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20120156476 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THICK POLYIMIDE FLEXIBLE METALCLAD LAMINATE - Provided is a method for manufacturing a flexible metal-clad laminate using a casting method, including: (a) forming a first polyimide layer having a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of 25 ppm/K or less above a metal layer; (b) plasma-treating a surface of the first polyimide layer; and (c) forming a second polyimide layer having a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of 25 ppm/K or lower above the first polyimide layer. The flexible metal-clad laminate according to the present invention can have excellent adhesion between the polymer film and the metal conductive layer, a low dimensional change, and a low production cost, because of superior casting workability, even though the thickness of polyimide becomes increased. | 06-21-2012 |
20140342137 | Flexible Metal Clad Laminate and Manufacturing Method Thereof - A flexible metal clad laminate includes a metal foil, and a multilayered polyimide film including a first polyimide layer having a glass transition temperature of 300° C. or less and disposed on the metal foil, a second polyimide layer disposed on the first polyimide layer and a third polyimide layer disposed on the second polyimide layer. According to the flexible metal clad laminate of the present invention, appearance defects such as blistering generated during curing process in a continuous curing machine using an infrared heat source may be solved, interlayer delamination may be prevented due to a good adhesion strength with a metal layer, and an ACF bonding strength and a dimensional stability may be good. The flexible metal clad laminate may be useful for the manufacturing of a flexible printed circuit boards. | 11-20-2014 |
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20110001813 | GESTURE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, ROBOT SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME AND GESTURE RECOGNITION METHOD USING THE SAME - Provided is a gesture recognition apparatus. The gesture recognition apparatus includes a human detection unit, a gesture region setting region, an arm detection unit and a gesture determination unit. The human detection unit detects a face region of a user from an input image. The gesture region setting unit sets a gesture region, in which a gesture of the user's arm occurs, with respect to the detected face region. The arm detection unit detects an arm region of the user in the gesture region. The gesture determination unit analyzes a position, moving directionality and shape information of the arm region in the gesture region to determine a target gesture of the user. Such a gesture recognition apparatus may be used as a useful means for a human-robot interaction in a long distance where a robot has difficulty in recognizing a user's voice. | 01-06-2011 |
20120057756 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING IDENTIFIER OF VEHICLE - The present invention detects a candidate ROI group associated with character strings/figure strings on the basis of a result acquired through prior learning of various types of license plates, verifies the interested region candidate group detected by using at least one condition of five predetermined conditions, and determines an MBR region in the selected ROI region from the verified interested region candidate group by considering a ratio between the height and width of the ROI region to recognize the license plate for the automobile. According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically detect the location of the license plate regardless of various types of license plate specifications defined for each of countries. | 03-08-2012 |
20120148101 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING TEXT AREA, AND AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION SYSTEM OF NUMBER PLATE USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a method of extracting a text area, the method including generating a text area prediction value within an input second image based on a plurality of text area data stored in a database including geometric information about a text area of a first image, generating a text recognition result value by determining whether a text is recognized with respect to a probable text area within the input second image, and selecting a text area within the second image by combining the generated text area prediction value and text recognition result value. | 06-14-2012 |
20120155719 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UPPER BODY - Disclosed is a method of detecting an upper body. The method includes detecting an omega candidate area including a shape formed of a face and a shoulder line of a human from a target image, cutting the target image into the upper body candidate area including the omega candidate area, detecting a human face from the upper body candidate area, and judging whether the upper body of the human is included in the target image according to the result of detecting the human face. | 06-21-2012 |
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20130148857 | APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING CHARACTER AREA IN VEHICLE NUMBER PLATE AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an apparatus for extracting a character area in a vehicle number plate and a method thereof. An apparatus for extracting a character area in a vehicle number plate according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a candidate area extracting unit configured to extract a plurality of character candidate areas from a vehicle number plate image using a plurality of algorithms; a filtering unit configured to determine a final character candidate area from the plurality of extracted character candidate areas; and a character area selecting unit configured to select a final character area from the final character candidate area using geometric information of blobs. | 06-13-2013 |
20130163829 | SYSTEM FOR RECOGNIZING DISGUISED FACE USING GABOR FEATURE AND SVM CLASSIFIER AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a system and a method for recognizing a disguised face using a Gabor feature and a support vector machine (SVM) classifier according to the present invention. | 06-27-2013 |
20130177247 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEQUENCING OFF-LINE CHARACTER FROM NATURAL SCENE - Disclosed is a method of sequencing character information in order to increase precision of character recognition. The method includes: a pre-processing that extracts character information from an image to binarize the extracted character information through a predetermined threshold and extracts and thins a center line of the binarized character information; normalizing the pre-processed character information to character information according to a predetermined criteria; and sequencing the normalized character information using structural features including an end point or a divergence point of the character information. The present invention suggests an angle normalization method of input character information, a structural feature position determining method, and a structural feature numeral string generating method to strongly recognize characters configured by various fonts obtained from a natural scene regardless of an angle or a size of the characters. | 07-11-2013 |
20140079295 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATING DISGUISED FACE - An apparatus for discriminating a disguised face includes a face area detector configured to detect a face area in an input image provided from an external source. The apparatus includes a skin color modeling module configured to separate a skin color area from the face area and a disguised face discriminator configured to determine whether signals in the skin color area have a pulse component to discriminate whether a face in the input image is the disguised face. | 03-20-2014 |
20140086491 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SIGN INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for proving sign information are disclosed. The sign information providing method includes: extracting a first sign from an input image, wherein the first sign is pre-defined; extracting a second sign representing information corresponding to the first sign around the location of the first sign, from the input image; and providing at least one piece of information of information about the first sign and information about the second sign in the form of voice. Accordingly, a user may correctly recognize information expressed by a sign. | 03-27-2014 |
20140107842 | HUMAN-TRACKING METHOD AND ROBOT APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - Provided are a human-tracking method and a robot apparatus. The human-tracking method includes receiving an image frame including a color image and a depth image, determining whether user tracking was successful in a previous image frame, and determining a location of a user and a goal position to which a robot apparatus is to move based on the color image and the depth image in the image frame, when user tracking was successful in the previous frame. Accordingly, a current location of the user can be predicted from the depth image, user tracking can be quickly performed, and the user can be re-detected and tracked using user information acquired in user tracking when detection of the user fails due to obstacles or the like. | 04-17-2014 |
20140170628 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MULTIPLE-INTELLIGENCE USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - Provided is a multiple-intelligence detection system. The multiple-intelligence detection system includes an image detection device obtaining image information for evaluating multiple-intelligence from a user, a multiple-intelligence measurement model unit receiving the image information from the image detection device to perform multiple-intelligence evaluation through selection of one of a first reaction and a second reaction, and a content unit receiving a result of the evaluated multiple-intelligence from the multiple-intelligence measurement model unit to generate an individual portfolio on the basis of the received result. The multiple-intelligence measurement model unit selects one of the first and second reactions on the basis of a reference reaction according to feelings and behavior patterns of the user. | 06-19-2014 |
20140218516 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING HUMAN INFORMATION - A human information recognition method includes analyzing sensor data from multi-sensor resource placed in a recognition space to generate human information based on the sensor data, the human information including an identity, location and activity information of people existed in the recognition space. Further, the human information recognition method includes mixing the human information based on the sensor data with human information, the human information being acquired through interaction with the people existed in the recognition space; and storing a human model of the people existed in the recognition space depending on the mixed human information in a database unit. | 08-07-2014 |
20140348380 | METHOD AND APPRATUS FOR TRACKING OBJECTS - A method for tracking an object in an object tracking apparatus includes receiving an image frame of an image; and detecting a target, a depth analogous obstacle and an appearance analogous obstacle; tracking the target, the depth analogous obstacle and the appearance analogous obstacle; when the detected target overlaps the depth analogous obstacle, comparing the variation of tracking score of the target with that of the depth analogous obstacle. Further, the method includes continuously tracking the target when the variation of tracking score of the target is below that of the depth analogous obstacle and processing a next frame when the variation of tracking score of the target is above that of the depth analogous obstacle; and re-detecting the target. | 11-27-2014 |
20150077329 | EYE TRACKING-BASED USER INTERFACE METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method includes matching a pupil center position obtained from image information taken by a camera and a center position of an UI on a display panel of a terminal, and recognizing the match as a touch on the UI when the match between the pupil center position and the center position of the UI is kept for a predetermined time or more. | 03-19-2015 |
20150092981 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACTIVITY RECOGNITION BASED APPLICATION SERVICE - An apparatus includes an image receiving module configured to collect a depth image provided from a camera, a human body detection module configured to detect a human body from the collected depth image, and an activity recognition module configured to recognize an action of the human body on the basis of a 3-dimensional action volume extracted from the human body and a previously learned action model. | 04-02-2015 |