Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120008931 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING WORLD CLOCK IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method display a world clock on the basis of an Augmented Reality (AR) scheme in a portable terminal. The method for displaying information in the portable terminal includes obtaining camera image data from a camera. The method also include searching for a city corresponding to a camera location and a camera viewpoint direction on the basis of a memory. The method further includes obtaining information on the found city and displaying the obtained information on the found city by compositing the information into the obtained camera image data. | 01-12-2012 |
20120019526 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING AND REPRODUCING AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENTS IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A method and an apparatus produce and reproduce Augmented Reality (AR) contents in a mobile terminal. In the method, contents are produced. An image including an object corresponding to the contents is recognized. Recognition information for the object corresponding to the contents is obtained based on a recognition result. AR contents including the contents and the recognition information are generated. Therefore, AR contents for an input image may be easily produced and reproduced, and the AR contents may be used as independent multimedia contents, not an auxiliary means of other contents. | 01-26-2012 |
20120106784 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRACKING OBJECT IN IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - A method, apparatus, and system track an object in an image or a video. Pose information is extracted using a relation of at least one feature point extracted in a first Region of Interest (RoI). A pose is estimated using the pose information. A secpmd RoI is set using the pose. And the second RoI is estimated using a filtering scheme. | 05-03-2012 |
20130328867 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY INFORMATION USING THREE DIMENSION MAP - An apparatus for providing augmented information using a 3-D map in a mobile device including a camera, a display that displays a current image including a first object acquired in real time through the camera, and a controller that performs to control such that the current image acquired in real time and an actual 3-D image acquired and stored by previously photographing the first object are mixed and displayed on the display. | 12-12-2013 |
20130329061 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING IMAGE DATA - A method of processing image data is provided. The method includes receiving input image data, determining whether the input image data matches stored image data which is pre-stored in a database, storing, in the database, the input image data which is determined to match the stored image data, and providing the stored image data which is stored in the database. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332066 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING NAVIGATION INFORMATION, MACHINE-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND SERVER - A method for providing navigation information, a machine-readable storage medium, a mobile terminal and a server are provided. The method includes generating a preview image captured by a camera and location information of the mobile terminal; transmitting the preview image and location information to a server, receiving, from the server, route guide information generated based on the preview image and the location information, and displaying the route guide information to a user. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332078 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING 3D MAP SHOWING AREA OF INTEREST IN REAL TIME - An apparatus and a method for providing a three Dimensional (3D) map showing an area of interest in real time are disclosed. The method includes receiving terminal view information of a plurality of terminals, determining an object of interest on a 3D map based on the received terminal view information; and reconfiguring a 3D map including the object of interest. Position information on an area receiving a lot attention from the public, path information by which the user moves to the area, and a preview image of the area in real time may be provided. | 12-12-2013 |
20140152853 | TERMINAL FOR GENERATING AUGMENTED REALITY AND METHOD THEREOF - A terminal for generating an augmented reality and a method thereof are provided. The terminal includes a camera property information providing server configured to store camera property information associated with one or more cameras, and the terminal is configured to receive, from the camera property information providing server, camera property information associated with a camera included in the terminal and generate an augmented reality based on the stored camera property information when an augmented reality-based application is driven and thus, may provide an augmented reality in which a virtual object is accurately matched to an image. | 06-05-2014 |
20140232748 | DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A method of operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes recognizing at least one object from a digital image, wherein the recognizing of the object includes generating at least one descriptor from the digital image, determining an object in the digital image on a basis of at least one part of the at least one descriptor and identification data corresponding to the at least one reference object, and determining a pose of the object on a basis of at least one part of the reference descriptor corresponding to the determined object and the at least one descriptor. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233799 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device for fast object recognition is provided. The electronic device includes a first storage unit configured to store digital image data, and a processor configured to recognize an object in first image data, to receive a second object related to the first object in the first image data from a second storage unit, to store the first and second objects in the first storage unit, and to use one or more of the first and second objects stored in the first storage unit to recognize an object in second image data. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233859 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF DETERMINING DESCRIPTOR THEREOF - An electronic device and a method of determining brightness gradients of an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store a digital image, and a processor configured to process the digital image, wherein the processor is configured to recognize at least one object of the digital image, to determine a descriptor used to recognize the object, to determine the descriptor by using at least one of a location, a direction, and a scale of a feature point on the digital image, to determine brightness gradients of pixels located within an area surrounding the feature point, and to determine the brightness gradients of the pixels based on two or more non-orthogonal fixed directions. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233860 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE OPERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING THE METHOD - A method for operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting a plurality of feature points in at least a partial region in a digital image, selecting at least two feature points from the detected plurality of feature points, determining whether there is a probability that an object existing in at least one of a plurality of reference images exists in the digital image, by using at least a portion of the at least two feature points, and determining a pose of the object after the probability that the object exists in the digital image is determined. | 08-21-2014 |
20140253592 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY, MACHINE-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method for providing Augmented Reality (AR) is provided. The method includes acquiring an image, sequentially setting candidate regions of the image according to types of subjects, detecting at least one of the subjects from the candidate regions, creating a synthesized image by mapping a virtual object to a position corresponding to a position of the detected subject in the image, and displaying the synthesized image to a user. | 09-11-2014 |
20140310102 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SYNTHESIZING ADVERTISING CONTENTS TO IMAGE OF POINT OF INTEREST AND METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device for synthesizing advertising contents to an image of a Point of Interest (POI) and a method thereof are provided. The method includes displaying an image of a POI to which at least one contents are synthesized, sensing a motion input to the displayed image of the POI, and displaying the image of the POI that has been changed according to the sensed motion. | 10-16-2014 |
20150334074 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NOTIFICATION METHOD IN INTERNET SERVICE - A server, an electronic device, and a notification method in an Internet service are provided. The server includes a communication unit, a social notification message generator configured to generate a social notification message, and a controller configured to compare, if recognizing first contents that are new contents from a first user, previously received contents with the first contents, to control, if second contents including at least a part of information of the first contents exist among information of the previously received contents, the social notification message generator to generate a notification message indicating that the first contents related with the second contents are uploaded, and to control the communication unit to send the generated notification message to at least one user who uploads one of the first contents and the second contents. | 11-19-2015 |
20160062993 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CLASSIFYING CONTENTS - A method of classifying contents comprising configuring one or more categories in a hierarchical structure, mapping one or more contents and the one or more categories based on at least one piece of information on the one or more contents and information on the one or more categories, and updating the hierarchical structure of the categories based on a preset condition when content-related information of each category determined according to the mapping meets the preset condition. | 03-03-2016 |
20160077711 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION - According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for providing information by an electronic device comprises recognizing at least one object from an image displayed on a screen of the electronic device, displaying at least one primary information item associated with the recognized object, and when at least one of the at least one primary information item is selected, displaying a secondary information item associated with the selected primary information item on the screen. Other various embodiments are also provided herein. | 03-17-2016 |