Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sungkyunkwan University

Young-Seop Han

Young-Jip Kim

Woo-Jun Choi

Jeong-Sik Cho

Tae-Soo Lee

Kyung-Shin Lee

Jun-Young Choe

Jae-Ho Kim

Dae-hyun Sim

Jeong-eun Lee

Keun-Ho Shin

Jin-Woo Jeon

Young-Kyu Bae

Kwang-Jun Kim

Beom-Soo Cho

Yun-Chul Yi

Yun-Je Oh

Joon-Ho Park

Byoung-Dai Lee

Ho-Chul Shin

Chul-Seung Kim

Sang-Jun Ahn

Seung-Mi Kang

Jae-Yeon Song

Kyung-Tae Kim

Hyun-Chul Kim

Hyun-Chul Lee

Joon-Oo Kim

Kwang-Cheol Choi

Sun-Mi Kim

Jin-young Jeon

Jong-hun Lee

Yeul-Tak Sung

Jong-hoon Lim

Kyung-tack Kwon

Suk-Soon Kim

Eun-Sook Ko

Hee-Yong Youn

Bum-Taek Lim

Jeong-Eun Lee

Ki-Yeon Sung

Joon-oo Kim

Dae-Hyun Sim

Provided is a character input method and apparatus for automatically switching an input mode in a terminal having a touch screen. If a press event occurs in one of key regions displayed in the touch screen, it is determined whether a drag event occurs prior to occurrence of a release event. According to whether the drag event occurs, one of a separate input mode for inputting one of characters of a corresponding character group and a text input mode for inputting a word including one of the characters of the character group is executed. Thus, a user can easily input a character by rapidly selecting a desired input mode.

Character input apparatus and method for automatically switching input mode in terminal having touch screen

Methods and apparatuses are provided for providing information at an electronic device. Incoming call entries and outgoing call entries corresponding to phone numbers are displayed. Based on receiving a selection of one of the call entries, a first option is displayed for modifying prestored contact information associated with the phone number corresponding to the call entry, without displaying a second option for adding the phone number to the address book, and call history information is displayed for the phone number, when the phone number is in the address book. The prestored contact information associated with the phone number includes a name for the phone number. The second option is displayed, without displaying the first option, and the call history information for the phone number is displayed, when the phone number is not in the address book.

Apparatus and method for providing incoming and outgoing call information in a mobile communication terminal

Methods and apparatuses are provided for providing information at an electronic device. Call history information for a phone number is displayed on a display of the electronic device. An option is displayed on the display of the electronic device. The option is either a first option for editing information associated with the phone number or a second option for adding the phone number to an address book based on whether the phone number is in the address book.

An apparatus and method for automatically registering and executing a preferred function in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes registering a function and a configuration value and use character string/numeral string value for the function, to a one-touch execution object. The method also includes, when a one-touch input for the one-touch execution object is sensed, executing the function registered to the one-touch execution object, by the configuration value and use character string/numeral string value registered to the one-touch execution object.

Apparatus and method for automatically registering and executing preferred function in a mobile communication terminal

A mobile communication terminal, a method for transmitting/receiving data by a mobile communication terminal in a communication system, and a communication system comprising at least one mobile communication terminal are provided. The terminal includes a communication module for performing short-distance communication, a context engine for extracting a tag from contents data, and a controller for generating the contents data, generating profile information using the tag, and controlling the communication module to broadcast the profile data and the contents data.

System and method for transmitting/receiving data by using a mobile communication terminal in a Zigbee PAN

Methods and apparatuses are provided for providing information. Phone numbers are stored in an address book in a memory of the terminal. Call history information for a phone number together with a first option for editing of information associated with the phone number are displayed on a display of the terminal, if the phone number is in the address book.

An apparatus and method enabling a user to easily confirm a moving image. An apparatus for displaying thumbnails displays moving image clips in the form of thumbnails, and automatically plays a moving image corresponding to the thumbnail, on which an indicator is positioned, in accordance with a shift of the indicator. Also, if a key for adjusting the number of thumbnails displayed on a screen is input, the number of thumbnails displayed and the arrangement of the thumbnails are adjusted in accordance with the input of the adjustment key. In this case, a playback of the moving image corresponding to the thumbnail on which the indicator is positioned is maintained without interruption, and only the arrangement of the remaining thumbnail is changed. As described above, since the moving image is directly played, a user can easily search for and play a desired moving image, and can adjust the number of thumbnails displayed using a key for adjusting the number of thumbnails displayed on the screen, thereby providing convenience in operation to the user.

Apparatus and method for displaying thumbnails

Methods and apparatuses are provided for providing information. Phone numbers are stored in an address book in a memory of the portable electronic device. Call history information for a phone number is displayed on a display of the portable electronic device together with a first option for editing of information associated with the phone number if the phone number is in the address book.

Provided is a character input method and apparatus for automatically switching an input mode in a terminal having a touch screen. If a press event occurs in one of key regions displayed in the touch screen, it is determined whether a drag event occurs prior to occurrence of a release event. According to whether the drag event occurs, one of a separate input mode for inputting one of characters of a corresponding character group and a text input mode for inputting a word including one of the characters of the character group is executed. Thus, a user can easily input a character by rapidly selecting a desired input mode.A character input method in a terminal having a touch screen. The character input may include a plurality of key regions, including a first key region and a second key region, being set to be displayed on the touch screen, and at least one character of a plurality of characters for the first region being set to be displayed over the second region based upon a touch input on the first region and a draft input starting from the touch input. A character corresponding to the at least one character is set to be displayed in a display region based on a release of the drag input.

A method and apparatus perform channel scanning in a wireless communication system. A signal intensity of an Access Point (AP) is compared with a scanning threshold, when the AP signal intensity not less than the scanning threshold, a channel scanning schedule list is generated in consideration of a scan time based on a passive channel scan scheme and a scan time based on an active channel scan scheme. The channel scanning is performed every channel scanning time, according to the channel scanning schedule list.

Method and apparatus for channel scanning in a wireless communication system

A method and a mobile communication device are provided for providing information. Phone numbers in an address book are stored in a memory of the mobile communication device. A display unit of the mobile communication device displays call history information for a phone number. It is determined whether the phone number is in the address book. A menu is displayed on the display unit, the menu having either a first option for editing information associated with the phone number or a second option for adding the phone number to the address book based on whether the phone number is in the address book.

Methods and apparatus are provided for providing information, performed by an electronic device. Phone numbers are stored in an address book in a memory of the electronic device. Call history information for a phone number together with an option that when selected enables editing of information associated with the phone number are displayed on a screen of a display of the electronic device, if the phone number is in the address book. Call history information for a phone number together with an option that when selected enables adding the phone number to the address book are displayed on a screen of the display, if the phone number is not in the address book.

A method for updating contents of a Digital Media Server (DMS) in a digital living network alliance system (DLNA) is disclosed. An update process is performed through a periodic update event in a Digital Media Player (DMP) that receives all content information of the DMS. Upon determining that information loss has occurred in the update process, the DMP sends to the DMS a request for information about a list of items possessed by the DMS. The DMP receives the requested information about the list of items and compares the received information about the list of items with information about pre-stored items to obtain a comparison result. When a difference occurs as the comparison result, all information about contents of the DMS is obtained through a browse action. When the difference does not occur as the comparison result, the update process is continuously performed.

Method for updating contents of a DMS in a DLNA system

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Young-Seop Han