Patents by Inventor Sang Woo Ji

Sang Woo Ji 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).

  • Patent number: 11657792
    Abstract: A variable wheel resonator system for a vehicle can suppress a resonance noise in a wide resonance frequency band occurring during driving of the vehicle by variably controlling an amount of air flowing from a first air chamber of a tire to a second air chamber and then flowing again to the first air chamber through an on/off control of a solenoid valve mounted on a wheel resonator. The system can suppress the resonance noise in the resonance frequency band that differs in accordance with a road-surface input frequency change (road-surface impact change) input to the tire, a driving speed and turning condition change, and a temperature change of an internal air of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang Woo Ji, Hui Won Shin
  • Patent number: 11535268
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided and includes a gesture detector that detects a gesture of a driver to designate a manipulation target object and a voice recognizer that recognizes a voice command generated by the driver to operate the designated manipulation target object. A controller is configured to transmit a control signal corresponding to the voice command to the manipulation target object, and to operate the manipulation target object to perform an operation corresponding to the voice command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Huiwon Shin, Singu Kim, Dong Woo Kim, Sang Woo Ji
  • Patent number: 11066043
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle including: a communication unit configured to communicate with a user terminal; and a control unit configured to, upon receiving a response signal including terminal information of the user terminal from the user terminal, determine an authentication allowed time for authenticating the user terminal on the basis of the terminal information, generate user information including the terminal information and the authentication allowed time corresponding to the terminal information, and authenticate the user terminal on the basis of the generated user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: SeokHan Lee, KyuHwan Chin, Sinjung Kim, Yongho Shin, Sang Woo Ji
  • Patent number: 10983691
    Abstract: A terminal is provided to recognize a touch input and a gesture input intended by a user. A vehicle includes the terminal configured to display buttons to be selected by a user, and receive a touch input as user input. An image input receives an image of the user for receiving a gesture input as the user input and a controller divides an area of the terminal into a first area and a second area. The controller determines a button selected by the user among buttons displayed in the first area based on the touch signal output by the touch input, and determines a button selected by the user among buttons displayed in the second area based on a finger image and an eye image in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Huiwon Shin, Singu Kim, Dong Woo Kim, Sang Woo Ji
  • Publication number: 20210065672
    Abstract: A variable wheel resonator system for a vehicle can suppress a resonance noise in a wide resonance frequency band occurring during driving of the vehicle by variably controlling an amount of air flowing from a first air chamber of a tire to a second air chamber and then flowing again to the first air chamber through an on/off control of a solenoid valve mounted on a wheel resonator. The system can suppress the resonance noise in the resonance frequency band that differs in accordance with a road-surface input frequency change (road-surface impact change) input to the tire, a driving speed and turning condition change, and a temperature change of an internal air of the tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang Woo Ji, Hui Won Shin
  • Patent number: 10866636
    Abstract: A virtual touch recognition apparatus and a method of correcting a recognition error of the virtual touch recognition apparatus utilize a user's eye position and an image display position or projection position of a head-up display (HUD). The virtual touch recognition apparatus includes a gesture recognizer detecting the eye position of a user, the head-up display projecting an image on the image display position in front of the user, and a controller correcting a recognition error of a virtual touch based on the eye position of the user and the image display position. The apparatus and method can minimize a virtual touch recognition error occurring depending on the user's eye position and the image display position of the HUD when gesture control technology using the virtual touch is applied to a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: VTouch Co., Ltd., Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Hee Won Shin, Dong Woo Kim, Sang Woo Ji, Seok Joong Kim
  • Patent number: 10773606
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for detecting an object in a vehicle. The apparatus includes a seat location determining device configured to determine whether a location of a front seat is a reference location, a seat location adjusting device configured to adjust the location of the front seat to the reference location depending on whether the seat location determining device determines that the location of the front seat is the reference location, an object detecting device configured to detect the object around a rear seat when the location of the front seat is in the reference location, and a warning controller configured to output a warning when the object detecting device detects the object around the rear seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eung Hwan Kim, Nam Woong Hur, Gyun Ha Kim, Sang Woo Ji, Seul Ki Jeon
  • Publication number: 20200216088
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided and includes a gesture detector that detects a gesture of a driver to designate a manipulation target object and a voice recognizer that recognizes a voice command generated by the driver to operate the designated manipulation target object. A controller is configured to transmit a control signal corresponding to the voice command to the manipulation target object, and to operate the manipulation target object to perform an operation corresponding to the voice command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Huiwon Shin, Singu Kim, Dong Woo Kim, Sang Woo Ji
  • Publication number: 20200218442
    Abstract: A terminal is provided to recognize a touch input and a gesture input intended by a user. A vehicle includes the terminal configured to display buttons to be selected by a user, and receive a touch input as user input. An image input receives an image of the user for receiving a gesture input as the user input and a controller divides an area of the terminal into a first area and a second area. The controller determines a button selected by the user among buttons displayed in the first area based on the touch signal output by the touch input, and determines a button selected by the user among buttons displayed in the second area based on a finger image and an eye image in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Huiwon Shin, Singu Kim, Dong Woo Kim, Sang Woo Ji
  • Publication number: 20200172055
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle including: a communication unit configured to communicate with a user terminal; and a control unit configured to, upon receiving a response signal including terminal information of the user terminal from the user terminal, determine an authentication allowed time for authenticating the user terminal on the basis of the terminal information, generate user information including the terminal information and the authentication allowed time corresponding to the terminal information, and authenticate the user terminal on the basis of the generated user information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: SeokHan LEE, KyuHwan CHIN, Sinjung KIM, Yongho SHIN, Sang Woo JI
  • Patent number: 10635278
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling a display of a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes: a detector to detect at least one background element on a head-up display and detect additional information and color information of the at least one detected background element, and a determination device. When the additional information of the detected background element is matched with the head-up display, the determination device compares color information of the a graphic user interface (GUI) corresponding to the additional information with the color information of the detected background element. And an image correcting device of the apparatus corrects a color of an element of the GUI based on a comparison result, and an output controller outputs a corrected GUI corresponding to the additional information and displays the corrected GUI on the head-up display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hye Jin Lee, Sang Woo Ji
  • Patent number: 10591726
    Abstract: A hologram display control apparatus may include a determination device turning on a hologram display control depending on an input signal of a user, a hologram projection device projecting a first hologram image corresponding to an image of a manipulating device of a steering wheel onto a first area predefined based on a space coordinate system of a vehicle, when the hologram display control is turned on, a detector recognizing a set operation in a second area predefined for operation recognition with respect to button manipulation in the first hologram image, a manipulation button recognizing device recognizing a manipulation button in the first hologram image based on a location at which the set operation is recognized by the detector, and a signal processing device transmitting a control signal to a driving device of the vehicle operated by the manipulation button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motor Company
    Inventor: Sang Woo Ji
  • Patent number: 10471932
    Abstract: A position detecting apparatus includes: a communicator performing pairing with a user terminal and transmitting a first signal including authentication information to the paired user terminal; a signal output device outputting a second signal generated based on the authentication information to an inside of a vehicle; and a vehicle controller generating the first signal and the second signal after the pairing with the user terminal is completed, and when a device authentication result is received from the user terminal based on the first signal and the second signal, detecting a position of the user terminal based on the received device authentication result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sin Jung Kim, Seok Han Lee, Sang Woo Ji, Kyu Hwan Chin
  • Publication number: 20190256050
    Abstract: A position detecting apparatus includes: a communicator performing pairing with a user terminal and transmitting a first signal including authentication information to the paired user terminal; a signal output device outputting a second signal generated based on the authentication information to an inside of a vehicle; and a vehicle controller generating the first signal and the second signal after the pairing with the user terminal is completed, and when a device authentication result is received from the user terminal based on the first signal and the second signal, detecting a position of the user terminal based on the received device authentication result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Sin Jung KIM, Seok Han LEE, Sang Woo JI, Kyu Hwan CHIN
  • Publication number: 20190187883
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling a display of a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes: a detector to detect at least one background element on a head-up display and detect additional information and color information of the at least one detected background element, and a determination device. When the additional information of the detected background element is matched with the head-up display, the determination device compares color information of the a graphic user interface (GUI) corresponding to the additional information with the color information of the detected background element. And an image correcting device of the apparatus corrects a color of an element of the GUI based on a comparison result, and an output controller outputs a corrected GUI corresponding to the additional information and displays the corrected GUI on the head-up display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hye Jin LEE, Sang Woo JI
  • Publication number: 20190163268
    Abstract: A virtual touch recognition apparatus and a method of correcting a recognition error of the virtual touch recognition apparatus utilize a user's eye position and an image display position or projection position of a head-up display (HUD). The virtual touch recognition apparatus includes a gesture recognizer detecting the eye position of a user, the head-up display projecting an image on the image display position in front of the user, and a controller correcting a recognition error of a virtual touch based on the eye position of the user and the image display position. The apparatus and method can minimize a virtual touch recognition error occurring depending on the user's eye position and the image display position of the HUD when gesture control technology using the virtual touch is applied to a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Hee Won Shin, Dong Woo Kim, Sang Woo Ji, Seok Joong Kim
  • Publication number: 20190152346
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for detecting an object in a vehicle. The apparatus includes a seat location determining device configured to determine whether a location of a front seat is a reference location, a seat location adjusting device configured to adjust the location of the front seat to the reference location depending on whether the seat location determining device determines that the location of the front seat is the reference location, an object detecting device configured to detect the object around a rear seat when the location of the front seat is in the reference location, and a warning controller configured to output a warning when the object detecting device detects the object around the rear seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eung Hwan KIM, Nam Woong Hur, Gyun Ha Kim, Sang Woo Ji, Seul Ki Jeon
  • Publication number: 20180335626
    Abstract: A hologram display control apparatus may include a determination device turning on a hologram display control depending on an input signal of a user, a hologram projection device projecting a first hologram image corresponding to an image of a manipulating device of a steering wheel onto a first area predefined based on a space coordinate system of a vehicle, when the hologram display control is turned on, a detector recognizing a set operation in a second area predefined for operation recognition with respect to button manipulation in the first hologram image, a manipulation button recognizing device recognizing a manipulation button in the first hologram image based on a location at which the set operation is recognized by the detector, and a signal processing device transmitting a control signal to a driving device of the vehicle operated by the manipulation button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motor Company
    Inventor: Sang Woo JI
  • Patent number: 10112580
    Abstract: A vehicle key control apparatus includes a communicator receiving a response signal from a vehicle key receiving a search signal transmitted from a vehicle, wherein the response signal comprises an x-axis reception strength, a y-axis reception strength, and a z-axis reception strength; and a controller determining a position of the vehicle key on the basis of at least one among the x-axis reception strength, the y-axis reception strength, and the z-axis reception strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Sang Woo Ji
  • Publication number: 20180022314
    Abstract: A vehicle key control apparatus includes a communicator receiving a response signal from a vehicle key receiving a search signal transmitted from a vehicle, wherein the response signal comprises an x-axis reception strength, a y-axis reception strength, and a z-axis reception strength; and a controller determining a position of the vehicle key on the basis of at least one among the x-axis reception strength, the y-axis reception strength, and the z-axis reception strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventor: Sang Woo JI