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).

  • Publication number: 20200082590
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle and control method thereof, which updates the facial expression of an avatar based on the emotion of a user. The vehicle includes a detector configured to detect at least one of a biological signal of a user and a behavior of the user; a storage configured to store previous emotion information of the user and facial expression information of an avatar; a controller configured to obtain current emotion information indicating a current emotional state of the user based on at least one of the biological signal of the user and the behavior of the user, and compare the previous emotion information and the current emotion information to update the facial expression information; and a display configured to display the avatar based on the updated facial expression information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Seunghyun WOO, Seok-young YOUN, Jimin HAN, Jia LEE, Kye Yoon KIM
  • Publication number: 20200046594
    Abstract: A crutch has a joint structure, and the crutch includes a stationary section supported on a floor at a lower end of the stationary section, and extending from a lower portion to an upper portion thereof; and a rotary section coupled to the stationary section so as to be rotatable relative to the stationary section with respect to a rotational axis provided at the upper portion of the stationary section. The rotary section is configured by coupling a hand grip part for supporting a wearer's hand in a state where the wearer wears the crutch and a forearm part supporting a forearm of the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Seok Young Youn, Joo Young Chun, Kye Yoon Kim, Ju Young Yoon, Kyung Mo Jung, Ji Min Han, Sang In Park, Dong Jin Hyun
  • Patent number: 10537489
    Abstract: A crutch has a joint structure, and the crutch includes a stationary section supported on a floor at a lower end of the stationary section, and extending from a lower portion to an upper portion thereof; and a rotary section coupled to the stationary section so as to be rotatable relative to the stationary section with respect to a rotational axis provided at the upper portion of the stationary section. The rotary section is configured by coupling a hand grip part for supporting a wearer's hand in a state where the wearer wears the crutch and a forearm part supporting a forearm of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Seok Young Youn, Joo Young Chun, Kye Yoon Kim, Ju Young Yoon, Kyung Mo Jung, Ji Min Han, Sang In Park, Dong Jin Hyun
  • Publication number: 20200020331
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, KIA Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Seona Kim, Donghee Seok, Dongsoo Shin, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, Jung Mi Park, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
  • Patent number: 10532658
    Abstract: A health measurement system for a vehicle driver and a warning method using the same are disclosed. The health measurement system includes an Internet of Things (IoT) device and a controller. The controller performs health scanning of a driver through the IoT device, and informs the driver of a result of the health scanning. The controller determines a necessary condition of the health scanning of the driver by analyzing traveling environment information, and performs the health scanning only when the necessary condition of the health scanning is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Kye Yoon Kim, Jung Mi Park
  • Publication number: 20200013396
    Abstract: A dialogue system for a vehicle may include: an input processor configured to receive a dialogue among occupants of the vehicle including a driver and at least one passenger, to detect vehicle operation information, to identify the at least one passenger based on the dialogue among the occupants or the vehicle operation information, to generate passenger number information which estimates a change in a number of passengers in the vehicle based on the dialogue among the occupants when the vehicle arrives at a stop-over point, and to acquire a pre-utterance message according to the passenger number information; and a result processor configured to output a pre-utterance according to the pre-utterance message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Jung Mi Park, Donghee Seok, Dongsoo Shin, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, Seona Kim, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20200005778
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seona KIM, Donghee SEOK, Dongsoo SHIN, Jeong-Eom LEE, Ga Hee KIM, Jung Mi PARK, HeeJin RO, Kye Yoon KIM
  • Publication number: 20190392826
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Jeong-Eom Lee, Donghee Seok, Dongsoo Shin, Ga Hee Kim, Seona Kim, Jung Mi Park, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20190392827
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jung Mi Park, Donghee Seok, Dongsoo Shin, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, Seona Kim, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20190378515
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kye Yoon KIM, Donghee SEOK, Dongsoo SHIN, Jeong-Eom LEE, Ga Hee KIM, Seona KIM, Jung Mi PARK, HeeJin RO
  • Publication number: 20190355353
    Abstract: A dialogue system for a vehicle may include: a storage storing context information including at least one of vehicle state information indicating a vehicle state, user information indicating a driver of the vehicle, or driving environment information indicating a driving environment of the vehicle; an input processor determining whether a context of the vehicle is a pre-utterance context, in which the dialogue system firstly outputs an utterance, based on the stored context information, determining whether a task related to the pre-utterance context is a duplicate task which has already processed or is currently processing when the context of the vehicle is the pre-utterance context, and obtaining at least one of an action corresponding to the pre-utterance context or a pre-utterance message to be output by the dialogue system when the task related to the pre-utterance context is not a duplicate task; a dialogue manager obtaining, from the storage, a parameter value of an action parameter used to perform the
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Dongsoo Shin, Donghee Seok, Sihyun Joo, Jeong-Eom Lee, Ga Hee Kim, Seona Kim, Jung Mi Park, HeeJin Ro, Kye Yoon Kim
  • Patent number: 10437465
    Abstract: A vehicle may include a display displaying a character input user interface to select at least one character among a selected character type; a touch input sensor detecting a touch; and a controller changing the selected character type based on a distance between two touch positions detected at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Seok-Young Youn, Kye Yoon Kim
  • Patent number: 10430063
    Abstract: An input apparatus includes an operating portion including a plurality of metal buttons for receiving a manipulation command, a display for visually providing a control command created based on an output signal from the operating portion, and a controller for converting the operating portion to an active state if a predetermined first manipulation command is input to the operating portion, and for controlling the display to provide an increment adjustment screen in which a predetermined first increment has been adjusted if a predetermined drag touch is input to the operating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS COPORATION
    Inventors: Kye Yoon Kim, HeeJin Ro, Gi Beom Hong, Seok-young Youn, Gideok Kwon, Jong Bok Lee, Donghee Seok
  • Patent number: 10423326
    Abstract: A vehicle configured to receive a command of a user and a control method for the same may include a manipulator having a metal bar extending in a first direction and formed of a metal material, and a plurality of detectors disposed adjacent to the metal bar in the first direction, a display configured to display a manipulation result of the manipulator, and a controller configured to generate a control signal for controlling an operation of the display based on an output signal of the manipulator, wherein, when a drag touch is input to the manipulator in the first direction, the display displays a function execution screen for a function mapped to the manipulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Seok-young Youn, HeeJin Ro, Gi Beom Hong, Kye Yoon Kim, Gideok Kwon, Jong Bok Lee, Donghee Seok
  • Publication number: 20190147867
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jung Mi PARK, Jimin HAN, Jia LEE, Kye Yoon KIM
  • Publication number: 20190120649
    Abstract: A dialogue system includes an input processor for receiving accident information and extracting an action corresponding to a user's speech, wherein the corresponding action is an action of classifying the accident information by grade, a storage for storing vehicle situation information including the accident information and grades associated with the accident information, a dialogue manager for determining the grade of the accident information on the basis of the vehicle situation information and the user's speech, and a result processor for generating a response associated with the determined grade and delivering the determined grade of the accident information to an accident information processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Donghee SEOK, Dongsoo SHIN, Jeong-Eom LEE, Ga Hee KIM, Seona KIM, Jung Mi PARK, HeeJin RO, Kye Yoon KIM
  • Publication number: 20190115016
    Abstract: A dialogue system assisting a user to minimize distraction and achieve safe driving, may include an input processor configured to extract situation information including at least one of vehicle state information regarding a state of a vehicle and driving environment information regarding a driving environment of the vehicle or an action corresponding to speech of a user; a storage configured to store the collected situation information; a dialogue manager configured to determine a service level to be supplied based on the situation information and determine an action of adjusting the determined service level; and a result processor configured to generate speech to execute the determined action and generate a control signal of service limitation based on the determined service level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Donghee Seok, Dongsoo SHIN, Jeong-Eom LEE, Ga Hee KIM, Seona KIM, Jung Mi PARK, HeeJin RO, Kye Yoon KIM
  • Publication number: 20190114066
    Abstract: A vehicle configured to receive a command of a user and a control method for the same may include a manipulator having a metal bar extending in a first direction and formed of a metal material, and a plurality of detectors disposed adjacent to the metal bar in the first direction, a display configured to display a manipulation result of the manipulator, and a controller configured to generate a control signal for controlling an operation of the display based on an output signal of the manipulator, wherein, when a drag touch is input to the manipulator in the first direction, the display displays a function execution screen for a function mapped to the manipulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Seok-young Youn, HeeJin Ro, Gi Beom Hong, Kye Yoon Kim, Gideok Kwon, Jong Bok Lee, Donghee Seok
  • Publication number: 20190092167
    Abstract: A health measurement system for a vehicle driver and a warning method using the same are disclosed. The health measurement system includes an Internet of Things (IoT) device and a controller. The controller performs health scanning of a driver through the IoT device, and informs the driver of a result of the health scanning. The controller determines a necessary condition of the health scanning of the driver by analyzing traveling environment information, and performs the health scanning only when the necessary condition of the health scanning is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kye Yoon KIM, Jung Mi PARK
  • Publication number: 20190095082
    Abstract: An input apparatus includes an operating portion including a plurality of metal buttons for receiving a manipulation command, a display for visually providing a control command created based on an output signal from the operating portion, and a controller for converting the operating portion to an active state if a predetermined first manipulation command is input to the operating portion, and for controlling the display to provide an increment adjustment screen in which a predetermined first increment has been adjusted if a predetermined drag touch is input to the operating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kye Yoon KIM, HeeJin RO, Gi Beom HONG, Seok-young YOUN, Gideok KWON, Jong Bok LEE, Donghee SEOK