| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090106045 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING EMERGENCY CONDITION USING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - The present invention relates to a system and method of transmitting an emergency condition using a wireless sensor network that transmits a user's emergency condition using a wireless sensor network. A wireless sensor network communication device integrated with a biological sensor is attached to a user's body in order to gather user's biological information, and transmits the user's biological information through the wireless sensor network. A repeater receives the biological information from the communication device, and sends the received biological information by using a routing protocol of the wireless sensor network. A management server receives the biological information through the repeater, analyzes the biological information, and transmits a warning signal to a user or takes emergency measures. Therefore, it is possible to detect and cope with sudden physical problems, which are generated during user's exercises and outdoor activities, at an early stage. As a result, it is possible to significantly contribute to the prevention and reduction of danger for the weak and the elderly, and a user who is to be taken care of. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090109058 | Traffic information providing method and device and traffic information receiving method and device - The traffic information providing device receives traffic information corresponding to a bus stop or a platform at which the traffic information providing device is positioned from a management server for collecting traffic information from at least one public transportation means, and broadcasts the received traffic information to the traffic information receiving device that is provided within a predetermined distance from the traffic information providing device by using the ZigBee or wireless sensor network that is a wireless personal area network (WPAN). The traffic information receiving device receives traffic information from the traffic information providing device by using the ZigBee or wireless sensor network, filters the same according to a filtering condition input by the user, and outputs traffic information desired by the user. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20100162224 | NODE UPDATE SYSTEM USING VIRTUAL PARTITION TECHNIQUE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a node update system using virtual partition technique and a control method thereof. A storage region of a sensor node is divided into a non-updatable invariable region and an updatable variable region to be virtually generated according to an execution operation of the sensor node. The states of the sensor nodes are monitored, and an update request signal is transmitted to a corresponding sensor node when update is necessary. Execution image information is received, and the execution image information is stored in the variable region to update an execution image, according to a response signal to the update request signal. | 06-24-2010 |
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| 20090151918 | Heat Exchanger for Automobile and Fabricating Method Thereof - There is provided a heat exchanger of a vehicle including a plurality of tubes spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance and through which a heat-exchanging fluid flows, an upper header pipe unit coupled and communicated with the upper ends of the tubes, and a lower header pipe unit coupled and communicated with the lower ends of the tubes, and in which a header pipe is made by making and drawing a plate member containing a clad sheet into a pipe so that it does not need to separate and assemble a header from and with a tank and the clad sheet is not separated from the header pipe during transferring, a pair of header pipes have flat surfaces to bring into surface contact with each other such that a plurality of independent header pipes are assembled to closely contact each other, a plurality of same type and same number of communication devices are configured such that the heat-exchanging fluid flows therethrough, and an inlet and outlet end cap, an end cap, and separator are used such that the header pipes are tightly and securely assembled, and a method of manufacturing the heat exchanger. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100270012 | AUTOMOTIVE HEAT EXCHANGER TO THE UNIFICATION OF HEADER AND TANK AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF - There are provided an automobile heat exchanger having a header formed integrally with a tank and a method of manufacturing the same, and, more particularly, an automobile heat exchanger comprising a top header pipe unit formed of a pair of header pipes and a bottom header pipe unit formed of a pair of header pipes, the top header pipe unit to be connected to top ends of tubes and the bottom header pipe unit to be connected to bottom ends thereof, and the header pipe including a header formed integrally with a tank. In the heat exchanger, each header pipe is manufactured in a welded type or folded type so that the header is formed integrally with the tank. Accordingly, unlike a conventional heat exchanger, the present invention does not require any separate metal mold or assembling means for assembling the header and tank. Consequently, the manufacturing cost is reduced and the manufacturing time is shortened by simplifying the processes. Furthermore, the pressure strength in the header-tank increases and the risk of leaking a heat exchanging medium decreases, to increase the efficiency of heat exchange. Further, the width wise sectional shapes of the top and bottom header pipe units are controlled so that the condensate generated on the surface of a plurality of the header pipes is easily discharged. | 10-28-2010 |
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| 20100287233 | RICH-MEDIA OFFERING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a rich-media provision system and a control method thereof. The rich-media provision system includes: a media server for receiving predetermined element media constituting rich-media from an external server and storing the received element media; a media transmission server for providing the element media in the form of streaming and tracing a scene being currently reproduced by a terminal when predetermined capture input is detected; and a rich-media terminal for receiving and reproducing the traced scene. By the rich-media provision system, it is possible to previously capture and store a specific part of rich-media contents that a user desires, so that the user can use the captured part of the rich-media contents anywhere and anytime if necessary. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110007660 | SYSTEM FOR MEASURING TRANSMISSION BANDWIDTH FOR MEDIA STREAMING AND METHOD FOR SAME - A system for measuring a transmission bandwidth for media streaming and a method thereof that are capable of calculating the transmission bandwidth by using a transmission packet to be transmitted to a receiver without transmitting a proving packet to the receiver and streaming media data to a receiver by using the transmission bandwidth in a service for streaming the media data such as a moving picture in real time. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110135002 | MOVING IMAGE CODING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a moving image coding apparatus and method involving the simultaneous parallel running of respective modules, namely: a segment-unit-coding module in which an input image frame is divided into segment units and the integer pel (integer pixel) motion is estimated while at the same time the 1/n pixel images are generated with respect to the segments of the image coded in the coding module; and a macroblock-unit-coding module in which the segments of the image frame whose the integer pel motion has been estimated in the segment-unit-coding module are received as input in the form of macroblock units and are coded in macroblock units through the 1/n pixel motion estimation. By separating the coding units into different modules and employing the techniques of parallel processing and pipelining, the present invention makes it possible to effect high-speed encoding with reduced delay in the coding rate due to differences in the processing speeds of the respective modules. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110135089 | IMAGE ENCRYPTING/DECRYPTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image encrypting/decrypting system and method devised in such a way that: a transmitter and a receiver for transmitting and receiving moving images share a seed for encrypting and decrypting the moving images; the transmitter transmits moving images after encrypting the moving images by dividing them into segment units and mixing the time sequencing of the images in each of the segments in accordance with a random number generated by means of the seed; and the receiver decrypts the moving images which it receives, by sorting them in segment units and then restoring the time sequencing of the images in each of the segments in accordance with the random number generated by means of the seed. The present invention makes it possible to effectively implement the function of encrypting after having carried out transcoding even in cases involving an alteration to the frame or an increase in resolution in an encrypted moving image, and also makes it possible to resolve the problem of having to encrypt/decrypt before/after carrying out transcoding in cases where a compressed moving image is being encrypted. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110149763 | SYSTEM FOR MEASURING THE TRANSMISSION BANDWIDTH FOR MULTIMEDIA STREAMING AND METHOD FOR SAME - A method and system for measuring a transmission bandwidth which includes: a server for transmitting packets of multimedia data to a receiving apparatus, receiving a time stamp from the receiving apparatus, calculating a transmission bandwidth in real time from the received time stamp, and streaming the multimedia data to the receiving apparatus in accordance with the calculated transmission bandwidth; with the receiving apparatus receiving packets of the multimedia data from the server, recording received time stamp for each of received packets, and transmitting the received time stamp to the server by a predetermined cycle. According to the present invention, transmission bandwidth is measured using data actually transmitted and that streaming of media is suited to a transmission bandwidth to meet QoS (Quality of Service) requirements. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153858 | MEDIA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A media transmission system and method having a server for selecting a video frame having an image number nearest to play position information and a high compression ratio, and for transmitting the video frame to a user terminal when the user terminal transmits desired play position information to the server while media data streaming is being performed from the server to the user terminal, thereby moving to the scene desired by a user and playing the scene in a simple manner with the media transmission system comprising a user terminal for receiving, from a user, desired position information for the media data being streamed and played, receiving the video stream matched to the position information for playing the video stream; and a media server for searching for the video stream having a high compression ratio among the video streams nearest to the position information, and streaming the searched video stream to the user terminal when the position information is received from the user terminal after streaming media data to the user terminal. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110158319 | ENCODING SYSTEM USING MOTION ESTIMATION AND ENCODING METHOD USING MOTION ESTIMATION - Provided are an encoding system using motion estimation and an encoding method using motion estimation for achieving high-speed motion estimation according to a multi-processing unit. The encoding system using motion estimation, comprises a multi-processing unit calculating motion estimation on many macroblocks of an input image, a motion estimator estimating motion vectors of the macroblocks of the input image using the motion estimation on the plurality of macroblocks, previously calculated by the multi-processing unit, and an encoder encoding the image based on the motion vectors of the macroblocks, estimated by the motion estimator. According to the present invention, motion estimation to be used for motion estimation can be calculated in advance according to the multi-processing unit capable of processing high-speed parallel processing to reduce an image encoding time and improve an encoding speed. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110182350 | MOTION PICTURE CODING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a motion picture encoding apparatus and method for performing encoding on a motion picture, which has already been edited, simultaneously with a motion picture edition process, thereby being capable of significantly reducing the time that it takes to encode motion pictures. The picture encoding apparatus according to the present invention includes an input unit inputting a command to edit motion picture data, a motion picture editing unit editing the motion picture data according to the editing command, a motion picture encoding unit encoding the edited motion picture data, a storage unit for storing the encoded motion picture data, and a control unit which controls the motion picture editing unit so that the motion picture editing unit edits motion picture data and, at the same time, controls the motion picture encoding unit so that the motion picture encoding unit encodes edited data. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110182353 | SCALABLE VIDEO PROVIDING AND REPRODUCING SYSTEM AND METHODS THEREOF - Disclosed hereinafter is a scalable video providing system and method. The scalable video providing system of the present invention includes a terminal apparatus for, in the case in which a full SVC video, having a higher scalability than that of a base layer SVC video previously stored in the terminal apparatus, is to be displayed, transmitting a request query to request a enhancement layer svc bit stream, which is further required, to the outside based on the base layer SVC video; and a content providing server for, when the request query is received, searching for required pertinent content based on the request query and providing the enhancement layer svc bit stream, corresponding to the remaining scalable video other than the base layer SVC video of the searched content, to the terminal apparatus. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110182561 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS PLAYING OF MOVING PICTURE BETWEEN TWO DEVICES - The present invention relates to a system and method for playing an identical moving picture on different types of devices, in which one terminal registers both a moving picture played thereon and the play information thereof in a server, and another terminal can download the moving picture and the play information from the server and continuously play the moving picture from a scene at which the playing thereof had previously been terminated. A server according to the present invention includes a communication unit ( | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110216826 | Apparatus and Method for Motion Estimation-Based Image Encoding/Decoding - The present invention relates to an apparatus and to a method for motion estimation-based encoding/decoding, which estimate a motion and perform an encoding operation based on a photo core transform and a photo overlap transform in a motion picture encoding process, and perform a motion compensation and a decoding operation in a motion picture decoding process, thereby removing the temporal and spatial redundancy of the motion picture. The video processing system according to the present invention comprises: a video encoding apparatus which transforms the received video based on a motion estimation through a photo core transform and a photo overlap transform, encodes the video by a variable length coding technique, and outputs a bit stream; and a video decoding apparatus which performs a motion compensation and a decoding operation on the bit stream received from the video encoding apparatus. The present invention enables a video reproduction or compression through a video codec of a low complexity even in a low performance mobile device, and prolongs the useful life of a battery. | 09-08-2011 |