Patents by Inventor Yoo-Seung Song

Yoo-Seung Song 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: 20240124025
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a defensive driving vehicles interaction system (D2VIS), and to an autonomous driving predictive defensive driving system through an interaction based on forward vehicle driving and situation judgement information and a method thereof. An autonomous driving predictive defensive driving system through an interaction based on forward vehicle driving and situation judgement information according to the present disclosure includes an inter-vehicle distance recognition unit configured to recognize a distance between a surrounding vehicle and an ego vehicle, a situation recognition unit configured to recognize situation information including surrounding information of the surrounding vehicle, and a driving situation response determination unit configured to share data for determining a defensive driving action by using the situation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: JinWoo KIM, Ki Tae KIM, MyongWook PARK, Yoo-Seung SONG, KYOUNG HWAN AN, Shin Kyung LEE
  • Patent number: 11940814
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a cooperative driving method based on driving negotiation and an apparatus for the same. The cooperative driving method is performed by a cooperative driving apparatus for cooperative driving based on driving negotiation, and includes determining whether cooperative driving is possible in consideration of a driving mission of a requesting vehicle that requests cooperative driving with neighboring vehicles, when it is determined that cooperative driving is possible, setting a responding vehicle from which cooperative driving is to be requested among the neighboring vehicles, performing driving negotiation between the requesting vehicle and the responding vehicle based on a driving negotiation protocol, and when the driving negotiation is completed, performing cooperative driving by providing driving guidance information for vehicle control to at least one of the requesting vehicle and the responding vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yoo-Seung Song, Joo-Young Kim, Kyoung-Wook Min, Yong-Woo Jo, Jeong-Dan Choi
  • Publication number: 20240043033
    Abstract: The system for infrastructure dynamic object recognition information convergence processing in an autonomous vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a recognition unit configured to receive object information collected by a sensor of the autonomous vehicle to recognize an environment, a V2X reception message processing unit configured to receive object information collected by an InfraEdge system, and a determination and control unit configured to use the object information collected by the sensor and the object information collected by the InfraEdge system and perform a determination for autonomous driving in consideration of a convergence delay time which is a time difference between a time recorded according to message reception of the V2X reception message processing unit and a current time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kyoung-Wook Min, Yoo-Seung Song, Yongwoo JO, Jeong Dan CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240010237
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of controlling an autonomous vehicle driving in a lane of a main line. The method may include determining whether the autonomous vehicle is driving in a target lane to accommodate merging traffic, determining whether a merge request message is received from a merging vehicle when the autonomous vehicle is determined to drive in the target lane, determining whether a collision with the merging vehicle will occur based on the merge request message when the merge request message is received, and sending a merge approval message to the merging vehicle when the collision with the merging vehicle is expected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yoo-Seung SONG, Shin-Kyung LEE, Kyoung-Wook MIN, Jeong-Dan CHOI
  • Publication number: 20230413144
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing a seamless network service based on multiple heterogeneous networks. The method for providing a seamless network service based on multiple heterogeneous networks includes providing, by a multi-network management apparatus, a service transmitted from a server to a terminal over a primary network, synchronizing, by the multi-network management apparatus, service data transmitted over the primary network with a secondary network maintained in a standby state, changing, by the multi-network management apparatus, the secondary network to the primary network as a communication failure between the primary network and the terminal occurs, and providing, by the multi-network management apparatus, the service transmitted from the server to the terminal over the changed primary network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yoo-Seung SONG, Kyoung-Wook MIN, Jeong-Dan CHOI
  • Publication number: 20230386332
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for processing a driving cooperation message. The method for processing a driving cooperation message includes receiving multiple first driving cooperation messages from neighboring autonomous vehicles, adjusting cooperation classes of the multiple first driving cooperation messages, creating driving strategies corresponding to the adjusted cooperation classes in descending order of priorities of the adjusted cooperation classes, generating second driving cooperation messages including the adjusted cooperation classes and the driving strategies corresponding to the adjusted cooperation classes, and sending the second driving cooperation messages to the neighboring autonomous vehicles requiring cooperative driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Shin-Kyung LEE, Yoo-Seung SONG, Kyoung-Wook MIN, Yong-Woo JO
  • Patent number: 11694549
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing a customized traffic guidance service. The method may include acquiring data about one or more nearby objects, detecting surrounding traffic conditions based on the data about the nearby objects, determining whether to provide a customized traffic guidance service, selecting one or more target objects to which the customized traffic guidance service is to be provided and guidance information to be provided to each of the target objects, generating a customized traffic guidance message for the selected guidance information, and transmitting the customized traffic guidance message to the corresponding target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yoo-Seung Song, Kyoung-Wook Min, Jeong-Dan Choi
  • Publication number: 20230186645
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system performing a method for detecting intersection traffic light information including a traffic light detection module including an image sensor for generating first signal data based on traffic light image data in which a traffic light is included, a communication module that receives second signal data for communication with a surrounding object and an external device, an object information collection module that collects dynamic data of the surrounding object, and a signal information inference module that infers third signal data based on the dynamic data. The dynamic data of the surrounding object includes at least one information of whether the surrounding object moves, a moving direction of the surrounding object, and whether the surrounding object accelerates or decelerates. Each of the signal data includes pieces of information about a type of the traffic light and a signal direction of the traffic light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Do Wook KANG, Jae-Hyuck PARK, Kyoung-Wook MIN, Kyung Bok SUNG, Yoo-Seung SONG, Dong-Jin LEE, Jeong Dan CHOI
  • Publication number: 20230056581
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a cooperative driving method based on driving negotiation and an apparatus for the same. The cooperative driving method is performed by a cooperative driving apparatus for cooperative driving based on driving negotiation, and includes determining whether cooperative driving is possible in consideration of a driving mission of a requesting vehicle that requests cooperative driving with neighboring vehicles, when it is determined that cooperative driving is possible, setting a responding vehicle from which cooperative driving is to be requested among the neighboring vehicles, performing driving negotiation between the requesting vehicle and the responding vehicle based on a driving negotiation protocol, and when the driving negotiation is completed, performing cooperative driving by providing driving guidance information for vehicle control to at least one of the requesting vehicle and the responding vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yoo-Seung SONG, Joo-Young KIM, Kyoung-Wook MIN, Yong-Woo JO, Jeong-Dan CHOI
  • Publication number: 20230047689
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method for autonomous vehicle negotiation based on Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication, the method including requesting, by vehicles that enter a driving negotiation section, a driving negotiation token, acquiring, by a vehicle that enters the driving negotiation section first, among the entering vehicles, the driving negotiation token, performing driving negotiation based on whether the driving negotiation token is acquired, and returning, by a vehicle having acquired the driving negotiation token, the driving negotiation token when the vehicle arrives at a destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Shin-Kyung LEE, Do-Wook KANG, Kyoung-Wook MIN, Yoo-Seung SONG
  • Patent number: 11507783
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an object recognition apparatus of an automated driving system using error removal based on object classification and a method using the same. The object recognition method is configured to train a multi-object classification model based on deep learning using training data including a data set corresponding to a noise class, into which a false-positive object is classified, among classes classified by the types of objects, to acquire a point cloud and image data respectively using a LiDAR sensor and a camera provided in an autonomous vehicle, to extract a crop image, corresponding to at least one object recognized based on the point cloud, from the image data and input the same to the multi-object classification model, and to remove a false-positive object classified into the noise class, among the at least one object, by the multi-object classification model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Dong-Jin Lee, Do-Wook Kang, Jungyu Kang, Joo-Young Kim, Kyoung-Wook Min, Jae-Hyuck Park, Kyung-Bok Sung, Yoo-Seung Song, Taeg-Hyun An, Yong-Woo Jo, Doo-Seop Choi, Jeong-Dan Choi, Seung-Jun Han
  • Publication number: 20220164609
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an object recognition apparatus of an automated driving system using error removal based on object classification and a method using the same. The object recognition method is configured to train a multi-object classification model based on deep learning using training data including a data set corresponding to a noise class, into which a false-positive object is classified, among classes classified by the types of objects, to acquire a point cloud and image data respectively using a LiDAR sensor and a camera provided in an autonomous vehicle, to extract a crop image, corresponding to at least one object recognized based on the point cloud, from the image data and input the same to the multi-object classification model, and to remove a false-positive object classified into the noise class, among the at least one object, by the multi-object classification model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Dong-Jin LEE, Do-Wook KANG, Jungyu KANG, Joo-Young KIM, Kyoung-Wook MIN, Jae-Hyuck PARK, Kyung-Bok SUNG, Yoo-Seung SONG, Taeg-Hyun AN, Yong-Woo JO, Doo-Seop CHOI, Jeong-Dan CHOI, Seung-Jun HAN
  • Publication number: 20220092977
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing a customized traffic guidance service. The method may include acquiring data about one or more nearby objects, detecting surrounding traffic conditions based on the data about the nearby objects, determining whether to provide a customized traffic guidance service, selecting one or more target objects to which the customized traffic guidance service is to be provided and guidance information to be provided to each of the target objects, generating a customized traffic guidance message for the selected guidance information, and transmitting the customized traffic guidance message to the corresponding target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Yoo-Seung SONG, Kyoung-Wook MIN, Jeong-Dan CHOI
  • Publication number: 20200296641
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and a method for hand-over that allow a seamless wireless network service based on learning using empirical data, the apparatus including a memory in which a learning-based handover program is stored and a processor configured to execute the program, in which the processor receives communication related state information to select an access node according to a policy and evaluates a level of satisfaction on the selected access node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Yoo Seung SONG, Do Wook KANG, Shin Kyung LEE, Jeong Woo LEE
  • Publication number: 20190254004
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for collaboratively selecting resources in which the reliability of transmission data is ensured and the efficiency of a transmission channel is maximized. The system for collaboratively selecting resources includes a packet generator, a selector configured to select resources in consideration of a determinant including at least one of information on a packet and transmission environment information of the packet, and a packet transmitter configured to transmit the packet through the selected resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yoo Seung SONG, Do Wook KANG, Shin Kyung LEE, Jeong Woo LEE, Hyun Seo OH
  • Publication number: 20190104436
    Abstract: Provided is a packet transmission method of a communication device. The packet transmission method includes randomly determining a first packet transmission time of a first packet which is to be transmitted in an nth beacon interval, generating the first packet, and transmitting the first packet at the first packet transmission time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yoo Seung SONG, Do Wook KANG, Hyun Seo OH, Shin Kyung LEE, Jeong Woo LEE, Hyun Kyun CHOI
  • Patent number: 10109193
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technology for controlling safety message transmission between group driving vehicles. A system for controlling safety message transmission between group driving vehicles includes a setting unit configured to set a transmission time interval and a transmission power of a safety message, a message type determination unit configured to analyze a safety message received, and determine whether the safety message is a general safety message or an emergency safety message, a reception state determination unit configured to determine a reception state of the safety message transmitted from the message type determination unit, and a control unit configured to generate a new transmission time interval and a new transmission power for safety message transmission based on a value of the reception state determined by the reception state determination unit, and transmit the generated new transmission time interval and new transmission power to the setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yoo Seung Song, Hyun Jeong Yun
  • Publication number: 20170193822
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technology for controlling safety message transmission between group driving vehicles. A system for controlling safety message transmission between group driving vehicles includes a setting unit configured to set a transmission time interval and a transmission power of a safety message, a message type determination unit configured to analyze a safety message received, and determine whether the safety message is a general safety message or an emergency safety message, a reception state determination unit configured to determine a reception state of the safety message transmitted from the message type determination unit, and a control unit configured to generate a new transmission time interval and a new transmission power for safety message transmission based on a value of the reception state determined by the reception state determination unit, and transmit the generated new transmission time interval and new transmission power to the setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yoo Seung SONG, Hyun Jeong Yun
  • Patent number: 9605968
    Abstract: A navigation route cooperation navigation system and a method of controlling the same are provided. The navigation route cooperation navigation system can secure a visible distance or a communicable range and allow a member vehicle which cannot perform cluster driving to drive according to driving information of a leader vehicle, allow the member vehicle to drive according to a recommended route better than a navigation route of a leader vehicle, and set the member vehicle which passes the leader vehicle as a new leader vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yoo Seung Song, Hyun Jeong Yun, Oh Cheon Kwon, Joo Chan Sohn
  • Publication number: 20160146619
    Abstract: A navigation route cooperation navigation system and a method of controlling the same are provided. The navigation route cooperation navigation system can secure a visible distance or a communicable range and allow a member vehicle which cannot perform cluster driving to drive according to driving information of a leader vehicle, allow the member vehicle to drive according to a recommended route better than a navigation route of a leader vehicle, and set the member vehicle which passes the leader vehicle as a new leader vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Yoo Seung SONG, Hyun Jeong YUN, Oh Cheon KWON, Joo Chan SOHN