Patents by Inventor Yoonji MOON

Yoonji MOON 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: 11948241
    Abstract: A robot and a method for operating the same according to one aspect of the present disclosure can provide emotion based services by acquiring data related to a user and recognizing emotional information on the basis of the data related to the user, and automatically generate a character expressing an emotion of the user by generating an avatar by mapping the recognized emotional information of the user to face information of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yongkyoung Shin, Yoonji Moon, Jinho Sohn
  • Patent number: 11583998
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a robot including an output interface including at least one of a display or a speaker, and a processor configured to acquire output data of a predetermined playback time point of content output via the robot or an external device, recognize a first emotion corresponding to the acquired output data, and control the output interface to output an expression based on the recognized first emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yoonji Moon
  • Patent number: 11548144
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a robot including an output interface including at least one of a display or a speaker, a camera, and a processor controlling the output interface to output content, acquiring an image including a user through the camera while the content is output, detecting an over-immersion state of the user based on the acquired image, and controlling an operation of releasing over-immersion when the over-immersion state is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoonji Moon, Joonwoo Park, Egun Jung
  • Patent number: 11358285
    Abstract: A robot includes an output unit including at least one of a display or a speaker, a camera, and a processor configured to control the output unit to output content, to acquire an image including a plurality of users through the camera while the content is output, to determine a mood of a group including the plurality of users based on the acquired image, and to control the output unit to output feedback based on the determined mood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yoonji Moon
  • Publication number: 20210046638
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a robot including an output interface including at least one of a display or a speaker, and a processor configured to acquire output data of a predetermined playback time point of content output via the robot or an external device, recognize a first emotion corresponding to the acquired output data, and control the output interface to output an expression based on the recognized first emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventor: Yoonji MOON
  • Publication number: 20210039251
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a robot including an output interface including at least one of a display or a speaker, a camera, and a processor controlling the output interface to output content, acquiring an image including a user through the camera while the content is output, detecting an over-immersion state of the user based on the acquired image, and controlling an operation of releasing over-immersion when the over-immersion state is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoonji MOON, Joonwoo PARK, Egun JUNG
  • Publication number: 20200410739
    Abstract: A robot and a method for operating the same according to one aspect of the present disclosure can provide emotion based services by acquiring data related to a user and recognizing emotional information on the basis of the data related to the user, and automatically generate a character expressing an emotion of the user by generating an avatar by mapping the recognized emotional information of the user to face information of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Yongkyoung SHIN, Yoonji MOON, Jinho SOHN
  • Publication number: 20200090393
    Abstract: A robot and an operation method may provide emotion-based services by recognizing emotion information of a video call counterpart based on data received during a video call, and may automatically generate a character expressing emotion of a video call counterpart, by generating an avatar character by mapping recognized emotion information to face information of the video call counterpart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yongkyoung Shin, Yoonji Moon
  • Publication number: 20200086496
    Abstract: An emotion recognizer includes: an uni-modal preprocessor configured to include a plurality of recognizers for each modal learned to recognize emotion information of a user contained in uni-modal input data; and a multi-modal recognizer configured to merge output data of the plurality of recognizers for each modal, and be learned to recognize the emotion information of the user contained in the merged data. The emotion recognizer may output a complex emotion recognition result including an emotion recognition result of each of the plurality of recognizers for each modal and an emotion recognition result of the multi-modal recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yongkyoung SHIN, Yoonji MOON, Joonwoo PARK, Taegil CHO
  • Publication number: 20200009739
    Abstract: A robot includes an output unit including at least one of a display or a speaker, a camera, and a processor configured to control the output unit to output content, to acquire an image including a plurality of users through the camera while the content is output, to determine a mood of a group including the plurality of users based on the acquired image, and to control the output unit to output feedback based on the determined mood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventor: Yoonji MOON
  • Patent number: 10152217
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of carrying out time counting to execute a control function, and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a display unit, and a controller configured to continuously display counting information for guiding the time counting on at least a part of an edge area of a display unit for a predetermined time when the time counting is executed in association with a terminal operation, and execute a control function associated with the terminal operation after a lapse of the predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yoonji Moon
  • Patent number: 9910521
    Abstract: This specification relates to a control apparatus for a mobile terminal, capable of checking information through first and/or second sub display(s) in an easy, convenient manner, and a control method thereof. The control apparatus includes a main display that is located on a front surface of the mobile terminal, a first sub display that extends from the main display and is located on the left of the mobile terminal, a second sub display that extends from the main display and is located on the right of the mobile terminal, a communication unit that is configured to receive event information, and a controller that is configured to generate indication information indicating that the event information has been received, and output the indication information on the first or second sub display while the mobile terminal is gripped by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yeongnam Ahn, Yoonji Moon, Egun Jung, Haein Lee
  • Patent number: 9794394
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a touch screen having a front surface and curved surface extending from the front surface of the touch screen; and a controller configured to display an indicator informing an incoming call on the touch screen in response to receiving the incoming call, connect a call related to the incoming call, in response to an input for connecting the call related to the incoming call during displaying of the indicator informing the incoming call on the touch screen, display a first notification icon informing a missed call related to the incoming call at a first preset location on the curved surface of the touch screen if the input for connecting the call related to the incoming is not received, wherein the first notification icon is displayed after the indicator disappears from the touch screen, and display a first image including information related to the missed call on the touch screen in response to a first touch
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Haein Lee, Yoonji Moon, Egun Jung, Yongkyoung Shin, Jeehee Park
  • Patent number: 9715277
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile terminal for displaying at least one graphical user interface (GUI) on a standby screen, by which a graphic user interface for supporting interactions between a user and an operating program, an operating system or the like more smoothly can be efficiently displayed. The present disclosure includes a display unit configured to display a 1st standby screen and a prescribed graphic user interface displayed on the 1st standby screen and a controller, if a region of the 1st standby screen displayed on the display unit is changed, controlling at least one of a display style and a display information of the prescribed graphic user interface displayed on the display unit to be changed based on the changed region of the 1st standby screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Haein Lee, Yoonji Moon, Egun Jung, Yongkyoung Shin, Jeehee Park
  • Publication number: 20160309017
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a touch screen having a front surface and curved surface extending from the front surface of the touch screen; and a controller configured to display an indicator informing an incoming call on the touch screen in response to receiving the incoming call, connect a call related to the incoming call, in response to an input for connecting the call related to the incoming call during displaying of the indicator informing the incoming call on the touch screen, display a first notification icon informing a missed call related to the incoming call at a first preset location on the curved surface of the touch screen if the input for connecting the call related to the incoming is not received, wherein the first notification icon is displayed after the indicator disappears from the touch screen, and display a first image including information related to the missed call on the touch screen in response to a first touch
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Haein LEE, Yoonji MOON, Egun JUNG, Yongkyoung SHIN, Jeehee PARK
  • Publication number: 20160132207
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of carrying out time counting to execute a control function, and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a display unit, and a controller configured to continuously display counting information for guiding the time counting on at least a part of an edge area of a display unit for a predetermined time when the time counting is executed in association with a terminal operation, and execute a control function associated with the terminal operation after a lapse of the predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yoonji Moon
  • Patent number: 9274741
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of carrying out time counting to execute a control function, and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a display unit, and a controller configured to continuously display counting information for guiding the time counting on at least a part of an edge area of a display unit for a predetermined time when the time counting is executed in association with a terminal operation, and execute a control function associated with the terminal operation after a lapse of the predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yoonji Moon
  • Publication number: 20150138046
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of carrying out time counting to execute a control function, and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a display unit, and a controller configured to continuously display counting information for guiding the time counting on at least a part of an edge area of a display unit for a predetermined time when the time counting is executed in association with a terminal operation, and execute a control function associated with the terminal operation after a lapse of the predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yoonji MOON
  • Publication number: 20150095826
    Abstract: This specification relates to a control apparatus for a mobile terminal, capable of checking information through first and/or second sub display(s) in an easy, convenient manner, and a control method thereof. The control apparatus includes a main display that is located on a front surface of the mobile terminal, a first sub display that extends from the main display and is located on the left of the mobile terminal, a second sub display that extends from the main display and is located on the right of the mobile terminal, a communication unit that is configured to receive event information, and a controller that is configured to generate indication information indicating that the event information has been received, and output the indication information on the first or second sub display while the mobile terminal is gripped by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yeongnam AHN, Yoonji MOON, Egun JUNG, Haein LEE
  • Publication number: 20150031417
    Abstract: A mobile terminal comprises: a body having a front surface, side surfaces and a rear surface; a display unit having a first region arranged on the front surface, and a second region arranged on the side surfaces and extending from the first region; and a controller configured to output a notification icon to the second region when an event occurs from at least one application, the notification icon informing the occurrence of the event, and configured to display information on the event on the first region when a touch input is applied to the notification icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Haein LEE, Yoonji MOON, Egun JUNG, Yongkyoung SHIN, Jeehee PARK