Patents by Inventor Min Kyu Lee

Min Kyu Lee 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: 20250128633
    Abstract: An electric vehicle charging system including a host terminal on which a host application that receives instructions on an operating mode of a shared charger and an additional fee for use of the shared charger is installed; and a charging point operator server for calculating a charger usage fee based on a shared charging fee obtaining by adding a predetermined base fee to the additional fee provided from the host terminal, and a usage time of the shared charger by a user. The charging point operator server may receive, from a user terminal of the user, a sharing change request requesting a change of an operating mode of the shared charger to a sharing mode in which the public charger is available to the user, and transmit the sharing change request to the host terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, HCHARGELAB INC.
    Inventors: Min Kyu Lee, Hotaek Lee, Younghoon Moon
  • Patent number: 12265135
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a battery monitoring data management system. According to an embodiment, the system may comprise charge-discharge apparatuses to be connected to batteries and to collect state information of the batteries; charge-discharge apparatus controllers to control the charge-discharge apparatuses and to generate monitoring data from the collected state information; and a monitoring data management device to receive monitoring data generated by the charge-discharge apparatus controllers, to create message groups based on the received monitoring data, to extract alarm data from the message groups, to generate alarm messages based the extracted alarm data, and to transmit the generated alarm messages to at least one of a monitoring server and an administrator terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SK Signet Inc.
    Inventors: Min Kyu Lee, Dong Hun Kim, Hyun Mook Kang
  • Patent number: 12260865
    Abstract: Provided a method performed by an automatic interpretation server based on a zero user interface (UI), which communicates with a plurality of terminal devices having a microphone function, a speaker function, a communication function, and a wearable function. The method includes connecting terminal devices disposed within a designated automatic interpretation zone, receiving a voice signal of a first user from a first terminal device among the terminal devices within the automatic interpretation zone, matching a plurality of users placed within a speech-receivable distance of the first terminal device, and performing automatic interpretation on the voice signal and transmitting results of the automatic interpretation to a second terminal device of at least one second user corresponding to a result of the matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Yun, Sang Hun Kim, Min Kyu Lee, Joon Gyu Maeng
  • Publication number: 20250029739
    Abstract: Proposed is a device for assembling and disassembling a top nozzle of a nuclear fuel assembly wherein the top nozzle of the nuclear fuel assembly is assembled and disassembled with improved convenience, and the load value is measured to ensure stable operations without damaging components. To this end, the device includes a pedestal including a threaded hole through both sides, a screw bar screw-coupled to the threaded hole to reciprocate in a straight line, a top nozzle plate configured to be detachably coupled to the screw bar and to be able to be hooked by and coupled to the top nozzle of the nuclear fuel assembly, and a load cell provided between the top nozzle plate and the screw bar to measure a load value applied to the top nozzle plate hooked on the top nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: KEPCO NUCLEAR FUEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Je Won LEE, Min Kyu LEE, Sung Jun PARK
  • Publication number: 20250012871
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a battery monitoring data management system. According to an embodiment, the system may comprise charge-discharge apparatuses to be connected to batteries and to collect state information of the batteries; charge-discharge apparatus controllers to control the charge-discharge apparatuses and to generate monitoring data from the collected state information; and a monitoring data management device to receive monitoring data generated by the charge-discharge apparatus controllers, to create message groups based on the received monitoring data, to extract alarm data from the message groups, to generate alarm messages based the extracted alarm data, and to transmit the generated alarm messages to at least one of a monitoring server and an administrator terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Min Kyu LEE, Dong Hun KIM, Hyun Mook KANG
  • Publication number: 20250014669
    Abstract: The present technology includes a memory device, a memory system including the memory device, and a test operation of the memory device. The memory device includes a memory block connected to word lines and select lines, a bit line connected to the memory block, a voltage generator configured to generate a test voltage to be applied to a selected line among the word lines and the select lines, a page buffer configured to sense a voltage of the bit line to store and output test data, and a control logic circuit configured to determine whether a first defect exists in the memory block according to the test data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Hyuk LEE, Deung Kak YOO, Dong Jae JUNG, Min Kyu LEE
  • Publication number: 20240424931
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method is provided of obtaining vehicle information during AC (slow) charging of an electric vehicle charger, and a method and system for charging an electric vehicle using the method is also provided. The method of obtaining vehicle information during slow charging of an electric vehicle charger can include transmitting a DC method as charging method information to the electric vehicle through power line communication (PLC), obtaining vehicle information from the electric vehicle, terminating PLC with the electric vehicle and performing AC charging of the electric vehicle on the basis of pulse width modulation (PWM) communication, terminating the PWM communication with terminating AC charging, and resuming PLC to obtain vehicle information from the electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Hotaek Lee, Min Kyu Lee, Young Hoon Moon
  • Patent number: 12125550
    Abstract: The present technology includes a memory device, a memory system including the memory device, and a test operation of the memory device. The memory device includes a memory block connected to word lines and select lines, a bit line connected to the memory block, a voltage generator configured to generate a test voltage to be applied to a selected line among the word lines and the select lines, a page buffer configured to sense a voltage of the bit line to store and output test data, and a control logic circuit configured to determine whether a first defect exists in the memory block according to the test data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Hyuk Lee, Deung Kak Yoo, Dong Jae Jung, Min Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 12115873
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides is a method and device for accurately estimating a pose of a charging socket of an electric vehicle regardless of a shape of the charging socket, so that an electric vehicle charging robot may precisely move a charging connector toward the charging socket of the electric vehicle and couple the charging connector to the charging socket. According to an aspect of an exemplary embodiment, a method of estimating the pose of the charging socket of an electric vehicle includes: acquiring an RGB image and a depth map of the charging socket; detecting a keypoint of the charging socket based on the RGB image; deriving a first estimated pose of the charging socket based on the depth map; and deriving a second estimated pose of the charging socket based on the keypoint of the charging socket and the first estimated pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Min Kyu Lee, Byung Ho Yoon
  • Patent number: 12112769
    Abstract: Provided is a method of performing automatic interpretation based on speaker separation by a user terminal, the method including: receiving a first speech signal including at least one of a user speech of a user and a user surrounding speech around the user from an automatic interpretation service providing terminal, separating the first speech signal into speaker-specific speech signals, performing interpretation on the speaker-specific speech signals in a language selected by the user on the basis of an interpretation mode, and providing a second speech signal generated as a result of the interpretation to at least one of a counterpart terminal and the automatic interpretation service providing terminal according to the interpretation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jeong Uk Bang, Seung Yun, Sang Hun Kim, Min Kyu Lee, Joon Gyu Maeng
  • Publication number: 20240221742
    Abstract: A method of generating a sympathetic back-channel signal is provided. The method includes receiving a voice signal from a user, determining whether predetermined timing is timing at which a back-channel signal is output in response to the input of the voice signal at the predetermined timing, storing the voice signal that has been input so far if the predetermined timing is the timing at which the back-channel signal is output as a result of the determination, determining back-channel signal information based on the stored voice signal, and outputting the determined back-channel signal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Seung Yun, Seung Hi Kim, Sanghun KIM, Jeonguk BANG, Min Kyu LEE
  • Publication number: 20240212681
    Abstract: A voice recognition device having a barge-in function and a method thereof are proposed. In an exemplary embodiment, there are disclosed an intelligent robot and a method for operating the intelligent robot, including an input unit for receiving a user's voice data, one or more processors, and an output unit for outputting a response generated on a basis of the user's voice data, wherein the processors generate the response corresponding to the users' voice data while maintaining a listening mode for identifying a dialogue partner by using the user's face image data and the user's voice data, and perform a speaking mode for control so as to perform an operation corresponding to the response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Min Kyu LEE, Seung Hi KIM, Sanghun KIM, Jeonguk BANG, Seung YUN
  • Patent number: 11977855
    Abstract: The Zero User Interface (UI)-based automatic speech translation system and method can solve problems such as the procedural inconvenience of inputting speech signals and the malfunction of speech recognition due to crosstalk when users who speak difference languages have a face-to-face conversation. The system includes an automatic speech translation server, speaker terminals and a counterpart terminal. The automatic speech translation server selects a speech signal of a speaker among multiple speech signals received from speaker terminals connected to an automatic speech translation service and transmits a result of translating the speech signal of the speaker into a target language to a counterpart terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sang Hun Kim, Seung Yun, Min Kyu Lee, Joon Gyu Maeng, Dong Hyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20240035894
    Abstract: An apparatus for correcting a temperature of an object using a shutter according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise a temperature measurement module for measuring the temperature of the object and a temperature of the shutter, a noise temperature calculation module for calculating the temperature due to noise using the measured temperature of the shutter, and a temperature correction module for correcting the temperature of the object by subtracting the calculated temperature due to noise from the measured temperature of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Joon-Sub Lee, Tae-Hwan Eom, Min Kyu Lee
  • Publication number: 20240027276
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring temperature of an object using compensation of board temperature include an infrared light sensor module for providing output voltage due to the infrared light emitted by an object; a board temperature compensation module for compensating the provided output voltage to the output voltage at the reference configuration temperature of the board using a first function of output voltage to board temperature obtained at a reference configuration temperature of a blackbody; and a calculation module for obtaining the temperature of the object from the compensated output voltage using a second function of temperature of the blackbody to the output voltage obtained at a reference configuration temperature of the board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Joon-Sub Lee, Tae-Hwan Eom, Min Kyu Lee
  • Publication number: 20230377558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic interpretation method and system for converting only voice of a speaker into a target language. The present invention may significantly improve performance of automatic interpretation with a foreigner to be communicated with, even in a high-noise environment in which multiple speakers utter at the same time by utilizing voice and image information input to a smart device in a complex manner. In addition, the present invention may determine a situation based on text information and image information existing around a user, and reflect the situation information together with multimodal information to an interpretation engine in real time. In addition, the present invention may significantly improve user convenience of an automatic interpretation system by directly augmenting and displaying an interpreted sentence directly next to a speaker image or generating a synthesized sound by distinguishing the interpreted sentence from other speeches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Min kyu LEE, Sanghun KIM, Seung YUN, Jeonguk BANG, Namhyeong KIM
  • Patent number: 11776557
    Abstract: Provided is a zero user interface (UI)-based automatic interpretation method including receiving a plurality of speech signals uttered by a plurality of users from a plurality of terminal devices, acquiring a plurality of speech energies from the plurality of received speech signals, determining main speech signal uttered in a current utterance turn among the plurality of speech signals by comparing the plurality of acquired speech energies, and transmitting an automatic interpretation result acquired by performing automatic interpretation on the determined main speech signal to the plurality of terminal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seung Yun, Sang Hun Kim, Min Kyu Lee
  • Publication number: 20230290360
    Abstract: An apparatus for improving context-based automatic interpretation performance includes: an uttered voice input unit configured to receive a voice signal from a user; a previous sentence input unit configured to determine whether there is a user’s previous utterance when the voice signal is input by the uttered voice input unit; a voice encoding processing unit configured to decode only the voice signal through the uttered voice input unit when it is determined that there is no user’s previous utterance and extract a vector of the voice signal when it is determined that there is the user’s previous utterance; a context encoding processing unit configured to extract a context vector from a previous utterance when there is the previous utterance and transmit the extracted context vector of the previous utterance; and an interpretation decoding processing unit configured to output an interpretation result text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seung YUN, Jeonguk BANG, Min Kyu LEE, Sanghun KIM
  • Publication number: 20230278226
    Abstract: An embodiment device includes a memory configured to store a lookup table in which target speeds corresponding to genders and ages are recorded and a controller configured to detect a face from an image photographed by a camera provided in a robot, estimate a gender and an age corresponding to the face based on a deep learning model, search the lookup table for a target speed corresponding to the estimated gender and the estimated age, and determine the target speed as a movement speed of the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Hyeon Seok Jung, Kyung Hwan Cho, Min Kyu Lee, Moon Sub Jin
  • Publication number: 20230215419
    Abstract: Provided is an end-to-end speech recognition technology capable of improving speech recognition performance in a desired specific domain, which includes collecting domain text data be specialized and comparing the data with a basic transcript text DB to determine domain text that is not included in the basic transcript text DB and requires additional training and constructing a specialization target domain text DB. The end-to-end speech recognition technology generates a speech signal from the domain text of the specialization target domain text DB, and trains a speech recognition neural network with the generated speech signal to generate an end-to-end speech recognition model specialized for the domain to be specialized. The specialized speech recognition model may be applied to the end-to-end speech recognizer to perform the domain-specific end-to-end speech recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seung YUN, Sanghun KIM, Min Kyu LEE