Abstract:
A gaze tracking device and method, and a recording medium for performing the same are disclosed. The gaze tracking device, which is a device for tracking the gaze of a person present in an area in which the gaze tracking device is located, sets a photographing unit of the gaze tracking device to a wide-angle mode, photographs an area within a wide-angle view of the photographing unit, detects the person from a photographed image, and converts the wide-angle mode of the photographing unit into a narrow-angle mode so as to track the gaze of the person when the person is detected from the photographed image, wherein when tracking the gaze of the person by converting the wide-angle mode of the photographing unit into the narrow-angle mode, if the person is out of the shooting range of the narrow-angle mode while tracking the gaze of the person in the narrow-angle mode of the photographing unit, the photographing unit is converted from the narrow-angle mode into the wide-angle mode so as to track the gaze of the person by re-searching for the person.
Abstract:
A device for driving a light-emitting diode, a light-emitting device, and a display device are disclosed. The disclosed light-emitting diode driving device may include: a first transistor having a first conductive electrode connected with a source voltage terminal and having a second conductive electrode connected with an input terminal of the light-emitting diode; a second transistor having a control electrode connected with the second conductive electrode of the first transistor; and a capacitor having one end connected with a data voltage terminal and having the other end connected with a first node, which is connected with a control electrode of the first transistor and with a first conductive electrode of the second transistor.
Abstract:
An electrical discharge machining device for processing a workpiece by electrical discharges generated between a tool and the workpiece is provided. The electrical discharge machining device includes an electric discharger applying electric power to the tool and the workpiece to process the workpiece, and a vibration generator applying a vibration to the tool or the workpiece using a first voltage generated between the tool and the workpiece during a time when the workpiece is processed
Abstract:
A method and system for supporting the mobility of a mobile terminal in a software-defined network are disclosed. A method for supporting the mobility of a mobile terminal in a software-defined network according to an embodiment of the invention can include: routing a data packet of the mobile terminal to an authority switch serving as an anchor within a first partition, said routing performed by a switch by referencing a flow table; and setting a data path to an authority switch of a second partition, which is the partition containing the destination of the data packet, based on a rule provided by a controller and transmitting the data packet to a destination, said setting and transmitting performed by the authority switch of the first partition.
Abstract:
A method of predicting personality traits using a personal life log and an apparatus for performing the same are disclosed. The method of predicting personality traits comprises collecting personal life log in a social network, generating a user behavior matrix by defining an object about user's behavior through analysis of the collected personal life log in a triple structure and extracting a user behavior parameter through the generated user behavior matrix, obtaining interaction between a user and a friend by analyzing the personal life log and obtaining a friend relation characteristic parameter by using the obtained interaction, obtaining a moving path characteristic parameter by using location information made in a feed by the user through analysis of the personal life log, and predicting personality traits by applying the user behavior parameter, the friend relation characteristic parameter and the moving path characteristic parameter to four learned personality traits models.
Abstract:
Provided is a piezoelectric stack transducer. In a transducer portion, a plurality of piezoelectric transducers which output maximum amplitude at different frequencies are continuously stacked. A stacked electrode portion is provided on both surfaces of each of the plurality of continuously stacked piezoelectric transducers and supplies an electric signal so that vibration is generated. In this case, the plurality of piezoelectric transducers have different diameters. According to the present invention, it is possible to implement a piezoelectric stack transducer which exhibits constant amplitude (output) at different frequencies by piezoelectric transducers exhibiting different amplitudes at respective frequencies according to natural frequencies supplementing amplitude of a different piezoelectric transducer.
Abstract:
A 3D printer has a dual stage structure and includes: a frame; an extrusion unit having a nozzle configured to extrude a raw material; a stacking base unit positioned under the extrusion unit and configured to receive the raw material on a surface thereof so that an object is formed in a layer-by-layer manner on the surface; and a cutting unit positioned between the stacking base unit and the extrusion unit and configured to grind or cut the object formed on the surface of the stacking base unit, wherein the frame is configured to be connected to outer sides of the stacking base unit, the extrusion unit, and the cutting unit, the stacking base unit and the cutting unit are configured to be vertically movable along the frame, and the nozzle is configured to be movable on a plane.
Abstract:
An apparatus and a method for predicting the pleasantness-unpleasantness index of words are disclosed. The disclosed apparatus includes: a computing unit configured to compute an emotion correlation between a word and one or more comparison word, compute emotion correlations between multiple reference words included in a reference word set and the one or more comparison word, compute multiple first absolute emotion similarity values between the word and the multiple reference words, and compute at least one second absolute emotion similarity value between a reference word and another reference word for all of the reference words included in the reference word set; and a prediction unit configured to predict the pleasantness-unpleasantness index of the word by using the multiple number of first absolute emotion similarity values, the at least one second absolute emotion similarity value, and a preset pleasantness-unpleasantness index of the multiple number of reference words.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are a semiconductor chip for adaptively processing a plurality of commands to request memory access, and a method of controlling memory. The semiconductor chip includes a storage unit ad a control unit. The storage unit stores a memory access request to be currently processed and a plurality of memory access requests received before the memory access request to be currently processed in received order. The control unit processes the memory access request to be currently processed and the plurality of memory access requests received before the memory access request to be currently processed, which have been stored in the storage unit, in received order, except that memory access requests attempting to access the same bank and the same row are successively processed.
Abstract:
Provided are an indoor wireless positioning system and method capable of more accurately performing indoor wireless positioning by predicting signal attenuation due to a floor or wall within a multi-floor building. The indoor wireless positioning method includes calculating floor loss information of a floor on which the user terminal is located within the building, a higher floor, and a lower floor, calculating the floor on which the user terminal is located by comparing the calculated floor loss information to pre-stored previous floor loss information, calculating information about wall loss in the floor on which the user terminal is located, and acquiring position information on a horizontal plane of the user terminal according to received signal strength of the user terminal and the information about the wall loss. When the position of the user terminal is detected, detection accuracy is improved and more efficient wireless positioning is possible.