Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Korea University Research and Business Foundation

Hee-Seon Park

Yoon-hee Choi

Yoon-Hee Choi

Seok-Hyun Yoon

Il-Hwan Choi

Sung-Ho Ryu

Yong-sung Kim

Won-ho Ryu

Hye-Soo Lee

Chang-hwan Choi

Ki-Yong Lee

Young-kyu Jin

Kyoung-Gu Woo

Hae-dong Yeo

Sang-wook Kang

Dong-Hun Park

Hyung-dong Lee

Dong-Joon Hyun

Dong-joon Hyun

Il-hwan Choi

Young-Hoon Kim

Han-Soo Kim

Hyun-Joong Kim

Hyun-sik Yoon

Sang-Wook Kang

Tae-ung Jung

Duck-hoon Kim

Min-Hyok Bang

Ho-chul Shin

Dong-Hyun Roh

Seung-eok Choi

Hee-jun Song

Jong-Eun Yang

Kyoung-Hoon Yi

Won-chang Jang

So-hee Jang

Cathal Gurrin

In-Sun Kang

Hyo-Jun Kim

Jong-gyu Ham

Sun-Wha Chung

Hae-chang Rim

Seung-taek Park

Hyo-won Lee

Paul Ferguson

Jung-tae Lee

Young-in Song

Hae-Dong Yeo

Duck-Hoon Kim

Chung-shik Lee

Chang-dae Bang

Hyu-ju Kim

Won-Ho Ryu

Jong-Gyu Ham

A method for operating an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: if an occurrence of a notification is detected, determining an application related to the notification or a keyword extractable from the notification; determining whether feedback of a user for the notification occurs; and storing preference information of the user for the application or the keyword based on the feedback. Also, other embodiments are possible.

Method for providing content to user according to user's preference and electronic device therefor

A method and apparatus for compositing images in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes acquiring a plurality of images, displaying a plurality of candidate composition regions in each of the plurality of images, selecting a composition region of each of the plurality of images based on a user input, and compositing the plurality of images by using the composition regions of the plurality of images.

Apparatus and method for compositing image in a portable terminal

A method and apparatus for identifying an object from an image or context aware information and providing information about the identified object. The method includes identifying at least one object included in an image being displayed or to be displayed on a user device, obtaining relationship information of an identified object based on identification information of the identified object, and outputting the relationship information to at least one of the user device and a device of the identified object.

Method and apparatus for providing information about an identified object

Exemplary embodiments may disclose a method for providing information in a system including an electronic device and an information providing server and an electronic device. The information providing method includes transmitting location information of a region that a user wishes to search and a local information request signal to the information providing server, by the electronic device, searching local information of the region using at least one social network service of at least one user located in the region, by the information providing server, in response to the local information request signal, transmitting the searched local information to the electronic device, by the information providing server, and displaying a local information user interface (UI) using the local information received from the information providing server and a map of the region, by the electronic device.

Method for providing information in system including electronic device and information providing server, and electronic device thereof

A method and apparatus for locating a mobile terminal by use of messages received to the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal locating method may include creating at least one location related candidate for the mobile terminal by use of a message that is received to the mobile terminal, and determining a location of the mobile terminal by matching the created location related candidate to stored place information. The current location of the mobile terminal may be recognized by simply analyzing the received messages without the need for installation of additional device on the mobile terminal.

Method and apparatus for locating a mobile terminal using received messages

A content-providing method and system, including identifying a representative type cluster by clustering content related to behavioral data which represents a use history of a user, according to type of the content, mapping the representative type cluster to a time interval, and storing the representative type cluster and the time interval.

Content-providing method and system

Methods and apparatus are provided for outputting broadcast recorded by schedule recording. A schedule recording command message is received from a broadcast output apparatus at a cloud server. Broadcast data corresponding to the schedule recording command message is received. A file format used by the broadcast output apparatus is identified. The broadcast data is transcoded into the file format used by the broadcast output apparatus. The transcoded broadcast data is stored. The transcoded broadcast data is transmitted to the broadcast output apparatus when a broadcast request message is received from the broadcast output apparatus.

Apparatus for outputting broadcast recorded by schedule recording and control method thereof

A method and apparatus for compositing images in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes acquiring a plurality of images; determining a composition region of each of the plurality of images; and compositing the plurality of images by using the composition regions of the plurality of images.

A method for recommending broadcasting contents, is performed by a multimedia contents reproducing device of a first user. The method includes the operations of logging a broadcasting contents viewing behavior pattern of the first user and generating a first user profile; transmitting the generated first user profile to an external server by using a network; receiving a recommendation result about one or more recommended broadcasting contents from the server, wherein a preference degree correlation between the first user profile and a second user profile of at least a second user registered in an account of the first user is reflected in the recommendation result; classifying the one or more recommended broadcasting contents in the received recommendation result into broadcasting timetable categories; and displaying on a screen a recommendation result about the classified one or more recommended broadcasting contents.

Method of recommending broadcasting contents and recommending apparatus therefor

A method and apparatus for providing information related to broadcast programs are provided. According to an example, objects are detected from broadcast scenes and keywords. Each of the objects include an object name and information regarding the meaning of the object, are generated. Then, scene sections are set based on the keywords and related information is searched for each scene section. The related information identified by the search is synchronized with the corresponding scene section and then provided to a user.

Method and apparatus for providing information related to broadcast programs

A method for providing media content-related information by using a device capable of accessing a server via a network is provided, the method comprising: generating identification information of media content being reproduced by the device; transmitting the identification information from the device to the server; receiving at least one of key information and media content-related information, from the server, in response to the identification information; and providing a user of the device with the media content-related information about the media content based on the at least one of the key information and the media content-related information received from the server.

Method for providing media-content related information, device, server, and computer-readable storage medium for executing the method

A method and apparatus for extracting advertisement keywords in association with situations of scenes of video include: establishing a knowledge database including a classification hierarchy for classifying situations of scenes of video and an advertisement keyword list, segmenting a video script corresponding to a received video in units of scenes, and determining a situation corresponding to each scene with reference to the knowledge database, and extracting an advertisement keyword corresponding to the situation of a scene of the received video with reference to the knowledge database.

Method and apparatus for extracting advertisement keywords in association with situations of video scenes

A method and apparatus for browsing a plurality of broadcast programs are provided. The method includes classifying a plurality of broadcast programs into one or more broadcast program groups with reference to electronic program guide (EPG) information or viewing records of a user regarding the broadcast programs, one-dimensionally arranging the broadcast programs so that the broadcast program groups are one-dimensionally arranged, displaying the broadcast programs and the broadcast program groups on a screen as a graphic image, and allowing the user to change a rule used for forming the broadcast program groups. Accordingly, it is possible to enable a user to effectively browse broadcast programs and to provide the user with a user interface customized for the user by using a simple one-dimensional input method and intuitively utilizing EPG information.

Method and apparatus for browsing broadcast programs using dynamic user interface

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