Patents by Inventor Kwang-Yong Kim

Kwang-Yong 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: 12230831
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a stretching apparatus for manufacturing a separator including a first stretching machine and a second stretching machine arranged in parallel with each other, in which the first stretching machine includes a plurality of first unit sections having different stretching ratios, and the second stretching machine includes a plurality of second unit sections having different stretching ratios, the overall stretching ratio by each of the first stretching machine and the second stretching machine is the same each other, and at least one stretching ratio of the first unit section and at least one stretching ratio of the second unit section are different from each other and a method of manufacturing a separator using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: W-SCOPE KOREA CO., LTD., W-SCOPE CHUNGJU PLANT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung Sun Ryu, Won Keun Choi, Kwang Ho Choi, Pyung Yong Park, Byung Hyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20250056993
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including sub-pixel circuit areas that are arranged in m rows and n columns, where m and n are positive integers, first gate lines extending in a row direction, data lines extending in a column direction, initialization power lines extending in the row direction, including first power lines disposed in sub-pixel circuit areas of odd rows and receiving a first initialization voltage and second power lines disposed in sub-pixel circuit areas of even rows and receiving a second initialization voltage, and transmission lines extending in the column direction, including first transmission lines disposed in sub-pixel circuit areas of odd columns and receiving the first initialization voltage from the first power lines and second transmission lines disposed in sub-pixel circuit areas of even columns and receiving the second initialization voltage from the second power lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: JUN-YONG AN, MIN JEONG KIM, HYUNGJUN PARK, NUREE UM, KWANG-CHUL JUNG
  • Publication number: 20250048807
    Abstract: A light emitting diode package is disclosed. The light emitting diode package includes a light emitting diode chip emitting light and a light transmissive member. The light transmissive member covers at least an upper surface of the light emitting diode chip and includes a light transmissive resin and reinforcing fillers. The reinforcing fillers have at least two side surfaces having different lengths and are dispersed in the light transmissive resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Myung Jin KIM, Kwang Yong Oh
  • Patent number: 12207537
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present inventive concept provides a display device including: a mother substrate on which a plurality of display modules are located; and a mother film located on a rear surface of the mother substrate, wherein the mother film may include a first layer, and a second layer disposed between the first layer and the mother substrate, the second layer has a thickness of from about 40 ?m to about 60 ?m, and a thickness of the first layer may be greater than that of the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang Nyun Kim, Ki Chul Bae, Jong Gil Ryu, Seung Min Lee, Chang Yong Lee, Chul Kyu Choi, In Huh, Jong Hak Hwang
  • Publication number: 20240069342
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation method of smart glasses, which includes displaying a key pad on a monitor in response to that a target object is recognized through a camera, identifying a reference area on the displayed key pad, which corresponds to a pointing area detected through the camera, recognizing a key value corresponding to the identified reference area, and performing a communication function based on the recognized key value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwang-Yong KIM, Kibong SONG
  • Patent number: 10990172
    Abstract: Provided is a pupil tracking device, which measures a pupil center position of an eye moving according to an optokinetic reflex, and a proximity depth between a pupil and an object, the pupil tracking device including a light source configured to output infrared light, a display configured to output object light, a waveguide configured to guide the infrared light and the object light towards a direction to the pupil, a film configured to separate the infrared reflected by a cornea of the eye into a plurality of light beams, and an optical pickup configured to detect the plurality of light beams and measure the pupil center position and the proximity depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwang-Yong Kim, Kibong Song, JungWoo Park
  • Patent number: 10825185
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing object segmentation in an image. More particularly, the present invention divides a screen of an input image into at least two sub-images, and generates one image by combining the at least two sub-images to which an image segmentation algorithm is respectively applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kwang Yong Kim, Sang Joon Park, Gi Mun Um, Chang Eun Lee
  • Patent number: 10713808
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stereo matching method and apparatus based on a stereo vision, the method including acquiring a left image and a right image, identifying image data by applying a window to each of the acquired left image and right image, storing the image data in a line buffer, extracting a disparity from the image data stored in the line buffer, and generating a depth map based on the extracted disparity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Kwang Yong Kim, Byungin Moon, Mi-ryong Park, Kyeong-ryeol Bae
  • Publication number: 20200159317
    Abstract: Provided is a pupil tracking device, which measures a pupil center position of an eye moving according to an optokinetic reflex, and a proximity depth between a pupil and an object, the pupil tracking device including a light source configured to output infrared light, a display configured to output object light, a waveguide configured to guide the infrared light and the object light towards a direction to the pupil, a film configured to separate the infrared reflected by a cornea of the eye into a plurality of light beams, and an optical pickup configured to detect the plurality of light beams and measure the pupil center position and the proximity depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwang-Yong KIM, Kibong SONG, JungWoo PARK
  • Patent number: 10600191
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for tracking an object. The system includes an image capturing unit configured to capture a video of a predetermined observation area and output the captured video; and a multi-object tracker configured to output an object-tracking image by tracking multiple objects within an object image which is generated by extracting the objects from each of image frames obtained from the video obtained from the image capturing unit, wherein the multi-object tracker determines whether occlusion of the objects or hijacking occurs while performing multi-object tracking, and when it is determined that at least one of the occlusion and hijacking occurs, the multi-object tracker outputs the object-tracking image corrected by removing the occurring occlusion or hijacking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwang Yong Kim, Kee Seong Cho
  • Patent number: 10535142
    Abstract: Provided is a method of separating a foreground and a background by extracting a depth image through a stereo camera, generating an occupancy grid map on the basis of the depth image, predicting a free space, and computing a membership value, the method including setting a threshold value of a foreground object existing in a free space boundary region of the predicted free space, determining whether the membership value reaches the threshold value of the foreground object while the membership value is computed, terminating the computing of the membership value when it is determined that the membership value being computed reaches the threshold value of the foreground object in the determining, and separating a foreground and a background through the computed membership value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kwang Yong Kim, Jang Woon Baek, Yun Su Chung, Yun Won Choi
  • Publication number: 20190347804
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing object segmentation in an image. More particularly, the present invention divides a screen of an input image into at least two sub-images, and generates one image by combining the at least two sub-images to which an image segmentation algorithm is respectively applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Kwang Yong KIM, Sang Joon PARK, Gi Mun UM, Chang Eun LEE
  • Publication number: 20190180472
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method of determining precise positioning. A method of determining precise positioning according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: determining at least one piece of image positioning information of at least one image object detected from at least one image; determining at least one piece of wireless positioning information of at least one wireless object on the basis of signal strength of a wireless signal; performing mapping for the at least one piece of image positioning information and the at least one piece of wireless positioning information; and determining final positioning information on the basis of the at least one piece of image positioning information, and the at least one piece of wireless positioning information for which mapping is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Gi Mun UM, Chang Eun LEE, Sang Joon PARK, Kwang Yong KIM, Sun Joong KIM, So Yeon LEE, Kee Seong CHO, Eun Young CHO
  • Publication number: 20180232891
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for tracking an object. The system includes an image capturing unit configured to capture a video of a predetermined observation area and output the captured video; and a multi-object tracker configured to output an object-tracking image by tracking multiple objects within an object image which is generated by extracting the objects from each of image frames obtained from the video obtained from the image capturing unit, wherein the multi-object tracker determines whether occlusion of the objects or hijacking occurs while performing multi-object tracking, and when it is determined that at least one of the occlusion and hijacking occurs, the multi-object tracker outputs the object-tracking image corrected by removing the occurring occlusion or hijacking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwang Yong KIM, Kee Seong CHO
  • Publication number: 20180197295
    Abstract: Provided is a method of separating a foreground and a background by extracting a depth image through a stereo camera, generating an occupancy grid map on the basis of the depth image, predicting a free space, and computing a membership value, the method including setting a threshold value of a foreground object existing in a free space boundary region of the predicted free space, determining whether the membership value reaches the threshold value of the foreground object while the membership value is computed, terminating the computing of the membership value when it is determined that the membership value being computed reaches the threshold value of the foreground object in the determining, and separating a foreground and a background through the computed membership value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwang Yong KIM, Jang Woon Baek, Yun Su Chung, Yun Won Choi
  • Publication number: 20180130221
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stereo matching method and apparatus based on a stereo vision, the method including acquiring a left image and a right image, identifying image data by applying a window to each of the acquired left image and right image, storing the image data in a line buffer, extracting a disparity from the image data stored in the line buffer, and generating a depth map based on the extracted disparity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicants: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Kwang Yong KIM, Byungin MOON, Mi-ryong PARK, Kyeong-ryeol BAE
  • Patent number: 9786064
    Abstract: A multi-camera control apparatus and method to maintain a location and a size of an object in a continuous viewpoint switching service are provided. The multi-camera control method of controlling a main camera configured to capture a moving object of interest and controlling at least one sub-camera configured to capture the object of interest at a different viewpoint from that of the main camera, may include extracting the object of interest from a first image generated by the main camera, controlling a capturing scheme of the main camera based on a change in a location and a size of the extracted object of interest, projecting the object of interest onto a second image generated by the sub-camera, and controlling a capturing scheme of the sub-camera based on a change in a location and a size of the projected object of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Gi Mun Um, Kwang Yong Kim, Yoo Kyung Kim, Won Ryu, Il Gu Jung
  • Publication number: 20170201723
    Abstract: A method of providing an object image includes collecting a global image and an additional image of a predetermined space using a fixed camera and a tracking camera, displaying broadcast contents including the collected global image and additional image on a display, receiving an input of an object of interest selected by a user from the broadcast contents displayed on the display, and analyzing the object of interest selected from the broadcast contents and displaying the additional image mapped to the global image configuring the broadcast contents on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Yookyung Kim, Kwang-Yong Kim, Gi Mun Um, ALEX LEE, Kee Seong Cho, Gyeong-June Hahm
  • Publication number: 20170148174
    Abstract: Disclosed are an object tracking method and an object tracking apparatus performing the object tracking method. The object tracking method may include extracting locations of objects in an object search area using a global camera, identifying an interest object selected by a user from the objects, and determining an error in tracking the identified interest object and correcting the determined error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Kwang Yong KIM, Yoo Kyung KIM, Gi Mun UM, Alex LEE, Kee Seong CHO, Gyeong June HAHM
  • Publication number: 20160227128
    Abstract: A multi-camera control apparatus and method to maintain a location and a size of an object in a continuous viewpoint switching service are provided. The multi-camera control method of controlling a main camera configured to capture a moving object of interest and controlling at least one sub-camera configured to capture the object of interest at a different viewpoint from that of the main camera, may include extracting the object of interest from a first image generated by the main camera, controlling a capturing scheme of the main camera based on a change in a location and a size of the extracted object of interest, projecting the object of interest onto a second image generated by the sub-camera, and controlling a capturing scheme of the sub-camera based on a change in a location and a size of the projected object of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Gi Mun UM, Kwang Yong KIM, Yoo Kyung KIM, Won RYU, Il Gu JUNG