Abstract: A system, method and medium for browsing media content using meta data, in which media content stored in the system is efficiently browsed using meta data of media content currently in use and media content related meta data. The system includes a media reproducing unit to reproduce media content having corresponding meta data, a root category generating unit to generate at least one root category from meta data corresponding to the media content currently in use, and a sub-category generating unit to generate at least one sub-category of a root category selected by a user from among the at least one root category, based on the meta data.

Abstract: A method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) in which a pointer is controlled to move to a specific location if the pointer approaches an area at which a GUI element, capable of being selected by the pointer, is displayed on the GUI.

Abstract: A widget providing method and an apparatus for displaying the widget are provided. According to the present method of generating a hyperlink widget, a widget is generated upon selection of links included in a web page. The generated widget is displayed on the specific portion of a screen. Through the generated widget, a user may check brief information regarding the hyperlinked web page, select widgets including contents that the user wants, and load and display the hyperlinked web pages corresponding to the selected widgets, without the user having to return to the apparatus page and select another hyperlink.

Abstract: An image display and storage device, method, and medium to process an original image and generate a main image so that the original image does not overlap a sub image, and store the original image instead of the main image when the main image and the sub image are displayed. The device includes an image processor to receive an image, and to generate a display image and a storage image using the received image, a display unit to receive the display image from the image processor, and to display the display image, and an image storing unit to receive the storage image from the image processor and to store the image.

Abstract: A character-input method is provided. The character-input method includes providing a plurality of objects having a predetermined arrangement, mapping characters included in a character group represented by a representative character mapped to an object identified as a first signal among objects to which representative characters are mapped, to one or more objects among the plurality of objects when the first signal is received from a user input device, and inputting characters mapped to an object identified as the second signal among objects to which the characters are mapped.

Abstract: A system, method and medium tracks a motion of a subject using a laser by synchronizing an incident axis of the input image with an exit axis of the laser in order to radiate the laser based on an input image. The system includes a half mirror to reflect a predetermined amount of incident light and to transmit a remaining amount of the incident light, an image input unit to input an image reflected from the half mirror, a position identifying unit to identify a position of a first subject included in the input image, and a target tracking unit to track the first subject with reference to the identified position by radiating a laser transmitted through the half mirror onto the first subject along an axis from the half mirror and onto the first subject.

Abstract: A system, medium, and method to automatically create a dynamic image object, which can create content in image unit groups of dynamic image objects. The system may include a template selection module that selects a template from an image unit group corresponding to a desired content group that includes content, a content-arrangement module that arranges the content in the selected template, and a dynamic image object supply module that supplies a dynamic image object in which the content is arranged.

Abstract: An image display and storage device, method, and medium to process an original image and generate a main image so that the original image does not overlap a sub image, and store the original image instead of the main image when the main image and the sub image are displayed. The device includes an image processor to receive an image, and to generate a display image and a storage image using the received image, a display unit to receive the display image from the image processor, and to display the display image, and an image storing unit to receive the storage image from the image processor and to store the image.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for extracting the structure of song lyrics using a repeated pattern thereof are provided. The apparatus includes a lyric extractor extracting lyric information from metadata related to an audio file, a character string information extractor extracting an interlude section and a repeated character string based on the extracted lyric information, a paragraph extractor extracting a paragraph based on the repeated character string and then a set of paragraphs having the same repeated pattern among the extracted paragraphs, and a lyric structure generator arranging an interlude section, a character string, and a paragraph related to the audio file in a tree structure.

Abstract: An apparatus and method to output a musical tone is disclosed. More particularly, disclosed is an apparatus and method to output a musical tone according to motion, which divides a space in which a terminal can move into a plurality of subspaces, and matches the subspaces with different musical tones, so that the terminal can output a musical tone matched with a specific subspace when the terminal has moved into the specific subspace.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for and method and medium of adaptively setting a reference sensing boundary of a touch sensor. The apparatus for adaptively setting a reference sensing boundary includes a reference sensing boundary setting unit adaptively setting a reference sensing boundary of a capacitance using a signal generated by a reference touch sensor; a determination unit determining whether or not a value measured by a device control touch sensor controlling a device to which the reference touch sensor is attached is within the set reference sensing boundary, by sensing a change in the capacitance; and an output unit outputting the measured value if the determination result indicates that the measured value is within the reference sensing boundary.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for browsing content-based documents are provided. The method includes analyzing documents to generate a document tree on the basis of content-based components, and presenting the documents on the basis of the generated document tree to be adaptive to a browsing environment. Thus, the method can be applied to a browsing environment having various platforms and display devices without having to reproduce the web documents.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing position information of a wireless terminal are provided. The apparatus map-matches a position estimated using a wireless signal received from a satellite or a base station to output the map-matched result when a reception state of the wireless signal is good, and map-matches a position detected by dead reckoning to output the map-matched result when the reception state of the wireless signal is not good, thereby enabling a user to correctly detect the position of the wireless terminal regardless of the reception state of the wireless signal received from the satellite or the base station.

Abstract: Provided are an adaptive document display apparatus and method, and more particularly, an adaptive document displaying apparatus and method which can adaptively convert a document according to the screen size of a device that is to display the document. The adaptive document displaying apparatus includes: a document analyzing unit analyzing each of a plurality of components included in a document; and a document converting unit converting the document according to the result of analysis and attributes of a display device.

Abstract: Provided are an image display apparatus and method which enables a user to quickly and easily obtain information related to an image currently being reproduced. The image display apparatus includes: a setting module setting a plurality of sub regions into which a predetermined image frame of an image being played back are divided according to color; and a mapping module mapping one or more thumbnail images of one or more relevant contents related to the image to one or more sub regions selected from the sub regions.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing content is provided, which performs a web service initialization through a provided local offline web server and manages a plurality of content provided through a multithreaded web service. The apparatus for providing content includes a communication unit receiving one or more sets of content; a thread creation unit creating one or more threads that are given to the content to process a work; and a page creation unit having a frame per thread and creating an image page for playing the content on a web browser.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method of recognizing a motion that is capable of performing a pointing function and a character input function using motions sensed by an optical sensor and an inertial sensor. The apparatus includes an inertial sensor sensing a first motion by using at least one of acceleration and angular velocity that are generated by an input motion; an optical sensor sensing a second motion by using reflection of light due to the motion; a locus calculating unit calculating the locus of the motion on the basis of the locus of the first motion and the locus of the second motion; and a communication unit transmitting the calculated locus of the motion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of providing a graphical user interface, and, more particularly, to an apparatus and method of providing a graphical user interface that enables a user to rapidly search a desired menu. An apparatus for providing graphical user interface according to an aspect of the invention includes an apparatus including an output unit outputting a first menu in which a plurality of menu items are arranged in a predetermined direction, and outputting a second menu having a first region and a second region that are classified from a menu item selected from the first menu according to a predetermined classification standard, and a control unit performing an operation that corresponds to a menu item selected from the second menu.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for providing music file search function. The apparatus includes an input unit that receives an input of an attribute of a music file to be played, an extract unit that extracts a characteristic segment from the music file according to the input attribute, a 3D-sound generating unit that generates 3D sound from the characteristic segment of the music file along a spatial axis corresponding to the attribute, and an output unit that outputs the 3D sound. The method includes the steps of inputting an attribute of a music file to be played, searching a characteristic segment of the music file according to the input attribute, generating 3D sound from the characteristic segment of the music file along a spatial-axis corresponding to the attribute, and outputting the 3D sound.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for searching a web browser using a zoom operation. A method of searching a web browser according to an aspect of the invention includes locating a pointer on a web browser using an input device, selecting one or more hyperlinks on the basis of the distance between the pointer and hyperlinks and displaying the hyperlinks, and outputting, when a screen of the web browser is enlarged and the size of the screen is out of a predetermined enlargement range, a page, which is linked to one of the selected and displayed hyperlinks, to an entire screen of the web browser.