Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Other

Inha-industry Partnership Institute

Kyung Hee Lee

Sang Hyun Lee

Won Suk Choi

Ji Hyun Park

Dong Kyu Lee

Ji Young Kwak

Ju Yeong Lee

Seung Hyuk Yu

Jin Hong Jeong

Ja Min Goo

Hyung Woo Kim

Ji Yong Kim

Hae Sook Jeon

Chan Woo Park

Yong Jin Lee

Seung Min Park

Jang Hee Yoo

Jae Woong Chun

Hae Dong Lee

Sang Yun Lee

Bo Ram Namgoong

Sung Bum Pan

Heung Nam Kim

DaeHun Nyang

Gwang Hui Lee

Sung Ho Ahn

Dong Myung Sul

Kyung Ho Choung

A hinge structure for a foldable device having a flexible display panel is proposed. The hinge structure includes first and second devices, a hinge housing having a U-shaped section, with a space being defined therein, and configured such that first ends of the first and second devices are rotatably coupled to both ends of the hinge housing by hinge shafts, and a flexible display panel configured such that a first fixing part on a first side and a second fixing part on a second side, except for a bending part that is a part of a central portion, are fixed to upper surfaces of the first device and the second device, respectively.

Hinge structure for foldable device having flexible display panel

An electronic device includes a memory that stores one or more medical policies and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain a request for execution of an application that provides a medical service, to decide a medical policy, which corresponds to a location of the electronic device, from among the one or more medical policies, and to selectively provide at least one function of the application based on a medical service performing method, which is determined based at least on the medical policy, from among one or more medical service performing methods.

Method for providing medical service and electronic device supporting the same

An electronic device includes an audio input module, a memory storing a speech recognition application, a first application, and a second application, a communication circuit communicating with a first NLU server associated with the first application and a second NLU server associated with the second application, and a processor electrically connected to the audio input module, the memory, and the communication circuit and executing the speech recognition application. The processor is configured to convert an utterance of a user received through the audio input module, into an audio signal, to transmit text data corresponding to the audio signal to the first NLU server and the second NLU server, to receive a first control message as a result of analyzing the text data, from the first NLU server, to receive a second control message as a result of analyzing the text data, from the second NLU server, to select one of the first control message or the second control message depending on a specified condition, to provide the first control message to the first application, when the first control message is selected, and to provide the second control message to the second application, when the second control message is selected.

Method for voice recognition and electronic device for performing same

A movable electronic device includes at least one camera module, a driving module configured to support movement on a specified path of the electronic device, and a processor electrically connected to the camera module and the driving module. The processor is configured to control the electronic device to perform capture while moving on a specified first path and to set the first path to a second path based on state information about at least one Internet of Things (IoT) device obtained based on a capture image on the first path.

Monitoring system control method and electronic device for supporting same

An unmanned aerial vehicle is disclosed. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes a memory, a sensor unit, a camera, a moving unit, and a processor. The sensor unit is configured to sense the unmanned aerial vehicle or a surrounding object. The camera configured to take an image. The moving unit configured to generate power to move the unmanned aerial vehicle. The processor is configured to determine whether a user makes contact with the unmanned aerial vehicle. The processor is also configured to control the moving unit to allow the unmanned aerial vehicle to hover at a second location when the unmanned aerial vehicle is moved from a first location to the second location by an external force of a predetermined magnitude or greater while the contact is maintained.

Method for controlling unmanned aerial vehicle and unmanned aerial vehicle supporting the same

A system to deliver a cargo using a railway, such as a subway or a national railway, rather than ground transportation. A cargo loading/unloading unit is provided on a platform of a railway station. The cargo loading/unloading unit is configured to load and unload cargoes is provided inside a railway vehicle, such that a large quantity of cargo can be quickly loaded and unloaded while the railway vehicle is stopped at the station. The cargo delivery capacity can also be adjusted, thereby enabling a large quantity of the cargo to be delivered more quickly and conveniently.

Railway cargo delivery system

Disclosed herein are an alphabet input device and an alphabet recognition system in a small-sized keypad. The device includes: a first keypad part comprising a plurality of buttons each of which is assigned with a symbol extracted from strokes of alphabet characters so that the alphabet characters be input by one of the buttons or a combination of two or more of the buttons; and a second keypad part comprising one or more buttons each assigned with an alphabet character having a high usage frequency. With the device, alphabet characters can be inputted in a simper and more efficient manner.

Alphabet input device and alphabet recognition system in small-sized keypad

Provided is a goods information providing terminal that includes an authentication unit authenticating a user based on bio information including a user's fingerprint and initiating a user session when the user is authenticated; a goods information request unit requesting a goods management server that manages goods information and information on the location of goods from a radio frequency identification (RFID) attached to the goods to provide the goods information and the information on the location of the goods; a goods information display unit displaying to the user the goods information or the information on the location of the goods acquired from the goods management server; and a goods processing unit acquiring goods information including how to contact a seller from the goods management server, and contacting an associated agency including the seller when the goods need to be repaired or exchanged.

Goods information providing terminal and goods management server for managing goods at home

Provided is a mobile phone including: a transceiver for receiving voice and data signals from outside; a voice processing part for demodulating the voice signal input from the transceiver and outputting the voice signal as a voice, and modulating a voice received from outside and converting the voice into a voice signal; a control part for processing the voice signal and the data signal received from the transceiver; a display part controlled by the control part to display a vector graphic; a memory for storing an operating program of the control part and a system program; a vector graphic processing part for producing and modulating a vector graphic in response to control of the control part and outputting the vector graphic to the display part; and a button including an input part for transmitting an input from outside to the control part, the input part performing the function of connecting to a wireless Internet service when pressed and controlling the size of the vector graphic when rolled.

Method and apparatus for controlling vector graphic in mobile phone

A face feature extraction apparatus and method are provided. The face feature extraction apparatus for used in a two-dimensional (2D) face identification system includes: a local base vector generator generating a plurality of local base vectors to extract features of portions of a face from input 2D face image data of users; a local base vector selector selecting a predetermined number of local base vectors suitable for the face identification from the plurality of local base vectors generated by the local base vector generator; and a local base vector overlapper overlapping the local base vectors selected by the local base vector selector and generating a smaller number of overlapped local base vectors than the selected local base vectors. Thus, 2D face identification system having high face identification rate can be provided.

Face feature extraction apparatus and method

A virtual mouse driving apparatus and method for processing a variety of gesture commands as equivalent mouse commands based on two-handed gesture information obtained by a video camera are provided. The virtual mouse driving method includes: keeping track of an input gesture input with the video camera; removing a background portion of the input gesture image and extracting a left-hand region and a right-hand region from the input gesture image whose background portion has been removed; recognizing a left-hand gesture and a right-hand gesture from the extracted left-hand region and the extracted right-hand region, respectively, and recognizing gesture commands corresponding to the recognition results; and executing the recognized gesture commands.

Virtual mouse driving apparatus and method using two-handed gestures

An integrated remote control system includes a remote control device for selecting and controlling a plurality of digital devices, each including a bit pattern tag having location information and device information. The remote control device includes a display, a light emitting module for emitting light toward the digital devices, a sensor for recognizing the tags of the digital devices, and a controller for analyzing the tags recognized by the sensor to provide the display information of the digital devices on the display and then controlling a digital device selected from the displayed digital devices.

Integrated remote control system for a plurality of digital devices

Provided are a system and method for determining whether to provide service and a content of the service based on ubiquitous-based context information. The method includes the steps of registering at least one context-aware service (CAS); determining whether sensors associated with the CAS are registered; when all the sensors are registered, checking all contexts associated with the CAS; upon receipt of a CAS request, receiving context information from the sensors and determining whether the context information satisfies the contexts; and providing the CAS if the context information satisfies at least one of the contexts. With the flexible engine determining whether to provide service corresponding to a current context even though all context information constituting the CAS is not collected, information is quickly provided upon receipt of a service request from a user.

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Paju-si, South Korea

Kyung Hee Lee