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20090164460 | Digital television video program providing system, digital television, and control method for the same - Disclosed are a digital television video program providing system, a digital television, and a control method for the same. The digital television video program providing system includes a video analyzing unit for extracting search terms from information data associated with a played video, a search keyword extracting unit for selecting a search keyword from the extracted search terms based on a reliability factor acquired by an extraction method of the extracted search terms, a video search unit for searching for a playable video based on the selected search keyword, and a search result providing unit for providing search results for the video. | 06-25-2009 |
20090196492 | Method, medium, and system generating depth map of video image - A method, medium, and system generating a depth map of a video image are provided. The depth map generating method extracts the ground of a video image other than an object from the video image, classifies the video image as a long shot image or a non-long shot image based on a distribution value of the extracted ground, calculates a depth value gradually varied along a predetermined direction of the extracted ground when the video image corresponds to the long shot image and calculates a depth value based on the object when the video image corresponds to the non-long shot image. Accordingly, a sense of space and perspective can be effectively given to even a long shot image in which the ground occupies a large part of the image and a stereoscopic image recognizable by a viewer can be generated even if rapid object change is made between scenes in a video image. | 08-06-2009 |
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20110026808 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM GENERATING DEPTH MAP - Disclosed are an apparatus, a method and a computer-readable medium automatically generating a depth map corresponding to each two-dimensional (2D) image in a video. The apparatus includes an image acquiring unit to acquire a plurality of 2D images that are temporally consecutive in an input video, a saliency map generator to generate at least one saliency map corresponding to a current 2D image among the plurality of 2D images based on a Human Visual Perception (HVP) model, a saliency-based depth map generator, a three-dimensional (3D) structure matching unit to calculate matching scores between the current 2D image and a plurality of 3D typical structures that are stored in advance, and to determine a 3D typical structure having a highest matching score among the plurality of 3D typical structures to be a 3D structure of the current 2D image, a matching-based depth map generator; a combined depth map generator to combine the saliency-based depth map and the matching-based depth map and to generate a combined depth map, and a spatial and temporal smoothing unit to spatially and temporally smooth the combined depth map. | 02-03-2011 |
20110268422 | Method, system, and medium for providing broadcasting service using home server and mobile phone - A method, system, and medium of providing various types of broadcast services such as a record, a summary, a navigation and a real-time event service with respect to a broadcast content, utilizing a home server, according to a user's request. A broadcast service providing method includes: storing broadcast summary data, navigation data and real-time event data which is generated by analyzing received broadcast data according to a broadcast record request from a user's portable device, in a database; and providing the user's portable device with a streaming service with respect to the stored broadcast summary data, the navigation data and the real-time event data, according to a summary selection request from the user's portable device. | 11-03-2011 |
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20100073364 | Conversion method and apparatus with depth map generation - A conversion method and apparatus with a generating of a depth map for two dimensional (2D)-to-three dimensional (3D) conversion. A depth order may be restored based on a line tracing and an edge map generated from an input image, and a stereo image may be generated using depth information. | 03-25-2010 |
20100110070 | 3D IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A three-dimensional (3D) image generator and 3D image generation method scale a depth map or a two-dimensional (2D) image, perform a cross filtering to sharpen a blurred region on the depth map based on location information of the depth map and 2D image, and thus obtain a clearer depth map and provide a more graphical 3D image using the depth map. | 05-06-2010 |
20100135581 | Depth estimation apparatus and method - A depth estimation apparatus is provided. The depth estimation apparatus may estimate a depth value of at least one pixel composing an input video based on feature information about at least one feature of the input video, a position of the at least one pixel, and a depth relationship among the at least one pixel and neighboring pixels. | 06-03-2010 |
20100266198 | Apparatus, method, and medium of converting 2D image 3D image based on visual attention - A method, apparatus, and medium of converting a two-dimensional (2D) image to a three-dimensional (3D) image based on visual attention are provided. A visual attention map including visual attention information, which is information about a significance of an object in a 2D image, may be generated. Parallax information including information about a left eye image and a right eye image of the 2D image may be generated based on the visual attention map. A 3D image may be generated using the parallax information. | 10-21-2010 |
20100315488 | Conversion device and method converting a two dimensional image to a three dimensional image - Disclosed is an image conversion device and method converting a two-dimensional (2D) image into a three-dimensional (3D) image. The image conversion device may selectively adjust illumination within the 2D image, generate a disparity map for the illumination adjusted image, and selectively adjust a depth value of the disparity map based on edge discrimination. | 12-16-2010 |