Abstract: There is provided a calibration apparatus for a camera module capable of calibrating the difference in optical characteristics between left and right images of a binocular camera module in real time by capturing images of a plurality of rotating test boards. The calibration apparatus of a camera module includes: a test unit including two or more mutually connected test boards, the test boards having images captured by a camera module and rotating at a pre-set angle; and a calibration unit receiving the images of the test boards captured by the camera module and calibrating optical characteristics thereof.

Abstract: A system for providing a web page having a home network function and a method of controlling home network devices, the system including: a plurality of universal plug and play (UPnP) devices forming a UPnP network, wherein a first UPnP device from among the plurality of UPnP devices includes a web browser having a control point used to control one or more other UPnP devices. Accordingly, the web page including the control point is provided, so that home network devices in various standards can be conveniently used without a firmware upgrade.

Abstract: A user interface for an induction heating cooker, a method of controlling the same and an induction heating cooker thereof are provided. The user interface, if a drag touch signal of a drag touch from one position to another position on a display unit is sensed, is configured to change power levels of all of coils in operation to a predetermined reference power level and displays the changed power level. The induction heating cooker is configured to supply the coils with a power corresponding to the reference power level, thereby controlling all of the coils with one drag touch and enabling enhanced security while in a rapid manner.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a stereo camera system and a method for controlling convergence, including: a camera unit photographing both-eyes images; a filter unit filtering signal values of pixels for each line for any one of the both-eyes images along a line direction to detect a reference line of any one image; a line memory unit storing data for the reference line and a reference line of the other one image corresponding to the reference line; and a convergence control unit calculating the image control amount so as to align convergences of the both-eyes images by performing a comparison operation on the data for the reference lines and generating an optimal synthesis image of the both-eyes images by applying the image control amount.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus, a method and a system for providing content in a media server, and, more particularly, an apparatus, a method and a system for providing content in a media server, in which content in the media server can be expressed as RSS data which can allow users to access the content through an RSS reader. The apparatus includes an RSS-converting unit which converts content information collected through a browse action or a search action into RSS data, and a web service unit which provides RSS data generated by the RSS-converting unit to external devices.

Abstract: There is provided a method of grouping pixels in a 2D digital image that assigns labels to regions of objects to differentiate between objects separated in the input image and groups a region of an object having the same label into one group when pattern recognition and image process are performed on the 2D digital image. A method of grouping pixels in a 2d digital image according to an aspect of the invention may include: determining whether a target pixel in an input image is included in a labeling section; determining whether the target pixel is connected to a previous pixel of the target pixel and an upper pixel located adjacent to and above the target pixel to perform a labeling process, and renewing a label table while saving a labeling result in a line memory when the target pixel is included in the labeling section and is a valid pixel including object information; and grouping pixels of the input image using the labeling result and the renewed label table, and renewing a group.

Abstract: Provided is a system for assisting visibility of a driver, for displaying a nighttime image in color image quality required to recognize a pedestrian and displaying an image of a lane required to alarm a lane departure using a single camera module, which includes a camera module; a signal extraction unit; a lane pattern image data generating unit; a pedestrian image data generating unit; and a display drive unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for managing files in a distributed storage system. The apparatus and method for managing a file in a distributed storage system according to the present invention counts the number of inquiries on a file requested by a client; selects the file as a hot file if the number of inquiries counted in a certain counting period is larger than a hot file selection threshold value; and increases the number of copies of the file selected as a hot file or stores the file selected as a hot file in a storage device having a relatively good performance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for managing a file in a distributed storage system. The apparatus and method for managing a file in a distributed storage system calculates a retention time of the file based on at least one of a current time, a file creation time, a file modification time and a recent file inquiry time; selects the file as an archive file if the retention time of the file is larger than a predetermined reference time; and relocates an original file and some or all of copy files of the file selected as an archive file from an active server to an archive server or from an active disk to an archive disk.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for eliminating duplication of a file in a distributed storage system. The apparatus and method for eliminating duplication of a file in a distributed storage system according to the present invention calculates a hash value of each chunk for an active file; calculates a secondary hash value by adding the hash values calculated for respective chunks; examines duplication of the file using the hash value of each chunk and the secondary hash value; and eliminates a duplicated file depending on a result of the examination.

Abstract: A lane departure warning system and method. The lane departure warning system includes an image sensing unit, an edge extracting unit, a lane recognizing unit, a lane type determining unit, a lane color detecting unit, a lane pattern generating unit, and a lane departure determining unit. The image sensing unit senses a plurality of images. The edge extracting unit emphasizes edge components necessary for lane recognition. The lane recognizing unit detects straight-line components. The lane type determining unit determines a type of the lane. The lane color detecting unit detects a color of the lane from an image signal value. The lane pattern generating unit generates a lane pattern. The lane departure determining unit determines lane departure in consideration of the type and the color of the lane and a state of a turn signal lamp.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for executing an application within a mobile device is provided. The method includes detecting, by the mobile device, a connection with a host device through a wired interface; receiving, from the host device, a request to execute a specific application installed in the mobile device; and executing the specific application according to the received request.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for removing color noise including: a color interpolation unit performing color interpolation on a bayer pattern image output from an image sensor; a high-pass filter unit performing high-pass filtering on each of the pixels of the bayer pattern image to generate high-pass filtered values of each of the pixels; a high frequency region determining unit comparing pixel values of a target pixel, from which color noise is removed, and pixels adjacent to the target pixel with the high-pass filtered values to determine whether the target pixel is included in a high frequency region; and a color noise region determining unit using differences between color values of the target pixel interpolated by the color interpolation unit and determining whether the target pixel is included in a color noise region when it is determined that the target pixel is included in the high frequency region.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for removing ringing noise and an apparatus for removing noise. The apparatuses includes a representative value setting block dividing pixel data in one block including a plurality of pixel data into two groups through a K-means algorithm and setting a representative value in each of the groups; a parameter generator block calculating intervals and approaches between all the pixel data in the block and a pair of the representative values; and a correction block correcting an inputted pixel data value using the intervals and the approaches.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for improving the sharpness of an image. The apparatus includes an edge detector, an effective edge judging unit, an effective edge classifying unit, an isolated edge judging unit, and a 2-D HPF applying unit. The edge detector calculates an edge value using brightness relation with neighboring pixels with respect to each of pixels of an input image. The effective edge judging unit determines effective edge pixels. The effective edge classifying unit determines weak edge pixels and strong edge pixels. The isolated edge judging unit judges an isolated edge pixel included in an isolated edge. The 2-D HPF applying unit applies a first 2-D HPF to the weak edge pixels, and applies a second 2-D HPF to the strong edge pixels to generate edge strengthening values. The edge strengthening value applying unit adds the edge strengthening values to brightness values of the respective pixels of the input image.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for improving the sharpness of an image, which may prevent occurrence of distortion of an image in an edge enhancement process of the image by applying an active weight in accordance with a two-dimensional (2D) high pass filtering value of the image. The apparatus may include: a 2D high pass filter outputting a high frequency element value for the luminance values of pixels of an input image; a weight generating unit generating a weight changed depending on a magnitude of the high frequency element value; a weight applying unit applying the weight to the high frequency element value; and an edge enhancement image generating unit adding, to the luminance values of the pixels of the input image, the high frequency element value to which the weight is applied to thereby output an image of which an edge is enhanced.

Abstract: There is provided a method of performing auto white balance including: setting a plurality of sections of a whole range of a value of each of Y, Cb, and Cr in the YCbCr color space, according to a size of each value; calculating an accumulated Y, Cb, and Cr value of pixels included in each of the plurality of sections; determining effective sections according to the number of the pixels included in each of the plurality of sections; calculating a mean Y, Cb, and Cr value of pixels included in all of the effective sections by using the accumulated Y, Cb, and Cr value of each of the effective sections; calculating a mean RGB value by converting the mean Y, Cb, and Cr value into an RGB color space; and determining an RGB color gain of a Bayer image outputted from an image sensor by using the mean RGB value.

Abstract: An apparatus for enhancing the visibility of color images includes: a luminance value cumulative distribution calculator that calculates a cumulative distribution function of the number of pixels from a minimum value of luminance values; a baseband signal determining unit that determines baseband signal pixels having luminance values smaller than a threshold level; a luminance compensation value generator that generates luminance compensation values to apply the lower-level luminance compensation values as the pixels have higher-level luminance values, for the pixels having the luminance values larger than the threshold level; a luminance gain generator that determines a luminance gain applied to the luminance compensation values according to a mean luminance values of the input images and the level of the luminance values of the pixels to which the luminance compensation values are applied; and a luminance value enhancing unit that summing the luminance compensation values including the gain with the luminan

Abstract: Disclosed is an ice bank of a refrigerator comprising: a casing for storing ice pieces introduced through one side of an upper surface thereof, and a guide unit formed at one side of the casing so as to guide the introduced ice pieces to be stored in the casing with being uniformly distributed therein. According to the ice bank of the refrigerator the present invention, the ice pieces can be uniformly heaped in the ice bank. Accordingly, it is capable of preventing the ice pieces from overflowing resulting from that the ice pieces are heaped up around a spot where the ice pieces fall down in the ice bank and of facilitatingly containing the ice pieces in the ice bank.

Abstract: A web service providing apparatus and a web service requesting apparatus that use an inheritable web service by including access modifiers and inheritance relationships for domains, functions, and services in a WSDL for the web service and by referring to the access modifiers and the inheritance relationships, and method of the same. The web service providing apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores an interface document comprising inheritance information and service processing logic; a message generating unit that, with reference to the service processing logic, generates a response message comprising at least one of a result value for a request of a web service and a providing location where the result value is calculated; and a message transmitting/receiving unit that, according to a web service specification, receives a request message comprising the request of the web service and transmits the generated response message as a response to the request message.