Patents by Inventor Sam-Yong Kim

Sam-Yong 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: 20240083415
    Abstract: An advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) includes a communicator configured to communicate with a camera; and a processor configured to: receive a first image and a second image obtained by the camera, obtain a plurality of first feature points based on the received first image, obtain a plurality of second feature points based on the received second image, obtain a plurality of first and second feature points matching each other among the plurality of first feature points and the plurality of second feature points, obtain an optical flow and a vanishing point based on the plurality of first and second feature points matching each other, recognize a pose of the camera based on the optical flow and the vanishing point, and correct a distance to an object in the second image based on the recognized pose of the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Jung Hyun LEE, Sam Yong KIM, Donghoon KOO
  • Patent number: 11904900
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle for blind people is provided. The autonomous vehicle includes a riding and alighting point search device that searches for a riding point at which a user will ride and an alighting point at which the user will alight, in response to call information received from a terminal of the user, a passenger recognition device that recognizes the user who will ride in the vehicle at the riding point, and an autonomous driving controller that controls an autonomous driving operation of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sam Yong Kim, Seong Sook Ryu, Byoung Joon Lee
  • Publication number: 20240032657
    Abstract: Provided is a non-piercing-type earring having hole pins, which have a predetermined length and are provided on both sides of the side surfaces of partitions of an opening so as to be coupled to holes of a coupling part, having a spring loaded in inner space parts of a first circular member and a second circular member, having a protrusion handle part provided at one side of the upper portion of the first circular member, and having prevention protrusions, which extend from the end of the opening of the first circular member and are caught by prevention protrusion corresponding parts of the second circular member through the hole pins as a hinge point, and the present invention changes, into an integrated type, the structure of a conventional method having allowed each separate earring to be coupled with a pin, and thus reduces production costs and shortens a manufacturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventor: Sam Yong KIM
  • Patent number: 11840118
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an alarm portion, a storage configured to store information on a ground clearance, a camera configured to obtain a surrounding image including a front image and a rear image of the vehicle, and a controller configured to, when an object in front of the vehicle is recognized based on the front image obtained by the camera, determine a height of the object based on the front image obtained by the camera, and when the ground clearance is greater than the height of the object by comparing the height of the object with the ground clearance, and when the object is not recognized in a rear side of the vehicle based on the rear image obtained by the camera, configured to control the alarm portion to output a warning alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Dae Hwan Kim, Sam Yong Kim
  • Publication number: 20230368424
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a controller and a first camera, a second camera, and a third camera. The first camera is installed in the vehicle to have a first field of view and is configured to obtain first image data for the first field of view. The second camera is installed in the vehicle to have a second field of view and is configured to obtain second image data for the second field of view. The third camera is installed in the vehicle to have a third field of view and is configured to obtain third image data for the third field of view. The controller is configured to perform vehicle dynamic compensation (VDC) based on a result of processing any one of the first image data, the second image data, and the third image data and to perform automated online calibration (AOC) based on a result of the VDC to determine abnormality of the cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jung Hyun Lee, Sam Yong Kim, Donghoon Koo
  • Patent number: 11370436
    Abstract: A vehicle controller, a system including the same, and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle controller includes a processor that detect an intervening vehicle based on a line of sight direction of a user; and respond to the intervening vehicle based on an intent of the user when the intervening vehicle is detected; and a storage configured to store information regarding the line of sight direction of the user or the detected intervening vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Byoung Joon Lee, Jin Kwon Kim, Seong Sook Ryu, Sam Yong Kim
  • Publication number: 20220194158
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an alarm portion, a storage configured to store information on a ground clearance, a camera configured to obtain a surrounding image including a front image and a rear image of the vehicle, and a controller configured to, when an object in front of the vehicle is recognized based on the front image obtained by the camera, determine a height of the object based on the front image obtained by the camera, and when the ground clearance is greater than the height of the object by comparing the height of the object with the ground clearance, and when the object is not recognized in a rear side of the vehicle based on the rear image obtained by the camera, configured to control the alarm portion to output a warning alarm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dae Hwan Kim, Sam Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 11198445
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the driving assistance of a vehicle, a system including the same and a method for the same are provided. The apparatus for controlling the driving assistance of the vehicle includes a processor to adjust a driving assistance controlling setting value, based on at least one of whether a user looks ahead, whether the user performs a driving manipulation, and a driving condition during driving assistance of the vehicle, and a storage to store the driving assistance controlling setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Kwon Kim, Kyoung Jun Lee, Dong Gu Lee, Byoung Joon Lee, Sam Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 11048949
    Abstract: An interactive autonomous driving system for an autonomous driving vehicle may include: a target mapping device that determines whether an obstacle is present in a predetermined range of a target selected by a passenger and outputting obstacle information; a target attribute determination device that determines a target attribute based on the obstacle information and outputs target controllable item information; and a processor that generates control mode recommendation information selectable by the passenger based on the target controllable item information and outputs target attribute information and a selected control mode when control mode selection information is received from the passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Byoung Joon Lee, Seong Sook Ryu, Sam Yong Kim
  • Publication number: 20210179148
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle for blind people is provided. The autonomous vehicle includes a riding and alighting point search device that searches for a riding point at which a user will ride and an alighting point at which the user will alight, in response to call information received from a terminal of the user, a passenger recognition device that recognizes the user who will ride in the vehicle at the riding point, and an autonomous driving controller that controls an autonomous driving operation of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Sam Yong KIM, Seong Sook RYU, Byoung Joon LEE
  • Patent number: 10963678
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a face recognition apparatus and method. The face recognition apparatus includes a camera that captures a face image a driver, a database (DB) that stores face data including the face image and one or more environmental conditions corresponding to the face image, and a controller that, when a face recognition function is performed, extracts the face data from the DB based on an environmental condition at a time of recognizing a face, and recognizes a face of the driver based on a face image of the extracted face data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sam Yong Kim, Jin Kwon Kim, Byoung Joon Lee
  • Publication number: 20210049379
    Abstract: An interactive autonomous driving system for an autonomous driving vehicle may include: a target mapping device that determines whether an obstacle is present in a predetermined range of a target selected by a passenger and outputting obstacle information; a target attribute determination device that determines a target attribute based on the obstacle information and outputs target controllable item information; and a processor that generates control mode recommendation information selectable by the passenger based on the target controllable item information and outputs target attribute information and a selected control mode when control mode selection information is received from the passenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Byoung Joon LEE, Seong Sook RYU, Sam Yong KIM
  • Patent number: 10882533
    Abstract: A drowsy driving management device includes: a processor configured to determine whether slow eye movement of a user occurs and whether there is no change in steering torque and to determine that the user drives while drowsy when the slow eye movement of the user occurs and when there is no change in the steering torque for a predetermined period of time; and a storage that stores information indicating whether the slow eye movement occurs and a result of determining whether there is no change in the steering torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Kwon Kim, Byoung Joon Lee, Sam Yong Kim
  • Publication number: 20200317208
    Abstract: A drowsy driving management device includes: a processor configured to determine whether slow eye movement of a user occurs and whether there is no change in steering torque and to determine that the user drives while drowsy when the slow eye movement of the user occurs and when there is no change in the steering torque for a predetermined period of time; and a storage that stores information indicating whether the slow eye movement occurs and a result of determining whether there is no change in the steering torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Jin Kwon KIM, Byoung Joon LEE, Sam Yong KIM
  • Patent number: 10752261
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a driver distraction warning control apparatus and a driver distraction warning control method. The driver distraction warning control apparatus includes a sensor device that detects gaze of a driver, a setting device configured to divide a virtual area on front of the driver into a plurality of gaze areas, and sets a threshold for each of the gaze areas, a determining device that determines a viewing area corresponding to the driver's gaze direction from among the gaze areas, and a controller that performs driver distraction warning control based on the threshold set for the determined viewing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sam Yong Kim, Jin Kwon Kim, Byoung Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 10755083
    Abstract: A vehicle terminal automatically registering a profile image of a user to a vehicle using images stored in a mobile terminal of a user and performing a face authentication includes a communicator that performs a data communication with the mobile terminal of the user, a camera that obtains a face image of the user, and a processor that registers the profile image of the user using an image among the images stored in the mobile terminal. The processor learns a facial feature of the user using the images stored in the mobile terminal as learning data and analyzes the face image obtained through the camera based on the learned facial feature of the user to perform the face authentication of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sam Yong Kim, Yu Jin Yun, Seong Sook Ryu, Hwal Ly Lee, Byoung Joon Lee, Jin Kwon Kim
  • Publication number: 20200255013
    Abstract: A vehicle controller, a system including the same, and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle controller includes a processor that detect an intervening vehicle based on a line of sight direction of a user; and respond to the intervening vehicle based on an intent of the user when the intervening vehicle is detected; and a storage configured to store information regarding the line of sight direction of the user or the detected intervening vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Byoung Joon LEE, Jin Kwon Kim, Seong Sook RYU, Sam Yong KIM
  • Publication number: 20200156653
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the driving assistance of a vehicle, a system including the same and a method for the same are provided. The apparatus for controlling the driving assistance of the vehicle includes a processor to adjust a driving assistance controlling setting value, based on at least one of whether a user looks ahead, whether the user performs a driving manipulation, and a driving condition during driving assistance of the vehicle, and a storage to store the driving assistance controlling setting value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Jin Kwon Kim, Kyoung Jun Lee, Dong Gu Lee, Byoung Joon Lee, Sam Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 10657397
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining a concentration of a driver includes: a region-of-interest definition processor configured to define a region-of-interest based on traffic-related information on front image information of a vehicle running; a driver eye-gaze detection processor configured to detect a plurality of eye-gaze points from driver image information of a driver in accordance with an eye-gaze movement of the driver; a driver concentration information calculation processor configured to calculate concentration information of each of the eye-gaze points; an image coordinate system processor configured to convert the region-of-interest to an image coordinate system and convert positions of the eye-gaze points to the image coordinate system; and a concentration determination processor configured to determine a concentration of the driver on the image coordinate system based on the concentration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Seong Sook Ryu, Jin Kwon Kim, Byoung Joon Lee, Sam Yong Kim
  • Publication number: 20200151433
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a face recognition apparatus and method. The face recognition apparatus includes a camera that captures a face image a driver, a database (DB) that stores face data including the face image and one or more environmental conditions corresponding to the face image, and a controller that, when a face recognition function is performed, extracts the face data from the DB based on an environmental condition at a time of recognizing a face, and recognizes a face of the driver based on a face image of the extracted face data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Sam Yong Kim, Jin Kwon Kim, Byoung Joon Lee