Patents by Inventor Yang Hyun JOO

Yang Hyun JOO 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: 11965986
    Abstract: An optical device includes a light receiving element for detecting light reflected and transmitted from a subject; a voltage part for providing a first bias voltage or a second bias voltage to the light receiving element; and a controller for controlling the voltage part so that the second bias voltage provided from the voltage part is synchronized with a light output of a light emitting part to be provided to the light receiving element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Hyuck Lee, Lee Im Kang, Ji Sung Kim, Yang Hyun Joo
  • Patent number: 11957432
    Abstract: Disclosed are a sensing method and a sensing apparatus for acquiring information about an object according to one embodiment. In particular, disclosed are a sensing method and a sensing apparatus for obtaining the shape of blood vessels by using information regarding the intensity of received light and information regarding the distance of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju Un Park, Seong Ha Jang, Yang Hyun Joo
  • Patent number: 11910125
    Abstract: A camera device is provided. The camera device includes a light emitting portion configured to change a light path of light according to a first control signal and output the light along a first light path or a second light path, a light receiving portion configured to receive the light reflected by an object and generate an electrical signal, and a control portion configured to generate the first control signal which controls the light path of the light to be changed to the first light path or the second light path. Here, the light emitting portion outputs the light with a first pattern along the first light path or outputs the light with a second pattern along the second light path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Hyun Joo, Chul Kim, Ju Un Park, Seong Ha Jang
  • Patent number: 11875525
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, disclosed is a method by which a camera module capable of acquiring depth information controls the output time point and the reception time point of light. By controlling both the output time point and the reception time point of light, the camera module can acquire the light of phases in which adjacent reception pixels differ from one another despite controlling light sources or reception pixels in line units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Hyun Joo, Chang Hyuck Lee, Hyeong Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 11863735
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a camera module comprising: an optical output unit for outputting an optical signal to an object; an optical unit for transmitting the optical signal reflected from the object; a sensor for receiving the optical signal transmitted through the optical unit; and a control unit for acquiring the depth map of the object by using the optical signal received by the sensor, wherein the sensor includes an effective area in which a light receiving element is arranged and a non-effective area excluding the effective area, and includes a first row area in which the effective area and the non-effective area are alternately arranged in a row direction, and a second row area in which the effective area and the non-effective area are alternately arranged in the row direction, and in which the effective area is arranged in a column direction at a position not overlapping with the effective area of the first row area, light reaching the effective area of the fi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Hyun Joo, Chang Hyuck Lee
  • Patent number: 11579401
    Abstract: The present embodiment relates to a light output module comprising: a first lens part including at least one lens; a second lens part including at least one lens and disposed at a lower side of the first lens part; an actuator for moving the second lens part; a third lens part disposed at a lower side of the second lens part; and a light source disposed at a lower side of the third lens part, wherein the actuator comprises: a first housing receiving the second lens part and including at least one first magnet disposed therein; a second housing receiving the first housing and including at least one second magnet disposed therein; and a third housing including a first coil facing the first magnet and a second coil facing the second magnet, wherein the first housing is operated in a first direction, and the first housing and the second housing are operated in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Bae Jang, Ji Sung Kim, Chang Hyuck Lee, Sung Ki Jung, Yang Hyun Joo
  • Patent number: 11528416
    Abstract: A camera device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a light output unit that outputs an output light signal to be irradiated to an object, a lens unit that condenses an input light signal reflected from the object, an image sensor that generates an electric signal from the input light signal condensed by the lens unit and an image processing unit that extracts a depth map of the object using at least one of a time difference and a phase difference between the output light signal and the input light signal received by the image sensor, the lens unit including IR (InfraRed) filter, a plurality of solid lenses disposed on the IR filter and a liquid lens disposed on the plurality of solid lenses, or disposed between the plurality of solid lenses, the camera device further including a first driving unit that controls shifting of the IR filter or the image sensor and a second driving unit that controls a curvature of the liquid lens, an optical path of the input light signal being repeatedl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Ha Jang, Ju Un Park, Yang Hyun Joo
  • Publication number: 20220210393
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a camera module comprising: an optical output unit for outputting an optical signal to an object; an optical unit for transmitting the optical signal reflected from the object; a sensor for receiving the optical signal transmitted through the optical unit; and a control unit for acquiring the depth map of the object by using the optical signal received by the sensor, wherein the sensor includes an effective area in which a light receiving element is arranged and a non-effective area excluding the effective area, and includes a first row area in which the effective area and the non-effective area are alternately arranged in a row direction, and a second row area in which the effective area and the non-effective area are alternately arranged in the row direction, and in which the effective area is arranged in a column direction at a position not overlapping with the effective area of the first row area, light reaching the effective area of the fi
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Hyun JOO, Chang Hyuck LEE
  • Publication number: 20220155443
    Abstract: An optical device includes a light receiving element for detecting light reflected and transmitted from a subject; a voltage part for providing a first bias voltage or a second bias voltage to the light receiving element; and a controller for controlling the voltage part so that the second bias voltage provided from the voltage part is synchronized with a light output of a light emitting part to be provided to the light receiving element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Hyuck LEE, Lee Im KANG, Ji Sung KIM, Yang Hyun JOO
  • Patent number: 11275255
    Abstract: According to embodiments, a display unit of an integral image processing device, which includes the display unit which reproduces all the elemental images of a 3D object as a 3D image, may include: a light source; and a reproducing lens array for integrating a plurality of individual elemental images, which are included in a patterned image that has patterned all elemental images and comprises all elemental images, and reproducing the individual elemental images as a 3D image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Young Jung, Sung Phil Kim, Yang Hyun Joo, Hyun Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 11262439
    Abstract: Provided are a light-receiving device and lidar comprising the light-receiving device. The light-receiving device comprises: a first lens comprising a first lens surface for receiving light from an outside and a second lens surface for changing the path of the light received by the first lens surface and outputting the light to the outside; and a sensor on which light transmitted through the second lens surface is incident, wherein the first lens surface is a spherical surface, the second lens surface is an aspherical surface, and the focus of the first lens deviates from the sensor surface of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Hyuck Lee, Lee Im Kang, Ji Sung Kim, Yang Hyun Joo
  • Publication number: 20220030153
    Abstract: A camera device is provided. The camera device includes a light emitting portion configured to change a light path of light according to a first control signal and output the light along a first light path or a second light path, a light receiving portion configured to receive the light reflected by an object and generate an electrical signal, and a control portion configured to generate the first control signal which controls the light path of the light to be changed to the first light path or the second light path. Here, the light emitting portion outputs the light with a first pattern along the first light path or outputs the light with a second pattern along the second light path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Hyun JOO, Chul KIM, Ju Un PARK, Seong Ha JANG
  • Publication number: 20220012908
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, disclosed is a method by which a camera module capable of acquiring depth information controls the output time point and the reception time point of light. By controlling both the output time point and the reception time point of light, the camera module can acquire the light of phases in which adjacent reception pixels differ from one another despite controlling light sources or reception pixels in line units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Hyun JOO, Chang Hyuck LEE, Hyeong Jin KIM
  • Publication number: 20210385380
    Abstract: A camera device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a light output unit that outputs an output light signal to be irradiated to an object, a lens unit that condenses an input light signal reflected from the object, an image sensor that generates an electric signal from the input light signal condensed by the lens unit and an image processing unit that extracts a depth map of the object using at least one of a time difference and a phase difference between the output light signal and the input light signal received by the image sensor, the lens unit including IR (InfraRed) filter, a plurality of solid lenses disposed on the IR filter and a liquid lens disposed on the plurality of solid lenses, or disposed between the plurality of solid lenses, the camera device further including a first driving unit that controls shifting of the IR filter or the image sensor and a second driving unit that controls a curvature of the liquid lens, an optical path of the input light signal being repeatedl
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Ha JANG, Ju Un PARK, Yang Hyun JOO
  • Publication number: 20210263136
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method and a device for outputting a light, which can output a light in a safe manner. Specifically, disclosed are a method and a device for outputting a light, which control an output light to prevent the output light from being concentrated on a specific area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Hyun JOO, Kang Yeol PARK, Chang Hyuck LEE
  • Publication number: 20210251495
    Abstract: Disclosed are a sensing method and a sensing apparatus for acquiring information about an object according to one embodiment. In particular, disclosed are a sensing method and a sensing apparatus for obtaining the shape of blood vessels by using information regarding the intensity of received light and information regarding the distance of an object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju Un PARK, Seong Ha JANG, Yang Hyun JOO
  • Patent number: 10690323
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a target-oriented light emitting device comprising: a light emitting part for emitting light; a light focusing part for focusing the light emitted from the light emitting part; a first light adjusting part to which the light focused by in the light focusing part is incident, adjusting the orientation direction of the light, and emitting the adjusted light; and a second light adjusting part disposed between the light focusing part and the first light adjusting part so as to adjust a focal position of the light incident to the first light adjusting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Hyun Joo, Chang Hyuck Lee
  • Publication number: 20190242979
    Abstract: Provided are a light-receiving device and lidar comprising the light-receiving device. The light-receiving device comprises: a first lens comprising a first lens surface for receiving light from an outside and a second lens surface for changing the path of the light received by the first lens surface and outputting the light to the outside; and a sensor on which light transmitted through the second lens surface is incident, wherein the first lens surface is a spherical surface, the second lens surface is an aspherical surface, and the focus of the first lens deviates from the sensor surface of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Hyuck LEE, Lee Im KANG, Ji Sung KIM, Yang Hyun JOO
  • Publication number: 20190187255
    Abstract: The present embodiment relates to a light output module comprising: a first lens part including at least one lens; a second lens part including at least one lens and disposed at a lower side of the first lens part; an actuator for moving the second lens part; a third lens part disposed at a lower side of the second lens part; and a light source disposed at a lower side of the third lens part, wherein the actuator comprises: a first housing receiving the second lens part and including at least one first magnet disposed therein; a second housing receiving the first housing and including at least one second magnet disposed therein; and a third housing including a first coil facing the first magnet and a second coil facing the second magnet, wherein the first housing is operated in a first direction, and the first housing and the second housing are operated in a second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Bae JANG, Ji Sung KIM, Chang Hyuck LEE, Sung Ki JUNG, Yang Hyun JOO
  • Publication number: 20190032900
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a target-oriented light emitting device comprising: a light emitting part for emitting light; a light focusing part for focusing the light emitted from the light emitting part; a first light adjusting part to which the light focused by in the light focusing part is incident, adjusting the orientation direction of the light, and emitting the adjusted light; and a second light adjusting part disposed between the light focusing part and the first light adjusting part so as to adjust a focal position of the light incident to the first light adjusting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YANG HYUN JOO, CHANG HYUCK LEE