Patents by Inventor Jae-Min Joh
Jae-Min Joh 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).
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Patent number: 11521612Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus and method use speech recognition and include: a passenger recognizing device configured to recognize passengers including a first passenger and at least one second passenger in a vehicle; a voice recognizing device configured to receive and to recognize a voice utterance by the first passenger or the at least one second passenger and to output a speech recognition result based on the received voice utterance; and a processor configured to additionally query the at least one second passenger or the first passenger based on the speech recognition result of the voice utterance of the first passenger or the at least one second passenger, respectively, to provide each of the first passenger and the at least one second passenger with a customized service.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Jae Min Joh
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Patent number: 11514908Abstract: A voice command recognition device and a method thereof are provided. The voice command recognition device includes a processor that registers one or more voice commands selected by analysis of one or more voice commands repeatedly used by a user or a voice command utterance pattern of the user to generate one package command and a storage storing data or an algorithm for speech recognition by the processor.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Seo Hwan Choi, Jae Min Joh
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Patent number: 11195527Abstract: Apparatus and method for processing speech recognition may include a speech recognition module that recognizes a voice uttered from a user, and a processing module that calls a user DB where information associated with the user is registered when a voice command of the user is input by the speech recognition module, verifies setting information related to a domain corresponding to the voice command, and processes the voice command through a content provider linked to the associated domain.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Jae Min Joh
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Patent number: 11056113Abstract: A conversation guidance method of a speech recognition system may include managing a user domain based on speech recognition function information and situation information corrected from a system mounted on a vehicle, generating a conversation used for speech recognition based on the user domain, and guiding a user with the generated conversation.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Kyung Chul Lee, Jae Min Joh
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Publication number: 20210174797Abstract: A voice command recognition device and a method thereof are provided. The voice command recognition device includes a processor that registers one or more voice commands selected by analysis of one or more voice commands repeatedly used by a user or a voice command utterance pattern of the user to generate one package command and a storage storing data or an algorithm for speech recognition by the processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Seo Hwan Choi, Jae Min Joh
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Publication number: 20210166683Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus and method use speech recognition and include: a passenger recognizing device configured to recognize passengers including a first passenger and at least one second passenger in a vehicle; a voice recognizing device configured to receive and to recognize a voice utterance by the first passenger or the at least one second passenger and to output a speech recognition result based on the received voice utterance; and a processor configured to additionally query the at least one second passenger or the first passenger based on the speech recognition result of the voice utterance of the first passenger or the at least one second passenger, respectively, to provide each of the first passenger and the at least one second passenger with a customized service.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Jae Min Joh
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Patent number: 11004447Abstract: A speech processing apparatus includes a speech processor for acquiring information on a relationship between a first user and a second user on the basis of a spoken language of the first user, a storage for storing a first user database (DB) that includes personal information of the second user identified by a second identification tag and a second user DB that includes personal information of the first user identified by a first identification tag, and a DB managing processor for updating the first user DB and the second user DB based on the acquired information on the relationship between the first user and the second user.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jin Ho Lee, Jae Min Joh
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Publication number: 20200193986Abstract: Apparatus and method for processing speech recognition may include a speech recognition module that recognizes a voice uttered from a user, and a processing module that calls a user DB where information associated with the user is registered when a voice command of the user is input by the speech recognition module, verifies setting information related to a domain corresponding to the voice command, and processes the voice command through a content provider linked to the associated domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Jae Min JOH
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Publication number: 20200193984Abstract: A conversation guidance method of a speech recognition system may include managing a user domain based on speech recognition function information and situation information corrected from a system mounted on a vehicle, generating a conversation used for speech recognition based on the user domain, and guiding a user with the generated conversation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Kyung Chul Lee, Jae Min Joh
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Publication number: 20200193985Abstract: A method of managing a domain for a speech recognition system includes may include: collecting, by a vehicle function analysis module, speech recognition function information from a system mounted on a vehicle; collecting, by a vehicle situation analysis module, situation information from the system mounted on the vehicle; and managing, by a user domain management module, a user domain based on the speech recognition function information and the situation information collected.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Kyung Chul Lee, Jae Min Joh
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Patent number: 10629201Abstract: An apparatus configured for correcting an utterance error of a user, which is configured for extracting a sematic frame with high accuracy even though the utterance of the user is incomplete, and a method thereof may include a voice activity detector configured to extract a voice after distinguishing a voice part and a mute part in a user utterance; a voice recognizer configured to output a text corresponding to the voice extracted by the voice activity detector after recognizing the voice; a named-entity recognizer configured to recognize a named entity of each text output from the voice recognizer; a text normalizer configured to normalize each text based on the named entity of each text recognized by the named entity recognizer; and a text determiner configured to determine a final text among normalized texts.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Sung Soo Park, Jae Min Joh
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Patent number: 10621985Abstract: A voice recognition device for a vehicle includes: an input device receiving a command and a negative interjection uttered by a user, converting the command into a first voice signal, and converting the negative interjection into a second voice signal; a storage device storing a negative context, an interjection context, and an acoustic model; and a control device receiving the first voice signal, detecting a first start point and a first end point of the first voice signal, receiving the second voice signal after the detection of the first start point and the first end point of the first voice signal, detecting a second start point and a second end point of the second voice signal, and recognizing the second voice signal based on at least one of the negative context, the interjection context, and the acoustic model when the reception of the first voice signal and the second voice signal is completed.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Jae Min Joh
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Patent number: 10559304Abstract: A vehicle-mounted voice recognition device includes: a storage configured to store a plurality of databases for voice recognition generated based on an address book database sent from a terminal device; a processor configured to detect at least one element from the plurality of databases for voice recognition and determine an order of displaying contact information corresponding to the at least one element; and a user interface configured to display the contact information corresponding to the at least one element in the order of displaying and receive a selection of a piece of the contact information from a user. The processor is further configured to detect a database among the plurality of databases for voice recognition, the detected database including an element corresponding to the selected piece of contact information, and re-determine the order of displaying the contact information based on detection frequencies of the plurality of databases for voice recognition.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jin Ho Lee, Jae Min Joh
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Patent number: 10475441Abstract: A voice end-point detection device, a system and a method are provided. The voice end-point detection system includes a processor that is configured to determine an end-point detection time to detect an end-point of speaking of a user that varies vary for each user and for each domain. The voice end-point detection system is configured to perform voice recognition and a database (DB) is configured to store data for the voice recognition by the processor.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Kyung Chul Lee, Jae Min Joh
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Publication number: 20190180741Abstract: An apparatus configured for correcting an utterance error of a user, which is configured for extracting a sematic frame with high accuracy even though the utterance of the user is incomplete, and a method thereof may include a voice activity detector configured to extract a voice after distinguishing a voice part and a mute part in a user utterance; a voice recognizer configured to output a text corresponding to the voice extracted by the voice activity detector after recognizing the voice; a named-entity recognizer configured to recognize a named entity of each text output from the voice recognizer; a text normalizer configured to normalize each text based on the named entity of each text recognized by the named entity recognizer; and a text determiner configured to determine a final text among normalized texts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Sung Soo PARK, Jae Min JOH
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Publication number: 20190130907Abstract: A voice recognition device for a vehicle includes: an input device receiving a command and a negative interjection uttered by a user, converting the command into a first voice signal, and converting the negative interjection into a second voice signal; a storage device storing a negative context, an interjection context, and an acoustic model; and a control device receiving the first voice signal, detecting a first start point and a first end point of the first voice signal, receiving the second voice signal after the detection of the first start point and the first end point of the first voice signal, detecting a second start point and a second end point of the second voice signal, and recognizing the second voice signal based on at least one of the negative context, the interjection context, and the acoustic model when the reception of the first voice signal and the second voice signal is completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventor: Jae Min Joh
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Publication number: 20180357999Abstract: A voice end-point detection device, a system and a method are provided. The voice end-point detection system includes a processor that is configured to determine an end-point detection time to detect an end-point of speaking of a user that varies vary for each user and for each domain. The voice end-point detection system is configured to perform voice recognition and a database (DB) is configured to store data for the voice recognition by the processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2017Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventors: Kyung Chul Lee, Jae Min Joh
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Publication number: 20180350365Abstract: A vehicle-mounted voice recognition device includes: a storage configured to store a plurality of databases for voice recognition generated based on an address book database sent from a terminal device; a processor configured to detect at least one element from the plurality of databases for voice recognition and determine an order of displaying contact information corresponding to the at least one element; and a user interface configured to display the contact information corresponding to the at least one element in the order of displaying and receive a selection of a piece of the contact information from a user. The processor is further configured to detect a database among the plurality of databases for voice recognition, the detected database including an element corresponding to the selected piece of contact information, and re-determine the order of displaying the contact information based on detection frequencies of the plurality of databases for voice recognition.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Jin Ho Lee, Jae Min Joh
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Publication number: 20180182391Abstract: A speech processing apparatus includes a speech processor for acquiring information on a relationship between a first user and a second user on the basis of a spoken language of the first user, a storage for storing a first user database (DB) that includes personal information of the second user identified by a second identification tag and a second user DB that includes personal information of the first user identified by a first identification tag, and a DB managing processor for updating the first user DB and the second user DB based on the acquired information on the relationship between the first user and the second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Jin Ho LEE, Jae Min Joh
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Patent number: 9900414Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication, a display, and a controller configured to, activate a mode for voice recognition in response to a touch input to a soft button displayed on the display or to a hard button on the mobile terminal, receive a first voice input associated with a phone call relating operation of the mobile terminal, display an indicator on the display indicating the voice input is being recognized by the mobile terminal, analyze the context of a voice command in the voice input, execute the call relating operation only if there is a single contact in a phonebook that matches the voice command in the first voice input, if there is no single contact that matches the voice command of the received voice input, display a plurality of candidates that is analyzed based on the voice command, receive a second input according to a plurality of candidates, and execute the call relating operation based on the second input.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jong-Keun Youn, Dae-Sung Jung, Jae-Hoon Yu, Tae-Jun Kim, Jae-Min Joh, Jae-Do Kwak, Jong-Ho Shin