Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Jeong-Mook Lim

Dong-Woo Lee

Hee-Sook Shin

Yong-Ki Son

Bae-Sun Kim

Ki-Uk Kyung

Hyun-Tae Jeong

Yo-An Lim

Min-Kyu Kim

Chang-Mok Oh

Il-Yeon Cho

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

Provided is a technology for controlling a contents player based on a grasping power information of a hand by measuring a change of the bundle shape of a tendons in an inside muscle of wrist, in which the device and method for controlling the contents player comprises a sensing unit that generates a grasping power information; a control state managing unit that manages a control state of the contents player; and a control order generating unit that generates a control order controlling the contents player based on the control state and the grasping power information, and transmits the control order, in which the control state can be changed or can be generates in response to the grasping power information, and the sensing unit can be existed in both hands, respectively.

Apparatus and method for controlling contents player

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

The present invention relates to a finger-motion detecting apparatus and method and includes a sensing unit to be disposed on a wrist of a subject person, said sensing unit being configured to output a measurement signal into the wrist of the subject person and to receive a reflected signal of the measurement signal according to the motion of tendons in the wrist of the subject person, a signal control unit configured to control whether the measurement signal is outputted and to adjust the measurement signal on the basis of the reflected signal, and a finger-motion recognizing unit configured to detect finger motion of the subject person from the reflected signal. According to the present invention, since a sensor capable of detecting finger motion is worn on a wrist, the problem of inconvenience in existing methods is resolved.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Jeong-Mook Lim