Patents by Inventor Keon Yup Chu

Keon Yup Chu 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).

  • Publication number: 20240051554
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle control apparatus and a method thereof. An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a vehicle control apparatus that includes: a first controller configured to control one or more safety features of a vehicle; a second controller configured to perform primary control of autonomous driving of the vehicle; and a third controller configured to perform secondary control of the autonomous driving of the vehicle. The first controller may be further configured to determine whether the second controller or the third controller fails during the autonomous driving of the vehicle, and, based on determining that the second controller of the third controller has failed, perform an autonomous driving function of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Sung Yeon Ko, Dong Hwi Lee, Kyoung Jun Lee, Keon Yup Chu
  • Patent number: 10933883
    Abstract: A driving control apparatus for a vehicle includes: one or more external sensors, one or more vehicle sensors, a steering device, an acceleration/deceleration device, an output device, a communication circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit detects a failure associated with autonomous driving while the vehicle performs the autonomous driving, outputs the warning signal for a transfer of control of the vehicle by using the output device for a first time interval, when the failure is detected, controls the acceleration/deceleration device for a second time interval after the first time interval to reduce a travel speed of the vehicle to a target speed, and controls the steering device and the acceleration/deceleration device after the second time interval to maintain a travel lane of the vehicle with the travel speed lower than the target speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dong Hwi Lee, Su Jung Yoo, Na Eun Yang, Sung Min Park, Keon Yup Chu
  • Publication number: 20200031362
    Abstract: A driving control apparatus for a vehicle includes: one or more external sensors, one or more vehicle sensors, a steering device, an acceleration/deceleration device, an output device, a communication circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit detects a failure associated with autonomous driving while the vehicle performs the autonomous driving, outputs the warning signal for a transfer of control of the vehicle by using the output device for a first time interval, when the failure is detected, controls the acceleration/deceleration device for a second time interval after the first time interval to reduce a travel speed of the vehicle to a target speed, and controls the steering device and the acceleration/deceleration device after the second time interval to maintain a travel lane of the vehicle with the travel speed lower than the target speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dong Hwi LEE, Su Jung YOO, Na Eun YANG, Sung Min PARK, Keon Yup CHU
  • Patent number: 10260895
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a path of a vehicle includes: a path generating processor configured to generate a first path by searching for a path from a current location of the vehicle to a destination and generate a second path by searching for a path from a path deviation prediction area on the first path to the destination based on a request; a path deviation area extracting processor configured to extract the path deviation prediction area based on road attributes on the first path; and a path controller configured to determine whether to generate the second path based on a congestion level of a road around the vehicle and reset a driving path of the vehicle to the second path when path deviation occurs on the extracted path deviation prediction area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Tae Sung Choi, Keon Yup Chu
  • Publication number: 20180364709
    Abstract: A autonomous driving control apparatus may include a determination device that determines whether a mode switch event occurs to set a driving mode of the vehicle to a first mode or a second mode, a route generation device that sets a destination in a case that the first mode is set as the driving mode and generates a driving route based on the set destination, and a driving control device that controls an autonomous driving of the vehicle based on the generated driving route in the case that the first mode is set as the driving mode and to control the driving of the vehicle while maintaining a current driving lane in the case that the second mode is set as the driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Tae Sung Choi, Dong Hwi LEE, Keon Yup CHU, Su Jung YOO
  • Publication number: 20180143028
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a path of a vehicle includes: a path generating processor configured to generate a first path by searching for a path from a current location of the vehicle to a destination and generate a second path by searching for a path from a path deviation prediction area on the first path to the destination based on a request; a path deviation area extracting processor configured to extract the path deviation prediction area based on road attributes on the first path; and a path controller configured to determine whether to generate the second path based on a congestion level of a road around the vehicle and reset a driving path of the vehicle to the second path when path deviation occurs on the extracted path deviation prediction area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Tae Sung CHOI, Keon Yup CHU
  • Patent number: 9910443
    Abstract: A drive control apparatus and method for an autonomous vehicle is provided. The drive control method includes: determining whether a subject vehicle has entered a pocket lane area during autonomous driving; determining whether the subject vehicle enters a pocket lane according to pocket lane conditions that are determined on the basis of surrounding environment information of the subject vehicle when the subject vehicle enters the pocket lane area; generating a tracking path with respect to a front vehicle when it is determined to enter the pocket lane; and performing the autonomous driving by controlling the subject vehicle to follow the front vehicle according to the tracking path with respect to the front vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Dong Hwi Lee, Keon Yup Chu, Su Jung Yoo, Tae Sung Choi
  • Publication number: 20170301239
    Abstract: An apparatus a method for generating a traveling path of a vehicle, may include a sensor device mounted in the vehicle and detecting a surrounding environment of the vehicle; and a controller determining a traveling space in which the vehicle is traveled by considering the surrounding environment of the vehicle, and generating the traveling path within the determined traveling space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Dong Hwi LEE, Keon Yup CHU, Hoi Won KIM, Su Jung YOO
  • Patent number: 8518593
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for controlling the operation of a fuel cell system at low temperature that can suitably prevent flooding in a cathode of a fuel cell stack during low-temperature operation, thus improving the operation stability and durability of the fuel cell stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University
    Inventors: Dong Hun Lee, Seo Ho Choi, Sun Soon Park, Myoung Ho Sunwoo, Jung Hwan Ryu, Keon Yup Chu, Ki Chun Jo
  • Publication number: 20110070515
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for controlling the operation of a fuel cell system at low temperature that can suitably prevent flooding in a cathode of a fuel cell stack during low-temperature operation, thus improving the operation stability and durability of the fuel cell stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University
    Inventors: Dong Hun Lee, Seo Ho Choi, Sun Soon Park, Myoung Ho Sunwoo, Jung Hwan Ryu, Keon Yup Chu, Ki Chun Jo