Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |
20120089649 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL WORLD - Disclosed is a method for managing a virtual world. The method for managing a virtual world includes: receiving virtual world management information including user information and communication information; and managing a virtual world, objects in the virtual world, and relationships between the objects using the virtual world management information. | 04-12-2012 |
20120167014 | VISUAL SURROGATE FOR INDIRECT EXPERIENCE AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a technology for utilizing an indirect experience without copying a real world to a virtual world. An apparatus for providing a visual surrogate for indirect experience according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a synchronization setup unit for setting up synchronization models between a surrogate, a real object and virtual objects corresponding to the surrogate and the real object, wherein the surrogate is a substitute for a remote user and the virtual objects are displayed in a control space. A control space generation unit generates the control space required to input commands for the surrogate and the real object and to output surrounding information sensed by the surrogate. A service provision unit generates an application in which the synchronization models and the control space are packaged. | 06-28-2012 |
20130021322 | VISUAL ONTOLOGICAL SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL COMMUNITY - The present invention relates to a system for storing and managing a comment on content in a social community, and enabling another user to retrieve content or a comment. In particular, the present invention may generate image comments for target content from users of a social community, and summarize the generated imaged comments. | 01-24-2013 |
20130106867 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN AVATAR | 05-02-2013 |
20130106900 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AVATAR | 05-02-2013 |
20130151978 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING SMART CONTENTS BASED ON CONTENTS OF USERS - Provided is a method of managing content using a visual expression, the method including: determining a visual icon that represents each of contents registered by users, based on the respective contents; quantizing each of a plurality of visual icons to map each of the plurality of visual icons with at least one level among a plurality of predetermined quantization levels; generating a content unit corresponding to each of the plurality of visual icons based on the mapping result; and creating smart content that is a visual expression as abstract information corresponding to a combination of the contents, based on a combination of content units. | 06-13-2013 |
20130290363 | RICH USER DESCRIPTIONS FOR SOCIAL NETWORK - Provided is a method of managing contents in a social networking service, the method including storing information about each of a plurality of users participating in the social networking service, in a table structured based on a predetermined syntax, receiving a search request from a first user among the plurality of users, providing the first user with contents owned by a second user, as a search result corresponding to the search request, by referring to the structured table, receiving an additional search request from the first user, and providing the first user with additional contents owned by the second user, as a search result corresponding to the search request, by referring to the structured table. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290424 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING OPTIMAL SERVICE USING PERSONAL INFORMATION OF USER - Provided is a method of providing an optimal service to a user using personal information of the user, the method including: decentralizing and thereby setting personal information of the user that is included in a user description; extracting the personal information of the user from the user description; receiving a service request of the user and the extracted personal information of the user; selecting service information from a service description including the service information that is supported for the user, based on the personal information of the user in response to the service request of the user; and providing a service corresponding to the service information to the user. | 10-31-2013 |
20140019282 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING SERVICE USING USER DESCRIPTION, SERVICE DESCRIPTION AND CONTENTS DESCRIPTION - A method of providing a service using a user description, a service description, and a contents description may include: receiving first user information from a first user description including first user information; receiving environment information from the contents description including environment information; selecting optimal service information from the service description including service information based on at least one of the first user information and the environment information; and providing a service corresponding to the selected optimal service information to a first user. | 01-16-2014 |
20140113715 | VIRTUAL WORLD PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a virtual world processing apparatus. The virtual world processing apparatus includes a gas sensor unit and an engine. The gas sensor unit obtains scent information in the real world. The engine receives information about the capabilities of the gas sensor unit from the gas sensor unit, and transmits the scent information obtained by the sensor unit to a virtual world or the real world. | 04-24-2014 |
20140333616 | METHOD FOR REPRESENTING TERRAIN, METHOD FOR CREATING TERRAIN PRIMITIVES, AND APPARATUS USING THE METHODS - A method for representing a terrain, a method for creating terrain primitives, and an apparatus using the methods are disclosed. The terrain representation method includes: reading digital elevation model (DEM) data of a terrain; extracting feature points of the terrain from the DEM data of the terrain; creating a plurality of terrain primitives according to the feature points of the terrain; storing terrain representation model data based on the plurality of terrain primitives; and converting the terrain primitive based terrain representation model data into DEM data, and visualizing the DEM data. | 11-13-2014 |
20150067538 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING EDITABLE VISUAL OBJECT - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for creating an editable visual object. In accordance with an embodiment, the apparatus for creating an editable visual object includes an interface unit for providing an editable visual object creation interface to a user. A template display unit displays a basic template for an editable visual object desired to be created by the user on the interface. A visual object creation unit is configured to, if the user edits the displayed basic template, create an editable visual object based on editing information. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067558 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD USING EDITABLE VISUAL OBJECTS - A communication device and method are disclosed. The communication device includes an intention input unit, a visual object processing unit, and a message management unit. The intention input unit receives a user's intention through an interface. The visual object processing unit outputs a recommended visual object related to the user's intention to the interface, and generates the metadata of an edited visual object when the user edits the recommended visual object through the interface. The message management unit sends a message, including the generated metadata of the visual object, to a counterpart terminal. | 03-05-2015 |