Patents by Inventor Kye Yoon KIM
Kye Yoon 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).
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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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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: 10937420Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dialogue system and a method for controlling thereof. The dialogue system may include: an input processor configured to authenticate a user and receive new input information and new state information of the user; a storage configured to store existing state information of the user, existing input information, and available services; a controller configured to identify a service based on the new input information and the existing input information, and to identify the service based on the new state information of the user and the existing state information of the user, wherein the service is configured to fit needs of the user; and an output processor configured to determine a service format based on the new input information and the new state information of the user, wherein the service format is regarding ways to provide the service to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Jung Mi Park, Jimin Han, Jia Lee, 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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Patent number: 10915768Abstract: A vehicle includes: a user interface including a display and a speaker; a capturer configured to capture a passenger's image; and a controller configured to obtain emotion information representing the passenger's emotion based on the image, to determine content corresponding to the emotion information, to control the user interface to output the determined content, to obtain circumstance information representing the passenger's circumstances based on the image after the determined content is output, to modify the determined content based on the circumstance information, and to control the user interface to output the modified content.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jimin Han, Seok-young Youn, Jia Lee, Kye Yoon Kim, Seunghyun Woo
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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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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: 20200261008Abstract: An electronic device attached to a user's skin is provided to determine a user emotion based on measured bio-signals. An image corresponding to the determined emotion is displayed. The electronic device includes a skin-attachment apparatus having a bonding unit for bonding to a user's skin and a bio-signal sensor that measures the bio-signals of the user. A display unit and a controller are connected with the skin-attachment apparatus. The controller determines the user emotion based on the bio-signals acquired from the bio-signal sensor and operates the display unit to display at least one of a color and a pattern corresponding to the determined emotion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Jia Lee, Seok-young Youn, Jimin Han, Kye Yoon Kim, Seunghyun Woo
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Patent number: 10733994Abstract: A dialogue system, a vehicle and a method for controlling the vehicle is provided. The vehicle monitors at least one of vehicle state information and driving environment information, generates a vehicle use pattern based on the monitored information; generates and storing notification event information corresponding to the vehicle use pattern; determines whether the monitored information corresponds to any one of event information; when it is determined that the monitored information corresponds to any one of event information, determines notification timing of the any one of notification event information; when the current time is notification timing of the any one of notification event information, outputs guide information on the notification event information; generates a control command corresponding to the notification event information; and executes a function corresponding the notification event information based on the control command.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignees: 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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Publication number: 20200180396Abstract: The vehicle includes an air conditioner, a temperature sensor configured to measure an indoor temperature of the vehicle, a camera configured to obtain an image data of a passenger, and a bio-signal sensor configured to measure a bio-signal of the passenger. A controller is configured to control, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, the air conditioner to change a type of wind blowing at predetermined time intervals, to obtain emotion information corresponding to the changed type of wind based on at least one of the image data or the bio-signal, and to blow a type of wind for which a degree of positiveness of emotion information is equal to or greater than a threshold level.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Seok-Young Youn, Jimin Han, Jia Lee, Kye Yoon Kim, Seunghyun Woo
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Publication number: 20200152073Abstract: A service robot for guiding and describing a displayed vehicle and a method for operating the robot, may include a projector for projecting visual information related to a target vehicle; monitoring means for monitoring a state of a user; and a controller configured to: suggest, to the user, presentation of visual information in conjunction with a guide description of the target vehicle; determine, via the monitoring means, whether the user has accepted the suggestion; and upon determination that the user has accepted the suggestion, present the visual information via the projector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Kye Yoon KIM, Ji Min HAN, Ji A. LEE
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Publication number: 20200151471Abstract: A vehicle includes: a user interface including a display and a speaker; a capturer configured to capture a passenger's image; and a controller configured to obtain emotion information representing the passenger's emotion based on the image, to determine content corresponding to the emotion information, to control the user interface to output the determined content, to obtain circumstance information representing the passenger's circumstances based on the image after the determined content is output, to modify the determined content based on the circumstance information, and to control the user interface to output the modified content.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Jimin Han, Seok-young Youn, Jia Lee, Kye Yoon Kim, Seunghyun Woo
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Publication number: 20200148217Abstract: A vehicle configured for determining an emotion state of a user, and adjusting a speed change of the vehicle that exerts an influence on the drive ability on the basis of the determined emotion state, and a method of controlling the same, may include a sensing unit configured to measure an acceleration of a vehicle and a bio-signal of a user; and a control unit connected to the sensing unit and configured to determine emotion state information indicating an emotion state of the user on the basis of the measured bio-signal when the measured acceleration is greater than or equal to a threshold acceleration, and on the basis of the emotion state information and correlation information indicating a relationship between the emotion state information and a drive ability factor related to a drive ability according to a speed change of the vehicle, update a setting value of the drive ability factor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Seunghyun WOO, Jimin HAN, Jia LEE, Kye Yoon KIM
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Publication number: 20200130674Abstract: A vehicle includes at least one speaker, a camera configured to obtain a passenger's image, and a controller. The controller is configured to identify the passenger, to search for the identified passenger and emotion tag information related to a sound source output through the at least one speaker, and to control the at least one speaker or obtain passenger's emotional information according to the search result.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Seok-young Youn, Jimin Han, Jia Lee, Kye Yoon Kim, Seunghyun Woo
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Publication number: 20200118560Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Seona Kim, Donghee Seok, Dongsoo Shin, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
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Publication number: 20200101800Abstract: A vehicle includes: a sensor for measuring a relative position and a relative speed between an obstacle and the vehicle; an injector for injecting a deforming material which is solidified during injection to absorb an impact and enhance coupling strength at a portion to which the deforming material is attached; and a controller configured to determine a collision probability with the obstacle based on the measured relative position and the measured relative speed, to determine a predicted collision position when the collision probability reaches a reference collision probability, to determine an injection direction of the injector based on the predicted collision position, and to control the injector to inject the deforming material in the determined injection direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Kye Yoon KIM, Jimin HAN, Jia LEE, Seok-young YOUN, Seunghyun WOO
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Publication number: 20200078256Abstract: A pair of detachable crutches extends in a longitudinal direction, where each of the detachable crutches includes a metal ball having magnetic properties and a holder having magnetic properties. A magnetic force is generated between the metal ball provided at one of the crutches and the holder provided at the other one of the crutches so as to maintain attachment therebetween. Each of the crutches further includes a sensor configured to sense whether the metal ball and the holder have been attached to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2018Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Kye Yoon Kim, Ji Min Han, Seok Young Youn
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Patent number: D895956Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Inventors: Seok-Young Youn, Joo-Young Chun, Kye-Yoon Kim, Ju-Young Yoon, Kyung-Mo Jung, Ji-Min Han, Dong-Jin Hyun