Patents by Inventor Jeong Eom Lee
Jeong Eom 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).
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Publication number: 20210303263Abstract: A vehicle includes a first input device that receives a speech signal; a second input device that receives user input, vehicle state information, driving environment information, or user information; a storage that stores text corresponding to each of a plurality of speech signals and information about a standard language corresponding to each text; and a dialogue system that converts the received speech signal into text of the standard language based on the information stored in the storage, to identify an intention of the user's utterance based on the converted text, to determine the user's context based on at least one information received by the second input device, to determine an action corresponding to the identified intention of the user's utterance and the determined user's context, to generate a response corresponding to the determined action, and to output the generated response.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Seona Kim, Youngmin Park, Jeong-Eom Lee
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Publication number: 20210142787Abstract: A dialogue processing apparatus includes: a communicator configured to communicate with an external apparatus; a speech inputter configured to receive a speech of a user; and a controller configured, when the speech of the user is received, to determine whether it is possible to provide a function corresponding to the received speech, and to control the communicator to transmit speech information about the speech of the user to the external apparatus based on whether it is possible to provide the function corresponding to the received speech.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Seona Kim, Youngmin Park, Jeong-Eom Lee
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Patent number: 11004450Abstract: A dialogue system for a vehicle may include: an input processor configured to receive a dialogue among occupants of the vehicle including a driver and at least one passenger, to detect vehicle operation information, to identify the at least one passenger based on the dialogue among the occupants or the vehicle operation information, to generate passenger number information which estimates a change in a number of passengers in the vehicle based on the dialogue among the occupants when the vehicle arrives at a stop-over point, and to acquire a pre-utterance message according to the passenger number information; and a result processor configured to output a pre-utterance according to the pre-utterance message.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jung Mi Park, Donghee Seok, Dongsoo Shin, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, Seona Kim, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
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Patent number: 10997974Abstract: A dialogue system for a vehicle may include: a storage storing context information including at least one of vehicle state information indicating a vehicle state, user information indicating a driver of the vehicle, or driving environment information indicating a driving environment of the vehicle; an input processor determining whether a context of the vehicle is a pre-utterance context, in which the dialogue system firstly outputs an utterance, based on the stored context information, determining whether a task related to the pre-utterance context is a duplicate task which has already processed or is currently processing when the context of the vehicle is the pre-utterance context, and obtaining at least one of an action corresponding to the pre-utterance context or a pre-utterance message to be output by the dialogue system when the task related to the pre-utterance context is not a duplicate task; a dialogue manager obtaining, from the storage, a parameter value of an action parameter used to perform theType: GrantFiled: December 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Dongsoo Shin, Donghee Seok, Sihyun Joo, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, Seona Kim, Jung Mi Park, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
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Patent number: 10991368Abstract: A dialogue system for a vehicle may include: an input processor configured to receive a user's utterance, to acquire an utterance text by recognizing the user's utterance, to recognize a dialogue subject based on the acquired utterance text, and to identify the user; and a dialogue manager including a memory storing program instructions and a processor configured to execute the stored program instructions, the dialogue manager configured to verify whether a chat room related to the dialogue subject is present, and to determine whether to add the identified user as a participant of the chat room based on a result of the verification.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jeong-Eom Lee, Donghee Seok, Dongsoo Shin, Ga Hee Kim, Seona Kim, Jung Mi Park, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
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Publication number: 20210090557Abstract: A dialogue system includes: a speech recognizes configured to generate an input sentence by converting a speech of a user into a text; a dialogue manager configured to generate a meaning representation for the input sentence; and a result processor configured to generate a plurality of output sentences corresponding to the meaning representation. The dialogue manager generates a meaning representation for each of the plurality of output sentences. The result processor generates a system response based on the meaning representation for the input sentence and the meaning representation for each of the plurality of output sentences.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Youngmin Park, Seona Kim, Jeong-Eom Lee
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Publication number: 20210090563Abstract: A dialogue system, a dialogue system control method, and an electronic apparatus are configured to process a user speech to generate a system response before the user's speech ends by recognizing the user's intention When the user's speech is finished, the system response is output to continue a natural dialogue flow in real time. The dialogue system includes: a Speech to Text engine to convert a user speech into text; an intermediate dialogue engine configured to process an intermediate speech before user speech is terminated; a final dialogue engine configured to process a final speech after the user speech is terminated; and a controller. The controller is configured to input the converted text to the intermediate dialogue engine when user speech is not terminated, and to input the converted text to the final dialogue engine when user speech is terminated The dialogue system also includes a Text to Speech engine configured to convert the system response into a speech signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Seona Kim, Youngmin Park, Jeong-Eom Lee
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Patent number: 10950233Abstract: Disclosed herein is a dialogue system capable of identifying preliminary indications related to the failure of the vehicle through a dialogue with a user, to check a part that may not be measured by a sensor and to inhibit accidents so as to provide user safety, a vehicle having the same and a dialogue processing method.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, KIA Motors CorporationInventors: Seona Kim, Donghee Seok, Dongsoo Shin, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, Jung Mi Park, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
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Patent number: 10937424Abstract: A dialogue system and a vehicle having the same is provided. The dialogue system may recognize the user's speech, which is transmitted from the speech input device, as a text, derive user labeling context information after verifying an entity of the text, store the user labeling context information in the type to share an entity ontology with other user, and generate a dialogue response to perform an action corresponding when a user performs a free utterance or a designated entity utterance.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Jung Mi Park, Donghee Seok, Dongsoo Shin, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, Seona Kim, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
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Publication number: 20210043202Abstract: A dialogue processing apparatus includes: a speech input device configured to receive a speech signal of a user; a first buffer configured to store the received speech signal therein; an output device; and a controller. The controller is configured to: detect an utterance end time point on the basis of the stored speech signal; generate a second speech recognition result corresponding to a speech signal after the utterance end time point on the basis of whether an intention of the user is to be identified from a first speech recognition result corresponding to a speech signal before the utterance end time point; and control the output device to output a response corresponding to the intention of the user determined on the basis of at least one of the first speech recognition result or the second speech recognition result.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Jeong-Eom Lee, Youngmin Park, Seona Kim
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Publication number: 20210027775Abstract: A hub-dialogue system includes a speech processor configured to determine a user intention that is included in inputted user dialogue. A communicator is configured to connect a local speaker corresponding to an external dialogue system through wireless communication. A controller is configured to determine the external dialogue system corresponding to the user intention from among a plurality of external dialogue systems, to generate a command sentence indicating the user intention, to convert the command sentence to a voice signal, and to control the communicator to transmit the voice signal to the local speaker corresponding to the determined external dialogue system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Youngmin Park, Seona Kim, Jeong-Eom Lee
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Patent number: 10866726Abstract: A touch input device and control method thereof, wherein the touch input device includes a swiping input unit configured to receive a selection of a character through a swiping gesture by a user, a gesture input unit placed on an area different from that of the swiping input unit and in which a user inputs a gesture trough a touch, and a controller configured to determine that the selected character is input when a touch gesture is input from the swiping input unit to the gesture input unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Gi Beom Hong, Jungsang Min, Jeong-Eom Lee, Sihyun Joo
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Patent number: 10861460Abstract: A dialogue system for a vehicle may include: a storage configured to store vehicle state information and driving environment information; an input processor configured to acquire an utterance from a user and to extract an action corresponding to the utterance when it is identified that the utterance includes user state information; a dialogue manger configured to acquire a parameter value of a condition determination parameter used to determine whether the action corresponding to the utterance is executable from the storage, to determine an action to be executed based on the parameter value of the condition determination parameter, and to acquire a parameter value of an action parameter used to execute the determined action from the storage; and a result processor configured to generate a response to execute the determined action using the acquired parameter value of the action parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Seona Kim, Donghee Seok, Dongsoo Shin, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
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Patent number: 10847150Abstract: A dialogue system is provided to assist a user while minimizing distraction and achieve safe driving by adjusting a level of a dialogue service based on a dialogue with the user in a vehicle driving environment and multiple kinds of information including vehicle state information, driving environment information, and user information, and a vehicle having the dialogue system and a dialogue service processing method is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Donghee Seok, Dongsoo Shin, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, Seona Kim, Jung Mi Park, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
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Patent number: 10839797Abstract: A dialogue system includes: an input processor extracting an action corresponding to a user's utterance; a storage storing information value of context information comprising at least one of vehicle state information related to a vehicle state, and driving environment information related to the driving environment of the vehicle; a dialogue managing processor acquiring a parameter value of a condition determination parameter used to determine whether the action corresponding to the user's utterance is executable, from the storage, the dialogue managing processor determining an action to be executed based on the parameter value of the condition determination parameter, the dialogue managing processor acquiring a parameter value of action parameter used to execute the determined action, from the storage; and a result processor generating a response to execute the determined action by using the acquired parameter value of action parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Dongsoo Shin, Donghee Seok, Sihyun Joo, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, Seona Kim, Jung Mi Park, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
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Publication number: 20200342060Abstract: A natural language generating apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive semantic expression information for generating a natural language sentence; and a controller configured to: generate a dependency tree representing a syntax structure of at least one word determined based on the received semantic expression information, based on a trained neural network model, and to generate the natural language sentence based on the generated dependency tree.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Youngmin Park, Seona Kim, Jeong-Eom Lee
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Patent number: 10818297Abstract: A dialogue system, a vehicle and a method for controlling the vehicle is disclosed. The method for controlling the vehicle includes: acquiring an utterance and a speech pattern by recognizing a speech when a speech of a plurality of speakers is input through a speech input device; classifying dialogue contents for each speaker based on the acquired utterance and speech pattern; acquiring a relationship between the speakers based on the acquired utterance; understanding an intention and a context for each speaker based on the acquired relationship between the speakers and the acquired dialogue content for each speaker determining an action corresponding to the acquired relationship and the acquired intention and context for each speaker, and outputting an utterance corresponding to the determined action; generating a control command corresponding to the determined action; and controlling a load based on the generated control command.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Kye Yoon Kim, Donghee Seok, Dongsoo Shin, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, Seona Kim, Jung Mi Park, HeeJin Ro
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Publication number: 20200335079Abstract: Disclosed herein is a dialogue system and a method for controlling the dialogue system. In one form, a dialogue system includes a memory configured to store counterpart information for at least one counterpart; a persona generator configured to determine a user preferred characteristic based on the counterpart information and to generate a persona having the user preferred characteristic; and a dialogue processor configured to output an utterance based on the persona.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2019Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Seona KIM, Youngmin PARK, Jeong-Eom LEE
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Publication number: 20200327888Abstract: A dialogue system is provided and includes a storage that is configured to store relationship information and an input processor that is configured to collect context information associated with a content of a message in response to receiving an utterance including a receiver and the content of the message input from the user. A dialogue manager is configured to determine a relationship between the user and the receiver based on the relationship information and generate a meaning representation for converting the context information into a sentence based on the relationship between the user and the receiver. A result processor is then configured to generate a message transmitted to the receiver based on the relationship between the user and the receiver, the content of the message and the meaning representation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Jeong-Eom Lee, Youngmin Park, Seona Kim
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Patent number: 10802701Abstract: A vehicle includes a display configured to provide a user interface (UI); a touch input device including a concave region for detecting a touch, the concave region being divided into a plurality of subregions in accordance with the UI; a pressure detector configured to detect pressure; and a controller configured to control the display such that the UI is manipulated in accordance with a subregion in which the touch has been detected among the plurality of subregions when the pressure is detected by the pressure detector.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Sihyun Joo, Jeong-Eom Lee, Jungsang Min, Gi Beom Hong