Patents by Inventor Yong-Kwi Lee

Yong-Kwi Lee 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: 20140309933
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for providing route guidance based on emotion. The apparatus includes an emotion information acquisition unit, a route information calculation unit, and a route guidance unit. The emotion information acquisition unit obtains information about a user's emotion using an emotion acquisition sensor. The route information calculation unit calculates emotion route information using the obtained emotion information and map information. The route guidance unit provides route guidance to the user using the calculated emotion route information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyun-Soon SHIN, Yong-Kwi LEE, Jun JO
  • Patent number: 8862317
    Abstract: An emotion-based vehicle service system for safe driving includes a multi-emotion sensor node configured to sense emotion information of a driver and passenger in a vehicle and condition information of the vehicle. The emotion-based vehicle service system further includes an emotion cognition processing apparatus configured to analyze sensing information provided from the multi-emotion sensor node to generate emotion cognition information, and a safe driving service apparatus configured to provide an emotion-based safe driving service depending on the emotion cognition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyun Soon Shin, Yong Kwi Lee, Jun Jo
  • Publication number: 20140303502
    Abstract: Provided is a method of measuring heartbeats without contact and wirelessly. The method includes searching for a sport point on which heartbeats are measured; imaging a found spot point through a thermal graphic camera and obtaining temperature related data wirelessly; and analyzing the obtained temperature related data and calculating heartbeats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yong Kwi LEE, Sangwook PARK, Hyun Jin YOON, Ji Yeon KIM, Jong Hyun JANG
  • Patent number: 8764656
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sensing device of an emotion signal and a method thereof capable of recognizing and analyzing the change in emotion by collecting at least one of the bio signals and peripheral environmental signals, guiding the state of emotion to a user, and sharing emotion information with authorized persons and communicating it between them. The sensing device of the emotion signal according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a sensing signal processor that senses a plurality of bio signals and peripheral environment signals of a user; an emotion signal processor that generates emotion signals representing the emotional state of the user for each of the sensed bio signals and collects the emotion signals to generate an emotion index; and an emotion signal communication unit that optionally transmits the emotion signals and the emotion index to external authorized devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyun-Soon Shin, Yong-Kwi Lee, Jun Jo, Ji-Hoon Kim, Jun-Sik Choi, In-Tark Han
  • Publication number: 20140163891
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for recognizing an emotion by use of a heart rate data is provided. The apparatus includes an input signal generation unit configured to receive a plurality of heart rate data, and generate input signals each having a sequence, a signal classification unit configured to classify the input signals into groups, and an emotion recognition unit configured to search for a group, to which the input signal generated by the input signal generation unit belongs, among the groups classified by the signal classification unit, and recognize a user emotion corresponding to the found group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jun JO, Hyun-Soon SHIN, Yong-Kwi LEE
  • Publication number: 20130054090
    Abstract: An emotion-based vehicle service system for safe driving includes a multi-emotion sensor node configured to sense emotion information of a driver and passenger in a vehicle and condition information of the vehicle. The emotion-based vehicle service system further includes an emotion cognition processing apparatus configured to analyze sensing information provided from the multi-emotion sensor node to generate emotion cognition information, and a safe driving service apparatus configured to provide an emotion-based safe driving service depending on the emotion cognition information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hyun Soon SHIN, Yong Kwi LEE, Jun JO
  • Publication number: 20120308971
    Abstract: An emotion recognition device includes a user interface configured to display input-related menus and receive a control command; and a sensing unit configured to sense a bio-signal of a user or a surrounding environment signal of the user using at least one sensor. Further, the emotion recognition device includes an emotion recognition management unit configured to determine based on the sensed signal whether a transition to a danger emotional signal or a criminal emotional signal for the user has occurred, and then requesting tracking emotion recognition. Furthermore, the emotion recognition device includes a dangerous and criminal situation action unit configured to request emotion recognition handling of a dangerous or criminal situation depending on a danger or criminal emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Hyun Soon SHIN, Jun Jo, Yong Kwi Lee, YunKyung Lee
  • Publication number: 20110246072
    Abstract: A digital interior system includes a sensitivity-space-environment detection engine for collecting sensitivity information, space related information, or environmental information about an interior space. Further, the digital interior system includes an interior content generation system for generating interior content about each of objects in the interior space based on the sensitivity information, space related information or environmental information collected by the sensitivity-space-environment detection engine. Furthermore, the digital interior system includes a digital interior construction system for performing interior construction using each of pieces of interior content generated by the interior content generation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyun Soon SHIN, Intark Han, Yong Kwi Lee
  • Publication number: 20110144452
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation. The method for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation includes sensing bio signals and environmental signals from a plurality of sensors; defining an emotional variation threshold value for each signal sensed at the sensing; extracting the emotional signal by analyzing the bio signals and inferring the emotional quotient for each bio signal based on the extracted emotional signal and the environmental signals; determining the emotional variation threshold values and the emotional quotient based on the inference results of the emotional quotient; and evaluating the determined emotional quotient. With the present invention, it can provide the emotional care service capable of informing and communicating the true emotional state of the person to user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Hyun-Soon SHIN, Jun Jo, Yong-Kwi Lee, Jun-Sik Choi, Jin-Hoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20110137137
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sensing device of an emotion signal and a method thereof capable of recognizing and analyzing the change in emotion by collecting at least one of the bio signals and peripheral environmental signals, guiding the state of emotion to a user, and sharing emotion information with authorized persons and communicating it between them. The sensing device of the emotion signal according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a sensing signal processor that senses a plurality of bio signals and peripheral environment signals of a user; an emotion signal processor that generates emotion signals representing the emotional state of the user for each of the sensed bio signals and collects the emotion signals to generate an emotion index; and an emotion signal communication unit that optionally transmits the emotion signals and the emotion index to external authorized devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyun-Soon SHIN, Yong-Kwi Lee, Jun Jo, Ji-Hoon Kim, Jun-Sik Choi, In-Tark Han