Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100128568 | Method and apparatus of location tracking - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of location tracking. The location tracking apparatus may calculate a location of an object using an ultrasound. In this instance, an intensity of the used ultrasound may be determined based on a distance to the object, thereby reducing unnecessary power consumption. | 05-27-2010 |
20100185681 | Display infromation controling apparatus and method - A display information controlling apparatus and method are provided. The display information controlling apparatus may select at least one object from one or more objects based on a location of each of the one or more objects on a display and a location on the display corresponding to a user input signal. The display information controlling apparatus may perform a predetermined operation corresponding to the selected at least one object. | 07-22-2010 |
20100238168 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SKELETON MODEL USING MOTION DATA AND IMAGE DATA - An apparatus and method for generating a skeleton model using motion data and image data. The apparatus for generating the skeleton model may synchronize the image data and the motion data, and generate a three-dimensional (3D) skeleton model of an entire body of a user using a silhouette extracted from the image data and also using a position or orientation of a joint of the user extracted from the motion data. The skeleton model may be generated using the image data and the motion data, thereby improving accuracy of the skeleton model of the entire body of the user. | 09-23-2010 |
20100309752 | Method and device of measuring location, and moving object - Disclosed is a moving object and a location measuring device and method thereof that may transmit an ultrasound signal to the moving object through a plurality of ultrasound transmitting units, and may estimate a location of the moving object at a current time based on distance information of distances between the moving object and the plurality of ultrasound transmitting units measured based on the transmitted ultrasound, inertia information, and location information of the moving object at a time prior to the current time. | 12-09-2010 |
20100315381 | MULTI-TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS USING REAR VIEW CAMERA OF ARRAY TYPE - A multi-touch sensing apparatus using a rear view camera of an array type is provided. The multi-touch sensing apparatus may include a display panel to display an image, a sensing light source to emit light to sense a touch image which is generated by an object and displayed on a back side of the display panel, and a camera to divide and sense the touch image. The camera may be arranged in an edge of a lower side of the multi-touch sensing apparatus, or a mirror to reflect the touch image may be included in the multi-touch sensing apparatus. | 12-16-2010 |
20110070925 | Apparatus, method and computer-readable medium generating ultrasonic waves and vibration - Provided is a vibration apparatus, method and computer-readable medium generating vibrations and ultrasonic waves. The vibration apparatus, method and computer-readable medium may generate the vibrations or the ultrasonic waves in accordance with a first control signal and a second control signal each having a frequency band different from each other. | 03-24-2011 |
20110102372 | Multi-touch and proximate object sensing apparatus using wedge waveguide - A multi-touch and proximate object sensing apparatus using a wedge waveguide is provided. A multi-touch and proximate object sensing apparatus may sense a touch location or a target location on a display panel using a light which is reflected by an object located on the display panel. A camera in the multi-touch and proximate object sensing apparatus may sense the touch location or the target location from the light reflected by the object. | 05-05-2011 |
20110115749 | MULTI-TOUCH AND PROXIMATE OBJECT SENSING APPARATUS USING SENSING ARRAY - A multi-touch and proximate object sensing apparatus using a sensing array is provided. The multi-touch and proximate object sensing apparatus may sense a touch image or a target image by sensing an invisible light which is projected to a diffuser through the sensing array. Also, the multi-touch and proximate object sensing apparatus may display an image on a display panel by controlling a location of the sensing array and a visible light source, without a backlight unit. | 05-19-2011 |
20110221705 | TOUCH OBJECT AND PROXIMATE OBJECT SENSING APPARATUS BY SELECTIVELY RADIATING LIGHT - Provided is a touch object and proximate object sensing apparatus by selectively radiating a light. An object sensing apparatus may separately use a touch light source to sense a touch image generated by an object touching a light guide, and a hovering light source to sense a target image generated by an object proximate to the light guide. The light guide may emit, to an upper portion of the light guide, an invisible light radiated from the hovering light source to enhance a sensation of sensing the proximate object. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221888 | Apparatus, method and computer-readable medium imaging through at least one aperture of each pixel of display panel - Provided is an imaging apparatus, method and computer-readable medium that photographs an object through at least one aperture of each of pixel of a display panel. The imaging apparatus includes a camera unit in back of the display panel and photographs the object through the at least one aperture of each of the pixels of the display panel to enable a location of the camera unit to be the same as a location of a display unit, measures a distance to the object using a blur effect occurring when photographing through the at least one aperture of the display panel, and restores an image where the blur effect is included. | 09-15-2011 |
20110241908 | System and method for processing sensory effect - A sensory effect processing system and method are disclosed. Sensory effects contained in contents may be embodied in a real world, by generating command information for controlling a sensory device based on sensory effect information and sensory device capability information. In addition, data transmission rate may be increased by encoding metadata into binary metadata, encoding metadata into extensible mark-up language (XML) metadata, or encoding metadata into XML metadata and further encoding the XML metadata into binary metadata. Also, a bandwidth may be reduced. | 10-06-2011 |
20110254670 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIRTUAL WORLD - In an apparatus and method for processing a virtual world, haptic information regarding a virtual object in the virtual world, the haptic information corresponding to sensed information, is extracted and transmitted to a haptic feedback device. Accordingly, interaction between a real world and the virtual world is achieved. The processing speed of the haptic information with respect to the virtual object may be increased by varying data structures according to types of the virtual object. | 10-20-2011 |
20110311288 | TOOL FOR REALIZING THE KOREAN ALPHABET USING A CONSONANT AND VOWEL COMBINATION SYSTEM - A tool for implementing Korean characters using a consonant-vowel combination system, in which a simple and concise combination system capable of implementing all Korean characters using only six consonants and vowels is constructed, and thus users of the tool may realize originality, superiority, and convenience of Korean letters in daily life. The tool for implementing Korean characters using a consonant-vowel combination system is configured to implement the Korean characters using six consonant and vowel plates including: letter plate “ | 12-22-2011 |
20120038551 | Apparatus and method for controlling object - An object controlling apparatus and method are provided. An object of a virtual world may be more intuitively and readily manipulated by controlling an operation, a state, a shape, and the like of the object based on transform information associated with the object and a pointing signal for manipulating the virtual that is received from an input device. In addition, by manipulating the object based on information matching the input pointing signal between internal transform information and total transform information, a unique transform operation may be assigned to each object and thus, the user may be provided with a variety of functions. Here, the internal transform information is uniquely set for each object and the total transform information is set to be commonly applied to all the objects of the virtual world. | 02-16-2012 |
20120182215 | SENSING MODULE, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - A sensing module, and a Graphical User Interface (GUI) control apparatus and method are provided. The sensing module may be inserted into an input device, for example a keyboard, a mouse, a remote controller, and the like, and may sense a hovering movement of a hand of a user within a sensing area, and thus it is possible to provide an interface to control a wider variety of GUIs, and possible to prevent a display from being covered. | 07-19-2012 |
20120183203 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING FEATURE OF DEPTH IMAGE - Provided is a feature extraction method and apparatus to extract a feature of a three-dimensional (3D) depth image. The feature extraction apparatus may generate a plurality of level sets using a depth image, and may extract a feature for each level depth image. | 07-19-2012 |
20120235899 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VIRTUAL OBJECT - An apparatus, system, and method for controlling a virtual object. The virtual object is controlled by detecting a hand motion of a user and generating an event corresponding to the hand motion. Accordingly, the user may control the virtual object displayed on a 3-dimensional graphic user interface (3D GUI) more intuitively and efficiently. | 09-20-2012 |
20120268609 | VIDEO OBJECT DETECTING APPARATUS, VIDEO OBJECT DEFORMING APPARATUS, AND METHODS THEREOF - A video object detecting apparatus enables a user to not only simply watch the video but also to explore a video using a motion and a posture of the user. In addition, the user may manipulate the video using body motion instead of general input units such as a mouse and a touch system. Also, a video object deforming apparatus enables the user to recognize a difference in motions between an interactive video and the user, and provides the user with a video reflecting the difference. | 10-25-2012 |
20120304067 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING USER INTERFACE USING SOUND RECOGNITION - An apparatus and method for controlling a user interface using sound recognition are provided. The apparatus and method may detect a position of a hand of a user from an image of the user, and may determine a point in time for starting and terminating the sound recognition, thereby precisely classifying the point in time for starting the sound recognition and the point in time for terminating the sound recognition without a separate device. Also, the user may control the user interface intuitively and conveniently. | 11-29-2012 |
20130016124 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING VIRTUAL WORLD - An apparatus and method for processing a virtual world. The apparatus for controlling a facial expression of an avatar in a virtual world using a facial expression of a user in a real world may include a receiving unit to receive sensed information that is sensed by an intelligent camera, the sensed information relating to a facial expression basis of the user, and a processing unit to generate facial expression data of the user for controlling the facial expression of the avatar, using initialization information representing a parameter for initializing the facial expression basis of the user, a 2-dimensional/3-dimensional (2D/3D) model defining a coding method for a face object of the avatar, and the sensed information. | 01-17-2013 |
20130181988 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING POSE CLUSTER - Provided is a method of creating a body pose cluster, including performing feature extraction from pose data about at least one pose, classifying, as a single cluster, similar poses from a feature vector space using a similarity measure, and configuring the number of poses included in each cluster from the feature vector space to be uniform using an imbalance measure. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182958 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING BODY PART ASSOCIATION - An apparatus and method for analyzing body part association. The apparatus and method may recognize at least one body part from a user image extracted from an observed image, select at least one candidate body part based on association of the at least one body part, and output a user pose skeleton related to the user image based on the selected at least one candidate body part. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185233 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEARNING POSE CLASSIFIER BASED ON DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ARCHITECTURE - A system and method for learning a pose classifier based on a distributed learning architecture. A pose classifier learning system may include an input unit to receive an input of a plurality of pieces of learning data, and a plurality of pose classifier learning devices to receive an input of a plurality of learning data sets including the plurality of pieces of learning data, and to learn each pose classifier. The pose classifier learning devices may share learning information in each stage, using a distributed/parallel framework. | 07-18-2013 |
20130271449 | METHOD OF GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) VOLUMETRIC DATA - A method of generating three-dimensional (3D) volumetric data may be performed by generating a multilayer image, generating volume information and a type of a visible part of an object, based on the generated multilayer image, and generating volume information and a type of an invisible part of the object, based on the generated multilayer image. The volume information and the type of each of the visible part and invisible part may be generated based on the generated multilayered image which may be include at least one of a ray-casting-based multilayer image, a chroma key screen-based multilayer image, and a primitive template-based multilayer image. | 10-17-2013 |
20130278633 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AUGMENTED REALITY SCENE - A method and system for generating an augmented reality (AR) scene may include obtaining real world information including multimedia information and sensor information associated with a real world, loading an AR locator representing a scheme for mixing the real world information and at least one virtual object content and the real world information onto an AR container, obtaining the at least one virtual object content corresponding to the real world information using the AR locator from a local storage or an AR contents server, and visualizing AR information by mixing the real world information and the at least one virtual object content based on the AR locator. | 10-24-2013 |
20140015931 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIRTUAL WORLD - A virtual world processing apparatus and method are provided. Sensed information related to an image taken in a real world is transmitted to a virtual world using image sensor capability information, which is information on a capability of an image sensor. | 01-16-2014 |
20140101604 | INTERFACING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE EXPLOITING MULTI-MODALITY - An interfacing device for providing a user interface (UI) exploiting a multi-modality may recognize at least two modality inputs for controlling a scene, and generate scene control information based on the at least two modality inputs. | 04-10-2014 |
20140168389 | 3D DISPLAY DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING 3D IMAGE USING AT LEAST ONE OF GAZE DIRECTION OF USER OR GRAVITY DIRECTION - A three-dimensional (3D) display device for displaying a 3D image using at least one of a gaze direction of a user and a gravity direction includes a gaze direction measuring unit to measure the gaze direction, a data obtaining unit to obtain 3D image data for the 3D image, a viewpoint information obtaining unit to obtain information relating to a viewpoint of the 3D image, a data transform unit to transform the 3D image data, based on the gaze direction and the information relating to the viewpoint of the 3D image, and a display unit to display the 3D image, based on the transformed 3D image data. | 06-19-2014 |
20140233848 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING OBJECT USING DEPTH IMAGE - An apparatus recognizes an object using a hole in a depth image. An apparatus may include a foreground extractor to extract a foreground from the depth image, a hole determiner to determine whether a hole is present in the depth image, based on the foreground and a color image, a feature vector generator to generate a feature vector, by generating a plurality of features corresponding to the object based on the foreground and the hole, and an object recognizer to recognize the object, based on the generated feature vector and at least one reference feature vector. | 08-21-2014 |
20140344743 | DISPLAY INFORMATION CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A display information controlling apparatus and method are provided. The display information controlling apparatus may select at least one object from one or more objects based on a location of each of the one or more objects on a display and a location on the display corresponding to a user input signal. The display information controlling apparatus may perform a predetermined operation corresponding to the selected at least one object. | 11-20-2014 |
20140363047 | ESTIMATOR TRAINING METHOD AND POSE ESTIMATING METHOD USING DEPTH IMAGE - An estimator training method and a pose estimating method using a depth image are disclosed, in which the estimator training method may train an estimator configured to estimate a pose of an object, based on an association between synthetic data and real data, and the pose estimating method may estimate the pose of the object using the trained estimator. | 12-11-2014 |
20140363076 | ESTIMATOR TRAINING METHOD AND POSE ESTIMATING METHOD USING DEPTH IMAGE - An estimator training method and a pose estimating method using a depth image are disclosed, in which the estimator training method may train an estimator configured to estimate a pose of an object, based on an association between synthetic data and real data, and the pose estimating method may estimate the pose of the object using the trained estimator. | 12-11-2014 |
20150022441 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING INTERFACING REGION IN DEPTH IMAGE - An apparatus for detecting an interfacing region in a depth image detects the interfacing region based on a depth of a first region and a depth of a second region which is an external region of the first region in a depth image. | 01-22-2015 |
20150023557 | APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING OBJECTS, APPARATUS FOR LEARNING CLASSIFICATION TREES, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME - An object recognition system is provided. The object recognition system for recognizing an object may include an input unit to receive, as an input, a depth image representing an object to be analyzed, and a processing unit to recognize a visible object part and a hidden object part of the object, from the depth image, by using a classification tree. The object recognition system may include a classification tree learning apparatus to generate the classification tree. | 01-22-2015 |