Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

In-ji Kim

Sang-on Choi

Eun-seok Choi

Du-Sik Park

Won-hee Choe

Chang-yeong Kim

Byung-seok Soh

Ho-june Yoo

Hyun-wook Ok

Mi-ra Yu

Seong-deok Lee

Yang-ho Cho

Woo-seok Hwang

Young-ran Han

Young-shin Kwak

Ji-soo Kim

Seung-sin Lee

Young-eun Kim

Ji-yeon Park

Bong-chan Cho

A user terminal apparatus is provided. The user terminal apparatus for performing a remote control function for an electronic apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with an electronic apparatus for providing a text input user interface (UI), an input unit configured to receive a user command for input of a specific text on the text input UI, a fingerprint scanner provided in the input unit and configured to recognize a user fingerprint, and a controller configured to recognize a user fingerprint according to the user command and to transmit information corresponding to the recognized user fingerprint to the electronic apparatus in response to the electronic apparatus entering a preset text input mode.

User terminal apparatus, electronic apparatus, system, and control method thereof

A method of operating an electronic device includes: determining whether an external electronic device is connected to an access point to which the electronic device is connected; transmitting state information of the electronic device to the external electronic device connected to the access point; receiving an input corresponding to the transmitted state information of the electronic device, from the external electronic device; displaying a result corresponding to the received input on a display; and transmitting the result displayed on the display to the external electronic device.

Electronic device and operation method thereof

A display device and method of displaying content on the display device are provided. The display device includes: a communicator configured to transmit information related to content displayed on a display to a server device and receive information on a highest rating content from the server device; and a controller configured to display a user interface (UI) object, which enables a user to change the content to the highest rating content on the display, in response to determining that the content is not the highest rating content.

Display device for displaying contents, server device for providing service based on ratings of contents, and methods thereof

An image display device capable of supporting brightness enhancement and power control and a method thereof, in which the brightness and contrast are enhanced and the power of a light source is controlled in accordance with the image characteristic. In the image display method, a parameter representative of an input image is calculated from a histogram of the input image, a model corresponding to the input image is selected from a plurality of representative models by analyzing the parameter, and then a brightness controlling function matched with the selected model is selected. The size of each component of a pixel constituting the input image is controlled using the brightness controlling function, and the output image of the pixel whose component size has been controlled is displayed.

Image display device capable of supporting brightness enhancement and power control and method thereof

An image processing apparatus and method to reduce the deterioration of visibility of an image displayed on an image display device occurring under various lighting conditions when the brightness of ambient light is brighter than that of the image display device, and includes a sensor to sense the brightness of an external light, a unit to store a luminance-contrast model curve representing an optimal contrast value for a particular luminance for each brightness of the external light, a unit to determine a target luminance value according to the sensed brightness of the external light, to obtain a contrast value corresponding to the target luminance value with reference to the luminance-contrast model curve corresponding to the sensed brightness, and to adjust an input image to have the target luminance value and the obtained contrast value, and a unit to adjust the saturation of the adjusted input image according to the target luminance value and the obtained contrast value.

Image processing apparatus and method of enhancing visibility of displayed image

An apparatus and method for improving visibility of an image. The apparatus includes: an image input module receiving an image; an illuminance sensing module sensing external illuminance; a visibility compensating module compensating the input image by mapping the input image from a first color gamut to a second color gamut on the basis of the sensed external illuminance; and an image output module outputting the compensated image.

Apparatus and method for improving visibility of image

A low-power driving apparatus and method are provided. The low-power driving apparatus includes an illuminance-sensing module to sense illuminance, a minimum-perceivable-brightness-determination module to determine a minimum perceivable brightness having non-linear characteristics corresponding to the sensed illuminance, a driving-power-level-determination module to determine a power level based on the determined minimum perceivable brightness, and a driving module to display an image input according to the determined driving power level.

Low-power driving apparatus and method

An apparatus and method for improving visibility of an image. The apparatus includes: a lookup table (LUT) generating module generating an LUT having image data in a high illuminance environment corresponding to image data of an input image set therein so as to increase lightness and chroma of the input image according to external illuminance; an image mapping module mapping the image data of the input image into the image data in the high illuminance environment on the basis of the generated LUT; and a local contrast increasing module increasing local contrast of the mapped image data using a parameter for adjusting the local contrast according to the external illuminance.

Apparatus and method for improving visibility of an image in a high illuminance environment

An apparatus and method are provided for correcting a color reproduced by a video device according to peripheral brightness so that the visibility of the video device is guaranteed under peripheral conditions brighter than the video device. The apparatus for correcting a color reproduced by a video device according to peripheral brightness includes: a lookup-table-creation unit which creates a lookup table based on saturation of the video device and brightness of peripheral conditions; a color-correction unit which corrects the color reproduced by the video device according to the created lookup table; and a color-error-compensation unit which compensates for color error resulting from correction of the color. The method of correcting a color reproduced by a video device according to peripheral brightness includes: creating a lookup table based on saturation of the video device and brightness of peripheral conditions; correcting the color reproduced by the video device according to the created lookup table; and compensating for color error resulting from correction of the color.

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In-ji Kim