Patents by Inventor Man Bok Park
Man Bok Park 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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Publication number: 20220011636Abstract: The present invention relates to an inorganic alignment film forming apparatus for forming an inorganic alignment film on a substrate, the apparatus comprising: a sputtering means; and an ion beam irradiation means for performing surface treatment on an inorganic alignment film formed by the sputtering means, wherein the sputtering means comprises a stage on which a substrate for forming the inorganic alignment film is arranged, at least one sputtering gun, and a sputtering mask arranged between the stage and the sputtering gun, the ion beam irradiation means comprises a stage on which the substrate is arranged, an ion beam emission unit for generating ions and irradiating the substrate with ions, and an ion beam irradiation mask arranged between the stage and the ion beam emission unit, and the sputtering mask and the ion beam irradiation mask have a plurality of inclined opening parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: VISIONAID INC.Inventors: Kyo Wung LEE, Sung Il KIM, Man Bok PARK
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Patent number: 11110916Abstract: Disclosed herein are an impact-absorbing apparatus and method for a vehicle, which are applied to an automatic emergency brake (AEB) system of a vehicle. The impact-absorbing apparatus includes a path generation unit configured to generate an own vehicle travel path of an own vehicle, based on a speed and travel direction of the own vehicle, and a preceding vehicle travel path of a preceding vehicle, based on a speed and travel direction of the preceding vehicle, and a collision determination unit configured to determine whether or not the own vehicle collides with the preceding vehicle, based on the own vehicle travel path and the preceding vehicle travel path, wherein when it is impossible to avoid the collision between the own vehicle and the preceding vehicle, the path generation unit generates a new travel path by comparing the own vehicle travel path with the preceding vehicle travel path.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventors: Seung Bum Park, Man Bok Park
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Publication number: 20210255465Abstract: The present invention relates to a smart glass display device capable of implementing virtual reality and augmented reality by controlling the transmittance of external light from a shade which acts as a smart glass display shutter according to user selection and is made of a plastic LCD panel. The smart glass display device comprises: a glasses-type frame; first and second micro-display units which are arranged in the frame and generate virtual reality and augmented reality; first and second optical engine units on which images generated from the first and second micro-display units are displayed; first and second shades which are installed at the front surfaces of the first and second optical engine units and are made of plastic LCD panels capable of shielding or transmitting external light; an illumination sensor installed in the frame; and a camera for outdoor photography.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: VISIONAID INC.Inventors: Kyo Wung LEE, Sung Il KIM, Man Bok PARK
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Patent number: 10832580Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cooperative driving control technology, by which the set speed of an automatic cruise system of follower vehicles, other than a foremost vehicle, among cooperative driving vehicles is set to be higher by a certain value than the driving speed of the leader vehicle, and the headway time of a vehicle immediately after a departing vehicle is increased during a departure period of the follower vehicle, thereby enabling the departing vehicle to quickly and completely depart and preventing a collision between vehicles during the period.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventor: Man Bok Park
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Patent number: 10788843Abstract: Disclosed is a cooperative driving method including transmitting information on a merging request to a lead vehicle which is singly driving or cooperatively driving, receiving information indicating whether merging is possible from the lead vehicle which has determined whether the merging is possible, a merging step in which, when information indicating that the merging is possible is received, the follow vehicle merges, transmitting information indicating that the merging is being performed to the lead vehicle, determining whether the merging of the follow vehicle has been completed based on a longitudinal distance from a first preceding vehicle or a transverse distance from a lane line, and a merging completion step of, when it is determined that the merging has been completed, releasing the transmission of the information indicating that the merging is being performed.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventor: Man Bok Park
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Publication number: 20190096264Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cooperative driving control technology, by which the set speed of an automatic cruise system of follower vehicles, other than a foremost vehicle, among cooperative driving vehicles is set to be higher by a certain value than the driving speed of the leader vehicle, and the headway time of a vehicle immediately after a departing vehicle is increased during a departure period of the follower vehicle, thereby enabling the departing vehicle to quickly and completely depart and preventing a collision between vehicles during the period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventor: Man Bok PARK
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Patent number: 10223914Abstract: Disclosed are an emergency vehicle supporting device and system using a drone that resolve forward traffic congestion on a road on which an emergency vehicle is driving via the drone and supports securing of a driving path for the emergency vehicle. According to the present invention, an emergency vehicle supporting device mounted on the emergency vehicle generates drone control information and transmits the generated drone control information to the drone. Further, the drone flies according to the drone control information and a location change of the emergency vehicle and broadcasts an avoidance warning to surrounding vehicles around the flying drone, so that the surrounding vehicles may help the emergency vehicle secure a driving path and thus the emergency vehicle may arrive at a destination within a desired time.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Mando CorporationInventor: Man Bok Park
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Patent number: 10057171Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining congestion of vehicle communication control the vehicle communication, thereby reducing a degree of congestion. In detail, provided are an apparatus and method for controlling vehicle communication, the apparatus including: a reception unit for receiving data units transmitted by each of one or more of object terminals and one or more of pieces of congestion information of the object terminals; a congestion degree pre-determination unit for changing congestion information of a subject vehicle on the basis of the number of data units received during a predetermined period of time; a congestion determination unit for changing electric power control information on the basis of the congestion information of the subject vehicle or the congestion information of the object terminals; and an electric power control unit for controlling transmission electric power of a communication module on the basis of the electric power control information.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventor: Man Bok Park
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Patent number: 10023113Abstract: An apparatus for detecting an emergency situation of a vehicle comprises a sensor unit, an emergency situation determining unit and a communication unit. The sensor unit constitutes with one or more of a speed sensor, a wheel sensor, an acceleration sensor, a lateral acceleration sensor, a yaw rate sensor, and a tilt sensor. The emergency situation determining unit receives a signal from the sensor unit and determines whether a driver's vehicle is in an emergency situation. The communication unit creates at least one of an emergency situation message representing the emergency situation of the driver's vehicle and a release message representing the release of the emergency situation according to the determination result of the emergency situation determining unit, transmits the message to an external emergency situation propagation device, and allows the emergency situation propagation device to propagate an emergency propagation state of the driver's vehicle to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventor: Man Bok Park
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Publication number: 20180072312Abstract: Disclosed herein are an impact-absorbing apparatus and method for a vehicle, which are applied to an automatic emergency brake (AEB) system of a vehicle. The impact-absorbing apparatus includes a path generation unit configured to generate an own vehicle travel path of an own vehicle, based on a speed and travel direction of the own vehicle, and a preceding vehicle travel path of a preceding vehicle, based on a speed and travel direction of the preceding vehicle, and a collision determination unit configured to determine whether or not the own vehicle collides with the preceding vehicle, based on the own vehicle travel path and the preceding vehicle travel path, wherein when it is impossible to avoid the collision between the own vehicle and the preceding vehicle, the path generation unit generates a new travel path by comparing the own vehicle travel path with the preceding vehicle travel path.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Seung Bum PARK, Man Bok PARK
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Patent number: 9834212Abstract: The present invention relates to a technology of controlling a vehicle using vehicle communication, and more particularly, to a technology of receiving, from an object vehicle or an infrastructure device, object vehicle surrounding information or infrastructure device surrounding information including lane information from the viewpoint of the object vehicle or lane information from the viewpoint of the infrastructure device, and then detecting the object vehicle on the basis of the received object vehicle surrounding information and the received infrastructure device surrounding information, thereby performing vehicle controls such as lane change assistance and lane change control.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventor: Man Bok Park
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Publication number: 20170301234Abstract: Disclosed are an emergency vehicle supporting device and system using a drone that resolve forward traffic congestion on a road on which an emergency vehicle is driving via the drone and supports securing of a driving path for the emergency vehicle. According to the present invention, an emergency vehicle supporting device mounted on the emergency vehicle generates drone control information and transmits the generated drone control information to the drone. Further, the drone flies according to the drone control information and a location change of the emergency vehicle and broadcasts an avoidance warning to surrounding vehicles around the flying drone, so that the surrounding vehicles may help the emergency vehicle secure a driving path and thus the emergency vehicle may arrive at a destination within a desired time.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventor: Man Bok PARK
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Publication number: 20170212527Abstract: Disclosed is a cooperative driving method including transmitting information on a merging request to a lead vehicle which is singly driving or cooperatively driving, receiving information indicating whether merging is possible from the lead vehicle which has determined whether the merging is possible, a merging step in which, when information indicating that the merging is possible is received, the follow vehicle merges, transmitting information indicating that the merging is being performed to the lead vehicle, determining whether the merging of the follow vehicle has been completed based on a longitudinal distance from a first preceding vehicle or a transverse distance from a lane line, and a merging completion step of, when it is determined that the merging has been completed, releasing the transmission of the information indicating that the merging is being performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventor: Man Bok PARK
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Patent number: 9669831Abstract: An automatic driving controlling system includes: a speed sensor; and a yaw rate sensor that detects a vehicle yaw rate. A controller is configured: to calculate a target yaw rate required to drive the vehicle to a target point and calculates a real-time target yaw rate by comparing a yaw rate detected in real time with the target yaw rate; to calculate a target lateral acceleration by using a vehicle speed and the target yaw rate, and calculates a real-time target lateral acceleration; and to determine whether the real-time target lateral acceleration-is out of a range between an upper limit threshold value and a lower limit threshold value of the target lateral acceleration while an automatic driving mode is in progress. The controller terminates the automatic driving mode so that the driver takes control of the vehicle to drive.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Mando CorporationInventor: Man Bok Park
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Patent number: 9651386Abstract: An apparatus and method for calculating a distance between vehicles to receive position movement information of a subject vehicle and position movement information of an object vehicle from a global positioning system and calculate a distance between the moved subject vehicle and the moved object vehicle based on a position movement distance of the subject vehicle and a position movement distance of the object vehicle at predetermined time as the sum of a vector when calculating the position movement information of the subject vehicle and the position movement information of the object vehicle over time using a dead reckoning formula.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventor: Man-Bok Park
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Patent number: 9544856Abstract: A V2X communication device includes a communication unit, an occupancy time calculation unit, a power control unit. The communication unit supports communication between a vehicle and an object. The occupancy time calculation unit calculates at least one of a radio wave occupancy time, in which data is transmitted/received through the communication unit in each communication period, and a radio wave non-occupancy time, in which the data is not transmitted/received in each communication period. The power determination unit determines whether to adjust the data transmission power based on at least one of the radio wave occupancy time and the radio wave non-occupancy time, which are calculated by the occupancy time calculation unit. The power control unit adjusts and controls the data transmission power according to the determination from the power determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventor: Man Bok Park
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Patent number: 9533574Abstract: Disclosed is a speed control system for a curved road section, which includes: a wireless communication module that supports communication with road-side units and receives road information from the road-side units for a plurality of points on a curved road adjacent to the road-side units; an allowable speed calculation unit that calculates maximum allowable speeds that are the highest speeds at which a vehicle is driven, for the plurality of points, using the road information; an optimum speed calculation unit that calculates an optimum speed in an acceleration and deceleration range that is set in consideration of a predetermined acceleration and deceleration limit of the vehicle; and a control module that displays the optimum speed calculated by the optimum speed calculation unit to the outside, or provides the calculated optimum speed to another control system in the vehicle such that the speed of the vehicle is controlled.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventors: Man Bok Park, Sang Hyun Lee
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Patent number: 9465105Abstract: Disclosed herein are a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication-based vehicle identification apparatus and an identification method thereof. The V2V communication-based vehicle identification apparatus includes a radar sensor unit sensing radar information corresponding to relative distances to object vehicles, a GPS module unit generating GPS information from GPS satellites, a V2V communication unit transmitting the generated GPS information to the object vehicles and receiving GPS information of the object vehicles from the object vehicles through vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication, and a controller calculating probabilities that the GPS information of the object vehicles will be located at areas, set based on the sensed radar information, and identifying vehicles corresponding to the radar information and the GPS information of the object vehicles based on the calculated probabilities.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Mando CorporationInventor: Man Bok Park
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Publication number: 20160112962Abstract: A V2X communication device includes a communication unit, an occupancy time calculation unit, a power control unit. The communication unit supports communication between a vehicle and an object. The occupancy time calculation unit calculates at least one of a radio wave occupancy time, in which data is transmitted/received through the communication unit in each communication period, and a radio wave non-occupancy time, in which the data is not transmitted/received in each communication period. The power determination unit determines whether to adjust the data transmission power based on at least one of the radio wave occupancy time and the radio wave non-occupancy time, which are calculated by the occupancy time calculation unit. The power control unit adjusts and controls the data transmission power according to the determination from the power determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventor: Man Bok PARK
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Publication number: 20160096430Abstract: Disclosed is a speed control system for a curved road section, which includes: a wireless communication module that supports communication with road-side units and receives road information from the road-side units for a plurality of points on a curved road adjacent to the road-side units; an allowable speed calculation unit that calculates maximum allowable speeds that are the highest speeds at which a vehicle is driven, for the plurality of points, using the road information; an optimum speed calculation unit that calculates an optimum speed in an acceleration and deceleration range that is set in consideration of a predetermined acceleration and deceleration limit of the vehicle; and a control module that displays the optimum speed calculated by the optimum speed calculation unit to the outside, or provides the calculated optimum speed to another control system in the vehicle such that the speed of the vehicle is controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Inventors: Man Bok PARK, Sang Hyun LEE