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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160132490 | WORD COMFORT/DISCOMFORT INDEX PREDICTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - Disclosed are a word comfort/discomfort index prediction apparatus and method therefore. The word comfort/discomfort index prediction apparatus includes: a calculation unit calculating emotional associations between the word and one or more respective comparative words, calculating emotional associations between at least one predefined reference word and the one or more respective comparative words, and calculating an emotional similarity between the word and each of the at least one reference word; and a prediction unit predicting the comfort/discomfort index of the word by using the at least one emotional similarity and a predefined comfort/discomfort index of the at least one reference word. | 05-12-2016 |
20160125248 | METHOD AND SERVICE SERVER FOR PROVIDING PASSENGER DENSITY INFORMATION - A method and service server for providing passenger density information are provided. The service server for providing passenger density information of a car according to an embodiment of the invention may include: a motion vector detection unit that detects motion vectors generated by the movements of passengers from a captured image of the inside of the car; a head recognition unit that recognizes the heads of passengers from the image; and a density information generation unit that generates the passenger density information of the car by using one or more of the motion vectors, a result of head recognition of the passengers, and tag sensor information received from sensors installed in the car. | 05-05-2016 |
20160100340 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING MOBILITY OF MOBILE TERMINAL IN DISTRIBUTED MOBILE NETWORK BASED ON A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK - A method and a system for supporting mobility of a mobile terminal in a distributed mobile network based on a SDN are disclosed. A method of supporting a fast handover of a mobile terminal in a node-B (eNB) includes the steps of: receiving a handover initiation message from the mobile terminal, the handover initiation message including identification information and signal strength of a target eNB; determining whether or not for a fast handover trigger using the signal strength of the target eNB and movement history of the mobile terminal previously stored; and when it is determined as the fast handover trigger, transmitting a handover request message and a rule for the handover to the target eNB by using the identification information of the target eNB. | 04-07-2016 |
20150381067 | MULTIPLE OUTPUT CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A multiple output converter is provided. The multiple output converter includes a power conversion circuit and a switching control unit. The power conversion circuit includes an input unit having at least one first switch, a transformer unit configured to convert a magnitude of power from the input unit, an output unit having a plurality of output terminals, which are configured to receive the power from the transformer unit, and a second switch unit having a plurality of second switches, wherein each of the plurality of second switches is installed in each of the plurality of output terminals, respectively, and is controlled in a time division multiple control manner. The switching control is configured to transmit a pulse width modulation signal to the at least one first switch and the plurality of second switches for controlling the at least one first switch and the plurality of second switches in the time division multiple control manner. | 12-31-2015 |
20150372513 | MULTIPLE BATTERY CHARGER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A multiple battery charger is provided. The multiple battery charger includes an input unit configured to receive or block power from a power supply unit, an output unit including a plurality of output terminals, wherein the plurality of output terminals are commonly connected to the input unit and charge a plurality of batteries, and wherein each of the plurality of output terminals includes at least one of a plurality of second switches for a selective receipt of the power from the input unit and the plurality of output terminals are controlled in a time division multiple control manner, and a switching control unit configured to transmit a pulse width modulation signal to the input unit and the output unit so as to independently control the power applied to the plurality of batteries. Accordingly, a plurality of different kinds of batteries and the same kind of batteries in which charge states are different can be simultaneously charged. | 12-24-2015 |
20150341381 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING HARMFUL WEBSITE INFORMATION - Provided are a harmful site collection device and method for determining a harmful site by analyzing a connection between harmful sites. The harmful site collection device extracts a URL linked to a web page of a harmful site; checks a link circulation on the basis of link information on a web page of the URL linked to the harmful site to determine whether the web page of the URL linked to the harmful site is a harmful site; and, when a URL of a prestored non-harmful site is extracted while the link circulation is checked, stops checking the link circulation that includes the URL of the non-harmful site. Accordingly, the harmful site collection device can more easily determine a harmful site merely with information on a URL linked to a web page and can reduce the amount of computation using information on a URL of a prestored non-harmful site. | 11-26-2015 |
20150288388 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING MOBILITY OF A MOBILE TERMINAL IN A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK - A method and system for supporting the mobility of a mobile terminal in a software-defined network are disclosed. A method for supporting the mobility of a mobile terminal in a software-defined network according to an embodiment of the invention can include: routing a data packet of the mobile terminal to an authority switch serving as an anchor within a first partition, said routing performed by a switch by referencing a flow table; and setting a data path to an authority switch of a second partition, which is the partition containing the destination of the data packet, based on a rule provided by a controller and transmitting the data packet to a destination, said setting and transmitting performed by the authority switch of the first partition. | 10-08-2015 |
20150149398 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECISION MIGRATION IN A MULTI-COMPONENT ROBOT - A method and apparatus for decision migration within a multi-component robot are disclosed. The method of supporting decision migration between components for a multi-component robot may include: recognizing at least one subcomponent; generating at least one rule corresponding to a respective action of the at least one recognized subcomponent and embedding the at least one rule in at least one other component; and transmitting a decision or action migration request for a specific task to the other component if a failure occurs or synchronization with the other component is needed while the at least one subcomponent is performing the specific task by using the generated rule. | 05-28-2015 |
20150121397 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SIMILARITY COMPARISON OF SOFTWARE PROGRAMS - A data processing method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing a similarity comparison between software programs are provided. An aspect of the invention provides a data processing method for performing a similarity comparison between two programs, where the data processing method includes: (a) extracting API names from each program and converting the API names to unique text sequences of a particular byte; (b) establishing a frequency table by counting a frequency of the extracted API names; (c) recording the API names converted into the unique text sequences in a log file in the order of extraction; and (d) saving the frequency table as a file and compressing the log file. | 04-30-2015 |
20150089228 | USER AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A user authentication method and apparatus are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention can provide a method for authenticating a user from a server that includes: (a) transmitting a one-time server certification message in response to an authentication request including a user ID of a client terminal, and receiving a one-time terminal certification message from the client terminal; and (b) authenticating the user by verifying the one-time terminal certification message by using a hash value stored beforehand in correspondence to the user ID. | 03-26-2015 |
20150043924 | MOBILE TERMINAL CAPABLE OF LOCALIZATION, LOCALIZATION SERVER AND METHOD FOR LOCALIZING THE MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE LOCALIZATION SERVER - A mobile terminal capable of localization, a localization server, and a method for localizing the mobile terminal using the localization server are disclosed. The disclosed localization server includes a control unit configured to control transmissions of visible-light signals from a multiple number of visible-light transmitting devices; and a position computing unit configured to compute a position of a mobile terminal based on time information regarding when the visible-light signals transmitted respectively from the plurality of visible-light transmitting devices were received at the mobile terminal, where the control unit controls the transmissions such that each of the plurality of visible-light transmitting devices sequentially transmits the visible-light signal for a particular first time period with no overlapping of transmission times of the visible-light signals transmitted respectively from the plurality of visible-light transmitting devices. | 02-12-2015 |
20140379877 | CIRCLE-MESH OVERLAY NETWORK CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTAIN METHOD - A method of constructing and maintaining a circle-mesh overlay network is disclosed. The method of constructing a circle-mesh overlay network includes: (a) determining a reference member number of a circle overlay by using a total number of participating peers; (b) creating a new circle overlay and adding member peers from among the participating peers to the new circle overlay in consideration of the reference member number; and (c) forming a circle-mesh overlay network by way of interconnection between the new circle overlay and a different circle overlay. | 12-25-2014 |
20140378133 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING FLOW MOBILITY IN A DISTRIBUTED MOBILITY MANAGEMENT NETWORK - A method and system for providing flow mobility in a distributed mobility management network are disclosed. The method of controlling data flow mobility can include: (a) receiving session information in correspondence to a connection to each mobile access router from said mobile access router and storing the session information, which may include terminal information, an allotted address, and data flow information; (b) determining a target data flow to be moved by analyzing the session information according to a flow movement policy; and (c) transmitting a flow movement request, which includes the allotted address corresponding to the determined target data flow, to a new mobile access router. | 12-25-2014 |
20140351331 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - A method for providing a social network service includes: (a) setting an access threshold value for a content belonging to a content owner and a weight value for one or more communities of which the content owner is a member; (b) extracting a community of which a content requester is a member from among the communities of which the content owner is a member, when a request for the content is received from the content requester, and calculating an activity value of the content requester for the extracted community; (c) calculating a reputation value for the content requester by using one or more of a number of the extracted communities, a weight value set for the extracted communities, and the calculated activity value; and (d) providing the content requester with authorization to access the content according to a comparison result between the reputation value and the access threshold value. | 11-27-2014 |
20140333289 | CURRENT DETECTION DEVICE FOR MULTI-SENSOR ARRAY - A current detection device for a multi-sensor array is provided. The current detection device includes a current input unit, a current conversion unit, a digital conversion unit, and a voltage applying unit. The current input unit amplifies a plurality of current signals input from a multi-sensor array according to a predetermined current minor ratio, and fixes each of node voltages to which the plurality of current signals are input. The current conversion unit converts each of the amplified current signals into an amplified voltage signal using a plurality of feedback resistors and an operational amplifier which are connected in parallel. The digital conversion unit converts each of the amplified voltage signals converted by the current conversion unit into a digital value. The voltage applying unit generates voltages for driving each of the multi-sensor array, the current input unit, the current conversion unit, and the digital conversion unit, and applies the generated voltages thereto. | 11-13-2014 |
20140310519 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - A key-based method for controlling access in a social network service includes: generating a core key and sub keys by segmenting a master key that is unique to a file owner, with the sub keys assigned differently to multiple groups that are divided according to trust level and relationship type; determining the group to which a file requester belongs by using at least one of a friend list of the file requester, a trust level between the file requester and the file owner, and a friend list of the file owner, and distributing a sub key corresponding to the determined group to the file requester, when the file requester requests a key distribution; and determining whether or not access to a file of the file owner is authorized by using the sub key distributed to the file requester and the core key, when the file requester requests the file. | 10-16-2014 |
20140285184 | APPARATUS FOR MEASURING DISPLACEMENT - An apparatus for measuring displacement is disclosed. The disclosed displacement measurement apparatus may include a magnet unit having magnet sub-units arranged repeatedly in a particular pitch (p) to generate a sine-wave magnetic flux density; a sensor unit including a sensor array for measuring the sine-wave magnetic flux density; and a measurement part configured to measure a displacement of the magnet unit and the sensor unit displaced relatively to each other, based on the measured value of the sine-wave magnetic flux density, where the sensor array comprises two or more sensors arranged separated by a gap of p/k in-between (where k is 2 | 09-25-2014 |
20140266121 | DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A SWITCHING MODE POWER SUPPLY - An apparatus for controlling an output voltage of a switching mode power supply (SMPS) by adjusting a switching duty ratio is provided. A comparator outputs a state signal varying depending on a comparison result between an output voltage of the SMPS and a reference voltage. A clock generator generates an internal chip operating frequency and a switching frequency of the SMPS. A digital controller determines on/off of current cells depending on the state signal input from the comparator. A digital pulse width modulator (DPWM) determines a duty ratio of a digital pulse width modulation signal by determining a charging/discharging time of an internal capacitor based on an amount of current of the current cell. | 09-18-2014 |
20140197706 | REACTION FORCE COMPENSATION DEVICE - Provided is a reaction force compensation device capable of compensating for a reaction force caused by a motor that is continuously rotating. The reaction force compensation device is configured to compensate for a reaction force generated when a motor including a stator and a rotor, which is combined with the stator to be rotatable, is driven, and includes a housing disposed below the motor, and a rotation support member disposed between the housing and the rotor and configured to support the stator to be rotatable with respect to the housing. The stator rotates by a reaction force generated when the rotor rotates. | 07-17-2014 |
20140188275 | WEARABLE ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed herein is a wearable robot with improved operability and mobility through improvement of the upper limb structure thereof. The wearable robot includes an upper limb muscular power assist device to perform an articulation motion with a predetermined degree of freedom, the upper limb muscular power assist device being wearable by a user, and a mobile platform connected to the upper limb muscular power assist device to move according to information regarding movement speed and movement direction of the user in a rolling fashion. Consequently, mobility of the wearable robot and operation efficiency of the user are improved. | 07-03-2014 |
20140184021 | PIEZOELECTRIC STACK TRANSDUCER - Provided is a piezoelectric stack transducer. In a transducer portion, a plurality of piezoelectric transducers which output maximum amplitude at different frequencies are continuously stacked. A stacked electrode portion is provided on both surfaces of each of the plurality of continuously stacked piezoelectric transducers and supplies an electric signal so that vibration is generated. In this case, the plurality of piezoelectric transducers have different diameters. According to the present invention, it is possible to implement a piezoelectric stack transducer which exhibits constant amplitude (output) at different frequencies by piezoelectric transducers exhibiting different amplitudes at respective frequencies according to natural frequencies supplementing amplitude of a different piezoelectric transducer. | 07-03-2014 |
20140153386 | NODE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PACKETS THEREFROM - Disclosed are a node and a method of transmitting packets from the node. The disclosed node may use a directional antenna for transmitting a packet. The node includes a determining unit and a forwarding unit. The determining unit may determine whether or not there is an actor node present in a region traversed by a packet forwarding direction, where the packet forwarding direction is determined from relative-location information of a destination node with respect to a source node, the region is one of a plurality of regions divided by particular angles, and the plurality of regions have multiple beam patterns of the node formed therein. The forwarding unit may transmit the packet to an actor node present in the region traversed by the packet forwarding direction or transmit the packet to a neighbor node present in the region traversed by the packet forwarding direction. | 06-05-2014 |
20140130123 | METHOD FOR OPERATING INVISIBLE SYSTEM SERVICES ON ANDROID PLATFORM - A method for operating an invisible system service on Android platform is disclosed. The method for operating system services on Android platform includes selectively registering a created system service in a context manager according to a type of the created system service, where the type of the system service comprises a first type for permitting access from an outside and a second type for not permitting access from the outside, and the selectively registering comprises registering in the context manager the created system service belonging to the first type and not registering in the context manager the created system service belonging to the second type. | 05-08-2014 |
20140122600 | CONFERENCE SERVER IN A SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A CONFERENCE SERVICE IN RTCWEB - Disclosed is a conference server included in a system for providing a conference service in RTCWeb, where the system includes a first terminal that operates as a moderator of the conference service and a second terminal that operates as a participant of the conference service. The conference server includes a focus that performs communication between the first terminal and the second terminal; the first terminal includes a conference control server/client that controls a generating of the conference, an adding/removing of the second terminal to/from the conference service, and a changing of a moderator, and manages information of the second terminal; and the second terminal includes a conference control client that acquires information of the conference service and controls a participation/departure in/from the conference service. The focus of the conference server communicates with the conference control server/client of the first terminal to resolve a request of the second terminal. | 05-01-2014 |
20140065673 | MEMBRANE PROTEIN EXPRESSION VECTOR COMPRISING MAJOR ENVELOPE PROTEIN P9 OF SYSTOVIRUS PHI12 AS A FUSION PARTNER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MEMBRANE PROTEIN USING THE SAME - The present invention relates to an expression vector containing the major envelope protein P9 of Cystovirus phi12 as a fusion partner, and a process for producing a membrane protein using the same. Particularly, the present invention is directed to an expression vector comprising a major envelope protein P9 gene of Cystovirus phi12, a multicloning site (MCS) for inserting a target membrane protein, and a protease recognition site located between a P9 gene and the MCS. | 03-06-2014 |
20130295529 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING SIGN LANGUAGE USING ELECTROMYOGRAM SENSOR AND GYRO SENSOR - Provided are a method and apparatus for recognizing sign language using an electromyogram sensor and a gyro sensor. The method includes the steps of (a) receiving a gyro measurement signal and an electromyogram measurement signal from the gyro sensor and the electromyogram sensor which are attached to the body of a subject, (b) determining to which of groups clustered with similar fingerspelling motions the gyro measurement signal belongs, (c) acquiring a Gaussian model for the electromyogram measurement signal, and (d) comparing the acquired Gaussian model with Gaussian candidate models for candidate fingerspelling motions which belong to the group determined in step (b), and recognizing the candidate fingerspelling motion corresponding to the Gaussian candidate model that is most similar to the acquired Gaussian model as the fingerspelling motion of the subject. | 11-07-2013 |
20130286762 | MEMORY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided are a memory control apparatus and a memory control method. In the memory control apparatus and memory control method, data are distributively stored in a plurality of banks in sequence, and the corresponding data are written to or read from the memory, based on row address information obtained by exchanging a portion of row information and bank information with each other. According to the invention, if a new row begins when the host or the processor accesses the memory, a host or a processor accesses another bank, and thus the block data can be read or written without a waiting cycle. In addition, the memory control apparatus and the memory control method can be implemented with low complexity available through simple address conversion in the memory control apparatus. | 10-31-2013 |
20130185525 | SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING MEMORY - Disclosed herein are a semiconductor chip for adaptively processing a plurality of commands to request memory access, and a method of controlling memory. The semiconductor chip includes a storage unit ad a control unit. The storage unit stores a memory access request to be currently processed and a plurality of memory access requests received before the memory access request to be currently processed in received order. The control unit processes the memory access request to be currently processed and the plurality of memory access requests received before the memory access request to be currently processed, which have been stored in the storage unit, in received order, except that memory access requests attempting to access the same bank and the same row are successively processed. | 07-18-2013 |
20130157155 | Fuel Cell Including Cathode Electrode Using Iron Redox Couple - Provided is a fuel cell including an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and an electrolyte/ion exchange membrane between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The cathode electrode uses an iron redox couple as an oxidizer. The iron redox couple is regenerated by an oxidizing substance. The fuel cell does not need a noble metal catalyst, is thus economical in manufacturing costs, and has high power density, thereby improving energy conversion efficiency. Furthermore, the fuel cell is capable of decomposing an oxidizing substance, such as NO | 06-20-2013 |
20130136456 | MOBILE TERMINAL CAPABLE OF LOCALIZATION, LOCALIZATION SERVER AND METHOD FOR LOCALIZING THE MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE LOCALIZATION SERVER - A mobile terminal capable of localization, a localization server, and a method for localizing the mobile terminal using the localization server are disclosed. The disclosed localization server includes a control unit configured to control transmissions of visible-light signals from a multiple number of visible-light transmitting devices; and a position computing unit configured to compute a position of a mobile terminal based on time information regarding when the visible-light signals transmitted respectively from the plurality of visible-light transmitting devices were received at the mobile terminal, where the control unit controls the transmissions such that each of the plurality of visible-light transmitting devices sequentially transmits the visible-light signal for a particular first time period with no overlapping of transmission times of the visible-light signals transmitted respectively from the plurality of visible-light transmitting devices. | 05-30-2013 |
20130122933 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION SERVICES VIA TELEVISION WHITE SPACES - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing communication services. The apparatus includes a location information acquisition unit, a radio station information acquisition unit, and an offloading unit. The location information acquisition unit acquires information about the current location of the user terminal by sending a location information request message to the user terminal The radio station information acquisition unit requests information about a white space radio station from which the user terminal can receive the communication services by sending the information about the current location of the user terminal to a white space server, and acquires, from the white space server, information about an available white space radio station. The offloading unit sends the information about the available white space radio station to the user terminal, and also sends information about the user terminal to the available white space radio station. | 05-16-2013 |
20130033114 | PORTABLE TERMINAL, BATTERY PACK AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING BATTERY UNIT - Disclosed is a portable terminal, a battery pack and an apparatus for controlling a battery unit. The battery pack includes k battery units, wherein k is an integer of 2 or more; a power supply control unit that conducts control operation such that at least one of the k battery units supplies a power to a load by a time period, and other battery units except for the at least one are in an idle state in a whole or part of the time period. | 02-07-2013 |
20130028261 | SYSTEM-ON-CHIP-BASED NETWORK PROTOCOL IN CONSIDERATION OF NETWORK EFFICIENCY - An SoC-based system network protocol in consideration of network efficiency is disclosed. An MSB of a command signal containing an instruction defining information that is contained in a transfer signal transferred from an initiator to a destination via a channel or in a response signal transferred from the destination via the channel indicates that a highest priority is assigned to a transaction between the initiator and the destination in the network, when the instruction contained in the command signal corresponds to address information contained in the transfer signal and response information contained in the response signal, and indicates last data of a signal transferred between the initiator and the destination when the instruction contained in the command signal corresponds to control information contained in the transfer signal and data contained in the transfer signal and the response signal. | 01-31-2013 |
20130018594 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SECONDARY STRUCTURE OF PROTEIN USING ALPHA CARBON COORDINATESAANM Cho; Kwang-HwiAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP Cho; Kwang-Hwi Seoul KRAANM No; Kyoung-TaiAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP No; Kyoung-Tai Seoul KRAANM You; Min-JaeAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP You; Min-Jae Seoul KR - This invention relates to an apparatus and method for identifying the secondary structure of a protein using alpha carbon coordinates. The apparatus includes a pseudo center fixing unit receiving a series of alpha carbon coordinates of amino acid sequences of a target protein so that pseudo centers corresponding to respective alpha carbons are disposed at positions fixed between the respective alpha carbons and alpha carbons adjacent thereto; a helix determination unit determining, based on a dihedral angle and a distance between a preset number of consecutive pseudo centers, whether the secondary structure formed by amino acids corresponding to the consecutive pseudo centers is a helix; and a strand determination unit determining, based on distances between pseudo centers of different pseudo center sequences in a plurality of pseudo center sequences having a preset number of consecutive pseudo centers among pseudo centers other than those corresponding to the helix, whether the secondary structure formed by amino acids corresponding to the pseudo centers of respective pseudo center sequences is a strand. According to this invention, the secondary structure including amino acids corresponding to pseudo centers can be identified based on the dihedral angle or the distance between pseudo centers using pseudo centers fixed between alpha carbons, thus attaining increased accuracy, compared to conventional methods using alpha carbon coordinates. | 01-17-2013 |
20120327538 | SUPERCONDUCTING FAULT CURRENT LIMITER FOR SUPPRESSING BUS VOLTAGE DROP IN ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a Superconducting Fault Current Limiter (SFCL) for suppressing a bus voltage drop in an electric power system. A primary winding, a secondary winding, and a tertiary winding are wound around an identical iron core, and a superconductor is connected to any one of the primary winding and the secondary winding. A first switch is connected to any one of the primary winding and the secondary winding and is configured to be opened so as to separate a faulty section when a fault current is generated and to be shorted when the fault current is eliminated. A second switch is connected in series to the tertiary winding and is configured to be shorted so as to stably supply power when the fault current is generated and to be opened when the fault current is eliminated. According to the present invention, there are advantages in that a fault current is limited using magnetic coupling between two coils that are connected in a non-isolated type (in parallel or in series) or in an isolated type and in that a faulty section is separated using a switch and power is stably supplied to a section, in which a bus voltage drop has occurred due to the fault current, using a tertiary winding and a switch connected thereto, thus improving the stability of the system and obtaining economic effects. | 12-27-2012 |
20120278019 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING COUPLING NOISE VOLTAGE OCCURRING IN FLASH MEMORY DEVICE - An apparatus for computing a coupling noise voltage occurring in a plurality of cells arranged on a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines in a flash memory device includes: a coupling ratio computing unit and a coupling voltage computing unit. The coupling ratio computing unit can compute coupling ratios between a cell and neighboring cells wherein each of the coupling ratios have a value such that the difference between two coupling noise voltage values is minimized. The coupling voltage computing unit computes the coupling noise voltage value occurring in the cell using the computed coupling ratios. | 11-01-2012 |
20120221177 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING NAVIGATION OF ROBOT USING ELECTROMYOGRAPHY SENSOR AND ACCELERATION SENSOR AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - Navigation of a robot is controlled using an electromyography sensor and an acceleration sensor by (a) comparing a signal from an electromyography sensor mounted to a human body with a prestored threshold value to determine whether to control the robot, (b) if the robot is to be controlled, comparing a signal obtained from an acceleration sensor mounted to the human body with each prestored reference model of an acceleration sensor signal to infer a control operation of the robot, and (c) controlling navigation of the robot to correspond to the inferred control operation of the robot. It is first determined whether to control the robot using the electromyography sensor signal, inferred by calculating a Euclidean distance between a current acceleration sensor signal and a reference model previously acquired for each operation, and the robot is controlled based on the inferred operation, thereby increasing accuracy and reliability of the robot control. | 08-30-2012 |
20120131362 | BATTERY POWER CONTROL DEVICE, PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PORTABLE DEVICE - Disclosed are a battery power control device, a portable device and a method of controlling the portable device. The disclosed portable device includes a workload calculator which calculates a workload necessary to provide the specific service to the user according to at least one of time request information related to a desired time during which the specific service is provided to the user and QoS (Quality of Service) request information related to a quality of the specific service, the necessary workload being smaller than a default workload that is preset for providing the specific service; a task performer which performs a task for providing the specific service according to the necessary workload during a time that is reduced to be shorter than a task performance time according to the default workload and stop the task performance during the reduced time; and a battery unit which supplies a power for performing the task to the task performer. | 05-24-2012 |
20120122444 | FEMTO BS FOR REDUCING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL USING THE SAME - A signal transmission method includes determining whether there is a User Equipment (UE) within an area of the femto BS, determining whether the UE is in an active mode, operating in a first mode of alternating a first Available Interval (AI) with a first UnAvailable Interval (UAI) in time, if no UE exists within the area of the femto BS, operating in a second mode of alternating a second AI with a second UAI shorter than the first UAI in time, if a UE exists within the area of the femto BS and operates in an inactive mode and operating in a third mode of continuously transmitting a signal, if a UE exists within the area of the femto BS and operates in the active mode. | 05-17-2012 |
20120099539 | LOCAL MOBILITY ANCHOR, PROXY ROUTER, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR SUPPORTING NETWORK MOBILITY IN PROXY MOBILE IPv6 NETWORK - Provided are an LMA, a proxy router, and a management method for supporting NEMO in a PMIPv6 network. To support mobility in the PMIPv6 network for mobile nodes forming one node group within a mobile network, the proxy router for delivering signal and data between the mobile nodes and the PMIPv6 network delivers mobile home network prefixes allocated by the LMA of the PMIPv6 network to the mobile nodes. The LMA generates a group ID corresponding to the node group. Packet delivery costs due to an unnecessary tunnel may be reduced by grouping a plurality of mobile nodes constituting a mobile network, and using and managing flags and the same group ID. | 04-26-2012 |
20110032874 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NETWORK MOBILITY MANAGEMENT IN PROXY MOBILE IPv6 NETWORK - Provided is a network mobility management apparatus for providing mobility in a proxy mobile Internet Protocol (IP) network of mobile nodes which configure a mobile network. The network mobility management apparatus includes an address generation unit and a communication unit. The address generation unit transmits a router request message to a mobile access gateway of a proxy mobile IP network to be accessed by the mobile nodes, and receives a router advertisement message containing a home network prefix to generate an address. The communication unit transmits a proxy binding update message containing the home network prefix and an identification code of the mobile node to the mobile access gateway when the router request message is received from the mobile node, and includes the mobile home network prefix, which is contained in a proxy binding response message received from the mobile access gateway and is for the mobile node, in the router advertisement message to transfer the mobile home network prefix to the mobile node. | 02-10-2011 |