Abstract: Disclosed is a system for servicing game streaming, including: a server for servicing streaming game configured to receive game input data and hardware performance information from a user terminal device and service video streaming or merging streaming coupling the video streaming and graphics streaming according to the received performance of the user terminal device; and a database configured to store a background screen and characters for a game streaming service of the server for servicing streaming game.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for detecting a horizon which is necessary to detect a camera movement when compositing sea images in a marker-free sea-image camera tracking system. In the method, an ROI is selected near a horizon in a still image of the moving image of the sea, and each maximum point corresponding to the maximum brightness difference is detected from brightness differences between two pixels of each pair having two symmetrical pixels in each column of the ROI. The horizon is detected through a line-fitting using the maximum points. Therefore, the result of horizon detection can be very stable and a horizon can be easily detected in a sea scene having hundreds of frames.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for collecting game data in order to test performance of a game server. The apparatus includes a capture and filtering module, a control module, and a data management module. The capture and filtering module captures packets, transmitted and received between the game server and each of a plurality of game clients, using the plurality of game clients, and extracts a plurality of necessary data by performing filtering on the results of the capturing. The control module determines the movement route of a game character in such a way as to correspond to the plurality of necessary data, and controls the plurality of game clients based on the movement route. The data management module stores and manages the plurality of necessary data.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for generating virtual game clients. The apparatus includes a description grammar module, a description generation module, and a client generation and control module. The description grammar module includes a game packet description grammar. The description generation module generates a game protocol description corresponding to the structure of a packet protocol of a game and a game protocol sequence description corresponding to the relationship of transmission and reception between packets, based on the game packet description grammar. The client generation and control module generates a virtual game client using the game protocol description and the game protocol sequence description.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a real-time path finding apparatus. The real-time path finding apparatus includes an input unit, an extraction unit, and an analysis unit. The input unit receives map-related information and real-time variation information. The extraction unit extracts path-finding information for performing path finding, from the map-related information and the real-time variation information. The analysis unit generates path-finding guidance by analyzing the map-related information of the path-finding information, and generates a path-finding route in consideration of the real-time variation information of the path-finding information together with the path-finding guidance.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for analyzing player's behavior pattern between a game client which is accessed by a player and via which the player plays a game and a game server which provides the player with a game service. The apparatus includes a capture unit, a data extraction unit, a cluster extraction unit, a matching unit, and a generalization unit. The capture unit captures packets transmitted and received between the game client and the game server. The data extraction unit extracts data corresponding to the player's behavior pattern from the packets. The cluster extraction unit extracts the player cluster, having similar behavioral characteristics, using the extracted data. The matching unit matches the player cluster with similar characteristics of an actual player set. The generalization unit generalizes the results of the matching.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a scenario-based load testing apparatus and method. The scenario-based load testing apparatus includes a packet analysis unit, a scenario creation unit, and a load generation unit. The packet analysis unit creates a virtual map and game grammar by capturing and analyzing packets sent between a server and a client. The scenario creation unit creates a scenario of a virtual user on the virtual map. The load generation unit generates a load by creating packet data corresponding to the virtual user in compliance with the game grammar and the scenario.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for providing an agent-based game service. The apparatus for providing an agent-based game service includes an input data management unit for collecting pieces of input data from a terminal device of at least one user. A data mining unit analyzes patterns of the pieces of input data and then generates and updates mined data according to the result of the pattern analysis. A game agent processing unit creates, using the mined data, a game agent which will replace the user and play a game instead of the user, and evolves the game agent to correspond to the updated mined data.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating traffic generation is provided. The method for generating traffic may include: analyzing and modeling traffic generated between a server and a client and generating a packet and an inter-departure time (IDT) based on the analysis; and combining the generated packet with the generated inter-departure time by synchronization, storing the combined packet and inter-departure time in a memory, and transmitting the packet based on the inter-departure time. Therefore, it is possible to accurately model the traffic in various patterns using a method with low complexity, and thus it is possible to accurately test the server by a simpler method than the existing server testing methods.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method of reusing physics simulation results and a game service apparatus using the method. The game service apparatus includes a game service management server, a physics simulation index server, a physics computation cluster, and a rendering server. The game service management server manages physics simulation data corresponding to a game service. The physics simulation index server creates a spatial index structure corresponding to the physics simulation data, and performs spatial indexing for a user area using the spatial index structure. The physics computation cluster performs initial global simulation on the physics simulation data, manages initial global simulation results as reuse data, and performs local simulation on spatial indexing results for the user area. The rendering server merges the reuse data with local simulation results, renders merging results, and provides a game image to a user.

Abstract: Provided is a terminal for providing a virtual reality linking service. The terminal providing a virtual reality linking service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a user information inputting unit receiving user information; a receiving unit receiving a virtual reality linking service including a sensory effect for each object and a rendering result corresponding to the user information; a real object characteristic information generating unit generating real object characteristic information by extracting a sensitive characteristic stimulating senses of people from a real object which really exists around the user; an object motion information generating unit generating object motion information by recognizing a physical motion of the real object; and a transmitting unit providing the user information, the real object characteristic information, and the object motion information.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for sharpening a blurred enlarged image, including a digital image output unit for outputting a digital image input through a digital image input unit. The apparatus includes a digital image processing unit for calculating a primary edge direction of the digital image input through the digital image unit to perform enlarging and edge sharpening on the input digital image. Accordingly, blurring is removed from the enlarged image without ringing or an artifact using an adaptive edge sharpening method, so that the enlarged image can be sharpened.

Abstract: A system and method for supporting augmented reality in an ocean scene is provided. According to the system and method, camera rotation information is extracted from horizontal line information of a sea extracted from an original image including a focal length and at least two first natural feature point tracking data existing on a sea plane and a plane parallel to the sea plane, using long-distance background features; camera movement is sequentially calculated from the camera rotation information and at least two natural feature point tracking data existing on the sea plane of the original image; and a computer graphics object is placed on a ground plane by importing camera position data, and a rendering is performed as moving the camera.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for editing animation data of a virtual object using a model. The animation data editing apparatus using the model according to the embodiment of the present invention allows motion information acquired by measuring a real model to be used by computer graphic software for animation or modeling so as to produce a computer graphic model corresponding to the real model into an animation by being adjusted and modified by a designer on the basis of measured motion information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a technology for easily generating and supplying a virtual client managing module specified for various games and testing the load and function of a game through a virtual client managing module and an apparatus for managing a virtual client. The device for managing a virtual client managing module according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention performs a function that uses template specialized for each type of game as game unique information to generate a specialized module and generates the virtual client managing module combined with the common module. The apparatus for managing the virtual client generates and controls the virtual client based on the virtual client managing module.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for analyzing a characteristic of a game player in real time. The apparatus includes at least one individual action determiner for calculating a player characteristic value indicating a level or tendency of a game player by giving a first weight to game play data values resulting from game play of the game player, an accuracy determiner for comparing the player characteristic value and a value set by an administrator, and calculating an accuracy value of the individual action determiner, a comprehensive level determiner for calculating a final characteristic value indicating a level or tendency of the game player by giving a second weight to the player characteristic values calculated by the individual action determiners when the accuracy value do not exceed a reference value, and a characteristic value output unit for outputting the final characteristic value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for game design evaluation. The apparatus for game design evaluation includes a operation information input unit that receives the game operation signals of the user, a gamer status input unit that receives status information of the user while the game is played, a gamer status detector that analyzes information collected through the game status information input unit, and a game design evaluator that stores detected data to be used in commercial game software and performs analysis in various manners. With the present invention, it can acquire the degree of the user's interest, taste, and stress through the face and motion of the gamer and the brainwave status of the gamer, the keyboard and mouse input of the user, and the status information in the current playing game and evaluate the design of game contents based on them.

Abstract: A game grammar-based packet capture and analysis apparatus for conducting game test, includes: a packet capture unit for capturing packets of game data transmitted and received between a game client and a game server; a packet analysis unit for analyzing the packets captured by the packet capture unit to generate a game grammar based on analyzed results. Further, the game grammar-based packet capture and analysis apparatus includes a load generation unit for generating packets in compliance with the game grammar to apply the packets to the game server as a load.

Abstract: An apparatus for visualizing game packet data, includes a packet capturing unit for capturing game packet data transmitted and received during a game service; a decryption unit for decrypting the captured game packet data; and a packet filtering unit for extracting packet data having a valid protocol ID from the game packet data and extracting visualization data from the extracted packet data. Further, the apparatus for visualizing game packet data includes a virtual map creation unit for creating a virtual map using the extracted visualization data; and a visualization unit for displaying the visualization data in the created virtual map.

Abstract: A method for estimating three-dimensional positions of human joints includes the steps of: a) marker-free motion capturing a moving figure for obtaining a multiview 2D image of the moving figure, and extracting a 2D feature point corresponding to a bodily end-effector; b) three-dimensionally matching the 2D feature point corresponding to the bodily end-effector, and recovering the 3D coordinates of the bodily end-effector; c) generating a 3D blob of the bodily end-effector, generating a virtual sphere with a radius that is a distance from a center of the 3D blob to a joint, and projecting the virtual sphere onto the obtained multiview 2D image of the moving figure; and d) detecting a coinciding point of a surface of the projected virtual sphere and the multiview 2D image of the moving figure, and estimating a 3D position corresponding to the coinciding point as a 3D position of the joint.