Patents by Inventor Jichan MAENG

Jichan MAENG 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: 12096895
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence robot includes a camera configured to acquire image data, a memory configured to store an object recognition model used to recognize an object from the image data, and a processor configured to acquire a speech command, determine whether an intention of the acquired speech command is object search, recognize an object from the image data based on the object recognition model during traveling when the intention of object search, and output a notification indicating that the object has been recognized when the recognized object is an intended object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghoon Chae, Beomoh Kim, Taehyun Kim, Jichan Maeng, Wonho Shin
  • Patent number: 11971972
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI) home monitoring device including a camera configured to monitor a home environment including a home appliance controlled by the AI home monitoring device; and a processor configured to in response to the monitored home environment including a detection of a first user intending to use the home appliance, check an authority of the first user based on mapping data mapping the home appliance, the first user and a predetermined condition associated with using the home appliance, and compare the predetermined condition with a condition of a current state of the authority of the first user based on the mapping data, in response to the authority of the user matching a preset authority authorizing the first user to use the home appliance, and the predetermined condition associated with using the home appliance matching the condition of the current state of the authority of the user, control the home appliance to allow the first user to use the home appliance, and in response to the aut
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Bosang Kim, Jichan Maeng
  • Patent number: 11889948
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence cooking device can include an output interface; a heater configured to heat ingredients contained in a cooking vessel; a sensor comprising at least one of a weight sensor configured to detect a weight of the cooking vessel containing the ingredients or a vibration sensor configured to detect a vibration signal of the ingredients contained in the cooking vessel; and a processor configured to obtain cooking information including at least one of cooking behavior information or state information about the ingredients by using data obtained by the sensor; and output a guide based on the cooking information through the output interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jichan Maeng
  • Patent number: 11734546
    Abstract: A method and a device for recommending food based on an artificial intelligence based user status are disclosed. The method includes obtaining use information from a mobile terminal and an external terminal connected to the mobile terminal, determining a user status through an AI device, and determining a preferred food of the user based on the user status, thereby providing convenience for the user's life. The device for recommending food based on the artificial intelligence based user status can be associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, devices related to 5G services, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaemyung Lee, Jichan Maeng, Seungjun Lee
  • Patent number: 11683659
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a moving agent group platooning within a building, the method comprising: a sensing step in which a first moving agent among a plurality of moving agents senses an occurrence of a predetermined event during the plurality of moving agents are platooning, wherein the first moving agent leads the platooning of the plurality of moving agents; and a transferring step in which the first moving agent transfers a group control authority to a second moving agent among the plurality of moving agents, wherein the second moving agent just follows the first moving agent; wherein the second moving agent having the group control authority leads movement of remaining moving agents following the second moving agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Taehyun Kim, Beomoh Kim, Jichan Maeng, Jonghoon Chae
  • Patent number: 11671276
    Abstract: An AI agent includes an information receiver configured to receive a purchase history of an article and determine whether or not a new article for storage in refrigerator requiring refrigeration or freezing storage exists in the purchase history, an information collector configured to collect capacity information on the new article for storage in refrigerator and movement path information on the new article for storage in refrigerator when the new article for storage in refrigerator exists in the purchase history, and an agent controller configured to determine an expected arrival time at which the new article for storage in refrigerator is to be received in a refrigerator based on the movement path information, and transmit the movement path information and the capacity information and the expected arrival time information on the new article for storage in refrigerator to the refrigerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jichan Maeng
  • Patent number: 11648849
    Abstract: A system and a method for predicting a battery consumption of an electric vehicle are disclosed. The battery consumption prediction system of the electric vehicle predicts the battery consumption considering an overall state of the electric vehicle and an external environment of the electric vehicle. The battery consumption prediction system of the electric vehicle may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, devices related to 5G services, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jichan Maeng, Beomoh Kim
  • Publication number: 20230126934
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI) home monitoring device including a camera configured to monitor a home environment including a home appliance controlled by the AI home monitoring device; and a processor configured to in response to the monitored home environment including a detection of a first user intending to use the home appliance, check an authority of the first user based on mapping data mapping the home appliance, the first user and a predetermined condition associated with using the home appliance, and compare the predetermined condition with a condition of a current state of the authority of the first user based on the mapping data, in response to the authority of the user matching a preset authority authorizing the first user to use the home appliance, and the predetermined condition associated with using the home appliance matching the condition of the current state of the authority of the user, control the home appliance to allow the first user to use the home appliance, and in response to the aut
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Bosang KIM, Jichan MAENG
  • Publication number: 20230108444
    Abstract: A control of an intelligent cooking device is disclosed. A method of controlling an intelligent cooking device comprises obtaining sensing information related to a cooking state of contents positioned inside a heating target during performing a first control operation, checking the cooking state of the contents based on the sensing information, and generating, based on the cooking state and a usage history, control information on a second control operation to be performed after an end of the first control operation. An AI cooking device and an external terminal can be associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, devices related to 5G services, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Wonho SHIN, Jichan MAENG
  • Patent number: 11618471
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an artificial intelligent vehicle, and to a vehicle control device and a control method thereof estimating and recommending a destination of a driver boarded on a vehicle, including: a memory including driving path information of the vehicle, and when an engine of the vehicle is started, among the travel path information, a processor detecting at least one first driving path information based on a location of the vehicle and a time at which the engine is started, calculating an estimated probability for each of the first destinations extracted from each of the first driving path information, and controlling the vehicle so that at least one of the first destinations is output as an estimated destination based on the calculated estimated probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wonho Shin, Jichan Maeng
  • Patent number: 11580385
    Abstract: An AI robot for cleaning in consideration of a user's action includes a camera to acquire a first image data for the user, a cleaning unit including a suction unit and a mopping unit, a driving unit configured to drive the AI robot, and a processor to determine the user's action using the first image data, determine a cleaning schedule in consideration of the user's action, and control the cleaning unit and the driving unit based on the determined cleaning schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jichan Maeng
  • Patent number: 11571100
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an intelligent robot cleaner. The intelligent robot cleaner primarily senses foreign matter sucked through a suction unit under the control of a control unit, and secondarily senses an article collected in a collection unit, if articles other than the foreign matter are sensed, thus allowing a use to recognize accurate information about the article collected in the collection unit and preventing valuables or small articles from being lost. The intelligent robot device may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, devices related to 5G services, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC
    Inventors: Taehyun Kim, Beomoh Kim, Jichan Maeng, Wonho Shin, Jonghoon Chae
  • Patent number: 11565426
    Abstract: Proposed is a method for determining, by a movable robot, a position of a speaker, wherein the movable robot includes first to fourth microphones installed at four vertexes of a quadrangle of a horizontal cross section of the robot respectively, wherein the method includes: receiving a wake-up voice through first and third microphones disposed respectively at first and third vertices in a diagonal direction; obtaining a first reference value of the first microphone and a second reference value of the third microphone based on the received wake-up voice; comparing the obtained first and second reference values to select the first microphone; selecting a second microphone disposed at a second vertex, wherein the first and second microphones are on a front side of the quadrangle; calculating a sound source localization (SSL) value based on the selected first and second microphones; and tracking a position of the speaker based on the SSL value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Wonho Shin, Jichan Maeng
  • Patent number: 11565411
    Abstract: An intelligent robot cleaner setting a travel path based on a video learning includes a travel driver, a suction unit, an image acquisition unit, and a controller. The travel driver moves to an area to be cleaned along the travel path. The suction unit sucks foreign substances on the travel path. The image acquisition unit acquires an image on the travel path. The controller analyzes the image, decides whether an object is present on the travel path, classifies a type of the object, and sets a bypass travel path that avoids the object if the object is an avoidance object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Beomoh Kim, Taehyun Kim, Jichan Maeng, Jonghoon Chae
  • Patent number: 11556623
    Abstract: Disclosed herein an artificial intelligence (AI) apparatus for controlling authority to use an external device based on user identification using image recognition including a memory configured to store information on a user registered in the AI apparatus and authority information indicating whether a user is capable of use at least one external device under a predetermined condition, a communicator configured to receive a first image file obtained by photographing an environment including the at least one external device, a learning processor configured to provide the first image file to an image recognition model for specifying a face of a person included in an image file and an external device to be used by the person to specify first face information of a person included in the first image file and information on a first external device to be used by the person in the first image file, and a processor configured to control use of the first external device by the first user based on the authority, by acqui
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Bosang Kim, Jichan Maeng
  • Patent number: 11551646
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence apparatus for calibrating an output position of a display panel according to an embodiment includes a camera configured to capture an image displayed by the display panel; and a processor configured to: transmit a signal for outputting a position reference image to the display panel, receive, via the camera, a captured image for the display panel, calculate an output position offset for the display panel in a predetermined unit based on the position reference image and the captured image, determine an output position calibration value for the display panel using the calculated output position offset, and transmit the determined output position calibration value to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jichan Maeng, Taehyun Kim, Beomoh Kim, Wonho Shin, Jonghoon Chae
  • Patent number: 11511599
    Abstract: A method for controlling a temperature of a refrigerator provided in a vehicle is provided. A method for controlling a temperature of a refrigerator provided in a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure detects a foodstuff requiring a low temperature storage included in image information of an article using an artificial neutral network model, and when the foodstuff requiring the low temperature storage is detected, can prevent deterioration of the foodstuff while the article is transported through the vehicle by controlling a temperature of the refrigerator based on storage temperature information of the foodstuff requiring the low temperature storage. A temperature control device of a refrigerator installed in a vehicle of the present disclosure is associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, and a device related to a 5G service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jichan Maeng
  • Patent number: 11511422
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence server for determining a route of a robot includes a communication unit and a processor. The communication unit is configured to receive image data for a control area from the robot or a camera installed inside the control area. The processor is configured to calculate a current density for the control area from the image data, calculate a future density for the control area using the calculated current density, determine a priority for each of group areas included in the control area based on the calculated future density, and determine the route of the robot based on the determined priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghoon Chae, Jichan Maeng
  • Patent number: 11499773
    Abstract: A refrigerator according to the present invention comprises: a storage chamber for storing articles; a camera for photographing the inner space of the storage chamber; a control part which visually recognizes a first article image captured by the camera so as to acquire article information corresponding to the first article image; a memory for storing the acquired article information so as to generate an article image history; and a display electrically connected to the control part. Further, the control part may: acquire, through the camera, a second article image in which an article is partially hidden by any other article; detect, from the second article image, a partial article image of the article partially hidden by the other article; and identify an article matching the partial article image on the basis of the article image history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jichan Maeng
  • Patent number: 11495214
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence device for providing a voice recognition service includes a microphone configured to receive a voice command, a memory configured to store an error analysis model for inferring an error cause of voice recognition, an output unit, and a processor configured to determine whether voice recognition of the voice command has failed based on the voice command and voice recognition surrounding information, acquire the error cause from the voice recognition surrounding information using the error analysis model, and output the acquired error cause through the output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Wonho Shin, Jichan Maeng