Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080201781 | Tool Pack Structure and Contents Execution Device - A tool pack structure includes: a signature value for guaranteeing authenticity of a tool pack; a tool pack identifier for identifying the tool pack; each unit tool pack provided according to a hardware platform; and tool pack data containing initial values assigned when each unit tool pack is used. Each tool pack includes platform information indicating information about hardware in which the tool pack may be used; a tool agent that is a program activated for content execution; and a tool group including at least one tool program activated by the tool pack agent for processing content according to a predetermined rule. A tool agent leaves operation of a protection tool group used by a specific service provider entirely to a tool agent (execution code) provided together with the tool group by service providers. Accordingly, information about the used tools does not have to be disclosed to the public. Since a user terminal simply calls each tool agent, it can support interoperability with other DRM techniques. | 08-21-2008 |
20080270888 | Method For Generating Metadata For Symbolic Music of Traditional Music, and Apparatus For Coding/Decoding Multimedia Data Using the Same - Provided is a method for generating metadata for symbolic music and a music restoring apparatus employing the same, and more particularly, a method for generating metadata for ornaments existing in the Korean traditional music and an apparatus for restoring multimedia including the same. A method for generating metadata for music, which is suggested in the present invention, includes the steps of: a) generating an extensible Markup Language (XML) notation for ornaments; b) generating a complete form of metadata including the XML notation; and c) generating metadata for entire music by using the complete form of metadata and the XML notation. | 10-30-2008 |
20080320536 | System and Method for Providing Personalized Datat Broadcasting Service, User Terminal and Method for Using Personalized Data Broadcasting Service, and Data Broadcasting Application Structure Therefor - Provided is a system and method for providing a personalized data broadcasting service, a user terminal and method for using a personalized data broadcasting service, and a data broadcasting application structure therefor, to provide a desired broadcasting service to a viewer anytime and anywhere by using diverse terminals. The user terminal includes: a data broadcasting middleware for receiving unidirectional data broadcasting contents transmitted through a broadcasting network; a personalized broadcasting middleware for receiving bidirectional data broadcasting contents transmitted through a communication network; and a contents storing means for storing the unidirectional data broadcasting contents and the bidirectional data broadcasting contents, wherein the data broadcasting middleware executes the unidirectional data broadcasting contents and bidirectional data broadcasting contents. The present invention provides a fast and stable data broadcasting service through a communication-broadcasting integration personalized data broadcasting service. Also, it provides diverse data broadcasting services to each user through a targeting personalized data broadcasting service. | 12-25-2008 |
20090024644 | Extended Multimedia File Structure and Multimedia File Producting Method and Multimedia File Executing Method - Provided are an extended multimedia file structure, a multimedia file producing method, and a multimedia file executing method. The extended multimedia file structure includes: a metadata section including a media initial object descriptor (IOD) field and at least one track pointer; and a media data section including at least one media block indicated by the track pointer, wherein the at least one track pointer indicates a detail media resource contained in an embedded multimedia file or an external multimedia file. | 01-22-2009 |
20090044241 | BROADCASTING CONTENT PROTECTION/MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Provided is a contents protection and management system including: a contents processing server for providing a service subscriber with contents and producing information for protection and management of the content; a DRM tool server for managing tools used in the contents processing server and the subscriber terminal to process the content; and a license server for managing the subscriber's right to the content. | 02-12-2009 |
20090077652 | Contents Execution Device Equipped With Independent Authentication Means And Contents Re-Distribution Method - The present invention particularly relates to a digital content providing service method and a content execution device for the same, for maximizing user convenience and maintaining a sufficient level of security using a smart card. The inventive content execution device includes an independent authentication unit for storing a tool necessary for executing content; an authentication support module for providing a data communication channel between the smart card and an external broadcasting server; a tool agent for calling the tool stored in the independent authentication unit; and a content execution unit for executing content data received from the external broadcasting server. The content execution device included in a content authority management system of the present invention employs the smart card for user authentication and/or content playing tool management. Accordingly, a user can freely executing his/her licensed content in different content execution devices by conveniently removing and reinserting the smart card, without separate measures. Moreover, according to the present invention, a user can effectively use content from different broadcasters. | 03-19-2009 |
20090080519 | METHOD FOR ENCODING/DECODING VIDEO SEQUENCE BASED ON MCTF USING ADAPTIVELY-ADJUSTED GOP STRUCTURE - Provided is a method for performing motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTF)-based coding on a video sequence using the structure of adaptively divided group of pictures (GOP). The method includes the steps of, for each predefined 2 | 03-26-2009 |
20090133062 | PMCP EXTENSION METADATA, DATA STREAM GENERATING DEVICE, DIGITAL DATA BROADCASTING EMISSION SYSTEM AND DIGITAL DATA BROADCASTING EMISSION METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a data server, which is added to a digital broadcast emitting system to emit data broadcasting based on the Programming Metadata Communication Protocol (PMCP), a conventional international specification defined to secure inter-operability between devices of a digital broadcast emitting system; a metadata structure for securing inter-operability between devices of the conventional digital broadcast emitting system; a data stream generating device using the metadata structure; and a digital data broadcast emitting system and method thereof. The PMCP extended metadata of the present invention are formed to include channel type metadata which provide system information of a data event constituting a data broadcast program; and Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) data event metadata which provide identification information, program guide, and encapsulation information of a data event. | 05-21-2009 |
20090135244 | METHOD FOR CAPTURING CONVERGENT-TYPE MULTI-VIEW IMAGE - Provided is a method for convergent type three-dimensional (3D) multi-viewpoint image acquisition. The method for acquiring a multi-viewpoint image in an image acquisition apparatus comprises the steps of: converting the image acquisition apparatus to a multi-viewpoint image photographing mode; if converted to the multi-viewpoint image photographing mode in the converting step, providing a plurality of geometric shapes to set a position of an object to be photographed within a screen and selecting a desired shape of the geometric shapes in response to an inputted shape selection signal; if the desired geometric shape is selected in the shape providing step, adjusting a position and a size of the selected geometric shape in response to a shape adjustment signal; and photographing a whole image having the object that places within the adjusted geometric shape in the adjusting step. | 05-28-2009 |
20090196343 | CHANNEL CAPACITY ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RATE ADAPTIVE WIRELESS VIDEO - There is provided a channel capacity estimation method for adaptive video transmission, the method including: estimating a Bit Error Rate (BER) for a received video packet; and estimating channel capacity by using the estimated BER. | 08-06-2009 |
20100020874 | SCALABLE VIDEO DECODER AND CONTROLLING METHOD FOR THE SAME - A scalable video decoder and a controlling method thereof are provided. A method of controlling a scalable video decoder includes: determining whether a macro block mode of an upper layer is an interlayer prediction mode when decoding a scalable video; when the macro block mode of the upper layer is determined as the interlayer prediction mode, determining an up-sampling operation is required to thereby either perform texture up-sampling using corresponding macro block information of a lower layer and neighboring pixel information, or perform residual up-sampling using the corresponding macro block information of the lower layer; and decoding the upper layer using the texture up-sampling or the residual up-sampling. | 01-28-2010 |
20100074256 | SERVICE RECOGNITION METHOD OF ROUTER IN IPV6 ENVIRONMENT - Provided is a service recognition method of a router in IPv6 environment, allowing a router to facilitate access of a mobile terminal to various services by using service information of a service header and identification information of the mobile terminal included in an IPv6 packet transmitted from the mobile terminal. The service recognition method includes: a) looking up predefined service cache by using service identification of IPv6 packet as index key of the service cache when the IPv6 packet including the service ID in a service header is received from the mobile terminal; b) changing destination address into address of the service server when the address of the service server and service control information are determined through the lookup of the service-cache to request service and perform service control; and c) routing to the mobile terminal by using the IPv6 packet when service response is transmitted from the service server. | 03-25-2010 |
20100135510 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND PLAYING OBJECT BASED AUDIO CONTENTS - Disclosed is an object based audio contents generating/playing apparatus. The object based audio contents generating/playing apparatus may include an object audio signal obtaining unit to obtain a plurality of object audio signals by recording a plurality of sound source signals, a recording space information obtaining unit to obtain recording space information with respect to a recording space of the plurality of sound source signals, a sound source location information obtaining unit to obtain sound location information of the plurality of sound source signals, and an encoding unit to generate object based audio contents by encoding at least one of the plurality of object audio signals, the recording space information, and the sound source location information, thereby enabling the object based audio contents to be played using at least one of a WFS scheme and a multi-channel surround scheme regardless of a reproducing environment of the audience. | 06-03-2010 |
20100161087 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATION AND PLAYBACK OF OBJECT BASED AUDIO CONTENTS - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of providing contents. The apparatus of providing the contents may include a receiving unit to receive, from a contents provider, contents and information about a contents providing location, a local group setting unit to search for at least one cell based on the information about the contents providing location and to set the retrieved cell as a content providing location group of the contents, and a transmitting unit to transmit the contents to the set content providing location group. The object based audio contents may be consecutively replayed based on an identical audio preset. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161823 | A STREAMING SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIVERSAL VIDEO ACCESS BASED ON SCALABLE VIDEO CODING - Provided is a streaming service system and method for a universal video access based on scalable video coding (SVC). A gateway to provide a streaming service may include: an SVC content file parser to receive an SVC content file from a streaming server, and to separately extract an SVC network abstraction layer (NAL unit) of a base layer and an SVC NAL unit of a scalable enhancement layer from SVC NAL units that are included in the SVC content file; an SVC NAL selection unit to select an SVC NAL unit corresponding to a client type of each of terminals; and a packet generation unit to transmit the selected SVC NAL unit to a corresponding terminal. | 06-24-2010 |
20100171882 | METHOD FOR TUNING CODING RATE AND APPLYING UNEQUAL ERROR PROTECTION FOR ADAPTIVE VIDEO TRANSMISSION, AND VIDEO TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION APPARATUS USING THE METHOD - Provided are a method of tuning a coding rate and applying an unequal error protection for an adaptive video transmission, and a video transmission/reception apparatus using the method. The video transmission apparatus may include: a coding rate tuner to predict, as a channel capacity of a subsequent channel interval, an estimated channel capacity value fed back from the video reception apparatus, and to tune video and channel coding rates within the predicted channel capacity; a video encoder to perform video encoding of video frames at the tuned video coding rate, and to generate a video packet; and a forward error correction (FEC) encoder to apply the unequal error protection based on a length of the video packet and a type of the video frames included in the video packet, and to perform channel encoding of the video packet at the tuned channel coding rate to generate a bitstream. | 07-08-2010 |
20100202511 | METHOD FOR REDUCING ARBITRARY-RATIO UP-SAMPLING OPERATION USING CONTEXT OF MACROBLOCK, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING BY USING THE SAME - Disclosed are a method for effectively up-sampling an image using information of neighboring blocks, and a method and apparatus of scalable video encoding/decoding using the same. The method for up-sampling a low resolution image corresponding to a high resolution image having an arbitrary image up-sampling ratio includes determining whether the low resolution image is inter-mode data, and performing an image up-sampling adaptively according to a macroblock mode of the low resolution image, when the low resolution image is the inter-mode data. | 08-12-2010 |
20100208797 | DISTRIBUTED VIDEO ENCODER AND DECODER, AND DISTRIBUTED VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD - A distributed video encoder and decoder and a distributed video encoding and decoding method through a symmetrical motion prediction and channel division are provided. Side information may be generated through the symmetrical motion prediction, and only a portion, which is significantly distorted, may be encoded and decoded into a channel code through an evaluation of the side information and thus, a configuration of the distributed video decoder may be simplified. | 08-19-2010 |
20100215099 | MULTIPLE QUALITY IMAGE CONTENTS SERVICE SYSTEM AND UPDATE METHOD THEREOF - An image contents service system includes a first encoder encoding an original image data into a first-layer data, and a second encoder modulized to encode the original image data into a second-layer data by referencing the first-layer data, whereby image contents upgraded more than the first-layer data are provided. Accordingly, the image contents service system can minimize the waste of frequency bands and resources of an encoding system in the upgrade, and can provide a multiple quality contents service. | 08-26-2010 |
20100260179 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE STREAMING OF SCALABLE CONTENTS USING MULTICAST AND UNICAST TRANSMISSION CONCURRENTLY - Disclosed is an adaptive transmission device and method of transmitting scalable contents by simultaneously utilizing a multicast transmission and a unicast transmission. The method of transmitting scalable contents in a transmission server includes receiving transmission status information from terminals, determining a transmission policy corresponding to the transmission status of each of the terminals, transmitting a basic transmission group of the scalable contents to the terminals via a multicast or a broadcast, and transmitting an adaptive transmission group of the scalable contents corresponding to the transmission policy to each corresponding terminal via a unicast. | 10-14-2010 |
20100278234 | APPARATUS FOR CODING OR DECODING INTRA IMAGE BASED ON LINE INFORMATION OF REFERENCE IMAGE BLOCK - An apparatus for coding an image which may effectively code the image and an apparatus for decoding an image which may decode the effectively coded image. The apparatus for coding the image includes: an input image segmentation unit to segment an input image into a plurality of image blocks including a first image block and a second image block; a waveform information generation unit to select a plurality of reference pixels from among pixels included in the first image block, generate first waveform information about the first image block based on a pixel value difference between the selected plurality of reference pixels, and generate second waveform information about the second image block based on a pixel value difference between the pixels included in the second image block; and coding unit to code an image included in the second image block based on the first waveform information and second waveform information. | 11-04-2010 |
20100322224 | SERVER, TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR END TO END CHANNEL CAPACITY ESTIMATION IN HIGH SPEED DOWNLINK PACKET ACCESS NETWORK - A server and a terminal enabling channel capacity estimation in a High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) network and a method of controlling the server and the terminal are provided. More particularly, when transmitting data between both terminals in an HSDPA network, a server end may transmit a packet pair of the same size and a client end may measure a time difference between the packet pair and thereby proceed filtering. Through this, it is possible to estimate the channel capacity. Therefore, it is possible to prevent data transmission from exceeding the channel capacity in the HSDPA to thereby prevent a packet loss and to effectively use a channel. | 12-23-2010 |
20100322526 | METHOD OF FILTERING RESTORED IMAGE USING PLURALITY OF FILTERS AND ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING FILTERING METHOD - A method of filtering a restored image selectively using a plurality of filters, and an encoding and decoding apparatus using the method are provided. The filtering method may filter a restored image using each of a plurality of filter structures to obtain a plurality of filtered restored images, and determine a filter structure of a restored image with a high coding efficiency from among the obtained filtered restored images as a final filter structure. | 12-23-2010 |
20100329347 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING VIDEO SIGNAL USING MOTION COMPENSATION BASED ON AFFINE TRANSFORMATION - A video encoding method and apparatus are provided. The video encoding method includes determining whether a current block includes an affine-transformation object having an affine transformation; if the current block includes an affine-transformation object, generating a prediction block by performing affine transformation-based motion compensation on the current block in consideration of an affine transformation of the affine-transformation object; and if the current block does not include any affine-transformation object, generating a prediction block by performing motion vector-based motion compensation on the current block using a motion vector of the current block. Therefore, it is possible to achieve high video encoding/decoding efficiency even when a block to be encoded or decoded includes an affine transformation. | 12-30-2010 |
20100329360 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SVC VIDEO AND AAC AUDIO SYNCHRONIZATION USING NPT - A method of supporting synchronization of Scalable Video Coding (SVC) information and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) information using a Normal Play Time (NPT), the method including: receiving video information using a decoding apparatus; receiving audio information using the decoding apparatus; calculating the NPT of the video information using a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) time stamp included in the received video information; calculating the NPT of the audio information using the RTP time stamp included in the received audio information; comparing the NPT of the video information and the NPT of the audio information to calculate a difference value; determining whether the calculated difference value is included in a specific synchronization region; and outputting the audio information and the video information when the calculated difference value is determined to be included in the specific synchronization region. | 12-30-2010 |
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 |
20110054848 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING MUSICAL SOUND SOURCE - Provided is an apparatus of separating a musical sound source, which may re-construct mixed signals into target sound sources and other sound sources directly using sound source information performed using a predetermined musical instrument when the sound source information is present, thereby more effectively separating sound sources included in the mixed signal. The apparatus may include a Nonnegative Matrix Partial Co-Factorization (NMPCF) analysis unit to perform an NMPCF analysis on a mixed signal and a predetermined sound source signal using a sound source separation model, and to obtain a plurality of entity matrices based on the analysis result, and a target instrument signal separating unit to separate, from the mixed signal, a target instrument signal corresponding to the predetermined sound source signal by calculating an inner product between the plurality of entity matrices. | 03-03-2011 |
20110054917 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STRUCTURING BITSTREAM FOR OBJECT-BASED AUDIO SERVICE, AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING THE BITSTREAM - Provided are a method and apparatus for structuring a bitstream for an object-based audio service, and an apparatus for encoding the bitstream. A method of structuring a bitstream, may include: configuring the bitstream by separating the bitstream into a file header and frames of audio objects that are separated using a sound source separation scheme; and storing, in the file header, reproduction level information of audio objects. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055550 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESERVING SECURITY IN VIDEO MULTICASTING SERVICE - A method and an apparatus for maintaining information security in a video multicasting service are provided. The method includes: generating a network abstraction layer unit using received video information; encrypting the network abstraction layer unit of the video information; realtime transport protocol (RTP) packetizing the encrypted network abstraction layer unit of the video information; recording unit format information and field information, included in the network abstraction layer of the video information being stored in a memory, in a header extension field of the RTP header; and transmitting the RTP packet including the encrypted video information to a routing device. | 03-03-2011 |
20110061516 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING MUSICAL SOUND SOURCE WITHOUT USING SOUND SOURCE DATABASE - Provided are an apparatus and method of separating, from a mixed signal, a sound source generated using a rhythm musical instrument based on characteristics of the rhythm musical instrument repeated in an aspect of time. The apparatus may include a separation unit to separate a plurality of mixed signals into a plurality of segments, a Nonnegative Matrix Partial Co-Factorization (NMPCF) analysis unit to perform an NMPCF analysis on the plurality of segments, and to obtain a plurality of entity matrices based on the analysis result, a target instrument signal separating unit to to separate, from the mixed signals, a target instrument signal, by calculating an inner product between the plurality of entity matrices, and a signal association unit to associate the target instrument signals separated from each of the plurality of segments. | 03-17-2011 |
20110064249 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AND PLAYING OBJECT-BASED AUDIO CONTENTS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING DATA HAVING FILE FORMAT STRUCTURE FOR OBJECT-BASED AUDIO SERVICE - Provided are a method of generating and playing an object-based audio content that may effectively store preset information about an object-based audio content, and a computer-readable recording medium for storing data having a file format structure for an object-based audio service. The method of generating the object-based audio content may include: receiving a plurality of audio objects ( | 03-17-2011 |
20110069934 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING OBJECT BASED AUDIO FILE, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PLAYING BACK OBJECT BASED AUDIO FILE - Provided are an apparatus and method for providing an object based audio file, and an apparatus and method for playing back an object based audio file. The object based audio file producing apparatus may include a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream about an object based audio file including a plurality of audio object frames and a file header for an object based audio service; and a bitstream transmitter to transmit the bitstream to the object based audio file playback apparatus. The plurality of audio object frames may include a frame storing a audio source in which all of a plurality of audio frames is mixed and a frame storing each of the audio objects. | 03-24-2011 |
20110080945 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTING SCALABLE VIDEO CODING BITSTREAM - An apparatus and method for adapting a scalable video coding (SVC) bitstream is provided. The apparatus may include: a layer selection unit to select at least one quality layer from a plurality of quality layers contained in each of spatial layers of the SVC bitstream; a layer discarding unit to discard the at least one quality layer; and a layer dependency modification unit to modify a quality layer dependency between one or more quality layers remaining among the plurality of quality layers, or a spatial layer dependency between the plurality of spatial layers. Accordingly, it is possible to adapt the SVC bitstream where the entire quality of spatial layers is enhanced. | 04-07-2011 |
20110103474 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSFORMING MEDIUM GRAINED SCALABILITY-BASED SCALABLE VIDEO CODING BITSTREAM INTO ADVANCED VIDEO CODING BITSTREAM - A Medium Grained Scalability (MGS)-to-Advanced Video Coding (AVC) transform apparatus may modify an accumulated residual signal of at least one MGS layer of a key picture, included in an MGS-based Scalable Video Coding (SVC) bitstream, and rewrite the MGS-based SVC bitstream into an AVC bitstream. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103771 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING PARTIAL ENCRYPTION OF BROADCAST PROGRAM - An apparatus for encrypting and recording a broadcasting program includes a packet input unit configured to receive packets of a broadcasting program to be recorded and sequentially output the packets, an encryption selector configured to receive the packets sequentially output from the packet input unit, selectively output the received packets to a first path and to a second path, wherein packets to be encrypted are output to the first path and packets not to be encrypted are output to the second path, an encryption processor configured to encrypt the packets output to the first path based on a predetermined encryption method, and a storing unit configured to store the encrypted packets from the encryption processor or store the packets output to the second path. | 05-05-2011 |
20110112829 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF INTEGRATED SPEECH AND AUDIO - Provided are an apparatus and a method for integrally encoding and decoding a speech signal and a audio signal. The encoding apparatus may include: an input signal analyzer to analyze a characteristic of an input signal; a first conversion encoder to convert the input signal to a frequency domain signal, and to encode the input signal when the input signal is a audio characteristic signal; a Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) encoder to perform LPC encoding of the input signal when the input signal is a speech characteristic signal; and a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream using an output signal of the first conversion encoder and an output signal of the LPC encoder. | 05-12-2011 |
20110112842 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EDITING AUDIO OBJECT IN SPATIAL INFORMATION-BASED MULTI-OBJECT AUDIO CODING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an audio object editing apparatus of a multi-object audio coding apparatus. The audio object editing apparatus of the multi-object audio coding apparatus may include an object information extracting unit to receive an object bit stream and to extract object information from the object bit stream, a downmix processing unit to receive a downmix signal, and to control the downmix signal using object editing information and the object information, and a bit stream processing unit to edit the object information according to the object editing information, and to generate a controlled object bit stream based on the edited object information. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119054 | APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF INTEGRATED SPEECH AND AUDIO - Provided is an apparatus for integrally encoding and decoding a speech signal and an audio signal. An encoding apparatus for integrally encoding a speech signal and an audio signal, may include: a module selection unit to analyze a characteristic of an input signal and to select a first encoding module for encoding a first frame of the input signal; a speech encoding unit to encode the input signal according to a selection of the module selection unit and to generate a speech bitstream; an audio encoding unit to encode the input signal according to the selection of the module selection unit and to generate an audio bitstream; and a bitstream generation unit to generate an output bitstream from the speech encoding unit or the audio encoding unit according to the selection of the module selection unit. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119055 | APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF INTEGRATED SPEECH AND AUDIO - Provided is an encoding apparatus for integrally encoding and decoding a speech signal and a audio signal, and may include: an input signal analyzer to analyze a characteristic of an input signal; a stereo encoder to down mix the input signal to a mono signal when the input signal is a stereo signal, and to extract stereo sound image information; a frequency band expander to expand a frequency band of the input signal; a sampling rate converter to convert a sampling rate; a speech signal encoder to encode the input signal using a speech encoding module when the input signal is a speech characteristics signal; a audio signal encoder to encode the input signal using a audio encoding module when the input signal is a audio characteristic signal; and a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119067 | APPARATUS FOR SIGNAL STATE DECISION OF AUDIO SIGNAL - A module capable of appropriately selecting a linear predictive coding (LPC)-based or a code excitation linear prediction (CELP)-based speech or audio encoder and a transform-based audio encoder according to a feature of an input signal is a module that performs as a bridge for overcoming a performance barrier between a conventional LPC-based encoder and an audio encoder. Also, an integral audio encoder that provides consistent audio quality regardless of a type of the input audio signal can be designed based on the module. | 05-19-2011 |
20110137663 | ENCODING APPARATUS AND DECODING APPARATUS FOR TRANSFORMING BETWEEN MODIFIED DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM-BASED CODER AND HETERO CODER - An encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus in a transform between a Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (MDCT)-based coder and a hetero coder are provided. The encoding apparatus may encode additional information to restore an input signal encoded according to the MDCT-based coding scheme, when switching occurs between the MDCT-based coder and the hetero coder. Accordingly, an unnecessary bitstream may be prevented from being generated, and minimum additional information may be encoded. | 06-09-2011 |
20110145697 | DEVICE FOR SCENE PRESENTATION OF STRUCTURED INFORMATION - A method for performing presentation with reference to structured information existing in an internal or external is defined. A scene presentation device may present a scene with reference to the structured information based on the defined method. | 06-16-2011 |
20110149153 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DTV CLOSED-CAPTIONING PROCESSING IN BROADCASTING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus for extracting and creating a closed caption of a DTV stream in broadcasting and communication system, the apparatus comprising: a demultiplexer to receive the stream and demultiplex the received stream into additional information and a video stream; a decoder to receive and decode the video stream; an ST converter to receive PTS information, and convert PTS information into synchronization time information; a storage unit to store the demultiplexed additional information; an analyzer to receive the additional information and analyze CSD information; a closed caption extractor to receive the decoded data and the CSD information, and extract closed caption data; a closed caption file creator to create a closed caption file; a closed caption data processing unit to construct a segment-by-segment closed caption stream; a segmentation unit to construct a segment-by-segment stream; and a keyword search unit to provide the segment-by-segment stream corresponding to the keyword. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150095 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided is an image encoding/decoding apparatus and method. The image encoding apparatus may include a motion vector prediction unit to perform a prediction with respect to an arbitrary motion vector of a current block within an image, using at least one of vector information of a motion vector corresponding to an adjacent block and vector information of a previous motion vector of the current block, and a differential determination unit to determine differential information of a motion vector of the current block based on the motion vector predicted in the motion vector prediction unit and an actual motion vector of the current block. | 06-23-2011 |
20110154161 | FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION (FEC) ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD OF VARIABLE LENGTH PACKET BASED ON THREE-DIMENSIONAL STORAGE APPARATUS - Provided is a Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoding method of a variable-length packet using a three-dimensional (3D) storage apparatus. In the FEC encoding method, an FEC coding may be performed to calculate a corresponding parity packet while an input data packet is imaginarily connected to the 3D storage apparatus having a predetermined storage width and data area height to be arranged, the calculated parity packet may be stored and arranged in a vertical direction and a depth direction of the 3D storage apparatus, and an expansion data packet including both information for restoration of a data packet and the data packet may be transmitted together with the parity packet. | 06-23-2011 |
20110160886 | METHOD FOR FILE FORMATION ACCORDING TO FREEVIEW AV SERVICE - A method of creating a file according to a freeview audio/video (AV) service, the method including: creating a file header that includes content related information, AV object related information, preset related information, or preset information associated with at least one preset; creating audio object information associated with at least one audio object; creating video object information associated with at least one video object; and processing the file header, the audio object information, and the video object information into a preset format of a single freeview AV file to store the processed preset format of the freeview AV file is provided. | 06-30-2011 |
20110166867 | MULTI-OBJECT AUDIO ENCODING AND DECODING APPARATUS SUPPORTING POST DOWN-MIX SIGNAL - A multi-object audio encoding and decoding apparatus supporting a post downmix signal may be provided. The multi-object audio encoding apparatus may include: an object information extraction and downmix generation unit to generate object information and a downmix signal from input object signals; a parameter determination unit to determine a downmix information parameter using the extracted downmix signal and the post downmix signal; and a bitstream generation unit to combine the object information and the downmix information parameter, and to generate an object bitstream. | 07-07-2011 |
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 |
20110170451 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CHANNEL CAPACITY OF END-TO-END TERMINAL - Disclosed is an apparatus and method for estimating a channel capacity of an end-to-end terminal. The channel capacity estimating method of the end-to-end terminal includes calculating an average value of channel capacities for each size of data packets, the data packets varying in size, measuring an actual channel capacity with respect to the data packets, and deriving a linear model of a channel capacity based on the size of the data packets using the average value of the channel capacities and the actual channel capacity. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173200 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTHORING DATA IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus for authoring data in a communication system includes: an extraction unit configured to receive media corresponding to contents and extract contents information regarding the contents from the received media; a generation unit configured to generate a DMB ECG XML-based metadata comprising the extracted contents information; and a processing unit configured to visualize particulars of the DMB ECG XML-based metadata through a user interface and process the user interface so that the DMB ECG XML-based metadata is generated and edited on a template. | 07-14-2011 |
20110176557 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BUFFER USING PLAY TIME AS IMAGE TRANSMISSION - Disclosed is a buffer controlling apparatus and method using a play time during image transmission. The buffer controlling method using the play time during the image transmission includes controlling a transmission bit rate with respect to packets to be transmitted to a reception buffer based on bit capacity with respect to packets of the reception buffer, controlling a number of transmission frames with respect to the packets to be transmitted to the reception buffer based on a play time with respect to the packets of the reception buffer, and generating the packets to be transmitted corresponding to the transmission bit rate and the number of the transmission frames, and transmitting the generated packets to the reception buffer. | 07-21-2011 |
20110176643 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING LAYERED DATA THROUGH MULTIPLE MULTICAST CHANNEL - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for receiving layered data transmitted over a multiple multicast channel. The layered data receiving method includes receiving the data including a count number, arranging the received data in an order of reception and storing in a jitter buffer, rearranging the data in an order of the count number and storing in a data buffer. | 07-21-2011 |
20110185275 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UPDATING STRUCTURED INFORMATION - Disclosed is a device and method of updating Structured Information (SI). The device and the method may define a standard for updating SI based on information described in Presentation Information (PI) and may update the SI based on the defined standard. | 07-28-2011 |
20110228854 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING/DECODING A VIDEO SIGNAL - Provided is an apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a video signal. A video signal encoding apparatus may include: a reference image storage unit to store a reference image; a template motion estimation unit to estimate a motion between an input image and the reference image using a template, and to generate motion estimation information; an adaptive motion compensation unit to generate a predicted image using the motion estimation information and the reference image, to calculate a filter coefficient with respect to the predicted image using the template, and to filter the predicted image using the filter coefficient; a transformation and quantization unit to perform integer-transformation and quantization for a differential image that is a difference between the input image and the filtered predicted image; and an entropy encoding unit to entropy encode the quantized differential image and to output an image stream. | 09-22-2011 |
20110235700 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERALIZED FGS TRUNCATION OF SVC VIDEO WITH USER PREFERENCE - An apparatus for truncating fine granular scalability (FGS) data of a scalable video coding (SVC) video, the apparatus including: a rate-distortion (R-D) data extractor analyzing a bitstream to extract R-D data of at least one spatial layer; a user preference collector collecting user preference information associated with each spatial layer; a decision engine unit deciding an optimal bitrate of each spatial layer based on the R-D data and the collected user preference information; and a scaling engine unit truncating FGS data that does not correspond to the optimal bitrate of each spatial layer is provided. | 09-29-2011 |
20110257981 | LPC RESIDUAL SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS OF MODIFIED DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM (MDCT)-BASED UNIFIED VOICE/AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE - Disclosed is an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus of an MDCT based unified voice and audio encoding device. The LPC residual signal encoding apparatus analyzes a property of an input signal, selects an encoding method of an LPC filtered signal, and encode the LPC residual signal based on one of a real filterbank, a complex filterbank, and an algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP). | 10-20-2011 |
20110261254 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CONVERSION OF BROADCASTING PROGRAM BASED ON PROGRAM PROTECTION INFORMATION - Provided are an apparatus and method for controlling program conversion according to program protection information. The method for controlling conversion of a broadcasting program includes: demultiplexing a broadcasting program into broadcasting program data and program protection information; encrypting the broadcasting program data based on distribution condition of the program protection information when recordation of the broadcasting program data is requested; and recording the encrypted broadcasting program data. | 10-27-2011 |
20110286516 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CODING/DECODING IMAGE SELECTIVLY USING DESCRETE COSINE/SINE TRANSTORM - Disclosed is a data transmission system that transmits data by using a relay. | 11-24-2011 |
20110292999 | SUPER MACRO BLOCK BASED INTRA CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided are technologies that may perform intra coding of a super macro block that is an enlarged macro block. In this case, the super macro block is handled as a single entity or may be divided into a plurality of macro blocks. The present invention may perform intra coding both when the super macro block is handled as the single entity and when the super macro block is divided into the plurality of macro blocks. | 12-01-2011 |
20120011556 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BROADCASTING SERVICE - A method for providing a broadcasting service containing contents includes: generating contents representations metadata for describing possible representations of the contents; and outputting the contents representations metadata, wherein the contents representations metadata includes one or more contents representations description elements which describe a metadata tool defined by a standard specification. | 01-12-2012 |
20120020579 | IMAGE ENCODER AND DECODER USING UNIDIRECTIONAL PREDICTION - The present invention relates to an image encoding and decoding technique, and more particularly, to an image encoder and decoder using unidirectional prediction. The image encoder includes a dividing unit to divide a macro block into a plurality of sub-blocks, a unidirectional application determining unit to determine whether an identical prediction mode is applied to each of the plurality of sub-blocks, and a prediction mode determining unit to determine a prediction mode with respect to each of the plurality of sub-blocks based on a determined result of the unidirectional application determining unit. | 01-26-2012 |
20120070021 | APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCTING WAVE FIELD USING LOUDSPEAKER ARRAY AND THE METHOD THEREOF - Provided is an apparatus and method for reproducing a wave field using a loudspeaker array. A loudspeaker array may be configured in front of and behind a listener, and a wave field synthesis rendering and a three-dimensional sound image localization rendering may be performed based on a position of a sound source. | 03-22-2012 |
20120094696 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING LOCATION OF MOBILE TERMINAL USING TV - The present invention relates to a system and a method for tracking a location of a mobile terminal, and more particularly, to a system and a method for tracking a location of a mobile terminal using a TV connected to the Internet. The system for tracking a location of a mobile terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a TV connected to the Internet; and at least one mobile terminal acquiring its own location information, wherein the mobile terminal transmits its own location information to the TV in a peer-to-peer communication scheme, and the TV receives the location information to display the received location information on a screen. | 04-19-2012 |
20120120969 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN MPEG-2 TRANSPORT PACKET HAVING A VARIABLE PACKET LENGTH - Provided is a transport packet generating apparatus that generates a transport packet having a variable length, and the length of the transport packet is indicated by a field included in a header of the transport packet or a synchronization area of the transport packet, the field indicating a length of the transport packet. | 05-17-2012 |
20120134373 | METHOD OF PACKETIZING ENCODED SYMBOLS AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Provided are a method of packetizing encoded symbols and an apparatus using the same. The method includes an encoded symbol and target packet selection step of deciding a first source symbol and selecting an unpacketized first encoded symbol and a target packet into which the unpacketized first encoded symbol is inserted if there is the unpacketized first encoded symbol of at least one first encoded symbol, which is an encoded symbol of the first source symbol generated using an AND-OR tree structure, and a packetization step of generating a second source symbol based on at least one unpacketized first encoded symbol by use of the AND-OR tree structure, generating at least one second encoded symbol based on the second source symbol by use of the AND-OR tree structure, and packetizing at least one of second encoded symbols into the target packet along with the first encoded symbol. | 05-31-2012 |
20120140017 | VIDEO DISPLAYING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a video displaying apparatus including: a projector screen; at least one camera disposed at a predetermined position of the projector screen to acquire a user's video; a communication unit receiving the other party's video from the other video terminal and transmitting the user's video acquired through at least one camera to the other video terminal; and a projector outputting the other party's video so that the other party's video received from the communication unit is displayed on the projector screen. | 06-07-2012 |
20120144433 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MULTIMEDIA DATA IN WIRELESS NETWORK - Provided are an apparatus and method for transmitting multimedia data in a wireless network. The apparatus and method receive multimedia data classified into at least one layer, and set different radio bearer channels for the respective at least one multimedia layer. Here, a service quality parameter is differentially applied to the respective set radio bearer channels, so that end-to-end quality of service (QoS) improvement is maximized. | 06-07-2012 |
20120146904 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PROJECTION IMAGE - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method related with a user interface that allows a user to easily use services provided by equipment when output images of video equipment are projected onto an external screen by a projector. According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a human body may be used as a pointer to form a shadow, and the shadow may be analyzed to control the projection image. Therefore, the projection image can be controlled without using an interface device, which can provide an easy and intuitive user interface to a user. | 06-14-2012 |
20120151330 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING XML DOCUMENTS USING PATH CODE - A method and apparatus of encoding and decoding an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document using a path code is provided. | 06-14-2012 |
20120159540 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED CONTENT - A personalized content server selects content that is personalized for a user based on watching information and mobile terminal information about the user from among pieces of content associated with broadcasting content being watched by the user through a broadcasting terminal, and transmits the selected personalized content to the mobile terminal of the user through the broadcasting terminal. | 06-21-2012 |
20120159557 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CONTENTS TRANSMISSION - An apparatus for controlling contents transmission transmits contents received at a TV to at least one user terminal requesting a service. The apparatus selects at least one connection of a target terminal using user profile information of the target terminal and service profile information, coding the contents based on a coding scheme suitable for the selected connection, and transmits the coded contents to the target terminal. | 06-21-2012 |
20120163357 | METHOD OF RETRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PACKETS IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Provided is a method of retransmitting and receiving a packet in heterogeneous network environment. A terminal and a relay base station receive a packet transmitted from a macro base station, and the relay base station informs the terminal of whether the packet is successively received or not. When the packet fails to be received, the terminal is configured to receive the erroneous packet again from at least one of the macro base station and the relay base station. The macro base station and the relay base station may be configured to retransmit the packet through joint processing JP) transmission, and the terminal may be configured to receive the JP transmission. Thus, the method allows the m optimization of a HARQ process and scheduling scheme to efficiently utilize a relay and radio resources, thereby leading to a maximum capacity and quality of wireless network. | 06-28-2012 |
20120164938 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENTS BASED ON BROADCASTING - Disclosed is a method of providing broadcasting-based augmented reality contents. The method includes judging whether received broadcasting contents include augmented reality associated information; requesting an augmented reality service based on the augmented reality associated information; and providing augmented reality contents according to the request. | 06-28-2012 |
20120188953 | COORDINATED MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION METHOD AND COORDINATED MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - Provided are a coordinated multipoint transmission and reception method and a coordinated multipoint transmission and reception system for performing the same. In the coordinated multipoint transmission and reception method, a first point and a second point participating in the coordinated multipoint transmission exchange resource allocation information for coordinated multipoint transmission, allocate resources for coordinated multipoint transmission not to overlap each other based on the exchanged resource allocation information, and perform the coordinated multipoint transmission using the allocated resources. Accordingly, use efficiency of radio resources can be improved and embodying complexity can be reduced. | 07-26-2012 |
20120209600 | INTEGRATED VOICE/AUDIO ENCODING/DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD WHEREBY THE OVERLAP REGION OF A WINDOW IS ADJUSTED BASED ON THE TRANSITION INTERVAL - A Unified Speech and Audio Codec (USAC) for adjusting an overlap area of a window based on a transition is provided. To increase an encoding efficiency, encoding may be performed by overlapping relatively long windows. Additionally, when a transition is generated between frames, an overlap area of a window may be reduced based on the transition, thereby preventing a noise from occurring due to the transition. | 08-16-2012 |
20120232990 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED RELATED ADVERTISEMENT, MOBILE TERMINAL FOR PLAYING RELATED ADVERTISEMENT, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED RELATED ADVERTISEMENT - Disclosed is an apparatus for providing personalized related advertisements including: a communication unit for receiving ID information required for searching for advertisements related to a broadcast advertisement and for transmitting converted related advertisements to a mobile terminal; a search unit for searching for the related advertisements by means of the ID information; and a conversion unit for converting the searched related advertisements to a format to be played in the mobile terminal. | 09-13-2012 |
20120254307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TIME MACHINE SERVICE BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - Disclosed are a method for providing a time machine service based on an SNS (social network service), including: extracting keywords based on SNS information input by SNS users and collecting rich contents relating to the SNS information based on the keywords; dividing points of past, present, and future, based on a predetermined present time period and classifying the rich contents into any one of past information, present information, and future information, based on the division result; and providing the classified rich contents to the SNS users. | 10-04-2012 |
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 |
20120263229 | ADAPTIVE IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND METHOD - Provided are an image encoding method and device. When carrying out image encoding for a block within a slice, at least one block in a restored block of the slice is set as a reference block. When this is done, the encoding parameters of the reference block are distinguished, and the block to be encoded is encoded adaptively based on the encoding parameters. | 10-18-2012 |
20120269256 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING/REGENERATING CONTENTS INCLUDING MPEG-2 TRANSPORT STREAMS USING SCREEN DESCRIPTION - Provided are a content writing apparatus and a content playback apparatus. The content writing apparatus may regard, as a single media file, a plurality of Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)-2 Transport Streams (TSs), may form a scene in a scene descriptor, such as a BInary Format for Scene (BIFS) or a Lightweight Application Scene Representation (LASeR), and may record the formed scene and the plurality of MPEG-2 TSs, as a media file in an International Standards Organization (ISO) format. The content playback apparatus may extract a scene from the media file in the ISO format, and may play back the extracted scene. | 10-25-2012 |
20120275513 | VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE - Disclosed are a video encoding/decoding method and device. The video encoding method may comprise the steps of: establishing an adaptive filter corresponding to the current image; comparing the adaptive filter established in this way with at least one existing adaptive filter contained in a filter list; establishing whether to add the adaptive filter established in the way described to the adaptive filter list, based on the results of the comparison; and encoding the current image by using an adaptive filter contained in the filter list. In this way, encoding efficiency can be improved. | 11-01-2012 |
20130070845 | MOTION PICTURE ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a video encoding apparatus, including a signal separator to separate a differential image block into a first domain and a second domain, based on a boundary line included in the differential image block, the differential image block indicating a difference between an original image and a prediction image with respect to the original image, a transform encoder to perform a transform encoding with respect to the first domain using a discrete cosine transform (DCT), a quantization unit to quantize an output of the transform encoding unit in a frequency domain, a space domain quantization unit to quantize the second domain in a space domain, and an entropy encoder to perform an entropy encoding using outputs of the quantization unit and the space domain quantization unit. | 03-21-2013 |
20130101122 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND PLAYING OBJECT BASED AUDIO CONTENTS - Disclosed is an object based audio contents generating/playing apparatus. The object based audio contents generating/playing apparatus may include an object audio signal obtaining unit to obtain a plurality of object audio signals by recording a plurality of sound source signals, a recording space information obtaining unit to obtain recording space information with respect to a recording space of the plurality of sound source signals, a sound source location information obtaining unit to obtain sound location information of the plurality of sound source signals, and an encoding unit to generate object based audio contents by encoding at least one of the plurality of object audio signals, the recording space information, and the sound source location information, thereby enabling the object based audio contents to be played using at least one of a WFS scheme and a multi-channel surround scheme regardless of a reproducing environment of the audience. | 04-25-2013 |
20130128113 | TRANSMISSION SCHEDULING METHOD - Provided is a data transmission system using a vertical layer optimisation technique. A data transmission device predicts the buffer state of a data receiving device by using feedback information of a physical layer, and controls data transmission by referring to the predicted buffer state. The data transmission device can control the transmission of first data and second data such that the buffer state of the receiving device is within a preset range. | 05-23-2013 |
20130170552 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE VIDEO CODING FOR REALISTIC BROADCASTING - A scalable video coding apparatus and method for realistic broadcasting are provided. The scalable video coding apparatus may include a spatial scalable coding unit to perform intra-view predictive coding in base layers of a color image and a depth image and prediction in enhancement layers by referencing motion information of the base layer, a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scalable coding unit to perform coding using quantization which is a method for SNR scalability of the color image, and a motion estimation device to code the base layer of the depth image using the motion information of the base layer of the color image as prediction data. | 07-04-2013 |
20130188014 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL LAYER SENDING-AND-RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STEREOSCOPIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DATA - Provided is a multi-dimensional layered modulation transmitting and receiving apparatus and method for stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) video data. The transmitting apparatus may convert multi-dimensional data to a plurality of stream data by mapping the multi-dimensional data to a complex number plane, and may transmit the plurality of stream data by mapping the plurality of stream data to dimensions divided based on a time and a space, respectively. The receiving apparatus may determine a signal strength of received signal, a performance, a power mode, may determine a service image corresponding to the signal strength, the performance, the power mode, may determine a dimension corresponding to the service image, and may receive stream data of the determined dimension. | 07-25-2013 |
20130239137 | AUGMENTED BROADCASTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADVANCE METADATA PROVISION - Provided is an apparatus and method for providing metadata in advance in order to gain a time required for a receiving terminal to receive augmented content corresponding to the metadata, based on the metadata received over a communication network in a bidirectional digital broadcast. The apparatus may provide a service before a predetermined time for a channel bound service that provides augmented content associated with a broadcast program, or a time-restraint service, such as a quiz program, for which an access to a website may required by a predetermined time. Also, the apparatus may provide metadata of a subsequent program in advance, before a predetermined time when transmitting the broadcast program, whereby a receiving terminal may receive associated information in advance, and a viewer may utilize a website or an augmented content service of a corresponding program, simultaneously with viewing the corresponding program. | 09-12-2013 |
20130266068 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING MOVING PICTURE USING ADAPTIVE SCANNING - Provided is an apparatus and method for encoding/decoding a moving picture based on adaptive scanning. The moving picture apparatus and method can increase a compression rate based on adaptive scanning by performing intra prediction onto blocks of a predetermined size, and scanning coefficients acquired from Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) of a residue signal and quantization differently according to the intra prediction mode. The moving picture encoding apparatus includes: a mode selector for selecting and outputting a prediction mode; a predictor for predicting pixel values of pixels to be encoded of an input video based on the prediction mode to thereby output a residue signal block; a transform/quantization unit for performing DCT onto the residue signal block and quantizing the transformed residue signal block; and an encoder for adaptively scanning and encoding the quantized residue signal block based on the prediction mode. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268985 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CHANNEL ADAPTIVE HIERARCHICAL BROADCAST - An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a channel adaptive hierarchical broadcast are provided. A channel adaptive hierarchical broadcast transmission apparatus may include a multilayer video dividing unit to divide an input multilayer video bitstream into a first layer video bitstream and a second layer video bitstream, and a multi-transmission channel managing unit to determine transmission channels that are to be used to transmit the first layer video bitstream and the second layer video bitstream, among multiple transmission channels, and to output the first layer video bitstream and the second layer video bitstream to transmitters associated with the determined transmission channels, respectively. | 10-10-2013 |
20130272395 | IMAGE ENCODER AND DECODER USING UNDIRECTIONAL PREDICTION - The present invention relates to an image encoding and decoding technique, and more particularly, to an image encoder and decoder using unidirectional prediction. The image encoder includes a dividing unit to divide a macro block into a plurality of sub-blocks, a unidirectional application determining unit to determine whether an identical prediction mode is applied to each of the plurality of sub-blocks, and a prediction mode determining unit to determine a prediction mode with respect to each of the plurality of sub-blocks based on a determined result of the unidirectional application determining unit. | 10-17-2013 |
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 |
20130304933 | MULTI-NETWORK ENVIRONMENT ADAPTIVE MEDIA STREAMING TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A multi-network environment adaptive media streaming method and apparatus. The method of transmitting media streaming includes encoding content to generate media data consisting of a plurality of layers; separating the generated media data into layers; and transmitting the media data separated into layers to a media receiving apparatus in a streaming format over a plurality of networks. | 11-14-2013 |
20130335448 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VIDEO CONTENTS SERVICE, AND METHOD OF REPRODUCING VIDEO CONTENTS OF USER TERMINAL - Disclosed is a method of providing a video contents service including calculating conversion information indicating a relation between a projection area and an area corresponding to the projection area in order to project video contents on the area corresponding to the projection area which is a partial area within a prepared image in a user image photographed by a user terminal; and transmitting the calculated conversion information to the user terminal. | 12-19-2013 |
20130343452 | APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE USING ADAPTIVE DCT COEFFICIENT SCANNING BASED ON PIXEL SIMILARITY AND METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention discloses an encoding apparatus using a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) scanning, which includes a mode selection means for selecting an optimal mode for intra prediction; an intra prediction means for performing intra prediction onto video inputted based on the mode selected in the mode selection means; a DCT and quantization means for performing DCT and quantization onto residual coefficients of a block outputted from the intra prediction means; and an entropy encoding means for performing entropy encoding onto DCT coefficients acquired from the DCT and quantization by using a scanning mode decided based on pixel similarity of the residual coefficients. | 12-26-2013 |
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20140010283 | ADAPTIVE IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND METHOD - Provided are an image encoding method and device. When carrying out image encoding for a block within a slice, at least one block in a restored block of the slice is set as a reference block. When this is done, the encoding parameters of the reference block are distinguished, and the block to be encoded is encoded adaptively based on the encoding parameters. | 01-09-2014 |
20140036994 | MOTION PICTURE ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a video encoding apparatus, including a signal separator to separate a differential image block into a first domain and a second domain, based on a boundary line included in the differential image block, the differential image block indicating a difference between an original image and a prediction image with respect to the original image, a transform encoder to perform a transform encoding with respect to the first domain using a discrete cosine transform (DCT), a quantization unit to quantize an output of the transform encoding unit in a frequency domain, a space domain quantization unit to quantize the second domain in a space domain, and an entropy encoder to perform an entropy encoding using outputs of the quantization unit and the space domain quantization unit. | 02-06-2014 |
20140037000 | APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE USING ADAPTIVE DCT COEFFICIENT SCANNING BASED ON PIXEL SIMILARITY AND METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention discloses an encoding apparatus using a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) scanning, which includes a mode selection means for selecting an optimal mode for intra prediction; an intra prediction means for performing intra prediction onto video inputted based on the mode selected in the mode selection means; a DCT and quantization means for performing DCT and quantization onto residual coefficients of a block outputted from the intra prediction means; and an entropy encoding means for performing entropy encoding onto DCT coefficients acquired from the DCT and quantization by using a scanning mode decided based on pixel similarity of the residual coefficients. | 02-06-2014 |
20140044367 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CODING/DECODING IMAGE SELECTIVELY USING DISCRETE COSINE/SINE TRANSFORM - Disclosed is a data transmission system that transmits data by using a relay. | 02-13-2014 |
20140059604 | TERMINAL, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED BROADCASTING SERVICE - Provided are a terminal, system and method for providing augmented broadcasting service. The method includes receiving augmented broadcasting service information including information indicating that it is possible to provide augmented broadcasting service, information on an augmented content providing server, and information on an augmented scene description data providing server for presenting augmented content on a television (TV) screen, acquiring augmented scene description data and augmented content selected by a user from the augmented content providing server and the augmented scene description data providing server, and outputting the augmented content to be overlaid on broadcast content according to the augmented scene description data. | 02-27-2014 |
20140089389 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING WEB-BASED MULTI-NETWORK ADAPTIVE MULTI-SCREEN SERVICE - An apparatus and a method for providing a web-based multi-network adaptive multi-screen service are provided. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a multi-screen server, a smart device providing a multi-screen and multi-networks are associated with each other to provide a multi-screen service. | 03-27-2014 |
20140108451 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED APPLICATION SEARCH IN MULTIPLE APP STORES - An application search apparatus is provided, the apparatus including an input unit to receive a search word from a user, and generate a query word based on the received search word, a controller to provide an integrated result of searching a plurality of app stores for an application corresponding to the query word, and a storage unit to categorize an application provided by the plurality of app stores, and download and store the application provided by the plurality of app stores. | 04-17-2014 |
20140177722 | APPARATUS FOR CODING OR DECODING INTRA IMAGE BASED ON LINE INFORMATION OF REFERENCE IMAGE BLOCK - An apparatus for coding an image is provided to effectively code the image. The apparatus for coding the image includes an input image segmentation unit to segment an input image into a plurality of image blocks including a first image block and a second image block. The apparatus also includes a waveform information generation unit to select a plurality of reference pixels from among pixels included in the first image block, generate first waveform information about the first image block based on a pixel value difference between the selected plurality of reference pixels, and generate second waveform information about the second image block based on a pixel value difference between the pixels included in the second image block. The apparatus also includes a coding unit to code an image included in the second image block based on the first waveform information and the second waveform information. | 06-26-2014 |
20140192871 | APPARATUS FOR CODING OR DECODING INTRA IMAGE BASED ON LINE INFORMATION OF REFERENCE IMAGE BLOCK - An apparatus for coding an image is provided to effectively code the image. The apparatus for coding the image includes an input image segmentation unit to segment an input image into a plurality of image blocks including a first image block and a second image block. The apparatus also includes a waveform information generation unit to select a plurality of reference pixels from among pixels included in the first image block, generate first waveform information about the first image block based on a pixel value difference between the selected plurality of reference pixels, and generate second waveform information about the second image block based on a pixel value difference between the pixels included in the second image block. The apparatus also includes a coding unit to code an image included in the second image block based on the first waveform information and the second waveform information. | 07-10-2014 |
20140192872 | APPARATUS FOR CODING OR DECODING INTRA IMAGE BASED ON LINE INFORMATION OF REFERENCE IMAGE BLOCK - An apparatus for coding an image is provided to effectively code the image. The apparatus for coding the image includes an input image segmentation unit to segment an input image into a plurality of image blocks including a first image block and a second image block. The apparatus also includes a waveform information generation unit to select a plurality of reference pixels from among pixels included in the first image block, generate first waveform information about the first image block based on a pixel value difference between the selected plurality of reference pixels, and generate second waveform information about the second image block based on a pixel value difference between the pixels included in the second image block. The apparatus also includes a coding unit to code an image included in the second image block based on the first waveform information and the second waveform information. | 07-10-2014 |
20140192878 | APPARATUS FOR CODING OR DECODING INTRA IMAGE BASED ON LINE INFORMATION OF REFERENCE IMAGE BLOCK - An apparatus for coding an image is provided to effectively code the image. The apparatus for coding the image includes an input image segmentation unit to segment an input image into a plurality of image blocks including a first image block and a second image block. The apparatus also includes a waveform information generation unit to select a plurality of reference pixels from among pixels included in the first image block, generate first waveform information about the first image block based on a pixel value difference between the selected plurality of reference pixels, and generate second waveform information about the second image block based on a pixel value difference between the pixels included in the second image block. The apparatus also includes a coding unit to code an image included in the second image block based on the first waveform information and the second waveform information. | 07-10-2014 |
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20140362914 | IMAGE ENCODER AND DECODER USING UNDIRECTIONAL PREDICTION - The present invention relates to an image encoding and decoding technique, and more particularly, to an image encoder and decoder using unidirectional prediction. The image encoder includes a dividing unit to divide a macro block into a plurality of sub-blocks, a unidirectional application determining unit to determine whether an identical prediction mode is applied to each of the plurality of sub-blocks, and a prediction mode determining unit to determine a prediction mode with respect to each of the plurality of sub-blocks based on a determined result of the unidirectional application determining unit. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362915 | IMAGE ENCODER AND DECODER USING UNDIRECTIONAL PREDICTION - The present invention relates to an image encoding and decoding technique, and more particularly, to an image encoder and decoder using unidirectional prediction. The image encoder includes a dividing unit to divide a macro block into a plurality of sub-blocks, a unidirectional application determining unit to determine whether an identical prediction mode is applied to each of the plurality of sub-blocks, and a prediction mode determining unit to determine a prediction mode with respect to each of the plurality of sub-blocks based on a determined result of the unidirectional application determining unit. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362916 | IMAGE ENCODER AND DECODER USING UNDIRECTIONAL PREDICTION - The present invention relates to an image encoding and decoding technique, and more particularly, to an image encoder and decoder using unidirectional prediction. The image encoder includes a dividing unit to divide a macro block into a plurality of sub-blocks, a unidirectional application determining unit to determine whether an identical prediction mode is applied to each of the plurality of sub-blocks, and a prediction mode determining unit to determine a prediction mode with respect to each of the plurality of sub-blocks based on a determined result of the unidirectional application determining unit. | 12-11-2014 |
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20150085928 | APPARATUS FOR CODING OR DECODING INTRA IMAGE BASED ON LINE INFORMATION OF REFERENCE IMAGE BLOCK - An apparatus for coding an image is provided to effectively code the image. The apparatus for coding the image includes an input image segmentation unit to segment an input image into a plurality of image blocks including a first image block and a second image block. The apparatus also includes a waveform information generation unit to select a plurality of reference pixels from among pixels included in the first image block, generate first waveform information about the first image block based on a pixel value difference between the selected plurality of reference pixels, and generate second waveform information about the second image block based on a pixel value difference between the pixels included in the second image block. The apparatus also includes a coding unit to code an image included in the second image block based on the first waveform information and the second waveform information. | 03-26-2015 |