Patents by Inventor Soon Ik Jeon

Soon Ik Jeon 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: 20230324446
    Abstract: A method of focusing radio wave energy at a focusing target point, which is performed by a processor, may comprise: generating an electromagnetic numerical model of an object including the focusing target point; predicting radio wave focusing points inside the object using radio wave characteristic information of a radio wave radiation module and the electromagnetic numerical model; optimizing one or more focusing parameters such that radio wave energy reaching one or more unnecessary focusing points other than the focusing target point among the radio wave focusing points inside the object is reduced; and radiating radio waves based on the optimized focusing parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Won Young SONG, Kwang Jae LEE, Soon Ik JEON
  • Publication number: 20230299476
    Abstract: A method of focusing radio waves, which is performed by a processor, may comprise: generating an anatomic numerical model for electromagnetic analysis inside a living body including a focusing target; calculating a current distribution, in which radio waves are focusable at a target depth inside the living body, based on the anatomic numerical model; and extracting a pattern combination of antenna modules in which the calculated current distribution is implementable, wherein the pattern combination is formed by controlling one or more antenna elements configured to radiate radio waves through switches individually coupled to two or more antenna elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwang Jae LEE, Won Young SONG, Soon Ik JEON
  • Patent number: 11745025
    Abstract: Disclosed are a deep body spread microwave hyperthermia device for personal uses and an operation method thereof. The operating method may include generating a control signal to control patches attached to the skin of a user, dividing the control signal into a first signal and a second signal having a phase different from a phase of the first signal, transmitting the first signal and the second signal to patches attached to different positions, among the patches, and producing hyperthermia in a body of the user by radiating radio waves based on the first signal or the second signal received by each of the patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Soon Ik Jeon, Bo Ra Kim, Jang Yeol Kim, Seong-Ho Son, Kwang Jae Lee, Soo-Ho Sohn, Ho Jin Lee
  • Publication number: 20230270495
    Abstract: Provided are a heat treatment device and a method and apparatus for detecting an abnormality in the heat treatment. The heat treatment device includes a radio wave signal generator configured to generate target radio wave signals for heat treatment, a radio wave signal transmitter which includes an antenna configured to transmit the target radio wave signals to a body, a radio wave signal detector configured to detect the target radio wave signals from the antenna, a ratio information determiner configured to determine ratio information about a signal phase and a signal strength by comparing a reference target radio wave signal included in the detected target radio wave signals and each of the other target radio wave signals, and an abnormality occurrence determiner configured to determine whether an abnormality occurs in the heat treatment device based on the determined ratio information and predefined reference ratio information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Soon Ik JEON, WONYOUNG SONG, Kwang Jae LEE
  • Patent number: 11511126
    Abstract: Provided is a device for microwave hyperthermia that may attach a flexible patch on the skin of a user based on a cross-section of a body tissue of the user, for example, a joint and muscle of a leg and an arm and may emit microwaves towards a plurality of points of the body tissue through the patch. The microwaves emitted toward the body tissue may have the same phase and maximum power. Accordingly, a maximum heat generation point may be generated in an area adjacent to the plurality of points. The device for microwave hyperthermia may move the maximum heat generation point by sequentially changing a phase and a direction of each of the microwaves. The device for microwave hyperthermia may uniformly distribute and maintain heat for treating pain and/or infection over the entire cross-section or a partial area. The device for microwave hyperthermia may be portable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Soon Ik Jeon, Jang Yeol Kim, Bo Ra Kim, Seong-Ho Son, Kwang Jae Lee
  • Publication number: 20220331604
    Abstract: A microwave heat spread apparatus and an operating method thereof are provided. The microwave heat spread apparatus includes: a plurality of antennas respectively disposed at a plurality of positions of the human body and radiating microwaves into the human body; a plurality of channel transceivers respectively connected to the plurality of antennas and configured to transmit and receive the microwaves through a corresponding antenna; a transmission signal distributor configured to distribute a signal to each of the plurality of channel transceivers; a controller configured to control transmission and reception of signals through the channel transceivers; and a detector configured to detect a difference between a signal received through a channel transceiver after passing through the human body and a signal before passing through the human body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Soon Ik JEON, Kwang Jae LEE
  • Publication number: 20210322793
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method of radiating wave energy available for unmanned automatic operation and apparatuses for performing the same. The method includes obtaining a dielectric characteristic of a object by performing a reconstruction calculation based on a scattered signal that is scattered from the object and pre-measured information on the object, determining a wave radiation parameter for adjusting energy of a wave to be radiated to a lesion of the object by performing a characteristic analysis operation based on the dielectric characteristic, and determining the energy of the wave to be high-power energy based on the wave radiation parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kwang Jae LEE, Soon Ik JEON, Woo Jin BYUN, In Kui CHO
  • Publication number: 20200139150
    Abstract: Disclosed are a deep body spread microwave hyperthermia device for personal uses and an operation method thereof. The operating method may include generating a control signal to control patches attached to the skin of a user, dividing the control signal into a first signal and a second signal having a phase different from a phase of the first signal, transmitting the first signal and the second signal to patches attached to different positions, among the patches, and producing hyperthermia in a body of the user by radiating radio waves based on the first signal or the second signal received by each of the patches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Soon Ik JEON, Bo Ra KIM, Jang Yeol KIM, Seong-Ho SON, Kwang Jae LEE, Soo-Ho SOHN, Ho Jin LEE
  • Patent number: 10492731
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention discloses a microwave signal processing method and apparatus which precisely focus a microwave onto a specific part of a biological tissue and rapidly images a temperature distribution in the biological tissue generated thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seong Ho Son, Jong Hwa Kwon, Soon Ik Jeon, Hyung Do Choi
  • Patent number: 10476159
    Abstract: A coaxial resonance coil having a toroidal shape for wireless power transmission is provided. The coaxial resonance coil may include a central conductive wire used as a power feeding loop for indirectly feeding power to a resonance coil, and an outer conductive wire used as a resonance coil which is wound a plurality of turns in a toroidal shape around the central conductive wire as an axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Je Hoon Yun, Seong Min Kim, Jung Ick Moon, Duk Ju Ahn, Soon Ik Jeon, In Kui Cho
  • Publication number: 20190111275
    Abstract: Provided is a device for microwave hyperthermia that may attach a flexible patch on the skin of a user based on a cross-section of a body tissue of the user, for example, a joint and muscle of a leg and an arm and may emit microwaves towards a plurality of points of the body tissue through the patch. The microwaves emitted toward the body tissue may have the same phase and maximum power. Accordingly, a maximum heat generation point may be generated in an area adjacent to the plurality of points. The device for microwave hyperthermia may move the maximum heat generation point by sequentially changing a phase and a direction of each of the microwaves. The device for microwave hyperthermia may uniformly distribute and maintain heat for treating pain and/or infection over the entire cross-section or a partial area. The device for microwave hyperthermia may be portable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTIT UTE
    Inventors: Soon Ik JEON, Jang Yeol KIM, Bo Ra KIM, Seong-Ho SON, Kwang Jae LEE
  • Publication number: 20180264281
    Abstract: Disclosed is a microwave output method and apparatus for thermotherapy. The microwave output method may include performing a forward analysis using a mapping model corresponding to a target point of an object, performing a reverse analysis based on forward analysis data for the forward analysis, and outputting a signal to the target point from each of a plurality of antennas based on reverse analysis data for the reverse analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jang Yeol KIM, Seong-Ho SON, Soon Ik JEON, Bo Ra KIM, Kwang Jae LEE
  • Publication number: 20180250522
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transceiver of outputting a microwave signal and a therapy system including the transceiver, the transceiver including a signal attenuator to control an intensity of a microwave signal based on corrected information, a phase shifter to control a phase of the microwave signal based on the corrected information, a signal switch to control a turning-on/off of the microwave signal based on on/off information, a power amplifier to amplify the microwave signal, a detector to calculate a difference between the microwave signal and a result of the amplifying, and a self-monitoring controller to generate the corrected information based on the difference, phase information, and intensity information, output the corrected information to the signal attenuator and the phase shifter, generate the on/off information, and output the on/off information to the signal switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Soon Ik JEON, Jang Yeol KIM, Bo Ra KIM, Seong-Ho SON, Kwang Jae LEE
  • Patent number: 10037616
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for reconstructing an image using a microwave. The apparatus includes: a microwave measurement unit configured to obtain a microwave measurement value for a microwave measurement object; and an image reconstruction unit configured to perform an image reconstruction by using the microwave measurement value and shape boundary information of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Bo Ra Kim, Seong Ho Son, Simonov Nikolai, Soon Ik Jeon
  • Patent number: 9678124
    Abstract: A phase measurement method in a microwave tomography system may include transmitting a first Tx frequency signal, receiving a signal corresponding to the first Tx frequency signal, and measuring a first phase value; transmitting a second Tx frequency signal separated by a predetermined discrete frequency from the first Tx frequency signal, receiving a signal corresponding to the second Tx frequency signal, and measuring a second phase value; calculating a first phase difference based on a difference between the first and second phase values; calculating a second phase difference based on the discrete frequency; and determining an unwrapped phase value through comparison between the first and second phase differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyuk-Je Kim, Jong-Moon Lee, Seong-Ho Son, Soon-Ik Jeon, Hyung-Do Choi
  • Publication number: 20170155195
    Abstract: A coaxial resonance coil having a toroidal shape for wireless power transmission is provided. The coaxial resonance coil may include a central conductive wire used as a power feeding loop for indirectly feeding power to a resonance coil, and an outer conductive wire used as a resonance coil which is wound a plurality of turns in a toroidal shape around the central conductive wire as an axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Je Hoon YUN, Seong Min KIM, Jung Ick MOON, Duk Ju AHN, Soon Ik JEON, In Kui CHO
  • Publication number: 20170140559
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for reconstructing an image using a microwave. The apparatus includes: a microwave measurement unit configured to obtain a microwave measurement value for a microwave measurement object; and an image reconstruction unit configured to perform an image reconstruction by using the microwave measurement value and shape boundary information of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Bo Ra KIM, Seong Ho SON, Simonov NIKOLAI, Soon Ik JEON
  • Publication number: 20170007150
    Abstract: According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a microwave tomography apparatus is an apparatus which measures microwave tomograph of a subject which is inserted into a medium container including: a plurality of antennas which is located in the medium container and transmits and receives an electromagnetic wave; a plurality of transceivers which, when a radio wave signal transmitted from one of the plurality of antennas is simultaneously received by the remaining antennas of the plurality of antennas, measures intensity and phase information of the radio wave signal received from the remaining antennas; and a controller which generates an image using the values measured by the plurality of transceivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Soon Ik JEON, Bo Ra KIM, Jang Yeol KIM, Hyuk Je KIM, Seong Ho SON, Kwang Jae LEE, Jong Moon LEE, Hyung Do CHOI
  • Patent number: 9519054
    Abstract: A method for reconstructing a dielectric image using electromagnetic waves, comprising: acquiring a measurement value of the electromagnetic waves; generating a matching system matrixes between the meshes; generating a smoothed dyadic Green's function matrix; generating an electromagnetic wave calculation value; calculating a misfit error between the acquired electromagnetic wave measurement value and the generated electromagnetic wave calculation value, and checking whether a change of the calculated misfit error satisfies a predetermined optimization determination condition; updating dielectric parameters at the meshes; and outputting a reconstructed dielectric image in the image reconstruction region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Bo Ra Kim, Nikolai Simonov, Seong-Ho Son, Soon Ik Jeon, Hyuk Je Kim, Jong Moon Lee, Hyung Do Choi
  • Publication number: 20160349771
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for efficiently controlling a temperature, which are capable of minimizing a temperature deviation and decreasing a temperature control time by simultaneously controlling temperatures of matching material used in a microwave imaging system in a main water tank and an auxiliary water tank, and preventing an amplitude and phase information of the microwaves obtained by the microwave imaging system from deteriorating over a lapse of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jang Yeol KIM, Hyuk Je KIM, Seong Ho SON, Kwang Jae LEE, Jong Moon LEE, Soon Ik JEON