Abstract: An apparatus and method for calculating a cumulative histogram of an image are provided. A cumulative histogram calculation apparatus may include a cumulative value selecting unit to select cumulative data obtained by accumulating input data, based on a number of combinations of the input data, and a loading unit to load the selected cumulative value in a corresponding bin of a histogram.

Abstract: A transaction splitting apparatus and method are provided in which neighboring sub-transactions accessing a predetermined bank in each memory may access different banks. The transaction splitting apparatus includes a first processing unit to split a transaction into at least one sub-transaction, the transaction accessing a first bank among a plurality of banks comprised in a memory, and a second processing unit to translate an address of the at least one sub-transaction, to interleave the at least one sub-transaction using the plurality of banks.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for correcting a tone of a panoramic image. An image processing apparatus may acquire, from an overlapping region of a left image and a right image, ghost information based on an optimal threshold and a cost map in which a similarity between the left image and the right image is reflected, may generate a tone correction map based on a global tone correction function generated using the ghost information in the overlapping region, and based on a local tone correction level generated using local information of an optimal seam, and may correct the left image and the right image using a final tone correction map generated by applying, to the tone correction map, a weighting based on the left image and a weighting based on the right image.

Abstract: A method of controlling a photographing apparatus including a main processor and an image processor is provided. The method includes transmitting, by the image processor to the main processor, transmission data that includes preview image data of an image photographed through a photographing module and, if image data that is parallel-processed with the preview image data exists, the image data; extracting, by the main processor, the preview image data from the transmission data; displaying the extracted preview image data on a display portion of the photographing apparatus; and if the image data is included in the transmission data, storing, by the main processor, the image data in a memory.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wheel guard may include injection-molding an adhesive layer, bonding an outer layer including a non-woven fabric and a sound-absorbing layer including thermoplastic resin with the adhesive layer in between, and forming the layers into a predetermined shape of the wheel guard, with the outer layer and the sound-absorbing layer bonded by the adhesive layer. The thickness of the outer layer may be 2 to 10 mm, the thickness of the adhesive layer may be 0.1 to 2 mm, and the thickness of the sound-absorbing layer may be 2 to 10 mm, before the bonding. A specific heat treatment layer may be formed on a non-adhesive side of the outer layer and may have an LM FIBER, a film, or a sheet.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus for image signal processor (ISP) realization may include a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) for each function module. A unified SRAM to store at least one line data of an input image for each of a plurality of functions modules within the image processing apparatus is further provided.

Abstract: A method of processing frames obtained by multiple exposures may include categorizing, by at least one processor, a plurality of frames captured by multiple exposures into one of a reference frame and a target frame, compensating for global motion resulting from motion of a capturing apparatus capturing an object, and compensating for local motion resulting from motion of the object, based on a joint histogram between the reference frame and the target frame.

Abstract: An apparatus and method creating a ghost-free High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) based on filtering are provided. It is possible to effectively prevent a ghost phenomenon from occurring when a single HDRI is created from a plurality of LDRIs, by defining a ghost area using a probability based on a global transfer function indicating a relationship for intensities of several frames, rather than searching for or identifying a ghost area in a single or each image.

Abstract: A network based healthcare management system is provided. The system includes a plurality of client workstations and a plurality of healthspace service processors. The healthspace service processors access at least one database remotely disposed relative to the client workstations with the healthspace service processors providing access to predetermined healthspace resources. The system further includes a healthspace service interface unit operably coupled to the client workstations and healthspace service processors to selectively actuate at least one of the healthspace service processors responsive to the client workstations. The healthspace service interface unit including an efficiency module which adaptively maintains a plurality of parametric indicia with respect to optimum healthspace resource utilization.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for controlling multi-way NAND flashes using input-output pins. The apparatus for controlling multi-way NAND flashes includes: a NAND flash monitor for confirming each state of a plurality of NAND flashes by using a read status command which checks whether an inner operation of the NAND flash is performed normally; and a scheduler for determining the order in which each of the NAND flashes occupies an input-output bus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for indicating flash memory life. While data is being stored in a flash memory, the number of writes in a plurality of blocks of the flash memory increases. The amount of flash memory life is calculated on the basis of the number of write times in the plurality of blocks. The calculated amount of life can be transmitted to a host. In addition, when the calculated amount of life is greater than a threshold value, a signal providing notice that the life of the flash memory has reached a dangerous level can be output.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a grouping method and device for enhancing redundancy removing performance for a storage unit such as a hard disk, a solid state disk (SSD), etc. The grouping method for enhancing performance of a redundancy removing technology may include: extracting samples from data that is stored in a buffer of a memory and is standing by to be processed; performing remaining calculations on the extracted samples; and grouping samples by connecting them to a bucket corresponding to a resultant value of the remaining calculations.

Abstract: A system for inserting advertisement data into broadcast data and method thereof are provided. The system and method can output advertisement data to a certain portion of a lower end of a screen image of the new channel for a certain time when a current channel is changed to a different broadcast channel according to a viewer's intention while the viewer is viewing a broadcast program, thus minimizing viewer's reluctance to the advertisement output, reducing the burden of an advertiser, and guaranteeing a visual continuity of a broadcast program desired to be searched. Using the present invention, when channels are switched for searching for broadcast programs or when power is turned on or off, advertisement data can be output to the same screen while outputting a pertinent broadcast program, thereby exposing the advertisement data without interrupting the broadcast program.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a storage device that uses a flash memory that performs power loss recovery, and to a method of power loss recovery by using the storage device using the flash memory. The storage device stores change information on metadata in physical pages in which one or more logical pages are compressed and stored. The change information on the metadata is information representing how the metadata is changed in association with data in the one or more logical pages. The storage device may synchronize the metadata in the flash memory and recover the metadata by applying the change information on the metadata to the synchronized metadata when a power supply is disrupted.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for psychographically profiling a target population of individuals, programmably implemented in a server apparatus. The psychographic segmentation portion includes a questionnaire processing part, a segment solution part, and a typing tool part. The questionnaire processing part acquires a plurality of responses to a predetermined set of questionnaire questions by an initial pool of target population members. The questionnaire processing part uses a combination of weighted statistical methodologies to arrive at a rule-based decision on whether the question would serve as a good wedge variable. Optionally, the rule based decision is then compared to an expert's opinion and the weights and threshold parameters of the weighted statistical combination are adjusted accordingly to more accurately match the expert's decision. The identified wedge variables are used for effectively segregating the target population into groups of homogenous individuals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for storing data in a flash memory using address mapping for supporting various block sizes. A storage device determines the size of a block that a host system uses on the basis of the size of data that the host system requests and uses the determined block size as a mapping unit. Additionally, the storage device divides a logical address space into at least one area, and maps an address using the minimum units of different mappings in each divided area.

Abstract: A urine analysis device includes a light emitting part, a light receiving part and a control part. The light emitting part includes a plurality of light emitting diodes. The light emitting diodes provide a light to an inspected object. The inspected object has a plurality of inspected areas. The light receiving part receives the light reflected by the inspected object. The control part drives the light emitting part and receives an electric signal from the light receiving part.

Abstract: Disclosed is a melt-blown fiber web with improved concentration force and elasticity, whereby a melt-blown fabric is cut and sealed at predetermined intervals using knives having arbitrary patterns so that concentration force and elasticity of the melt-blown fiber web can be improved without degrading the inherent function of the fiber web. Further disclosed are a method and apparatus for manufacturing the melt-blown fiber web. The melt-blown fiber web includes thermoplastic filaments, wherein cutting portions and sealing portions are arranged on top and bottom surfaces of the fiber web at predetermined intervals along a thickness of the fiber web so that a concentration force and elasticity of the fiber web are improved.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus, method and computer-readable medium removing noise of an image. The apparatus may include a channel image correction unit to correct remaining channel images excluding a currently processed channel image, from among a plurality of channel images, using the currently processed channel image, a noise removal unit to remove noise of the currently processed channel image, using the corrected remaining channel images and the currently processed channel image, and a color image reconstruction unit to reconstruct a color image in which noise is removed, by combining the plurality of channel images in which noise is removed when the noise of the plurality of channel images is removed.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for calculating a cumulative histogram of an image are provided. A cumulative histogram calculation apparatus may include a cumulative value selecting unit to select cumulative data obtained by accumulating input data, based on a number of combinations of the input data, and a loading unit to load the selected cumulative value in a corresponding bin of a histogram.