Patents by Inventor Kap Su KIM

Kap Su 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: 12214255
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a golf ball location ascertaining method and a golf play information providing system. The golf ball location ascertaining method comprises a first step of ascertaining a motion location at which a predetermined motion is taken when a golfer located near a golf ball on a golf field takes the predetermined motion, and a second step of ascertaining the location of the golf ball on a golf course by using golf course data on the golf field and the motion location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SGM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ui Bum Lee, Kap Su Kim, Bok Sung Kwon, Hyun Jin Choi, Jae Hun Gwag
  • Publication number: 20250032880
    Abstract: Disclosed in a method for detecting the spin of a ball in motion, a virtual golf device and a virtual golf system using the same. The method for detecting the spin of the ball in motion comprises an image acquisition step of acquiring a first image of the ball at a first time and acquiring a second image of the ball at a second time, the ball being in motion with spin and having an identifier, an identification information acquisition step of acquiring first identification information of the identifier from the first image and acquiring second identification information of the identifier from the second image, and a spin detection step of determining an estimated spin by using cumulative spin data, and applying the estimated spin to the first and second identifier information to detect the spin of the ball in motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: SGM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ui Bum LEE, Kap Su KIM, Jae Hun GWAG
  • Publication number: 20240226658
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a virtual golf device and a hitting mat that may be used in the virtual golf device. The virtual golf device comprises a hitting mat on which a real golf ball for a user to hit is placed and which has a fairway area and a non-fairway area, a display part displaying a virtual golf course, a calculating part calculating a movement of a virtual golf ball corresponding to the real golf ball in the virtual golf course when the user hits the real golf ball, and a state change means changing the hitting mat to a first state or a second state, wherein if a direction of hitting the real golf ball is called a front, the first and second states are symmetrical to each other when viewed from the front.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ui Bum LEE, Kap Su KIM
  • Publication number: 20230173371
    Abstract: The present inventive concept relates to a virtual golf device comprising a display part showing a virtual golf course and a virtual golf ball, and a calculation part calculating a movement of the virtual golf ball corresponding to a real golf ball on the virtual golf course when a user hits the real golf ball. The display part provides an information section showing information related to a green region with a target point. If a location of the virtual golf ball on the virtual golf course before the user hits the real golf ball is named a first location, a location of the target point is named a second location and a direction from the first location to the second location is named a first direction, the information section shows a distance between the second location and an intersection point where an imaginary line passing the target point and having a second direction perpendicular to the first direction meets a border of the green region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Ui Bum LEE, Kap Su KIM
  • Publication number: 20230032076
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a golf ball location ascertaining method and a golf play information providing system. The golf ball location ascertaining method comprises a first step of ascertaining a motion location at which a predetermined motion is taken when a golfer located near a golf ball on a golf field takes the predetermined motion, and a second step of ascertaining the location of the golf ball on a golf course by using golf course data on the golf field and the motion location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Ui Bum LEE, Kap Su KIM, Bok Sung KWON, Hyun Jin CHOI, Jae Hun GWAG
  • Publication number: 20230032604
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a virtual golf device and a virtual sports device. The virtual sports device comprises a play area in which a user who plays virtual sports is located, a display area in which a content image is displayed, and an image providing unit for projecting the content image onto the display area to provide the content image to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Ui Bum LEE, Kap Su KIM, So Jin LEE
  • Publication number: 20220355210
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a virtual sports system and a virtual sports device that may be used in the virtual sports system. The virtual sports system comprises a terminal device, a service device accessible by the terminal device and a virtual sports device communicatively connected to the service device, wherein when a user requests to provide content through the terminal device, information on the requested content is delivered to the virtual sports device through the service device, and the virtual sports device provides the content to another user playing in the virtual sports device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ui Bum LEE, Kap Su KIM, So Jin LEE
  • Publication number: 20220176227
    Abstract: The present inventive concept relates to a virtual golf device, a virtual golf system and a method for operating a virtual golf device. The virtual golf device comprises a control part calculating a trajectory of a real golf ball when a user hits the real golf ball, and a display part displaying a virtual golf ball corresponding to the real golf ball hit by the user and moving according to the calculated trajectory in a virtual golf course. In this virtual golf device, the user can select one play mode of a first mode and a second mode, there are a plurality of users, an order of hitting the real golf ball between the plurality of users in the first mode depends on a location of each user's virtual golf ball in the virtual golf course, and an order of hitting the real golf ball between the plurality of users in the second mode does not depend on the location of each user's virtual golf ball in the virtual golf course.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Ui Bum LEE, Kap Su KIM, Hyo Won AN
  • Publication number: 20200206597
    Abstract: The present inventive concept provides a virtual sports simulation device comprising a screen and a control part. The screen displays a background picture for a virtual sport and a virtual ball, and a control part performs simulation about a trajectory of the virtual ball based on a result of hitting a real ball if a user hits the real ball. The virtual ball is displayed on the screen after the real ball hit by the user collides with the screen and the virtual ball on the screen moves along the simulated trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ui Bum LEE, Kap Su KIM, Jae Won HER, Jae Hun GWAG