Abstract: An autonomous driving control apparatus may include an image capturing unit configured to capture a driving road image of an ego vehicle; and a control unit configured to generate virtual lanes on a road with no lines, the virtual lanes corresponding to the number of lanes which are decided based on the width of the road with no lines, when the road with no lines is detected in front of the ego vehicle through the driving road image captured by the image capturing unit, and control autonomous driving of the ego vehicle to drive on one of the generated virtual lanes. When a front object is detected from the driving road image, the control unit may control the autonomous driving of the ego vehicle to avoid the front object and drive on the road with no lines.

Abstract: A spoken language understanding apparatus according to embodiments of the present disclosure may include: a slot tagging module including: a morpheme analysis unit configured to analyze morphemes with respect to an uttered sentence, a slot tagging unit configured to tag slots corresponding to a semantic entity from a plurality of input tokens generated according to the analyzed morphemes, and a slot name conversion unit configured to convert phrases corresponding to the tagged slots into delexicalized slot names based on neighboring contextual information; and a language generation module configured to generate a combined sequence by combining the delexicalized slot names based on the plurality of input tokens.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a navigation apparatus that includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver may receive a plurality of events related to traffic information. The controller may be configured to generate an integrated event by processing the plurality of events when the plurality of events overlap or are consecutive events. The controller may calculate an average speed of the integrated event.

Abstract: A vector map display method executed by a user terminal device may include: a web vector map display viewpoint change step of changing a viewpoint of a web vector map according to the directions of previously stored first and second viewpoints; a background or POI information extraction step of extracting a background or one or more pieces of POI information corresponding to a current position of the user terminal device from data of the web vector map by reflecting the first and second viewpoints; a size ratio adjusting step of adjusting the size ratio of the extracted background or POI information; a current web vector map data generation step of generating data of the current web vector map corresponding to the current position; and a current web vector map display step of displaying the data of the current web vector map.

Abstract: A wearable terminal may include: a terminal mode determination unit configured to determine any one of a plurality of terminal modes based on a use state of the terminal; an information output unit configured to display navigation information; a layout database configured to store a layout to be displayed on the information output unit, in response to each of the terminal modes; and a control unit configured to extract a layout corresponding to the determined terminal mode from the layout database, construct navigation information according to the extracted layout, and output the navigation information through the information output unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an autonomous driving control apparatus and method. The autonomous driving control apparatus may include: an image capturing unit configured to capture a driving road image of an ego vehicle; and a control unit configured to generate virtual lanes on a road with no lines, the virtual lanes corresponding to the number of lanes which are decided based on the width of the road with no lines, when the road with no lines is detected in front of the ego vehicle through the driving road image captured by the image capturing unit, and control autonomous driving of the ego vehicle to drive on one of the generated virtual lanes. When a front object is detected from the driving road image, the control unit may control the autonomous driving of the ego vehicle to avoid the front object and drive on the road with no lines.

Abstract: An electric vehicle route guide system includes: a location sensor that measures a current location of an electric vehicle; a roadmap storage having link information and node information for providing a running route; a route calculator that searches for a route having a smallest total value of a compensation link cost that is generated by adding a time link cost in consideration of a running time to an energy-based link cost on each link basis from a departure point to a destination as an optimal energy route; a display that displays information for route guide of the optimal energy route; and a controller that controls operations of the location sensor, the roadmap storage, the route calculator, and the display for the search and route guide through a navigation program.

Abstract: An automatic navigation-system update device includes a storage unit including a first storage module and a second storage module each of which stores map data and map version information; a communication unit configured to transmit the map version information extracted from the storage unit to an update server and to receive, from the update server, differential data of map data based on a difference between the map version information and latest map version information; and a control unit. The control unit guides a route on the basis of the map data stored in the first storage module and to update the map data stored in the second storage module by reflecting the differential data.

Abstract: A graphics-based web vector map display method may include: extracting object information from map sheet information of a previously stored original vector map; extracting an input array of a display engine for each type of the original vector map; storing the object information in the extracted input array of the display engine; separating the input array having the object information stored therein into property layer arrays according to property information of map information; storing the separated property layer arrays as map sheet information of a web-based vector map; and generating service-specific vector map information from the map sheet file of the web-based vector map.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a navigation apparatus that includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver may receive a plurality of events related to traffic information. The controller may be configured to generate an integrated event by processing the plurality of events when the plurality of events overlap or are consecutive events. The controller may calculate an average speed of the integrated event.

Abstract: A wearable terminal may include: a terminal mode determination unit configured to determine any one of a plurality of terminal modes based on a use state of the terminal; an information output unit configured to display navigation information; a layout database configured to store a layout to be displayed on the information output unit, in response to each of the terminal modes; and a control unit configured to extract a layout corresponding to the determined terminal mode from the layout database, construct navigation information according to the extracted layout, and output the navigation information through the information output unit.

Abstract: A user terminal finds an outdoor path up to an outdoor access point of a building in which a destination is located, using an outdoor map. The user terminal receives an indoor map of the building to find an indoor path up to the destination from an indoor access point of the building using the indoor map. The user terminal reflects the indoor path to the outdoor path to create an outdoor and indoor linked path.

Abstract: A method for providing content includes transmitting to the content providing server a user's location detection signal; receiving the user's location detection signal from the content providing apparatus; transmitting a user's activity recognition signal; receiving the user's activity recognition signal; transmitting a user's bio-signal; receiving the user's bio-signal; determining a user's status based on the user's location detection signal and the user's activity recognition signal. Further, the method includes estimating a user's biological activity based on the determined user's location and the user's bio-signal; transmitting the content corresponding to the user's biological activity; receiving the content corresponding to the user's biological activity from the content providing server; and providing the received content.

Abstract: A method for displaying a map performed by a navigation system, the method comprising: defining a matching area of a numerical map to which a photomap is matched; extracting the photomap corresponding to the matching area from a map data storage; matching a reference point of the photomap and a reference point of the numerical map; matching a scale of the photomap in line with a scale of the numerical map; and performing a boundary treatment at an overlap area of the numerical map and the photomap that are matched.

Abstract: A method for providing route guidance includes the route guiding apparatus transmitting to the server a user's location sensing signal; the server receiving the user's location sensing signal from the route guiding apparatus; the route guiding apparatus transmitting to the server a user's operation recognition signal; the server receiving the user's operation recognition signal from the route guiding apparatus; the controller determining a user's status based on at least one of the location sensing signal and the operation recognition signal; the server transmitting map data corresponding to a user's location determined using the user's status to the route guiding apparatus; the route guiding apparatus receiving the map data from the server; and the route guiding apparatus guiding a route to a destination based on the map data.

Abstract: A method for removing a shadow from an aerial or satellite photograph, includes collecting aerial or satellite photographs, by the photographing information collecting unit; extracting buildings at each of the collected aerial or satellite photographs, by the building information extracting unit; and estimating a shadow area cast by the extracted buildings, by the shadow area estimating unit. Further, the method includes restoring a shaded image in the aerial or satellite photograph, which corresponds to the estimated shadow area, by the image restoration unit; and composing the restored image and a residual image of the aerial or satellite photograph except the shadow area, by the image composition unit.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method of compressing spatial data and an apparatus and method of restoring compressed spatial data, the method of compressing spatial data including: determining the size of actual data of the spatial data stored in a unit storage space having a predetermined size; selecting the size of a compression storage space in which the spatial data is to be compressed and to be stored, in consideration of the determined size of the actual data of the spatial data; generating flag information considering the size of the actual data of the spatial data; and storing the generated flag information in a predetermined region of the compression storage space having the selected size and storing the actual data of the spatial data in the other regions of the compression storage space.

Abstract: A device for generating intersection guidance information, which includes: a route setting unit configured to receive a route up to a destination; a candidate area detecting unit configured to search for a turning point on the searched route, and detect a surrounding area of the searched turning point as a candidate area; a candidate POI area detecting unit configured to detect a POI area as a candidate POI area, at least a portion of the POI area being included in the candidate area; a guidance POI area selecting unit configured to calculate distance between the candidate POI area and the turning point, search a candidate POI area whose distance calculated is shortest, and select the searched candidate POI area as a guidance POI area.

Abstract: A method for performing a map matching in a user terminal includes determining a space where the user terminal is located using positioning data that is measured at predetermined time intervals, searching one or more links that are located within a range of a preset distance from the space as a candidate link, selecting one of the candidate links which best meets at least one suitability criterion of at least two suitability criteria including distance suitability and space suitability, and carrying out the map matching with respect to the selected one candidate link.

Abstract: A method for providing content includes transmitting to the content providing server a user's location detection signal; receiving the user's location detection signal from the content providing apparatus; transmitting a user's activity recognition signal; receiving the user's activity recognition signal; transmitting a user's bio-signal; receiving the user's bio-signal; determining a user's status based on the user's location detection signal and the user's activity recognition signal. Further, the method includes estimating a user's biological activity based on the determined user's location and the user's bio-signal; transmitting the content corresponding to the user's biological activity; receiving the content corresponding to the user's biological activity from the content providing server; and providing the received content.