Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080212932 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING VIDEO BASED ON TOPIC AND METHOD USING THE SAME AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING VIDEO BASED ON TOPIC - A video management method and system based on a topic, and a video search method based on a topic. The video management system includes: a video topic management unit extracting a topic from information associated with a video, storing the extracted topic, and monitoring the video associated with the stored topic; a video storage management unit storing the video and information associated with the video, and managing a storage space based on the topic which is stored in the video topic management unit; and a topic video management unit generating a topic video of the monitored video when the video associated with the stored topic is monitored, and providing a search function and a navigation function of the video which is stored in the video storage management unit. | 09-04-2008 |
20090055174 | Method and apparatus for automatically completing text input using speech recognition - Provided are a method and apparatus for automatically completing a text input using speech recognition. The method includes: receiving a first part of a text from a user through a text input device; recognizing a speech of the user, which corresponds to the text; and completing a remaining part of the text based on the first part of the text and the recognized speech. Therefore, accuracy of the text input and convenience of the speech recognition can be ensured, and a non-input part of the text can be easily input based on the input part of the text and the recognized speech at a high speed. | 02-26-2009 |
20090055179 | Method, medium and apparatus for providing mobile voice web service - Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a mobile voice web service in a mobile terminal. The method includes analyzing a web history of a user from web search logs of the user and generating a voice access list based on the analysis results, and performing voice recognition by dynamically generating a voice recognition syntax according to the generated voice access list. Accordingly, by limiting syntax required for voice recognition by generating a syntax suitable for a web context of the user, efficient voice recognition, which can be performed in a terminal not a server, can be implemented. | 02-26-2009 |
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 |
20120007960 | Video processing method for 3D display based on multi-cue process - A video processing method for a three-dimensional (3D) display is based on a multi-cue process. The method may include acquiring a cut boundary of a shot by performing a shot boundary detection with respect to each frame of an input video, computing a texture saliency with respect to each pixel of the input video, computing a motion saliency with respect to each pixel of the input video, computing an object saliency with respect to each pixel of the input video based on the acquired cut boundary of the shot, acquiring a universal saliency with respect to each pixel of the input video by combining the texture saliency, the motion saliency, and the object saliency, and smoothening the universal saliency of each pixel using a space-time technology. | 01-12-2012 |
20120039515 | Method and system for classifying scene for each person in video - Described is a method of classifying a scene for each person in a video, the method including: detecting a face within input video frames; detecting a shot change of the input video frames; extracting a person representation frame in the shot; performing a person clustering in the extracted person representation frame based on time information; detecting a scene change by separating a person portion from a background based on face extraction information, and comparing the person portion and the background; and merging similar clusters from the extracted person representation frame and performing a scene clustering for each person. | 02-16-2012 |
20130258059 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A three-dimensional (3D) image photographing apparatus includes a photographing unit configured to photograph a first photo, and capture an image after the first photo is photographed; a feature extracting unit configured to extract feature points from the first photo and the image, and match the feature points extracted from the first photo to the feature points extracted from the image; a position and gesture estimating unit configured to determine a relationship between a position and a gesture of the 3D image photographing apparatus when the first photo is photographed, and a position and a gesture of the 3D image photographing apparatus when the image is captured, based on the matched feature points, the photographing unit configured to photograph the image as a second photo in response to the relationship satisfying a predetermined condition; and a synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the first and second photos to a 3D image. | 10-03-2013 |
20130301911 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING BODY PARTS - Provided is an apparatus and method for detecting body parts, the method including identifying a group of sub-images relevant to a body part in an image to be detected, assigning a reliability coefficient for the body part to the sub-images in the group of sub-images based on a basic vision feature of the sub-images and an extension feature of the sub-images to neighboring regions, and detecting a location of the body part by overlaying sub-images having reliability coefficients higher than a threshold value. | 11-14-2013 |
20130322720 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PARSING HUMAN BODY IMAGE - An apparatus and method for parsing a human body image may be implemented by acquiring a depth image including a human body, and detecting a plurality of points in the acquired depth image by conducting a minimum energy skeleton scan on the depth image. | 12-05-2013 |
20140009465 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODELING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) FACE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING FACE - A method and apparatus for modeling a three-dimensional (3D) face, and a method and apparatus for tracking a face. The method for modeling the 3D face may set a predetermined reference 3D face to be a working model, and generate a result of tracking including at least one of a face characteristic point, an expression parameter, and a head pose parameter from a video frame, based on the working model, to output the result of the tracking. | 01-09-2014 |
20140044375 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing method includes configuring a noise reduction filter for each of pixels in an image in accordance with a linear noise model of the image, based on different levels of a noise effect caused to a corresponding pixel, among the pixels, by other pixels, among the pixels and adjacent to the corresponding pixel. The method further includes performing noise reduction filtering on each of the pixels, using the noise reduction filter for each of the pixels, to obtain a noise reduced image. | 02-13-2014 |
20140050392 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND TRACKING LIPS - Provided is a method of detecting and tracking lips accurately despite a change in a head pose. A plurality of lips rough models and a plurality of lips precision models may be provided, among which a lips rough model corresponding to a head pose may be selected, such that lips may be detected by the selected lips rough model, a lips precision model having a lip shape most similar to the detected lips may be selected, and the lips may be detected accurately using the lips precision model. | 02-20-2014 |
20140146144 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING MULTI-LAYER THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DISPLAY - Provided is an apparatus and method for calibrating a multi-layer three-dimensional (3D) display (MLD) that may control a 3D display including a plurality of display layers to display a first image on one of the plurality of display layers, acquire a second image by capturing the first image, calculate a homography between the display layer and an image capturer based on the first image and the second image, and calculate geometric relations of the display layer with respect to the image capturer based on the calculated homography. | 05-29-2014 |
20140240354 | AUGMENTED REALITY APPARATUS AND METHOD - An augmented reality apparatus includes a plurality of photographing modules separated from each other, capturing images of a real scene that includes an object; a tracking unit obtaining status information of the object by tracking the object in the images of the real scene; an image processor determining status information of a virtual image that corresponds to the real scene based on the status information of the object, and generating an augmented reality image by combining the virtual image and the images of the real scene based on the determined status information; and a rendering unit rendering the augmented reality image to display the augmented reality image. | 08-28-2014 |
20140254919 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - A device and a method for image processing include an image processing device that may extract a foreground moving object from a depth map of a three-dimensional (3D) image that may include an image depth map acquirer to obtain the depth map of a successive 3D image over a period of time, a moving object segmenter to segment a moving object from the obtained depth map, and a moving object tracker to identify and track the segmented moving object. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254920 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING QUALITY OF 3D IMAGE - A method of enhancing a quality of a 3 dimensional (3D) image includes classifying an input 3D image into a plurality of sub-areas based on noise characteristics of the plurality of sub-areas of the input 3D image, denoising each of the plurality of sub-areas of the input 3D image by using different denoising methods according to noise characteristics of each of the classified plurality of sub-areas and obtaining a second 3D image after the denoising, and enhancing a contrast ratio of the second 3D image after the denoising. | 09-11-2014 |
20140307955 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING BODY PARTS FROM USER IMAGE - An apparatus for detecting a body part from a user image may include an image acquirer to acquire a depth image, an extractor to extract the user image from a foreground of the acquired depth image, and a body part detector to detect the body part from the user image, using a classifier trained based on at least one of a single-user image sample and a multi-user image sample. The single-user image may be an image representing non-overlapping users, and the multi-user image may be an image representing overlapping users. | 10-16-2014 |
20140313308 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRACKING GAZE BASED ON CAMERA ARRAY - An apparatus and method for tracking a gaze based on a camera array are provided. The apparatus may include a camera array including a plurality of cameras, and a plurality of light sources for the plurality of cameras, a light source controller to control the plurality of light sources so that the plurality of cameras capture a bright pupil image and a dark pupil image of a user, a detector to detect a position of a pupil center of the user, and a position of a glint caused by reflection of the plurality of light sources from the captured bright pupil image and the captured dark pupil image, and an estimator to estimate an interest position of eyes of the user by tracking a gaze direction of the eyes, based on the detected position of the pupil center and the detected position of the glint. | 10-23-2014 |