Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Sdi Co., Inc.

Yonsei University

Yong-beom Lee

Hee-seob Ryu

Hyeon Koon Myeong

Min-Kyu Park

Hye-jeong Lee

Seok-won Bang

Jong-ho Lea

Ji-hye Chung

Jun-il Sohn

Byung-Seok Soh

Gyung-hye Yang

Sang-Youn Kim

Ki-ho Kim

Se-jong Han

Ki-wan Choi

Chang-yong Son

Moon-sik Jeong

Tae-hee Kim

Tae-suh Park

Kyu-yong Kim

Su-jinn Lee

Woo-suk Lee

Ho-Chong Park

Soo-Hyun Bae

Yun-seok Choi

Jin-soo Lee

Jae-Won Lee

Hyoung-ki Lee

Yeun-bae Kim

Jeong-su Kim

Chang-kyu Choi

Dong-geon Kong

Ryuichi Shimizu

Sang-ryong Kim

Eun-Young Choi

Jea-Woan Lee

Takitaro Yamaguchi

Jong-Il Park

Chan-min Park

Hyung-gon Noh

Dong-kyung Nam

Sung-Bae Cho

Kwang-cheol Oh

Kwon-ju Yi

Byoung-Hyun Kang

Cheol-soo Jung

Kyoung-hee Lee

Sei-bum Ban

Hee-kyoung Seo

Eui-hwan Song

Duck-chul Hwang

Han-hoon Park

Attiia Ferencz

Hyuong-ki Lee

Doo-kyung Yang

Hyun-jeong Lim

In-sung Lee

An input device and method for protecting input information from exposure, in which the time of input of information is determined using a tactile output to protect the input information from being exposed. The input device for protecting input information from exposure includes a user-input module for receiving predetermined input information from a user, a control module for setting the information inputted in association with a tactile signal among the input information as user-input information, and a tactile-output-generation module for generating and providing the tactile signal to the user-input module under the control of the control module.

Input device and method for protecting input information from exposure

A method and apparatus for reckoning a position of a moving robot using dead-reckoning and range sensing. The method includes performing dead-reckoning to determine a variation state in accordance with motion of the moving robot, calculating an absolute position of the moving robot by sensing a distance between the moving robot and at least one fixed position, predicting an optimized current position of the moving robot using the variation state and the absolute position, determining whether the optimized current position is within a specified effective area, and correcting the optimized current position in accordance with the determined result.

Method and apparatus for reckoning position of moving robot

An image correction apparatus, method and medium which can perform color component correction and geometric correction using the property of a projector projecting light of a plurality of color components of an input image at different times is provided. The image correction method includes sequentially projecting light of a plurality of color components of an input image onto a projection surface at different times, acquiring color components of the projected light, and correcting the input image by comparing the acquired color components with the color components of the input image.

Image correction apparatus, method and medium

A speech compression apparatus including: a first band-transform unit transforming a wideband speech signal to a narrowband low-band speech signal; a narrowband speech compressor compressing the narrowband low-band speech signal and outputting a result of the compressing as a low-band speech packet; a decompression unit decompressing the low-band speech packet and obtaining a decompressed wideband low-band speech signal; an error detection unit detecting an error signal that corresponds to a difference between the wideband speech signal and the decompressed wideband low-band speech signal; and a high-band speech compression unit compressing the error signal and a high-band speech signal of the wideband speech signal and outputting the result of the compressing as a high-band speech packet.

Speech compression and decompression apparatuses and methods providing scalable bandwidth structure

A system, method and medium playing a moving image, which includes various content objects is described. The system includes a script parser identifying a plurality of objects which form the moving image, a play-time calculation unit determining a framing time position, from among a total play time of the moving image, and a frame-information record unit recording attributes of the objects which exist in the framing time position.

System, method and medium generating frame information for moving images

An apparatus and method for displaying a three-dimensional image according to the position of a user, in which the distance between a display panel displaying a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional optical panel converting a two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional image is controlled in accordance with the position of the user to provide an optimized three-dimensional image. The apparatus includes a three-dimensional optical device converting a displayed two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional image, a position measurement module measuring the position of the user who converges on the three-dimensional image, a crosstalk calculator calculating the level of crosstalk that can occur in the position of the user, and a driver adjusting a position of the three-dimensional optical device if the level of crosstalk exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

Apparatus and method for displaying three-dimensional image according to position of user

An apparatus, method and medium detecting landmarks with a mobile device. The apparatus includes a storage unit to store rules of landmarks that correspond to connection relations among items representing a user's living patterns, an analysis unit to statistically analyze the collected log information representing a current living pattern of the user, a landmark probability inferring unit to infer in probability the landmarks according to the analyzed log information based on the stored rules, and a landmark selection unit to select a final landmark by mutually analyzing the stored rules and the inferred landmarks.

Apparatus, method and medium detecting landmarks with a mobile device

A method, medium, and system providing an updating traveling route to a user. The navigation system includes a route selecting unit to select an optimal route for an item to traverse based on calculated performance indexes of a plurality of alternative routes for the traversal, a performance index calculating unit to recalculate the performance indexes of the alternative routes during a current traversal of the selected optimal route based on received external information regarding sections of available traversals after a predetermined point in each alternative route beyond a current point of the current traversal, and a route changing unit to selectively update the optimal route during the current traversal based on the recalculated performance indexes.

Navigation method, medium, and system

An apparatus, method, and medium for dividing regions by using feature points and a mobile robot cleaner using the same are provided. A method includes forming a grid map by using a plurality of grid points that are obtained by detecting distances of a mobile robot from obstacles; extracting feature points from the grid map; extracting candidate pairs of feature points, which are in the range of a region division element, from the feature points; extracting a final pair of feature points, which satisfies the requirements of the region division element, from the candidate pair of feature points; forming a critical line by connecting the final pair of feature points; and forming a final region in accordance with the size relationship between regions formed of a closed curve which connects the critical line and the grid map.

Apparatus, method, and medium for dividing regions by using feature points and mobile robot using the same

A system, method and medium organizing a template, which enables a user to easily create moving images, are provided. The system includes a template controller to generate a time tab indicating when to display the moving image and to identify one or more scenes of the moving image by parsing a script in response to a user command, a scene controller to identify one or more objects included in each of the scenes and an execution module to define dynamic effects for each of the objects and to load the identified objects and the identified execution module, an object controller to create a control code for each of the identified objects based on the loaded objects and the loaded execution module, the control code controlling the identified objects according to the time tab, and a template storage unit to store the template that includes the script, the execution module, the objects, and the control code.

System, method and medium organizing templates for generating moving images

An apparatus and a method for providing information during a call by delivering the current state and changes of state of a mobile device by tactile information, and which does not interfere with the phone conversation. The apparatus for providing information during a call comprises an information-sensing unit sensing at least one among information about the state of a mobile device and the state of a phone conversation, an information-analysis unit analyzing the sensed state information, a tactile information-generating unit generating tactile information corresponding to the sensed information, which was analyzed by the information-analysis unit, a tactile information-outputting unit delivering the tactile information to a user, and a driving unit generating a driving signal which drives the tactile information-outputting unit by converting the tactile information.

Method and apparatus for providing information during a call and a mobile device including the same

Provided is an apparatus, a method, and a medium for displaying contents according to motions by identifying the direction of a sensed motion and moving the content region in a direction opposite to the identified direction or moving the background region in the identified direction. The apparatus including a motion sensing unit to sense a motion; a display control unit to adjust a position of an image region with reference to a direction of the sensed motion; and a display unit to display a content and a background according to the adjusted position, wherein the image region comprises a content region having the content and a background region having the background.

Apparatus, method, and medium for displaying content according to motion

An apparatus, method, and medium for dividing regions by using feature points and a mobile robot cleaner using the same are provided. A method includes forming a grid map by using a plurality of grid points that are obtained by detecting distances of a mobile robot from obstacles; extracting feature points from the grid map; extracting candidate pairs of feature points, which are in the range of a region division element, from the feature points; extracting a final pair of feature points, which satisfies the requirements of the region division element, from the candidate pairs of feature points; forming a critical line by connecting the final pair of feature points; and forming a final region in accordance with the size relationship between regions formed of a closed curve which connects the critical line and the grid map.

An apparatus and method of providing a schedule and a route are provided in which the apparatus includes an information collection unit analyzing input information and extracting an event to be added to a first schedule, a pattern recognition unit extracting an activity pattern of a user with reference to a past route and past event information, and a generation unit applying the activity pattern to at least one event of the first schedule and the extracted event to generate a second schedule, generating a first route between event locations with reference to position information and time information of each event in the second schedule, generating a third schedule, to which an additional event is added, with reference to a transition time between the event locations and an actual event time, and generating a second route for the additional event in the third schedule.

Apparatus and method of providing schedule and route

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Yong-beom Lee