Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130055069 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSERTING IMAGE INTO ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - A method of inserting an image into an electronic document, the method including receiving setting information and identification information regarding the image; determining whether the image included in image data corresponds to the identification information by using a result of analysis of the image data; and according to a result of the determination, inserting the image corresponding to the identification information into a position of the electronic document, according to the setting information. | 02-28-2013 |
20130076893 | OBSTACLE SENSOR AND ROBOT CLEANER HAVING THE SAME - An obstacle sensor includes a line light irradiating unit including a light-emitting unit, a light-emitting driving unit to drive the light-emitting unit, and a first conical mirror, an apex of which is disposed towards the light-emitting unit in a light irradiation direction of the light-emitting unit and which converts light emitted from the light-emitting unit into line light irradiated in all directions, and a reflected light receiving unit including a second conical mirror to condense light, that is irradiated from the first conical mirror and is then reflected from an obstacle, a lens, that is spaced from the apex of the second conical mirror by a predetermined distance and transmits the reflected light, an imaging unit to image the reflected light that passes through the lens, an image processing unit, and an obstacle sensing control unit. | 03-28-2013 |
20130199327 | LINK UNIT, ARM MODULE, AND SURGICAL APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A surgical apparatus having sufficient rigidity in a fixed mode and being freely operable in a steering mode includes one or more arm modules having at least one degree of freedom, each arm module including at least one steering cable to steer the arm module and a plurality of link units to form the at least one arm module, each link unit including a head disposed at an upper portion thereof and having a hemispherical shape, a seat formed at a lower portion thereof, and a sliding ball arranged at the seat, wherein the link units are arranged such that the head of one of the link units is seated on the seat of the other of the link units, and the head of one of the link units and the seat of the other of the link units are slid with respect to each other by the sliding ball. | 08-08-2013 |
20140111820 | USER TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROL THEREOF - A user terminal apparatus is provided, which connects to an image forming apparatus, which is driven by an operating system (O/S, and which includes a storage to store the image forming apparatus and a metro application to perform a job. A display displays a background screen of the including a user interface (UI) area corresponding to a job option, a controller implements the metro application, if the UI area is selected, and a communication interface transmits a command to perform the job to the image forming apparatus according to the job option corresponding to the UI area, by using the metro application. | 04-24-2014 |
20140111821 | USER TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREOF - A user terminal apparatus to connect to an image forming apparatus having a scan function to be driven on an operating system of Windows 8™ includes a storage to store a metro application which displays a user interface window to receive a command to perform a scan job and a V4 driver to communicate with the image forming apparatus, a user interface to perform the scan job of the image forming apparatus by utilizing the user interface window provided by the metro application, if the metro application implements, a communicating interface to request and receive address information of the image forming apparatus by utilizing the V4 driver, and a controller to control the communicating interface to transmit the command to perform the scan job to the image forming apparatus based on the received address information and to receive the scan data corresponding to the command to perform the scan job. | 04-24-2014 |
20140194699 | SINGLE PORT SURGICAL ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A single port surgical robot capable of setting the location of a remote center motion (RCM) point, and a control method thereof includes: a first link connected to a body by a first joint in a direction perpendicular to the body, the first link having a linear structure; a second link connected to the upper end of the first link by a second joint, the second link having a curved structure; a third link connected to the upper end of the second link by a third joint, the third link having a cylindrical structure; a plurality of light-emitting units arranged on the lower end of the third link along the circumference of the third link, and configured to emit light toward a remote center motion (RCM) point; and a controller configured to adjust the location of the RCM point. | 07-10-2014 |
20140257331 | LAPAROSCOPIC SURGICAL DEVICES HAVING WIRE REDUCER - Laparoscopic surgical devices include a first member having a first gear, a second member having a second gear corresponding to the first gear, a connection member configured to connect the first member and the second member; first and second wire mounting pieces respectively at the first and second members, a first wire wound on the first wire mounting pieces so as to be pulled upon receiving a first drive force; and a second wire wound on the second wire mounting pieces so as to be pulled upon receiving a second drive force. The drive unit is configured to selectively transmit the first and second amplified driving forces to a respective one the first member and the second member to cause tilting of the first member and the second member. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257336 | ENDOSCOPIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS - An endoscopic surgical instrument may include: two surgical instrument modules, each of which is provided with a surgical instrument portion; and/or an endoscopic module configured to form a triangular shape with the two surgical instrument modules and configured to capture operations of the surgical instrument modules at different angles using a plurality of joints. Wires connecting respective members coupled by the plurality of joints may be configured to amplify drive forces of a drive portion applied to the plurality of joints. The plurality of joints may include rolling joints at which teeth of gears engage and rotate with each other. The plurality of joints may provide three or more degrees of freedom to the endoscopic module. | 09-11-2014 |
20140303644 | SURGICAL ROBOT - A surgical robot including a slave device provided with a surgical instrument includes a body having at least one link that includes a plurality of solenoid segments, and an end effector mounted to one end of the body. | 10-09-2014 |
20140309659 | SURGICAL ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A surgical robot including a slave arm and an instrument provided at the slave arm to be introduced into a single port to perform surgery. The instrument includes a plurality of surgical instrument members to perform surgery while coming into contact with a surgical object, and a plurality of arm members. The arm members include surgical position regulators to move the surgical instrument members from the single port to a first surgical region where the surgical object is located, and surgical workers connecting the surgical position regulators and the surgical instrument members to each other, the surgical workers serving to move the surgical instrument members to a position close to surgical object within the first surgical region. The single-port surgical robot may effectively perform simultaneous surgery upon various surgical regions like multi-port surgery. | 10-16-2014 |