Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090135164 | POINTING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PROVIDING HAPTIC FEEDBACK, AND HAPTIC INTERACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING THE SAME - Provided are a pointing apparatus capable of providing haptic feedback, and a haptic interaction system and method using the same. The pointing apparatus includes a wireless communication unit, a controller, and a haptic stimulator. The wireless communication unit receives an event including haptic output information through wireless communication with the outside. The controller generates a control signal for reproducing a haptic pattern corresponding to the haptic output information. The haptic stimulator reproduces the haptic pattern by means of the control signal. Thus, it is possible to increase the performance and usability of a user interface of a user terminal including a touch screen. | 05-28-2009 |
20090146948 | Apparatus for Providing Sensing Information - The invention relates to an apparatus for providing sensing information which includes a surface-sensing information combiner for collecting tactile sensing information on a surface of an object and accompanying sensing information attendant on the tactile sensing information of the surface of the object to produce surface-sensing information or edit the produced surface-sensing information. The apparatus also includes a surface-sensing information board for providing an environment for the surface-sensing information of the object to allow a user to perceive the surface-sensing information of the object. The apparatus further includes a surface-sensing information reproducer for reproducing the tactile sensing information and the accompanying sensing information of the object to be sensed by the user. | 06-11-2009 |
20090254271 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NAVIGATION SERVICE - A method and apparatus for providing a safe and accurate navigation service using a tactual sense and an olfactory sense are provided. In the method, tactual information created according to navigation information displayed on a navigation map composed by a terminal based on collected navigation information is received. Then, a plurality of pins are controlled to make vertical movements according to a directional stimulation and frequency amplitude variation obtained from the received tactual sense information. | 10-08-2009 |
20090319328 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT USING SENSORY INFORMATION - In order to manage personal information, a schedule information collector to receive items relating to a schedule of a user's and to distinguish the received items to generate first schedule data; a schedule data processor to add sensory information corresponding to the respective items of the first schedule data to generate second schedule data; and a schedule notifier to notify the sensory information of the second schedule data, in which time when the second schedule data is notified to the user is arrived, to the user. | 12-24-2009 |
20100077261 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING THE FIVE SENSES INFORMATION, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REALISTIC SERVICE USING FIVE SENSES INTEGRATION INTERFACE - The present invention relates to a realistic service and system using a five senses integrated interface, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for encoding the five senses and a system and method for providing realistic service using a five senses integrated interface, to allow a user to select a product to sensorially experience through an integrated interface in a remote location, which includes a integration recognizer detecting data selected by the user and recognizing an object, and transmitting five senses data of the object through a network, a five senses data analyzer receiving a five senses data packet including the five senses data of the object through the network, and extracting and analyzing the five senses data packet in terms of data on each of the five senses, and a five senses integration representer representing five senses using the data on each of the five senses. | 03-25-2010 |
20100085168 | TACTILE STIMULATION DEVICE AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - There are provided a tactile stimulation device that is suitable for portable apparatuses by meeting all requirements such as miniaturization, low power consumption, low noises, prompt response time and sufficient physical force, and an apparatus using the same. The tactile stimulation device may be useful to provide a sufficient level of physical stimuli by arranging a plurality of linear ultrasonic actuators to move linearly in a vertical direction to any of skin contact surfaces and stimulating the skin in a vertical direction under the control of the linear movement of the linear ultrasonic actuators. | 04-08-2010 |
20100174729 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECOLLECTION USING THE SEARCH OF RECORDS OF THE PAST - A system of recollection using the search of records of the past, includes a database (DB) device storing records of individual's past events and things, a search computing device for making a search request in response to a user's request, a server computing device for searching the DB device in response to the search request to extract result data, and a presentation computing device for integrating and presenting the result data extracted from the server computing device by using multisensory elements. | 07-08-2010 |
20100270089 | COMPACT TACTILE INPUT AND OUTPUT APPARATUS - An apparatus for transmitting information in the form of a tactile sense is provided. Particularly, a tactile-sense input/output motor and a tactile-sense input/output apparatus using the tactile-sense input/output motor are provided. A tactile-sense input/output housing having a plurality of tactile-sense input/output motors, each of which performs a linear motion according to an ultrasonic electrical signal to transmit a tactile sense to a contact surface and senses a pressure of the contact surface to output a tactile-sense input signal is used for portable apparatuses, wrist wearable devices, rings, or other various apparatuses so as to transmit information through a tactile sense. | 10-28-2010 |
20100274774 | DIGITAL DATA TAGGING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TAGGING AND SEARCH SERVICE USING SENSORY AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION - Provided are a digital data tagging apparatus for generating sensory and environmental information as a tag and endowing digital data with the sensory and environmental information that is automatically extracted using sensory sensor data and environmental sensor data, all of which are sensed by humans through their sensory organs, and a system and method for providing a tagging and search service using sensory and environmental information. The digital data tagging apparatus, and the system and method for providing a tagging and search service may be useful to enable users to search and use digital data more effectively and abundantly through the later use of the sensory and environmental information by collectively recognizing sensory and environmental information and automatically or manually endowing digital data with the recognized sensory and environmental information as a tag, wherein the sensory and environmental information are sensed by humans through their sensory sensors such as an olfactory sensor, a taste sensor and a tactile sensor; an environmental sensor such as temperature, humidity, illumination intensity and wind speed sensors, etc., as well as a camera or a mic. | 10-28-2010 |
20110032088 | METHOD OF ENCODING HAPTIC INFORMATION ON IMAGE, METHOD OF DECODING HAPTIC INFORMATION FROM IMAGE AND APPARATUS OF PROCESSING HAPTIC INFORMATION FOR THE SAME - Disclosed is a technology of encoding haptic information on images or decoding haptic information from images. The method of encoding the haptic information on the images according to the present invention includes: generating haptic information; generating encoding target data by using the haptic information and header information associated with the haptic information; and generating an encoded image by encoding the encoding target data by using a least significant bit (LSB) of byte data of each of the original image pixels. As a result, the present invention can simply encode/decode the haptic information while maintaining an original image format. | 02-10-2011 |
20110134112 | MOBILE TERMINAL HAVING GESTURE RECOGNITION FUNCTION AND INTERFACE SYSTEM USING THE SAME - Disclosed is an interface system including: a mobile terminal having a gesture recognition function that includes a camera capable of exchanging a filter and a controller analyzing image information provided from the camera to recognize a user's gesture and outputting a control signal corresponding to the recognized gesture; and a secondary apparatus that communicates with the mobile terminal in a short-range wireless communication method. In the interface system, the mobile terminal recognizing the user's gesture transmits the corresponding control signal to the secondary apparatus in the short-range wireless communication method so as to control the secondary apparatus. | 06-09-2011 |
20110149043 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES USING HEAD TRACKING - Disclosed herein are a device and method for displaying 3D images. The device includes an image processing unit for calculating the location of a user relative to a reference point and outputting a 3D image which is obtained by performing image processing on 3D content sent by a server based on the calculated location of the user, the image processing corresponding to a viewpoint of the user, and a display unit for displaying the 3D image output by the image processing unit to the user. The method includes calculating the location of a user relative to a reference point, performing image processing on 3D content sent by a server from a viewpoint of the user based on the calculated location of the user, and outputting a 3D image which is obtained by the image processing, and displaying the 3D image output by the image processing unit to the user. | 06-23-2011 |
20110199321 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SELF-MORPHABLE HAPTIC AND VISUAL INFORMATION AND METHOD THEREOF - A self-morphable haptic and visual information providing apparatus includes: a display unit configured to provide haptic information through a physical shape variation of a display screen; and a haptic element driving unit configured to generate a driving signal for providing the haptic information. | 08-18-2011 |
20110310013 | INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTACT-FREE SPACE INPUT/OUTPUT - A space input/output interface apparatus includes: a proximity sensor for sensing a movement of a user's wrist; an inertial sensor for sensing a movement of the user's arm; and a controller for generating user input/output interface recognition information corresponding to a sensing value of the proximity sensor or the inertial sensor. The apparatus is an armband-type space input/output interface apparatus which can be put on the user's wrist. | 12-22-2011 |
20110310238 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INPUTTING COORDINATES USING EYE TRACKING - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for inputting coordinates using eye tracking. The apparatus includes a pupil tracking unit, a display tracking unit, and a spatial coordinate conversion unit. The pupil tracking unit tracks the movement of a user's pupil based on a first image photographed by a first camera. The display tracking unit tracks the region of a display device located in a second image photographed by a second camera. The spatial coordinate conversion unit maps the tracked movement of the pupil to the region of the display device in the second image, and then converts location information, acquired based on the mapped movement of the pupil, into spatial coordinates corresponding to the region of the display device in the second image. | 12-22-2011 |
20120127070 | CONTROL SIGNAL INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD USING POSTURE RECOGNITION - Provided are a control signal input device and method using posture recognition. More particularly, the present invention relates to a control signal input device including: a database unit storing predetermined system control commands corresponding to postures of combinations of one or more of an arm, a wrist, and fingers of a user; a sensing unit sensing a posture of a combination of the arm, wrist, and fingers of the user; and a control signal generating unit extracting a system control command corresponding to the sensed result of the sensing unit from the database unit and generating a control signal for controlling the system, and a control signal input method using the same. | 05-24-2012 |
20120148097 | 3D MOTION RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Disclosed are a three-dimensional motion recognition method and an apparatus using a motion template method and an optical flow tracking method of feature points. The three dimensional (3D) motion recognition method through feature-based stereo matching according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: obtaining a plurality of images from a plurality of cameras; extracting feature points from a single reference image; and comparing and tracking the feature points of the reference image and another comparison image photographed at the same time using an optical flow method. | 06-14-2012 |
20120154133 | HAPTIC FEEDBACK CASE FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed is a haptic feedback case for electronic equipment, including: a main body configured to accommodate the electronic equipment; a communication unit configured to receive haptic generation information from the electronic equipment; a filmy type actuator configured to generate haptic sensations; and a control unit configured to operate the film type actuator according to the haptic generation information input from the communication unit. | 06-21-2012 |
20120235906 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INPUTTING INFORMATION BASED ON EVENTS - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for inputting events. An embodiment of the present invention can generate left and right click events in addition to activating and stopping pointers by sensing a rolling of a wrist and calculate and output a coordinate displacement according to the motion of the hand at the time of activating the pointers according to the events. Further, the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to a large-sized display or a contactless spatial input apparatus of an HMD, entertainment such as games, and the like, and can overcome restricted environments by a gesture input scheme under special environment. | 09-20-2012 |
20120237114 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FEATURE-BASED STEREO MATCHING - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for feature-based stereo matching. A method for stereo matching of a reference image and at least one comparative image captured by at least two cameras from different points of view using a computer device includes collecting the reference image and the at least one comparative image, extracting feature points from the reference image, tracking points corresponding to the feature points in the at least one comparative image using an optical flow technique, and generating a depth map according to correspondence-point tracking results. | 09-20-2012 |
20120306790 | FILM TYPE APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING HAPTIC FEEDBACK AND TOUCH SCREEN INCLUDING THE SAME - A film type apparatus for providing haptic feedback and a touch screen including the same are provided. In the film type apparatus, a plurality of unit haptic feedback providing apparatuses are arranged in an array. Each of the unit haptic feedback providing apparatuses includes a lower electrode, a lower charge capacitive member disposed on the lower electrode, an upper charge capacitive member disposed apart from the lower charge capacitive member, a spacer disposed between the lower and upper charge capacitive members to separate the lower and upper charge capacitive members, an upper electrode disposed on the upper charge capacitive member, and a charge supply unit connected to the lower and upper electrodes to supply electric charge. | 12-06-2012 |
20120318074 | APPARATUS FOR SENSING PRESSURE USING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for sensing pressure using an optical waveguide sensor. The apparatus for sensing pressure using an optical waveguide sensor, includes: a light source radiating light; an optical waveguide panel emitting some of the radiated light outside through a plurality of light transmitting regions previously formed, and changing an amount of totally reflected light according to pressure applied to at least one of the plurality of light transmitting regions; a detector detecting the amount of light; and an analyzer determining intensity and a location of the pressure according to the detected amount of light. | 12-20-2012 |
20130044054 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BARE-HAND INTERACTION - An apparatus for providing bare-hand interaction includes a pattern image projecting unit for projecting a pattern image of structured light onto a projection zone and an image projection unit for projecting an image of digital contents onto a projection zone. The pattern image is captured from the projection zone by a pattern image capturing unit and processed by an image recognizing unit in order to recognize a user input interacted with the projected contents image. The apparatus then generate a system event corresponding to the recognized user input to control an application program in accordance with the event. | 02-21-2013 |
20130088339 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CASE FOR PROVIDING TACTILE FEEDBACK AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an electronic device case for providing tactile feedback and an operation method thereof. The electronic device case for providing tactile feedback, includes: a communication interface unit receiving a control signal from an electronic device according to an operation of the electronic device; an actuator driver generating an electric signal corresponding to preset tactile pattern data according to the received control signal; and one or more film type actuators provided to contact the actuator driver and varying physical properties according to the control signal. | 04-11-2013 |
20130154797 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERACTION BETWEEN CONTENT AND OLFACTORY RECOGNITION DEVICE - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for interaction between content and an olfactory recognition device. In the method for interaction between an olfactory recognition device and a content device, the method allows the olfactory recognition device to interact with the content device. If a connection to the content device has been made to enable data communication with the content device, an open signal is transmitted to the content device. As a response to the open signal, an approval signal is received from the content device. A device information datasheet that is information about the olfactory recognition device is transmitted to the content device in response to the approval signal. An acknowledgement signal is received from the content device. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156278 | OPTICAL FLOW ACCELERATOR FOR MOTION RECOGNITION AND METHOD THEREOF - An optical flow accelerator includes a face recognizing unit to recognize a face from a stereo image provided the optical flow accelerator. A depth information calculation unit calculates depth information of the recognized face on a basis of the recognized face. A face tracking unit tracks a size and a shape of the face depending on a movement direction when the recognized face moves. A controller controls generates depth information of the recognized face depending on an optical flow. | 06-20-2013 |
20130194237 | PRESSURE SENSOR AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING PRESSURE AND TOUCH SCREEN INCLUDING THE SAME - Disclosed is a film or a panel that may measure pressure while interacting with an electronic device. A pressure sensor according to the present invention includes: a light source unit to generate light; an optical waveguide to transfer, to a light receiving unit, the light that is generated by the light source unit; and the light receiving unit to receive the light that is transferred through the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide includes a pressure sensing unit to adjust the quantity of light that is transferred through the optical waveguide based on a pressure. The light receiving unit senses the pressure based on the change in the quantity of light that is generated by the light source unit and is transferred through the optical waveguide. | 08-01-2013 |
20130222427 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING INTERACTIVE AUGMENTED REALITY - An augmented reality implementing system is disclosed. The augmented reality implementing system includes an image outputting device and an augmented reality implementing device. The augmented reality implementing device derives an object from a captured image of a specific space and extracts a predetermined virtual object corresponding to the derived object; when an image of a user tool for interaction with the virtual object is included in the captured image, reflects a motion command corresponding to a motion pattern of the user tool on the virtual object; and generates a new image by reflecting the virtual object on the captured image, and outputs the new image to the image outputting device. | 08-29-2013 |
20130271562 | USER RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A user recognition apparatus includes: a visible-light image processing unit configured to acquire a visible-light image using a visible-light camera; an infrared-light image processing unit configured to acquire an infrared-light image using an infrared-light camera; a threshold value processing unit configured to remove a background of the infrared-light image using a threshold value, and generate a clipped infrared-light image; an optical flow processing unit configured to calculate an optical flow based on the clipped infrared-light image and the visible-light image, and generate a clipped visible-light image based on the calculated optical flow; and a visible light processing unit configured to recognize a user based on the clipped visible-light image. | 10-17-2013 |
20140002421 | USER INTERFACE DEVICE FOR PROJECTION COMPUTER AND INTERFACE METHOD USING THE SAME | 01-02-2014 |
20140160074 | MULTIPLE SENSORS-BASED MOTION INPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed herein are a multiple sensors-based motion input apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a transmission unit, a reception unit, a calculation unit, and a control unit. The transmission unit transmits a signal. The reception unit receives a signal that is reflected and enters therein after the signal has been transmitted by the transmission unit. The calculation unit calculates touch location information based on the transmission signal of the transmission unit and the reception signal of the reception unit. The control unit outputs a selection signal corresponding to the touch location information that is calculated by the calculation unit. | 06-12-2014 |
20150046836 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING CONTENT AMONG DEVICES - A system and method for transferring content among multiple devices are disclosed. Herein, the system for transferring content may include a coupling controller configured to identify a user equipment in accordance with a content transfer request and to perform coupling with the identified user equipment, and a content transfer unit configured to transmit content to the user equipment or to receive content from the user equipment, when coupling is completed. | 02-12-2015 |
20150086046 | FEEDBACK PROVIDING MODULE, FEEDBACK PROVIDING APPRATUS, AND FEEDBACK PROVIDING METHOD - Disclosed herein are a feedback providing module, a feedback providing apparatus, and a feedback providing method. The feedback providing module includes: an upper plate part generating a vibration; a lower plate part inducing the vibration of the upper plate part; and a feedback controlling unit applying first to fourth voltages having different levels to the upper and the lower plate part in response to feedback control signals and varying the levels of the first to fourth voltages to control the upper and the lower plate part to generate at least one of a sound and a vibration. | 03-26-2015 |