Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090106503 | Method, device, and system for preventing refresh starvation in shared memory bank - A multi-port memory device includes a refresh register and a refresh controller for preventing refresh starvation in a shared memory unit of the memory device. The memory device further includes a plurality of ports sharing access to the shared memory unit. The refresh register stores information regarding at least one refresh command. The refresh controller determines whether to activate an internal refresh operation at a transition in port authority according to such information stored in the refresh register. | 04-23-2009 |
20090296510 | Semiconductor memory device having refresh circuit and word line activating method therefor - A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having at least one memory bank. The memory bank being divided into memory blocks such that the memory blocks have a block position including at least one edge memory block at an edge of the memory bank and at least one non-edge memory block. Each memory block includes a plurality of memory cells. Each memory cell associated with at least one bit line and at least one word line. The semiconductor memory device includes a refresh execution circuit configured to activate a less than or equal number of word lines one at a time during a refresh operation for the memory cells in the edge memory block as activated one at a time during a refresh operation for the memory cells in the non-edge memory block. | 12-03-2009 |
20100124138 | Semiconductor memory device having variable-mode refresh operation - A semiconductor memory device includes a bit line sense amplifier, a bit line pair that includes a bit line and a complementary bit line, the bit line and the complementary bit line of the bit line pair each being coupled to the bit line sense amplifier, a memory cell array having a plurality of memory banks, the memory banks including word lines and a plurality of memory cells, and a word line activation control unit that performs a control to access data corresponding to an externally same address in at least two memory cells by simultaneously activating a predetermined number of word lines from among the word lines sharing the bit line sense amplifier, and the word line activation control unit operates in response to a determination mode allowing signal that is set in accordance with a used memory density. | 05-20-2010 |
20100177576 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes a sense amplifier, a sense amplifier driving signal driver, and a controller. The sense amplifier is configured to sense and amplify a signal of a bit line and a signal of a complementary bit line in response to a sense amplifier driving signal. The sense amplifier driving signal driver includes a first driving signal driver configured to drive via a transmission line the sense amplifier driving signal in response to a first sense amplifier control signal, and a second driving signal driver configured to drive via the transmission line the sense amplifier driving signal in response to a second sense amplifier control signal. The controller activates the first sense amplifier control signal in response to an active command, and toggles the second sense amplifier control signal while the first sense amplifier control signal is activated. | 07-15-2010 |
20100316299 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PRESENCE OF USER'S HAND TREMOR OR INTENTIONAL MOTION - A method is provided for determining presence of a user's hand tremor or intentional motion during recognition of an image through photographing. Image sample blocks of a previous frame are detected by using an edge detecting method. A block distance between the detected image sample block of the previous frame and an estimated image sample block of a current frame is calculated. The calculated block distance is compared with a first threshold. The calculated block distance is compared with a second threshold when the calculated block distance is less than the first threshold. | 12-16-2010 |
20110013807 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING SUBJECT MOTION USING A CAMERA - A method for recognizing a subject motion using a camera is provided, in which each of the previous and current image frames received from the camera is split into multiple image blocks, motion blocks are detected among the image blocks based on a difference between previous and current pixel values for each of the image frames, a motion center is detected based on positions of the motion blocks for each image frame, and the subject motion appearing in the previous and current image frames is recognized based on the motion centers of the previous and current image frames. | 01-20-2011 |
20110069572 | ROW ADDRESS CODE SELECTION BASED ON LOCATIONS OF SUBSTANDARD MEMORY CELLS - A memory device identifies memory blocks that contain substandard memory cells. The memory device then determines row address codes to apply to the memory blocks during refresh operations. The row address codes determine which memory blocks of the memory block are refreshed together. The row address codes are designed to ensure that memory blocks having substandard memory cells, which must be refreshed more frequently than other cells, are refreshed together, while memory blocks without substandard memory cells are refreshed together. | 03-24-2011 |
20110072205 | MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME - A memory device comprises a memory cell array comprising a plurality of memory blocks each comprising a plurality of memory cells and a control setting circuit. The control setting circuit divides the memory blocks into at least first and second groups based on whether each of the memory blocks comprises at least one substandard memory cell, and sets individually control parameters of the first and second groups. The substandard memory cells are identified based on test results of the memory cells with respect to at least one of the control parameters. Each memory block in the first group comprises at least one substandard memory cell, and each memory block in the second group comprises no substandard memory cell. | 03-24-2011 |
20110093235 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device applies data applied through a bump pad on which a bump is mounted through a test pad to a test apparatus such that the reliability of the test can be improved. The amount of test pads is significantly reduced by allowing data output through bump pads to be selectively applied to a test pad. Data and signals applied from test pads are synchronized with each other and applied to bump pads during a test operation such that the reliability of the test can be improved without the need of an additional test chip. | 04-21-2011 |
20110107006 | Multiprocessor system and method thereof - A multiprocessor system and method thereof are provided. The example multiprocessor system may include first and second processors, a dynamic random access memory having a memory cell array, the memory cell array including a first memory bank coupled to the first processor through a first port, second and fourth memory banks coupled to the second processor through a second port, and a third memory bank shared and connected with the first and second processors through the first and second ports, and a bank address assigning unit for assigning bank addresses to select individually the first and second memory banks, as the same bank address through the first and second ports, so that starting addresses for the first and second memory banks become equal in booting, and assigning bank addresses to select the third memory bank, as different bank addresses through the first and second ports, and assigning, through the second port, bank addresses to select the fourth memory bank, as the same bank address as a bank address to select the third memory bank through the first port. | 05-05-2011 |
20110116335 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A semiconductor memory device includes a cell array unit having a plurality of banks each having a plurality of blocks, and a refresh controller configured to set at least one of the blocks as a test block, perform a refresh operation on the blocks except for the test block in a self-refresh operation period, determine a refresh period of the test block, and then set another one of the blocks as the test block. | 05-19-2011 |
20110181604 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING ANIMATION MESSAGE - A method for creating an animation message includes generating input information containing information regarding input time and input coordinates according to input order of drawing information input through a touch screen; dividing an image containing the drawing information and background information into a plurality of blocks; creating an animation message by mapping the input information to the plurality of blocks so that the drawing information can be sequentially reproduced according to the input order; allocating a parity bit per pre-set block range of the animation message in order to detect an error occurring in the animation message; and transmitting the created animation message. | 07-28-2011 |
20110187727 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A LOCK SCREEN OF A TERMINAL EQUIPPED WITH A TOUCH SCREEN - An apparatus and method for displaying a lock screen including a character object having a motion effect in a terminal equipped with a touch screen. The method includes locking the touch screen and displaying the lock screen including the character object having the motion effect on a preset background image. Upon generation of a touch input, determining whether the touch input is for unlocking the touch screen, and if the touch input is for unlocking the touch screen, unlocking the touch screen and controlling the character object to perform a preset action indicating the unlocking of the touch screen. | 08-04-2011 |
20110193778 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOUSE POINTER - Disclosed is a device for controlling a mouse pointer, providing a display unit; an image photographing unit for photographing images of a first object and a second object; and a controller for setting a point between the first object and the second object detected from the photographed images as a position of a mouse pointer on the display unit, and when a distance between the first object and the second object is less than a predetermined distance, determining that a user selection instruction for the point has been input. The device detects movement of fingers using differential images according to the movement of the fingers, so that even when a continuously changing surrounding lighting or a user face having the similar color with the finger is included in a background, it is possible to accurately identify the movement of the fingers. | 08-11-2011 |
20110193867 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING DYNAMIC EFFECT OF CHARACTER CAPABLE OF INTERACTING WITH IMAGE - A method for producing motion effects of a character capable of interacting with a background image in accordance with the characteristics of the background image is provided, including extracting the characteristics of the background image; determining a character to be provided with the motion effects in the background in accordance with the extracted characteristics of the background image; recognizing external signals including a user input; determining the motion of the character in accordance with the characteristics of the background image and the recognized external signals; and reproducing an animation for executing the motion of the character in the background image. | 08-11-2011 |
20120106792 | USER INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD USING MOVEMENT RECOGNITION - A movement recognition method and a user interface are provided. A skin color is detected from a reference face area of an image. A movement-accumulated area, in which movements are accumulated, is detected from sequentially accumulated image frames. Movement information corresponding to the skin color is detected from the detected movement-accumulated area. A user interface screen is created and displayed using the detected movement information. | 05-03-2012 |
20120163413 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH STACKED STRUCTURE HAVING THROUGH ELECTRODE, SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY SYSTEM, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device, memory device, system, and method of using a stacked structure for stably transmitting signals among a plurality of semiconductor layers is disclosed. The device includes at least a first semiconductor chip including a first temperature sensor circuit configured to output first temperature information related to the first semiconductor chip, and at least one through substrate via. | 06-28-2012 |
20120288182 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A COUNTERFEIT BILL - A mobile communication device and method for identifying a counterfeit bill are provided. In the method, an InfraRed (IR) image of a bill is received, feature values are extracted from the IR image to represent edges, a binary image having displayed pixels and non-displayed pixels is generated based on the feature values, and a corrected image is generated by overlaying the binary image on a pre-stored real bill database and adjusting the binary image to match a predetermined area of the binary image matches to the predetermined area of the real bill database. A number of displayed pixels in the corrected image is counted, and whether the bill is counterfeit is based on the number of displayed pixels in the corrected image. | 11-15-2012 |
20120324335 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EDITABLE FLASH FILE - A method for storing and managing a content-editable Flash file is provided, in which a Flash file is loaded to be edited, data of a predetermined size is loaded from the Flash file, it is determined based on the loaded data whether the Flash file is editable, and editable data is loaded from the Flash file, if the Flash file is editable. | 12-20-2012 |
20130034290 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING A COUNTERFEIT BILL USING A PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method and a portable terminal for identifying a counterfeit bill. The method includes receiving, by the portable terminal, an image of a bill photographed using visible rays and an image of the bill photographed using infrared rays; determining a denomination of the bill by comparing the image photographed using the visible rays with a denomination database; obtaining correction information for making the image photographed using the visible rays correspond to a corresponding bill image in the denomination database; forming a corrected image by correcting the image photographed using the infrared rays using the correction information; binary-coding the corrected image; and determining whether the bill is counterfeit by comparing the binary-coded corrected image with an image of the corresponding bill pre-stored in a genuine bill database. | 02-07-2013 |
20130113808 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING PLAYBACK SPEED OF ANIMATION MESSAGE IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus for controlling a playback speed of an animation message in a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes recognizing at least one object to be displayed included in the received animation message; determining the playback speed of the received animation message with respect to each object to be displayed according to the recognized feature of each object; and displaying the animation message according to the determined playback speed. | 05-09-2013 |
20130215013 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD OF GENERATING CONTENT THEREOF - A mobile communication terminal and method thereof capable of generating content data according to a synchronization scheme suitable for a mobile environment are provided, which allow a user to simply create and share content. The method includes receiving a user input or selection instruction for a plurality of content; determining whether there is sound data among the plurality of content; and if there is sound data, generating content data by synchronizing first content to be displayed while the sound data is played among the plurality of content to first segment data. | 08-22-2013 |
20130234964 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING AREA OF INTEREST - An image editing apparatus and an image editing method for selecting an area of interest, in which a user more accurately selects an area desired to be selected using a finger by setting a position of a touch input as a selection start point for starting image selection if the user performs the touch input on a background image at the time of image editing, sets a trace generated by moving the background image or the selects start point as a selection image area, and selecting the set selection image area from the background image. | 09-12-2013 |
20130236117 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BLURRED IMAGE - A method of providing a blurred image includes receiving a target image to which a blur effect is to be applied; receiving blur effect information for generating the blur effect in the target image; calculating a sum image for respective pixels of the target image; applying a mean filter to the target image by using the sum image based on the blur effect information; and providing a blurred image formed by applying the mean filter. | 09-12-2013 |
20130241936 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING ANIMATION MESSAGE - A method for creating an animation message includes generating input information containing information regarding input time and input coordinates according to input order of drawing information input through a touch screen; dividing an image containing the drawing information and background information into a plurality of blocks; creating an animation message by mapping the input information to the plurality of blocks so that the drawing information can be sequentially reproduced according to the input order; allocating a parity bit per pre-set block range of the animation message in order to detect an error occurring in the animation message; and transmitting the created animation message. | 09-19-2013 |
20130241945 | GRAPHIC PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR UPDATING GRAPHIC EDITING SCREEN AND METHOD THEREOF - A graphic processing apparatus for updating a graphic screen and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes an object information calculator for calculating object information of an object input into the graphic screen; an object area calculator for calculating object area information of the input object; and a controller for storing object management information matched with the calculated object information and the calculated object area information, updating object management information of an object edited by an object editing, and then updating the graphic screen by using the updated object management information. | 09-19-2013 |
20130275763 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL SIGNATURE AUTHENTICATION - A digital signature authentication method and a digital signature authentication apparatus are provided in which a digital signature received from a user is structured and embedded into an agreement information file so that the digital signature may be managed safely and effectively. The method includes displaying an agreement information file and receiving the digital signature from a user; extracting signature data from the digital signature; and embedding the signature data into the agreement information file. | 10-17-2013 |
20130283366 | FLEXIBLE NETWORK SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERMITTING TRUSTED PROCESS - Disclosed herein is a flexible network security system and method for permitting a trusted process. The system includes a port monitoring unit for extracting information about a server port being used through a network communication program, an internal permitted program storage for extracting information about a program for which communication is permitted by the firewall, and registering the extracted information, an internal permitted by the firewall, and registering the extracted information, an internal permitted port storage, if the port monitoring unit extracts the information about the server port being used using the program registered in the internal permitted program storage, registering the extracted information about the server port; and a device for making the firewall flexible, determining whether a destination port of a packet of inbound traffic has been registered in the internal permitted port storage, and if the destination port has not been registered, transmitting the corresponding packet to the firewall, and if the destination port has been registered, allowing the corresponding packet to bypass the firewall. | 10-24-2013 |
20130321315 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INPUTTING A CHARACTER IN A TOUCH KEYPAD - A method and apparatus for inputting characters using a touch keypad with a plurality of keys are provided, in which upon detection of a user's touch on one of the plurality of keys, a character corresponding to the touched key is acquired, a pop-up character set is generated using the acquired character and a character which has been completely input before the user's touch and displayed in an input character display area, and a touch pop-up including the pop-up character set is displayed in the vicinity of the touched key. | 12-05-2013 |
20140092101 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANIMATED EMOTICON - An apparatus and method for producing an animated emoticon are provided. The method includes producing a plurality of frames that constitute the animated emoticon; inputting at least one object for each of the plurality of frames; producing object information for the input object; and producing structured animated emoticon data that include each of the plurality frames and the object information. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092306 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING ADDITIONAL OBJECT INFORMATION - An apparatus and a method for receiving additional object information regarding a particular object in at least one frame from among a sequence of a plurality of frames included in image media are provided. The method includes receiving selection of a reference frame including a target object, and receiving selection of the target object in the reference frame; receiving, as an input, additional object information regarding the target object; tracking the target object in each of frames disposed subsequent to the reference frame in the sequence and frames prior to the reference frame in the sequence; extracting target object information from a result of tracking the target object; and building a target object-related information database including at least one of the additional object information regarding the target object and the extracted target object information. | 04-03-2014 |
20140233828 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A COUNTERFEIT BILL - An apparatus for identifying a counterfeit bill is provided. The apparatus includes a camera module configured to receive a captured IR image of a bill; a binary image generator configured to generate a binary image of the bill, based on the IR image; a distance value calculator configured to compare a predetermined area of the binary image with a predetermined area of a pre-stored real bill database corresponding to the predetermined area of the binary image; and a corrected image generator configured to generate a corrected image based on a result of the comparison. | 08-21-2014 |
20140240258 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING USER INPUT APPLYING TEXTURE OF BACKGROUND IMAGE - A method of processing an image is provided. The method includes identifying edge components of a background image by a unit of a predetermined size, identifying input coordinate points of a touch input which is input on a touch screen, determining distorted coordinate points by applying the edge components to the input coordinate points, and displaying a drawing image formed by connecting the distorted coordinate points, on the background image. | 08-28-2014 |
20140286626 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CREATING AND REPRODUCING LIVE PICTURE FILE - An apparatus for reproducing an image file and outputting audio data related to the image file at the same time is provided. The apparatus includes an audio editor configured to edit audio data having a predetermined time length in order to create edited audio data, and an encoder in configured to encode image data and the audio data edited by the audio editor in order to create a live picture file, wherein the live picture file includes at least one of an image data area including the image data, additional data header area including information related to additional data including the audio data, and an audio data area including the edited audio data. | 09-25-2014 |
20140340307 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOOGNIZING SUBJECT MOTION USING A CAMERA - A method and an apparatus are provided for displaying pictures according to hand motion inputs. An application is executed for displaying a picture from among a sequence of pictures on a display. Groups of skin color blocks corresponding to a hand are detected from among image frames output from a camera. A motion is detected among the groups of skin color blocks. Direction information is obtained on the detected motion. The application is controlled to display a previous picture or a next picture in the sequence of pictures on the display according to the direction information. | 11-20-2014 |
20150033164 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE - A method of providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is provided. The method includes receiving an image to be used for the GUI, and selecting one or more object areas to be used for the GUI from the image, setting a GUI icon corresponding to the selected object area, and outputting the set GUI as a home screen for executing at least one of application on a display of the terminal. | 01-29-2015 |
20150058718 | USER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CREATING HANDWRITING CONTENT - A method for creating handwriting content is provided. The method includes displaying handwriting letters being input, extracting at least one candidate handwriting word stored in advance in response to the input handwriting letters, displaying the extracted at least one candidate handwriting word, and replacing the input handwriting letters with a candidate handwriting word selected from among the displayed at least one candidate handwriting word. | 02-26-2015 |
20150062041 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING FUNCTIONS RELATED TO HANDWRITTEN USER INPUT ON LOCK SCREEN - Apparatuses and methods are provided for executing a function corresponding to a handwritten user input at the same time as providing a handwritten unlock command on a lock screen of an electronic device. The apparatus includes a touch screen that displays a lock screen including a first layer for unlocking the lock screen and a second layer that is laid over the first layer, and a controller that verifies that an unlock command is the same as a predetermined unlock command in response to the unlock command being input to the first layer, to display the second layer in response to the unlock command being the same as the predetermined unlock command, and to search for a command corresponding to a handwritten user input that is input to the second layer to execute the command. | 03-05-2015 |
20150071505 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ONLINE SIGNATURE VEFICATION USING PROXIMITY TOUCH - A method and apparatus for verifying an input signature are provided. The method includes generating signature data based on a real touch event and a proximity touch event that occur on a touch input unit of and apparatus, extracting a feature of the input signature based on the signature data, and determining whether to authenticate the input signature based on a similarity between the feature of the input signature and a corresponding feature of a previously stored reference signature. | 03-12-2015 |