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 |
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 |
20090083452 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING DEVICE ASSOCIATION/CONTROL INFORMATION FOR REALISTIC MEDIA REPRESENTATION - Provided is an apparatus and method for creating device association/control information for realistic media representation. The device includes a media analyzer, a device information creator, a device parameter creator, a device attribute database, a device control information creator, and a device control stream creator. The media analyzer analyzes media to determine control values and control times for control parameters of respective devices to be associated for media reproduction. The device information creator creates device information by searching peripheral devices connected to a media reproduction device. The device parameter creator creates device parameter information by extracting controllable factors for the respective devices. The device attribute database stores the device information and the device parameter information. The device control information creator creates device control information including control values and control times for the respective device parameters. The device control stream creator creates a device control stream by converting the device control information into a stream-format binary code in the order of reproduction. Herein, one or more devices are associated according to the contents of the media. The apparatus and method can provide the optimal media representation effect by controlling peripheral devices suitably for an available environment by creating a signal for controlling the peripheral devices according to the media contents. | 03-26-2009 |
20100274817 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING SENSORY EFFECTS USING USER'S SENSORY EFFECT PREFERENCE METADATA - Provided is a method and apparatus for representing sensory effect. The method includes: receiving preference information for predetermined sensory effect from a user; and generating user's sensory effects preference metadata including the preference information. The user's sensory effects preference metadata comprises light preference type information, flash preference type information, heating preference type information, cooling preference type information, wind preference type information, vibration preference type information, scent preference type information, fog preference type information, sprayer preference type information, and rigid body motion preference type information. | 10-28-2010 |
20110276659 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA SERVICE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein are a system and a method for providing multimedia service capable of rapidly providing various types of large-capacity multimedia contents and various sensory effects of the multimedia contents to users in real time, which receive sensory effect information representing sensory effects of multimedia contents corresponding to the multimedia services and encode the sensory effect information into command information of binary representation, depending on service requests of multimedia services that users want to receive and transmit command information of the binary representation to the user devices, respectively, so as to provide the sensory effects to the users through the device command of the user devices depending on the command information of the binary representation. | 11-10-2011 |
20110282967 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA SERVICE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein are a system and a method for providing multimedia services capable of rapidly providing various types of large-capacity multimedia contents and various sensory effects of the multimedia contents to users in real time, which generate multimedia contents of the multimedia services and generate sensory effect information representing the sensory effects of the multimedia contents, depending on service request of the multimedia services that users want to receive, encode the sensory effect information into the binary representation using a binary representation encoding scheme, converts the sensory effect information encoded by the binary representation into command information of the binary representation, and provide the multimedia contents and the sensory effects in real time through device command depending on the command information of the binary representation. | 11-17-2011 |
20120096075 | NETWORK CONNECTION METHOD AND DEVICE BY HUMAN INTERACTION - When sensor information including user's position information, bearing information, and direction information is collected, an accessible agency list near agency sensor information is requested from the agency providing a network. When at least one accessible agency list generated based on sensor information is received from the agency, it is searched whether there is an agency satisfying sensor information from among the agencies in the list. When the agency satisfying sensor information is found, the user accesses the network through the agency to access the network of the agency according to a user direction. | 04-19-2012 |
20120242572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSACTION OF SENSORY INFORMATION - A system and method for transaction of sensory information are provided. A sensory effect extraction apparatus of the system includes a sensory effect extraction unit to extract a sensory effect from an image content in accordance with a sensory effect extraction signal, and a sensory information transmission unit to transmit sensory information based on the extracted sensory effect. | 09-27-2012 |
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 |
20130239156 | RANDOM BACKOFF APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AUGMENTED CONTENT - Provided is a random backoff apparatus and method for receiving augmented content that may prevent a delay or a down of a server caused by a plurality of receiving terminals accessing a server simultaneously, when a digital broadcasting system provides broadcast-based bidirectional broadcasting services over a communication network. That is, a technology for distributing receiving terminals accessing a server to receive augmented content, or accessing a home page of a corresponding program, based on metadata transferred from the digital broadcasting system to a broadcasting network. In a bidirectional digital method, a number of requests for access to the home page or the augmented content related to the program may be received from receiving terminals at one time. Accordingly, there is a desire for a method of preventing collision caused when a plurality of stations simultaneously access a single wireless channel. | 09-12-2013 |
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 |
20140007173 | AUDIENCE SELECTION TYPE AUGMENTED BROADCASTING SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
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 |
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20090328230 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYING DIGITAL CONTENTS PROCESSED WITH DRM TOOLS - Provided is a terminal in support of compatibility for Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. According to the present invention, a method of reproducing digital contents with DRM tool at a user terminal includes the steps of: obtaining information about a DRM processor from the digital contents, selecting a DRM processor according to the obtained information, and installing the selected DRM processor; initializing the DRM processor through exchanging messages between the user terminal and the DRM processor; and transforming the digital contents with the DRM tool to original digital contents by activating a DRM tool using the initialized DRM processor and reproducing the original digital contents. | 12-31-2009 |
20100180096 | LICENSE DATA FOR CONTROLLING PARTIAL AVOIDANCE OR SIMULTANEOUS ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONSUMING MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS USING THIS LICENSE DATA - Provided is a technology for controlling partial avoidance or simultaneous access to multimedia contents. This research provides a multimedia contents consuming apparatus, which includes: a receiver for receiving a multimedia content and license data representing a condition for prohibiting partial avoidance of the multimedia content; a license analyzer for receiving the license data from the receiver, analyzes the license condition for the multimedia content, and creating a control signal for partial avoidance; and a controller for controlling avoidance for a predetermined part of the multimedia content according to the control signal. | 07-15-2010 |
20100242116 | INTEROPERABLE DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided are an interoperable DRM device and method thereof. The interoperable DRM device includes: an interface for communicating with a terminal that performs predetermined operations for reproducing contents; and a DRM processor for managing digital rights of the contents. The DRM processor exchanges messages with the terminal for interoperably managing the digital rights. | 09-23-2010 |
20100268745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING SENSORY EFFECTS USING SENSORY DEVICE CAPABILITY METADATA - Provided is a method and apparatus for representing sensory effect. The method includes: receiving capability information for sensory device; and generating sensory device capability metadata including the capability information. The sensory device capability metadata comprises light capability type information, flash capability type information, heating capability type information, cooling capability type information, wind capability type information, vibration capability type information, scent capability type information, fog capability type information, sprayer capability type information, and rigid body motion capability type information. | 10-21-2010 |
20100275235 | SENSORY EFFECT MEDIA GENERATING AND CONSUMING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Provided is a method and apparatus for generating and consuming sensory effect media. The method for generating sensory effect media includes receiving sensory effect information about sensory effects that are applied to media, and generating sensory effect metadata including the received sensory effect information. | 10-28-2010 |
20110125787 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING SENSORY EFFECTS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING USER SENSORY PREFERENCE METADATA - Provided are method and apparatus for representing sensory effects, and a computer readable recording medium storing user sensory preference metadata. A method for providing user preference information includes: receiving preference information for predetermined sensory effects from a user; and generating user sensory preference metadata including the received preference information, wherein the user sensory preference metadata includes personal preference information that describes the preference information. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125788 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING SENSORY EFFECTS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SENSORY DEVICE CAPABILITY METADATA - Provided are method and apparatus for representing sensory effects, and a computer readable recording medium storing sensory device capability metadata. A method for providing sensory device capability information includes: obtaining capability information for sensory devices; and generating sensory device capability metadata including the capability information, wherein the sensory device capability metadata includes device capability information that describes the capability information. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125789 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING SENSORY EFFECTS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SENSORY DEVICE COMMAND METADATA - Provided are method and apparatus for representing sensory effects, and a computer readable recording medium storing sensory device command metadata. A method for representing sensory effects, includes: receiving sensory effect metadata including sensory effect information; obtaining the sensory effect information by analyzing the sensory effect metadata; and generating sensory device command metadata for controlling sensory devices corresponding to the sensory effect information, wherein the sensory device command metadata includes sensory device command description information for controlling the sensory devices. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125790 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING SENSORY EFFECTS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SENSORY EFFECT METADATA - Provided are method and apparatus for representing sensory effects, and a computer readable recording medium storing sensory effect metadata. A method for generating sensory effect media, includes: receiving sensory effect information about sensory effects applied to media; and generating sensory effect metadata including the received sensory effect information, wherein the sensory effect metadata includes sensory effect description information for describing the sensory effects and the sensory effect description information includes media location information that describes locations in the media where the sensory effects are applied to. | 05-26-2011 |
20110188832 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REALISING SENSORY EFFECTS - Provided is a method and apparatus for generating sensory media. The method includes: generating sensory effect metadata (SEM) for a sensory effect which is applied to media; and outputting the SEM. The SEM includes sensory effect declaration information defining a sensory effect type other than a core sensory effect type and sensory effect representation information for representing the sensory effect. | 08-04-2011 |
20120281138 | SENSORY EFFECT MEDIA GENERATING AND CONSUMING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Provided is a method and apparatus for generating and consuming sensory effect media. The method for generating sensory effect media includes receiving sensory effect information about sensory effects that are applied to media, and generating sensory effect metadata including the received sensory effect information. The sensory effect metadata includes effect description information for describing the sensory effects and device control description information for controlling devices that perform the sensory effects. | 11-08-2012 |