Samsung Electro-mechanics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Dong-a University Research Foundation for Industry-academy Cooperation

Joo Hyun Kim

Bong Soon Kang

Won Tae Choi

Won Woo Jang

Boo Dong Kwak

Joo Young Ha

Sung Mok Lee

Joon Ho Lee

Jong Chul Choi

Kyung Rin Kim

Soon Seok Kang

Min Woo Yoo

Seung Bum Choi

Byung Woan Kim

Hak Yong Han

Soo Hyun Park

Doo Sun Yoon

Kyoung Joong Min

Byung Hyun Kim

Hak Sun Kim

Kang Joo Kim

Tae Eung Kim

Il Kwon Chung

Sung Jin Lee

Gi Dong Lee

Hyun Sik Kim

Hyun Soo Kim

Sun Mi Sin

Kyoung Soo Son

Keun Woo Park

Hyo Won Jeong

Hyoung Joon Park

A user interface for an induction heating cooker, a method of controlling the same and an induction heating cooker thereof are provided. The user interface, if a drag touch signal of a drag touch from one position to another position on a display unit is sensed, is configured to change power levels of all of coils in operation to a predetermined reference power level and displays the changed power level. The induction heating cooker is configured to supply the coils with a power corresponding to the reference power level, thereby controlling all of the coils with one drag touch and enabling enhanced security while in a rapid manner.

User interface for induction heating cooker and control method thereof

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a substrate, a coil unit comprising a coil disposed on a specified area of the substrate and configured to transmit or receive a signal, a first terminal, a second terminal, and a temperature sensor configured to detect temperature. The temperature sensor has a wire form and is disposed between the first terminal and the second terminal along at least part of a peripheral area of the substrate.

Device for detecting temperature and electronic device having the same

Methods and electronic devices are provided for providing a service update. First data including first information is received from a first external device as a second external device authenticates the electronic device as a target for an update of a first application program. A relevant interface is output by processing the first data. Second information related to the first application program stored in the electronic device is obtained in response to a user input applied to at least a partial area of the interface. Second data related to a request for the update of the first application program is transmitted to the first external device when the first information included in the first data corresponds to the second information.

Method for providing service update and electronic device supporting the same

Disclosed is an electronic device including a housing; a speaker configured to output a sound signal; an enclosure surrounding the speaker and including a pipe passage, through which the sound signal moves in a direction facing an opening formed in the housing; a heat emitting structure mounted on an inner surface or an outer surface of the enclosure; a sealing member attached to the pipe passage; and a processor physically or electrically connected to the heat emitting structure and configured to control emission of heat.

Electronic device including speaker

There are provided a fingerprint sensor and an electronic device including the same. The fingerprint sensor includes a glass panel; a plurality of transducers arranged on edge regions of the glass panel, the plurality of transducers emitting ultrasonic wave signals toward inner surfaces of the glass panel and receiving the ultrasonic wave signals reflected from the inner surfaces of the glass panel; and a fingerprint sensing unit sensing a fingerprint based on the ultrasonic wave signals received by the plurality of transducers, the fingerprint sensing unit sequentially driving the plurality of transducers.

Fingerprint sensor and electronic device including the same

Provided are an apparatus for synchronizing a stereocamera, a stereocamera, and a method of synchronizing a stereocamera. The apparatus for synchronizing a stereocamera includes a synchronization error calculating unit configured to calculate a synchronization error from output signals of first and second image sensors, and a pulse adjusting unit configured to adjust a pulse of a synchronization signal of at least one of the first and second image sensors using the calculated error. In addition, the stereocamera and the method of synchronizing the same are provided.

Apparatus for synchronizing stereocamera, stereocamera, and method of synchronizing stereocamera

An apparatus and method for executing an application within a mobile device is provided. The method includes receiving, at a first device, a message from a second device external to the first device, the message including an application identifier; executing, at the first device, at least one application among a plurality of applications based at least in part on the application identifier; and performing, at the first device, a function of the at least one application based at least in part on a command received from the second device.

Method and apparatus for executing application of mobile device

Disclosed herein are a stereo camera system and a method for controlling convergence, including: a camera unit photographing both-eyes images; a filter unit filtering signal values of pixels for each line for any one of the both-eyes images along a line direction to detect a reference line of any one image; a line memory unit storing data for the reference line and a reference line of the other one image corresponding to the reference line; and a convergence control unit calculating the image control amount so as to align convergences of the both-eyes images by performing a comparison operation on the data for the reference lines and generating an optimal synthesis image of the both-eyes images by applying the image control amount.

Stereo camera system and method for controlling convergence

A system includes a camera module, a processor, and a display drive unit. The camera module includes a lens, a color filter array having an IR filter, an R filter, a G filter, and a B filter, and an image sensor. The number of IR filters is larger than that of G filters, and the number of G filters is larger than that of R filters or B filters. The processor includes a signal extraction unit that extracts an RGB image signal and an IR image signal from an electrical source image signal from the camera module, a lane pattern image data generating unit that generates image data, a pedestrian image data generating unit that generates pedestrian image data. The display drive unit implements image data generated by the lane pattern image data generating unit and the pedestrian image data generating unit through a display.

System and method of assisting visibility of driver

An apparatus and method for executing an application within a mobile device is provided. The method includes detecting, by the mobile device, a connection with a host device through a wired interface; receiving, from the host device, a request to execute a specific application installed in the mobile device; and executing the specific application according to the received request.

An apparatus for enhancing the visibility of color images includes: a luminance value cumulative distribution calculator that calculates a cumulative distribution function of the number of pixels from a minimum value of luminance values; a baseband signal determining unit that determines baseband signal pixels having luminance values smaller than a threshold level; a luminance compensation value generator that generates luminance compensation values to apply the lower-level luminance compensation values as the pixels have higher-level luminance values, for the pixels having the luminance values larger than the threshold level; a luminance gain generator that determines a luminance gain applied to the luminance compensation values according to a mean luminance values of the input images and the level of the luminance values of the pixels to which the luminance compensation values are applied; and a luminance value enhancing unit that summing the luminance compensation values including the gain with the luminance values.

Apparatus and method for enhancing visibility of color image

An apparatus for auto white balance includes a histogram generation unit writing respective histograms of Cb values and Cr values with regard to pixels included in an input image frame, a single-tone determination unit comparing respective maximum values of the histograms of Cb values and Cr values with a first threshold value, and determining the input image frame as a single-tone image if at least one of the maximum values is higher than the first threshold value, and an auto white balance gain computation unit computing and an auto white balance gain by using color information of an input image frame and outputting the computed auto white balance gain, wherein if the input image frame is determined to be a single-tone image, the auto white balance gain computation unit outputs an auto white balance gain computed with respect to a previous input image frame.

Apparatus and method for auto white balance control considering the effect of single tone image

There is provided an apparatus for improving the sharpness of an image, which may prevent occurrence of distortion of an image in an edge enhancement process of the image by applying an active weight in accordance with a two-dimensional (2D) high pass filtering value of the image. The apparatus may include: a 2D high pass filter outputting a high frequency element value for the luminance values of pixels of an input image; a weight generating unit generating a weight changed depending on a magnitude of the high frequency element value; a weight applying unit applying the weight to the high frequency element value; and an edge enhancement image generating unit adding, to the luminance values of the pixels of the input image, the high frequency element value to which the weight is applied to thereby output an image of which an edge is enhanced.

Apparatus for improving sharpness of image

There is provided a method of grouping pixels in a 2D digital image that assigns labels to regions of objects to differentiate between objects separated in the input image and groups a region of an object having the same label into one group when pattern recognition and image process are performed on the 2D digital image. A method of grouping pixels in a 2d digital image according to an aspect of the invention may include: determining whether a target pixel in an input image is included in a labeling section; determining whether the target pixel is connected to a previous pixel of the target pixel and an upper pixel located adjacent to and above the target pixel to perform a labeling process, and renewing a label table while saving a labeling result in a line memory when the target pixel is included in the labeling section and is a valid pixel including object information; and grouping pixels of the input image using the labeling result and the renewed label table, and renewing a group.

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Joo Hyun Kim