Abstract: A portable communication device that cradles a first and a second display units at a same angle, and a slide-type cradling apparatus thereof are disclosed. The portable communication device includes: a first housing; a second housing including a first display unit and facing the first housing when being slid and cradled at a known incline angle; and a third housing including a second display unit, and being introduced into the first housing before the second housing is slid and being withdrawn from the first housing after the second housing is slid such that the second housing is inclined and the third housing is inclined in an extension direction of the second housing.

Abstract: Provided are a system and method for controlling the emotion of a car driver. A system for controlling the emotion of a car driver includes a detection unit, a control unit, and an emotion controlling unit. The detection unit detects emotion information including the voice, expression, gesture, heart rate, and temperature of the car driver. The control unit compares the detected emotion information with the prestored reference emotion information of the car driver to determine whether to control the emotion of the car driver and outputs a control signal for control of the emotion of the car driver according to the determination result. The emotion controlling unit controls the emotion of the car driver according to the control signal of the control unit.

Abstract: Provided are a control system and method for protecting a child occupant of a vehicle. The control system includes a detecting unit, a monitoring unit, and a control unit. The detecting unit detects occupant data including weights of occupants and deployed lengths of seat belts. The monitoring unit determines whether the occupant is a child, whether the occupant has a seat belt on, and an occupant position based on the detected occupant data to generate occupant status data according to the determined results. The control unit controls a vehicle peripheral device according to the occupant status data when the occupant status data is received.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bed mattress and a method of manufacturing the same, in which a permeable reinforcing member is provided at an upper portion and a lower portion of a spring assembly which is one of frame constituents of the bed mattress, and a foaming material is disposed on the permeable reinforcing member so as to be foamed, so that the spring assembly and the foaming material are integrally formed while the foaming material is expanded through fine holes and/or foam expansion holes of the permeable reinforcing member.

Abstract: A cradling device of a portable electronic apparatus, which includes a first housing, and a second housing which is slid from the first housing and then is cradled with a slant on the first housing. The second housing can rotate relative to the first housing. The cradling device includes a first member provided in the first housing; a slidable second member capable of sliding, which is provided in the second housing and faces the first member; and at least one cradling module provided in the first housing and the first member, which rotates the first member together with the second member on a rotation axis and cradles the second housing after sliding movement of the slidable second member.

Abstract: A sliding-type portable terminal including a first housing and a second housing linearly movably coupled to the first housing face-to-face includes a spring module for opening/closing the first and second housings. The spring module includes at least a pair of asymmetrical S-shaped wires each including a first bend and a second bend extending from the first bend and having a greater curvature than the first bend. The spring module of the portable terminal provides a reduced thickness because of the spring action in the portable terminal, contributing in particular to an overall reduction in thickness of a sliding-type portable terminal and permit smooth opening/closing of the portable terminal.

Abstract: A system and method for multi-modal context-sensitive applications in a home network are provided. The system includes an input processing agent classifying inputs from a predetermined input device based on at least one criterion selected from the group consisting of an input block, an input type, a priority, and ranking and then outputting the classified inputs; an input collaboration agent performing real-time analysis on each of the inputs fed by the input processing agent to obtain a pre-defined output action for an input type corresponding to each input based on a user's context and performing a probabilistic inference on the inputs fed by the input processing agent to obtain a possible output action based on the user's context; and an agent server obtaining an output resource, which is available in the home network and corresponds to the user's context, based on the output action obtained by the input collaboration agent.

Abstract: A portable terminal having a long-stroke hinge is disclosed. The portable terminal includes a first main body, a second main body sliding on the first main body, a first member with elasticity having a first end fixed to the first main body and a second end that is horizontally moveable, and a second member having a first end rotatably coupled with the second end of the first member and a second end fixed to the second main body.

Abstract: An automated teller machine (ATM) having a wireless network access apparatus and a method for providing financial services using the ATM are provided. The ATM includes a user interface unit, a first financial processing unit, a first network access unit, a second network access unit, and a second financial service unit. The user interface unit performs data communication with a storage medium on which information is recorded, and outputs information to a user through an output apparatus. The first financial processing unit provides financial services including account inquiry, deposit, and withdrawal, by performing data communication processes with a recognized storage medium. The first network access unit is connected to an ATM network connected to a financial institution server, transmits data obtained as a result of performing financial services, to the financial institution server, and receives processed data from the financial institution server.

Abstract: A system and method for use in planning procedures subject to variation is provided comprising the following components: a duration estimator module configured to characterize average duration times and variations from average for a given procedure or activity; a block allocation planner module configured to schedule procedures or activities in accordance with characterized times from the duration estimator module; and a user interface module configured to permit a user to visualize variation, to visualize scheduling opportunities and constraints and to view information output for use in scheduling procedures and activities.

Abstract: In the method for managing a variable bit rate so as to provide a streaming service and in the record medium capable of being read through a computer having a record of a program to realize the inventive method, a frame rate controlling system through a removal of a frame and a fidelity controlling system are used to change a bit rate of multimedia video data and thereby provide a multimedia streaming service based on the various bit rates according to a bandwidth change of a communication network, the fidelity controlling system being gotten by differently providing selection ranges for discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients in a unit of a block within a frame.

Abstract: There is provided an innerspring assembly used in a mattress for absorbing external loads. An outermost coil spring 115 of a spring array 110 is secured in a space between upper and lower border wires 120 and 120? by pins 140, and helical coils 130 are disposed in row directions R on upper and lower portions of the spring array 110 to knit an adjacent coil spring 115, such that each coil spring has a free terminal convolution 115a protruded from an upper portion of the upper border wire 120 and/or a lower portion of the lower border wire 120?. The spring assembly includes an enclosure 10 partially or fully provided on an upper end portion and/or an lower end portion of the coil spring for covering the terminal convolution 115a in the row direction R or column direction L, thereby interrupting interference between the terminal convolution 115a and the upper and/or lower border wire 120 and 120? and absorbing a lateral load applied to the terminal convolution.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling the audio noise attenuation by monitoring a buffer are disclosed. If the audio data to be reproduced, and if the user sets the operation as an automatic mode so that the operation of controlling the audio noise attenuation by monitoring the buffer is automatically executed, the operation of the loudspeaker is interrupted. In addition, if the audio data to be reproduced is stored, the loudspeaker is continuously driven regardless of the set of the mode. Furthermore, if there is no the audio data to be reproduced, and if the operation is not set as the automatic mode, the loudspeaker is operated. Accordingly, the analog noise, which may be generated when silence is outputted from the loudspeaker, can be eliminated, thereby improving the quality of the conference and the audio reproducing quality.

Abstract: In the method for managing a variable bit rate so as to provide a streaming service and in the record medium capable of being read through a computer having a record of a program to realize the inventive method, a frame rate controlling system through a removal of a frame and a fidelity controlling system are used to change a bit rate of multimedia video data and thereby provide a multimedia streaming service based on the various bit rates according to a bandwidth change of a communication network, the fidelity controlling system being gotten by differently providing selection ranges for discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients in a unit of a block within a frame.