Patents by Inventor Seong Sook Ryu
Seong Sook Ryu 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: 20180170428Abstract: An apparatus for manipulating in-vehicle devices using a steering wheel includes a reference signal input unit for inputting a reference signal to a driver through a charged plate, a touch sensor for receiving the reference signal through human body communication and for detecting a touch of the driver, and a controller for generating a control signal on the basis of the results detected by the touch sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Jin Kwon KIM, Byoung Joon LEE, Seong Sook RYU, Ho Choul JUNG, Sam Yong KIM
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Patent number: 10002300Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for monitoring driver's concentrativeness capable of monitoring whether a driver is concentratedly obtaining major information by tracing a driver's sight while a vehicle is running, in order to provide alarm to the driver when driver's concentrativeness is dropped at a time when the major information is changed while the vehicle is running.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Seong Sook Ryu, Byoung Joon Lee, Jin Kwon Kim, Ho Choul Jung, Sam Yong Kim
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Publication number: 20180129891Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Seong Sook RYU, Jin Kwon KIM, Byoung Joon LEE, Sam Yong KIM
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Publication number: 20180127002Abstract: An apparatus and a method for determining a driving state are provided. The apparatus includes a jerk calculator configured to determine a minimum prediction jerk generated in an interval until an ego vehicle arrives at a location of a preceding vehicle, using location, velocity, and acceleration information of the ego vehicle at a current time and location, velocity, and acceleration information of the preceding vehicle and determine a permission jerk of a driver of the ego vehicle, a determiner configured to determine whether the minimum prediction jerk is greater than the permission jerk of the driver and determine a careless driving state based on a driving operation state of the driver when the minimum prediction jerk is greater than the permission jerk of the driver, and a signal processor configured to output an alert when it is determined as the careless driving state.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jin Kwon KIM, Seong Sook RYU, Byoung Joon LEE, Sam Yong KIM
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Patent number: 9950742Abstract: There are provided a parking guidance apparatus and method. The parking guidance apparatus is configured to recognize parking spaces in which a vehicle is to be parked within a parking lot, to set any one of the recognized parking spaces to a target parking space, to calculate a one-step parking route and a multi-step parking route depending on a steering input of a driver, to display guidance markers corresponding to the one-step parking route and the multi-step parking route so as to be distinguished from each other, and to guidance parking on the basis of the guidance markers.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Jae Seob Choi, Eu Gene Chang, Jin Wook Choi, Dae Joong Yoon, Seong Sook Ryu
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Patent number: 9926010Abstract: An apparatus for manipulating in-vehicle devices using a steering wheel includes a reference signal input unit for inputting a reference signal to a driver through a charged plate, a touch sensor for receiving the reference signal through human body communication and for detecting a touch of the driver, and a controller for generating a control signal on the basis of the results detected by the touch sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Jin Kwon Kim, Byoung Joon Lee, Seong Sook Ryu, Ho Choul Jung, Sam Yong Kim
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Publication number: 20180005057Abstract: An apparatus and a method for capturing a face image are provided. The apparatus and method determine a reflection on spectacles of a region around an eye within a face of a driver in real time and more stably and effectively reduce an influence of the reflection from the spectacles through an exposure control, without requiring an output for a difference image. In particular, an imaging device is operated by performing an external exposure control to reduce the reflection on the spectacles in a vehicle to receive lighting on/off images and performing a difference image processing in an electronic control unit (ECU).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Byoung Joon Lee, Seong Sook Ryu, Jin Kwon Kim, Ho Choul Jung, Sam Yong Kim
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Publication number: 20170364761Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for monitoring driver's concentrativeness capable of monitoring whether a driver is concentratedly obtaining major information by tracing a driver's sight while a vehicle is running, in order to provide alarm to the driver when driver's concentrativeness is dropped at a time when the major information is changed while the vehicle is running.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2016Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Seong Sook RYU, Byoung Joon LEE, Jin Kwon KIM, Ho Choul JUNG, Sam Yong KIM
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Publication number: 20170316694Abstract: A vehicle is provided to detect a failure of rear brake lamps of a preceding vehicle. The vehicle includes a distance detection unit that detects a distance from the vehicle to the preceding vehicle, an image acquisition unit that acquires an image of the preceding vehicle, and a controller that detects the failure of a rear brake lamp of the preceding vehicle occurs using a speed of the preceding vehicle obtained using information of variations in the detected distance and the acquired image of the preceding vehicle. Additionally, the controller generates acceleration and deceleration state information of the preceding vehicle in response to detecting the failure of the rear brake lamp of the preceding vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Seong Sook Ryu, Byoung Joon Lee, Jin Kwon Kim, Ho Choul Jung, Sam Yong Kim
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Publication number: 20170308762Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining drowsiness of a driver are provided. The apparatus includes an imaging device that obtains an image of the driver and a controller that determines (e.g., based on the image of the driver) when the driver is in a fatigue state, when the driver is in an eyelid closure state, and when the driver is in a wake-up state. The controller further determines that the driver is in a drowsiness state when after the fatigue state of the driver continues over a predetermined first time interval, the eyelid closure state and the wake-up state of the driver alternately and repetitively occur within a predetermined second time interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2016Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Sam Yong Kim, Byoung Joon Lee, Seong Sook Ryu, Jin Kwon Kim, Ho Choul Jung
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Publication number: 20170158055Abstract: An apparatus for manipulating in-vehicle devices using a steering wheel includes a reference signal input unit for inputting a reference signal to a driver through a charged plate, a touch sensor for receiving the reference signal through human body communication and for detecting a touch of the driver, and a controller for generating a control signal on the basis of the results detected by the touch sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Jin Kwon KIM, Byoung Joon LEE, Seong Sook RYU, Ho Choul JUNG, Sam Yong KIM
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Publication number: 20170080976Abstract: There are provided a parking guidance apparatus and method. The parking guidance apparatus is configured to recognize parking spaces in which a vehicle is to be parked within a parking lot, to set any one of the recognized parking spaces to a target parking space, to calculate a one-step parking route and a multi-step parking route depending on a steering input of a driver, to display guidance markers corresponding to the one-step parking route and the multi-step parking route so as to be distinguished from each other, and to guidance parking on the basis of the guidance markers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Jae Seob Choi, Eu Gene Chang, Jin Wook Choi, Dae Joong Yoon, Seong Sook Ryu
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Patent number: 9539945Abstract: A parking area tracking method includes: creating a top view image by capturing surroundings of a vehicle; setting a template by detecting a parking area in the top view image; detecting a location of a pillar in the top view image; detecting a region obstructed by the pillar from the parking area in which the template is set; and changing the shape of the template according to the obstructed region. A parking area tracking apparatus includes an imaging unit with a plurality of cameras for recording images around the vehicle, and a control unit for carrying out the steps of the parking area tracking method.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang UniversityInventors: Seong Sook Ryu, Eu Gene Chang, Jae Seob Choi, Dae Joong Yoon, Jae Kyu Suhr, Ho Gi Jung
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Patent number: 9418443Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting an obstacle include a camera to photograph first and second images at different points in time successively. A calculator is configured to calculate a movement distance and a rotation amount of a vehicle by comparing the two images photographed by the camera with each other. A rotation amount compensator is configured to compensate for the rotation amount of the first image based on the second image. A difference value calculator is configured to calculate a difference value between the first image of which the rotation amount is compensated for and the second image based on the calculated movement distance of the vehicle. An obstacle detector extracts a region having the difference value exceeding an expectation value to detect the obstacle.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Seong Sook Ryu, Jae Seob Choi, Eu Gene Chang
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Patent number: 9361529Abstract: A parking area detecting method includes generating a top view image by capturing images of surroundings of a vehicle, detecting a first directional parking line from the top view image, detecting a second directional parking line having a direction different from a direction of the first directional parking line from the top view image, and detecting a parking area by combining the first directional parking line and the second directional parking line.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Seong Sook Ryu, Eu Gene Chang, Jae Seob Choi, Dae Joong Yoon, Jae Kyu Suhr, Ho Gi Jung
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Publication number: 20160125588Abstract: An apparatus for recognizing a position of an obstacle in a vehicle obtains image data and ultrasonic sensor data through a camera and an ultrasonic sensor, detects linear edges perpendicular to a ground surface in the image data, detects a discontinuous position at which the ultrasonic sensor data are not continuous, detects intersection points of the linear edges detected in continuous images from the image data when the discontinuous position coincides with a camera position, and estimates the intersection points to be the position of the obstacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Jae Seob CHOI, Seong Sook RYU, Dae Joong YOON, Jin Wook CHOI, Eu Gene CHANG, Ho Gi JUNG, Jae Kyu SUHR
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Patent number: 9183449Abstract: An apparatus and a method for detecting an obstacle are provided. The apparatus includes a memory configured to store program instructions and a processor that is configured to execute the program instructions. The program instructions when executed are configured to compensate a position of a second image based on a first image based on a moving distance of a vehicle between the first image and the second image captured at different times and respectively generate a difference image based on a difference between the first image and the second image and between the first image and the second image in which the position is compensated. In addition, binarization is performed of the difference image and a synthetic image is generated for the two difference images. Then, the obstacle is detected by selecting a pixel corresponding to an area where the bit value is detected from the synthetic image.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Seong Sook Ryu, Jae Seob Choi, Eu Gene Chang
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Patent number: 9117122Abstract: An apparatus and a method for tracing a parking-lot is provided that includes a controller configured to recognize at least one parking-lot from a previous image frame which photographed a surrounding of a vehicle and extract a template according to a type of a parking-lot line of the recognized parking-lot. In addition, the controller is configured to generate a template transformed based on a position information of the parking-lot and calculate similarity by comparing a template generated from a previous image frame with a parking-lot line recognized from a current image frame. A position of a parking-lot is determined according to the calculated similarity and the controller is configured to correct the template based on an information of a parking-lot line extracted from the determined position.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang UniversityInventors: Jae Seob Choi, Seong Sook Ryu, Dae Joong Yoon, Eu Gene Chang, Ho Gi Jung, Jae Kyu Suhr
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Publication number: 20150130640Abstract: A parking area detecting method includes generating a top view image by capturing images of surroundings of a vehicle, detecting a first directional parking line from the top view image, detecting a second directional parking line having a direction different from a direction of the first directional parking line from the top view image, and detecting a parking area by combining the first directional parking line and the second directional parking line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Seong Sook RYU, Eu Gene CHANG, Jae Seob CHOI, Dae Joong YOON, Jae Kyu SUHR, Ho Gi JUNG
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Publication number: 20150116492Abstract: A parking area tracking method includes: creating a top view image by capturing surroundings of a vehicle; setting a template by detecting a parking area in the top view image; detecting a location of a pillar in the top view image; detecting a region obstructed by the pillar from the parking area in which the template is set; and changing the shape of the template according to the obstructed region. A parking area tracking apparatus includes an imaging unit with a plurality of cameras for recording images around the vehicle, and a control unit for carrying out the steps of the parking area tracking method.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicants: KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Seong Sook Ryu, Eu Gene Chang, Jae Seob Choi, Dae Joong Yoon, Jae Kyu Suhr, Ho Gi Jung