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20090055174 | Method and apparatus for automatically completing text input using speech recognition - Provided are a method and apparatus for automatically completing a text input using speech recognition. The method includes: receiving a first part of a text from a user through a text input device; recognizing a speech of the user, which corresponds to the text; and completing a remaining part of the text based on the first part of the text and the recognized speech. Therefore, accuracy of the text input and convenience of the speech recognition can be ensured, and a non-input part of the text can be easily input based on the input part of the text and the recognized speech at a high speed. | 02-26-2009 |
20090055179 | Method, medium and apparatus for providing mobile voice web service - Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a mobile voice web service in a mobile terminal. The method includes analyzing a web history of a user from web search logs of the user and generating a voice access list based on the analysis results, and performing voice recognition by dynamically generating a voice recognition syntax according to the generated voice access list. Accordingly, by limiting syntax required for voice recognition by generating a syntax suitable for a web context of the user, efficient voice recognition, which can be performed in a terminal not a server, can be implemented. | 02-26-2009 |
20090157383 | VOICE QUERY EXTENSION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A voice query extension method and system. The voice query extension method includes: detecting voice activity of a user from an input signal and extracting a feature vector from the voice activity; converting the feature vector into at least one phoneme sequence and generating the at least one phoneme sequence; matching the at least one phoneme sequence with words registered in a dictionary, extracting a string of the matched words with a linguistic meaning, and selecting the string of the matched words as a query; determining whether the query is in a predetermined first language, and when the query is not in the first language as a result of the determining, converting the query using a phoneme to grapheme rule, and generating a query in the first language; and searching using the query in the first language. | 06-18-2009 |
20090157398 | Method and apparatus for detecting noise - A method of and apparatus for detecting noise are provided. The method of detecting noise includes: receiving an input of a voice frame and converting the voice frame into a filter bank vector; converting the converted filter bank vector into band data; calculating a weight Gaussian mixture model (GMM) for each band by using the converted band data; and detecting noise in the voice frame based on the calculation result. | 06-18-2009 |
20100268533 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SPEECH - A speech detection apparatus and method are provided. The speech detection apparatus and method determine whether a frame is speech or not using feature information extracted from an input signal. The speech detection apparatus may estimate a situation related to an input frame and determine which feature information is required for speech detection for the input frame in the estimated situation. The speech detection apparatus may detect a speech signal using dynamic feature information that may be more suitable to the situation of a particular frame, instead of using the same feature information for each and every frame. | 10-21-2010 |
20100277579 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING VOICE BASED ON MOTION INFORMATION - Disclosed are an apparatus and method of deducing a user's intention using motion information. The user's intention deduction apparatus includes a speech intention determining unit configured to predict a speech intention regarding a user's speech using motion information sensed by at least one motion capture sensor, and a controller configured to control operation of detecting a voice section from a received sound signal based on the predicted speech intention. | 11-04-2010 |
20100280983 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING USER'S INTENTION BASED ON MULTIMODAL INFORMATION - Disclosed are an apparatus and method of deducing a user's intention using multimodal information. The user's intention deduction apparatus includes a first predictor to predict a part of a user's intention using at least one piece of motion information, and a second predictor to predict the user's intention using the predicted part of the user's intention and multimodal information received from at least one multimodal sensor. | 11-04-2010 |
20120173232 | ACOUSTIC PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An acoustic processing apparatus is provided. The acoustic processing apparatus including a first extracting unit configured to extract a first acoustic model that corresponds with a first position among positions set in a speech recognition target area, a second extracting unit configured to extract at least one second acoustic model that corresponds with, respectively, at least one second position in proximity to the first position, and an acoustic model generating unit configured to generate a third acoustic model based on the first acoustic model, the second acoustic model, or a combination thereof. | 07-05-2012 |
20120278066 | COMMUNICATION INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MULTI-USER AND SYSTEM - A communication interface apparatus for a system and a plurality of users is provided. The communication interface apparatus for the system and the plurality of users includes a first process unit configured to receive voice information and face information from at least one user, and determine whether the received voice information is voice information of at least one registered user based on user models corresponding to the respective received voice information and face information; a second process unit configured to receive the face information, and determine whether the at least one user's attention is on the system based on the received face information; and a third process unit configured to receive the voice information, analyze the received voice information, and determine whether the received voice information is substantially meaningful to the system based on a dialog model that represents conversation flow on a situation basis. | 11-01-2012 |
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20090291669 | METHOD FOR CREATING PHOTO FILES IN ACCORDANCE WITH SCHEDULER FUNCTION AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method for creating a photo file while photographing with a camera mounted in a mobile communication terminal. The mobile communication terminal determines whether schedule information associated with a photographing time exists in a scheduler program, and creates photo file information including the schedule information when schedule information associated with the photographing time exists. | 11-26-2009 |
20100048178 | Method and apparatus for deleting message in mobile terminal - A method and an apparatus efficiently deletes messages from a memory in a mobile terminal. In the method, a service message is received. Importance of the received service message is calculated. When there is no spare space for storing the received service message, a predetermined number of previously stored service messages are displayed according to importance of a message. At least one of the displayed service messages is selected and deleted. | 02-25-2010 |
20100079275 | Apparatus and method for controlling alarm in a portable terminal - A portable terminal includes an alarm control. A method for controlling an alarm includes determining whether an input fact to analyze an exceptional situation of an alarm operation is generated; analyzing the exceptional situation by rule using at least one fact; and when there is an alarm which is placed in the exceptional situation, cancelling the alarm. | 04-01-2010 |
20100105412 | Apparatus and method for providing position information in a mobile communication system - A method and an apparatus for providing position information in a mobile communication system includes setting, at a mobile communication terminal which requests to provide the position information, a position condition to provide the position information. The mobile communication terminal generates a message including the position condition, and sends the generated message to a correspondent terminal of which the position information is to be acquired. The mobile communications terminal also receives a position information request message including the position condition from a correspondent terminal, determines whether the position condition is violated or not by periodically acquiring its position information, and sends a message informing of the position information violation to the correspondent terminal when the position condition is violated. | 04-29-2010 |
20100130235 | Apparatus and method for providing map service using global positioning service in a moble terminal - An apparatus and method for providing a map service using a global positioning service in a mobile terminal includes determining a current position of the mobile terminal. A moving path of the mobile terminal is recorded. If content for key point marking are generated, a tag icon corresponding to the content is inserted into a point representing the current position of the mobile terminal. A map message includes the moving path, the tag icon, and the content. | 05-27-2010 |
20100208521 | Nonvolatile memory device, method of operating nonvolatile memory device and memory system including nonvolatile memory device - The method of operating the nonvolatile memory device may include performing a read operation on a first address region, comparing a read time of the first address region with a reference time, and storing read data from the read from the first address region in a second address region based on the comparison result. | 08-19-2010 |
20120030379 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSITING TERMINAL FUNCTION BETWEEN PORTABLE TERMINAL AND PERIPHERAL APPARATUS - An apparatus and method support transitioning a terminal function between a portable terminal and a peripheral device. A terminal function transition is requested to one or more peripheral devices. Transition data including information regarding configuration of a terminal function is transmitted to the one or more peripheral devices, such that when the terminal function cannot be performed, at least one of the one or more peripheral devices is to perform the terminal function based on the information regarding configuration of the terminal function. | 02-02-2012 |
20120089952 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE GESTURE RECOGNITION IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for gesture recognition in a portable terminal. An operation of the portable terminal includes determining a user situation by using at least one situation information, determining a user's gesture by using at least one sensor measurement value, and performing a function corresponding to the user situation and the gesture. | 04-12-2012 |
20120166536 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING QUERY IN PORTABLE TERMINAL FOR SOCIAL NETWORK - A portable terminal which supports a social network, more particularly, an apparatus and a method for generating a community with agents of the same character in a social network and processing an answer to a query by sharing information between the generated communities. The apparatus includes an agent determiner configured to set an agent for a first network object. The apparatus also includes a community setting part configured to establish a community with an agent for a first network and an agent for a second agent, select a first representative agent of the community, and establish a community with the first representative agent selected and other adjacent representative agents. | 06-28-2012 |
20120176915 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMISSION POWER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for controlling uplink transmission power in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes estimating a downlink path loss, determining a target Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) depending on the downlink path loss, determining an amount of power to compensate for a difference between the target SNR and an estimated SNR, and transmitting a power control message including a Transmit Power Control (TPC) command value to a terminal based on the determined amount of power. | 07-12-2012 |
20120226642 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSIDERING MULTI-USER PREFERENCE BASED ON MULTI-USER-CRITERIA GROUP - A method and apparatus for decision making considering a multi-user preference based on a multi-user-criterion group are provided. The method includes determining user information using ontology, determining an appointed area and an appointed category based on the user information, determining appointed candidate places belonging to the appointed area and appointed category, and determining a final appointed place among the appointed candidate places based on a user preference. | 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 |
20130007766 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTELLIGENCE-ORIENTED SERVICE USING CONTEXT INFORMATION ESTIMATION IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A method and an apparatus for providing an intelligence-oriented service using context information estimation in a mobile terminal are provided. In the method, a correlation relation between a low level context variable and a high level context variable is registered. The low level context variable is obtained from at least one data stored in the mobile terminal. The high level context variable is generated using at least one low level context variable. The high level context variable is provided to an upper application. | 01-03-2013 |
20140194147 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING BATTERY CONSUMPTION OF MOBILE TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method for reducing battery consumption of a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes calculating a current location of the mobile terminal, route information to a destination, and an alarm period for determining whether the mobile terminal has arrived at the destination or at a nearby region of the destination, if the destination is input, and deactivating a locating module before the alarm period has elapsed, determining whether the mobile terminal has arrived at the destination or the nearby region of the destination if the alarm period has elapsed, and notifying the user that the mobile terminal has arrived at the destination or the nearby region of the destination if the mobile terminal has arrived at the destination or the nearby region of the destination. | 07-10-2014 |
20140210754 | METHOD OF PERFORMING FUNCTION OF DEVICE AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method of performing a function of a device based on motion information of the device in a standby mode of the device, a device for performing the method are provided. The device includes a sensor configured to detect movement of the device in a standby mode of the device; a storage configured to store motion information based on information related to the movement and at least one piece of function information corresponding to the motion information; and a processor configured to control the device to perform a function corresponding to the motion information in the standby mode based on the information related to the movement, the motion information, and the at least one piece of function information. | 07-31-2014 |
20140273976 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXECUTING ALARM WITH RESPECT TO MISSED RECEIVED CALL FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method of executing an alarm with respect to a missed received call for a mobile communication terminal is provided. The method includes determining whether the mobile communication terminal is moving, and determining whether a missed received call occurs while the mobile communication terminal is moving, and executing an alarm with respect to the missed received call when it is determined that the mobile communication terminal does not move for a period of time if it is determined that the missed received call occurs while the mobile communication terminal is moving. | 09-18-2014 |
20140273995 | ALARM METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method for executing an alarm in a mobile communication terminal is provided. The alarm method includes determining whether a call request reject occurs, detecting at least one of preset schedule information, motion information of the mobile communication terminal, and location information of the mobile communication terminal from the time of the determining that the call request reject occurs, and executing an alarm that recommends a user to call a corresponding caller of the call request reject based on the detected at least one information. | 09-18-2014 |
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20090310412 | METHODS OF DATA MANAGEMENT IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES AND RELATED NON-VOLATILE MEMORY SYSTEMS - A data management method includes assigning data buffered in a first memory device into at least two different groups for transfer to a second memory device. At least one of the different groups has at least two units of the data assigned thereto. The data is transferred from the first memory device to the second memory device in a sequence according to a respective priority associated with each of the different groups and in group-by-group manner such that units of the data assigned to a group having a higher priority are transferred to the second memory device prior to units of the data assigned to a group having a lower priority. Related systems and methods are also discussed. | 12-17-2009 |
20130133008 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL BROADCASTING - An apparatus and method provide virtual broadcasting. A method of server operation for virtual broadcasting includes receiving a request for creation of a virtual broadcasting channel meeting a specific required condition from a first client, identifying a virtual group meeting the specific required condition, analyzing log data of second clients within the virtual group and, based on the analyzed result, providing broadcasting information meeting the specific condition, to the first client. | 05-23-2013 |
20140195018 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING EXERCISE INFORMATION OF USER - A method and a user terminal for identifying exercise information of a user are provided. The method includes detecting air pressure information at a location of the user terminal; identifying a state of a topography at the location of the user terminal by using the detected air pressure information; analyzing vertical movement and horizontal movement of the user terminal to identify movement information of the user terminal; and identifying the exercise information of the user according to the identified movement information of the user terminal and the identified state of the topography at the location of the user terminal. | 07-10-2014 |
20150024780 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PLACE RECOGNITION - A mobile terminal and method for controlling place recognition are provided. The method includes collecting at least one of state information about a mobile terminal and user information stored in the mobile terminal, determining whether a current place of the mobile terminal is a major place that the user has previously visited at least a number of times using the collected information, determining, if it is determined that the current place of the mobile terminal is a major place, whether the current place has been registered using at least one signal received externally, and outputting a result of the determination as to whether the current place has been registered. | 01-22-2015 |