Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110294517 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING ZONE IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for recognizing an indoor zone in which a user is located by using an Earth's magnetic field that is generated naturally instead of the conventional method of combining a magnetic field generator and a magnetic field sensor. The apparatus includes a zone evaluator configured to primarily recognize a location of the portable terminal by using first and second components of an Earth's magnetic field and to finally recognize the location of the portable terminal by using first and second images. | 12-01-2011 |
20120198098 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BIDIRECTIONAL PAIRING BETWEEN DEVICES - An apparatus and a method support bidirectional pairing between devices. A connectable peripheral device is discovered. A list of discovered connectable peripheral devices is displayed. When a peripheral device is selected from the displayed list of the discovered connectable peripheral devices, an indicator operation request message for operating an indicator of the selected peripheral device is generated and transmitted to the selected device. The selected peripheral device operates the indicator according to the indicator operation request message to indicate a connection request from the device. | 08-02-2012 |
20130058310 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SETTING CHANNEL IN WIRELESS NETWORK - A method and apparatus are configured for setting up a channel in a wireless network. The method includes receiving a signal comprising channel information that at least one neighbor AP is using, from the at least one neighbor AP and, setting up the channel of the AP based on the channel information that the at least one neighbor AP is using. | 03-07-2013 |
20130073817 | TERMINAL CAPABLE OF EXTENDING STORAGE SPACE AND METHOD EXTENDING STORAGE SPACE THEREOF - A terminal and a method extend a storage space. The terminal includes a contents receiver, an interface, an external memory measure unit, a store determining unit, and a transmission controller. The contents receiver receives contents via a network. The interface accesses at least one external memory. The external memory measure unit measures at least one of a speed of the interface, an available capacity and a use history of the external memory accessed via the interface. The store determining unit determines whether to store the contents in the external memory based on a value measured by the external memory measure unit. The transmission controller controls to transmit the contents to the external memory via the interface when it is determined that the contents are stored in the external memory. | 03-21-2013 |
20140244727 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STREAMING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT OF SERVER BY USING CACHE - A technology for a client streaming content of a server is provided. The technology includes a service installed in the client that receives the content from the server instead of a media player, downloads the content in a cache having a larger capacity than a memory buffer of the media player, and then transfers data stored in the cache to the media player. Accordingly, even when the memory buffer is full, data reception from the server is not stopped, and thus power consumption of the server and the client may be reduced. Also, since a connection to the server is performed by the service instead of the media player, various socket interfaces may be supported without having to change the media player, and since data is stored in the cache, a buffering time may be reduced. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244857 | DYNAMIC BUFFERING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING STREAMING - A method of dynamically buffering content for providing a streaming service is provided. The method includes estimating a maximum amount of decrease in a network speed based on a result of measuring a network, and determining an amount of data to be buffered so that additional buffering, after playback of content is started, does not cause playback interruption, based on a maximum amount of decrease in the network speed, a total size of the content, a speed of playing the content, and a speed of receiving the content. | 08-28-2014 |
20150061972 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SERVICE BY USING SCREEN MIRRORING - A method for providing a service related to a plurality of mirroring images displayed on a screen of a sink device is provided. The method includes determining a first object in a first mirroring image that is displayed on the screen of the sink device, based on a user input, as the first object is moved to a location in a second mirroring image that is displayed on the screen of the sink device, determining a second object that corresponds to the location to which the first object has been moved, determining a service related to the first object and the second object, from among services provided via the second mirroring image, and outputting a result of the determined service. | 03-05-2015 |
20150082058 | SCREEN IMAGE MIRRORING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A display apparatus for mirroring a screen image is provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a predetermined screen image, an input unit configured to receive a predetermined command or data, a control unit configured to control the predetermined screen image to be transmitted to another display apparatus in order to make the other display apparatus mirror the predetermined screen image, and to reduce power consumption used to display the predetermined screen image when screen image mirroring is requested, and a communication unit configured to transmit the predetermined screen image to the other display apparatus. Also, the display apparatus reduces the power consumption caused when a mirroring service is used. | 03-19-2015 |
20150082241 | METHOD FOR SCREEN MIRRORING AND SOURCE DEVICE THEREOF - A method for screen mirroring and a source device thereof are provided. The source device includes a display unit configured to display a first screen, an input unit configured to receive a selection of a first area on the first screen, a controller, configured to, when a mirroring service is executed, process the first area independently of a second area that is an area except the first area in the first screen, and to mirror the first screen reflecting the processing on at least one sink device, and a communicator configured to transmit image data corresponding to the first screen. | 03-19-2015 |