Abstract: A managing method and an apparatus for servicing contents provided by contents provider wherein the managing apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a contents provider management module for generating an account of a contents provider based on information of the contents provider transmitted from the contents providing apparatus; a contents management module for managing a contents connection point for connecting to the contents provided from the contents providing apparatus and for managing information relative to the contents; and a menu management module for registering menus including a menu connected to the contents connection point and for managing a connection authority to a name of the menu and the menu, such that a collective management on the contents providers is possible and the contents providers can conveniently provide contents services to subscribers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a supplementary information service related to broadcast content. The system for providing a supplementary information service related to broadcast content being broadcasted to user terminal comprises a Time Information Creating Server for Identifying a start time information of the broadcast content; and a Supplementary Information Service Providing Server for receiving the start time information of the broadcast content from the Time Information Creating Server, calculating elapsed time for a specific scene based on the start time information, and providing a user terminal with an supplementary information corresponding to the scene based on the elapsed time, through a communication network.

Abstract: The present invention enables a user to receive a financial service anywhere through a mobile terminal equipped with a UIM (User Identification Module) electronic card. In the present invention, a user enters his or her password to a mobile terminal with a UIM card including subscriber telephone number, finance, authorization, and personal information, then, if the entered password is correct, authorization is processed with a remote authorizing server based on the authorization information. After authorization, user's requesting service, e.g., payment service, transaction particulars inquiry service, prepaid card recharging service is conducted through a mobile network.

Abstract: Disclosed are a rich media sever, a rich media transmission system, and a rich media transmission method, which are adaptive to network environments. The rich media server includes an interfacing unit for communicating with a terminal, which requests rich media; a media processing unit for processing at least one piece of media corresponding to the request; a rich-media encoding unit for encoding at least one piece of media, which is output from the media processing unit, to produce rich media, and outputting the rich media to the interfacing unit in order to provide the rich media to the terminal; and a controller for determining importance rates of pieces of media constituting the rich media, based on reproduction information of the rich media, and controlling at least one of the media processing unit and the rich-media encoding unit to convert a transmission processing for the at least one piece of media based on the determined importance rates.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method and a apparatus for converting a three-dimensional image using depth map information. The apparatus comprise a depth map estimation unit which estimates the depth map information for each pixel present in each frame of input image data, a depth map application unit which moves each pixel by the depth map information in the X-axis direction, a 3D image interpolation unit which, when a blank pixel occurs in the frame due to the movement, forms an interpolated pixel in the blank pixel by applying a weight to adjacent pixels of the blank pixel, and a 3D image rendering processing unit which renders a left-eye image and a right-eye image to which the interpolated pixel is applied.

Abstract: A location positioning methoded device using a wireless LAN signal, comprising: a database that includes a first DB, which matches grid cells distinguished by pCell ID with partial wireless LAN-related information related to a wireless LAN signal and stores the matched information, and a second DB, which stores overall wireless LAN-related information related to the wireless LAN signal; an information reception unit that receives terminal wireless LAN-related information from a terminal, which performs communication by using the WLAN signal; a record determination unit; and a location positioning unit.

Abstract: The present invention enables a user to receive a financial service anywhere through a mobile terminal equipped with a UIM (User Identification Module) electronic card. In the present invention, a user enters his or her password to a mobile terminal with a UIM card including subscriber telephone number, finance, authorization, and personal information, then, if the entered password is correct, authorization is processed with a remote authorizing server based on the authorization information. After authorization, user's requesting service, e.g., payment service, transaction particulars inquiry service, prepaid card recharging service is conducted through a mobile network.

Abstract: Disclosed are a system and a method for minimizing signal interference for a broadcasting and communication convergence section within a local area, and an apparatus applied to the same. The system has a construction of mounting a plurality of multi RF (Radio Frequency) channels within a short-range wireless transmitting apparatus located in a local area and minimizing signal interference between mutually adjacent RF channels within the short-range wireless transmitting apparatus in a standard for providing a broadcasting and communication convergence service. Accordingly, it is possible to remove the mutual channel effects affecting a communication signal without signal interference for adjacent channels due to a broadcasting signal and it is not necessary to enhance a filtering characteristic for the adjacent channels of a chipset, which corresponds to a broadcasting and communication convergence standard structure in a local area, so that there is an advantage of reducing network investment costs.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for displaying a high resolution picture in a mobile communication terminal having a low resolution display means, the mobile communication terminal and a system for converting a picture file format therefor.

Abstract: A method of providing a mobile application is disclosed. In accordance with the method of the present invention, a transmission time and a loading time of the mobile application, and a limitation on a number and a size of the mobile application are minimized, and providing the personalized mobile application is possible.

Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus and method of providing a multimedia advertising service through a mobile communication network. In the present invention, a content server downloads ad contents to a mobile terminal along with content-displaying condition and the mobile terminal having received the ad contents displays the received ad contents according to the content-displaying condition when an event specified by the content-displaying condition occurs. Afterwards, a content-displayed history is uploaded to the content server by the mobile terminal.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a database update method and apparatus for locating a pCell. An embodiment of the present invention provides a database update apparatus for locating a pCell, comprising: a database storing grid cells that are sorted by pCell ID; a DB collection unit collecting log data for a WLAN signal from a mobile communication terminal which performs communication using the WLAN signal; an information extraction unit extracting a WLAN parameter from the log data of the WLAN signal; and a DB update unit updating the grid cells by matching and storing the information based on the extracted WLAN parameter in the corresponding grid cell. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the data-based information for AP locations and its application to the determination of a location can enhance the location performance.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for correcting errors in stereo images. The apparatus for correcting errors in stereo images according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a space histogram generation unit generating space histogram information using the depth map information on the input image data; a peak frequency generation unit generating a peak frequency using the 2D image data of the input image data; an object analysis unit determining the error in each frame of the input image data on the basis of the space histogram and peak frequency; a depth map error correction unit correcting the depth map information to reduce the error; and a rendering processing unit generating left and right eye images, which are stereo images, by using the corrected depth map information.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method of storing status of an application. According to some embodiments, whether a user of a mobile communication terminal made a selection to store the status of an application in a shortcut is determined. In response to the selection to store the status of the application in the shortcut, a single string value is generated and stored in the shortcut, where the single string value includes an application parameter and application status information of the application at the time of the storage of the single string value. If the single string value is selected by operating the shortcut, the status, at the time of the storage of the single string value, of the application is reinstated, and execution of the application is resumed according to the application parameter and the application status information of the application.

Abstract: A method for managing JAVA applications executable in a user device provides an expandability for and a continuity between JAVA applications by changing states of the JAVA applications in execution and sharing information between the JAVA applications.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for providing contents through a network in a device incapable of connecting to a network, the system including a contents playback device provided with an audio output port, for playing back the contents; and a dongle device supporting CPNS and attached to the audio output port to enable the contents playback device to operate as a device capable of connecting to a network, for capturing and encoding contents outputted from the contents playback device and providing an external user terminal with the encoded contents through the network. Accordingly, according to the present invention, the contents playback device incapable of connecting to a network is enabled to operate as a device capable of connecting to a network only by attaching the dongle device, and since the dongle device encodes the contents (e.g.

Abstract: A system for evaluating video quality using auxiliary information of a codec includes a video transmitter that includes a source video input unit for inputting source video, an encoding unit for encoding the input source video, a decoding unit for decoding encoded video data, and a video quality evaluation unit for evaluating video quality using the decoded video data. The encoding unit transmits auxiliary information required for video quality evaluation, among information acquired in an encoding procedure, to the video quality evaluation unit. The video quality evaluation unit evaluates video quality using the decoded video data received from the decoding unit, and the auxiliary information received from the encoding unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a contents providing system and method for providing data services through a short-range wireless communication network, and a CPNS server and a mobile communication terminal for the same. The contents providing system includes the CPNS server, the mobile communication terminal and an end-point terminal. When the end-point terminal is initially connected to the mobile communication terminal through the short-range wireless communication network, the CPNS server registers information on the end-point terminal as connection history information by matching the end-point terminal information to a corresponding mobile communication terminal. The CPNS server provides response information if either an end-point terminal information request or a contents information request is received from the mobile communication terminal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system, a server, a terminal and method for displaying cached webpages and to a computer-readable recoding medium on which the method is recorded. The system comprises a Web service server which stores at least one webpage; a caching server which collects links to webpages that match preset conditions in the webpage(s) for creating a caching page list that comprises at least one of the links to the collected webpages, and a terminal which refers to the link(s) to webpage(s) in the caching page list to cache the webpage(s), and simultaneously display the input link and the link to the cached webpage in response to a user call up of a specific webpage and wherein the terminal which receives the caching page list, displays the link(s) to webpage(s) in the caching page list so received, and provides a display such that webpages cached in links of the webpages are displayed are separate from non-cached webpages.

Abstract: A contents delivery system and method using object redirection, and a GSLB switch thereof are provided. When a client requests a web server to provide a page embedded object, the web server embeds the URL representing the position of the object in an HTTP 302 redirection message and transmits the HTTP 302 redirection message including the URL to the client. A GSLB switch corresponding to the URL transmits the IP address of a specific host server selected from at least one host server storing the object to the client. Accordingly, load of the web server decreases and flexibility in change of a CDN solution is secured.