Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Chul-Hwan Lee

Jae-hwan Kim

Young-ho Rhee

Youn-Taek Oh

Jong-Min Lee

Sung-min Lee

Yong-Hoon Lee

Jin-ho Kim

Woo-Yong Lee

Dong-Hoon Jang

Jong-Man Kim

Sung-Dae Cho

Seong-Joon Jeon

Jun-Tai Kim

Yang-Su Kim

Sung-Min Kang

Gi-Tae Mun

Jae-Kyun Kim

Sung-Min Lee

Ji-Young Yi

Mi-Hyang Kim

Jin-woo Jung

Byeong-Woo Kim

Dong-Ryul Lee

Ra-Mi Jung

Dal-Kwang Lee

Woo-Hyuk Choi

Nam-Ii Lee

Shin-Hee Do

Kee-Hyon Park

Woo-Chan Chung

Sang-Yoon Jung

Hye-Kyoung Hwang

An apparatus and method support intuitive gestures for turning electronic book (e-book) pages in a portable terminal. The portable terminal executes an e-book and determines whether a just preceding page gesture is input, the just preceding page gesture comprising a first contact that starts to the left of a right-side user interface (UI) activation region of the e-book, followed by a drag toward the right while maintaining the first contact and releasing the first contact. When the just preceding page gesture is input, the just preceding page is displayed on a screen.

Apparatus and method for turning E-book pages in portable terminal

An electronic device including a cover having a display protection function and a method thereof are provided. The method includes acquiring at least one of context information and attribute information of an application according to whether the cover is closed and displaying an object related to the acquired information on a region which is included or is not included in a region corresponding to the cover window of a display of the electronic device.

Electronic device and operation method thereof

An apparatus and method for outputting audio signals of a portable communication device are provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of audio tables including different volume control values or tone control values, and allows a user to selectively set audio tables corresponding to each of audio paths equipped with the portable communication device. Further, the apparatus analyzes a surrounding environment during a voice call, determines the absence or presence of noise, and suitably controls a volume or a tone of audio signals based on the result of the determination before outputting the audio signals. Accordingly, the apparatus can provide an improved calling condition in various calling environments.

Apparatus and method for outputting audio according to audio tables

An apparatus and method for determining a key input in computing equipment having a touch screen are provided. The method for determining the key input in the computing equipment includes, upon occurrence of a touch input on the touch screen, determining an input type of the touch input, expanding a key input recognition region of at least one key when the input type is a finger touch input, and detecting the key input according to the expanded key input recognition region.

Apparatus and method for determining input in computing equipment with touch screen

An apparatus and method for supporting an eraser function of a digitizer pen in a digitizer system are provided. The method includes, if it is recognized that an eraser part of the digitizer pen gets contact on a reception device, determining a pressure of the eraser part contacting on a surface of the reception device and, according to the determined pressure, changing a frequency transmitted to the reception device.

Apparatus and method for supporting eraser function of digitizer pen in digitizer system

Provided is an apparatus and method for pushing an e-mail to a portable terminal in an e-mail system. In an e-mail system for pushing an e-mail, an e-mail agent checks reception of a new e-mail, receives and stores the new e-mail, and generates a mail notification message, a message server receives the mail notification message and transmits it to an e-mail client, the e-mail client generates a mail request message and transmits it to the e-mail agent.

Apparatus and method for pushing e-mail to portable terminal in e-mail system

Provided is an apparatus and method for e-mail polling in a portable terminal. In the e-mail polling method, a state of the portable terminal is detected after a predetermined time period of a first timer expires in an idle state after a periodical e-mail polling mode is set in the portable terminal. E-mail polling is performed according to the detected state of the portable terminal. The state of the portable terminal is changed into an idle state after the performance of the e-mail polling.

Apparatus and method for e-mail polling in portable terminal

Apparatus and method for configuring a screen for a video call using a facial expression by recognizing a face from an image, calculating facial expression information for an expression of the recognized face, and determining whether there is a change in expression of the recognized face by comparing the calculated facial expression information with reference expression information preset to determine a change in expression of the face. If there is a change in expression of the recognized face, the apparatus and method selects a video image corresponding to the changed expression in the video call screen, and reconfigures the video call screen using the selected video image, making it possible for a user to conveniently select an image of the interested person without taking extensive action, and preventing a wrong image from being selected due to the unintended user facial movement.

Apparatus and method for configuring screen for video call using facial expression

An event display apparatus includes a configuration unit to configure a screen to include a time region, which is divided by time intervals along a first axis into a plurality of sub-time regions, and an event region, which is divided by event into a plurality of sub-event regions, in parallel to the first axis; and an output unit to output time slots, which has been allocated according to one or more zones, in the respective sub-time regions along the first axis, and to output sub-event regions comprising event information of different types, which correspond to the set time slots, in parallel to the first axis.

Event display apparatus and method

A mobile communication system selection is disclosed. A method for selecting a mobile communication system of a portable terminal includes driving a first timer; checking whether a Mobile Country Code (MCC) of a region where the portable terminal is located is obtained by searching for a network until the first timer expires; when the MCC is obtained before the first timer expires, storing the obtained MCC to a previous MCC list; performing a first checking operation for checking whether the obtained MCC belongs to a list of countries supporting only a first mobile communication system; and obtaining a service of the first mobile communication system by searching for only the first mobile communication system when the obtained MCC belongs to the list of the countries supporting only the first mobile communication system.

Apparatus and method for selecting mobile communication system in a portable terminal

A navigation device is provided. The device includes a driving state tracker for tracking a mobile driving state using a current mobile position and RGI (Route Guidance Information) data including driving information on multi-routes from the current mobile position to a destination, and outputting deviation information and the current mobile position when a mobile object is deviated from a route; and a re-routing unit for searching partial routes from a mobile deviation position to each of the multi-routes using the deviation information, the current mobile position and the driving information on the multi-routes, and re-routing a route to the destination using each of the partial routes.

Navigation device and method using multi-route

A navigation system utilizing a warning generating apparatus is disclosed. The warning generating apparatus includes a data receiving unit for receiving route guidance information data and current weather/time information from an external information center; a data analyzing unit for judging whether warning data has been included in the route guidance information data outputted from the data receiving unit; a sensor for sensing a current travel speed of a movable body; a restricted warning generating unit for receiving the route guidance information data having the warning data from the data analyzing unit if the route guidance information data is judged to include the warning data, and for determining whether it will output a warning for the warning data, based on warning generation conditions stored in advance according to a kind of the warning data; and a warning/guidance output unit for outputting warning information when the warning information has been transmitted after the warning has been determined to be outputted by the restricted warning generating unit.

Navigation system for restrictively outputting warning and warning generating apparatus and method for restrictively outputting warning in a navigation system

In a mobile communication system, a host mobile communication terminal transmits an invite message to a client mobile communication terminal by means of a short message, and the host mobile communication terminal and the client mobile communication terminal perform a mutual messenger service through a PDSN, such that a system for the messenger service may be easily constructed and a message may be quickly transmitted. Further, a host mobile communication terminal and client mobile communication terminals each perform a point-to-point protocol connection with a PDSN, and perform a mutual messenger service, such that they can exchange data having various formats, such as text messages, audio information, and data/image information stored in the terminal with each other.

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Seoul, South Korea

Chul-Hwan Lee