Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Hee-Sook Shin

Jeong-Mook Lim

Dong-Woo Lee

Ki-Uk Kyung

Hyun-Tae Jeong

Yo-An Lim

Min-Kyu Kim

Chang-Mok Oh

Yong-Ki Son

Jun-Seok Park

Bae-Sun Kim

Il-Yeon Cho

Jun-Young Lee

Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for processing a textured image. The apparatus includes a filter unit for detecting an edge of an input image and transforming the input image into an image in which a density of the edge is represented; a smoothing unit for removing noise from the transformed image and smoothing the image; a clustering unit for changing a number of regions into which the smoothed image is to be segmented and clustering the smoothed image a preset number of times; and a cluster optimization unit for setting a final number of clusters for the input image by optimizing a number of clusters based on a previously learned ground truth, for selecting an image corresponding to the final number of clusters from results of clustering by which the image is segmented into a different number of regions, and for outputting the selected image.

Apparatus and method for processing textured image

A haptic device and a display having the same are disclosed. The haptic device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention may include a first moving bar coupled to a first lateral surface of a touch sensor and a first actuator coupled to the first moving bar and configured to repeatedly move the first moving bar minutely in a direction of the first lateral surface.

Haptic device and display having the same

A button for providing visual-haptic information includes a visual-haptic variable button that adaptively provides various types of visual-haptic information according to input of information to an electronic apparatus. The visual-haptic variable button includes a visual information output part that adaptively changes various types of button icons according to manipulation and touch of the visual-haptic variable button for the input of information, thereby outputting visual information, and a haptic information output part that adaptively changes various types of sense of button manipulation and sense of button touch according to the manipulation and touch of the visual-haptic variable button, thereby outputting haptic information. At least one visual-haptic variable button is provided in the electronic apparatus for the input of information.

Apparatus and method for providing visual-haptic information, and button having the same

A terminal for providing visual-haptic information includes a visual-haptic keypad that displays and provides the visual-haptic information. The visual-haptic keypad includes: a button frame of a plurality of buttons provided in the visual-haptic keypad; a visual display layer positioned under the button frame in a vertical direction on a basis of the button frame; and a haptic display layer positioned under the visual display layer in the vertical direction on the basis of the button frame. The button frame and the visual display layer are fixedly bonded to boundary portions of the plurality of buttons.

Apparatus and method for providing visual-haptic information, and terminal having the same

Both ends of an interface may each be configured by an interface device including a light emitting unit that emits light into a textile, a light diffusion unit that widely diffuses the emitted light onto the textile and extends a light receiving range of a light receiving unit, and a light receiving unit for receiving an optical signal of the other party unlike the existing method using electromagnetic inductive coupling in the wearable computing system and a method of performing communication by using light such as infrared rays, visible light, laser, or the like as a medium is provided.

Textile-typeinterface devices for optical communication in wearable computing system

Provided are a method for expressing emotion and intention in remote interaction and a real emoticon system thereof. The system includes a real emotitoy and a terminal. The real emotitoy senses an input pattern corresponding to sensing information from outside and operates according to an expressing pattern corresponding to sensing information. The terminal generates a real emoticon by corresponding at least one of input pattern information and expression pattern information from the real emotitoy to visual symbolization information, transfers expression pattern information of a real emoticon transmitted from the outside to the real emotitoy, and transfers input pattern information of a real emoticon from the real emotitoy to the outside, where the input pattern information is created by selecting and combining at least one of input patterns and the expression pattern information is created by selecting and combining at least one of expression patterns.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Hee-Sook Shin