Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for processing a control command for an electronic device based on a voice agent. The apparatus includes a command tagger configured to receive at least one control command for the electronic device from at least one voice agent and to tag additional information to the at least one control command, and a command executor configured to, in response to the command tagger receiving a plurality of control commands, integrate the plurality of control commands based on additional information tagged to each of the plurality of control commands and to control the electronic device based on a result of the integration.

Abstract: An intelligent dialog processing apparatus and method. The intelligent dialog processing apparatus includes a speech understanding processor, of one or more processors, configured to perform an understanding of an uttered primary speech of a user using an idiolect of the user based on a personalized database (DB) for the user, and an additional-query processor, of the one or more processors, configured to extract, from the primary speech, a select unit of expression that is not understood by the speech understanding processor, and to provide a clarifying query for the user that is associated with the extracted unit of expression to clarify the extracted unit of expression.

Abstract: A nickname management apparatus includes a speech agent configured to recognize a speech of a user to obtain nickname information of a device, and a nickname manager configured to determine a device corresponding to the nickname information from one or more devices on a network, and register the named device based on the determination.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for automatic query processing are disclosed, which includes a query analyzer configured to a query analyzer configured to extract the query condition from the input query, a scheduler configured to create one or more sub-queries to verify whether the query condition is satisfied, and to determine an execution condition for the one or more sub-queries, and a condition verifier configured to execute the one or more sub-queries according to the determined execution condition, and to verify whether the query condition is satisfied using results of executing the one or more sub-queries.

Abstract: A screen navigation apparatus includes a command receiver configured to receive an input voice command regarding navigation of a screen, and a processor configured to interpret the voice command based on an analysis result of content displayed on a screen and compose a command executable by the screen navigation apparatus and perform navigation of the screen.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing reliability for Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD), including: a raw data collector configured to collect raw data containing an image acquired by a probe; an image reliability determiner configured to determine a reliability level of the image using the collected raw data; and a reliability provider configured to provide a user with the determined reliability of the image.

Abstract: An apparatus for analyzing a medical image includes an image receiving unit configured to receive two or more medical images from a medical device; a image registration unit configured to register the two or more received medical images; an overlapped area detecting unit configured to detect overlapped areas in the two or more registered medical images; and a lesion analyzing unit configured to analyze lesions in the two or more registered medical images by employing different analysis techniques in the detected overlapped areas.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for processing a multidimensional string query. Using the apparatus and method, a search of a multidimensional multi-attribute string may be rapidly processed on the basis of a multidimensional n-gram index.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for supporting Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) based on a speed of a probe. The apparatus includes a region of interest (ROI) detector configured to detect an ROI from a current image acquired from a probe; and an ROI classifier configured to determine whether to classify the ROI using a determined state of a speed, and classify the ROI according to a result of the determination.

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 personalized augmented reality providing apparatus includes an interest object determiner configured to determine an interest object among external objects each having a predetermined relationship with a user, a relationship identifier configured to identify a subjective relationship between the interest object determined by the interest object determiner and the user, an additional information generator configured to generate additional information representing a current relationship state between the interest object and the user based on the subjective relationship identified by the relationship identifier, and an additional information provider configured to provide the user with the additional information generated by the additional information generator.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for executing an application may execute a text string selected by a user or an application associated with a type of text string to input the text string to increase the user's convenience. The apparatus of executing an application includes a text string recognizer to determine a text string, a determiner to determine one or more candidate applications related to the text string, and an input location of the selected text string based on a type of the selected text string and the association model, an application list provider to generate and display a list of the candidate applications, and an application executer to execute a candidate application selected from the list and to input the selected text string into the input location of the candidate application.

Abstract: An information search apparatus includes an event receiver configured to receive an event from an application interface, wherein the application interface is presented on a display of the information search apparatus; a query extractor configured to, in response to receiving the event, extract a query from content displayed within the application interface; an information searcher configured to search for information from an information source using the query; and an information layer display configured to display an information layer within the application interface such that the information layer overlies existing objects on the application interface, wherein the information layer includes an information item which indicates information found by the search for information.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for web page access and an apparatus and method for structuring a web page access history are provided. The apparatus for structuring a web page access history includes a topic extractor configured to analyze a web page accessed by a user to extract at least one topic related to the page, a mapper configured to map the at least one extracted topic onto a node of an ontology-based data structure, and a summary graph generator configured to extract a sub graph including the mapped node from the data structure, and to generate a summary graph based on the extracted sub graph.

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 providing a search-integrated note function includes selecting a part of a text recorded in a note; performing a web search with regard to the selected text; clipping data selected by a user from a web search result; linking the clipped data to the selected text; and storing the clipped data.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for processing a query. The method includes generating string sets comprising a plurality of partial strings from a query string, determining a subset of the string sets as a candidate set, and searching for a document comprising the query string from the candidate set.

Abstract: An apparatus is configured to structure contents of a meeting. The apparatus includes a voice recognizer configured to recognize a voice to generate text corresponding to the recognized voice, and a clustering element configured to cluster the generated text into subjects to generate one or more clusters. The apparatus further includes a concept extractor configured to extract concepts of each of the generated clusters, and a level analyzer configured to analyze a level of each of the extracted concepts. The apparatus further includes a structuring element configured to structure each of the extracted concepts based on the analysis.

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 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.