Abstract: An apparatus and a method for estimating position information in a portable terminal are provided. A position estimation method includes estimating position information of the portable terminal; firstly compensating for an estimation error of the position information of the portable terminal according to motion information of the portable terminal; secondarily compensating for the firstly compensated position information according to a map matching scheme; and storing the position information of the compensated estimation error as the position information of the portable terminal.

Abstract: An apparatus for acquiring a position of a portable terminal includes a position estimating unit for estimating a position of a portable terminal based on prestored reference information, and a control unit for detecting—the position of the portable terminal using information from a server, wherein when there is a failure to acquire the position information of the portable terminal using the information from the server, the position estimating unit acquires the position of the portable terminal based on the estimated position of the portable terminal.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for collecting amniotic fluid from the uterus. In order to collect the amniotic fluid from the uterus through the external orifice of the cervix of a pregnant woman, an amniotic fluid collecting unit is adapted to bring a mouth, which is foldably formed at the upper end of an amniotic fluid collecting bag, into close contact with an end of the external orifice of the cervix. Thereby, the apparatus not only significantly decreases the risk occurring when a needle is directly inserted into the uterus in order to carry out the amniocentesis (amniotic fluid testing), but also eliminates pain and anxiety caused by the direct insertion of the needle.

Abstract: Disclosed are method and apparatus for evaluating reliability of reckoning location information and providing reliability information. A mobile terminal implementing the method provides a user with a handheld device to provide accurate location information. The method for providing reliability of a reckoning location preferably includes: reckoning a location using speed and direction information input from a sensor unit when satellite signal intensity of GPS satellite information is less than a first threshold value; calculating a moving distance using the reckoning location for a reckoned time of the location; evaluating the reliability of the reckoning location according to the moving distance; and providing the reckoning location and the reliability to a location information utility unit such that the location information utility unit determines presence of utility of the reckoning location according to the reliability.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining accuracy information of location information. The method includes receiving Global Positioning System (GPS) location information of a user terminal from a GPS, determining whether the user terminal enters into a GPS shadow area, checking terminal movement information including a moving speed and a moving direction of the user terminal, when the user terminal enters into the GPS shadow area, estimating location information of the user terminal based on the terminal movement information, checking auxiliary location information including a moving state of the user terminal, error information of a terrestrial magnetism sensor, and the moving speed of the user terminal, and determining the accuracy information based on an accumulated location error of the estimated location information, based on the auxiliary location information.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for recognizing a specific area of an image in a portable terminal. More particularly, an apparatus and method are for determining feature points with very high similarities as one group when the portable terminal recognizes a building included in an image or a picture, and for estimating a matching relation of the group to improve building recognition performance. The apparatus includes an image analyzer configured to, upon extracting feature points used for building recognition, classify feature points with similarities among the extracted feature points into a group, and recognize a building after estimating a matching relation by regarding the classified group as a feature point.

Abstract: An apparatus and method provides a location information service in a portable terminal when the predicted location is reliable. The apparatus includes a validity determiner for, by a moving pattern of a user, determining the validity of location information previously predicted using Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) information.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes an apparatus for improving motion detection capability. More particularly, the apparatus improves motion detection capability by changing a motion in a normal state according to a motion state or by changing a motion detection process in the portable terminal in order to avoid motion detection capability deterioration in the portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a terminal state determiner that determines a motion state of the terminal by receiving sensing information for determining the motion state, and a controller that changes a motion detection process according to the portable terminal's motion state determined by the terminal state determiner.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for collecting amniotic fluid from the uterus. In order to collect the amniotic fluid from the uterus through the external orifice of the cervix of a pregnant woman, an amniotic fluid collecting unit is adapted to bring a mouth, which is foldably formed at the upper end of an amniotic fluid collecting bag, into close contact with an end of the external orifice of the cervix. Thereby, the apparatus not only significantly decreases the risk occurring when a needle is directly inserted into the uterus in order to carry out the amniocentesis (amniotic fluid testing), but also eliminates pain and anxiety caused by the direct insertion of the needle.

Abstract: A shape of a disposable urinal for children that can be folded to be a small pack before use to be easily carried while securing a sufficient discharging length considering urine discharging directions in a narrow space such as in a car while driving a car or under a circumstance that it is hard to go to a restroom. A disposable portable urinal in which water-impermeably waterproof-coated boards and absorbents are layered, is characterized by comprising a urinal body having erected urine leak prevention walls, extending from edges of a long rectangular board having a body board and a lower board of the urinal, in order to have an inner space for containing urine; and absorbents attached to the body board and the lower board of the inner space to absorb all the urine, and characterized in that the body board and the lower board of the urinal body are folded to be perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a shape of a disposable urinal for children that can be folded to be a small pack before use to be easily carried while securing a sufficient discharging length considering urine discharging directions in a narrow space such as in a car while driving a car or under a circumstance that it is hard to go to a restroom. The present invention, pertaining to a disposable portable urinal in which water-impermeably waterproof-coated boards and absorbents are layered, is characterized by comprising a urinal body having erected urine leak prevention walls, extending from edges of a long rectangular board having a body board and a lower board of the urinal, in order to have an inner space for containing urine; and absorbents attached to the body board and the lower board of the inner space to absorb all the urine, and characterized in that the body board and the lower board of the urinal body are folded to be perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: Device and method for converting a frame rate, is disclosed, in which a motion compensated frame is newly produced in converting a frame rate, particularly, in a digital TV of a PAL or NTSC system, a motion component compensated separate frame is provided between frames and displayed to horizontal/vertical synchronizing signals two times faster than an original frequency for eliminating flicker, and in a case when a video signal of a film rate is converted into a video signal of a frame rate of PAL or NTSC system, motion component compensated new frames are produced for converting the frame rate for preventing blurring occurred in motion portions. And, by differently compensating motion components of N frames inserted between two frames and processing the frames in real time, a slow motion can be displayed smoothly without any separate memory.

Abstract: A light amount controlling apparatus includes a light source for producing light and a light source driver for driving the light source. A zoom lens unit includes a zoom lens for varying an angle of projection of the light, and a zoom lens position detector detects a position of the zoom lens. A memory stores control data corresponding to the position of the zoom lens and a memory controller reads the control data from the memory according to a detected value of the zoom lens position of the zoom lens position detector. A controller controls the light source driver to vary an amount of light projected from the light source in accordance with the control data output from the memory controller.