Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080198808 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING HANDOVER IN WiMAX MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a system and a method for performing handover in a Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) mobile communication system supporting broadband wireless access. The system includes a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs); at least one distributed antenna having the ability to perform simultaneous communications with the plurality of MSs; and a base station connected to the at least one distributed antenna through optical fibers for performing communications and handovers with the multiple MSs. | 08-21-2008 |
20080198906 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INCREASING CELL CAPACITY THROUGH OPTIONAL SIGNAL COMBINING BETWEEN RELAY STATIONS IN A CELLULAR SYSTEM USING WIRED RELAY STATIONS - A method, apparatus and system for increasing cell capacity through optional signal combining between Relay Stations (RSs) in a cellular system using wired RSs is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a Base Station (BS), an average Carrier-to-Interference ratio (C/I) value of transmission signals from Mobile Stations (MSs) located inside each coverage area, being fed back from the RSs or the MSs in its corresponding cell; classifying the MSs into two groups according to the C/I value; performing resource allocation satisfying a minimum data rate from a corresponding RS, for MSs belonging to a group having a C/I value greater than a preset threshold Γ among the classified groups; performing resource allocation by applying an optional signal combining scheme taking into account two RSs having a highest C/I value, for MSs belonging to a group having a C/I value below the threshold among the classified groups; and allocating all unallocated subchannels of each individual RS in an order of an MS having a high C/I value among MSs of a corresponding RS until there is no more unallocated subchannel of each RS. | 08-21-2008 |
20080200211 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING CELL BY USING DISTRIBUTED ANTENNAS IN WIMAX MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system and a method for forming a cell by using distributed antennas in a World interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) mobile communication system supporting a broadband wireless access communication system. A virtual cell is formed with a specific Mobile Station (MS) as a central part of the virtual cell by using distributed antennas, which improves the transmission capacity and the performance of an overall network system without changing the structure of a backbone network and the interface of the overall network system. The system includes, multiple MSes; distributed antennas for perform simultaneous communications with at least one MS among the multiple MSes, and for forming one virtual cell by communicating with the multiple MSes; and a Base Station (BS), which is typically connected to the distributed antennas through optical fibers, for communicating with the MSes. | 08-21-2008 |
20080205336 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JOINT SCHEDULING TO INCREASE FREQUENCY EFFICIENCY AND FAIRNESS IN A MULTI-CHANNEL DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM USING FREQUENCY REUSE AND COMMON POWER CONTROL - A joint scheduling apparatus and method for increasing frequency efficiency and fairness in a multi-channel distributed antenna system using frequency reuse and common control power. One of a Base Station (BS) or Relay Station (RS) are selected to transmit packets to a Mobile Station (MSs), taking into account Quality of Service (QoS) in one of a BS and an RS and grouped into packet groups. The packets are selected from the packet groups, links corresponding to the packets are grouped into a link group, a joint power control is performed on the link group, link elimination and link addition are performed for the link group until optimal solutions are achieved for the links group, channels are allocated to the links when the optimal solutions are achieved for the links, and the status of a user queue is updated. | 08-28-2008 |
20080205538 | METHOD FOR SER APPROXIMATION FOR OSTBC IN DISTRIBUTED WIRE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method for Symbol Error Rate (SER) approximation of an SER-based transmission power allocation operation for an Orthogonal Space Time Block Code in a DWCS equipped with multiple transmission Distributed Antennas (DA) geographically dispersed at random. The method for SER approximation includes the steps of: setting multiple combinable antenna subsets from the multiple DAs; selecting a quasi-optimal antenna subset A | 08-28-2008 |
20080212703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUBCHANNEL ASSIGNMENT FOR SUPPRESSING INTERANTENNA INTERFERENCE IN OFDMA SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for subchannel assignment for suppressing inter-antenna interference in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (OFDMA) system based distributed wireless communication system equipped with antennas that are randomly distributed in a geographical manner and can simultaneously communicate with multiple Subscriber Stations (SSs). The method includes selecting and obtaining access to distributed antennas which satisfy the data transmission rate that an SS requires and with which the SS can communicate; re-queuing a distributed antenna having the maximum transmitted power within the same cell in high priority; and assigning subchannels to the relevant distributed antennas in an order from the relevant distributed antenna having the high priority. | 09-04-2008 |
20080219670 | RoF system providing HD wireless communication service and signal control method for the same - Disclosed is an RoF system providing an HD wireless communication service. The RoF system includes the base station for transmitting and receiving each of the TDD/FDD individual signals and TDD/FDD combined signals, channel-combining downstream signals for a TDD scheme with downstream signals for an FDD scheme, and generating TDD/FDD mode control signals; a base station donor for receiving downstream RF signals from the base station, converting the resultant signals into downstream optical signals, outputting the converted signals, and delivering upstream optical signals, which are input to the remote station from the wireless terminals, to the base station; and the remote station for switching a corresponding duplexing mode operation according to wireless service channel states of the wireless terminals, converting the downstream optical signals transmitted from the base station donor into service RF signals, amplifying the converted service RF signals, and providing the amplified service RF signals to the wireless terminals through antennas. | 09-11-2008 |
20080240719 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING SYSTEM DELAY TIME AND FRAME LENGTH IN TIME DIVISION DUPLEXING SYSTEM - A method of establishing a system delay time and a frame length in a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) system includes adjusting time lengths of an uplink (UL) frame, a downlink (DL) frame, a Transmit/receive Transition Gap (TTG), and a Receive/transmit Transition Gap (RTG); a Base Station (BS) transmitting a DL frame and receiving a UL frame; and a Mobile Station (MS) receiving the DL frame and transmitting the UL frame. | 10-02-2008 |
20080248805 | Method and apparatus for subcell selection for assigning subcarrier in DAS OFDMA scheme - Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for assigning a subcarrier to a subcell serviced by a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) employing an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (OFDMA) scheme in a broadband wireless access system. The method includes dividing an overall frequency band into multiple subcarrier bands, assigning the multiple subcarrier bands to respective Base Stations (BSs) without overlap among the BSs adjacent to one another in assigning the multiple subcarrier bands corresponding to the divided overall frequency band to the respective BSs and dividing the assigned subcarrier bands and selectively assigning the divided subcarrier bands to multiple Remote Stations (RSs) connected with the BSs through optical fibers. | 10-09-2008 |
20080260388 | TIME DIVISION DUPLEXING REMOTE STATION HAVING LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER SHARED FOR UPLINK AND DOWNLINK OPERATIONS AND WIRED RELAY METHOD USING THE SAME - A wired relay method for using a remote station and an apparatus thereof for a Radio over Fiber (RoF) wired relay system supporting a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) wireless communication service, which shares an Low-Noise Amplifier (LNA) for both uplink and downlink operations. The remote station includes a block for dividing each of a downlink optical signal carrying service data and an optical signal carrying transmission/reception control information of the RoF wired relay system, which are input from a base station, a gain controller for separating an uplink Radio Frequency (RF) signal input from an antenna or a portion of a downlink RF signal output from a High-Power Amplifier (HPA) and for monitoring the strength of the input and output RF signals in order to control a gain of the LNA. A converter mutually converts an optical signal and an RF signal, an amplifier amplifies the converted RF signal, and an RF signal flow controller automatically controlls uplink and downlink transmission paths of the amplified RF signal according to a transmission/reception status of the RoF wired relay system. | 10-23-2008 |
20090016303 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING SOFTER HANDOVER IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method of performing softer handover in a broadband wireless communication system. The method includes granting identification numbers to neighbor antennas around a mobile station currently performing communication, and transmitting a neighbor base station advertisement message including the identification numbers of the neighbor antennas, receiving a handover request message including an identification number of a particular antenna from the mobile station, determining if the particular antenna is located within a current coverage area of the base station, and adding the particular antenna to a diversity set and notifying information on multiple antennas included in the diversity set to the base station when the particular antenna is located within the current coverage area of the mobile station; multicasting an identical frame to the multiple antennas included in the diversity set and receiving a handover indication message from the mobile station. | 01-15-2009 |
20090017835 | SIGNAL COMBINING APPARATUS SATISFYING MAXIMUM TRANSMISSION CAPACITY IN CELLULAR SYSTEM EMPLOYING DISTRIBUTED ANTENNAS AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a signal combining apparatus and a resource allocation method using the same in a cellular system using distributed antennas. The resource allocation method includes detecting a channel transmission capacity when a signal is transmitted from a single Relay Station (RS) to a Mobile Station (MS), by a Base Station (BS), detecting a channel transmission capacity when transmitting a signal produced by using signal combining by two or more RSs to the MS, by the BS, selecting a channel transmission capacity with a larger gain between the detected channel transmission capacity of the single RS and the detected channel transmission capacity of the two or more RSs, by the BS; and selecting the signal transmitted by the single RS or the signal produced by using the signal combining by the two or more RSs having the selected channel transmission capacity with the larger gain, and then transmitting the selected signal to the MS. | 01-15-2009 |
20090034672 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TIME SYNCHRONIZATION USING GPS INFORMATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for time synchronization (TS) method using GPS information in a communication system synchronizing the time of slave nodes, which do not have a GPS receiver, by using GPS information of a node having a GPS receiver. The method includes the steps of extracting 1PPS, TOD, 1PPS_en, and clocks using GPS signals by a grand master node having a GPS receiver, stabilizing the signals, generating a sync message for TS, and transmitting the sync message to a slave node; receiving the sync message by the slave node and conducting a TS operation using OFCC synchronization technology extracting 1PPS, TOD, and 1PPS_en signals using the modified TOD information by the block and delivering to a stabilization block of the slave node for stabilization; and redelivering to the TS block to update TOD information and generate a sync message for TS of a second slave node. | 02-05-2009 |
20090135778 | Method and apparatus for scheduling in cellular system using cable relay station - A method for scheduling in a cellular system using a relay station (RS) through an inter-antenna cooperative transmission technology based on pre-cooperation information according to each channel in a cellular system using a cable RS in order to increase the throughput of the entire system. The steps include classifying all mobile stations (MSs) in a corresponding cell based into Cooperative Transmission (CT) MSs for cooperative transmission and Single Transmission (ST) MSs for to each channel; mapping channel-by-channel channel capacities of the CT MSs and ST MSs classified according to each channel, selecting a channel with a highest priority, and receiving a request message from a corresponding MS according to whether the capacity of the selected channel satisfies preset CT criteria and selecting an MS having a metric value of a highest priority according to a corresponding scheduling algorithm, from among multiple requesting MSs. | 05-28-2009 |
20090168808 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING TIME SYNCHRONIZATION USING GPS INFORMATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for performing time synchronization by using Global Positioning System (GPS) information in a communication system. The apparatus comprises a grand-master node having a GPS receiver, for generating a synchronizing message required to synchronize time on slave nodes by using Time Of Day (TOD) information received from the GPS receiver and at least one slave node for receiving the synchronizing message required to synchronize time from the grand-master node or from another slave node, for carrying out time synchronization operation by using an Offset and Frequency Compensation Clock (OFCC) synchronization process supporting time offset and frequency separation compensation, and for generating a synchronizing message required to synchronize time on other slave nodes. | 07-02-2009 |
20090185511 | METHOD FOR CONCURRENTLY TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA THROUGH HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method for transmitting/receiving data in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access-time division duplex (OFDMA-TDD) scheme. A first uplink signal and a first downlink signal of a specific band are periodically transmitted/received within a time-divided section. A second uplink signal and a second downlink signal are periodically transmitted/received, and the second signal is of a band other than the specific band, within the time-divided section, wherein, during a time section in which the first downlink signal is transmitted, the second uplink signal is received. | 07-23-2009 |
20090247200 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SIGNALS IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for processing signals in a distributed antenna system. The method includes receiving, by a Base Station (BS), Channel State Information (CSI) from Mobile Stations (MSs) located within a coverage area of the BS or a coverage of Relay Stations (RSs) connected to the BS; multiplying signals for transmission to the MSs by beamforming vectors by using the CSI; and transmitting the multiplied signals to the MSs. | 10-01-2009 |
20090253429 | SCHEDULING APPARATUS AND METHOD IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - A scheduling method in a distributed antenna system is provided. Each of a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs), respectively corresponding to each subchannel, are classified as a Single Transmission (ST) MS or a Cooperative Transmission (CT) MS according to a CT criterion. An MS with a maximum channel capacity is selected from among the classified MSs. Resources arc allocated to a corresponding subchannel when the selected MS is the ST MS, and resources arc allocated using a CT scheduling technique when the selected MS is the CT MS. The classifying, selecting and allocating steps are repeated until allocation of resources is completed. | 10-08-2009 |
20090316999 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING CHARACTERS - Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for recognizing characters using an image. A camera is activated according to a character recognition request and a preview mode is set for displaying an image photographed through the camera in real time. An auto focus of the camera is controlled and an image having a predetermined level of clarity is obtained for character recognition from the images obtained in the preview mode. The image for character recognition is character-recognition-processed so as to extract recognition result data. A final recognition character row is drawn that excludes non-character data from the recognition result data. A first word is combined including at least one character of the final recognition character row and a predetermined maximum number of characters. A dictionary database that stores dictionary information on various languages using the first word is searched, so as to provide the user with the corresponding word. | 12-24-2009 |
20090324081 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING CHARACTER IN CHARACTER RECOGNIZING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for recognizing a character and efficiently removing a misrecognized character. The method includes detecting character regions including at least one character in an input image, converting the input image into a binary image, discriminating the characters from a non-character, re-classifying the character region including a number of characters equal to or less than a threshold into a non-character region, and outputting only the characters present in the character region. | 12-31-2009 |
20100008582 | METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING AND TRANSLATING CHARACTERS IN CAMERA-BASED IMAGE - A method for recognizing an image photographed by a camera and translating characters in connection with an electronic dictionary is provided. The method includes directly selecting an area to be recognized from the photographed character image and performing character recognition, translating and recognizing characters of a user's selected word in connection with dictionary data, and displaying translation result information of user's selected character or word in connection with dictionary data on a screen device. The recognition includes providing information on location of the selected character image area and location of the recognized character string words to the user, and then translating a character string or word in a location area selected by the user. The electronic dictionary-connected search and translation is for searching the character or word selected in connection with the electronic dictionary database, and providing translation result to the user. | 01-14-2010 |
20100141758 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING SIZE OF CHARACTERS USING CAMERA - A method is provided for automatically adjusting a size of characters using a camera. The method includes receiving an image with characters; adjusting a focus of the image with characters and detecting a region and a size of characters in the image; determining whether the size of the characters in the image falls within a preset range; recognizing the characters in the image and displaying the recognition results, if the size of characters falls within the preset range; and automatically adjusting a zoom ratio of the image and recognizing the characters in the resized image, if the size of the characters does not fall within the preset range. | 06-10-2010 |
20100141788 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING CHARACTERS USING A CAMERA - An apparatus and method for recognizing characters of an image captured using a camera in a mobile terminal are provided, wherein an image of a signboard is captured, a text area is extracted from the captured image of the signboard, characters are recognized from the extracted text area, similar characters up to a predetermined priority level are generated for each recognized character of the extracted text area, location information of an area within a predetermined range from a current position of a user is acquired, store names are extracted from the location information, text is generated by combining the similar characters according to weights, the text are compared with the extracted store names, and a comparison result is output. | 06-10-2010 |
20100172587 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING A LIP REGION FOR LIP READING - A method for setting a lip region of a face included in an image, including setting a first region and a second region in an image including a face, identifying contrast information of the first region, setting a threshold for binarization using the contrast information, and binarizing the second region based on the threshold. A region in which a pixel having an identical binary value continuously distributed within a predetermined number of ranges in the binarized image is set as an eye candidate object. An eye region is then extracted from the eye candidate object based on geometric characteristic of an eye region in an image, and the lip region is set with reference to the extracted eye region based on geometric information of the eye region and the lip region. | 07-08-2010 |
20100202690 | METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING TEXT FROM IMAGE - Disclosed is a method of recognizing a text from an image. The method includes dividing the image into a predefined number of regions through a clustering technique; setting a certain area of the regions as a background region; identifying the outer peripheral pixel and inner peripheral pixel of each region except for the background region of the divided regions; setting a region identified as having one of its outer peripheral pixel and its inner peripheral pixel corresponding to a pixel of the background region, as a boundary region; and setting a region identified as having any of its outer peripheral pixel and its inner peripheral pixel not corresponding to a pixel of the background region, as a center text region, and excluding the boundary region from a binary-coding object of the text. | 08-12-2010 |
20100208999 | METHOD OF COMPENSATING FOR DISTORTION IN TEXT RECOGNITION - A method of compensating for distortion in text recognition is provided, which includes extracting a text region from an image; estimating the form of an upper end of the extracted text region; estimating the form of a lower end of the extracted text region; estimating the form of left and right sides of the extracted text region; estimating a diagram constituted in the form of the estimated upper end, lower end, left and right sides, and including a minimum area of the text region; and transforming the text region constituting the estimated diagram into a rectangular diagram using an affine transform. | 08-19-2010 |
20100215261 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING TEXT RECOGNITION CAPABILITY - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for text recognition capability using a camera provided in a mobile communication terminal. Image pre-processing discriminates a text color and a text-background color in an input image, and unifies regions except the text into the text-background color, so that a text region and a background region surrounding the text region can be precisely separated. The image pre-processing method is adaptive to a photographing environment, whereby stable text recognition capability can be expected even if the photographing environment is variously changed. | 08-26-2010 |
20100239174 | METHOD FOR CREATING PANORAMA - A method is provided for creating a panorama. The method includes photographing a plurality of images having same backgrounds and different forms of a subject, determining a size and a position of a reference region for creating a panorama using the images, extracting a target region within the reference region from each of the images, detecting same portions in adjacent target regions, and creating a panorama by combining the adjacent target regions on the basis of the same portions. | 09-23-2010 |
20100316299 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PRESENCE OF USER'S HAND TREMOR OR INTENTIONAL MOTION - A method is provided for determining presence of a user's hand tremor or intentional motion during recognition of an image through photographing. Image sample blocks of a previous frame are detected by using an edge detecting method. A block distance between the detected image sample block of the previous frame and an estimated image sample block of a current frame is calculated. The calculated block distance is compared with a first threshold. The calculated block distance is compared with a second threshold when the calculated block distance is less than the first threshold. | 12-16-2010 |
20110013807 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING SUBJECT MOTION USING A CAMERA - A method for recognizing a subject motion using a camera is provided, in which each of the previous and current image frames received from the camera is split into multiple image blocks, motion blocks are detected among the image blocks based on a difference between previous and current pixel values for each of the image frames, a motion center is detected based on positions of the motion blocks for each image frame, and the subject motion appearing in the previous and current image frames is recognized based on the motion centers of the previous and current image frames. | 01-20-2011 |
20110025630 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION AND CHARACTER INPUT APPARATUS USING TOUCH SCREEN AND METHOD THEREOF - A character input method using a touch screen, in which one or more areas requiring user input is defined in the touch screen, pre-recognized information is defined for each of the defined areas, character information is received by a user in one or more user desired areas among the defined areas, the character information is recognized using a character recognizer, and the recognized character information is updated in the user desired areas. | 02-03-2011 |
20110063468 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RETRIEVING LABEL - Disclosed is a method for retrieving a label in a portable terminal. The method includes obtaining a label image photographed through a camera, extracting characters included in the label image and recognizing the extracted characters, detecting at least one label including the recognized character from a label database including multiple labels and information on the multiple labels and constituting a preliminary label candidate group including said at least one label, detecting an image characteristic of the label image, detecting at least one label having an image characteristic, which is similar with the detected image characteristic, from the preliminary label candidate group, and constituting a final label candidate group, and providing each of said at least one label included in the final label candidate group and detailed information corresponding to each of said at least one label. | 03-17-2011 |
20110086650 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING HANDWRITTEN MESSAGE INCLUDING TIME INFORMATION - A method for transmitting and receiving a handwritten message having time information includes generating one or more codes using handwritten message information which is sequentially input by a user, converting the handwritten message information and the one or more codes into one image and transmitting the converted image, confirming whether a received image includes the one or more codes, and if the received image includes the one or more codes, sequentially reproducing the contents of the handwritten message according to an input order of the contents of the handwritten message by analyzing the one or more codes. | 04-14-2011 |
20110102599 | MOBILE TERMINAL INCLUDING PROJECTOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a mobile terminal for providing a blackboard function to an image projected through a projector, which includes a projector for projecting an image on a screen, a camera for photographing the image projected through the projector and transferring the photographed image to an image processor. The image processor processes the image transferred from the camera and transfers the processed image to a controller. The controller controls the operation of the mobile terminal including recognizing an effective region for the projected image where infrared rays are detected from the photographed image so as to recognize an indication position of an indication device. The indication device generates infrared rays, in the projected image, and when the infrared rays are detected, a preset mark is displayed on a position of the detected infrared rays by using the projector. | 05-05-2011 |
20110110595 | IMAGE CORRECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELIMINATING LIGHTING COMPONENT - An image correction apparatus and method for eliminating a lighting component are provided. A photographed original image is divided into a plurality of block units to calculate a representative brightness value of each of the divided block units. A background image having the size of the original image is generated using the calculated brightness value and interpolation. A lighting component is extracted from the background image and a lighting component included in the original image is eliminated using the extracted lighting component. | 05-12-2011 |
20110111775 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING HANDWRITTEN MESSAGE BY USING HANDWRITING DATA - A method for reproducing a handwritten message using handwriting data, the method including receiving an input of the handwritten message and generating handwriting data including position information and time information of the handwritten message and a still image using the position information, encoding a handwriting image including the handwriting data in the still image and transmitting the encoded handwriting image through the still image, receiving and decoding the handwriting image, extracting the handwriting data included in the decoded handwriting image, and sequentially reproducing the handwritten message according to an order of input of the handwritten message using the extracted handwriting data. | 05-12-2011 |
20110181619 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING HANDWRITING ANIMATION MESSAGE - Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a handwriting animation message. The apparatus for transmitting a handwriting animation message includes an input unit for receiving an input of a handwriting animation message including coordinate information and time information of points being input onto a background image from a user of a transmitting mobile terminal, a controller for controlling merging or synchronization of the background image and the handwriting animation message, and a transmitter for transmitting the merged or synchronized background image and handwriting animation message to a receiving mobile terminal. | 07-28-2011 |
20110187727 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A LOCK SCREEN OF A TERMINAL EQUIPPED WITH A TOUCH SCREEN - An apparatus and method for displaying a lock screen including a character object having a motion effect in a terminal equipped with a touch screen. The method includes locking the touch screen and displaying the lock screen including the character object having the motion effect on a preset background image. Upon generation of a touch input, determining whether the touch input is for unlocking the touch screen, and if the touch input is for unlocking the touch screen, unlocking the touch screen and controlling the character object to perform a preset action indicating the unlocking of the touch screen. | 08-04-2011 |
20110188756 | E-DICTIONARY SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT IN WHICH KOREAN CHARACTERS AND CHINESE CHARACTERS ARE MIXED - A method for providing a correct e-dictionary search result for a document recognition result includes performing character recognition of a document in which Korean characters (Hangul) and Chinese characters are mixed and displaying a recognition result. If a character string to be searched is selected by a user from the recognition result, determining whether the selected character string corresponds to Hangul or Chinese characters, detecting a Hangul word or a Chinese word included in the selected character string, and outputting an e-dictionary search result corresponding to the detected Hangul or a Chinese word. Accordingly, the user can use an e-dictionary function without directly inputting a search word and obtain a correct e-dictionary search result for a document in which Hangul and Chinese characters are mixed. | 08-04-2011 |
20110193867 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING DYNAMIC EFFECT OF CHARACTER CAPABLE OF INTERACTING WITH IMAGE - A method for producing motion effects of a character capable of interacting with a background image in accordance with the characteristics of the background image is provided, including extracting the characteristics of the background image; determining a character to be provided with the motion effects in the background in accordance with the extracted characteristics of the background image; recognizing external signals including a user input; determining the motion of the character in accordance with the characteristics of the background image and the recognized external signals; and reproducing an animation for executing the motion of the character in the background image. | 08-11-2011 |
20110194770 | DOCUMENT EDITING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method for storing a document recognition result is proposed. The method includes selecting a picture area from a document image, storing an image of the selected picture area in an image file format, removing the selected picture area, filling the removed picture area with a surrounding background color, and performing character recognition of a text area. | 08-11-2011 |
20120105677 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING LOCATION INFORMATION-BASED IMAGE DATA - An apparatus for processing image data includes a camera for detecting image information received through an image sensor, a location information checker for checking location information, a memory for storing the image information and shooting location information at an acquisition time of the image information, a location information converter for converting the shooting location information based on display location information at a time the image information is to be displayed, and a controller for controlling output of image information corresponding to the display location information. | 05-03-2012 |
20120106792 | USER INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD USING MOVEMENT RECOGNITION - A movement recognition method and a user interface are provided. A skin color is detected from a reference face area of an image. A movement-accumulated area, in which movements are accumulated, is detected from sequentially accumulated image frames. Movement information corresponding to the skin color is detected from the detected movement-accumulated area. A user interface screen is created and displayed using the detected movement information. | 05-03-2012 |
20120260196 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING INFORMATION IN VIRTUAL SPACE - A method and apparatus for sharing information in a virtual space are provided. Upon receiving a bulletin space-generation request, generating a bulletin space and displays the bulletin space on a screen. Upon receiving a bulletin content-creation request, executing a bulletin content-creation tool stored in the memory unit and displaying the bulletin content-creation tool on the screen. When a bulletin content is created by the bulletin content-creation tool, storing the created bulletin content corresponding to the bulletin space and displaying the bulletin content on the screen. | 10-11-2012 |
20120288182 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A COUNTERFEIT BILL - A mobile communication device and method for identifying a counterfeit bill are provided. In the method, an InfraRed (IR) image of a bill is received, feature values are extracted from the IR image to represent edges, a binary image having displayed pixels and non-displayed pixels is generated based on the feature values, and a corrected image is generated by overlaying the binary image on a pre-stored real bill database and adjusting the binary image to match a predetermined area of the binary image matches to the predetermined area of the real bill database. A number of displayed pixels in the corrected image is counted, and whether the bill is counterfeit is based on the number of displayed pixels in the corrected image. | 11-15-2012 |
20120324335 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EDITABLE FLASH FILE - A method for storing and managing a content-editable Flash file is provided, in which a Flash file is loaded to be edited, data of a predetermined size is loaded from the Flash file, it is determined based on the loaded data whether the Flash file is editable, and editable data is loaded from the Flash file, if the Flash file is editable. | 12-20-2012 |
20130031473 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SUMMARY DATA OF E-BOOK OR E-NOTE - An apparatus and method for generating summary data of an e-book or e-note, the method including if input data is received, recognizing a type of the input data, extracting a character region in the e-book or e-note corresponding to the recognized input data type, storing page information corresponding to the extracted character region, and generating summary data by using the page information corresponding to the character region when the generation of the summary data is requested, thereby allowing a user to preview summary content handwritten by the user on the e-book or e-note at a glance. | 01-31-2013 |
20130034290 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING A COUNTERFEIT BILL USING A PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method and a portable terminal for identifying a counterfeit bill. The method includes receiving, by the portable terminal, an image of a bill photographed using visible rays and an image of the bill photographed using infrared rays; determining a denomination of the bill by comparing the image photographed using the visible rays with a denomination database; obtaining correction information for making the image photographed using the visible rays correspond to a corresponding bill image in the denomination database; forming a corrected image by correcting the image photographed using the infrared rays using the correction information; binary-coding the corrected image; and determining whether the bill is counterfeit by comparing the binary-coded corrected image with an image of the corresponding bill pre-stored in a genuine bill database. | 02-07-2013 |
20130063620 | APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING CHARACTER AND BARCODE SIMULTANEOUSLY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A method for controlling a character and barcode recognition apparatus by receiving an image including at least one text image and at least one barcode, dividing the received image into a text area and a barcode area, the text area including the at least one text image and the barcode area including the at least one barcode, recognizing at least one character in the text area by performing character recognition on the text area, and recognizing the at least one barcode in the barcode area by performing barcode recognition on the barcode area. | 03-14-2013 |
20140240258 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING USER INPUT APPLYING TEXTURE OF BACKGROUND IMAGE - A method of processing an image is provided. The method includes identifying edge components of a background image by a unit of a predetermined size, identifying input coordinate points of a touch input which is input on a touch screen, determining distorted coordinate points by applying the edge components to the input coordinate points, and displaying a drawing image formed by connecting the distorted coordinate points, on the background image. | 08-28-2014 |
20140245137 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING CONTENTS THROUGH WRITING INPUT ON TOUCH SCREEN - A method of writing content through a writing input on a touch screen is provided. The method includes displaying written input content according to a writing input detection and identifying whether there is a proofreading mode control, and when there is the proofreading mode control, entering a proofreading mode, displaying the written input content according to the writing input detection, identifying a proofreading mark in the written input content, and applying an editing content corresponding to the proofreading mark, so as to proofread the written content. | 08-28-2014 |
20140286626 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CREATING AND REPRODUCING LIVE PICTURE FILE - An apparatus for reproducing an image file and outputting audio data related to the image file at the same time is provided. The apparatus includes an audio editor configured to edit audio data having a predetermined time length in order to create edited audio data, and an encoder in configured to encode image data and the audio data edited by the audio editor in order to create a live picture file, wherein the live picture file includes at least one of an image data area including the image data, additional data header area including information related to additional data including the audio data, and an audio data area including the edited audio data. | 09-25-2014 |
20150033164 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE - A method of providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is provided. The method includes receiving an image to be used for the GUI, and selecting one or more object areas to be used for the GUI from the image, setting a GUI icon corresponding to the selected object area, and outputting the set GUI as a home screen for executing at least one of application on a display of the terminal. | 01-29-2015 |
20150058718 | USER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CREATING HANDWRITING CONTENT - A method for creating handwriting content is provided. The method includes displaying handwriting letters being input, extracting at least one candidate handwriting word stored in advance in response to the input handwriting letters, displaying the extracted at least one candidate handwriting word, and replacing the input handwriting letters with a candidate handwriting word selected from among the displayed at least one candidate handwriting word. | 02-26-2015 |
20150062041 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING FUNCTIONS RELATED TO HANDWRITTEN USER INPUT ON LOCK SCREEN - Apparatuses and methods are provided for executing a function corresponding to a handwritten user input at the same time as providing a handwritten unlock command on a lock screen of an electronic device. The apparatus includes a touch screen that displays a lock screen including a first layer for unlocking the lock screen and a second layer that is laid over the first layer, and a controller that verifies that an unlock command is the same as a predetermined unlock command in response to the unlock command being input to the first layer, to display the second layer in response to the unlock command being the same as the predetermined unlock command, and to search for a command corresponding to a handwritten user input that is input to the second layer to execute the command. | 03-05-2015 |
20150071505 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ONLINE SIGNATURE VEFICATION USING PROXIMITY TOUCH - A method and apparatus for verifying an input signature are provided. The method includes generating signature data based on a real touch event and a proximity touch event that occur on a touch input unit of and apparatus, extracting a feature of the input signature based on the signature data, and determining whether to authenticate the input signature based on a similarity between the feature of the input signature and a corresponding feature of a previously stored reference signature. | 03-12-2015 |