Patents by Inventor Kyung-Ho Yoo

Kyung-Ho Yoo 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: 20190025059
    Abstract: A navigation device for a vehicle includes: a satellite antenna receiving a satellite signal from a satellite; a motion sensor acquiring motion information of the vehicle; a wireless communication module transmitting location prediction information for predicting a location of the vehicle and receiving an emulated satellite signal from a server; and a location estimating unit generating navigation information of the vehicle using at least one of the satellite signal and the emulated satellite signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventor: Kyung Ho Yoo
  • Patent number: 10180335
    Abstract: An apparatus for estimating a direction of a vehicle includes: a vehicle position calculator calculating a current position of the vehicle and a current time using a received satellite signal; a satellite candidate predictor predicting satellite candidates that are observable at the calculated current position of the vehicle using ALMANAC data in which information about positions and azimuths of satellites is included and using the calculated current position of the vehicle and current time; a road candidate searcher searching road candidates positioned around the vehicle based on the calculated current position of the vehicle; and a direction estimator estimating the direction of the vehicle using information about the predicted satellite candidates and the searched road candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Kyung Ho Yoo
  • Patent number: 10173593
    Abstract: A lane display device using an outside mirror is disclosed. The lane display device includes a lane detection unit detecting a lane from a side view image of a vehicle; a control unit determining a position of the lane on an outside mirror corresponding to a position of the lane detected by the lane detection unit, and controlling the outside mirror to display the lane in the determined position; and the outside mirror including a display unit and a half mirror and displaying the lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Kyung Ho Yoo, Jin Hyuk Choi
  • Patent number: 10010012
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a printed circuit board, at least one electronic component disposed on the printed circuit board, a shield can disposed on the printed circuit board to shield the at least one electronic component, and at least one heat pipe disposed adjacent to at least a part of the shield can.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Ho Yoo, Jeong-Nam Cheon
  • Publication number: 20180164811
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an automated driving control device, a system including the automated driving control device, and a method of automated driving control. The automated driving control device may include: a high-precision lane-level road map storage storing a high-precision lane-level road map; a position recognition controller recognizing a current position of a vehicle based on the high-precision lane-level road map, position recognition information, and vehicle control information; and a vehicle controller generating a path for driving to a destination based on the position of the vehicle recognized by the position recognition controller and obstacle recognition information, and controlling driving of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kyung Ho YOO
  • Publication number: 20180146521
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to reduce heat generated through a switching IC circuit in order to protect a switching IC circuit by connecting a resistor to an LED unit in which a plurality of LEDs are connected so as to disperse heat in the resistor when a rated voltage or more is inputted. To this end, the LED lighting device comprises: a rectification circuit unit for receiving input power from a power source unit and outputting a rectified power; an LED unit having a plurality of LED channels connected in series and a resistor unit connected to the last end of the LED channels; a current sensing resistor; and a switch circuit unit comprising a plurality of switches, wherein an nth switch is connected to the rear end of an nth LED channel so as to control an operation of the nth LED channel and is controlled by a sum of a current of the nth switch and a current of an (n+1)th switch, which flows through the current sensing resistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: LUMENS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myeong-Kook GONG, Kyung Ho YOO, Kil Ho CHOO, Jong Il KIM, Young June LEE, Seung Jong HAN, Yong-Wook CHO
  • Publication number: 20180099525
    Abstract: A multipurpose rollable moving device is provided. The multipurpose rollable moving device includes: a spherical driving wheel; a driving device that is installed within the driving wheel in order to apply a torque to the spherical driving wheel; a docking portion that is installed within the spherical driving wheel to generate a magnetic force; and a mounting portion that may be attached to a surface of the spherical driving wheel by a magnetic force of the docking portion and that may mount an article. Therefore, the multipurpose rollable moving device can mount an article and easily stably move in an omnidirection on the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nam Gyun KIM, Kyung Ho YOO, Jae Suk SEO, Yong Uk SEO, Young A JUNG, Hong Gyun LIM, Joo Seon YOO
  • Publication number: 20180099613
    Abstract: A lane display device using an outside mirror is disclosed. The lane display device includes a lane detection unit detecting a lane from a side view image of a vehicle; a control unit determining a position of the lane on an outside mirror corresponding to a position of the lane detected by the lane detection unit, and controlling the outside mirror to display the lane in the determined position; and the outside mirror including a display unit and a half mirror and displaying the lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Kyung Ho YOO, Jin Hyuk CHOI
  • Publication number: 20180073892
    Abstract: An apparatus for estimating a direction of a vehicle includes: a vehicle position calculator calculating a current position of the vehicle and a current time using a received satellite signal; a satellite candidate predictor predicting satellite candidates that are observable at the calculated current position of the vehicle using ALMANAC data in which information about positions and azimuths of satellites is included and using the calculated current position of the vehicle and current time; a road candidate searcher searching road candidates positioned around the vehicle based on the calculated current position of the vehicle; and a direction estimator estimating the direction of the vehicle using information about the predicted satellite candidates and the searched road candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventor: Kyung Ho Yoo
  • Patent number: 9918363
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) lighting device includes a circuit for receiving an input power from a power source and outputting a rectified power, an LED unit including a plurality of LED channels connected in series, each LED channel having a front end and a rear end, a current sensing resistor, and a switch circuit unit. The switch circuit unit includes a plurality of switches, and an Nth switch is connected to the rear end of an Nth LED channel so as to control an operation of the nth LED channel, and is controlled by a sum of a current of the Nth switch and a current of an (N+1)th switch, which flows through the current sensing resistor. Forward voltages of the LED channels are unevenly redistributed so as to keep power consumption between the Nth switch and the (N+1)th switch substantially same, and N is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: LUMENS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myeong-Kook Gong, Kyung Ho Yoo, Kil Ho Choo, Jong Il Kim, Young June Lee, Seung Jong Han, Yong-Wook Cho
  • Publication number: 20180027617
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) lighting device includes a circuit for receiving an input power from a power source and outputting a rectified power, an LED unit including a plurality of LED channels connected in series, each LED channel having a front end and a rear end, a current sensing resistor, and a switch circuit unit. The switch circuit unit includes a plurality of switches, and an Nth switch is connected to the rear end of an Nth LED channel so as to control an operation of the nth LED channel, and is controlled by a sum of a current of the Nth switch and a current of an (N+1)th switch, which flows through the current sensing resistor. Forward voltages of the LED channels are unevenly redistributed so as to keep power consumption between the Nth switch and the (N+1)th switch substantially same, and N is a positive integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: LUMENS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myeong-Kook GONG, Kyung Ho YOO, Kil Ho CHOO, Jong Il KIM, Young June LEE, Seung Jong HAN, Yong-Wook CHO
  • Patent number: 9842289
    Abstract: A middleware device, a driving method of a reader and a tag misrecognition determining method are provided. The middleware device operated in relation to a reader includes a storage configured to pre-store receiving sensitivity of tag information of a tag of an object recognized at different distances from the reader as a reference value, a communication interface configured to, in response to the object approaching to the reader, acquire the receiving sensitivity of tag information of the tag recognized at a preset time interval, and a tag misrecognition processor configured to compare the acquired receiving sensitivity with the pre-stored reference value to determine misrecognition of the tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-ook Eom, Seok-bae Son, Il-young Oh, Kyung-ho Yoo
  • Publication number: 20170251569
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a printed circuit board, at least one electronic component disposed on the printed circuit board, a shield can disposed on the printed circuit board to shield the at least one electronic component, and at least one heat pipe disposed adjacent to at least a part of the shield can.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Kyung-Ho Yoo, Jeong-Nam Cheon
  • Publication number: 20170039465
    Abstract: A middleware device, a driving method of a reader and a tag misrecognition determining method are provided. The middleware device operated in relation to a reader includes a storage configured to pre-store receiving sensitivity of tag information of a tag of an object recognized at different distances from the reader as a reference value, a communication interface configured to, in response to the object approaching to the reader, acquire the receiving sensitivity of tag information of the tag recognized at a preset time interval, and a tag misrecognition processor configured to compare the acquired receiving sensitivity with the pre-stored reference value to determine misrecognition of the tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-ook EOM, Seok-bae SON, II-young OH, Kyung-ho YOO
  • Publication number: 20160381743
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) lighting device includes a circuit for receiving an input power from a power source and outputting a rectified power, an LED unit including a plurality of LED channels connected in series, each LED channel having a front end and a rear end, a current sensing resistor, and a switch circuit unit. The switch circuit unit includes a plurality of switches, and an Nth switch is connected to the rear end of an Nth LED channel so as to control an operation of the nth LED channel, and is controlled by a sum of a current of the Nth switch and a current of an (N+1)th switch, which flows through the current sensing resistor. Forward voltages of the LED channels are unevenly redistributed so as to keep power consumption between the Nth switch and the (N+1)th switch substantially same, and N is a positive integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: LUMENS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myeong-Kook GONG, Kyung Ho YOO, Kil Ho CHOO, Jong Il KIM, Young June LEE, Seung Jong HAN, Yong-Wook CHO
  • Patent number: 9525106
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device includes: an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer; an active layer disposed between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer; and an electron blocking layer disposed between the active layer and the p-type semiconductor layer and doped with a p-type dopant element. The electron blocking layer is formed of AlxGa1-xN, where 0<x?1. A plurality of first regions blocking overflow of electrons from the active layer to the p-type semiconductor layer and a plurality of second regions formed of InN are alternately disposed within the electron blocking layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Sun Maeng, Jun Youn Kim, Sung Min Choi, Kyung Ho Yoo
  • Patent number: 9517768
    Abstract: A vehicle for supporting an object processing includes a lidar sensor configured to collect multi-layer data corresponding to sensor information for a lateral surface for each vertical interval. A controller is configured to classify objects by clustering each layer for the multi-layer data, extract contours and shapes of the objects, and then control a convergence of the objects based on a calculated value of a Mahalanobis distance between the clustered objects, and a method for an object processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Young Chul Oh, Myung Seon Heo, Kyung Ho Yoo
  • Patent number: 9507028
    Abstract: Provided are positioning apparatuses and methods. One positioning method includes receiving satellite signals transmitted from satellites and capturing an image of a skyline around a vehicle through an image sensor, processing the satellite signals to calculate a vehicle location and satellite locations, calculating locations and heights of buildings included in the image captured by the image sensor on the basis of the user or vehicle location, calculating visibility of the satellites by using the user or vehicle location, the satellite locations, and the locations and heights of the buildings, removing a poor satellite signal among the previously received satellite signals on the basis of the calculated visibility, and re-calculating the user or vehicle location by using the other remaining satellite signals excluding the poor satellite signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Kyung Ho Yoo
  • Patent number: 9491825
    Abstract: An LED lighting device comprises: a rectification circuit unit for receiving input power from a power source unit and outputting a rectified power; an LED unit having a plurality of LED channels connected in series and a resistor unit connected to the last end of the LED channels; a current sensing resistor; and a switch circuit unit comprising a plurality of switches, wherein an nth switch is connected to the rear end of an nth LED channel so as to control an operation of the nth LED channel and is controlled by a sum of a current of the nth switch and a current of an (n+1)th switch, which flows through the current sensing resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: LUMENS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myeong-Kook Gong, Kyung Ho Yoo, Yong-Wook Cho, Kil Ho Choo, Jong Il Kim, Young June Lee, Seung Jong Han
  • Patent number: 9425355
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device including a first conductive semiconductor base layer on a substrate; an insulating layer on the first conductive semiconductor base layer, the insulating layer including a plurality of openings through which the first conductive semiconductor base layer is exposed; and a plurality of nanoscale light emitting structures on the first conductive semiconductor base layer, the nanoscale light emitting structures respectively including a first conductive semiconductor core on an exposed region of the first conductive semiconductor base layer, and an active layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer sequentially disposed on a surface of the first conductive semiconductor core, wherein a lower edge of a side portion of each nanoscale light emitting structure is on an inner side wall of the opening in the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Ho Yoo, Han Kyu Seong, Nam Goo Cha, Tae Woong Kim