Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100269266 | Washing machine and method for controlling the same - A washing machine and a control method thereof are disclosed. The washing machine has a plurality of washing tubs to clean laundry in different ways classified according to capacity and types of clothing. Different washing tubs simultaneously stop operations or are stopped at different times spaced apart from each other by a predetermined time, although washing tubs have different washing conditions (e.g., different input times of laundry, different amounts of laundry, different washing courses, etc.) when laundry is cleaned using the washing tubs. | 10-28-2010 |
20100275381 | Washing machine and method for controlling the same - A washing machine and a method of controlling the same are disclosed. If two washing tubs simultaneously perform the dehydration, unbalanced positions of the first and second washing tubs are checked. The method controls dehydration rotation speed or dehydration rotation direction of each washing tub to adjust a difference in unbalanced position angle between two washing tubs, thereby reducing vibration. If dehydration is performed in one washing tub, the method prevents the other washing tub performing no dehydration process from entering the dehydration process. | 11-04-2010 |
20100275386 | Washing machine and method of controlling the same - A washing machine which prevents wash water in a plurality of tubs from being simultaneously drained, and a method of controlling the washing machine. The washing machine includes a plurality of tubs, a plurality of drain devices to discharge wash water in the plurality of tubs to the outside, and a control device connected to the plurality of tubs to selectively drain the wash water in the plurality of tubs. | 11-04-2010 |
20100287712 | Washing machine and control method thereof - Disclosed herein are a washing machine having a plurality of washtubs and a control method thereof. In the washing machine having a plurality of washtubs, if it is determined that a washtub that is not in operation is present, dozens of liters of water used in a washtub that is in operation are moved into and stored in the non-operating washtub rather than being discharged to the outside. The moved water may be utilized in a following washing or rinsing stage of the washtub, or a washing or rinsing stage of the other washtub. | 11-18-2010 |
20130135503 | AMPLIFIER APPARATUS AND METHODS USING VARIABLE CAPACITANCE DEPENDENT ON FEEDBACK GAIN - An apparatus includes an operational amplifier circuit comprising at least one operational amplifier and a feedback circuit coupled between the output terminal and input terminal of the operational amplifier circuit and configured to apply a feedback gain to an output signal at the output of the first operational amplifier. The apparatus further includes a variable compensation capacitor coupled to the output terminal of the operational amplifier circuit and configured to vary a capacitance thereof responsive to the feedback gain. | 05-30-2013 |
20140232890 | IMAGE SENSOR AND COMPUTING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - An image sensor includes a pixel array and an analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion unit. The pixel array generates an analog signal by sensing an incident light. The A/D conversion unit generates a digital signal in a first operation mode by performing a sigma-delta A/D conversion and a cyclic A/D conversion with respect to the analog signal and generates the digital signal in a second operation mode by performing a single-slope A/D conversion with respect to the analog signal. The image sensor provides a high-quality image in a still image photography mode and a dynamic image video mode. | 08-21-2014 |
20140368706 | PROGRAMMABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER AND DEVICES INCLUDING THE SAME - A programmable gain amplifier includes a sampling circuit, a source follower, a first capacitor and an error amplifier. The sampling circuit is configured to perform correlated double sampling on an input signal using a reference voltage. The first capacitor is connected between the sampling circuit and the source follower. The error amplifier is connected between an input terminal of the source follower and an output terminal of the source follower. The error amplifier is configured to reset a voltage of the output terminal of the source follower to the reference voltage during a source follower reset operation. | 12-18-2014 |
20150022702 | ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER, IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING THE SAME, AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE INCLUDING THE IMAGE SENSOR - An analog-to-digital converter includes a gain amplification unit configured to receive a pixel signal at a first node and to amplify a gain of the pixel signal, a first capacitor connected between the first node and a second node, an amplifier configured to receive and amplify a signal output from the gain amplification unit and the first capacitor, and a conversion circuit configured to convert an output signal of the amplifier to a digital signal based on a reference signal and output the digital signal as a first output signal. | 01-22-2015 |
20150243898 | ORGANIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A novel organic compound and an organic light emitting diode device using the same. The organic compound is represented by Chemical Formula 1: | 08-27-2015 |
20150311912 | ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER AND AN IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING THE SAME - An analog-to-digital converter includes a modulator, a controller, and a digital filter. The modulator generates a modulated signal based on an analog signal. The controller generates a weight control signal. The digital filter includes a weight signal generator and a first integrator. The weight signal generator generates a weight signal based on the weight control signal. The first integrator generates a digital signal corresponding to the analog signal by integrating the weight signal in response to the modulated signal. The weight control signal corresponds to a type and an order of the digital filter. | 10-29-2015 |
20150311914 | RECONFIGURABLE ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER, IMAGE SENSOR AND MOBILE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An image sensor includes a pixel array, a controller, and a plurality of analog-to-digital converters. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels coupled to column lines, respectively, and the plurality of pixels are configured to sense incident lights to generate analog signals through the column lines. The controller generate a conversion control signal that is configurable based on changes of at least one operational condition. The plurality of analog-to-digital converters are coupled to the column lines, respectively. The plurality of analog-to-digital converters perform a delta-sigma modulation and a digital filtering to convert the analog signals to digital signals. The plurality of analog-to-digital converters adjust a conversion gain internally in response to the conversion control signal. | 10-29-2015 |
20160053959 | SHIELDING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE LAMP - Disclosed is a shielding apparatus for a vehicle lamp disposed on a moving path of light emitted from a reflector to control an irradiated quantity of light. The apparatus may include a plurality of shield panels configured to be adjacently disposed to each other, have ends coupled with a plurality of rotation shafts, and rotate in a parallel direction with a surface to control the irradiation quantity of light. The apparatus may also include a driver configured to be coupled with the plurality of shield panels to rotate the plurality of shield panels depending on an operation signal. | 02-25-2016 |
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20090099693 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL OF EMOTIONAL ACTION EXPRESSION - A system for control of emotional action expression including an emotion engine for creating an emotion according to information provided from a plurality of sensors, and an emotional action expression/actuation control unit for detecting an emotion platform profile and an emotion property from the created emotion and determining the action expression corresponding to the created emotion to control a target actuator. A control unit controls the motion of the target actuator under the control of the emotional action expression/actuation control unit. | 04-16-2009 |
20090153499 | TOUCH ACTION RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for recognizing a touch action that a person has performed upon an object, is provided with a sensor component for detecting a sensor value corresponding to the touch action through an inertial sensor attached to part of a body of the person; and a signal processing component for recognizing the touch action from the sensor value detected by the sensor component and transferring the recognized touch action to the object. Further, a method for recognizing a touch action that a person has performed upon an object, is provided with: detecting a sensor value corresponding to the touch action through an inertial sensor attached to part of a body of the person; and recognizing the touch action from the detected sensor value and transferring the recognized touch action to the object. | 06-18-2009 |
20110144975 | TYPEWRITER SYSTEM AND TEXT INPUT METHOD USING MEDIATED INTERFACE DEVICE - Disclosed is a typewriter system and a text input method capable of accurately recognizing words by correcting words input using a mediated interface device based on a dictionary. A plurality of texts are combined by referencing a text recognition order set in which recognition results of texts are arranged according to a recognition order from texts input through the mediated interface device and the combined text is filtered using part index maps formed of part words that are an accumulated set of texts forming complete words. The part words passing through the part index maps is again filtered using a dictionary including context information formed of a set of words in a specific category, thereby making it possible to accurately recognize the words. The part words that cannot form words in a dictionary are removed in advance using the part index maps, thereby improving the recognition efficiency. | 06-16-2011 |
20110148630 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSING PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAM AND FALL - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for sensing photoplethysmogram and fall. According to the present invention, the apparatus and for sensing photoplethysmogram and fall may include: a sensor unit that senses acceleration and photoplethysmogram; a photoplethysmogram/fall determining module that synthetically tests sensed acceleration signals and photoplethysmogram signals sensed by the sensor unit to determine whether emergency occurs due to fall or emergency occurs due to photoplethysmogram; and a communication module that transmits the test results. | 06-23-2011 |
20110148669 | THIMBLE-TYPE INTERMEDIATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING FINGER GESTURE USING THE SAME - Provided are a thimble-type intermediation device and a method for recognizing a finger gesture using the same. The thimble-type intermediation device includes: a motion sensing unit sensing a motion of a user's finger and generating the sensed result as motion data; a tactile sensing block sensing a tactile behavior of the user's finger and generating the sensed result as tactile data; a control unit recognizing the gesture and tactile behavior of the user's finger on the basis of the generated motion data and tactile data, and outputting the recognition result as recognition result information; and a wireless communication unit transmitting the recognition result information to a robot system. | 06-23-2011 |
20120057756 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING IDENTIFIER OF VEHICLE - The present invention detects a candidate ROI group associated with character strings/figure strings on the basis of a result acquired through prior learning of various types of license plates, verifies the interested region candidate group detected by using at least one condition of five predetermined conditions, and determines an MBR region in the selected ROI region from the verified interested region candidate group by considering a ratio between the height and width of the ROI region to recognize the license plate for the automobile. According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically detect the location of the license plate regardless of various types of license plate specifications defined for each of countries. | 03-08-2012 |
20120102019 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CRAWLING WEBPAGES - A method and apparatus for crawling webpages are provided. The method and apparatus involve obtaining a root Web address list; obtaining a list of Web addresses linked to the root Web address list; evaluating content of pages of the Web addresses based on the obtained list of Web addresses; adjusting a crawling depth according to the evaluation of the content of the pages of the Web addresses; and crawling webpages according to the adjusted crawling depth. | 04-26-2012 |
20120131065 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA FOR RECALLING MEMORY - Provided are a system and a method for aiding a user's memory by using a robot. The present invention is provided to aid the user's memory by acquiring image data associated with surrounding situations according to a request from a user, granting a unique ID to data acquired according to a feedback from the user or collected from the outside, classifying and managing the collected data by considering user information, a position, a time, person information and the like, and selecting data which is managed according to a query selected by the user from predetermined queries. According to the present invention, daily activities can be recorded from a user-centered viewpoint and it is possible to easily access even a photo which is not stored in a DB of a robot in link with an SNS. | 05-24-2012 |
20120148101 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING TEXT AREA, AND AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION SYSTEM OF NUMBER PLATE USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a method of extracting a text area, the method including generating a text area prediction value within an input second image based on a plurality of text area data stored in a database including geometric information about a text area of a first image, generating a text recognition result value by determining whether a text is recognized with respect to a probable text area within the input second image, and selecting a text area within the second image by combining the generated text area prediction value and text recognition result value. | 06-14-2012 |
20120155719 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UPPER BODY - Disclosed is a method of detecting an upper body. The method includes detecting an omega candidate area including a shape formed of a face and a shoulder line of a human from a target image, cutting the target image into the upper body candidate area including the omega candidate area, detecting a human face from the upper body candidate area, and judging whether the upper body of the human is included in the target image according to the result of detecting the human face. | 06-21-2012 |
20120162411 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATION OF MOVING OBJECT IN UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENT - An apparatus for operation of a moving object in an unstructured environment includes a sensor unit configured to sense vibration of the moving object to produce a sensing signal; an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a surrounding environment on which the moving object travels; a signal synchronization unit configured to synchronize the sensing signal from the sensor unit with the image captured by an image capturing unit through mapping therebetween; an amplitude extraction unit configured to extract a tilt of the moving object based on the sensing signal from the sensor unit and calculate a viewing angle and a moving distance of the moving object based on the calculated tilt; and an image correction unit configured to perform coordinate transformation on the captured image by using the viewing angle and the moving distance to generate a corrected image. | 06-28-2012 |
20120165041 | LOCALIZATION DEVICE AND LOCALIZATION METHOD - Disclosed are a device and a method for localizing a user indoors using a wireless local area network, and more particularly, a localization device and a localization method that improve localization accuracy by fusing various context information when localizing a user-portable/wearable device connected with a wireless network based on an RF-based wireless network such as ZigBee. | 06-28-2012 |
20120165704 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING REHABILITATION ROBOT - An apparatus for controlling a rehabilitation robot providing walking assistance to a user is disclosed. The apparatus includes a command perceiving unit for receiving a explicit walking command mode of a user based on a conscious adjustment signal, a motion sensing unit for sensing action of the user, a biometric sensing unit for sensing a biometric state of the user, and a host control module for analyzing walking steps and perceiving intent to walk by using the walking command perceived by the command perceiving unit and the action sensed by the motion sensing unit, thereby controlling the rehabilitation robot. The apparatus for controlling a rehabilitation robot further includes a wearing-type suit having the apparatus disposed thereon. | 06-28-2012 |
20120165984 | MOBILE ROBOT APPARATUS, DOOR CONTROL APPARATUS, AND DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING METHOD THEREFOR - A mobile robot apparatus includes a video recognition unit for recognizing a position of an opening button mounted around a door through video analysis after acquiring peripheral video information. Further, the mobile robot apparatus includes a mobile controller for performing an operation on the opening button at the position recognized by the video recognition unit to generate an opening selection signal, thereby allowing a door control apparatus to open the door according to the generated opening selection signal. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166190 | APPARATUS FOR REMOVING NOISE FOR SOUND/VOICE RECOGNITION AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention has been made in an effort to provide an apparatus for removing noise for sound/voice recognition removing a TV sound corresponding to a noise signal by using an adaptive filter capable of adapting a filter coefficient in order to remove an analogue signal and performing sound and/or voice recognition and a method thereof. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166200 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING GESTURE AND SOUND FOR CONTROLLING DEVICE - Disclosed is a system for integrating gestures and sounds including: a gesture recognition unit that extracts gesture feature information corresponding to user commands from image information and acquires gesture recognition information from the gesture feature information; a background recognition unit acquiring background sound information using the predetermined background sound model from the sound information; a sound recognition unit that extracts the sound feature information corresponding to user commands from the sound information and extracts the sound feature information based on the background sound information and acquires the sound recognition information from the sound feature information; and an integration unit that generates integration information by integrating the gesture recognition information and the sound recognition information. | 06-28-2012 |
20120215383 | SECURITY CONTROL APPARATUS, TRACK SECURITY APPARATUS, AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT APPARATUS, AND SECURITY CONTROL SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A security control service system includes: a track security apparatus for traveling along a track installed in a place to be secured, and obtaining and transmitting security information to a security control apparatus; an autonomous mobile robot apparatus for traveling along the track together with the track security apparatus or freely traveling in the place to be secured, and obtaining and transmitting security information to the security control apparatus; and the security control apparatus for transmitting a control command for security control to the track security apparatus or the autonomous mobile robot apparatus after analyzing the security information. | 08-23-2012 |
20130079030 | SPACE RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION - A space recognition system obtains available RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) information for a plurality of fixing devices in the vicinity of a user device in the wireless sensor network environment, collects environment information in a space where the user device is located, and collects environment information in a plurality of spaces in which the fixing devices are respectively located. The system combines the RSSI information and the environment information and performs a recognition function on the combined environment information to recognize the space in which a user having the user device is located. | 03-28-2013 |
20130148857 | APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING CHARACTER AREA IN VEHICLE NUMBER PLATE AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an apparatus for extracting a character area in a vehicle number plate and a method thereof. An apparatus for extracting a character area in a vehicle number plate according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a candidate area extracting unit configured to extract a plurality of character candidate areas from a vehicle number plate image using a plurality of algorithms; a filtering unit configured to determine a final character candidate area from the plurality of extracted character candidate areas; and a character area selecting unit configured to select a final character area from the final character candidate area using geometric information of blobs. | 06-13-2013 |
20130155226 | OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM USING ROBOT AND OBJECT TRACKING METHOD USING A ROBOT - Disclosed are an object tracking system using a robot and an object tracking method using a robot. The present invention provides an object tracking system using a robot and an object tracking method using a robot capable of continuously performing object tracking without missing the corresponding object even when the object deviates from a viewing angle of a camera, in tracking an image based object (person) using a robot. | 06-20-2013 |
20130163829 | SYSTEM FOR RECOGNIZING DISGUISED FACE USING GABOR FEATURE AND SVM CLASSIFIER AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a system and a method for recognizing a disguised face using a Gabor feature and a support vector machine (SVM) classifier according to the present invention. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163858 | COMPONENT RECOGNIZING APPARATUS AND COMPONENT RECOGNIZING METHOD - Disclosed are a component recognizing apparatus and a component recognizing method. The component recognizing apparatus includes: an image preprocessing unit configured to extract component edges from an input component image by using a plurality of edge detecting techniques, and detect a component region by using the extracted component edges; a feature extracting unit configured to extract a component feature from the detected component region, and create a feature vector by using the component feature; and a component recognizing unit configured to input the created feature vector to an artificial neural network which has learned in advance to recognize a component category through a plurality of component image samples, and recognize the component category according to a result. | 06-27-2013 |
20130177204 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRACKING HAND - Disclosed are an apparatus for tracking a location of a hand, includes: a skin color image detector for detecting a skin color region from an image input from an image device using a predetermined skin color of a user; a face tracker for tracking a face using the detected skin color image; a motion detector for setting a ROI using location information of the tracked face, and detecting a motion image from the set ROI; a candidate region extractor for extracting a candidate region with respect to a hand of the user using the skin color image detected by the skin color image detector and the motion image detected by the motion detector; and a hand tracker for tracking a location of the hand in the extracted candidate region to find out a final location of the hand. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177247 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEQUENCING OFF-LINE CHARACTER FROM NATURAL SCENE - Disclosed is a method of sequencing character information in order to increase precision of character recognition. The method includes: a pre-processing that extracts character information from an image to binarize the extracted character information through a predetermined threshold and extracts and thins a center line of the binarized character information; normalizing the pre-processed character information to character information according to a predetermined criteria; and sequencing the normalized character information using structural features including an end point or a divergence point of the character information. The present invention suggests an angle normalization method of input character information, a structural feature position determining method, and a structural feature numeral string generating method to strongly recognize characters configured by various fonts obtained from a natural scene regardless of an angle or a size of the characters. | 07-11-2013 |
20130178185 | BEHAVIORAL PATTERN COLLECTING APPARATUS, AND BEHAVIORAL PATTERN ANALYZING SYSTEM AND METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed are a wearable behavioral pattern collecting apparatus for generating collected information by analyzing a behavioral pattern of a wearer, and generating and thereby transmitting emergency call information when an emergency situation occurs, a network including a repeater to transmit information received from the behavioral pattern collecting apparatus to a remote monitoring server, and a behavioral pattern analyzing system and method for transmitting information on an emergency accident and a position of the wearer to a corresponding institution or a corresponding person in charge when an emergency situation such as a falling accident or the emergency accident occurs by observing a change in the behavioral pattern of the wearer. | 07-11-2013 |
20140079295 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATING DISGUISED FACE - An apparatus for discriminating a disguised face includes a face area detector configured to detect a face area in an input image provided from an external source. The apparatus includes a skin color modeling module configured to separate a skin color area from the face area and a disguised face discriminator configured to determine whether signals in the skin color area have a pulse component to discriminate whether a face in the input image is the disguised face. | 03-20-2014 |
20140086491 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SIGN INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for proving sign information are disclosed. The sign information providing method includes: extracting a first sign from an input image, wherein the first sign is pre-defined; extracting a second sign representing information corresponding to the first sign around the location of the first sign, from the input image; and providing at least one piece of information of information about the first sign and information about the second sign in the form of voice. Accordingly, a user may correctly recognize information expressed by a sign. | 03-27-2014 |
20140093851 | HORSEBACK RIDING SIMULATOR AND METHOD FOR HORSEBACK RIDING SIMULATION - Disclosed is a horseback riding simulator configured to operate in an adaptive manner with respect to a user and a method using the same, the horseback riding simulator including a user identification unit to identify a user through user identification information based on user facial information extracted from an input image, a posture recognition unit to calculate user posture information by extracting information related to each of designated body parts of the user from the input image, a coaching unit to provide the user with instruction in horseback riding posture, based on the user identification information and the user posture information, and a sensory realization unit to control a horseback riding mechanism based on a user-intended posture calculated through analysis of the user posture information. Accordingly, user-customized horseback riding instruction is provided through identification of a user and recognition of a user's horseback riding posture. | 04-03-2014 |
20140100696 | WORKING METHOD USING SENSOR AND WORKING SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SAME - Disclosed is a working method using a sensor, which increases recognition of a component to increase mounting of a component and enhancing productivity. The working method includes: extracting an object to be picked from a pile of objects using the sensor; picking the extracted object to move the picked object to a predetermined place; and estimating an angle of the moved object in the current position using the sensor. Accordingly, the working method can perform precise component recognition and posture estimation by two steps: a component picking step and a component recognition step, and effectively apply to a manufacturing line, thereby improving mounting of a component and enhancing productivity of a product. | 04-10-2014 |
20140107842 | HUMAN-TRACKING METHOD AND ROBOT APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - Provided are a human-tracking method and a robot apparatus. The human-tracking method includes receiving an image frame including a color image and a depth image, determining whether user tracking was successful in a previous image frame, and determining a location of a user and a goal position to which a robot apparatus is to move based on the color image and the depth image in the image frame, when user tracking was successful in the previous frame. Accordingly, a current location of the user can be predicted from the depth image, user tracking can be quickly performed, and the user can be re-detected and tracked using user information acquired in user tracking when detection of the user fails due to obstacles or the like. | 04-17-2014 |
20140170628 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MULTIPLE-INTELLIGENCE USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - Provided is a multiple-intelligence detection system. The multiple-intelligence detection system includes an image detection device obtaining image information for evaluating multiple-intelligence from a user, a multiple-intelligence measurement model unit receiving the image information from the image detection device to perform multiple-intelligence evaluation through selection of one of a first reaction and a second reaction, and a content unit receiving a result of the evaluated multiple-intelligence from the multiple-intelligence measurement model unit to generate an individual portfolio on the basis of the received result. The multiple-intelligence measurement model unit selects one of the first and second reactions on the basis of a reference reaction according to feelings and behavior patterns of the user. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172909 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE APPLICATION USING ROBOT - An apparatus for providing a service application using a robot includes a sensing unit configured to generate environmental sensing information on the surrounding of a moving path of the robot and user state information; and a user circumstance determination unit configured to determine the circumstance and intention of a user to generate user recognition information, and searches and downloads a service application. Further, the apparatus includes a service provision unit configured to search service representation devices around the moving path of the robot and migrate a service corresponding to the service application to at least one of the searched service representation devices; and a user feedback management unit configured to manage feedback information corresponding to an interaction between the user and the robot. | 06-19-2014 |
20140183128 | POLYAMIDE WATER-TREATMENT SEPARATION MEMBRANE WITH IMPROVED ANTIFOULING PROPERTIES AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A water-treatment separation membrane with good antifouling properties includes a support having pores, a polyamide layer formed on the support, and a passivation layer comprising specific materials formed on the polyamide layer. | 07-03-2014 |
20140203197 | APPARATUS FOR MEASURING POSITIONS OF OTHER APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - Disclosed are an apparatus for measuring position of other apparatus and a method for the same. The apparatus may comprise at least one light emitting part transmitting a photo signal, at least one light receiving part receiving a photo signal transmitted from other apparatus, and a signal processing part controlling the at least one light emitting part to transmit the photo signal including identification information of itself, acquiring identification information of the other apparatus based on the photo signal received from the other apparatus, and acquiring a positional information of the other apparatus based on the acquired identification information of the other apparatus. Thus, the apparatus located in an arbitrary space may accurately acquire relative positional information of counterpart apparatuses. | 07-24-2014 |
20140218516 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING HUMAN INFORMATION - A human information recognition method includes analyzing sensor data from multi-sensor resource placed in a recognition space to generate human information based on the sensor data, the human information including an identity, location and activity information of people existed in the recognition space. Further, the human information recognition method includes mixing the human information based on the sensor data with human information, the human information being acquired through interaction with the people existed in the recognition space; and storing a human model of the people existed in the recognition space depending on the mixed human information in a database unit. | 08-07-2014 |
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20140306811 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING GESTURE AND SOUND FOR CONTROLLING DEVICE - A system for integrating gestures and sounds including: a gesture recognition unit that extracts gesture feature information corresponding to user commands from image information and acquires gesture recognition information from the gesture feature information; a background recognition unit acquiring background sound information using a predetermined background sound model from sound information; a sound recognition unit that extracts sound feature information corresponding to user commands from the sound information and extracts the sound feature information based on the the background sound information and acquires sound recognition information from the sound feature information; and an integration unit that generates integration information by integrating the gesture recognition information and the sound recognition information. | 10-16-2014 |
20140311969 | WATER-TREATMENT SEPARATING MEMBRANE OF HIGH FLUX HAVING GOOD CHLORINE RESISTANCE - A water-treatment separating membrane includes a polyamide active layer formed on999 a porous support. The ratio of a maximum value with respect to a minimum value of a ratio of a peak height of a C=O double bond of a carboxyl group (—COOH) with respect to a peak height of a C=O double bond combined with an amide group (—CONH—) is from 1.2 to 4, when measured after acid treating the polyamide active layer and by using a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR). | 10-23-2014 |
20140319051 | WATER-TREATMENT SEPARATING MEMBRANE OF HIGH FLUX HAVING GOOD CHLORINE RESISTANCE - A water-treatment separating membrane includes a polyamide active layer formed on a porous support. When the polyamide active layer is dyed using a 5% aqueous solution of Rhodamine B, at least a curve pattern formed by connecting two or more arcs is formed in at least a partial area of the polyamide active layer. | 10-30-2014 |
20140348380 | METHOD AND APPRATUS FOR TRACKING OBJECTS - A method for tracking an object in an object tracking apparatus includes receiving an image frame of an image; and detecting a target, a depth analogous obstacle and an appearance analogous obstacle; tracking the target, the depth analogous obstacle and the appearance analogous obstacle; when the detected target overlaps the depth analogous obstacle, comparing the variation of tracking score of the target with that of the depth analogous obstacle. Further, the method includes continuously tracking the target when the variation of tracking score of the target is below that of the depth analogous obstacle and processing a next frame when the variation of tracking score of the target is above that of the depth analogous obstacle; and re-detecting the target. | 11-27-2014 |
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20150051512 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING USER'S POSTURE IN HORSE-RIDING SIMULATOR - An apparatus for recognizing a user's posture in a horse-riding simulator, the apparatus comprising: a standard posture model generation module configured to find out a standard posture model by selecting feature points from an expert database, and generate the standard posture model; and a posture recognizing module configured to obtain a user's posture from the horse-riding simulator, recognize a user's horse-riding posture by matching the obtained user's posture with the standard posture model generated in the standard posture model generation module, and suggest a standard posture model appropriate for a user's level. | 02-19-2015 |
20150077329 | EYE TRACKING-BASED USER INTERFACE METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method includes matching a pupil center position obtained from image information taken by a camera and a center position of an UI on a display panel of a terminal, and recognizing the match as a touch on the UI when the match between the pupil center position and the center position of the UI is kept for a predetermined time or more. | 03-19-2015 |
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20150092981 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACTIVITY RECOGNITION BASED APPLICATION SERVICE - An apparatus includes an image receiving module configured to collect a depth image provided from a camera, a human body detection module configured to detect a human body from the collected depth image, and an activity recognition module configured to recognize an action of the human body on the basis of a 3-dimensional action volume extracted from the human body and a previously learned action model. | 04-02-2015 |
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20160110631 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING OBJECT USING MULTI-DIRECTIONAL INTEGRAL IMAGE - An apparatus and method for detecting an object using a multi-directional integral image are disclosed. The apparatus includes an area segmentation unit, an integral image calculation unit, and an object detection unit. The area segmentation unit places windows having a size of x*y on a full image having w*h pixels so that they overlap each other at their edges, thereby segmenting the full image into a single area, a double area and a quadruple area. The integral image calculation unit calculates a single directional integral image for the single area, and calculates multi-directional integral images for the double and quadruple areas. The object detection unit detects an object for the full image using the single directional integral image and the multi-directional integral images. | 04-21-2016 |