Patent application number | Description | Published |
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20090154565 | Video data compression method, medium, and system - A video data compression method, medium, and system. The video data compression method, medium, and system includes receiving image data, generating background model data of the image data, determining a moving object region based on the image data and the background model data, estimating a motion value of the moving object region, and compressing the image data by referring to at least one of the background model data and the estimated motion value. | 06-18-2009 |
20110052061 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM MOVING PICTURE - Provided is a method of detecting important information from a moving picture. The method includes: detecting first candidate areas that are presumed to include important information in a plurality of moving picture frames by using stop edge information, which is edge information overlapped at a same position throughout the plurality of moving picture frames, from among edge information in at least two received moving picture frames; determining second candidate areas by performing grouping on the stop edge information according to a position of the stop edge information in the first candidate areas; analyzing the second candidate areas determined in the at least two moving picture frames; and detecting important information areas from each of the at least two moving picture frames based on the analysis. | 03-03-2011 |
20110106657 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING SEARCH SERVICE, USER TERMINAL FOR PERFORMING SEARCH OF OBJECT, AND METHODS THEREOF - A method for providing a search service of a display apparatus includes receiving a selection of an object by displaying a screen that displays at least one object, and providing location information adaptive to the user terminal to the user terminal using all location information of the searched object and information regarding a user location. Accordingly, a user may conveniently search a desired object. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106917 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A DEVICE TO PROVIDE WITH CONTENT BASED ON CONTENT ATTRIBUTE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method for providing content where one device from among a plurality of devices is determined as a device to transmit the content to, based on the attribute of the requested content. Accordingly, device utilization is optimized by providing the content to the device with the highest priority to play back the content based on the attribute of the content. | 05-05-2011 |
20110107219 | SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING SERVICE THEREOF - A service providing apparatus and method are provided. The service providing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives content metadata and a controller that determines a related service based on the received content metadata and a user metadata, and provides a determined related service. | 05-05-2011 |
20110119296 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING DATA - A method of displaying data including searching for target content that matches information indicated by a first coordinate on a first coordinate axis and information indicated by a second coordinate on a second coordinate axis, and displaying the target content at a position corresponding to the first coordinate and the second coordinate. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119313 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DATA - Methods and apparatuses for managing data. The method includes obtaining first data including a plurality of components, determining at least one component to be reproduced by an external device from among the plurality of components, based on metadata about the external device, and generating second data using the at least one component from the first data. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119347 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CONTENT - An apparatus and method for managing content, wherein the method includes determining an event to occur, based on user metadata, selecting content corresponding to the event, selecting an external device to reproduce the content, and then generating binding information about a binding between the event, the content, and the external device. | 05-19-2011 |
20110159858 | USER TERMINAL, METHOD FOR PROVIDING POSITION AND METHOD FOR GUIDING ROUTE THEREOF - A user terminal generates position information regarding a position of the user terminal, generates target recognition information for recognizing a target, communicates with a counterpart terminal, and determines whether the target recognition information conforms with first reference information. If so, the user terminal transmits the target recognition information and the position information to the counterpart terminal, and if the information does not conform, the terminal determines whether the target recognition information conforms with second reference information. Accordingly, the user terminal easily provides route guidance to a destination. | 06-30-2011 |
20110182518 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING FOR IMAGE - A method and apparatus for searching for an image are provided. The method includes: determining whether a unique identifier exists in metadata of an input image to be searched for; when the unique identifier exists in the metadata, searching for an original image of the input image in a target device by using the unique identifier; when the unique identifier does not exist in the metadata, extracting a characteristic value of the input image; and when the unique identifier does not exist in the metadata, searching for the original image by comparing the extracted characteristic value with one or more characteristic values of one or more images stored in the target device. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184980 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING IMAGE - An apparatus for providing an image is provided. The apparatus including a storage unit for storing an image, a receiving unit for receiving an event associated with a predetermined image from an external device, an additional information extracting unit for extracting additional information from the stored image, a filtering unit for selecting at least one image corresponding to the event through filtering, and a transmission unit for transmitting the selected image. | 07-28-2011 |
20120039515 | Method and system for classifying scene for each person in video - Described is a method of classifying a scene for each person in a video, the method including: detecting a face within input video frames; detecting a shot change of the input video frames; extracting a person representation frame in the shot; performing a person clustering in the extracted person representation frame based on time information; detecting a scene change by separating a person portion from a background based on face extraction information, and comparing the person portion and the background; and merging similar clusters from the extracted person representation frame and performing a scene clustering for each person. | 02-16-2012 |
20120136893 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING CONTENTS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for searching for contents in a communication system are provided. A method of a search system for searching for contents includes obtaining a plurality of keywords from a terminal; determining a meaning of each keyword based on relations between the plurality of the keywords; searching for contents corresponding to the meaning of each keyword among contents provided from an open knowledge system; and providing a contents search result to the terminal. | 05-31-2012 |
20120215778 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTENT DATA IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for managing content data of a portable terminal. for the method allows the portable terminal to be able to assign a user's preference on content data by assigning the preference on the content data to data information such as meta-data. The apparatus includes a preference manager configured to assign a preference on acquired content data, and a content manager configured to determine a transmission priority and sorting rule for the content data by confirming the assigned preference. | 08-23-2012 |
20120224833 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEGMENTING VIDEO DATA IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - In one embodiment, a method for segmenting video data in a mobile communication terminal includes acquiring sensor data periodically together with video data during video shooting, and segmenting the video data based on the acquired sensor data. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226752 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING MEDIA BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for sharing media using a social network in a communication system are provided. A method of a transmit terminal for sharing media using a social network includes transmitting to a media server, identification information relating to at least one counterpart terminal, generating media comprising location information associated with the media, and registering the generated media to the media server. A method of a receive terminal for sharing media using a social network includes transmitting to a media server, identification information relating to at least one counterpart terminal, transmitting location information of the receive terminal to the media server, and receiving from the media server, media corresponding to the location information among media registered by the at least one counterpart terminal. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226996 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING COMMENT IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method share a comment related to contents in a mobile communication terminal. In the method, a comment regarding a contents file that is being reproduced is received. A comment Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is read from a metadata storage space of the contents file. The comment regarding the contents file is stored in a storage space of the comment URL. | 09-06-2012 |
20120284342 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTING DEVICES - A system and method is capable e of connecting devices including receiving from a first device a request to select a plurality of second devices according to predetermined conditions required by the first device. The system also can generate a virtual device channel for connecting the plurality of second devices to the first device. | 11-08-2012 |
20130138674 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING APPLICATION BY USING KEYWORD - A system and method for recommending an application by using a keyword. A keyword-based application recommending user terminal includes a keyword extraction unit for extracting a keyword from an application that is running, a recommended application determination unit for determining an application to be recommended to correspond to the extracted keyword and a display unit for displaying the determined application. | 05-30-2013 |