Patents by Inventor Nam Hoon Kim

Nam Hoon 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: 20070208561
    Abstract: A method of searching music using speech recognition in a mobile device, the method including: recognizing a speech signal uttered by a user as a phoneme sequence; and searching music information by performing partial symbol matching between the recognized phoneme sequence and a standard pronunciation sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: In Jeong Choi, Nam Hoon Kim, Ick Sano Han, Sang Bae Jeong
  • Publication number: 20070185714
    Abstract: A speech recognition method including: layering a central lexicon in a tree structure with respect to recognition-subject vocabularies; performing multi-pass symbol matching between a recognized phoneme sequence and a phonetic sequence of the central lexicon layered in the tree structure; and selecting a final speech recognition result via a Viterbi search process using a detailed acoustic model with respect to candidate vocabularies selected by the multi-pass symbol matching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam Hoon Kim, In Jeong Choi, Ick Sang Han, Sang Bae Jeong
  • Publication number: 20070185713
    Abstract: A recognition confidence measurement method, medium and system which can more accurately determine whether an input speech signal is an in-vocabulary, by extracting an optimum number of candidates that match a phone string extracted from the input speech signal and estimating a lexical distance between the extracted candidates is provided. A recognition confidence measurement method includes: extracting a phoneme string from a feature vector of an input speech signal; extracting candidates by matching the extracted phoneme string and phoneme strings of vocabularies registered in a predetermined dictionary and; estimating a lexical distance between the extracted candidates; and determining whether the input speech signal is an in-vocabulary, based on the lexical distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Bae Jeong, Nam Hoon Kim, Ick Sang Han, In Jeong Choi, Gil Jin Jang, Jae-Hoon Jeong
  • Publication number: 20070136058
    Abstract: An apparatus for speech recognition includes: a first confidence score calculator calculating a first confidence score using a ratio between a likelihood of a keyword model for feature vectors per frame of a speech signal and a likelihood of a Filler model for the feature vectors; a second confidence score calculator calculating a second confidence score by comparing a Gaussian distribution trace of the keyword model per frame of the speech signal with a Gaussian distribution trace sample of a stored corresponding keyword of the keyword model; and a determination module determining a confidence of a result using the keyword model in accordance with a position determined by the first and second confidence scores on a confidence coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-hoon Jeong, Sang-bae Jeong, Jeong-su Kim, Nam-hoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20070083371
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for recognizing voice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-bae Jeong, Nam-hoon Kim, Jeong-su Kim, In-jeong Choi, Ick-sang Han
  • Publication number: 20040249862
    Abstract: A method for inserting sync signal which can be outputted in synchronization with the text into audio file s while playing audio files, and apparatus thereof are disclosed. First, information of a size of the first part of the frame is obtained from the second part of the frame. Then, based on the obtained information, a start position and a size of the third part of the frame is determined, and at least a part of the sync signal is inserted into the third part of the frame. Therefore, a sync signal can be effectively inserted into audio files without damaging the contents of the audio file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Seung-Won Shin, Won-Ha Lee, Nam-Hoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20040172247
    Abstract: A continuous speech recognition method and system are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Su-yeon Yoon, In-jeong Choi, Nam-hoon Kim