Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090143909 | NETWORK-BASED ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTION EXECUTION OF ROBOT - A network-based robot system includes an activity creating device creating activities in hierarchical structure, and a robot downloading the activity tree over a communication network and executing an activity selected in the activity tree. The activities describe action execution procedures to be run by the robot and are arranged in an activity tree. | 06-04-2009 |
20090201997 | DIGITAL TELEVISION TRANSMISSION AND RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING 1/4 RATE CODED ROBUST DATA - Provided is a Vestigial Side Band Digital Television (DTV) transmitter/receiver based on Advanced Television System Committee A/53. The invention provides DTV transmitter/receiver having a dual stream structure through generation of robust data which has a transmission rate a fourth as fast as that of normal data, and a method thereof. The DTV transmitter includes: input means for receiving digital video data stream including normal and robust data; encoding means for performing ¼ rate coding on the digital video data stream so that one bit can be transmitted through two symbols; and transmitting means for modulating/transmitting output signals of the encoding means. This invention can reduce SNR and satisfy TOV of robust data by performing additional FEC on robust data, transmitting/receiving ¼ rate coded robust data, which are capable of transmitting one-bit data for two symbols, and improving decoding ability of an equalizer and a trellis decoder of a DTV receiver. | 08-13-2009 |
20100115524 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THREAD PROCESSING ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENTS - An apparatus for thread processing robot software components includes a data port unit for storing input data in a buffer and then processing the data in a periodic execution mode or in a dedicated execution mode; an event port unit for processing an input event in a passive execution mode; and a method port unit for processing an input method call in the passive execution mode by calling a user-defined method corresponding to the method call. In the periodic execution mode, the data is processed by using an execution thread according to a period of a corresponding component. In the dedicated execution mode, a dedicated thread for the data is created and the data is processed by using the dedicated thread. | 05-06-2010 |
20100161836 | METHOD PORT ARRANGEMENT AND CONFIGURATION METHOD THEREOF FOR ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENT - A configuration method of a method port arrangement for robot software component includes: generating a requester method port module and a provider method port module; generating a requester method module and a provider method module depending on application of a method module to be generated in the component; registering the requester method module in the requester method port module and the provider method module in the provider method port module; and registering, in a method port management module, the requester method port module and the provider method port module where the requester method module and the provider method module have been registered. The method further includes establishing the requester method port module to be operated by interconnecting the requester method port module and the provider method port module; and executing input and output operations to/from the requester method port or the provider method port depending on application of the component. | 06-24-2010 |
20100162277 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING ROBOT APPLICATION PROGRAM - An apparatus for executing a robot application program includes a robot application execution device to which an operating system supporting a dynamic library to execute the robot application program is mounted; a robot device unit having various sensors and effectors; a plug-in storage for storing therein plug-ins forming the dynamic library; and a robot application program storage for storing therein the robot application program. Each plug-in is a dynamically loadable file implementing functions of the robot application program by modules. | 06-24-2010 |
20100168911 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ROBOT COMPONENTS - An apparatus for managing robot components in an intelligent robot includes a robot application including a plurality of robot components, a robot application management tool that manages the operation of the robot application, monitors the status caused by the operations of the robot application and information on the robot components, a lifecycle manager that manages lifecycles of the robot components under the management of the robot application management tool, and an operation system that transfers a sensing signal about peripheral environment generated from the sensor to the robot application, and transfers an execution signal from the robot application to the actuator. | 07-01-2010 |
20100183060 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF FREQUENCY OFFSET-FREE FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION FOR HIGH ORDER QAM SIGNALS IN MODEM APPARATUS - Provided is a method and apparatus for performing a frequency offset-free frame synchronization with respect to high order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbols in a modem apparatus. A method of performing a correlation-based frame synchronization using magnitudes of QAM symbols in a modem apparatus, may include: constructing a synchronization pattern using the magnitudes of the QAM symbols; sequentially calculating a magnitude of each of received signals based on a symbol unit to construct a received vector; and obtaining a frame synchronization based on a correlation between the received vector and the synchronization pattern. | 07-22-2010 |
20100201885 | ENCODER OF E-8VSB FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION FOR DIGITAL TELEVISION SYSTEM OF ATSC - Provided is an error correcting encoder and, more particularly, to an error correcting encoder used for an improved transmission method of the Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC), and a method thereof. The error correcting encoder for digital television broadcasting, which is suggested in the present research, includes a robust encoder for encoding a one-bit input into robust encoded data; a pre-coding block for receiving the robust encoded data and performing pre-coding to thereby produce a pre-coded signal; and a trellis encoding block for performing trellis encoding on the robust encoded data and the pre-coded signal. | 08-12-2010 |
20100235032 | UNMANNED TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - An unmanned transport apparatus, includes: a call unit for providing destination information corresponding to a call location according to a call signal of a communication device; a navigation guide unit for recognizing a current location using an electronic map and searching an optimum route from the current location to a destination location of the destination information; and an image recognition unit for determining a travelling route and recognizing landmarks, stop lines, and intersections on the determined travelling route. Further, the unmanned transport apparatus includes an image capture unit for capturing input images to produce image; and a control unit for controlling a steering angle by determining a steering value from the current location to the destination location based on the travelling route and landmarks, and controlling velocity and brakes by determining velocity and brake values based on the stop lines and intersections. | 09-16-2010 |
20100241343 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING TRAFFIC LINE - An apparatus for recognizing traffic lines on a roadway includes an image division unit for dividing an image of the roadway into a specific number of areas; a traffic line detection unit for detecting a traffic line from the respective divided areas of the roadway images; a traffic line representation unit for obtaining a traffic line equation representing the traffic line in the detected traffic line; a location detection unit for detecting a current location of a vehicle using movement direction and velocity of the vehicle sensed by a location detector; and a traffic line prediction unit for predicting a location of the traffic line to be displaced, using the detected current location, and the movement direction and velocity of the vehicle on a basis of traffic line equation. | 09-23-2010 |
20100265996 | REPEATER AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SIGNAL, AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING SYNCHRONOUS FREQUENCY THEREOF - A repeater having different input and output frequencies converts a signal received with the input frequency to a first intermediate frequency signal based on a local oscillating frequency for intermediate frequency conversion, and converts the first intermediate frequency signal to a second intermediate frequency signal by performing digital processing on the first intermediate frequency signal. Then, the repeater generates a first frequency tone signal that corresponds to a difference between the input and output frequencies, and generates a second frequency tone signal from the local oscillating frequency for intermediate frequency conversion and the first frequency tone signal. The repeater up-converts the second intermediate frequency signal to the output frequency based on the second frequency tone signal, and transmits the signal. | 10-21-2010 |
20100316039 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RANGING CODE - An apparatus for generating a ranging code extracts a ranging code in each ranging mode, using a ranging code table storing one period data in bytes of the PN code according to a reference UL PermBase number, and an offset table that stores byte offsets for the start positions of the PN codes of the reference UL PermBase number and the other plurality of UL PermBase numbers and bit offsets in the byte including the start positions, on the basis of the PN code according to the reference UL PermBase number. | 12-16-2010 |
20110010608 | FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DIGITAL BROADCASTING RECEPTION APPARTUS, AND DECODING METHOD THEREOF - A forward error correction encoding method includes: separating a first header section from an inputted packet stream; generating a second payload section by encoding a first payload section of the packet stream, from which the first header section is separated, according to a preset code rate; generating a second header section according to the code rate; and combining the first header section, the second header section, and the second payload section. | 01-13-2011 |
20110054684 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING/ACQUIRING OPERATION RIGHT OF MOVING ROBOT IN MULTI-OPERATOR MULTI-ROBOT ENVIRONMENT - In an operating system having a first controller configured to manage one or more robots included in a first region, and a second controller configured to manage one or more robots included in a second region adjacent to the first region, a method for enabling the second controller to acquire an operation right of N robots (where N is a natural number equal to or greater than 1) operated by the first controller, the method includes: transmitting a control mapping status (CMS) containing an operation right change message to the first controller, upon reception of an operation right request signal from a user of the N robots; and checking a connection status of the N robots, upon reception of the CMS containing the operation right change message from the first controller, and acquiring an operation right by providing CMS acquisition information and control mapping information to the robots included in the second region. | 03-03-2011 |
20110054691 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIRDS CONTROL USING MOBILE ROBOT - Provides is a method including receiving information on a surrounding situation detected by the mobile robot; detecting birds from the received surrounding situation information; allocating a birds control mission to the mobile robot by extracting a birds control pattern corresponding to the surrounding situation; and verifying a result in accordance with performing the allocated birds control mission from the mobile robot. By controlling the birds so as to, in advance, prevent a loss of lives and economical loss which may be caused when the birds collide with airplanes at the airport, it is possible to improve productivity and efficiency of a birds repelling job in an airport and provide construction of a new type of aviation maintenance business model by activating an air traffic control industry through providing a safer airplane operating model while saving operating personnel costs for preventing collision of birds. | 03-03-2011 |
20110102579 | STEERING CONTROL LEADING APPARATUS USING LANDMARK AND METHOD THEREBY - Disclosed is a steering control leading apparatus using a landmark when a car travels. The steering control leading apparatus includes: a coordinate controller that analyzes images obtained by photographing the landmark installed on a road by a photographing apparatus installed in a car to generate current coordinate data and current driving lane data of a car; a lane controller that compares the current driving lane data or the current coordinate data received from targeted coordinate data and a coordinate controller to generate determined result data determining whether the car is normally driven; and a display unit that displays the current coordinate data, and the targeted coordinate data, or the data indicating whether the car is normally driven | 05-05-2011 |
20110153073 | FAULT TOLERANCE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENT - An apparatus for performing fault tolerance against a failure occurring during driving robot software components includes: a component executor for executing the robot software components, which are assigned with one thread from an operating system and have a same priority and cycle, by using the assigned thread; and an executor monitor for periodically monitoring the operation of the component executor and determining whether or not there is a failure in the robot software components executed by the component executor. The apparatus further includes: an executor manager for generating the component executor which is assigned with the robot software components having the same priority and cycle and, when the executor monitor determines that there is a failure in the execution of the robot software components, generating a new component executor. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153074 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING ROBOT TASK USING ROBOT MODEL DEFINITION - Provided is an apparatus for executing a robot task using a robot model definition. A task execution apparatus include: a storage unit to store at least one robot model, at least one robot behavior, and at least one robot task; and a task execution unit to generate at least one execution object from the stored at least one robot model, at least one robot behavior, and at least one robot task, and to execute a task of a robot from a corresponding execution object among the generated at least one execution object in response to an execution command input from a user. | 06-23-2011 |
20110154361 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF COORDINATING OPERATION ACTION OF ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENT - Provided are an apparatus and a method of controlling the execution of components without an additional port or messaging for applying the dependency among the components. The apparatus comprises: a profile analyzing unit analyzing execution dependency information of components defined in an execution coordination profile; a component managing unit arranging the components in accordance with the execution sequence of the components caused by the execution dependency information; an execution coordination managing unit determining whether or not each of the components executes the operation on the basis of the execution dependency information of the corresponding component managed by the execution coordination units allocated to the components, respectively; and an operation executing unit executing the operation of each of the components in accordance with the determination result of the execution coordination manager. | 06-23-2011 |
20110154425 | HEADEND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING VIDEO BROADCAST CONTENT USING CHANNEL BONDING, AND BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING VIDEO BROADCAST CONTENT - A headend apparatus for communicating with a broadcast receiving apparatus through a cable network comprising a plurality of transmission channels is provided. The headend apparatus includes a receiver to receive a video broadcast content corresponding to a selected broadcast channel, a plurality of modulators to modulate the video broadcast content, each individual modulator of the plurality of modulators being mapped to an individual transmission channel of the plurality of transmission channels, and a controller to determine whether to bond the plurality of transmission channels, based on a definition of the video broadcast content, and to control the modulators to bond the plurality of transmission channels and transmit the video broadcast content to the broadcast receiving apparatus when determining to bond the plurality of transmission channels, each individual modulator of the plurality of modulators being mapped to the bonded transmission channels. | 06-23-2011 |
20110167317 | APPARATUS FOR ADAPTABLE/VARIABLE TYPE MODULATION AND DEMODULATION IN DIGITAL TX/RX SYSTEM - Disclosed is an adaptable/variable type modulation/demodulation apparatus. A physical layer transmission apparatus for adaptable/variable type modulation, the transmission apparatus including a classification unit to classify a bit stream according to a standard that is determined in advance after receiving the bit stream, an uncoded bit group unit to group the bit stream not to be LDPC-coded by a predetermined number of bits, an LDPC encoder to perform LDPC-coding of the bit stream, a coded bit group unit to group the coded bit stream by the predetermined number of bits, a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) unit to select a symbol coset using the coded bit groups; and a convolutional interleaver to perform convolutional interleaving of the symbol. | 07-07-2011 |
20120072020 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURING ROBOT COMPONENTS - An apparatus for reconfiguring robot components in an environment that includes a robot terminal apparatus, including a plurality of internal components, and external components, interacting with the internal components, includes a situation monitoring unit for checking whether there has been a change in a situation of the robot terminal apparatus. Further, the apparatus includes a component availability analysis unit for determining at least one available component that belongs to the internal components or the external components; and a component search unit for searching for at least one component based on results of the determination of the component availability analysis unit. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a component dependency analysis unit for analyzing a dependency relationship between the component found by the component search unit and the component determined to be available by the component availability analysis unit; and a component reconfiguration unit for reconfiguring a connection relationship between the components. | 03-22-2012 |
20120113399 | SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING IMAGE OF BEAM PROJECTOR USING CAMERA ATTACHED REMOTE CONTROLLER AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a system for adjusting an image of a beam projector using a camera attached remote controller and a method thereof. The system for adjusting images of a beam projector according to the present invention includes: a remote controller photographing test images projected on a screen and detecting pattern images from the photographed test images and generating control information including at least one parameter necessary to adjust the images through the detected pattern images; and a beam projector receiving the control information for adjusting images from the remote controller and adjusting the input image by using parameters included in the received control information and outputting them to the screen. Therefore, the present invention adjusts colors and geometrical shapes of images at a user's viewpoint, thereby making it possible to improve the satisfaction of user and implement the system in various forms. | 05-10-2012 |
20120135748 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION QUALITY INFORMATION - A communication quality visualization information providing system acquires a communication quality, generates communication quality visualization information by mapping the acquired communication quality information to geographic information, and provides corresponding communication quality visualization information according to a user request. | 05-31-2012 |
20120158177 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SEAMLESS LOCALIZATION - A system achieves seamless localization for a plurality of robots when first some robots moves to a shadow area where GPS signals are not received while remaining second robots receives the GPS signals, by performing an absolute localization for the second robots using the GPS signals; and performing an absolute localization for the second robots using the GPS signals; performing a relative localization for the first robots based on the second robots, thereby determining an absolute location of the first robots. Further, when the second robots move to the shadow area where the first robots have been moved, the system performs the seamless localization by determining a relative location of the second robots based on the first robots on which the relative localization has been performed, thereby determining an absolute location of the second robots based on the relative location of the second robots. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166033 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DRIVING INFORMATION OF AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM - A driving information detection apparatus of a vehicle includes: an image photographing unit for take a photograph of an image of a driving road; a lane information detecting unit; a road environment information detecting unit; a coordinate converting unit for converting a camera coordinates system of a detection result of the lane information detecting unit and the road environment detecting unit into a world coordinates system. The apparatus further includes a driving information detecting unit for applying an one dimensional straight line modeling to a converted result of the coordinate converting unit and detecting an driving information according to a result of the modeling. | 06-28-2012 |
20120257012 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY - A display method and a display apparatus of a 3D image are provided. The display method includes: receiving an image stream; determining a viewing mode of the image stream; determining whether or not a screen of a display apparatus is adjusted according to the determined viewing mode; and adjusting the screen of the display apparatus in the case in which it is determined in the determining of whether or not the screen of the display apparatus is adjusted that the screen is adjusted, wherein the viewing mode of the image stream includes a 2D image viewing mode and a 3D image viewing mode. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257015 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR 3D BROADCASTING SERVICE IN BROADCASTING SYSTEM COMBINED WITH MOBILE BROADCASTING - Provided is an apparatus and a method for providing a three-dimensional (3D) broadcasting service that may provide a two-dimensional (2D) fixed broadcasting service using a fixed broadcasting signal or a 2D mobile broadcasting service using a mobile broadcasting signal when a transmitter transmits each of a left image and a right image constituting a 3D image using the fixed broadcasting signal or the mobile broadcasting signal, and the receiver receives the fixed broadcasting signal and the mobile broadcasting signal, or may provide a 3D broadcasting service by composing an image received using the fixed broadcasting signal and an image received using the mobile broadcasting signal into a 3D image. | 10-11-2012 |
20130067429 | COMPONENT COMPOSING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING VIRTUAL COMPONENTS IN COMPONENT-BASED ROBOT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT - A component composing apparatus using virtual components in component-based robot software development, includes a component repository configured to store a plurality of components having at least one port; and an application diagram generation unit configured to create an application diagram by selecting the components stored in the component repository. Further, the component composing apparatus includes an information repository configured to store the components within the application diagram and port information of the components within the application diagram and port connection information between the components within the application diagram; and a virtual component processing unit configured to create the virtual components for components selected by a user among the components within the application diagram. | 03-14-2013 |
20130077698 | ENCODER OF E-8VSB FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION FOR DIGITAL TELEVISION SYSTEM OF ATSC - Provided is an error correcting encoder and, more particularly, to an error correcting encoder used for an improved transmission method of the Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC), and a method thereof. The error correcting encoder for digital television broadcasting, which is suggested in the present research, includes a robust encoder for encoding a one-bit input into robust encoded data; a pre-coding block for receiving the robust encoded data and performing pre-coding to thereby produce a pre-coded signal; and a trellis encoding block for performing trellis encoding on the robust encoded data and the pre-coded signal. | 03-28-2013 |
20130120575 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING ROAD MARKERS - An apparatus for use in a vehicle identifies road markers. The apparatus includes a sensor unit configured to collect image information ahead of the vehicle, distance information, and information on the reflected amount of a road surface. The apparatus includes a recognizer unit configured to recognize the road markers ahead of the vehicle on the basis of the image information, distance information, and information on the reflected amount provided from the sensor unit. Information on the road markers recognized in the recognizer unit is provided on an output unit. | 05-16-2013 |
20130123981 | SWARM INTELLIGENCE ROUTING ROBOT DEVICE AND MOVEMENT PATH CONTROL SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A swarm intelligence routing robot device includes wherein multiple swarm intelligence robot devices configure a cluster, and the swarm intelligence routing robot device configures and manages a wireless communication network to relay communication between the swarm intelligence robot devices which move in an atypical environment in the cluster, and selects a location thereof in order to maintain a communication state with the swarm intelligence robot devices with which the swarm intelligence routing robot device wants to establish a connection based on a network resource information management of the swarm intelligence robot devices. | 05-16-2013 |
20130138596 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTHORING TASK - An apparatus for authoring a task includes a scenario extracted information input unit configured to receive data, an event, and behavior information that are extracted from a task scenario; and a partial behavior information generator configured to extract and write partial behavior rules/sequences based on the received data, event, and behavior information. Further, the apparatus includes an overall behavior information generator configured to set relationship between the written partial behavior rules/sequences and integrate the partial behavior rules/sequences according to the set relationship to write overall behavior rules/sequences; and a task conversion unit configured to convert the written overall behavior rules/sequences into a task which a robot and/or an intelligent agent may execute. | 05-30-2013 |
20130151062 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING ROUTE OF MOVING OBJECT - An apparatus for establishing a route of a moving object, the apparatus including: an information reception unit configured to receive map data from the outside, a global route generation unit configured to generate a global route based on the map data and location information and destination information of a moving object, a surrounding environment sensor unit configured to sense information regarding a surrounding environment of the moving object when the moving object runs, a local route generation unit configured to generate one or more local routes based on the sensed information regarding a surrounding environment, a running unit configured to run the moving object based on the local route, and, when two or more local routes are generated, establish a route of the moving object through matching between the global route and the local routes, and running the moving object. | 06-13-2013 |
20130158865 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING POSITION OF MOVING OBJECT - An apparatus of estimating a position of a moving object creates a global map for a space over which the moving object is moving, on the basis of environment information on moving distance, measured distance, captured image and GIS data, and attribute and position of obstacles within the space. The method also creates a local map on the basis of the environment information obtained from around the moving object, and estimates a position of the moving object on the global map through matching of the local map and the global map. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159979 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING EMULATION ON ROBOTIC APPLICATION - An apparatus for performing emulation on a robotic application includes an emulation unit configured to perform emulation on a symbol and function corresponding to a control command of a robotic application. Further, the apparatus includes a robot unit configured to register the symbol and function to the emulation unit, and control a device of a robot; and a robotic application control unit configured to control the symbol and function of at least one robot by executing the robotic application. | 06-20-2013 |
20130197718 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UNMANNED SURVEILLANCE, AND ROBOT CONTROL DEVICE FOR UNMANNED SURVEILLANCE - An unmanned surveillance device includes a robot control terminal configured to be loaded within a remote control robot under a surveillance environment, collect state information and surrounding circumstance information, operate the remote control robot in driving mode or surveillance mode according to a remote control command corresponding to the state information and surrounding circumstance information. Further, the unmanned surveillance device includes a remote control system configured to receive the state information and the surrounding circumstance information of the remote control robot from the robot control terminal, output the received state information and surrounding circumstance information of the remote control robot, and provide the remote control command to the robot control terminal. | 08-01-2013 |
20130235159 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A VIDEO COMPRESSION STANDARD IN A 3DTV SERVICE - A method and apparatus for determining an image compression format of a 3-dimensional television (3DTV). The method may include encoding a high-quality image and transmitting the encoded high-quality image through a first channel, determining an image compression format in which a resolution of the encoded low-quality image is higher than or equal to a reference value in comparison to the high-quality image, and encoding the low-quality image according to the determined image compression format and transmitting, the encoded low-quality image through a second channel. | 09-12-2013 |
20130290815 | FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DIGITAL BROADCASTING RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND DECODING METHOD THEREOF - A forward error correction encoding method includes: separating a first header section from an inputted packet stream; generating a second payload section by encoding a first payload section of the packet stream, from which the first header section is separated, according to a preset code rate; generating a second header section according to the code rate; and combining the first header section, the second header section, and the second payload section. | 10-31-2013 |
20130304374 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING POSITION OF MOVING OBJECT - An apparatus for recognizing a position of a moving object includes a sensor information collector to collect sensor information associated with movement of the moving object, a camera to capture a front image based on the movement of the moving object, and a GPS receiver configured to receive a GPS position of the moving object. Further, the apparatus includes a location recognizer to display N number of particles, each of which indicates a candidate position of the moving object, in a certain region about a GPS location of the moving object on a map. The location recognizer then updates a location of the particles based on the movement of the moving object, and progressively reduces number of particles on the basis of accuracy of the position-updated particles, thereby recognizing the position of the moving object. | 11-14-2013 |
20130322690 | SITUATION RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING OBJECT ENERGY INFORMATION - A situation recognition apparatus and method analyzes an image to convert a position and motion change rate of an object in a space and an object number change rate into energy information, and then changes the energy information into entropy in connection with an entropy theory of a measurement theory of a disorder within a space. Accordingly, the situation recognition apparatus and method recognizes an abnormal situation in the space and issues a warning for the recognized abnormal situation. Therefore, the situation recognition apparatus and method recognizes an abnormal situation within a space, thereby effectively preventing or perceiving a real-time incident at an early stage. | 12-05-2013 |
20140085641 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING LOCATION OF PILED OBJECTS - A piling location recognizing apparatus and method for accurately determining a piling location using an optical sensor. The piling location recognizing apparatus includes an optical sensor moving unit configured to move on an installed moving line according to a predetermined angle with respect to a recognition target object, an optical sensor recognizing unit mounted on the optical sensor moving unit to acquire information on the recognition target object using an optical sensor, and a piling location calculating unit configured to calculate vertical location coordinates of the recognition target object on a basis of the acquired information on the recognition target object. Accordingly, despite environmental pollution or damage of an identification tag adhered to an object in a piling place in which objects are piled up, an in-yard location of the piled object can be accurately determined. | 03-27-2014 |
20140088830 | LANE TRACKING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING CAMERA DIRECTION CONTROL - A lane tracking apparatus and method using camera direction control is provided. The lane tracking apparatus using camera direction control includes a lane recognition unit for obtaining lane information from an image captured and acquired by a camera. A road curvature calculation unit calculates a curvature of a road using the lane information. A camera direction angle control unit controls a direction angle of the camera in consideration of the road curvature. | 03-27-2014 |
20140114475 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING DEVICE RESOURCES BETWEEN ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENTS - In an apparatus for sharing device resources between robot software user components, a callback module of a robot software user component receives data forwarded from a device set to be shared between the robot software user components, a device service surrogate has a connection with a framework to forward data to the device or forward data received through the callback module to a user program of the user components; a device service surrogate manager manages the device service surrogate of each of the user components; a device channel has a connection with the device to receive data therefrom and transmit data thereto; and a device channel manager manages the device channel and connect the device channel and the device service surrogate. | 04-24-2014 |
20140122409 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BUILDING MAP OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION BASED ON PROPERTIES OF OBJECT AND SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for building a map of probability distribution are provided. The apparatus for building the map of probability distribution includes: a sensor information collector configured to collect sensor information from a plurality of sensors; as object recognizer configured to recognize an object by integrating and inferring the sensor information, and to acquire object information; and a probability distribution creator configured to determine whether to apply an object property model including at least one of kinematic properties, shape properties, and probabilistic properties in correspondence to the object information, to acquire object properties corresponding to the object information, and to create a probability distribution based on foe object properties. Accordingly, it is possible to build a map with high reliability. | 05-01-2014 |
20140136902 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING ERROR IN ROBOT COMPONENTS - An apparatus for processing an error of a robot component includes an event reception unit configured to receive event information; and an error detection unit configured to analyze the event information to determine whether there is a component where an error occurs from among the multiple components. | 05-15-2014 |
20140149963 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINING ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENTS - In accordance with an embodiment, when robot service developers develop the component-based robot software, they are able to select a tight coupling or a loose coupling to develop the component-based robot software and connect the components in compliance with the coupling types that are supported by the components in the component combination tool for combining the components. Therefore, it is possible to make a robot application system in which the components having different coupling types are used all together. | 05-29-2014 |
20140160240 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OFFERING BOUNDARY INFORMATION, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING VIDEO - A boundary information providing apparatus may include a boundary information generation unit to generate boundary information of a video, the boundary information through which a switching point between a 2D video and a 3D video is recognized, based on a switching mode between the 2D video and the 3D video, and a stream transmission unit to transmit a stream including the boundary information to a video receiving apparatus. | 06-12-2014 |
20140245371 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT BY ACCESSING CONTENT STREAM IN HYBRID 3D TV, AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING CONTENT - A content providing apparatus and method, and a content reproduction apparatus and method for accessing a content stream in a hybrid three-dimensional television (3DTV) are disclosed. The content providing apparatus may include a content stream generation unit to generate a first content stream corresponding to a reference image and a second content stream corresponding to a supplementary image, a descriptor generation unit to generate a descriptor associated with the first content stream and the second content stream, and a data transmission unit to transmit the first content stream, the second content stream, and the descriptor to a content reproduction apparatus. | 08-28-2014 |
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20140313289 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT FOR SYNCHRONIZING LEFT/RIGHT STREAMS IN FIXED/MOBILE CONVERGENCE 3DTV, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PLAYING CONTENT - An apparatus and a method for synchronizing left and right streams in a stationary/mobile hybrid 3DTV are disclosed. The apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment may synchronize content streams corresponding to left and right images using a timestamp pairing mode, a timestamp offset mode, and a network time protocol (NTP) synchronization mode. | 10-23-2014 |
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