Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Postech Academy-industry Foundation

Woo-sung Shim

Young-ho Moon

Jong-bum Choi

Hak-sup Song

Sung-bum Park

Dai-woong Choi

Han-tak Kwak

Jae-won Yoon

Se-Hoon Kim

Ji-hwan Woo

Tae-gyu Lim

Kil-soo Jung

Byung-Chul Kim

Kyung-sun Cho

Sung-kyu Choi

Ju-hee Seo

Mi-Hwa Park

Seo-young Lee

Eun-kyoung Park

Soo-chahn Lee

Ik-hwan Cho

Bo-hyung Han

Seung-hoon Hong

Jae-Hyun Kim

Sung-Jin Kim

Dae-sung Cho

Jae-Ho Jung

Yang-Wook Kim

Jung-Hyeon Kim

Jung-Woo Kim

Myung-jin Eom

Hae-in Chun

Sun-hee Youm

Jong-gu Jeon

Hwa-jung Kim

Jung-wook Suh

Joon-hee Han

Seung-ji Yang

Won-kap Jang

Hyun-woo Nam

Su-ha Kwak

Bernard Moon

A projection apparatus and an operation method thereof are provided. The projection apparatus may include a projector, a detector, and a processor. The projector may be configured to project an image to a projection area. The detector may be configured to detect an ID pattern disposed onto the projection area and a position of the ID pattern. The processor may be configured to generate a projection image including content corresponding to the detected ID pattern such that the content is projected to the position corresponding to the detected ID pattern. The processor may be further configured to control the projector to project the generated projection image.

Projection apparatus and operation method thereof

A module type display apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with at least one external module type display apparatus; a display panel including a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs); a storage configured to store information regarding at least one of brightness and a color coordinate that is previously measured according to a characteristic of an LED among the plurality of light emitting diodes; at least one sensor configured to sense a characteristic of at least one LED; and a processor configured to set a target value based on at least one of second brightness and a second color coordinate received from the at least one external module type display apparatus, and control to adjust at least one of first brightness and first color coordinate of the at least one LED to have the target value, based on the information acquired from the storage.

Module type display apparatus, display apparatus comprising the module type display apparatus, and control method thereof

An imaging apparatus is provided. The imaging apparatus includes an imager configured to record an external image, a region determiner configured to divide a recorded previous image frame and a recorded current image frame into pluralities of regions, calculate a moving direction and a distance of each of the plurality of regions in the current image frame corresponding to each of the plurality of regions in the previous image frame, and determine a background and an object by applying a preset background model and object model based on the calculated moving direction and distance, and a posture determiner configured to determine body parts of the determined object based on a body part model, and determine a posture of the object by combining the determined body parts.

Imaging apparatus and control method for determining a posture of an object

Apparatuses and methods for reproducing an image in a plurality of displays are provided. The method includes obtaining a display identifier that identifies a position of a display among the plurality of displays, based on information on an arrangement of the plurality of displays transmitted by the image reproduction control apparatus; obtaining an image segment to be reproduced in a display corresponding to the display identifier among the plurality of displays, from the image; determining the importance factor of the image segment based on at least one of the image and the viewing environment of the plurality of displays; generating an encoded image segment by encoding the image segment according to an encoding method corresponding to the importance factor; and transmitting a bitstream including the display identifier, the importance factor and the encoded image segment to the image reproduction control apparatus.

Media processing apparatus for multi-display system and method of operation thereof

A terminal apparatus is disclosed. The terminal apparatus includes a display; a communicator configured to receive an incoming call; a storage configured to store contact object information including a connecting application corresponding to caller identification information; and a controller configured to receive the incoming call including the caller identification information received through the communicator, execute the connecting application corresponding to the caller identification information, and display a search result related to the contact object information in a screen of the executed connecting application on the display. Accordingly, it is possible to determine a counterpart during connecting a call, and automatically execute the connecting application per contact information.

Terminal device and content displaying method thereof, server and controlling method thereof

A method of tracking an object of an object tracking apparatus is provided. The method includes by performing probability propagation between a set of frames where tracking of a target object is completed and a set of frames where tracking of a target object is not completed among a plurality of frames of an image, calculating a probability map for a target object in each frame included the set of frames where tracking is completed, selecting a frame form the set of frames where tracking is not completed based on the calculated probability map, and determining a location of the target object in the selected frame.

Object tracking apparatus and method thereof

A photographing device includes a photographing unit, an image processor which separates an object from a first photographing image obtained by the photographing unit, a display which displays a background live view obtained by superimposing the separated object on a live view of a background, and a controller which obtains a second photographing image corresponding to the live view of the background when a command to shoot the background is input and generates a composite image based on the separated object and the second photographing image.

Photographing device for producing composite image and method using the same

A method of creating a three-dimensional (3D) image based on user interaction, the method including receiving an input image; receiving a user input; segmenting an object, which is included in the input image, based on the received user input; editing an area of the segmented object; configuring a layer for the segmented object, based on the edited area; and creating a 3D image, based on the configured layer.

Method and apparatus for creating 3D image based on user interaction

A method for controlling a video segmentation apparatus is provided. The method includes receiving an image corresponding to a frame of a video; estimating a motion of an object in the received image to be extracted from the received image, determining a plurality of positions of windows corresponding to the object; adjusting at least one of a size and a spacing of at least one window located at a position of the plurality of determined positions of the windows based on an image characteristic; and extracting the object from the received image based on the at least one window of which the at least one of the size and the spacing is adjusted.

Video segmentation apparatus and method for controlling the same

A method of predictive-decoding a multi-view image includes receiving a bitstream comprising information indicating whether each of pictures included in multi-view image sequences is a reference picture referred to by others of the pictures included in the multi-view image sequences for inter-view prediction and data about the multi-view image sequences; extracting the information indicating whether each of pictures included in multi-view image sequences is the reference picture and the data about the multi-view image sequences from the received bitstream; determining whether pictures included in the data about the multi-view image sequences are to be used for inter-view prediction decoding based on the extracted information indicating whether each of pictures included in multi-view image sequences is the reference picture; and performing predictive-encoding based on a result of the determination, wherein the information indicating whether each of pictures included in multi-view image sequences is the reference picture is included in a parameter for each of the pictures.

Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding and multi-view image

Provided are a method and apparatus for reproducing at least one piece of content received via at least one interface. The method includes classifying the at least one piece of content respectively received via the at least one interface according to a reference attribute, allocating the classified at least one piece of content to a virtual channel, and selecting a channel from among set channels that include the virtual channel and an occupied basic channel.

Method and apparatus for reproducing content through integrated channel management

Provided are an image processing method and image processing apparatus using least significant bits (LSBs). The image processing method includes generating first binary codes by converting pixel values of an input image into a binary code format; converting the first binary codes into gray codes and determining a predetermined number of sequential LSBs from among the gray codes; and generating second binary codes by converting the determined LSBs of the gray codes into the binary code format.

Image processing method and image processing apparatus using least significant bits

Provided are a method of selecting the most suitable content reproducing apparatus on the basis of minimum resource information required to reproduce content and capability information of the content reproducing apparatus, and a content reproducing apparatus selector using the method. The method includes: receiving a content file, which includes minimum resource (MR) metadata including the minimum resource information required to reproduce content, from a content providing server or a content providing medium; receiving device level (DL) metadata per device from a plurality of content reproducing apparatuses, wherein the DL metadata includes capability information of the content reproducing apparatus; determining whether at least one of the content reproducing apparatuses described by the DL metadata can reproduce the content described by the MR metadata; and selectively renewing the MR metadata on the basis of a result of the determining.

Method of selecting content reproducing apparatus and content reproducing apparatus selector

Provided are a method and an apparatus for filtering video data. The method includes determining whether a difference value of illumination change (DVIC) of a current image processing unit containing a current block is different from a DVIC of an image processing unit that is adjacent to the current image processing unit and based on the determining, adjusting a filtering strength of a deblocking filter and performing deblocking filtering on a boundary of the current block using the filter with the adjusted filtering strength.

Method and apparatus for deblocking-filtering video data

A Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a multi-view image are provided. The method of encoding a multi-view image includes determining whether each of pictures included in multi-view image sequences is a reference picture referred to by other pictures included in the multi-view image sequences for inter-view prediction, and encoding the pictures using at least one of inter-view prediction and temporal prediction based on the determination result, thereby efficiently encoding and decoding the multi-view image at high speed.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Woo-sung Shim