Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for acquiring an iris image outdoors and indoors and, specifically, to an apparatus and a method for acquiring an iris image outdoors and indoors, the apparatus comprising: a lens for receiving the iris image; an image sensor for sensing the iris image inputted through the lens; and a memory for storing the iris image sensed by the image sensor, wherein a band-pass filter using all or parts of outdoor iris recognition wavelength bands (920-1,500 nm) in order to acquire the iris image in which a reflected image is prevented or a reflected noise is reduced, which are generated when the iris image is photographed indoors and outdoors and, particularly, outdoors, is provided at the front end of the image sensor, and an infrared lighting having at least one wavelength passing through the wavelength bands of the provided band-pass filter is provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an animal recognition apparatus using nose patterns, which includes a body stabilizer unit to minimize movement and resistance of an animal during an optimal nose pattern image acquisition, wherein the acquired nose pattern images are used to biometrically identify the animal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an animal recognition apparatus including an image recognition unit to generate, enroll, verify, and identify the raw or processed nose pattern code from the acquired nose pattern image, and to an animal recognition method including a nose pattern image acquisition step and nose code generation, enrollment, and matching steps.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of an animal recognition using nose patterns, and particularly to an apparatus and method of an animal recognition comprising a body stabilizer unit to minimize movement of the subject animal for optimal nose pattern image acquisition, an image acquisition unit to obtain and store the nose pattern image, and an image recognition unit to generate, enroll, verify, and identify the raw or processed nose pattern code from the acquired nose pattern image.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an animal recognition apparatus including an image recognition unit to generate, enroll, verify, and identify the raw or processed nose pattern code from the acquired nose pattern image, and to an animal recognition method including a nose pattern image acquisition step and nose code generation, enrollment, and matching steps.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an animal recognition apparatus using nose patterns, which includes a body stabilizer unit to minimize movement and resistance of an animal during an optimal nose pattern image acquisition, wherein the acquired nose pattern images are used to biometrically identify the animal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hand-attachable wearable device capable of iris identification outdoors and/or indoors, which includes an electronic component case and a band covering a wrist or a finger, and particularly, to a hand-attachable wearable device capable of iris identification outdoors and/or indoors, which includes an indoor and outdoor-combined photographing unit or an indoor and outdoor-separated photographing unit installed at one side of the case, which is used for photographing an iris image in which reflection noise is reduced indoors and outdoors, an infrared lighting installed at one side of the case and required for photographing the iris image clearly, and an iris recognition unit performing the iris recognition by comparing registered and stored iris image information and photographed iris image information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for acquiring an iris image outdoors and indoors and, specifically, to an apparatus and a method for acquiring an iris image outdoors and indoors, the apparatus comprising: a lens for receiving the iris image; an image sensor for sensing the iris image inputted through the lens; and a memory for storing the iris image sensed by the image sensor, wherein a band-pass filter using all or parts of outdoor iris recognition wavelength bands (920-1,500 nm) in order to acquire the iris image in which a reflected image is prevented or a reflected noise is reduced, which are generated when the iris image is photographed indoors and outdoors and, particularly, outdoors, is provided at the front end of the image sensor, and an infrared lighting having at least one wavelength passing through the wavelength bands of the provided band-pass filter is provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wearing-sensing hand-attached wearable device for iris recognition, a security reinforcing set using the same, and a method for controlling the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hand-attachable wearable device capable of iris identification outdoors and/or indoors, which includes an electronic component case and a band covering a wrist or a finger, and particularly, to a hand-attachable wearable device capable of iris identification outdoors and/or indoors, which includes an indoor and outdoor-combined photographing unit or an indoor and outdoor-separated photographing unit installed at one side of the case, which is used for photographing an iris image in which reflection noise is reduced indoors and outdoors, an infrared lighting installed at one side of the case and required for photographing the iris image clearly, and an iris recognition unit performing the iris recognition by comparing registered and stored iris image information and photographed iris image information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for acquiring an image for iris recognition using a distance of a facial feature, the apparatus comprising: a buffer for photographing one or more facial images of a subject being photographed so as to acquire an image for iris recognition and storing the photographed facial images; a facial feature distance calculating unit for calculating a distance of a facial feature from the facial images stored in the buffer; an actual distance estimating unit for estimating an actual distance between the subject being photographed and a camera from the distance of the face feature calculated by the facial feature distance calculating unit, and confirming, from of the estimated distance, that the subject being photographed exists in an iris photographing space; and an iris image acquiring unit for acquiring an eye image from the facial images of the subject being photographed that has been confirmed as existing in the iris photographing space by the actual distanc

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of an animal recognition using nose patterns, and particularly to an apparatus and method of an animal recognition comprising a body stabilizer unit to minimize movement of the subject animal for optimal nose pattern image acquisition, an image acquisition unit to obtain and store the nose pattern image, and an image recognition unit to generate, enroll, verify, and identify the raw or processed nose pattern code from the acquired nose pattern image.

Abstract: A method of extracting the semantic distance from the mathematical sentence and classifying the mathematical sentence by the semantic distance, includes: receiving a user query; extracting at least one keyword included in the received user query; and extracting a semantic distance by, indexing one or more of natural language tokens and mathematical equation tokens including semantic information, extracting the semantic distance, between the at least one extracted keyword and the one or more indexed semantic information by referring indexed information, and acquiring a similarity of the received user query and the semantic information.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for inputting equations. An equation input apparatus includes a learning context recognizer for extracting learning context information regarding a learner; a target equation group extractor for generating a target equation group including target mathematical symbols based on the extracted learning context information; and a predicted equation provider for providing a predicted mathematical symbol list relating to information, input or selected from the target equation group by user command, and for reflecting an equation selected from the predicted mathematical symbol list in the input or selected information.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mathematics education service system includes a problem storing unit to store at least one mathematical problem; a transform method executing unit to execute a plurality of problem transform methods; a problem separating unit to collect equations used in the mathematical problem, separate one or more terms from the collected equations by parsing the collected equations, and separate a constant and a variable from each of the separated one or more terms; and a problem generating unit to generate another applied problem of the mathematical problem by applying at least one of the problem transform methods (i) to the collected equations, and (ii) to the constant and the variable of each of the separated one or more terms, wherein the system is configured to provide the mathematical problem and the generated another problem are provided to a learner terminal.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for inputting equations. An equation input apparatus includes a learning context recognizer for extracting learning context information regarding a learner; a target equation group extractor for generating a target equation group including target mathematical symbols based on the extracted learning context information; and a predicted equation provider for providing a predicted mathematical symbol list relating to information, input or selected from the target equation group by user command, and for reflecting an equation selected from the predicted mathematical symbol list in the input or selected information.

Abstract: A method of extracting the semantic distance from the mathematical sentence and classifying the mathematical sentence by the semantic distance, includes: receiving a user query; extracting at least one keyword included in the received user query; and extracting a semantic distance by, indexing one or more of natural language tokens and mathematical equation tokens including semantic information, extracting the semantic distance, between the at least one extracted keyword and the one or more indexed semantic information by referring indexed information, and acquiring a similarity of the received user query and the semantic information.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for processing a natural language and a mathematical formula. The apparatus includes a natural language and mathematical formula input unit configured to receive a natural language and a mathematical formula inputted; an information generation unit configured to generate parsing semantic information of the mathematical formula from combined data composed of the natural language combined with the mathematical formula; an operation information extraction unit configured to extract operation information generated by using a logical condition from the combined data; a natural language and mathematical formula structuralizing unit configured to analyze, classify in terms of specific meaning and recombine the combined data; an operation structuralizing unit configured to structuralize the operation information; and a natural language and mathematical formula indexing unit configured to index the combined data.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for diagnosing a learning ability. The apparatus for diagnosing learning ability includes a receiving unit configured to receive from a terminal chapter-related information or problem-related information which is desirably diagnosed by a learner, and a semantic information generator configured to generate, responsive to each piece of problem information included in the chapter-related information or problem-related information, semantic information with structural information of the problem information, the problem information having subject-specific problem information distinguished from the semantic information.