Abstract: A system, medium, and method measuring a geometric reliability index, e.g., in image compensation, and more particularly, a system, medium, and method measuring a geometric reliability index in image compensation that can measure a geometric model of a projection surface onto which an image is projected.

Abstract: A method, medium and apparatus for correcting a projected image is provided. The method includes detecting a pattern image based on photographing information of consecutive image frames into which a reference pattern and an offset pattern corresponding to the reference pattern are alternately inserted and which are projected onto a projection surface accordingly, and correcting projected image frame, based on the detected pattern image.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for unobtrusively estimating the characteristics of a projection surface, in order to correct the distortion of images resulting from the characteristics of the projection surface in the case of a projector. The method includes projecting at least one reference pixel and at least one counterbalance pixel corresponding to the reference pixel onto consecutive image frames, and correcting an image frame to be projected using correction information determined based on photographic information of the reference pixel.

Abstract: A wearable phone and a method of using the same is provided. The phone includes a glove; a display mounted on the glove and including a user interface, the display on which a virtual key pad is displayed; a sensor on the glove disposed under the display, the sensor for sensing the movement of the entire hand; sensors on the glove disposed at interfaces between the fingers and the back of the hand, the sensors for sensing the movements of the fingers; a speaker on the glove disposed under the root of the little finger; a microphone spaced apart from the speaker by a predetermined distance below the speaker; a wireless communication module on the glove for outputting information selected and displayed on the display and voice information input through the microphone and for transmitting information received from the exterior to the display and the speaker; and a battery for supplying power to the wireless communication module and the display.

Abstract: A facial-image-compensating device, medium, and method. The facial-image-compensating device may include a detection unit to detect an eye region in a facial image, an extraction unit to extract feature information of the detected eye region, and a compensation unit compensating the detected eye region according to the extracted feature information.

Abstract: A character-input method is provided. The character-input method includes providing a plurality of objects having a predetermined arrangement, mapping characters included in a character group represented by a representative character mapped to an object identified as a first signal among objects to which representative characters are mapped, to one or more objects among the plurality of objects when the first signal is received from a user input device, and inputting characters mapped to an object identified as the second signal among objects to which the characters are mapped.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus with image compensation and a method thereof, which can perform compensation of a user's facial image that is distorted in accordance with the position of an image capturing device such as a camera. The image capturing apparatus with image compensation includes an image capturing unit capturing an image of an object, a tilt determining unit determining a tilt of the image capturing unit relative to the object, and a compensation unit compensating the captured image in accordance with the determined tilt.

Abstract: A system, medium, and method providing a thumbnail visualizing a plurality of features representing an event to facilitate a search of images. In the system, medium, and method, photographs may be classified into groups based on metadata, e.g., embedded in a photograph file, and a thumbnail may be generated by combining object images extracted from individual representative photographs of the respective groups. The generation of the thumbnail may include extracting metadata from photograph files stored in a photograph folder, classifying the photograph files into groups based on the metadata, selecting representative photographs from the groups using color information included in the metadata, and combining object images extracted from the representative photographs into a thumbnail.

Abstract: Devices, compositions, and methods for handling, separating, packaging, and utilization of spermatozoa (1) that can be derived from previously frozen sperm samples collected from a male mammal. Specifically, techniques to uniformly stain (2) spermatozoal DNA even when derived from previously frozen sperm and separation techniques to separate and isolate spermatozoa even when derived from previously frozen sperm samples into X-chromosome bearing and Y-chromosome bearing populations having high purity.

Abstract: A remote control method and medium, a control device and a controlled device of a remote control system. The control device of the remote control system includes an identification information storage unit for storing identification information of the control device and attribute information on a single control function of one or more controlled devices controlled by the control device, a signal generation unit for generating a signal including the identification information and the attribute information, a switch unit for receiving a user's input and activating the signal generation unit, a modulation unit for modulating the generated signal into an omni-directional signal, a transmission unit for broadcasting the modulated signal to the one or more controlled devices, and an attachment unit, positioned on a back face of the control device, for attaching the control device thereto.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for clustering images by inferring a unit of event recognized by a user through the reflection of a user's image-use pattern. The image-clustering apparatus includes an image-storage module for storing a plurality of images, an application module for accessing the stored images according to a user's image-use pattern, a parameter adjustment module for adjusting parameters for clustering the stored images, and an image-clustering module for clustering the stored images by using values corresponding to the use pattern and the adjusted parameters.

Abstract: An IVF system for successfully utilizing spermatozoa separated into X-chromosome bearing and into Y-chromosome bearing population for insemination. The IVF system includes fertilization medium that can shorten the time from insemination to cleavage and a portable incubator for the transportation of maturing oocytes and inseminated oocytes comprising a straw (19) and an incubation element (20) that can be sealed with a cap (22).

Abstract: A sperm cell process system providing to generate sperm cell insemination samples having controlled sperm cell fertility characteristics of sperm cells.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for proactive recording and displaying of a preferred television (TV) program, determined based on a user's eye gaze, are provided. The method includes extracting a parameter used to estimate a preference of the user for a currently broadcast TV program from information on the user's eye gaze obtained through a camera; estimating the preference based on the extracted parameter, determining whether the preference exceeds a predetermined reference value, and generating a preferred program registration signal if it is determined that the preference exceeds the predetermined reference value; and in response to the preferred program registration signal, detecting an ID of the currently broadcast TV program from electronic program guide (EPG) information, and storing the detected ID in the preferred program list.

Abstract: Provided are a pointing apparatus and method. The apparatus, which inputs a pointing signal to a portable computer, includes an accelerometer outputting an acceleration signal in response to motion of the finger; and a signal processing unit sensing micro-collisions generated when the finger comes into contact with a predetermined contact surface and a rising signal generated when the finger is detached from the contact surface using the acceleration signal, sensing pointing motion of the finger lasting between the generation of the micro-collisions and the generation of the rising signal, and outputting the pointing signal.

Abstract: A wearable phone and a method of using the same is provided. The phone includes a glove; a display mounted on the glove and including a user interface, the display on which a virtual key pad is displayed; a sensor on the glove disposed under the display, the sensor for sensing the movement of the entire hand; sensors on the glove disposed at interfaces between the fingers and the back of the hand, the sensors for sensing the movements of the fingers; a speaker on the glove disposed under the root of the little finger; a microphone spaced apart from the speaker by a predetermined distance below the speaker; a wireless communication module on the glove for outputting information selected and displayed on the display and voice information input through the microphone and for transmitting information received from the exterior to the display and the speaker; and a battery for supplying power to the wireless communication module and the display.

Abstract: a. Provided is a phantom for evaluating the accuracy of image registration software based on a result of matching tomograms of a predetermined position of the phantom, taken using two or more imaging apparatuses. Accordingly, it is possible to more efficiently evaluate the accuracy of the image registration software by comparing the tomograms with one another using a three-dimensional analysis. In addition, it is possible to facilitate the comparison of the tomograms with one another by installing a plurality of indicating bars in the phantom so that their cross sections can appear on each of the tomograms.

Abstract: A context-based communication method and a context-based mobile telecommunication system are provided. A context-based mobile telecommunication system, comprises: a context generator, which generates and stores context information containing a locational attribute and its communications restriction policy on a predetermined area; and a terminal, which is automatically set to a predetermined operation mode according to a mediated policy obtained by negotiating between a right-to-communications exercising policy previously set therein and the communications restriction policy, in response to the context information, transmitted from the context generator.

Abstract: A horizontally-maintained table tennis table which comprises a table tennis table top having two sections, one section being provided with a lateral coupling hole and the other section being provided with a lateral bar, said lateral bar being inserted into the lateral coupling hole to connect the two sections together, locking means for locking the two sections together, level-measuring means provided in the peripheral edges of the table tennis table top, table tennis table legs for supporting the table top, and height-adjusting means provided in the table legs.