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20140143809 | INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION SERVICE - In one example embodiment, a system includes an end device configured to transmit a user input; and a television apparatus configured to: receive the user input from the end device, determine a query that is associated with a function that is executable by the television apparatus, based at least in part on the user input, execute the function that corresponds to the determined query, and generate a reply to the determined query based at least in part on a result of the execution of the function. | 05-22-2014 |
20140181863 | INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION SERVICE - In one example embodiment, a system includes an end device configured to: display an image, receive an input to select an object depicted on the displayed image, and transmit information regarding the object; and a server configured to: receive the information regarding the object from the end device, store the received information regarding the object with a time of receipt, identify at least one service associated with the object with reference to the received information regarding the object, and transmit service information regarding the identified at least one service to the end device. | 06-26-2014 |
20160086037 | THEMATIC RECOMMENDATIONS - In one example, a content theme recommendation system may include a content recommendation server configured to: generate a plurality of themes with respect to multiple contents, calculate similarities between the plurality of themes, collect content viewing logs for one or more of the multiple contents from a user device, convert the content viewing logs into theme viewing logs based on metadata for the plurality of themes, and provide one or more recommended theme to the user device based on the theme viewing logs and the similarities between the plurality of themes; and the user device configured to receive one or more recommended theme from the content recommendation server. | 03-24-2016 |
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20110079034 | Refrigerator - Disclosed herein is a refrigerator which performs a light emitting operation in connection with opening and closing of doors and a home bar door. The refrigerator includes a front glass, a light guide member disposed on a rear surface of the front glass, a light emitting device disposed at the outside of the light guide member to generate light toward the light guide member, scattering members provided within the light guide member to scatter the light of the light emitting device transmitted through the light guide member, and transmitting parts provided on the front glass corresponding to the scattering members to transmit the light of the scattering members toward the front surface of each door, and the light emitting device emits light in connection with opened and closed states of the doors. | 04-07-2011 |
20120204581 | REFRIGERATOR WITH STERILIZER - A refrigerator which variably controls operation of a sterilizer according to variation in humidity within the refrigerator to improve sterilizing capacity includes a control unit to drive the sterilizer while repeatedly turning the cold air circulation fan on/off during a refrigerating cycle in which the defrosting heater is not operated, and stop driving the sterilizer during operation of the defrosting heater. | 08-16-2012 |
20130025303 | REFRIGERATOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A control method of a refrigerator including a compressor to supply refrigerant to an evaporator to cool a storage compartment, a valve to adjust flow of the refrigerant, a fan to blow air heat-exchanged by the evaporator, and a heater to remove frost from the evaporator. The control method includes, upon receiving a power-saving signal, determining whether the received power-saving signal is a first or second power-saving mode signal, upon determining that the power-saving signal is the first power-saving mode signal, performing at least one selected from among resetting of target temperature of the storage compartment, adjustment of an operation rate of the compressor, and adjustment of operation time of the heater to execute a first power-saving mode, and, upon determining that the power-saving signal is the second power-saving mode signal, controlling the compressor, the fan, and the heater to be off to execute a second power-saving mode. | 01-31-2013 |
20130313958 | REFRIGERATOR - A structure for packaging an interior part such as a shelf and a door guard to prevent the interior part from being damaged due to impact and friction during transportation of a refrigerator is provided. Each of the shelf and the door guard may be accommodated in a shock-absorbing member in a state of being separated from each mounting portion to be fixed within a storage chamber. The shock-absorbing member coupled with the shelf or the door guard may be packaged by a package member and be fixed to a shelf mounting portion of an inner case. | 11-28-2013 |
20130327076 | REFRIGERATOR - A refrigerator including an icemaker and an ice bucket provided at a door, a feeding unit to feed ice cubes stored in the ice bucket, a driving motor provided at a main body to drive the feeding unit, and a coupling device to transmit driving force from the driving motor to the feeding unit. When the door is closed, the driving motor is connected to the feeding unit. When the door is opened, the driving motor is disconnected from the feeding unit. Accordingly, the door has a simple structure, the ice bucket has an increased capacity, repair or replacement of the driving motor is easily achieved. The coupling device includes a first coupling unit and a second coupling unit which is engaged with the first coupling unit to receive driving force. The coupling device is configured to hide the coupling units when the door is opened. | 12-12-2013 |
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20100111018 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING SELF-INTERFERENCE AND RELAY SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - An apparatus, a method and a relay system for removing self-interference (SI). If a relay transmitting end transmits relay-reference signals (R-RS) through a region where a base station does not transmit signals, based on a protocol predetermined with the base station, a relay receiving end obtains SI channel values from signals transmitted by the relay transmitting end and received through a self-interference channel with use of the R-RS, removes the SI from transmitting signals of an uplink or an downlink based on the SI channel values, and relays the SI removed transmitting signals. | 05-06-2010 |
20100167748 | METHOD FOR UPLINK COMMUNICATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - A method of recognizing states and locations of user equipment in a network by using a random access (RA) channel at a base station without alteration of the conventional network environment or configurations of user equipment. A mobile communication system of an embodiment includes a first base station; and one or more second base stations having service regions smaller than a service region of the first base station. The first base station is operable to broadcast configuration information to the user equipment for connecting to at least one of the one or more second base stations. The user equipment is operable to transmit an uplink signal to at least one of the one or more second base stations in accordance with the configuration information received from the first base station, and at least one of the one or more second base stations is operable to transmit information on the user equipment that transmitted the uplink signal to the first base station after receiving the uplink signal. | 07-01-2010 |
20110243057 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TIMING OF BACKHAUL LINK AND RELAY SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - Embodiments for providing a method of controlling timing of a downlink backhaul sub-frame and a relay system for the same are disclosed. According to the present invention, a control signal is transmitted to user equipment during a control symbol period of a sub-frame and a data starting point of the sub-frame is set after a time (SG1) for switching from a transmission mode to a reception mode to receive backhaul data of a base station during a backhaul symbol period. Timing of a transmission sub-frame and a reception sub-frame is delayed by the SG1. A sum of a length of the SG1 and a time (SG2) for switching from the reception mode to the transmission mode is shorter than a length of a symbol having a normal CP. At this time, the lengths of the SG1 and the SG2 are identical to each other or the length of the SG2 is shorter than the length of the SG1. In such a case, the backhaul data are received up to a last symbol period of backhaul symbols of the reception sub-frame. | 10-06-2011 |
20120040704 | METHOD FOR RESOURCE ELEMENT GROUP DOWNSIZING OF R-PDCCH AND MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method for reducing a resource element group (REG) size, which is used at a control channel element (CCE) for a relay physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH), for the purpose of easy interleaving by a physical resource block (PRB) unit for the R-PDCCH, and a mobile telecommunication system for the same. The mobile telecommunication system of the present invention includes reducing the CCE size to 8 REGs or less of the R-PDCCH to be included in a single PRB. | 02-16-2012 |
20120106432 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK SIGNAL WITH PERIODIC AND RELAY SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - In one embodiment, after determining downlink backhaul sub-frames based on a constitution period of backhaul sub-frames and determining uplink backhaul sub-frames based on the determined downlink backhaul sub-frames by a relay, all or portions of uplink signals in the determined uplink backhaul sub-frames are transmitted within a backhaul sub-frame allocation period, or after assigning numbers to all of the determined uplink backhaul sub-frames, all or portions of uplink signals are transmitted according to the assigned uplink backhaul sub-frame numbers within a backhaul sub-frame allocation period. | 05-03-2012 |
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20130134120 | HOIST APPARATUS AND HOIST TRANSPORTING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a hoist apparatus having an improved structure to load an object to be transported in a horizontal direction. The hoist apparatus includes a travel unit to travel along a rail, a carrier unit coupled to the travel unit so as to move in a first direction, and a cart unit coupled to the carrier unit so as to move in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein the cart unit includes a body portion, in which an object to be transferred is located, and a drive portion to drive the body portion in the second direction. | 05-30-2013 |
20130216336 | AUTOMATIC CARRIER TRANSFER FOR TRANSFERRING A SUBSTRATE CARRIER IN A SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING POST-PROCESS AND METHOD OF TRANSFERRING THE SUBSTRATE CARRIER USING THE SAME - A carrier transfer for automatically transferring a substrate carrier includes a gripper detachably coupled to the substrate carrier, the substrate carrier including a plurality of substrates and at least one open gate through which the plurality of substrates are loaded into or unloaded from the substrate carrier. The gripper includes a gate blocking unit secured to the gripper and configured to shift to a blocking position, the blocking position being a position of the gate blocking unit that partially blocks the gate to prevent the plurality of substrates from being separated from the substrate carrier during the automatic transferring of the substrate carrier. | 08-22-2013 |
20130220959 | HOIST APPARATUS AND HOIST SYSTEM THEREOF - A hoist apparatus including a traveling unit that travels from one place to another, an elevating unit installed in the traveling unit to be lifted up and lowered down from the traveling unit, a grip device which is installed in the elevating unit and selectively grips a stumbling projection formed at one side of an accommodating container accommodating an object, and a separation preventing apparatus which is connected to the elevating unit and selectively closes an open inlet of the accommodating container so that the object accommodated in the accommodating container is not separated from the accommodating container. | 08-29-2013 |
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20140029531 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION OF BASE STATIONS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A resource allocation method and apparatus whereby a master base station of a virtual cell having at least one slave base station for cooperative resource allocation to a mobile station in a wireless communication system are provided. The resource allocation method includes transmitting, to the slave base station, a resource allocation request message including information on the resource to be allocated to the mobile station, receiving a resource allocation response message including one of accept and reject indications to the resource allocation request from the slave base station, transmitting, to the mobile station, a resource allocation information including a result of resource allocation negotiation with the slave base station, and transmitting data to the mobile station in cooperation with the slave base station based on the resource allocation information. | 01-30-2014 |
20160095133 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE HARQ PROCESS MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure relates to a pre-5 | 03-31-2016 |
20160112910 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING DEVICE TO DEVICE (D2D) COMMUNICATION - A system and a method for a base station to reduce signaling overhead in device-to-device (D2D) communication are provided. The method includes a list of one or more destination identities (IDs) in a signaling message from at least one of UE and source base station, receiving a destination index in a buffer status report (BSR) from UE to request dedicated resources for transmitting D2D communication packets to a destination, determining the destination ID corresponding to destination index received in the BSR using the list of one or more destination IDs received from at least one of UE and source base station wherein the destination index is the index of destination ID in the list of destination IDs received, and allocating resources to the UE based on the determined destination ID. | 04-21-2016 |
20160135178 | TERMINAL AND DISTANCE ESTIMATION METHOD THEREOF - A terminal and a distance estimation method thereof for use in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication are provided. The terminal includes a transceiver configured to communicate with other terminals and at least one processor configured to control the transceiver to transmit a discovery message including time information to the other terminals and receive distance information calculated by the other terminals, the distance information being calculated based on the time information. The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system, such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). | 05-12-2016 |
20160142899 | Method for Performing D2D Discovery and Terminal Using Same - The present invention relates to a method for performing a D2D discovery and a terminal using the same. Particularly, the present invention relates to a method for performing a D2D discovery, which compares a congestion level of another discovery slot selected randomly or according to a preset pattern with a threshold or a congestion level of a current discovery slot and determines a discovery slot to transmit a discovery message and a transmission period of the discovery message according to a result of the comparison, and a terminal using the same. The present invention relates to a method for performing a D2D discovery using discovery resources including a plurality of discovery slots, and a terminal performing the same, the method comprising the steps of: broadcasting a discovery message by using a first discovery slot; comparing a congestion level of a selected second discovery slot with a predetermined congestion level value; determining a discovery slot to broadcast the discovery message on the basis of a result of the comparison; and broadcasting the discovery message by using the determined discovery slot. | 05-19-2016 |