Abstract: A server for providing content shared to an object is provided. The server is configured to establish communication between a first electronic device of a user and a second electronic device of another user and provide, to the first electronic device and the second electronic device, a virtual space and an object in the virtual space. The server selects, based on an input of the user, at least one content shared to the object in the virtual space by the other user of the second electronic device entering the same virtual space as the first electronic device. The server activates the object to identically output the selected content to at least one electronic device entering the virtual space. Based on the second electronic device leaving the virtual space, the server stops providing the content shared by the other user.

Abstract: An example electronic device may include a display module, a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions by accessing the memory. The processor may be configured to create a preliminary persona based on first information related to history of a target user, create a first persona from the preliminary persona based on second information related to a time and a space of the target user, apply the first persona to an avatar object in a virtual space and corresponding to the target user, and, when an occurrence of an event related to the target user is detected, create a second persona from the first persona based on the event occurrence and apply the second persona, instead of the first persona, to the avatar object.

Abstract: A method for providing a sports team ranking, including receiving a plurality of sports search terms input from a plurality of user terminals, clustering the plurality of sports search terms into a plurality of events including a first event and a second event, calculating a score for the first event based on a number of searches of each of a first set of sports search terms included in the first event, and associating the first event with a first sports team.

Abstract: A method for providing a sports team ranking, including receiving a plurality of sports search terms input from a plurality of user terminals, clustering the plurality of sports search terms into a plurality of events including a first event and a second event, calculating a score for the first event based on a number of searches of each of a first set of sports search terms included in the first event, and associating the first event with a first sports team.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to human fingerprints. More specifically the present invention relates to assessing the quality of a fingerprint image. An assessment is made by analyzing characteristics of image sub-regions. For example, the characteristics may include statistics that are associated with a sub-region. If a sub-region is found to have unacceptable characteristics, it can be modified through a morphological operation to compensate for the unacceptable characteristics.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to human fingerprints. More specifically the present invention relates to assessing the quality of a fingerprint image. An assessment is made by analyzing characteristics of image sub-regions. For example, the characteristics may include statistics that are associated with a sub-region. If a sub-region is found to have unacceptable characteristics, it can be modified through a morphological operation to compensate for the unacceptable characteristics.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to human fingerprints. More specifically the present invention relates to assessing the quality of a fingerprint image. An assessment is made by analyzing characteristics of image sub-regions. For example, the characteristics may include statistics that are associated with a sub-region. If a sub-region is found to have unacceptable characteristics, it can be modified through a morphological operation to compensate for the unacceptable characteristics.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to human fingerprints. More specifically the present invention relates to assessing the quality of a fingerprint image. An assessment is made by analyzing characteristics of image sub-regions. For example, the characteristics may include statistics that are associated with a sub-region. If a sub-region is found to have unacceptable characteristics, it can be modified through a morphological operation to compensate for the unacceptable characteristics.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and processes are provided for locating pupils in a portrait image for applications such as facial recognition, facial authentication, and manufacture of identification documents. One proposed method comprises three steps; skin detection, eye detection, and pupil detection. In the first step, the skin detection employs a plurality of Gaussian skin models. In the second step, coarse eye locations are found by using the amount of deviation in the R (red) channel with an image that has been cropped by skin detection. A small block centered at an obtained coarse location is then further processed in pupil detection. The step of pupil detection involves determining a Pupil Index that measures the characteristics of a pupil. Experiments tested on highly jpeg compressed images show that the algorithm of this embodiment successfully locates pupil images. It is believed that this novel technique for locating pupils in images can improve the accuracy of face recognition and/or face authentication.