Patents by Inventor Young-Sang Choi

Young-Sang Choi 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: 20240128502
    Abstract: An embodiment solid electrolyte includes a first compound and a second compound. The first compound is represented by a first chemical formula Li7-aPS6-a(X11-bX2b)a, wherein X1 and X2 are the same or different and each represents F, Cl, Br, or I, and wherein 0<a?2 and 0<b<1, and the second compound is represented by a second chemical formula Li7-cP1-2dMdS6-c-3d(X11-eX2e)c, wherein X1 and X2 are the same or different and each represents F, Cl, Br, or I, wherein M represents Ge, Si, Sn, or any combination thereof, and wherein 0<c?2, 0<d<0.5, and 0<e<1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Sa Heum Kim, Yong Jun Jang, Yong Gu Kim, Sung Man Cho, Sun Ho Choi, Seong Hyeon Choi, Kyu Sung Park, Young Gyoon Ryu, Suk Gi Hong, Pil Sang Yun, Myeong Ju Ha, Hyun Beom Kim, Hwi Chul Yang
  • Patent number: 11957706
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition for preventing or treating fibrosis including an inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinase 17 (CDK17) expression or activity. According to the present disclosure, the inhibitor of CDK17 expression or activity significantly reduces collagen production and cell activity and viability in activated hepatic stellate cells (liver fibrosis cell model), renal tubular epithelial cells (renal fibrosis cell model) in which fibrosis is induced by TGF-? treatment, and alveolar epithelial cells (lung fibrosis cell model) in which fibrosis is induced by TGF-? treatment, indicating that the composition of the present disclosure has an excellent effect in preventing or treating fibrosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Young Sik Lee, Do Hoon Lee, Min Seok Choi, Jae Sang Hong
  • Publication number: 20240074258
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display device, which may be fabricated using a described method. The display device includes a glass substrate including a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a side surface between the first surface and the second surface, an outermost structure on the first surface of the glass substrate and located adjacent to an edge of one side of the glass substrate, and a display area including a plurality of light emitting areas on the first surface of the glass substrate and located farther from the edge of the one side of the glass substrate than the outermost structure is. A minimum distance from the side surface of the glass substrate to the outermost structure is equal to 130 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Wan Jung KIM, Dong Jo KIM, Sun Hwa KIM, Young Ji KIM, Chang Sik KIM, Kyung Ah NAM, Hyo Young MUN, Yong Seung PARK, Yi Seul UM, Dae Sang YUN, Kwan Hee LEE, So Young LEE, Young Hoon LEE, Young Seo CHOI, Sun Young KIM, Ji Won SOHN, Do Young LEE, Seung Hoon LEE
  • Patent number: 10714077
    Abstract: An apparatus for calculating acoustic score, a method of calculating acoustic score, an apparatus for speech recognition, a method of speech recognition, and an electronic device including the same are provided. An apparatus for calculating acoustic score includes a preprocessor configured to sequentially extract audio frames into windows and a score calculator configured to calculate an acoustic score of a window by using a deep neural network (DNN)-based acoustic model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Inchul Song, Young Sang Choi
  • Patent number: 10607597
    Abstract: A speech signal recognition method, apparatus, and system. The speech signal recognition method may include obtaining by or from a terminal an output of a personalization layer, with respect to a speech signal provided by a user of the terminal, having been implemented by input of the speech signal to the personalization layer, the personalization layer being previously trained based on speech features of the user, implementing a global model by providing the obtained output of the personalization layer to the global model, the global model being configured to output a phonemic signal indicating a phoneme included in the speech signal through the global model being previously trained based on speech features common to a plurality of users, and re-training the personalization layer based on the phonemic signal output from the global model, where the personalization layer and the global model collectively represent an acoustic model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minyoung Mun, SangHyun Yoo, Young Sang Choi, Ki Soo Kwon, Hodong Lee
  • Patent number: 10521514
    Abstract: An apparatus for notification of speech of interest to a user includes a voice analyzer configured to recognize speech, evaluate a relevance between a result of the speech recognition and a determined user's topic of interest, and determine whether to provide a notification; and an outputter configured to, in response to the voice analyzer determining to provide the notification, generate and output a notification message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hyun Lee, Young Sang Choi
  • Publication number: 20190088251
    Abstract: A speech signal recognition method, apparatus, and system. The speech signal recognition method may include obtaining by or from a terminal an output of a personalization layer, with respect to a speech signal provided by a user of the terminal, having been implemented by input of the speech signal to the personalization layer, the personalization layer being previously trained based on speech features of the user, implementing a global model by providing the obtained output of the personalization layer to the global model, the global model being configured to output a phonemic signal indicating a phoneme included in the speech signal through the global model being previously trained based on speech features common to a plurality of users, and re-training the personalization layer based on the phonemic signal output from the global model, where the personalization layer and the global model collectively represent an acoustic model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minyoung MUN, SangHyun YOO, Young Sang CHOI, Ki Soo KWON, Hodong LEE
  • Patent number: 10067939
    Abstract: A machine translation method includes converting a source sentence written in a first language to language-independent information using an encoder for the first language, and converting the language-independent information to a target sentence corresponding to the source sentence and written in a second language different from the first language using a decoder for the second language. The encoder for the first language is trained to output language-independent information corresponding to the target sentence in response to an input of the source sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwidong Na, Hoshik Lee, Young Sang Choi
  • Publication number: 20180211652
    Abstract: A speech recognition method includes generating pieces of candidate text data from a speech signal of a user, determining a decoding condition corresponding to an utterance type of the user, and determining target text data among the pieces of candidate text data by performing decoding based on the determined decoding condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minyoung MUN, Hoshik LEE, Young Sang CHOI
  • Patent number: 9972305
    Abstract: An apparatus for normalizing input data of an acoustic model includes a window extractor configured to extract windows of frame data to be input to an acoustic model from frame data of a speech to be recognized, and a normalizer configured to normalize the frame data to be input to the acoustic model in units of the extracted windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In Chul Song, Young Sang Choi, Hwi Dong Na
  • Patent number: 9953654
    Abstract: A voice command recognition apparatus and method thereof are described. The voice command recognition apparatus includes audio sensors placed at different locations; a context determiner configured to determine user context based on a voice received at the audio sensors, wherein the context comprises a vocalization from a user. A command recognizer in the voice command recognition apparatus is configured to activate to recognize a voice command or remain inactive according to the recognized context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Young Mun, Young Sang Choi
  • Patent number: 9940718
    Abstract: An apparatus for extracting a peak image includes an image selector configured to select one of continuously photographed images; a base image determiner configured to determine at least one base image according to a predetermined criterion; a difference calculator configured to calculate a difference between the selected image and the at least one base image; and a peak image determiner configured to determine a peak image among the continuously photographed images based on the calculated difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Jun Kim, Young-Sang Choi
  • Publication number: 20180052828
    Abstract: A machine translation method includes converting a source sentence written in a first language to language-independent information using an encoder for the first language, and converting the language-independent information to a target sentence corresponding to the source sentence and written in a second language different from the first language using a decoder for the second language. The encoder for the first language is trained to output language-independent information corresponding to the target sentence in response to an input of the source sentence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwidong NA, Hoshik LEE, Young Sang CHOI
  • Patent number: 9842588
    Abstract: A method and a device of voice recognition are provided. The method involves receiving a voice signal, identifying a first voice recognition model in which context information associated with a situation at reception of the voice signal is not reflected and a second voice recognition model in which the context information is reflected, determining a weighted value of the first voice recognition model and a weighted value of the second voice recognition model, and recognizing a word in the voice signal by applying the determined weighted values to the first voice recognition model and the second voice recognition model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Jun Kim, Young Sang Choi
  • Patent number: 9779730
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for speech recognition and for generation of speech recognition engine, and a speech recognition engine are provided. The method of speech recognition involves receiving a speech input, transmitting the speech input to a speech recognition engine, and receiving a speech recognition result from the speech recognition engine, in which the speech recognition engine obtains a phoneme sequence from the speech input and provides the speech recognition result based on a phonetic distance of the phoneme sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Jin Hong, Young Sang Choi, Hee Youl Choi, Sang Hyun Yoo
  • Publication number: 20170110115
    Abstract: An apparatus for normalizing input data of an acoustic model includes a window extractor configured to extract windows of frame data to be input to an acoustic model from frame data of a speech to be recognized, and a normalizer configured to normalize the frame data to be input to the acoustic model in units of the extracted windows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In Chul SONG, Young Sang CHOI, Hwi Dong NA
  • Patent number: 9626962
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for recognizing a speech, and an apparatus and method for generating a noise-speech recognition model are provided. The speech recognition apparatus includes a location determiner configured to determine a location of the apparatus, a noise model generator configured to generate a noise model corresponding to the location by collecting noise data related to the location, and a noise model transmitter configured to transmit the noise model to a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Sub Lee, Young Wan Seo, Young Sang Choi
  • Publication number: 20170025119
    Abstract: An apparatus for calculating acoustic score, a method of calculating acoustic score, an apparatus for speech recognition, a method of speech recognition, and an electronic device including the same are provided. An apparatus for calculating acoustic score includes a preprocessor configured to sequentially extract audio frames into windows and a score calculator configured to calculate an acoustic score of a window by using a deep neural network (DNN)-based acoustic model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Inchul SONG, Young Sang CHOI
  • Publication number: 20170018272
    Abstract: An apparatus for notification of speech of interest to a user includes a voice analyzer configured to recognize speech, evaluate a relevance between a result of the speech recognition and a determined user's topic of interest, and determine whether to provide a notification; and an outputter configured to, in response to the voice analyzer determining to provide the notification, generate and output a notification message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hyun LEE, Young Sang CHOI
  • Publication number: 20160071273
    Abstract: An apparatus for extracting a peak image includes an image selector configured to select one of continuously photographed images; a base image determiner configured to determine at least one base image according to a predetermined criterion; a difference calculator configured to calculate a difference between the selected image and the at least one base image; and a peak image determiner configured to determine a peak image among the continuously photographed images based on the calculated difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Jun Kim, Young-Sang Choi