Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110145697 | DEVICE FOR SCENE PRESENTATION OF STRUCTURED INFORMATION - A method for performing presentation with reference to structured information existing in an internal or external is defined. A scene presentation device may present a scene with reference to the structured information based on the defined method. | 06-16-2011 |
20120023161 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA SERVICE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein are a system and a method for providing multimedia services capable of providing various types of multimedia contents and information sensed at multi-points to users at a high rate and in real time at the time of providing the multimedia contents and sense scene representation and sensory effects for multimedia contents corresponding to multimedia services through the multi-points according to service requests of the multimedia services that users want to receive, encode and transmit the sensed information for scene representation and sensory effects with binary representation according to the sensing, transmit device command data for the sensed scene representation and sensory effects, drive and control user devices according the device command data to provide the scene representation and the sensory effects for the multimedia contents to the users. | 01-26-2012 |
20120133754 | GAZE TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTERNET PROTOCOL TV AT A DISTANCE - A remote gaze tracking apparatus and method for controlling an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) are provided. An entire image including a facial region of a user may be acquired using a visible ray, the facial region may be detected from the acquired entire image, and a face width, a distance between eyes, and a distance between an eye and a screen may be acquired from the detected facial region. Additionally, an enlarged eye image corresponding to a face of the user may be acquired using at least one of the acquired face width, the acquired distance between the eyes, and the acquired distance between the eye and the screen, and an eye gaze of the user may be tracked using the acquired eye image. | 05-31-2012 |
20120206578 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EYE CONTACT USING COMPOSITION OF FRONT VIEW IMAGE - Provided is an apparatus and method for an eye contact using composition of a front view image, the apparatus including: an image acquiring unit to acquire a multi-camera image; a preprocessing unit to preprocess the acquired multi-camera image; a depth information search unit to search for depth information of the preprocessed multi-camera image; and an image composition unit to compose the front view image using the found depth information. | 08-16-2012 |
20120319813 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A SCENE - Provided is an apparatus and method for processing a scene that may prevent overload of a scene caused by transmission of excessive information, by generating geometric information corresponding to meaningful information, as which sensed information may be construed semantically, and by only transmitting the geometric information to the scene, instead of transmitting, to the scene, all of the sensed information with respect to a real world. | 12-20-2012 |
20130128057 | GEOMETRIC CORRECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON RECURSIVE BEZIER PATCH SUB-DIVISION CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION - Provided is a geometric correction apparatus and method based on a recursive Bezier patch sub-division. A geometric correction method may include: receiving, from a camera, a first image that is obtained by photographing a black screen that is projected by a projector onto a projection surface; receiving, from the camera, a second image that is obtained by photographing a predetermined pattern that is projected by the projector onto the projection screen; generating a third image by subtracting the first image from the second image; and performing geometric correction with respect to the predetermined pattern to correct a distortion between the predetermined pattern and the third image. | 05-23-2013 |
20130156407 | PROGRESSIVE VIDEO STREAMING APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON VISUAL PERCEPTION - A progressive video streaming apparatus and method based on a visual perception are provided, and the progressive video streaming apparatus may include a gaze detector to detect gaze information including at least one of a location of a focus and a viewing angle of a user, a video playback quality determiner to determine video playback quality layers, based on the detected gaze information, a progressive streaming receiver to request video data and receive the video data, using a visual perception priority based on the detected gaze information, and a visual perception-based player to play back the received video data, by controlling an interactive delay to be reduced below a selected criterion, while reducing a visually recognized quality change in the received video data below another selected criterion. | 06-20-2013 |
20130194292 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING COLOR OF IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE - An apparatus and a method for correcting colors of an image projection device are provided. The method includes: acquiring a photographed image by photographing a sample image projected on projection surface; generating input-output color information for n regions, based on color values of a block in the sample image and corresponding color values of the block in the photographed image; selecting one of the n regions of photographed images as a reference region; generating look-up tables (LUTs) for non-reference regions, based on the reference region and the input and output color information; and correcting colors of input images to be projected by the image projection device using the look-up tables, thereby minimizing color difference of the input images on the projection surface for both intra and inter projection device color correction while simplifying the correction procedure. | 08-01-2013 |
20130250045 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND CONSUMING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DATA FORMAT TO GENERATE REALISTIC PANORAMIC IMAGE - An apparatus and method for generating and consuming a three-dimensional (3D) data format to generate a realistic panoramic image are provided. The apparatus may include an image preprocessing unit to search for a matching point between images captured by a plurality of cameras, and to extract, as image information, at least one of a depth value, a texture value and object division information from each of the captured images, an image information structuring unit to structure 3D data to use the extracted image information to generate a realistic image, a 3D data format storage unit to store format information of the to structured 3D data in a database (DB), realistic image generating unit to generate a realistic panoramic image using the stored format information of the 3D data, and a realistic image rendering unit to perform rendering on the generated realistic panoramic image. | 09-26-2013 |
20130285901 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING GAZE AT DISTANCE - A system and method for tracking a gaze at a distance are provided. A remote gaze tracking system may include an infrared lighting unit including a plurality of infrared lightings to emit an infrared light toward a user, a gaze tracking module to track a position of a face of the user, and to collect, from the tracked position of the face, an eye image including at least one reflected light among a plurality of corneal reflected lights and a lens-reflected light, the corneal reflected lights being reflected from a cornea by the emitted infrared light, and the lens-reflected light being reflected from a lens of glasses, and a processor to compare a magnitude of the lens-reflected light with a threshold in the collected eye image, and when the magnitude of the lens-reflected light is equal to or less than the threshold, to detect coordinates of a center of each of the plurality of corneal reflected lights, and to calculate a gaze position. | 10-31-2013 |
20140047309 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING CONTENT WITH DATA - Provided is an apparatus and method for synchronizing content with data that may extract content feature information of the content, and control synchronization by comparing the content feature information and data feature information described in the data. | 02-13-2014 |
20140098198 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EYE TRACKING - A gaze tracking apparatus and method are provided that may calculate a three-dimensional (3D) position of a user using at least two wide angle cameras, may perform panning, tilting, and focusing based on position information of the user and eye region detection information, using a narrow angle camera, may detect pupil center information and corneal reflected light information from an eye image acquired through an operation of the narrow angle camera, and may finally calculate gaze position information from the pupil center information and the corneal reflected light information. | 04-10-2014 |
20150026242 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT - A method of receiving content in a client is provided. The method may include receiving, from a server, a spatial set identifier (ID) corresponding to a tile group including at least one tile, sending, to the server, a request for first content corresponding to metadata, and receiving, from the server, the first content corresponding to the request. | 01-22-2015 |