Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100066862 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CAMERA WORK BASED ON DIRECTION RULE - Provided are an apparatus and method of controlling camerawork based on direction rule. A camerawork controlling apparatus includes a direction deciding unit configured to receive dialogs extracted from a scenario, to divide at least one of the received dialogs into sub-elements according to a set of circumstances, and to determine a camerawork based on a direction rule to be applied to each sub-element and each of any remaining non-divided dialogs. | 03-18-2010 |
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20100325078 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING EMOTION AND INTENTION OF A USER - A user intention recognition device and method are provided. The user intention recognition device may be used by a person who is not able to appropriately express their emotion and intention, such as a disabled person, a patient, and the like. The user intention recognition device may determine an emotion of the user based on the communication information of the user, and also, may determine an intention of the user based on the emotion and biometric information of the user. The user intention recognizing device may provide an appropriate output corresponding to the determined intention of the user. | 12-23-2010 |
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20130018837 | EMOTION RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHODAANM Lee; Ho-SubAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP Lee; Ho-Sub Seoul KR - An emotion recognition apparatus and method are provided. The emotion recognition apparatus acquires a first emotion factor and a second emotion factor of an emotion model. An emotional state of a user is estimated based on the first emotion factor and the second emotion factor. The emotion recognition apparatus may also acquire a third emotion factor of the emotion model. | 01-17-2013 |
20130072820 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING USER TO MAINTAIN CORRECT POSTURE - An apparatus for assisting a user to maintain a correct posture is provided. The apparatus includes a determining unit configured to determine whether the user is using a portable terminal in a correct posture based on a user's face image captured by the portable terminal, an angle of inclination of the portable terminal, or any combination thereof, and an alarming unit configured to provide a predetermined alarm according to a result of determination by the determining unit. | 03-21-2013 |
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20130346012 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING IMMERSION RISK OF MOBILE TERMINAL USER - An apparatus that determines an immersion risk of a mobile terminal user, includes an immersion determination unit configured to determine whether the user is immersed in a mobile terminal based on data of the user, and calculate an immersion frequency based on a result of the determination. The apparatus further includes an immersion risk determination unit configured to calculate a degree of the immersion risk based on the immersion frequency, and determine whether the immersion risk is present based on the degree of the immersion risk. | 12-26-2013 |
20140136450 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING USER'S MENTAL STATE - An apparatus for determining a user's mental state in a terminal is provided. The apparatus includes a data collector configured to collect sensor data; a data processor configured to extract feature data from the sensor data; and a mental state determiner configured to provide the feature data to an inference model to determine the user's mental state. | 05-15-2014 |
20150058615 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING SYSTEM USABILITY - An apparatus and method for enhancing system usability, and a mobile device thereof enhance system usability by actively responding to performance degradation of a system and to a negative emotion of a user. The apparatus for enhancing system usability includes a user emotion determiner configured to monitor an emotional state of a user, a system performance measurer configured to monitor performance of a system by collecting at least one system performance indicator, a tolerance time calculator configured to calculate a tolerance time of the user based on the emotional state of the user and the system performance, and a system usability enhancer configured to perform at least one action to enhance usability of the system before end of the tolerance time. | 02-26-2015 |