Patents by Inventor Yong-Seok Seo
Yong-Seok Seo 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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Patent number: 8873863Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for finger printing for comics. A system for searching comics according to the present disclosure includes: a fingerprint database storing fingerprints extracted from comics, a comics fingerprint extraction unit extracting fingerprints configured of at least one of box frames, cuts, and speech bubbles included in input comic images, a fingerprint based candidate group search unit searching candidate groups among comics stored in the fingerprint database using the extracted fingerprints, and a similarity measuring unit measuring similarity between the searched candidate groups and the comic images corresponding to the extracted fingerprints.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jee Hyun Park, Yong Suk Yoon, Sang Kwang Lee, Jung Hyun Kim, Seung Jae Lee, Sung Min Kim, Yong Seok Seo, Jung Ho Lee, Young Ho Suh, Won Young Yoo
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Patent number: 8838617Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method and apparatus for searching for recommended music using the emotional information of music and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus that enable recommended music to be searched for using mixed emotions by extracting emotional values including a valence value and an arousal value from an input search condition when a predetermined search condition is input by a user, extracting an emotion rank combination corresponding to the extracted emotional value information using an emotion model that includes mixed emotions corresponding to the emotional values, searching a music emotion DB for music information corresponding to the emotion rank combination, and outputting a recommended music list based on the results of the search, thus improving the user's satisfaction with the results of the search.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jung-Hyun Kim, Seung-Jae Lee, Sung-Min Kim, Jee-Hyun Park, Sang-Kwang Lee, Yong-Seok Seo, Jung-Ho Lee, Young-Suk Yoon, Young-Ho Suh, Won-Young Yoo
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Patent number: 8787613Abstract: A forensic mark insertion apparatus includes: an original content segment storage unit for storing multiple original contents; and a service control unit for, in response to a request for a content from a user, retrieving an original content corresponding to the request for the content from the original content segment storage unit, separating the retrieved original content into plurality of content segments, selectively inserting a forensic mark into some of the content segments, and assembling the content segments to produce an forensic-mark inserted content to be provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jung Ho Lee, Young Ho Suh, Wonyoung Yoo, Yong-Seok Seo, Sang Kwang Lee, Seungjae Lee, Young-Suk Yoon
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Patent number: 8752188Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for forensic marking of digital content. The apparatus includes a forensic marker configured to generate first content by inserting a first binary forensic mark in original content and second content by inserting a second binary forensic mark in the original content, and when a content service request is generated, combine the first content and the second content on the basis of information about a user who has requested the content service and thereby generate third content in which a forensic mark corresponding to the user information is inserted, a content database configured to store the first and second content, and a transceiver configured to transmit the third content.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jung Ho Lee, Yong Seok Seo, Won Young Yoo, Young Ho Suh, Sang Kwang Lee, Jee Hyun Park, Young Suk Yoon, Seung Jae Lee, Jung Hyun Kim, Sung Min Kim
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Publication number: 20140016789Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for measuring quality of audio. The apparatus includes a distorted signal generation unit, an extraction unit, a distortion level measurement unit, a distortion function generation unit, and a search and measurement unit. The distorted signal generation unit generates a plurality of distorted signals with respect to audio in compliance. The extraction unit extracts a fingerprint and AV information corresponding to the audio and fingerprints and AV information corresponding to the plurality of distorted signals. The distortion level measurement unit measures fingerprint distance differences, and arousal and valence (AV) distance differences. The distortion function generation unit generates a fingerprint distortion function and an AV distortion function.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Seung-Jae LEE, Jung-Hyun KIM, Won-Young YOO, Yong-Seok SEO, Sang-Kwang LEE, Jee-Hyun PARK, Young-Suk YOON, Young-Ho SUH
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Patent number: 8620107Abstract: An apparatus for extracting features from a video includes a frame rate converter for performing a frame rate conversion on the video to a preset frame rate, a gray scale converter for performing a grey scale conversion on the frame rate-converted video, a frame size normalizer for performing a frame size normalization on the gray scale-converted video to a preset image size, and a feature extractor for partitioning the normalized video into image blocks of a predetermined size, and extracting features from the image blocks on the basis of luminance values of the image blocks. A video identification system employs the feature extracting apparatus to identify an original video and an object video.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Seungjae Lee, Wonyoung Yoo, Young-Suk Yoon, Sang Kwang Lee, Yong-Seok Seo, Young Ho Suh
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Publication number: 20130290330Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for extracting a fingerprint of a publication. And disclosed are a system and a method for identifying a publication using a fingerprint. The system for identifying the publication using the fingerprint includes: a fingerprint extraction unit for extracting fingerprints for collected query publications to identify the copyrights infringement; a fingerprint query unit for querying fingerprints of original publications corresponding from the fingerprint extraction unit; a DBMS for storing the fingerprints extracted from the original publications and additional information from the original publications, and providing a search result candidate group which is composed of fingerprints of at least one of the original publications corresponding to the queries of the fingerprint query unit; and a candidate group verification unit for determining copyright infringement for the query publications by verifying the search result candidate group provided from the DBMS.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2011Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: Electronics & Telecommunications Research InstitutInventors: Young Suk Yoon, Jee Hyun Park, Sang Kwang Lee, Jung Hyun Kim, Young Ho Suh, Yong Seok Seo, Seung Jae Lee, Sung Min Kim, Jung Ho Lee, Won Young Yoo
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Patent number: 8489606Abstract: A music search apparatus using an emotion model includes a music database (DB) for storing sound source data about a plurality of pieces of music and Arousal-Valence (AV) coefficients of the respective pieces of music. An emotion model generation unit classifies different emotion types into a plurality of groups, and generates an emotion classification model from using respective probability distributions of the plurality of groups for an AV coefficient plane. A music search unit identifies an emotion type from using information entered by a user when a music search request is received, detects an AV coefficient range for designating an AV coefficient corresponding to the identified emotion type from using the emotion classification model, and searches the music DB for music corresponding to the AV coefficient range.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2011Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Seung-Jae Lee, Jung-Hyun Kim, Sung-Min Kim, Young-Ho Suh, Yong-Seok Seo, Jee-Hyun Park, Sang-Kwang Lee, Jung-Ho Lee, Young-Suk Yoon, Won-Young Yoo
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Patent number: 8477836Abstract: A method for managing digital videos includes extracting a feature of an input digital video, searching for candidate features having similarity to the extracted feature, and comparing the extracted feature with each of the candidate features to select at least one of the candidate features similar to the extracted feature and provide information on a digital video corresponding to the selected candidate feature.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Young-Suk Yoon, Wonyoung Yoo, Yong-Seok Seo, Sang Kwang Lee, Jin Soo Seo, Seungjae Lee, Weon Geun Oh, Young Ho Suh
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Publication number: 20130138684Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method and apparatus for searching for recommended music using the emotional information of music and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus that enable recommended music to be searched for using mixed emotions by extracting emotional values including a valence value and an arousal value from an input search condition when a predetermined search condition is input by a user, extracting an emotion rank combination corresponding to the extracted emotional value information using an emotion model that includes mixed emotions corresponding to the emotional values, searching a music emotion DB for music information corresponding to the emotion rank combination, and outputting a recommended music list based on the results of the search, thus improving the user's satisfaction with the results of the search.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2012Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jung-Hyun KIM, Seung-Jae LEE, Sung-Min KIM, Jee-Hyun PARK, Sang-Kwang LEE, Yong-Seok SEO, Jung-Ho LEE, Young-Suk YOON, Young-Ho SUH, Won-Young YOO
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Patent number: 8421928Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for scene change detection including a decoder decoding input digital video data into video data compressed by a single codec or uncompressed video data in a codec-independent format, a normalizer normalizing the video data decoded by the decoder in a temporally and spatially uniform format, and a scene change detector computing a mode ratio for each frame of the normalized video data through a mode determination, and determining, when a frame has a mode ratio higher than a preset threshold value, that a scene change has occurred at the frame. The decoder decodes video data compression-coded by various video codecs into uncompressed video frames.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2009Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Young-Suk Yoon, Wonyoung Yoo, Yong-Seok Seo, Sang Kwang Lee, Seunglae Lee, Young Ho Suh, Seunghwan Kim
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Patent number: 8341161Abstract: An index database creating apparatus includes a feature extracting unit for extracting features from a content; an index creating unit for creating feature indices of the extracted features; an index selector for selecting one or more of the feature indices based on frequency-based importance levels thereof; and a feature index database for storing therein the selected feature indices along with locations thereof in the content. The index selector obtains the frequency-based importance levels based on frequency distributions of the feature indices in the content and in other contents to be stored in the feature index database.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jin Soo Seo, Seungjae Lee, Sang Kwang Lee, Wonyoung Yoo, Yong-Seok Seo, Young-Suk Yoon, Young Ho Suh, Weon Geun Oh
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Publication number: 20120151598Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for forensic marking of digital content. The apparatus includes a forensic marker configured to generate first content by inserting a first binary forensic mark in original content and second content by inserting a second binary forensic mark in the original content, and when a content service request is generated, combine the first content and the second content on the basis of information about a user who has requested the content service and thereby generate third content in which a forensic mark corresponding to the user information is inserted, a content database configured to store the first and second content, and a transceiver configured to transmit the third content.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Jung Ho LEE, Yong Seok Seo, Won Young Yoo, Young Ho Suh, Sang Kwang Lee, Jee Hyun Park, Young Suk Yoon, Seung Jae Lee, Jung Hyun Kim, Sung Min Kim
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Publication number: 20120151215Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for protecting the copyright of digital content, and an apparatus and method for determining the authenticity of digital content. The apparatus for protecting the copyright of digital content includes a creative commons license (CCL) watermark application unit configured to watermark digital content provided with CCL information on the basis of the CCL information, and a modification-detecting watermark application unit configured to insert a modification-detecting watermark in the digital content watermarked by the CCL watermark application unit. The apparatus for determining the authenticity of digital content includes a modification-detecting watermark extractor, a CCL watermark extractor, and a CCL authenticity determiner.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Sang Kwang LEE, Jee Hyun Park, Young Suk Yoon, Won Young Yoo, Yong Seok Seo, Young Ho Suh, Seung Jae Lee, Jung Hyun Kim, Sung Min Kim, Jung Ho Lee
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Publication number: 20120124473Abstract: A music playing system using a music visualization technique includes: a music information extraction unit for extracting one or more pieces of music information regarding basic characteristics, meta-characteristics and emotional characteristics of music, the music including music being played at present, music selected for playing, and music selected for visualization; and a display control unit that provides a user interface window for visualizing the extracted music information and controls the user interface window, wherein the user interface window includes a visualization configuration panel having a setup function for selecting the music information to be extracted.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Sungmin KIM, Seungjae Lee, JungHyun Kim, Young Ho Suh, Yong-Seok Seo, Jee Hyun Park, Sang Kwang Lee, Jung Ho Lee, Young-Suk Yoon, Wonyoung Yoo
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Publication number: 20120054238Abstract: A music search apparatus using an emotion model includes a music database (DB) for storing sound source data about a plurality of pieces of music and Arousal-Valence (AV) coefficients of the respective pieces of music. An emotion model generation unit classifies different emotion types into a plurality of groups, and generates an emotion classification model from using respective probability distributions of the plurality of groups for an AV coefficient plane. A music search unit identifies an emotion type from using information entered by a user when a music search request is received, detects an AV coefficient range for designating an AV coefficient corresponding to the identified emotion type from using the emotion classification model, and searches the music DB for music corresponding to the AV coefficient range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Seung-Jae LEE, Jung-Hyun KIM, Sung-Min KIM, Young-Ho SUH, Yong-Seok SEO, Jee-Hyun PARK, Sang-Kwang LEE, Jung-Ho LEE, Young-Suk YOON, Won-Young YOO
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Publication number: 20110261997Abstract: A forensic mark insertion apparatus includes: an original content segment storage unit for storing multiple original contents; and a service control unit for, in response to a request for a content from a user, retrieving an original content corresponding to the request for the content from the original content segment storage unit, separating the retrieved original content into plurality of content segments, selectively inserting a forensic mark into some of the content segments, and assembling the content segments to produce an forensic-mark inserted content to be provided to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jung Ho Lee, Young Ho Suh, Wonyoung Yoo, Yong-Seok Seo, Sang Kwang Lee, Seungjae Lee, Young-Suk Yoon
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Publication number: 20100329639Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for processing motion picture and a record medium, which decompose a motion picture into unit frames and insert copyright information into the unit frames, enabling to determine the infringement of copyright when the motion picture is illegally circulated. The apparatus includes a processing unit, a merging unit and an output unit. The processing unit decomposes a motion picture into a plurality of unit frames, and generates a main frame, a sub-frame including copyright information for the motion picture and a degree frame which is paired with the sub-frame, based on the unit frames. The merging unit merges the sub-frame into the main frame according to a degree of mergence of the degree frame. The output unit continuously outputs the merged frames in time order.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2009Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Young Suk YOON, Won Young Yoo, Yong Seok Seo, Sang Kwang Lee, Seung Jae Lee, Jung Ho Lee, Young Ho Suh, Do Won Nam, Jee Hyun Park, Kwang Hyun Shim, Sung Min Kim, Jung Hyun Kim
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Publication number: 20100268715Abstract: An index database creating apparatus includes a feature extracting unit for extracting features from a content; an index creating unit for creating feature indices of the extracted features; an index selector for selecting one or more of the feature indices based on frequency-based importance levels thereof; and a feature index database for storing therein the selected feature indices along with locations thereof in the content. The index selector obtains the frequency-based importance levels based on frequency distributions of the feature indices in the content and in other contents to be stored in the feature index database.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2008Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications ResearchInventors: Jin Soo Seo, Seungjae Lee, Sang Kwang Lee, Wonyoung Yoo, Yong-Seok Seo, Young-Suk Yoon, Young Ho Suh, Weon Geun Oh
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Publication number: 20100182401Abstract: A method for managing digital videos includes extracting a feature of an input digital video, searching for candidate features having similarity to the extracted feature, and comparing the extracted feature with each of the candidate features to select at least one of the candidate features similar to the extracted feature and provide information on a digital video corresponding to the selected candidate feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Young-Suk Yoon, Wonyoung Yoo, Yong-Seok Seo, Sang Kwang Lee, Jin Soo Seo, Seungiae Lee, Weon Geun Ho, Young Ho Suh