Lg Electronics Inc.

Empire Technology Development LLC

Yang-Won Jung

Jae Hyun Lim

Dong Soo Kim

Hee Suk Pang

Hyen-O Oh

Hyen O Oh

Hyo Jin Kim

Seungil Kim

Hyeon O Oh

Christof Faller

Technologies are generally described that relate to managing and/or generating sensor data. An example method may include receiving output data generated by a pressure sensor. The method may also include determining surface data, indicative of a surface type associated with a force applied to a surface of the pressure sensor, based on the output data. Furthermore, the method may include adjusting the output data based on the surface data to facilitate generating adjusted output data indicative of an adjusted pressure value generated by the pressure sensor.

Sensor management based on surface type

Technologies and implementations for providing an online game experience using multiple devices are generally disclosed including methods and devices for, in some examples, receiving first data from a first device, the received first data being associated with a first interaction with the online game, receiving a request to utilize a second device and responsive to the received request, transmitting second data to the second device, the second data being associated with a second interaction with the online game, the second interaction related to first interaction but being different from the first interaction.

Online game experience using multiple devices

Technologies are generally described for a spoiler alert scheme. In some examples, a spoiler alert system may include an event determination unit configured to determine an event of interest to a user for which a spoiler alert is to be provided, a spoiler identification unit configured to identify one or more posts in an online forum that include spoiler information regarding the determined event of interest, and a spoiler control unit configured to hide the one or more identified posts from the online forum, as displayed to the user.

Spoiler alert scheme

Technologies are generally described for task management on computing platforms. In some examples, a method performed under control of a task management system may include determining a relationship among a plurality of tasks executed on a first platform to identify one or more associated tasks; identifying at least one attribute of each of the one or more associated tasks; generating a job that includes the one or more associated tasks and the identified at least one attribute of each of the one or more associated tasks; and instantiating, on a second platform, the one or more associated tasks included in the job based on the at least one attribute of each of the one or more associated tasks, in response to a request to launch the job.

Managing associated tasks using a task manager in communication devices

Technologies are generally described for a social networking service (SNS). In some examples, a method performed under control of a server may include receiving a user input associated with the user responding to content posted in an online forum, determining whether a threshold condition set by the user is satisfied for the user's response to be disclosed with regard to a particular piece of content posted in the online forum, and disclosing the user's response to the particular piece of content posted in the online forum when the threshold condition is determined to be satisfied.

Conditional disclosure of a response to content posted in a social network

Technologies are generally described for privacy protection for a life-log system. In some examples, a method performed under control of a life-log system may include receiving, from a user account, a request to change one or more real life-log data entries relating to a real event that are stored in a first part of a database; removing the one or more real life-log data entries relating to the real event from the first part of the database; and storing, in the first part of the database, one or more misleading life-log data entries relating to a false event corresponding to the real event.

Privacy protection for a life-log system

Technologies are generally described for an access control scheme for an external device. In some examples, an electronic device may detect the external memory connected to the electronic device; set a security code to enable access to the external memory; receive a request to access the external memory; access the external memory in response to entry of the security code; receive a request to disconnect the external memory; and remove a requirement for entry of the security code to enable access to the external memory.

Access control of external memory

An apparatus for decoding an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving the audio signal and spatial information, identifying a type of modified spatial information, generating the modified spatial information using the spatial information, and decoding the audio signal using the modified spatial information, wherein the type of the modified spatial information includes at least one of partial spatial information, combined spatial information and expanded spatial information. Accordingly, an audio signal can be decoded into a configuration different from a configuration decided by an encoding apparatus. Even if the number of speakers is smaller or greater than that of multi-channels before execution of downmixing, it is able to generate output channels having the number equal to that of the speakers from a downmix audio signal.

Method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal

Technologies are generally described for providing wireless communications. In some examples, a method performed under control of a mobile operating server may include determining whether there is an authenticated wireless access point around a mobile device, if there is no authenticated wireless access point, determining whether there is a non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over a predetermined value around the mobile device and if there is a non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value, instructing the mobile device to connect to a wireless local area network provided by the non-authenticated wireless access point.

Schemes for providing wireless communication

Technologies and implementations for providing an online game experience using multiple devices are generally disclosed including methods and devices for, in some examples, receiving first data from a first device, the received first data being associated with a first interaction with the online game, receiving a request to utilize a second device and responsive to the received request, transmitting second data to the second device, the second data being associated with a second interaction with the online game, the second interaction related to the first interaction but being different from the first interaction.

An encoding method and apparatus and a decoding method and apparatus are provided. The decoding method includes skipping extension information included in an input bitstream, extracting a three-dimensional (3D) down-mix signal and spatial information from the input bitstream, removing 3D effects from the 3D down-mix signal by performing a 3D rendering operation on the 3D down-mix signal, and generating a multi-channel signal using a down-mix signal obtained by the removal and the spatial information. Accordingly, it is possible to efficiently encode multi-channel signals with 3D effects and to adaptively restore and reproduce audio signals with optimum sound quality according to the characteristics of an audio reproduction environment.

Apparatus and method for encoding/decoding signal

Method and apparatus for processing audio signals are provided. The method for decoding an audio signal includes extracting a downmix signal and spatial information from a received audio signal, generating surround converting information using the spatial information and rendering the downmix signal to generate a pseudo-surround signal in a previously set rendering domain, using the surround converting information. The apparatus for decoding an audio signal includes a demultiplexing part extracting a downmix signal and spatial information from a received audio signal, an information converting part generating surround converting information using the spatial information and a pseudo-surround generating part rendering the downmix signal to generate a pseudo-surround signal in a previous set rendering domain, using the surround converting information.

A method and apparatus for processing a signal, and more particularly, to an apparatus for processing a mix signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which a mix signal such as an audio signal and a video signal can be encoded/decoded. The present invention includes receiving at least one of a mix signal and source signals and generating a unified side information corresponding to a unified source signal using the mix signal and the at least one of the source signals, wherein the unified source signal is generated by grouping at least one source signal.

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Yang-Won Jung