Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Quram Co., Ltd.

Sin-Jae Lee

Jae-hwan Kim

Young-June Woo

Yong Il Kwon

Ji-Yeon Yoo

Jin-Pyo Eun

Myung-Kyu Yang

Myung-Ji Kang

Young-Hoon Min

Young Cheul Wee

Seok-Kyu Jang

Jong-Hyun Ho

Eun-Ki An

A method and apparatus for providing a phonebook using an image in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes recording contact information in metadata of an image, and performing a linkage function using the image having the contact information recorded therein.

Method and apparatus for providing phonebook using image in a portable terminal

An electronic device that uses a method of displaying an object by the electronic device is provided. The method includes identifying one or more objects for displaying in a display area of the electronic device and, when at least one of the one or more objects cannot be displayed in the display area, changing display attributes of the one or more objects and displaying the objects in the display area.

Method for object displaying and electronic device thereof

A method and apparatus for managing metadata in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes, upon insertion of an external memory, acquiring a unique identifier of an external memory, determining whether a record having information identical to information of a file included in the external memory exists if the unique identifier is identical to a previously stored unique identifier, and reusing metadata included in the record if the record exists.

Apparatus and method for managing metadata in portable terminal

Provided are an apparatus and method for displaying an image in a portable terminal. The apparatus includes a display unit for displaying an image; a display buffer that stores the image to be displayed; a zoom buffer that temporarily stores an enlarged thumbnail to provide a better image quality; a memory that stores an original image of the thumbnail as a compressed image file; an interface unit that upon receiving an image enlargement request while the thumbnail is being displayed on the display unit, enlarges and stores the thumbnail, stored in the display buffer, in the zoom buffer, and sends an image quality improvement request to a decoder that continuously improves the image quality of the enlarged thumbnail stored in the zoom buffer by a predetermined amount.

Apparatus and method for displaying image in portable terminal

Provided is an apparatus and a method for inserting additional data into an image file in an electronic device. According to the method, when an event of inserting additional data into the image file occurs, an identification code representing insertion of additional data is recorded in a corresponding header within the image file, and the additional data is added to an end portion of the image file.

Apparatus and method for inserting additional data into image file in electronic device

Disclosed is a method for displaying condition information of a portable terminal, the method including determining if a signal requesting output of the condition information is detected while an application is run by the portable terminal; checking a predetermined output type of condition information when the signal requesting output of the condition information is detected; and outputting the condition information in accordance with the output type of condition information.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Sin-Jae Lee