Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Google Inc.

Sun-gi Hong

Ki-wan Choi

Ho-joon Yoo

Chang-kyu Choi

Nam-Woo Kim

Won-chul Bang

Seok-won Bang

Hyoung-ki Lee

Wook Chang

Jung-hyun Shim

Du-Il Kim

Seong-woon Kim

Young-Joo Park

Il-Hwan Kim

Soon-joo Kwon

Seok-Jae Jeong

Chun-eon Park

Sang-Jin Lee

So-Hyun Kim

Jeong-gon Song

Se-Hwan Park

Dong-geon Kong

Su-jinn Lee

Dong-kyung Nam

Seokwon Bang

Youngchan Park

Se-hwan Park

Seung-Gyun Kim

Jang-Hyun Yoon

Dong Ryeol Park

Jin-Hee Choi

Du-il Kim

Seok-jae Jeong

Carsten Haitzler

Haitzler Carsten

Chun-Eon Park

A method of configuring a menu screen is provided. The method includes generating at least one area within a display area; and arranging at least one menu item in the generated area, a user device for performing the method, and a computer-readable storage medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method.

Method of configuring menu screen, user device for performing the method and computer-readable storage medium having recorded thereon program for executing the method

A technique is provided for search. The technique includes providing content. The technique includes receiving gesture data from a user, wherein the gesture data reflects a selection of a substantially enclosed area of the display screen. The technique includes, in response to receiving the gesture information, determining one or more search criteria associated with content within the enclosed area, and providing data related to the one or more search criteria.

Methods and systems for content-based search

Provided is a menu execution method and apparatus in a portable terminal. The menu execution method includes displaying, on a touch screen, an item list which comprises a plurality of divided regions in each of which a corresponding item is formed, recognizing a user gesture at one of a first position and a second position, the second position being different from the first position, and executing a menu corresponding to the recognized position, in which a first menu for providing a first service related to the item formed in the divided region is preset in the first position of the divided region on the touch screen, and a second menu for providing a second service related to the item formed in the divided region is preset in the second position of the divided region on the touch screen, the first and second services being different.

Menu executing method and apparatus in portable terminal

A portable terminal including: a controller receiving signals corresponding to a plurality of input buttons and outputting image data to be displayed on the plurality of input buttons using the received signals; and a plurality of buttons for inputting a key from a user and outputting a signal corresponding to the key pressed, and for receiving the image data from the controller and displaying the received image data. By using the display buttons for displaying variable images corresponding to specific functions as well as an essential function of inputting keys from a user when a specific function is input in the portable terminal, a plurality of functions can be input with only a few buttons, providing speed and convenience to the user for function input.

Portable terminal having display buttons and method of inputting functions using display buttons

An apparatus and method for scaling a layout of an application in an image display device are provided. The method for scaling includes generating a scaling variable considering a distance between the image display device and a user, and scaling a layout of an application using the scaling variable.

Apparatus and method for scaling layout of application in image display device

A portable terminal having display buttons for displaying images corresponding to specific functions through keys pressed by a user, and a method of inputting functions of the portable terminal using the display buttons. The portable terminal includes: a controller which receives signals corresponding to a user key pressed from the plurality of input buttons and outputs image data to be displayed on each of the plurality of input buttons using the received signals; and a plurality of buttons for inputting a key from a user and outputting a signal corresponding to the key pressed, and for receiving the image data from the controller and displaying the received image data. Accordingly, by using the display buttons for displaying variable images corresponding to specific functions as well as an essential function of inputting keys from a user when a specific function is input in the portable terminal such as a cell phone, a plurality of functions can be input with only a limited number of buttons, providing speed and convenience to the user for function input.

A method and apparatus for interfacing includes outputting at least one object to a display embodying a three-dimensional space and determining a radius of rotation of the at least one object, based on a distance between the at least one object and a rotation axis in the three-dimensional space. The method and apparatus further include controlling the at least one object to rotate around the rotation axis based on the radius of rotation when a rotation command for the at least one object is received.

Method and apparatus for interfacing

Provided is an apparatus and method to restore a signal using minimum value sampling, more particularly, a signal restoring apparatus and method using minimum value sampling, which are capable of effectively preventing deterioration of a restored signal caused by aliasing occurring when minimum value sampling of an input signal is performed in order to restore a signal. The apparatus to restore a signal using the minimum value sampling includes a storage unit to store a sample value obtained through the minimum value sampling of an input signal in a predetermined sampling interval; a position determination unit to determine the position of the sample value in the sampling interval; and a restoration unit to restore the input signal using the stored sample value with respect to the determined position.

Method and apparatus for restoring signal using minimum value sampling

A pointing method, medium, and system detecting a synchronization signal from a plurality of light sources sequentially blinking at predetermined periods, detecting position information of the light sources by driving a video camera in synchronization with the synchronization signal, removing noise from among observed light sources by using the position information, and calculating a pointed to position by using the position information of the non-noise light sources. Provided is also a pointing reception method, medium, and system using a plurality of light sources blinking sequentially at predetermined periods, receiving the position information corresponding to light sources presenting the signals received by a pointing device and the position information pointed by the pointing device, and changing output data with respect to the pointed position information.

Pointing device user interface method, medium, and system robust against external noise

A pointing apparatus and method and a pointer display apparatus and method using a virtual region which generate a virtual region corresponding to a detected display region, convert coordinates of a location, and display a pointer at the converted coordinates. The pointing device includes a region detector detecting a display region, which displays a pointer, using at least one received signal; a virtual region generator generating the virtual region corresponding to the display region and having an aspect ratio equal to that of the display region; a coordinate converter converting coordinates of a location, which is pointed at by the pointing device, in the virtual region into ratios of the coordinates of the location to a size of the virtual region; and a coordinate ratio transmitter transmitting the ratios.

Pointing device and method and pointer display apparatus and method

A system and method for detecting a traveling state. The system includes an image receiving unit acquiring two consecutive images and detecting first traveling information from image information regarding each of the two consecutive images, a traveling information processing unit connected to a driver moving in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the images are acquired, the traveling information processing unit detecting second traveling information from information regarding the driver, and a control unit determining the traveling state based on the first traveling information and the second traveling information.

System and method for detecting traveling state

Pointing device for display presentation and method and pointer display apparatus and method

A method and apparatus generating and tracing a cleaning trajectory of a home cleaning robot the method including: controlling the home cleaning robot to straightly travel as much as a set distance from the docking station and then rotationally travel, maintaining the set distance from the docking station, until the home cleaning robot reaches one of two walls; controlling the home cleaning robot to travel as much as the set distance along the wall if the home cleaning robot reaches the wall and resume rotational-traveling around the docking station, maintaining a distance between the docking station and the home cleaning robot increased by the set distance until it reaches one of the two walls; and repeatedly controlling the home cleaning robot to travel as much as the set distance along the wall if the home cleaning robot reaches the wall and resume rotational-traveling around the docking station, maintaining a distance between the docking station and the home cleaning robot increased by the set distance until it reaches one of the two walls until the home cleaning robot arrives at a point where it cannot travel in a direction in which a distance between the docking station and the home cleaning robot increases.

Method and apparatus for generating and tracing cleaning trajectory of home cleaning robot

A system and method to estimate a location of a speaker who produces a sound signal even in a non-stationary noise environment. The system includes a signal input module receiving a first sound signal from an outside; an initialization module preparing a sound map, on which a spatial spectrum for the first sound signal, produced from at least one fixed sound source and received by the signal input module, is arranged, and estimating a location of the fixed sound source; a storage module storing information about the estimated location of the fixed sound source; and a speaker's location estimation module estimating a location where a second sound signal is produced using information about the spatial spectrum for sound signals including the first sound signal received by the signal input module and the information about the estimated location of the fixed sound source.

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Sun-gi Hong