Abstract: An electronic device includes a processor, and a memory. The memory may store instructions that, cause the processor to display a user interface including items, receive a first user utterance while the user interface is displayed, wherein the first user utterance includes a first request for executing a first task by using at least one item, transmit first data related to the first user utterance to an external server, receive a first response from the external server, wherein the first response includes information on a first sequence of states of the electronic device for executing the first task and further includes numbers and locations of the items in the user interface, and execute the first task including an operation of allowing the application program to select the one or the plurality of items based on the numbers or the locations.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a touch screen display, a microphone disposed at least one speaker, a wireless communication circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a first user utterance input, to transmit first data associated with the first user utterance input to an external server, to receive a first response, to provide the first sample utterances, to receive a first user input for selecting one of the first sample utterances, to transmit second data associated with the first user input to the external server, and to perform the second task by causing the electronic apparatus to have a sequence of states. The first user utterance input includes a request for performing a first task. The first response includes first sample utterances indicating a second task.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for generating one or more path rules or combination or path rules for performing the operations of an application. According to various embodiments, a user terminal through an intelligence server may generate a path rule and may perform the operation of an application based on the path rule to provide a service. The user terminal may provide a user with the processing status of a user utterance and may receive an additional user input to process the user utterance. For example, when a keyword (or parameter) required to process the user utterance is insufficient, the user terminal may provide the user with a state requiring additional information and may output feedback corresponding to the insufficient state in order to receive the necessary information from the user.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a touchscreen display, a microphone, at least one speaker, a processor and a memory which stores instructions that cause the processor to receive a user utterance including a request for performing a task with the electronic device, to transmit data associated with the user utterance to an external server, to receive a response from the external server including sample utterances representative of an intent of the user utterance and the sample utterances being selected by the external server based on the user utterance, to display the sample utterances on the touchscreen display, to receive a user input to select one of the sample utterances, and to perform the task by causing the electronic device to follow a sequence of states associated with the selected one of the sample utterances.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module, a microphone receiving a voice input according to user speech, a memory storing information about an operation of the speech recognition service, a display, and a processor electrically connected with the communication module, the microphone, the memory, and the display. The processor is configured to calculate a specified numerical value associated with the operation of the speech recognition service, to transmit information about the numerical value to a first external device processing the voice input, and to transmit a request for a function, which corresponds to the calculated numerical value, of at least one function associated with the speech recognition service stepwisely provided from the first external device depending on a numerical value, to the first external device to refine a function of the speech recognition service supported by the electronic device.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a touch screen display located inside the housing and exposed through a first portion of the housing, a microphone located inside the housing and exposed through a second portion of the housing, at least one speaker located inside the housing and exposed through a third portion of the housing, a communication circuit located inside the housing, a processor located inside the housing and electrically connected with the touch screen display, the microphone, the speaker, and the communication circuit, and a memory located inside the housing and electrically connected with the processor.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for modifying a contour line of an object are provided. The method involves displaying a contour line of an object on a screen, receiving a plurality of touch points, matching each of the plurality of the received touch points with corresponding contour line points on the contour line, generating touch point movement data by tracing a movement path of each of the plurality of the received touch points, determining a curvature variation of the contour line based on the touch point movement data, and modifying the contour line by moving each of the corresponding contour line points based on the touch point movement data and applying the curvature variation to a section connected between each of the moved corresponding contour line points to generate the section.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a touchscreen display exposed through a first portion of the housing, a microphone disposed at a second portion of the housing, a speaker disposed at a third portion of the housing, a memory disposed inside the housing, a processor disposed inside the housing, and electrically connected to the display, the microphone, the speaker, and the memory. The memory is configured to store a plurality of application programs, each of which includes a graphic user interface (GUI).

Abstract: A distributed processing system includes a plurality of task nodes each configured to have a capability of processing a task using a reconfigurable processor, and having a capability of processing the task using a non-reconfigurable processor if the task is not processed using the reconfigurable processor, and a scheduler node configured to select a task node that is to process the task from the plurality of task nodes.

Abstract: Disclosed are an image sampling apparatus and method. The image sampling apparatus includes a probe angular velocity detector configured to detect an angular velocity of a probe representing a change in an angle of the probe at a surface of an object, an image segmenter configured to receive the angular velocity and an image captured by the probe, and to segment the image into sub-regions based on the angular velocity, and a differential sampler configured to sample the sub-regions with a different sampling rate based on a position of a sub-region.

Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus and corresponding method include a processor configured to calculate a probability distribution corresponding to an intent associated with an utterance of a user by applying pre-stored training data to an input voice signal input based on the utterance. The processor is also configured to select a target feature extractor including either one or both of a training-based feature extractor and a rule-based feature extractor using the calculated probability distribution, and extract a feature associated with the utterance based on the selected target feature extractor.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for purchasing a product online is provided. The method may include switching, in response to a user input, from a display mode that displays a screen to a purchasing mode, detecting a product, which is commercially available for purchase, from among elements shown on the screen in the purchasing mode, and distinguishing display of the detected product from other elements on the displayed screen.

Abstract: Disclosed is region of interest (ROI) detection apparatus and method. The ROI detection apparatus includes: a selecting criterion acquirer configured to acquire a selecting criterion; an image receiver configured to receive a current image; a suspicious area selector configured to select a part of the current image as a suspicious area according to the selecting criterion; and an ROI detector configured to detect an ROI from the suspicious area.

Abstract: A method of storing an access log and an access log storing apparatus are provided. The method includes obtaining a keyword based on an input, determining a website related to the keyword based on access log information associated with a selected link, generating summary information on the determined website, and storing, in a database the summary information on the determined website and address information of the determined website.

Abstract: Provided is a remote payment method and apparatus. A remote payment method performed by a user terminal includes receiving payment information regarding an agent terminal interacting with a payment terminal for a payment transaction between the agent terminal and the payment terminal, determining whether the received payment information satisfies a predetermined payment condition, and providing payment permission information to at least one of the agent terminal or a payment approval server to permit use of a payment tender of an entity other than a user of the agent terminal, in response to the payment condition being satisfied. The agent terminal may transmit the payment information and card indication information, indicative of card information for the payment tender, to the user terminal. The agent terminal transfers received card information from the user terminal, based on the determining, to at least one of the payment terminal or the payment approval server.

Abstract: A terminal and a method for sharing content are provided. A terminal includes an image acquirer configured to acquire face image data from a camera while content is being displayed, a face recognizer configured to recognize a face included in the face image data, a face change detector configured to detect whether the recognized face is different from a face recognized in a previous image data, a contact searcher configured to, in response to the detection that the recognized face is different from the face recognized in the previous image data, search a contact corresponding to the recognized face, and an information transmitter configured to transmit content usage information to the searched contact.

Abstract: A word embedding and word embedding apparatus are provided. The word embedding method includes receiving an input sentence, detecting an unlabeled word in the input sentence, embedding the unlabeled word based on labeled words included in the input sentence, and outputting a feature vector based on the embedding.

Abstract: A lesion diagnosis apparatus and a lesion diagnosis method are provided. A lesion-surrounding area determination unit is configured to determine an existence of a lesion-surrounding area from continuous medical images. A feedback provision unit is configured to generate feedback information about a presence of a lesion in the lesion-surrounding area.

Abstract: There are provided an apparatus and method for diagnosis using a medical image. The apparatus includes: an analyzing unit configured to detect a lesion area, and generate a group of candidate lesion areas with respect to the detected lesion area; and an interface unit configured to arrange one or more candidate lesion areas selected among the group of candidate lesion areas with information about each of the one or more selected candidate lesion areas in a first region of an interface.

Abstract: There are provided an apparatus and method for diagnosis using a medical image. The apparatus includes: an analyzing unit configured to detect a lesion area, and generate a group of candidate lesion areas with respect to the detected lesion area; and an interface unit configured to arrange one or more candidate lesion areas selected among the group of candidate lesion areas with information about each of the one or more selected candidate lesion areas in a first region of an interface.