KIM, Hyun KANG, Soon-Chul JUNG, Young-Mi CHA, Jin-Sung CHOI
  • Publication number: 20160364905
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating a 3D model, in which point clouds from a scanner are automatically aligned using marker information, with markers attached to an object. The apparatus includes a point cloud refinement unit for receiving point clouds and marker sets from scanning of an object, refining the point clouds, and transmitting refined point clouds and marker sets, a point cloud alignment unit for inquiring of a point cloud and marker set database about a point cloud group of point cloud pairs and a marker set group of marker set pairs, and aligning the point cloud group, wherein the point cloud pairs and the marker set pairs are acquired by scanning a single object in different directions, and a surface generation unit for generating a 3D model by reconstructing a surface of the object based on the aligned point cloud group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Soon-Chul JUNG, Hyun KANG, Jae-Hean KIM, Young-Mi CHA, Jin-Sung CHOI
  • Publication number: 20160330437
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for calibrating multiple cameras. A first mirror and a second mirror are arranged opposite each other. An object is disposed between the first mirror and the second mirror. Calibration of the multiple cameras is performed using a figure of the object formed on the second mirror via reflection from the first mirror and the second mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Hyun KANG, Jae-Hean KIM, Chang-Joon PARK, Jin-Sung CHOI
  • Publication number: 20160227196
    Abstract: A 3D scanning apparatus and method using lighting based on a smart phone. The 3D scanning apparatus includes: an image capturing unit for capturing the image of a 3D object using a camera and a lighting apparatus installed in a terminal; an image processing unit for generating a color-enhanced image corresponding to the light emitted by the lighting apparatus; and a scanning unit for scanning the 3D object in 3D by extracting a scan area from the color-enhanced image based on the light and by extracting position information corresponding to the scan area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Hyun KANG, Jae-Hean KIM, Chang-Joon PARK, Jin-Sung CHOI
  • Patent number: 9185401
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a camera network includes generating a projection matrix by each of cameras in respect of a calibration pattern that is disposed at a plurality of different positions in a photography zone. A portion of the projection matrix is produced as a sub-projection matrix. Sub-projection matrixes are arranged widthwise and lengthwise to generate one sub-measurement matrix. A singular value decomposition (SVD) is performed on the sub-measurement matrix to change the sub-measurement matrix into a matrix having a rank of 3 and a SVD is performed on the changed sub-measurement matrix. A rotation value of the calibration pattern, and an internal parameter and a rotation value of each camera are extracted to thereby calibrate the camera network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jae Hean Kim, Hyun Kang, Ji Hyung Lee, Bonki Koo
  • Publication number: 20150279016
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method for calibrating a depth of a depth sensor. The image processing method may include obtaining a depth image of a target object captured by a depth sensor and a color image of the target object captured by a color camera; and calibrating a depth of the depth sensor by calibrating a geometrical relation between a projector and a depth camera, which are included in the depth sensor, based the obtained depth and color images and calculating a correct feature point on an image plane of the depth camera that corresponds to a feature point of an image plane of the projector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Jae-Hean KIM, Chang-Woo CHU, Young-Mi CHA, Jin-Sung CHOI, Bon-Ki KOO
  • Patent number: 9147249
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of calibrating a depth image based on a relationship between a depth sensor and a color camera, and an apparatus for calibrating a depth image may include a three-dimensional (3D) point determiner to determine a 3D point of a camera image and a 3D point of a depth image simultaneously captured with the camera image, a calibration information determiner to determine calibration information for calibrating an error of a depth image captured by the depth sensor and a geometric information between the depth sensor and a color camera, using the 3D point of the camera image and the 3D point of the depth image, and a depth image calibrator to calibrate the depth image based on the calibration information and the 3D point of the depth image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae Hean Kim, Chang Woo Chu, Il Kyu Park, Young Mi Cha, Jin Sung Choi, Bon Ki Koo
  • Publication number: 20150213644
    Abstract: Provided are a multi-primitive fitting method including an acquiring point cloud data by collecting data of each of input points, a obtaining a segment for the points using the point cloud data, and a performing primitive fitting using data of points included in the segment and the point cloud data, and a multi-primitive fitting device that performs the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Young Mi CHA, Chang Woo CHU, Jae Hean KIM
  • Publication number: 20140334675
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for extracting a movement path, the movement path extracting apparatus including an image receiver to receive an image from a camera group in which a mutual positional relationship among cameras is fixed, a geographic coordinates receiver to receive geographic coordinates of a moving object on which the camera group is fixed, and a movement path extractor to extract a movement path of the camera group based on a direction and a position of a reference camera of the camera group using the image and the geographic coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chang Woo CHU, Jae Hean KIM, Il Kyu PARK, Young Mi CHA, Jin Sung CHOI, Bon Ki KOO
  • Publication number: 20140245231
    Abstract: A primitive fitting apparatus is provided. The primitive fitting apparatus may include a selecting unit to receive, from a user, a selection of points used to fit a primitive a user desires to fit from a point cloud, an identifying unit to receive a selection of the primitive from the user and to identify the selected primitive, and a fitting unit to fit the primitive to correspond to the points, using the points and primitive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Young Mi CHA, Chang Woo CHU, Jae Hean KIM, Il Kyu PARK, Bon Ki KOO, Jin Sung CHOI
  • Publication number: 20140218354
    Abstract: A view image providing device and method are provided. The view image providing device may include a panorama image generation unit to generate a panorama image using a cube map including a margin area by obtaining an omnidirectional image, a mesh information generation unit to generate 3-dimensional (3D) mesh information that uses the panorama image as a texture by obtaining 3D data, and a user data rendering unit to render the panorama image and the mesh information into user data according to a position and direction input by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Il Kyu PARK, Young Mi CHA, Chang Woo CHU, Jae Hean KIM, Jin Sung CHOI, Bon Ki KOO
  • Publication number: 20140112574
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of calibrating a depth image based on a relationship between a depth sensor and a color camera, and an apparatus for calibrating a depth image may include a three-dimensional (3D) point determiner to determine a 3D point of a camera image and a 3D point of a depth image simultaneously captured with the camera image, a calibration information determiner to determine calibration information for calibrating an error of a depth image captured by the depth sensor and a geometric information between the depth sensor and a color camera, using the 3D point of the camera image and the 3D point of the depth image, and a depth image calibrator to calibrate the depth image based on the calibration information and the 3D point of the depth image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jae Hean KIM, Chang Woo CHU, Il Kyu PARK, Young Mi CHA, Jin Sung CHOI, Bon Ki KOO
  • Patent number: 8564670
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a camera calibration apparatus. The camera calibration apparatus includes an image reception unit and a camera calibration unit. The image reception unit receives images, in which a same background is captured, from respective cameras placed at locations which are different from each other. The camera calibration unit calculates an entire matrix using canonic topographies for all parallelograms located on respective surfaces which are different from each other within each of the images, and calculates infinite hymnographies between the cameras using the entire matrix at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae-Hean Kim, Bon-Ki Koo
  • Patent number: 8405717
    Abstract: An apparatus for calibrating images between cameras, includes: a detector for detecting dynamic markers from images taken by a motion capture camera and a video camera; a 3D position recovery unit for recovering 3D position data of the dynamic markers obtained by the motion capture camera; a 2D position tracking unit for tracking 2D position data of the dynamic markers obtained by the video camera; a matching unit for matching the 3D position data and the 2D position data of the dynamic markers; and a calibrating unit for converting the 3D position of the dynamic markers on a spatial coordinate system into image coordinates on an image coordinate system of the video camera to calculate intrinsic parameters and extrinsic parameters of the video camera to minimize a difference between coordinates of the 2D position data and the image coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jong Sung Kim, Hye-mi Kim, Jae-Hean Kim
  • Patent number: 8401277
    Abstract: A method for restoration of building structure using infinity homographies calculated based on parallelograms includes: calculating, using two or more parallelograms, an infinity homography between those cameras which refer to an arbitrary camera; restoring cameras and the building structure on an affine space using the computed infinity homography and homologous points between images; and transforming the restored result onto the metric space using constraints on orthogonality of vectors joining the restored three-dimensional points, the ratio of lengths of the vectors and intrinsic camera parameters. As a result, intrinsic camera parameters, camera positions on the metric space and the structure of the building are restored. All the restoration is possible even when intrinsic camera parameters corresponding to all the images are not constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae-Hean Kim, Jung Jae Yu, Hye-mi Kim, Jaehwan Kim, Jong Sung Kim, Jin Ho Kim, Il-Kwon Jeong
  • Publication number: 20130058526
    Abstract: A method for automated detection of feature for calibration is provided, which includes capturing images of a polyhedral structure including a plurality of rectangular planes and triangular planes in different directions through a plurality of cameras, and generating a plurality of image files, each of the rectangular planes having calibration objects formed thereon to be used as input values of a calibration engine, and each of the triangular planes having a marker formed thereon to grasp absolute and relative relationships between the rectangular planes; searching for the calibration objects in the image files; searching for the same plane in which the calibration objects are formed using the calibration objects; and indexing the respective calibration objects formed on the same plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyun KANG, Jae Hean KIM, Ji Hyung LEE, Bonki KOO
  • Publication number: 20130016223
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a camera network includes generating a projection matrix by each of cameras in respect of a calibration pattern that is disposed at a plurality of different positions in a photography zone. A portion of the projection matrix is produced as a sub-projection matrix. Sub-projection matrixes are arranged widthwise and lengthwise to generate one sub-measurement matrix. A singular value decomposition (SVD) is performed on the sub-measurement matrix to change the sub-measurement matrix into a matrix having a rank of 3 and a SVD is performed on the changed sub-measurement matrix. A rotation value of the calibration pattern, and an internal parameter and a rotation value of each camera are extracted to thereby calibrate the camera network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae Hean KIM, Hyun Kang, Ji Hyung Lee, Bonki Koo
  • Patent number: 8265337
    Abstract: A camera tracking apparatus for calculating in real time feature information and camera motion information based on an input image includes a global camera tracking unit for computing a global feature map having feature information on entire feature points; a local camera tracking unit for computing in real time a local feature map having feature information on a part of the entire feature points; a global feature map update unit for receiving the computed feature information from the global and local camera tracking units to update the global feature map; and a local feature selection unit for receiving the updated feature information from the global feature map update unit to select in real time the feature points contained in the local feature map. The local camera tracking unit computes the local feature map for each frame, while the global camera tracking unit computes the global feature map over frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jung-Jae Yu, Jae-Hean Kim, Hye-mi Kim, Il-Kwon Jeong
  • Publication number: 20120162441
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a camera calibration apparatus. The camera calibration apparatus includes an image reception unit and a camera calibration unit. The image reception unit receives images, in which a same background is captured, from respective cameras placed at locations which are different from each other. The camera calibration unit calculates an entire matrix using canonic topographies for all parallelograms located on respective surfaces which are different from each other within each of the images, and calculates infinite hymnographies between the cameras using the entire matrix at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae-Hean KIM, Bon-Ki KOO