Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing personalized adaptive e-learning, and more specifically, to an apparatus and method for estimating a learner's proficiency to each attribute and providing adaptive e-learning by taking into consideration an item answering result of an individual learner in a personalized learning environment.

Abstract: Provided is a system for detecting an object from a depth image. The system includes a communication module, a memory, and a processor. By executing the object detection program, the processor extracts a first object area and a second object area from the depth image, based on a predetermined floor plane and an outer plane which is set with respect to the predetermined floor plane. The processor extracts a target area including pixels of the second object area which are spaced apart from the first object area by a predetermined interval. The processor samples a pixel, which is not included in the target area, to extract a floor area from the second object area, calculates a boundary value of an object and a floor, based on the floor area and the target area, and extracts a foreground pixel from the target area, based on the calculated boundary value.

Abstract: Provided is a system for detecting an object from a depth image. The system includes a communication module, a memory, and a processor. By executing the object detection program, the processor extracts a first object area and a second object area from the depth image, based on a predetermined floor plane and an outer plane which is set with respect to the predetermined floor plane. The processor extracts a target area including pixels of the second object area which are spaced apart from the first object area by a predetermined interval. The processor samples a pixel, which is not included in the target area, to extract a floor area from the second object area, calculates a boundary value of an object and a floor, based on the floor area and the target area, and extracts a foreground pixel from the target area, based on the calculated boundary value.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for providing mixed reality for a virtual experience service, and more particularly, an apparatus and a method for providing mixed reality contents for learning a virtual experience based on a story that provides a service in which a user in a real world appears in a virtual world having the story to undergo a virtual experience. The method picks up the user image in the real world and synthesizes the picked-up image with a desired position of a 3D virtual world. According to the present disclosure, a realistic experience based learning can be provided while a spatial limit is overcome.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus for extracting an image object in a 3D image system and a method thereof. The apparatus for extracting an image object in a 3D image system includes: an image inputting unit receiving an image; a space setting unit setting virtual space at which the image object is positioned from the received image; and an object extracting unit extracting the image object from the set virtual space from the received image.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate line on a substrate including a display region and a non-display region; odd and even data lines crossing the gate line to define a pixel region in the display region; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and one of the odd and even data lines; a pixel electrode in the pixel region and connected to the thin film transistor; first and second data link lines electrically connected to the odd and even data lines, respectively, and formed with a gate insulating layer therebetween; and first and second data pad electrodes at one ends of the first and second data link lines, respectively.

Abstract: There is provided an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device which includes a lower substrate defined and surrounded by a plurality of gate lines, common lines, and data lines, and including a thin film transistor, a plurality of common electrodes extending from the common line, and a plurality of pixel electrodes extending from a lead interconnection line connected with a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, and having sub-pixels aligned in a matrix shape and divided into an aperture region and a non-aperture region; an upper substrate having sub-color filters and a black matrix completely overlapping with the non-aperture region inside the sub-pixel, formed thereon; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (LCD) includes a liquid crystal panel displaying an image; a first transparent plate disposed on the liquid crystal panel; a second transparent plate disposed underneath the liquid crystal panel; a support member supporting the second transparent plate and the liquid crystal panel; and a fixing member disposed on the first transparent plate, the fixing member coupled with the support member to fix the liquid crystal panel and the first and second transparent plates in place, and to protect the liquid crystal panel and the first and second transparent plates.

Abstract: A method for recognizing markers printed on a learning material, includes sampling an image of the learning material; grouping the sampled image of pixels into a first image group and a second image group based on a threshold; and calculating medians of the first image group and the second image group to update the threshold with a first average value of the calculated medians. Further, the method for recognizing markers printed on the learning material includes repeating the above until a difference between a previous threshold and an updated threshold is equal to or smaller than a reference value; binarizing an image captured by a camera based on the updated threshold; and detecting the markers based on the binary image.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for creating spatial augmented reality content, which enable interaction with a user. In the method, a stationary object in a real space in which a user is located is defined, and then a virtual space is generated. A dynamic object in the real space is defined, and the dynamic object is converted into a primitive object. The primitive object is arranged in the virtual space and then spatial augmented content is created. A multimedia object is paired with the primitive object, and then a virtual space object is generated. Interaction between the virtual space object and a gesture of the user is defined in a format of event script. The virtual space object and the interaction are packaged in the spatial augmented content and packaged results are provided to the user.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate line on a substrate including a display region and a non-display region; odd and even data lines crossing the gate line to define a pixel region in the display region; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and one of the odd and even data lines; a pixel electrode in the pixel region and connected to the thin film transistor; first and second data link lines electrically connected to the odd and even data lines, respectively, and formed with a gate insulating layer therebetween; and first and second data pad electrodes at one ends of the first and second data link lines, respectively.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus for extracting an image object in a 3D image system and a method thereof. The apparatus for extracting an image object in a 3D image system includes: an image inputting unit receiving an image; a space setting unit setting virtual space at which the image object is positioned from the received image; and an object extracting unit extracting the image object from the set virtual space from the received image.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate line on a substrate including a display region and a non-display region; odd and even data lines crossing the gate line to define a pixel region in the display region; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and one of the odd and even data lines; a pixel electrode in the pixel region and connected to the thin film transistor; first and second data link lines electrically connected to the odd and even data lines, respectively, and formed with a gate insulating layer therebetween; and first and second data pad electrodes at one ends of the first and second data link lines, respectively.

Abstract: Provided is an on-line broadcasting study system and method that provides e-book content of a mobile terminal and educational broadcasting content of a smart TV in an associated manner. The mobile terminal processes and outputs e-book content including association information indicating association with specific broadcasting content received from an educational content server, and transmits a broadcasting content transmission request selected according to a user input signal for selecting broadcasting content associated with e-book content, to the smart TV. The smart TV transmits the broadcasting content transmission request of the mobile terminal to a broadcasting content server, and receives and outputs broadcasting content searched for and acquired by the broadcasting content server by using the association information according to the broadcasting content transmission request.

Abstract: Disclosed is a stereoscopic image display panel and a stereoscopic image display device including the same, which minimize the degradation of image quality due to crosstalk between left and right images discerned by a viewer, and have enhanced brightness and aperture ratio, wherein the stereoscopic image display panel comprises a first substrate including a plurality of data lines formed at certain intervals apart, a plurality of gate lines formed to intersect the data lines, and first and second pixel groups formed adjacently to each other with two adjacent gate lines therebetween; and a second substrate including a light shield layer formed at one side and other side of each of the first and second pixel groups to have different overlapped widths, and defining an open area of each of the first and second pixel groups, wherein the first and second pixel groups display different stereoscopic images, respectively.

Abstract: An array substrate for an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes a first TFT in a pixel region and connected to a gate line and a first data line; a second TFT in the pixel region and connected to the gate line and a second data line; a first pattern connected to the first TFT and extending along the gate line; a plurality of first electrodes connected to the first pattern; a second pattern extending to be parallel to the first pattern; a second electrode extending along the first data line; a third electrode connected to the second pattern and extending along the second data line, the third electrode connected to the second TFT; and a plurality of fourth electrodes connected to the second pattern and alternately arranged with the plurality of first electrodes, wherein the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of fourth electrodes are disposed between the second and third electrodes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a stereoscopic image display panel and a stereoscopic image display device including the same, which minimize the degradation of image quality due to crosstalk between left and right images discerned by a viewer, and have enhanced brightness and aperture ratio, wherein the stereoscopic image display panel comprises a first substrate including a plurality of data lines formed at certain intervals apart, a plurality of gate lines formed to intersect the data lines, and first and second pixel groups formed adjacently to each other with two adjacent gate lines therebetween; and a second substrate including a light shield layer formed at one side and other side of each of the first and second pixel groups to have different overlapped widths, and defining an open area of each of the first and second pixel groups, wherein the first and second pixel groups display different stereoscopic images, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image separation apparatus and method. The image separation apparatus includes an image reception unit for receiving an input image. A background model generation unit generates a background model corresponding to the input image. A foreground/background separation unit performs a task of determining using the background model whether reference pixels among all pixels of the input image belong to a foreground or a background, and performs a task of estimating, based on results of the foreground/background determination task, whether remaining pixels other than the reference pixels belong to the foreground or the background.

Abstract: A method of authoring experiential learning content includes displaying an authoring window to author the experiential learning content when a request is made to author the experiential learning content; and creating a virtual world by loading and arranging 3D objects and a 2D objects, in the authoring window, which corresponds to a scenario of the experiential learning content. Further, the method includes defining an Action-zone that determines a position where a user is merged in the virtual world; and defining a state by dividing the scenario into a plurality of steps as time goes by based on the scenario to play the experiential learning content from a specific time point, respectively. Furthermore, the method includes defining a processing routine of an event occurred in the state; and authoring the experiential learning content according to the defined Action-zone, the defined state, and the defined processing routine.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having liquid crystal cells, a gate driver for driving gate lines of the liquid crystal display panel, a data driver for driving a first to (2m+1)th data lines of the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the liquid crystal display panel includes first thin film transistors connected to odd numbered data lines arranged on each horizontal line in zigzag with reference to the odd numbered data lines, second thin film transistors connected to even numbered data lines arranged on each horizontal line in zigzag with reference to the even numbered data lines, pixel electrode connected to the first thin film transistor for having a first data signal supplied thereto through the odd numbered data lines, and a common electrode connected to the second thin film transistor for having a second data signal supplied thereto through the even numbered data line and forming a horizontal electric field together with the pixel electrode.