Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080249774 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPEECH SPEAKER RECOGNITION - Disclosed is a method for speech speaker recognition of a speech speaker recognition apparatus, the method including detecting effective speech data from input speech; extracting an acoustic feature from the speech data; generating an acoustic feature transformation matrix from the speech data according to each of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), mixing each of the acoustic feature transformation matrixes to construct a hybrid acoustic feature transformation matrix, and multiplying the matrix representing the acoustic feature with the hybrid acoustic feature transformation matrix to generate a final feature vector; and generating a speaker model from the final feature vector, comparing a pre-stored universal speaker model with the generated speaker model to identify the speaker, and verifying the identified speaker. | 10-09-2008 |
20080273766 | FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON ADAPTIVE LEARNING - A face recognition system based on adaptive learning includes a specific person detection and tracking unit for detecting and tracking a specific person from a moving image. A facial feature extraction unit extracts a plurality of facial feature vectors from the detected and tracked specific person. A face recognition unit searches for a given registration model by comparing the extracted facial feature vectors with facial feature vectors of the registration models previously stored in a user registration model database. A learning target selection unit selects a facial feature vector to be added to a record of the given registration model from among the extracted facial feature vectors. A registration model learning unit adds and updates the selected facial feature vector to the record of the given registration model. | 11-06-2008 |
20090143913 | IMAGE-BASED SELF-DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ROBOT - An image-based self-diagnosis apparatus and method for a robot determines the abnormality of a driving unit of a mobile robot by using a camera and reporting to the user in real time. The image-based self-diagnosis method may include: capturing a reference image at the current location and storing the captured reference image; capturing a comparison image after making at least one of linear moves and rotational moves by a preset amount, and storing the captured comparison image; and determining the abnormality of the mobile robot by comparing the stored reference image and the comparison image with each other. | 06-04-2009 |
20090254501 | WORD-SPACING CORRECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A word-spacing correction system and method are provided to automatically recognize and correct errors in the spacing of word inputs in an electronic device with relatively low computing power. In a learning process, probability information about each feature is created from a corpus of correct words, and then error correction rules are created by applying the probability information to a corpus of incorrect words from which all spaces between words of the corpus of correct words are removed. In an applying process, word-spacing in a user's input sentence is corrected by applying the probability information and the error correction rules to the user's input sentence. | 10-08-2009 |
20090254819 | SPELLING CORRECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MISSPELLED INPUT - A spelling correction system and method automatically recognizes and corrects misspelled inputs in an electronic device with relatively lower computing power. In a learning process, a misspelling correction dictionary is constructed on the basis of a corpus of accepted words, and context-sensitive strings are selected from among all the strings registered in the dictionary. Context information about the context-sensitive strings is acquired. In an applying process, at least one target string is selected from among all the strings in a user's input sentence through the dictionary. If the target string is one of the context-sensitive strings, the target string is corrected by use of the context information. | 10-08-2009 |
20090260073 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD OF PROVIDING UNIFIED INTERFACE TO THE SAME - A communication terminal and a method of providing a unified natural language interface to the same are disclosed. The method includes: determining, when text information containing many characters is created, whether the text information conforms to one of preset grammatical constraints; extracting, when the text information conforms to one of the grammatical constraints, tokens of one or more of characters from the text information, and extracting, when the text information does not conform to one of the grammatical constraints, one or more characters having an attribute probability higher than a reference probability as a token; and analyzing the extracted tokens to, determine a function to handle the extracted tokens, and executing the determined function based on the extracted tokens. | 10-15-2009 |
20100171851 | Pan/tilt method and apparatus for camera - A camera pan/tilt method includes receiving an input pan/tilt command. The method also includes determining whether the angle to be moved according to the input pan/tilt command is larger than the minimum angle for allowing pan/tilt to be executed by a hardware pan/tilt method. A hardware pan/tilt is executed according to the input pan/tilt command if it is determined that the angle to be moved according to the input pan/tilt command is larger than the minimum angle for allowing pan/tilt to be executed by the hardware pan/tilt method. A digital pan/tilt is executed according to the input pan/tilt command if it is determined that the angle to be moved according to the input pan/tilt command is not larger than the minimum angle for allowing pan/tilt to be executed by the hardware pan/tilt method. | 07-08-2010 |
20100202693 | Apparatus and method for recognizing hand shape in portable terminal - A portable terminal is configured to recognize an image such as a hand shape. The portable terminal includes a motion detection unit that includes a trainer capable of generating uniform training image data to collectively generate a plurality of images of a desired region obtained from an original image in an identical posture and an identical size, and performing a training process to prevent a feature point from being generated in a portion where detection is unnecessary in the generated training image data, and a detector capable of detecting a rotated object from input data, after the training process. | 08-12-2010 |
20100315485 | Method and apparatus for controlling output level of voice signal during video telephony - A method and apparatus controls an output level of a voice signal for video telephony by considering the distance between a user and a terminal and surrounding noises. An input image signal and an input voice signal of the user to be used for the video telephony are received at the user's terminal. A received image signal and a received voice signal received from the other party's terminal to which the video telephony is connected, are output on the user's terminal. The user's face region included in the input image signal is extracted. A size information of the extracted face region is checked. A distance information about a distance from the user is checked using the size information. And an output level of the received voice signal is controlled based on the distance information. | 12-16-2010 |
20100329511 | Apparatus and method for detecting hands of subject in real time - An apparatus and method can effectively detect both hands and hand shape of a user from images input through cameras. A skin image detecting skin regions from one of the input images and a stereoscopic distance image are used. For hand detection, background and noise are eliminated from a combined image of the skin image and the distance image and regions corresponding to actual both hands are detected from effective images having a high probability of hands. For hand shape detection, a non-skin region is eliminated from the skin image based on the stereoscopic distance information, hand shape candidate regions are detected from the remaining region after elimination, and finally a hand shape is determined. | 12-30-2010 |
20120071171 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR QUERY PROCESSING OF MOVING OBJECT IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile communication system process a query of a location-based service. More particularly, an apparatus and a method reduce communication processes for an unnecessary query by expanding a resident domain with a query type. The apparatus includes a server for expanding a resident domain comprising a query to be operated by the moving object when the location-based service is used and the moving object for reducing the number of communications with the server according to the expansion of the resident domain. | 03-22-2012 |
20120229388 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING INCORRECT INPUT IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - According to certain embodiments, a method and apparatus for preventing incorrect input in a portable terminal includes identifying an input character string and, among previously registered candidate words, searching among a plurality of candidate words recommended for the input character string, calculating a similarity between the input character string and each of the searched candidate words, and presenting one or more of the searched candidate words in order of descending similarity associated with the one or more searched candidate words. | 09-13-2012 |
20120254255 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING STORY ACCORDING TO USER INFORMATION - An apparatus and method summarize a user's daily life information. The apparatus includes an information collection unit, an analysis unit, a story generator, and a display unit. The information collection unit collects log information including user's daily life information, from at least one electronic device. The analysis unit analyzes the log information collected from the information collection unit and decides at least one topic representing the user's daily life information. The story generator generates at least one sentence representing the user's daily life information using the at least one topic decided in the analysis unit. The display unit displays the at least one sentence generated in the story generator. | 10-04-2012 |
20120271901 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTING DEVICES - A system and method for connecting devices includes receiving from a first device a request to follow a second device, and setting a following relationship between the first device and the second device in response to the request. | 10-25-2012 |
20130091005 | DISTANCE-BASED COLLECTIVE DISCOUNT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PORTABLE TERMINAL - A distance-based collective discount apparatus and method of a portable terminal. The method includes receiving, from a server, a range of a first specific region and information of a purchase item purchasable if a user terminal is located within the first specific region or a second specific region included in the first specific region. The method also includes receiving an input of an interested item among the information on the purchase item, and transmitting information of the interested item to the server. The method further includes receiving update information on the interested item from the server, and transmitting a confirmation intention about the interested item to the server. | 04-11-2013 |
20150025930 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING POSITION OF INTEREST - A method, performed by a device, of receiving a recommendation of a position from a position-recommendation apparatus, a device for receiving a recommendation from a position-recommendation apparatus, and a position-recommendation apparatus for recommending a position to a device are provided. The method includes obtaining a selected time, for which a position is to be recommended, from a user, transmitting a position-recommendation request, which includes schedule event information relating to the selected time, to the position-recommendation apparatus, and receiving a response to the position-recommendation request, which includes one or more positions that are searched for based on the schedule event information, from the position-recommendation apparatus. | 01-22-2015 |
20150033260 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT BROADCASTING PROGRAM AND MEDIUM THEREOF - A method of providing information about a broadcasting program includes collecting data about at least one broadcasting program from social media, obtaining viewer response information about the at least one broadcasting program from the collected data, and displaying the obtained viewer response information as additional information about the at least one broadcasting program. | 01-29-2015 |