Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Other

Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Yonsei University

Sang Kyu Kim

So Young Lee

Joon Hyung Lee

Jin Young Park

Sang Heon Lee

Jae Young Kim

Sung Ho Kim

Kun Sun Eom

Jun Ho Lee

Hyun Seok Moon

Sung Mo Ahn

Myoung Hoon Jung

Yoon Jae Kim

Ki Young Chang

Hyeong Seok Jang

Jung Yong Nam

Soo Suk Lee

Ka Ram Choi

Jung Mok Bae

Sang Kon Bae

Yun S Park

Dong Jin Lee

Sungho Kim

Ho Jun Lee

Sujit Jos

Hun Joo Lee

Jiyong Kim

Youn Suk Choi

Jae Phil Do

Jae Yeon Jung

Young Wook Choi

Yeol Ho Lee

Eui Seok Shin

Seong Soo Lee

Jang Soo Kim

Bok Soon Kwon

Woo Chang Lee

Woochang Lee

Ok Sun Kim

Jin Chul Kim

Woochul Kim

Seo Hee Kim

Jung Nam Lee

Ibrahim A

Ja Bin Lee

KyeongHa Kwon

Young Ki Hahn

Hyun Jong Baek

Geum Sang Yoo

Matthew Han

Chang Moo Heo

Kyung Yeong Han

Man Soon Lim

Young Su No

Sreejith Kallummil

Hong Soon Rhee

Seungjai Woo

Chulyoon Jung

Young Min Sim

Do Yun Park

Gimin Park

An electronic device for estimating human body microclimate temperature is provided. The electronic device may include: a main body; a first temperature sensor configured to measure a first temperature and a second temperature sensor configured to measure a second temperature, the first and second temperature sensors being disposed at different positions in the main body; and a processor, which while the main body is worn on a body part of a user or is carried by the user, is configured to estimate human body microclimate temperature of the user based on a difference between the first temperature and the second temperature.

Electronic device and method of estimating human body microclimate temperature using the same

An apparatus for estimating a core body temperature of an object is provided. According to one embodiment, the apparatus includes a plurality of sensors configured to obtain data from an object and a processor configured to obtain a surface temperature, a heat flux, a skin blood flow rate, and a blood flow velocity by using the data obtained from the plurality of sensors, obtain a skin thermal conductivity based on the skin blood flow rate, and estimate a core body temperature of the object based on the surface temperature, the heat flux, the skin thermal conductivity, and the blood flow velocity of the object.

Apparatus and method for estimating body temperature

An apparatus for estimating body temperature includes a sensor including a first sensor board; an object contact surface provided below the first sensor board; a thermally conductive material provided on an upper end of the first sensor board; a second sensor board provided on an upper end of the thermally conductive material; at least one first temperature sensor provided on the first sensor board and being configured to measure a surface temperature of the object; and at least one second temperature sensor provided on the second sensor board and being configured to measure a surface temperature of the thermally conductive material; and a processor configured to: measure a heat flux based on the surface temperature of the object and the surface temperature of the thermally conductive material; and estimate core temperature based on the measured heat flux and the surface temperature of the object.

An apparatus for analyzing a substance of an object in a non-invasive manner is provided. The apparatus for analyzing a substance of an object includes: a sensor part including an image sensor, and a plurality of light sources disposed around the image sensor; and a processor configured to drive the plurality of light sources to obtain absorbance of each pixel of the image sensor based on an intensity of light received by each pixel, to correct the absorbance of each pixel based on a distance between the plurality of light sources and each pixel, and to analyze a substance of an object based on the corrected absorbance of each pixel.

Apparatus and method for analyzing substance of object

An apparatus for estimating a core body temperature of an object is provided. The apparatus may include a heat flow sensor configured to measure a first heat flux from an object, a first temperature sensor positioned under a thermal conducting material and configured to measure a surface temperature of the object, a second temperature sensor positioned above the thermal conducting material and configured to measure a surface temperature of the thermal conducting material, and a processor configured to obtain a second heat flux by calibrating the first heat flux based on the surface temperature of the object and the surface temperature of the thermal conducting material, and configured to estimate a core body temperature of the object based on the obtained second heat flux and the surface temperature of the object.

An apparatus for estimating a concentration of an analyte includes an optical sensor configured to emit light toward an object and receive light reflected from the object; and a processor configured to obtain a ratio of an absorption coefficient to a scattering coefficient based on the received light, obtain a first absorption spectrum of the object based on the obtained ratio, obtain a second absorption spectrum by eliminating a scattering correction spectrum from the first absorption spectrum, the scattering correction spectrum corresponding to a nonlinear change in the scattering coefficient according to a wavelength of the emitted light, and estimate a concentration of an analyte based on the second absorption spectrum.

Apparatus and method for estimating concentration of analyte, and calibration method

An apparatus for estimating a component of an analyte may include a sensor including a light source configured to emit light to the analyte, and a detector configured to measure a spectrum of light reflected from the analyte; and a processor configured to: based on an initial amount of received light being obtained from the analyte by operating the sensor under initial operating conditions, determine optimal operating conditions based on the initial amount of received light and the initial operating conditions; and based on a spectrum being measured from the analyte by operating the sensor under the optimal operating conditions, estimate the component of the analyte based on the spectrum.

Apparatus and method for estimating component of analyte

A method of transforming Monte Carlo (MC) simulations for diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) may include obtaining, by a DRS device, MC simulated DRS measurements using a pre-defined number of photons; pre-processing, by the DRS device, the MC simulated DRS measurements to obtain normalized DRS measurements; correcting, by the DRS device, non-monotonicity of the normalized DRS measurements to obtain monotonic DRS measurements; converting, by the DRS device, the monotonic DRS measurements to a logarithmic domain to obtain logarithmic DRS measurements; performing, by the DRS device, curve fitting on the logarithmic DRS measurements in the logarithmic domain to obtain curve-fitted logarithmic DRS measurements; and transforming, by the DRS device, the curve-fitted logarithmic DRS measurements to a non-logarithmic domain to obtain transformed MC simulated DRS measurements.

Method and system for optimizing Monte Carlo simulations for diffuse reflectance spectroscopy

An apparatus for obtaining a target signal spectrum includes: a spectrum measurer configured to measure a plurality of spectra from an object; and a processor configured to obtain a difference spectrum matrix by subtracting a reference spectrum from each of the plurality of spectra, and to obtain a spectrum of a target signal based on the obtained difference spectrum matrix.

Apparatus and method for obtaining target signal spectrum

A calorie estimation apparatus and method that analyze a user's skin spectrum to determine calories of food and drink that the user has ingested are provided. The calorie estimation apparatus includes a spectrum measurer configured to measure a skin spectrum of a user; and a processor configured to determine a noise of the measured skin spectrum, and estimate calories consumed by the user based on the determined noise.

Calorie estimation apparatus and method, and wearable device

An apparatus for non-invasively estimating a biological component is provided. The apparatus may include: a sensor configured to measure a calibration spectrum for a first duration and measure a biological component estimation spectrum for a second duration, based on light returning from an object; and a processor configured to remove a signal of a biological component from the calibration spectrum to obtain a background spectrum for the first duration, and estimate the biological component, based on the background spectrum and the biological component estimation spectrum, for the second duration in response to a command for measuring the biological component.

Apparatus and method for estimating biological component

Provided is a method of correcting an error of an optical sensor including a light source and an image sensor, the method including emitting light to a material by driving the light source, acquiring an image of the material by the image sensor, and correcting an error of a distance between the light source and the image sensor of the optical sensor based on a gradation of the acquired image of the material.

Method and apparatus for correcting error of optical sensor, apparatus for estimating bio-information

An apparatus for generating a metabolism model may include a processor configured to obtain a predetermined number of bio-information profiles from a bio-sensor, extract a representative bio-information profile from the obtained predetermined number of bio-information profiles, and generate the metabolism model for correcting an error of the bio-sensor by using the extracted representative bio-information profile.

Apparatus and method for generating metabolism model

Provided is a spectrum processing apparatus for removing noise, caused by a change in temperature, from a spectrum. The spectrum processing apparatus includes: a temperature modulator configured to perform modulation of a temperature of an object; a spectrometer configured to obtain a first spectrum based on the temperature of the object that is changed by the modulation; and a spectrum processor configured to extract a temperature change vector based on the first spectrum, and to correct a second spectrum based on the extracted temperature change vector.

Apparatus and method for processing spectrum according to change in temperature of object

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