Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for providing medical data based on a handover of a medical sensor. The apparatus includes a medical data client that requests and receives the medical data from the medical sensor; a security module that manages access to the medical data; a data management unit that stores the received medical data; and an event handler that receives an abnormal condition notification from the medical sensor and sends a command to release access to the medical data, based on the abnormal condition notification.

Abstract: A method and a system for providing a non-ephemeral search to a user are provided. When a user query is received, a content notification request is launched to web pages that are specific to the user query. Subsequently, search results are provided to the user when the content specific to the user query is available in these web pages.

Abstract: A device for and method of changing a size of a display window on a screen are provided. The method includes receiving a user input for changing the size of the display window, moving a guideline and displaying the moving guideline according to the user input, the guideline indicating the size of the display window, determining a changed size of the display window after the user input is terminated, and displaying the display window with the determined changed size, wherein contents are displayed in the displayed display window.

Abstract: A touch panel having improved visibility is provided. The touch panel includes a window part, at least one ultraviolet (UV) resin layer attached to a bottom surface of the window part, and a display part including a touch sensor film module attached to a bottom surface of the at least one UV resin layer such that the UV resin layer prevents refractions and reflections of light.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for adjusting sizes of objects displayed on a screen are provided. The a method includes recognizing one or more objects appearing on the screen, displaying guides indicating regions of the recognized objects on the screen, receiving a selection command for one of the recognized objects, and adjusting, upon reception of a size adjustment command, a size of the region of the selected object with respect to a first axis of the guide associated with the selected object or a second axis thereof perpendicular to the first axis, and displaying the size-adjusted region.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for detecting a tampered application are provided. The method of detecting a tampered application includes acquiring a package of an application, extracting and installing a first execution code from the acquired package of the application, extracting a second execution code from the package of the application when an execution command of the application is received after the first execution code is installed, and performing a preset operation when the second execution code differs from the first execution code.

Abstract: A memory controller and an operation method thereof are provided. The operation method includes storing a plurality of random sequences, selecting at least one random sequence among the plurality of random sequences according to a data pattern of a data block, and performing conversion by at least one of randomizing the data block using the selected at least one random sequence and derandomizing the randomized data block using the selected at least one random sequence.

Abstract: A nano-piezoelectric generator includes a first electrode and a second electrode, at least one nano-piezoelectric unit, formed of a semiconductor piezoelectric material having a nano-structure, disposed between the first and the second electrodes, and an interlayer, formed of an insulating material, disposed between the first electrode and the at least one nano-piezoelectric unit.

Abstract: A method of programming a vertical resistance memory device including a plurality of resistance memory cells arranged in a plurality of blocks includes a step of selecting a block from the plurality of blocks, a step of applying a set voltage to a word line selected from word lines, wherein the selected word line is connected through a corresponding horizontal electrode to a resistance memory cell to be programmed, a step of applying a set-inhibition voltage to unselected word lines of the word lines, a step of applying a bit voltage to a bit line selected from bit lines, wherein the selected bit line is electrically connected to the resistance memory cell via a string selection transistor selected from string selection transistors; and a step of applying a bit-inhibition voltage to unselected bit lines of the bit lines.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus of a touch screen portable terminal, a screen is classified into a first region displaying scrollable contents and a second region displaying non-scrollable contents. The contents of the first region are scrolled to previous or subsequent contents of a contents sequence responsive to a touch drag gesture detected on the second region. The second region may be a favorite shortcuts region of a home screen. Scrolling speed may be set according to moved distance of the touch drag gesture, or a speed of the touch drag gesture.

Abstract: A photo-electric integrated circuit device comprises an on-die optical input/output device. The on-die optical input/output device comprises a substrate having a trench, a lower cladding layer disposed in the trench and having an upper surface lower than an upper surface of the substrate, and a core disposed on the lower cladding layer at a distance from sidewalls of the trench and having an upper surface at substantially the same level as the upper surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus and method using private medical information, and a mobile terminal are provided. An optimized driving environment is provided by searching controllable vehicle control nodes in a vehicle, upon reception of a driver's private medical information; determining if there is vehicle control information for controlling the searched vehicle control node; and controlling the vehicle control nodes using vehicle control information that corresponds to the received driver's private medical information if there is the vehicle control information for controlling the searched control nodes.

Abstract: A system and a method for information acquisition of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) data as a cloud based service are provided. An apparatus in the system including a WSN, a service cloud, and a device, includes a virtual sensor configured to receive data from a physical sensor in the WSN. The apparatus further includes a virtual sensor controller configured to receive a request for the data from the service cloud or the device, and spawn a virtual machine (VM) based on the request. The apparatus further includes the VM configured to transmit the data to the service cloud or the device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus allocates an IP address between terminals in a wireless communication network in which terminals directly communicate with each other in a wireless scheme without an AP. The method for allocating an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a wireless terminal capable of performing P2P communication, includes a discovery step of discovering at least one external terminal capable of performing the P2P communication and connecting with the at least one discovered external terminal by the wireless terminal; and a negotiation step of negotiating and determining with the external terminal which external terminals become a group owner and a group client in a P2P group, respectively by the wireless terminal. One of the discovery step and the negotiation step includes transmitting an IP address to be allocated to the group client to the external terminal from the wireless terminal.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus perform a video call service. A transmission communication device provides information on a rotation angle of a video call image transmitted during a video call to a reception communication device corresponding to a counterpart of the video call. Then, the reception communication device renders the received video call image by using the information on the rotation angle of the received video call image, and displays a rendered video call image. Accordingly, an image of a counterpart of the video call can be normally provided during the video call.

Abstract: A power supply apparatus for wirelessly supplying power to one or more terminals includes a signal transceiver configured to receive a charging state message indicating a charging state from the one or more terminals, a display unit configured to display the charging state of each of the one or more terminals based on the charging state message, an interface unit configured to receive a charging control signal for controlling a charging operation of each of the one or more terminals, a controller configured to control the signal transceiver to transmit a power reception control signal for controlling whether the one or more terminals receive power by analyzing the charging control signal for the one or more terminals and a power supplier configured to wirelessly supply power to the one or more terminals under a control of the controller.

Abstract: A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a device which operates according to a clock frequency, a battery unit, which comprises a plurality of battery cells, for supplying power to the device, a temperature sensor provided at a location outside of the battery unit for detecting a temperature of the battery cells, a current sensor coupled to the battery unit for detecting a value of a current supplied from the battery unit to the device, and a controller, which is coupled to the temperature sensor and the current sensor, configured to control the clock frequency of the device according to the detected temperature and the detected current value, wherein the controller is configured to decrease the clock frequency if the detected temperature is greater than a first reference value or if the detected current value is greater than a second reference value.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for processing an application in a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes loading, by a bootloader upon system booting, a kernel, determining whether the kernel is modified, creating, when the kernel is modified, kernel verification information indicating a custom kernel, encrypting the kernel verification information, and sending the encrypted kernel verification information, activating, by a kernel handler, the kernel, and receiving the kernel verification information from the bootloader, and forwarding the kernel verification information, decrypting, by a rooting detector, the kernel verification information into kernel status information and delivering the kernel status information when a specified Application Programming Interface (API) is invoked, and invoking, by an application handler, the API when an application is executed and controlling an execution of the application when the kernel status information indicating the custom kernel is received.

Abstract: A method of encoding an audio signal, where signals including two or more channel signals are downmixed to a mono signal, the mono signal is divided into a low-frequency signal and a high-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal is encoded through algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP) or transform coded excitation (TCX), and the high-frequency signal is encoded using the low-frequency signal. A method of decoding of an audio signal, a low-frequency signal encoded through ACELP or TCX is decoded, a high-frequency signal is decoded using the low-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal and the high-frequency signal are combined to generate a mono signal, and the mono signal is upmixed by decoding spatial parameters regarding signals including two or more channel signals.

Abstract: A technique for transmitting a video stream between a first electronic device and a second electronic device is provided. The first device receives an encoded video stream and determines whether an encoding format of the encoded video stream is a format decodable by a second electronic device. If the format is decodable, the encoded video stream is transmitted without a re-encoding operation to the second device. The video stream is displayed at the first device delayed by a determined delay time enabling the video stream to be displayed at the second device substantially synchronized with the display at the first device.