Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090003434 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPOSING SCENE USING LASeR CONTENTS - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving LASeR contents are provided, in which content including at least one of a scene element and a scene element set that includes the scene element is received, for use in scene composition, and a scene is composed by selecting at least one of the at least one of the scene element and the scene element set included in the content according to at least one of a terminal type, a user preference, and a content-serviced party. | 01-01-2009 |
20090066783 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING STEREOSCOPIC FILE - A method and apparatus for generating a stereoscopic file defined based on a conventional International Standardization Organization (ISO) based media file format. The apparatus includes an encoder encoding first video data and second video data that are included in three-dimensional (3D) video data; and a file generating unit arranging the encoded first video data and second video data according to the information of a stereoscopic file format including boxes that are selected from boxes included in a conventional International Standardization Organization (ISO) based media file format in order to store and generate the stereoscopic file, and generating the stereoscopic file. | 03-12-2009 |
20090096864 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING STEREOSCOPIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE/VIDEO CONTENTS ON TERMINAL BASED ON LIGHTWEIGHT APPLICATION SCENE REPRESENTATION - A method for providing stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) image/video content in a terminal based on Lightweight Application Scene Representation (LASeR) is provided. The method includes receiving a LASeR content including therein stereoscopic 3D image/video information, decoding the received LASeR content according to a stereoscopic 3D image/video attribute, checking LASeR commands from the decoded LASeR content, carrying out the LASeR commands, parsing scene information including stereoscopic 3D image/video information included in the decoded LASeR content, determining whether a media object to be included in scene description is a stereoscopic 3D image/video according to the stereoscopic 3D image/video information and, when the media object to be included in scene description is a stereoscopic 3D image/video, displaying the stereoscopic 3D image/video according to whether the terminal supports a stereoscopic 3D image/video. | 04-16-2009 |
20090122134 | METHOD OF RECORDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA - A method of storing 3D image data in a recording medium includes: loading, in a predetermined file type field, image type information indicating either one of a single stereoscopic image or a compound image including a monoscopic image and a stereoscopic image; loading, in a predetermined image configuration information container field, scene descriptor information indicating temporal and spatial relations between a plurality of media objects included in the three-dimensional image, object configuration information indicating attributes of each media object of said plurality of media objects and a configuration relation between encoded streams of the plurality of media objects, configuration information of the encoded streams; loading in an image data container field media data of an image to be stored; and loading, in a meta container field, metadata including information for playing the 3D image data. | 05-14-2009 |
20090148070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND REPRODUCING IMAGE FILE INCLUDING 2D IMAGE AND 3D STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - An apparatus includes a storage unit to receive and store an image file, a processor to parse a media data field of the image file including one or more image data samples and to parse a media header field including an image type data field indicating whether each of the one or more image data samples is one of 2 dimensional (2D) image data and 3 dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image data to generate an image corresponding to one of a 2D image and a 3D stereoscopic image based on the image type data field of the image file, and a display unit to display the generated image according to the image type data field of the image file. | 06-11-2009 |
20090160932 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MULTIVIEW IMAGE DATA STREAM AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING THE SAME - Provided is a method and apparatus for generating a multi-view image data stream, the method including: recording multi-view image data onto the multi-view image data stream; recording onto the multi-view image data stream a multi-view image parameter recording parameter indicating whether a multi-view image parameter with regard to the multi-view image data is to be recorded onto the multi-view image data stream; and determining whether the multi-view image parameter is to be recorded onto the multi-view image data stream based on a value of the multi-view image data parameter recording parameter. | 06-25-2009 |
20090199100 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND DISPLAYING MEDIA FILES - A computer readable medium having data stored thereon is provided. A structure of the data includes a media data box including two or more media data, and a movie data (‘moov’) box including information on view sequence data in the media data. The ‘moov’ box includes track reference information indicating that a track box for one view sequence references a track box of another view sequence. | 08-06-2009 |
20090204997 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MOBILITY IN A MOBILE BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for supporting mobility in a mobile broadcasting system in which Electronic Service Guide (ESG) discovery is required. The mobility support is classified into three ways according to three different aspects. The first way is to provide roaming information for a local IPDC operator having a roaming partner among local IPDC operators. In the second way, a terminal transmits a query message for requesting transmission of information on a particular local IPDC operator, and receives information on the particular local IPDC operator in response thereto. The third way is to provide the terminal with type information of an ESG; an access type of which is classified according to provision of a roaming service. The roaming information, the information on the particular local IPDC operator and the type information of the ESG, which are provided to the terminal from the mobile broadcasting system, can be provided in an ESG bootstrap level. | 08-13-2009 |
20090208119 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AND PLAYING IMAGE FILES FOR SLIDESHOWS - A system for generating and playing image files for slideshows is provided. The system includes an image file generator that generates image files. Each image file has an image track including at least two images for slideshow images and information for the slideshow images enabling at least two images to be sequentially displayed at specified time intervals. The system also includes an image file player that extracts the information for the slideshow images from the image files inputted from the image file generator, and provides the at least two images of the image track for a slideshow service. | 08-20-2009 |
20090219282 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING DATASTREAM INCLUDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON MULTIVIEW IMAGE AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING DATASTREAM BY USING THE SAME - Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a datastream into which multiview image information is inserted. The method of decoding a multiview image datastream includes extracting multiview image information including information on at least one view image of a multiview image, from at least one elementary stream of the multiview image datastream; extracting a multiview image parameter regarding the multiview image based on the number of elementary streams and a correlation between view images of the multiview image; and restoring the multiview image by using the extracted multiview image parameter and the extracted multiview image information. | 09-03-2009 |
20090265603 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPOSING SCENES USING RICH MEDIA CONTENTS - A user interface method and apparatus for a Rich Media service in a terminal. A decoder decodes a received stream to check a header of the received stream. A renderer adaptively composes a scene using scene composition elements of the received stream, according to adaptation information in the header checked by the decoder, and a display displays the adaptively composed scene. | 10-22-2009 |
20090284583 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATIHNG AND DISPLAYING MEDIA FILE - A method and apparatus for creating and displaying a media file. A computer-readable recording medium is disclosed for storing stereoscopic content having two or more tracks and stereoscopic video-related information of each track in the stereoscopic content. The medium includes a duplication indication field indicating duplication of stereoscopic video-related information of each track in the stereoscopic content, and a track reference field including information used to connect a current track to at least one other track to which the current rack refers. | 11-19-2009 |
20100017372 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE SERVICE IN A MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM - An apparatus and method are provided for providing a User Interface (UI) service in a multimedia system. The method includes receiving UI data from a UI server; abstracting UI data that is structuralized on an object-by-object basis, and corresponds to an input from a UI client; creating adaptive UI data by reflecting a UI environment of a device for displaying, in the abstracted UI data; and displaying the created adaptive UI data. | 01-21-2010 |
20100017504 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING RICH MEDIA CONTENT - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving rich media content. A creator creates configuration information of each node formed in a hierarchical structure in a changeable format in which a driver can change the configuration information, and transmits content including the configuration information of each node to the driver. A driver receives the content, determines whether configuration information of each node formed in a hierarchical structure in the received content is created in the changeable format, reconfigures each node when the configuration information is created in the changeable format, and performs an application on the reconfigured node. | 01-21-2010 |
20100023530 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RICH MEDIA SERVICE - A method is provided for providing a received rich media service by a terminal. The method includes receiving and decoding service content, searching for reference information using representation information of the reference information in the received service content, and composing the received service content in a form that can be provided to a user, using the searched reference information. The composed service content is then output to the user through a user interface. | 01-28-2010 |
20100064138 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SECURITY SERVICE OF USER INTERFACE - An apparatus and method for providing a security service for UI applications in a network system. In a network supporting a user interface, encryption-unneeded data is distinguished from data in which security identifier is specified, that indicates a need for security between a server and a communication device, and the distinguished data is transmitted over a security channel and a general channel separately. | 03-11-2010 |
20100083336 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RICH MEDIA SERVICE - A method and apparatus for providing rich media service that is capable of serving rich media contents in adaptation to terminal capability and condition using the information on the complexity of the content and the operation level and memory space required to render the content is provided. The rich media service provision method includes defining scene component elements composing a rich media content and attributes of the scene component elements; calculating operation amount required to render the rich media content; generating the rich media content composed of the scene component elements and attributes, the operation amount being contained one of the scene component elements and attributes; and encoding and transmitting the rich media content. | 04-01-2010 |
20100095228 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE BASED ON STRUCTURED RICH MEDIA DATA - An apparatus and method are provided for providing a structured rich media-based User Interface (UI) for producing situation-adaptive UI with a structured UI format composed of the rich media data including diverse multimedia and interactions. AUI UI format is created that includes a header and scene data. The header contains basic information on the UI and the scene data is composed of the UI. The UI format is encoded. The encoded UI format is transmitted. The header further includes initial information, configuration information, and layout information. | 04-15-2010 |
20100115129 | CONDITIONAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A conditional processing method and apparatus for efficient memory management are provided. A conditional processing method includes generating a parse tree by loading a plurality of nodes of data structured based on a declarative description language in a memory in series; evaluating, when a parsing switch node having an attribute describing a condition for conditional processing exists among the nodes, child nodes of the parsing switch node according to the attribute; loading only the child nodes fulfilling the attribute in the memory; and outputting the child nodes retained on the memory. | 05-06-2010 |
20100180310 | RICH MEDIA-ENABLED SERVICE GUIDE PROVISION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BROADCAST SERVICE - A service guide provision method and system for a digital broadcast service is provided for distributing a rich media-enabled service guide. A rich media-enabled service guide provisioning method for a digital broadcast service includes creating a Rich Media Solution (RMS) template for a service guide with reference to service guide fragments; creating a service guide delivery descriptor containing RMS information on the RMS template and service guide fragment information on the service guide fragments; and broadcasting the service guide fragments, the RMS template, and the service guide delivery descriptor. | 07-15-2010 |
20100192078 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING USER INTERFACE COMPOSED OF COMPONENT OBJECTS - A method and apparatus for processing a rich media user interface composed of a plurality of component objects that is capable of transferring information from a group of component objects having a specific function but not supporting the export of information to a group of component objects importing information only through predetermined paths through unpredictable path are provided. The method for processing content composed of user interface component objects includes receiving content including a plurality of user interface component objects, extracting exportable information which is defined to be exportable outside the content, and transferring the extracted exportable information to a target object. | 07-29-2010 |
20100242071 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING USER INFORMATION BETWEEN TERMINALS IN BROADCAST STREAMING SERVICE - A method and apparatus for transferring user information between different terminals are disclosed. The method includes saving by a first terminal, when a change is made to user information during playback of content, the changed user information in a scene history, performing a terminal change from the first terminal to a second terminal, and resuming, by the second terminal, playback of the content from a continued scene after the last scene played back by the first terminal. Consequently, in a terminal change, the user may use the second terminal to play back the same content from the continued scene using the same content usage environment as the first terminal. | 09-23-2010 |
20100318601 | WIDGET ACTIVATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A method and apparatus for activating a group widget by a widget client are provided. The method includes receiving widgets from at least one surrounding widget server, analyzing the received widgets and grouping the widgets according to the result of the analysis, generating grouped widgets as a group widget, if an event is received from a user, converting a received event into an event related to a configuration widget of a group widget, transmitting the converted event to a corresponding widget server, and receiving a processing result from the widget server which received the transmitted event. | 12-16-2010 |
20100325203 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A USER INTERFACE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a User Interface (UI) to a client in a communication system supporting a Remote User Interface (RUI), in which a representation level of a UI requested by the client is determined, whether the representation level is available in a service provided to the client is determined, and a UI having an available representation level is provided to the client, according to the determination results. | 12-23-2010 |
20110041078 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATION OF INTEGRATED USER INTERFACE - A method and device for creating an integrated User Interface (UI) by combining individual application UIs. The device receives application UIs from individual UI providing devices, combines the application UIs into the integrated UI, and displays the integrated UI. When an application UI is selected from the integrated UI, the device sends a function invocation signal to a corresponding device in order to perform the particular function corresponding to the selected application UI. | 02-17-2011 |
20110145430 | STREAMING METHOD AND APPARATUS OPERATING BY INSERTING OTHER CONTENT INTO MAIN CONTENT - A method and apparatus for reproducing media data are provided. The method includes: receiving a first file including information about a period of first content and information about a period of second content; receiving and reproducing media data of the first content based on the received first file; stopping reproducing of the media data of the first content and receiving and reproducing media data of the second content based on the first file; and receiving and reproducing the media data of the first content when the reproducing the media data of the second content is completed, wherein the information about the period of the second content includes location information about the second media data of the second content or location information of a second file including the location information about the second media data of the second content. | 06-16-2011 |
20120002947 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AND PLAYING A MEDIA FILE, AND A RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - A method and recording apparatus for recording a media file onto a computer-readable recording medium. The apparatus includes a generator for generating a box including media data of a first content, a box including metadata information for playing the media data of the first content, a box including media data of a second content, and a box including metadata information for playing the media data of the second content, and a storage for storing the generated boxes. The box including the media data of the second content and the box including the metadata information for playing the media data of the second content each includes identification information for the second content. | 01-05-2012 |
20120005303 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A CONTENT FILE INCLUDING MULTIPLE STREAMS - A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting and playing complex content including a plurality of content. A method of playing the complex content includes receiving, from a server, the complex content and classification information corresponding to the complex content, classifying the plurality of content according to the classification information, and playing the complex content based on the classified plurality of content. | 01-05-2012 |
20120011225 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BROADCAST CONTENT AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A method and apparatus for providing broadcast content by an adaptive streaming service and a system using the same are provided, in which a content transmission server configures and transmits a manifest file including a content IDentifier (ID), and a client device receives the manifest file, determines whether the content ID included in the manifest file is identical to an ID of user-requested content for recording, and records a content segment received from a content providing server, if the content ID included in the manifest file is identical to the ID of the user-requested content. | 01-12-2012 |
20120023253 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING ADAPTIVE STREAMING MECHANISM-BASED CONTENT - Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting adaptive streaming mechanism-based content. Representations, which include content components, are combined into a group. At least two of the group, a representation, and a content component type are combined into a subset. The subset is transmitted. | 01-26-2012 |
20120128334 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MASHUP OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - An apparatus and method for combining multimedia data are provided. The method includes obtaining first multimedia content from a first source, obtaining second multimedia content from a second source, selectively combining the first multimedia content with the second multimedia content, and outputting the selectively combined multimedia content. According to implementations of the invention, selected portions and/or fragments of multimedia content may be mashed up rather than the entirety of the multimedia content from either or both sources. Also, the mashup of the multimedia content may be varied and adapted based on the characteristics of the device performing the mashup as well as the characteristics of the available transport mechanism. Finally, implementations of the invention provide for flexible transformation and precise synchronization among multimedia elements. | 05-24-2012 |
20120185607 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STORING AND PLAYING CONTENT IN A MULTIMEDIA STREAMING SYSTEM - To store and play contents streamed in a multimedia streaming system, an operating method of a server in the multimedia streaming system includes receiving a transmission request for a Media Presentation Description (MPD) file; and transmitting the MPD file including a flag indicating whether it is possible to generate a media file that is playable by a media file player by concatenating transmitted segments. | 07-19-2012 |
20120188335 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING 3D VIDEO - A plurality of video input units generate video frames and provide shooting characteristics. A 3D video frame generator creates a 3D video frame by combining a plurality of video frames, which are provided from the plurality of video input units, respectively, and provides 3D video frame composition information indicating a composition type of the plurality of video frames included in the 3D video frame, and resolution control information indicating adjustment/non-adjustment of resolutions of the video frames. A 3D video frame encoder outputs an encoded 3D video stream by encoding the 3D video frame provided from the 3D video frame generator. A composition information checker checks 3D video composition information including the shooting information, the 3D video frame composition information, and the resolution control information. A 3D video data generator generates 3D video data by combining the 3D video composition information and the encoded 3D video stream. | 07-26-2012 |
20120239712 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING AND PLAYING SENSORY EFFECT MEDIA INTEGRATION DATA FILES - A method and apparatus for constructing and playing a sensory effect media integration data file in which media type information indicating a type of media data and a sensory effect indicator configured to indicate whether sensory effect information is included or not are inserted in a file type field, configuration information representing an attribute of at least one media data is inserted in a configuration information container field, a coded stream of the media data is inserted in a media data container field, and the sensory effect information is inserted in one of the file type field and the configuration information container field according to a relationship between sensory effects and the media data. | 09-20-2012 |
20120296921 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING/PLAYING A CONTENT FILE - A real-time service method and apparatus for providing information generated in real-time mode are provided. The method includes generating, by a file generator a contents file including contents configuration related information and real-time service related information such that the contents configuration related information and the real-time service related information are separated within the contents file; and transmitting, by a transmitter, the generated file to a receiving device. | 11-22-2012 |
20130132579 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA CONTENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A multimedia contents random access method for a wireless communication system is provided. The live content access method of a client in a wireless communication system according to the present invention includes receiving a request for playing a content, receiving content structure information on the content from a content transfer server, receiving content segments and random access informations of the content segments from a content provision server using the content structure information, and performing, when a random access request is received, random access to the content segments using the random access information. The content random access method of the present invention is capable of accessing the content in unit of content segment such that it is possible to access a past time point in the content even before all of the content segments are received completely. | 05-23-2013 |
20130291040 | TRANSMISSION METHOD AND TRANSMISSION APPARATUS FOR A COMBINED BROADCASTING AND COMMUNICATION SERVICE - A reception method for a combined broadcasting and communication service includes receiving first metadata including second metadata, displaying the feasibility of reception of multimedia data replacing a broadcast program based on the first metadata including the second metadata, and receiving the multimedia data replacing the broadcast program through an Internet Protocol (IP) network based on the second metadata when the multimedia data replacing the broadcast program is determined, wherein the first metadata includes position information about the broadcast program, and the second metadata includes position information of the multimedia data replacing the broadcast program. Accordingly, a high-quality broadcast may be received. | 10-31-2013 |